Welcome back to the Coffee and Bible Time podcast.

For those that may be listening for the first time, our podcast is an offshoot from our main platform YouTube.

Our channel is called Coffee and Bible Time where our goal is to help people delight in God's Word and thrive in Christian living.

We also have a website in storefront with Bible studies, prayer journals, courses, and more.

And I'm so excited to tell you about our brand new, in-depth Bible Study Academy.

Have you always wished that you knew how to study your Bible in-depthly for yourself,

but you just don't have time to go to Bible College?

Well, join us this year as we adventure through 12 different courses designed to give you the

background and the tools to study

the Bible for yourselves. You can find out more information about the Academy on our website

at coffee and Bible time.com. I'm Mentoramama and today we are going to be talking about

how we keep ourselves in bondage by trying to control our lives.

But when we surrender, Christ offers us freedom.

We're going to discuss some practical steps and strategies and just give you some biblically rich

insight for letting go of control and moving

forward in faith, even in the face of setbacks and disappointments.

You know, I would imagine that there's someone listening today who struggles with control,

I being one of them, and fully trusting God in every area of their lives. Well, wanting complete control of our lives, it often can take the

disguise of many different things, such as being self-sufficient or having our lives and schedules just so completely

organized that there's no room for anything unexpected. Well, oftentimes, what lies on the other

side of those traits are frustration, disappointment, and exhaustion. No matter how well we plan or how much we'd like to be

in control, we know that life always seems to throw something at us that is beyond our control.

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