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happy monday welcome to the disciples journal i'm your host darren starks and this is where you

learn what it looks like

to walk with Jesus every day. So for today's conversation, I really want to share with you,

honestly, something that's happened recently, like within this past week of my life,

that's brought up just this idea of what it looks like to trust God, particularly when it feels like if he's not moving or it's not happening the way that you want or when you want.

And what it means to not just trust what God wants to do in your life, but also the way that he wants to do it.

Because this is a battle that I've been fighting and going through really

the last, I want to say, three months of my life and have really been seeing God through this

in a really specific way. And so with that being said, one thing that I wanted to start with

is a praise report and because this is something that happened this past week and I guess I'll start with this so last

week I got a deposit in my account that I was not expecting at all and as a result of this I was

able to get a iPad and a new camera that I had been praying for and wanting for a while.

And this is really significant because I was excited, of course, and grateful that this was something

that I was finally able to do because I have been, I want to say since about September or October, really trapping off my phone for everything that I need because my MacBook that I had was so slow and so I just had to get rid of it.

And most of what I needed to do when it comes to the videos that I post on social media, even actually some of the podcasts, I just record and do all of it on my phone.

But of course, I was looking to get all of it on my phone but of course I was

looking to get a get back into something that was more efficient and professional and so that

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