May 14, 2026

DAY 33: HOW DO YOU KNOW IT’S TIME TO LEAVE?

DAY 33: HOW DO YOU KNOW IT’S TIME TO LEAVE?

What if staying feels safer, but God is the One telling you to move? Jacob stayed in Laban’s house for years. Family, wages, pressure, pain. But the season was over, and God said, “Return, and I will be with you.” If familiar pain feels safer than unfamiliar obedience, Genesis 31 is for you. In this episode of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn walks through Genesis 31:1 to 21 and shows how God leads Jacob out of Laban’s control and back toward covenant promise. ...

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In DAY 33: HOW DO YOU KNOW IT’S TIME TO LEAVE?, we explore Jacob's challenging season in Laban's house and God's command to move. Learn when familiar pain feels safer than obedience and how Genesis 31 reveals God's guidance during transitions, addressing fear and the courage to let go.

Key Takeaways

  • Sometimes, staying in familiar but painful circumstances feels safer than stepping into God's call for obedience.
  • Genesis 31 teaches us about God leading Jacob out of Laban's control and back toward His promises.
  • Understanding transition, fear, and the courage to leave what God says cannot come with you is crucial for spiritual growth.
  • Ask yourself where God is calling you to move forward, even when staying seems easier.

When Staying Feels Safer Than Obedience

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where staying put feels like the safer option, even when you sense God is calling you to move? This is a profound dilemma many face, and it's central to the story we explore in this episode, drawing from Genesis 31:1-21.

Jacob spent years in Laban’s house, enduring family dynamics, challenging wages, constant pressure, and emotional pain. His season there had clearly passed, yet the familiar discomfort of his current circumstances might have seemed preferable to the unknown path of obedience. It was at this pivotal moment that God spoke to Jacob, saying, “Return, and I will be with you.” This divine instruction highlights a critical truth: sometimes, familiar pain can feel safer than stepping into unfamiliar obedience.

Understanding Transition and Fear

In this installment of Through the Bible in a Year: Walking the Story of God, Dr. Shawn guides us through Jacob's narrative in Genesis 31. We discover how God orchestrated Jacob's departure from Laban’s manipulative control and set him back on the path toward the covenant promises God had made.

This passage is rich with themes of transition, the paralyzing grip of fear, the consequences of delayed obedience, the significance of household idols, and the immense courage required to discern what God instructs us to leave behind as we move forward.

A Question for Your Heart

As we reflect on Jacob's journey, consider this for your own life:

Where might God be calling you to move forward, even though staying in your current situation feels easier or safer?

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Genesis 31 teach about leaving?

Genesis 31 illustrates God's guidance for Jacob to leave Laban's control and return to covenant promises, highlighting themes of transition and obedience.

How do you know it's time to leave a difficult situation?

If staying feels safer but God is calling you to move, it may be time to leave, even if it requires courage to let go of familiar pain.

What are the challenges of delayed obedience?

Delayed obedience can keep you in situations of pressure and pain, even when the season has passed and God is calling you forward.

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Good morning. Day thirty-three. You ready? How do you know when it's time to leave? This one. Next time we meet, we'll be live, will be Sunday at 6 30 PM Eastern Standard Time. We meet every Sunday. Go over this password. You're gonna need a breather after this one. How do you know when it's time to leave? How do you know when it's time to leave? How do you know when a season is over? A time? How do you know? How do you know when that place that once made so much sense? So much sense. And now it's just shrinking your obedience. Jacob knows that tension. He's worked hard. He has endured. He has been manipulated severely. He has increased. I mean, the wealth of Laban is massively. It just he's increased his wealth massively. He's increased the respect in the community. The family strength. Some things have changed. Now something changes. We cannot argue with the value that Jacob has brought. Measured in many ways. Good morning. Good morning. The tone changes. The faces change. The pressure changes. And then God speaks. So let me ask you right now. Where might God be telling you? Where might God be telling you it's time? It's time to move forward. Even though staying feels easier, feels safer. Welcome back. Welcome back to True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. Welcome back to Through the Bible in a year, walking the story of God. I'm Dr. Sean, and today we're we're walking through Genesis 31, one to 21. This episode is brought to you by my book, True Word Faith for Life. You can find it at the store, True Word Faith for Life.com slash contact. Or not contact store up at the top. Contact is right there too. You send me a free message, whatever. Everything's free there except for my book. It's a great resource. It's not a perfect book. It's accurate, but it's not a perfect book. It's a great growing point. Truthfully. So today's passage. This is not an example of a human being going. I'm tired of this. I'd like to see something different. God. God has called Jacob back to promise. And that matters because some places are temporary. Even even if you got comfortable there. The Pink Floyd song. It's one of my favorite rock songs, comfortably numb. I know. People will freak out. Oh my god, this is the drum kind of. Look, even if you got comfortably numb there, you worked yourself so tired. So worn out. Emotionally, physically, in every way. Some seasons are temporary assignments. Yeah, this was a lot of years. Some seasons are temporary assignments, not permanent addresses. Some environments form you for a time, but they can't carry you into everything God's promised you. I mean, you can hear stuff. Good and bad. And Jacob Jacob hears Laban's sons. They're saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father's. And from what was our father's, he has gained all his wealth. Hmm. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree there, does it? Schemin'. That's accusation, it's resentment. That's the sound of a room. A community, a family turning against him. They don't see God's blessing. They don't. It's not the way they think. They see Jacob as a threat. Maybe you can identify. They see him as a threat. They don't see God's blessing. They're not looking for it. They only see him as a threat. Because he's doing something. He's producing results. No, they don't. Then Jacob. Jacob looks at Laban's face. And the Bible says Laban's attitude toward him was not what it had been before. Sometimes transition begins where you look, you can't even explain it. It begins before you can explain it. The relationship feels different. The same words, they carry a different weight, the same place feels smaller, the room feels colder. The looks change. The freedom changes. The peace changes. And if you've ever stayed somewhere too long because it was familiar, you know how painful that tension can become. I don't know your life. Then the Lord speaks. Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you. Return to the land of your fathers. And to your kindred, and I will be with you. Here's the thing that maybe we forgot. In all the drama, maybe we forgot that he has left his family. And oh, there was scheming. There was scheming. There was all kinds of terrible, awful things, and he was part of it. He was part of it. We look at Laban and we can say, accurately so. Man, he schemed. He schemed. He did terrible, terrible things. So did Jacob. Sometimes parents don't lead you exactly the right way. Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, one of which wants to kill them. And I will be with you. This is what God says. That's the center of the passage. God doesn't merely say, Go. He says, I will be with you. That's covenant language. Years earlier, Jacob met God at Bethel while running from Esau, remember? There God promised land, offspring, blessing, and presence. Now, years later. God repeats the presence promise while calling Jacob to move. Hold on. Tells him to go somewhere else and I will be with you. Seems like that runs in the family. Don't miss this. He repeats the presence promise while calling Jacob to move. Please don't miss this. The place is changing. The promise is not. The season is shifting. The presence remains. God's presence isn't trapped in Haran. God's faithfulness isn't dependent on Laban's land. When God calls his people forward, he doesn't abandon them. He doesn't abandon them between what was way back there and what will be. We don't know what will be. Jacob calls Rachel and Leah. Look, yeah, I'm going to correct myself, live on air. We don't know what will be. Yeah, we know what we'll be. To a great, to the to the part, this is at me too. To the part that matters so much more. We do know what will be. God's presence will be there. Our obedience brings God's presence. Trust and obey. So Jacob calls Rachel and Leah into the field. That detail matters more than you can possibly imagine. He doesn't call them into Laban's house. He calls them away from the household structure. Not because there's super secret stuff about to happen. There was. But because this conversation is serious. In the ancient Near Eastern world, the father's household carried authority, it carried protection, inheritance, identity, and economic power. Look, just because Laban was a sneaky, you think Laban was only sneaky? With Jacob and Leah and Rachel? You think you think that was how it was? He's a sneaky dude. I don't like him. Leaving wasn't just packing bags, folks. Leaving men separating from a system of family control. And Laban has used that system for himself. Jacob tells them plainly, Leah and Rachel, I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me. Remember, Laban is not a believer. That sentence is the whole sermon, folks. I see that your father doesn't regard me with favor as he once did. But the God of my father has been with me. Laban's face changed. God's faithfulness didn't. People can shift, God remains. Systems can tighten, God remains. Favor can disappear from human faces, God remains. Jacob continues. You know that I have served your father with all my strength, yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. See, ten times now. But God did not permit him to harm me. God did not permit him to harm me. Yeah, I did all this work. I did all this extra. I was tricked. I was deceived. I produced so much wealth for him. He tricked me with Leah and then Rachel. He did all these things, but God didn't permit him to harm me. See, he looks at that and he doesn't say that's harm. No, no, no. That's not denial, folks. Jacob isn't pretending Laban was fair. No. He isn't spiritualizing manipulation. He names the wrong done. He names the wrong done to him. Laban cheated. Laban changed the wages. Laban used the system, but Jacob also sees what God restrained. But God did not permit him to harm me. That's mature sight. Not only seeing what people did, seeing what God prevented. Sometimes we only see the pain. We only see the pain. Good morning, Robbie. Good morning to you all. Listen, I don't know who I'm talking to out there. I don't know your life. But I can tell you this: we get in that path where we only see the pain. Only see the pain. And it's painful. It is. Look, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna ignore this. I'm not gonna just blithely pass by this. He absolutely had a reason to be resentful and bitter. But he saw the preservation. What do you see? You're in a season of pain. Do you see the preservation? Do you see the preservation inside that pain? Yes, it was unfair. Maybe what happened to you was unfair. Maybe it was unfair. What happened because of you? Yes, unfair. We'll stipulate. Yes, it hurt. Yes, they changed the terms. Yes, they used you. That's no small thing. But you're still here. You're still here. God restrained what could have destroyed you. Listen, you may be suffering with physical pain. You may be suffering with emotional pain. You may have been abused. You may, you may have done a terrible thing. And you caused massive destruction in your own life and in the life of those that you love. But you are still here. You're still here. God restrained what absolutely could have destroyed you, even if you're the reason why. God preserved you for the next step. And believe you me, there's a next step for you. There's a next step. Then Jacob. Jacob recounts the dream. Come on. You remember that dream. The angel of God says, I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. There it is again. God sees. He saw Leah. He saw Rachel. He sees Jacob. He sees what Laban is doing. There's no quiet injustice invisible to him. No manipulation is hidden from him. No backroom schemes to escape his sight. No. Then God identifies himself. I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. You think he doesn't remember your vows. You think he doesn't remember when you make him promises. Oh, he does. Now he also remembers the promises he made to you. Now arise, this is what he says, this is what God says. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred. That's often how God leads. Isn't it? It's often how God leads. He reminds before he redirects. He anchors before he sends. He says, Remember who I am. Remember what I've promised. Now move. Outside. Remember that? Think on it. He was talking to Leah and Jacob, you remember that? How are they gonna respond? Rachel and Leah respond with surprising clarity. They say, is there any oof, come on. Hey, you think these girls are stupid? They've done some growing too. They're not dumb. They know who their father is, they know what their father is. They say, Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father's house? As we're not regarded by him as foreigners, or are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money. Somebody. This is strong language. It's strong language. They're saying Laban hasn't treated them like daughters. He hasn't. He's treated them like assets. He's used their marriages for gain. He consumed what should have helped them. They were a transaction repeatedly. In that world, bridewealth, inheritance, Household standing and family protection, it all mattered. Mr. Johnson, yes, I am. Thank you. Thank you for listening from YouTube. True Word, Faith for Life with Dr. Sean on YouTube, S-H-A-W-N. Love for you to click on subscribe and the little bell, click all notifications. Hello, Lynette. Good morning. Look, in that world, it was Bridewealth, it was a big deal. It was a big deal. Rachel and Leah aren't merely emotional. This is, they're recognizing a broken system here. They've been monetized by their own father. Come on, somebody, tell me you picked up on that. Then they say to Jacob, whatever God has said to you, do. Folks, that's alignment. That is alignment. Whatever God has said to you, do. Have you been there? Some of you have had to go on from something terrible that happened in your family. Maybe it happened over many, many years. You were young, you were a victim. But at a certain point, it occurred to you, wait, wait, wait, wait, I can't live like this. I can't live in this way. Maybe it's anger, maybe it's alcoholism, maybe it's you know, fighting and selfishness, and we say to Jacob, whatever God has said to you, do that's alignment. Are you hearing me? That's alignment. Whatever. Whatever God has said to you do. That's alignment, that's movement. That is a family stepping toward obedience. Listen, when you maybe you came from a family that wasn't a faith family. Maybe they were dysfunctional, and there was no fun in the functional of dis. And you've you're at that point, you're trying to break free from it. Maybe you have. So Jacob rises, places his sons and his wives on camels, and he gathers the livestock, and he takes the property God allowed him to acquire in Padamaram. He sets his face toward Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. That's decisive. There comes a point when obedience has to move from discussion to action. Well, if I could just get motivated, I'd do something. If I could just get motivated to exercise, I would do something then. I would exercise. If I could just get motivated to go do what I'm supposed to do. If I could just get motivated to pick up my Bible, my Moose Works Bible over there. Check her out on Etsy Mooseworks Bible. Amazing. There'll be a link in the thing. Absolutely adore this woman's work, Melissa. Amazing. If you want a Bible to last and last and last, she'll rebind it for you. It's a work of art. You can pray. Look, look, we could talk is a good game. You might have good talk. You know people like that. You know people that have good talk. Boy, they can talk up a storm. Do they do? Motivation doesn't bring action. Action brings motivation. Set your feet to moving. Answer God. Pick up that Bible. Open it up. Bend your knee in prayer. And then do. Stop talking about it. Do. You can pray, you can discern, you can count the cost, you can talk it through. Eventually, God has said go. Eventually, look, eventually, if God has said go, you have to get up. You have to get up, you have to move. You can't stay where you are. He has said, this place is finished, not because you've made a wreck of it, not because of any reason other than he said go. That's where you're to be. I'll show you. And eventually, look, eventually, if if God has said go, you have to get up and look. Go might not be a change of venue. It might be a change of venue. Might be not a change of address. Might be stepping out and saying, hey, I've been telling you to do this. I've been telling you to do this. You say it's outside of my comfort zone. No. Faith isn't always what you say. Faith isn't always what you say you believe. Faith is what you obey. What you obey. It's not clean. It's not clean. Rachel steals her father's household gods. Dang it. She was so close. She steals her household. Her father's household gods, her the little figurines and all the different little things, you know, because remember, this is a pagan household. Rachel steals her household. Her father's household gods. That detail matters. These household gods, they're often called terraphine. These were connected to family religion, household identity, protection, and possibly inheritance claims. Whatever Rachel's full motive, we don't know. We can't say. The Bible shows us something we cannot ignore. You can leave the land. You can. You can leave the land and still carry pieces of the old system. You can move forward and still hide attachments that don't belong in the promise. You can obey in one area and remain compromised in another. Transformation isn't only about changing location, it's about changing allegiance. Rachel is leaving Laban's house, but something. something from Laban's house is still going with her. And that'll matter later. It will matter later. Jacob also deceives Laban by telling him. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. No. Jacob deceives Laban. We say, well, he got what was coming to him. It's not how we operate. Not in God's system. That's not how it operates. Hey, I'm guilty. That's not how it operates. Jacob deceives Laban by not telling him he's leaving. He doesn't just leave, he flees. He crosses the Euphrates. He sets his face toward the hill country of Gilead. This isn't a peaceful send-off. It's messy movement. But it's movement toward promise. Come on, somebody. Somebody is in that season right now. You're moving toward promise. Obedience doesn't always look neat from the outside. Sometimes obedience comes after years of pressure. Sometimes it begins with fear in the room. Sometimes imperfect people take imperfect steps in the right direction. Come on, somebody. God isn't done with Jacob. God isn't done with Rachel. God isn't done with this family, but they are moving. And movement matters. So what does Genesis 31 1 to 21 say to us? Well says seasons change. Says tension can signal transition. Says God speaks into unstable places. Into imperfect people. It says presence. His presence goes with his people. Says leaving can be obedience. It says moving forward doesn't mean you're already healed. Some of you know that. Some of you have moved forward and you're not healed yet. It says you can't walk into promise while clinging to the gods of the old house. Some of you feel the shift. You know something has changed. The grace to remain is lifting. The pressure is increasing. The old environment is shrinking. You're trying to decide whether is this fear or wisdom or is this discomfort or direction? Is it frustration or is it the voice of God calling me forward? Genesis 31 doesn't tell you to run every time life gets hard, doesn't it? That's not what it's saying here. And if you've if you've used this, maybe you grew up in the church or you knew enough of the Bible, you knew about Genesis 31, you say, hey, but I gotta run. I gotta get out of here. Every time life gets hard, you you pick up chocks and you push the push the throttle all the way forward. The boost, you're taking off on afterburners, you're out. Then maybe that's metaphorically. Maybe that happens emotionally for you. You pull up chocks when emotions get deep. Genesis 31 is not telling you to run. Every time life gets hard, it's telling you listen. It's telling you to listen when God says return and I will be with you. Here's where this becomes painfully modern. This becomes painfully you and me. Right here and right now. A lot of people stay.

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Familiar pain. Familiar pain.

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Love you too, brother. Thank you, Chris. Love you too. God bless you. A lot of people stay because familiar pain, it just feels safer. It feels safer than unfamiliar obedience. Man, trust and obey means I have to do something that I'm uncomfortable with. Unfamiliar obedience. It just feels it doesn't feel safe. We even say it in organ in ordinary language. There's a saying, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't. The devil you know is better than the devil you don't. That's not faith. That's fear trying to sound all wise and biblical. Bondage has routines. Actually, that doesn't sound biblical at all. Or wise. But you can understand it, right? Well, here I know what I'm dealing with. I figured it out. I'm gonna watch this dude. Look, I'm paying attention. I'm I'm seeing him. I'm seeing what's happening around here. I know. I know how he works. Devil you know. I go out there, I don't know. Bondage has routines. Dragonfly. Christopher is one of my dearest friends. We go back to when he was just a kid. I love him and I love his family. Bondage has routines, folks. Dysfunction has patterns. Laban's house is known, but known doesn't mean holy. Familiar doesn't mean faithful. Comfortable doesn't mean covenant. God doesn't call Jacob to comfort. He doesn't call you to comfort either. He calls him to promise. And some of us are asking God to bless a place he's already told us to leave. We're saying, God, I'm you, I know you told me to leave. I know you told me to leave. But I got, I got, I gotta stay here because I look, I know all these sheep, and I'm I these these things I can't take with me. And yeah, I know he's terrible, but you know, so am I. Some of us are asking God to bless a place he's already told us to leave. That may be physical leaving, it may be metaphorical, leaving, it may be moving on to something far different. Leaving isn't always failure, by the way. Sometimes leaving is obedience, leaving bitterness is obedience, leaving manipulation is obedience, leaving an old identity is obedience, leaving a system that trains you to live small maybe. Obedience, not always, but it may be. But I'm gonna tell you, leaving sin. It's always obedience. Leaving sin is always obedience. Sometimes that's super By sometimes I mean every time, all the time. Leaving sin is super hard to leave, but it's always obedience. But leaving requires trust because you're stepping away from what you know toward what God has promised. That's why this passage matters. Jacob isn't just changing addresses, he's walking out of one household order and back toward covenant family, and that's the walk of God, not comfort first, not clarity first, not ease first, obedience first, presence first, promise first. And remember, Esau wants to kill him. And he's gone back. God, I'm ready. This points us toward Yeshua. God calls his people out of Egypt, out of exile, out of darkness, out of old identities, out of dead works, out of sin, out of addiction, out of hurts, out of habits, and out of hang-ups. Yeshua says the same thing. He says the same thing reduced to two words. Two. He calls us into life. He doesn't promise the road will be easy. He promises his presence. My friend, family. His presence is enough for the next faithful step. You're right there. You the the trembling one. Right now. You're the trembling one. You're shaking a little bit. How does it all get out where you're sitting, but you're trembling almost like you have a shiver? You're the one with tears running down your face right now. I'm asking you, where do you sense God may be calling you to move forward right now? I have a very difficult challenge and a choice for you today. Sundays, I'm here to tell you, Sunday's message, our Sunday summation of this past week. You don't want to miss it. You do not want to miss it. This coming Sunday at 6 30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Until then, come on, and we're gonna be live. Here are the questions. And these are indeed a challenge, and these are indeed choices. What are you holding on to when God's asking you to leave? Come on, brother. Come on, sister. What are you holding on to? Where are you holding on to what God is asking you to leave? That grip. Got that grip on here, and you say, I'm not, I can't, I can't do it. I can't give up the addiction. I can't give up the love. I can't give up, I can't give up these things. Maybe it's your addiction to changing, your addiction to changing the script every few minutes. You get bored with this and you go on to the next thing. That's the same thing. Where are you holding on to what God is asking you to leave? Where are you ignoring the shift because staying in that feels safer? Where are you resisting movement because you want perfect clarity first? You say, no, I gotta, I gotta have it all spelled out. I can't move until I know. No, I'm a I'm an organized person, I'm a dismal person, but I but I but I'm going. I mean, I'm going. I am gonna go, but I need to know the next step. I need all the steps, all the turns, all the stops, all the hills, all the mountains, and all the valleys. I need to know them all first before I move. Follow me. Jesus said, follow me. Where are you carrying old household gods into a new season? You bring in the old hurts, habits, and hang ups, the old addictions, the old predilections. You can't carry them. They're comfortable, but you can't carry them into a new season. Not the season God has for you. Now you're the choice. You can stay where it's familiar, or you can follow where God is leading. You can cling to what feels safe. Or you can trust the one who goes with you. You can wait for perfect clarity, or you can take the next faithful step. Don't worship the familiar, don't romanticize bondage because it's it has routines that you've grown accustomed to. Don't confuse comfort with obedience. When God says, Go, take the next faithful step. Maybe this is where salvation becomes personal for you today. Maybe this is where salvation finally becomes personal. You're seeing it, you're feeling it. You don't understand everything, but you know you understand enough. Because sin isn't only what we do. Sin is the old master we keep serving. Listen, it keeps reminding us, hey, you did this. Remember when you did that? Remember when you lived like that? Remember when you made this choice or that choice? Remember, remember? Can't move forward into the promise now because you know you violated. Sin is the old house that taught us to live against God. Sin is the false security, the blanky we keep carrying even when God's calling us into life. Jacob had to leave. He had to leave. He had to leave Laban's house. He had to get on up out of there. Rachel had to confront the household gods. And every one of us must face the deeper question today. Whether you're listening live or you're listening on playback, this is a question you need to face today. What am I still carrying that cannot come with me into the life with God? Yeshua, Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus the Messiah, came to call us out, out of guilt. Let the guilt go, let it go, let it go. We put it at the foot of the cross and we turn around. We don't go back and pick up our big, huge bags of hurts, habits, and hangups. We don't play that film again of us jacked up, messed up, ruining, ruining our testimony. It's not ruined forever. Oh, what a mighty God we serve. Jesus didn't go to the down to the corner Bodega or 7-Eleven. For us, he went to the cross. He was tortured. He was gruesomely murdered. And he went into a borrowed grave that he only needed for three days. And he came out. He came out of that grave. Come out of the guilt. Come out of the shame. Come out of the rebellion. Come out of dead religion. Come out of the old life. Come into the Father's house. Come on, come into the Father's house. Stop dancing around this. You've made every excuse under the sun. Come into the Father's house. He came to forgive you. He came to forgive me. I'm not worth it. I'm not worthy. I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't do it now. Maybe you're thinking of your family, your parents. Maybe you're thinking of you and going, I wouldn't do that for me. So it's implausible to you. My friend, we're not God and God isn't us. Jesus. He's Lord. He came to forgive us. Yeah, forgive us. I've done some horrible things. He forgives me. I don't know what you've done. I don't know. He came to forgive you. He came to make us new. He came to make you new. He came to lead us in the way. You are a child of the king. If you place your faith in him, if you turn your life over to him, you're a child of the king. Get up out of that mud. Stop going back to the mud. Get out of that mud pit. So today, you know the old life has held you long enough. Then this is the moment to come home to the Father. Come on. Stop. Stop resisting it. Stop it. Let it be done. And no, it will not be easy. I'm not going to lie to you and tell you it'll be easy. It's not. Prayer isn't asking for an easy journey. It's asking for a strong back. Father. Pray this prayer. Speak to God. You don't have to get the words exactly right. I'm just telling you, this is the framework. Father, I know I've sinned and I need your mercy. I believe Jesus died for me, was buried, and rose again. Today I turn from my sin and I place my trust in Him as my Lord and my King. Forgive me. Make me new and fill me with your Spirit. From this day forward, I want to follow you in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Amen, amen, amen, amen.

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Glory to God. Glory to God.

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If you prayed that prayer today, I don't care if you're listening live or on playback, if you prayed that prayer today, everything under the sun is going to try to convince you you are all alone. You're an outlier. You're part of some weird cult. None of that is true. You prayed that prayer today. You're not alone. We may be a dysfunctional family, but we family. I will help you. I've helped countless people. I will help you. Contact me at true wordfaithforlife.com slash contact. You might say, why do I have to do that through a website? If you've lived the past life I've lived, trust me, you don't just dole your number out. Many of you have my number. Send the message there. When I receive it, I'll respond. Guarantee it. I'll personally help you take your next steps and I'll walk with you in the way. Let me tell you something, folks. Here's facts. Here's facts. God, the God, calls you forward. He goes with you. He goes with you. God goes with you. And what feels uncertain may be the doorway to promise. Leave what God says to leave. Leave it. Leave it. Be done with it. Stop it. Stop chasing it. Stop chasing it. Leave what God says to leave. And don't look back.

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Lay your burden down. Carry only what belongs to the covenant of God.

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Trust his presence more than your familiar pain. And when he says go, take the when he says go, take the next faithful step. My friends, if this message touched you, if it touched your heart, share it. Why would you keep it in about me? It has nothing to do with me. I am as imperfect a person as you'll ever meet in your life. Think of one person, one. They need hope. They need truth. You would send them a lifeline. You would send them. You would give them, if they overdosed, you'd give them an arcan to bring them back to life. If they were running toward a cliff, you would give them warning. You would say, hey, hey, hey, I got what'll fix that. I have it. Results aren't up to you. They're up to God. All you have to do, post the link. It's not about growing this. It doesn't have anything to do with algorithms. It has to do with you and being faithful. It might be the posting the link might be the very thing God uses to reach someone with his word, and they're at the edge. They need it desperately today. How about you? How about you? Have you heard the word today? Yes. Are you going to listen? That part? It's up to you. Until Sunday, I can't wait, can't wait, can't wait, can't wait for Sunday. At 6 30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, we're going to be here again live. Until then, this has been True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. For more teachings, go to TrueWordFaithforLife.com. It's all free. I pay so you don't have to. Until Sunday at 6.30. Shalom. Shalom Bishum Yeshua. Shalom alaikum. Oh wait. Today is Thursday. Today is Thursday. Y'all. Ooh. What the Lord has for you tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. Come on. Set the alarm. I can't see it doesn't matter what you look like. Just come on. You'll be glad you did. Tomorrow's special. God bless you. Thank you for joining. Tell a friend.