Woman Evolve with Sarah Jakes Roberts - The Power to Own Your Truth w/ Dr. Anita Phillips

Episode Date: July 17, 2024

Let's be very forreal...Imposter Syndrome and Superwoman Syndrome gotta go! Next up on our summer podcast series, featuring The Power Moves Tour—SJR and Power Player, Dr. Anita Phillips joined forces in Los Angeles to unpack the power to own our truth! In this episode full of wisdom and wit, Dr. Anita encourages listeners to let themselves off the hook sometimes and to boldly embrace the work of their trauma!    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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by each story. Listen to Criminalia on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I really do believe that the enemy steals our peace with anxiety. And if the enemy is trying to steal your peace, then you got to rob the robber. So how do I do everything? I don't! That's probably a 31 woman. She had help. She had maids and servants. Fill yourself with the water you have. And when it is time, he's going to tip you over and pull you out.

What's up, what's up? We are back. The Woman Evolved podcast coming to you again for another week of connection, vulnerability, joy and the power that can only come when we present ourselves fully and truthfully in connection with one another and in the presence of God, transformation takes place and I cannot wait to experience how this week's podcast transforms you. Have you been listening for a minute? What do you think about the podcast?

Can you send me an email with a review? Can you like, yelp review, rate and subscribe this podcast? Let me know what you think of it, how it's meeting you, how it is challenging you and hopefully making you feel a little less alone. As always, we start off the podcast with a minding our business. I say our because I like to throw myself in there and also you as well. I am doing well today. I am finding pockets of rest, of solitude, of peace. I'm leaning into it, trying to take deep breaths.

I have noticed a pattern of mine when I feel out of control of my life, it makes me feel overwhelmed. And I cannot let when too many things happen that rob me of a sense of control. Do I have control issues? Absolutely not. But when a few things happen that rob me of a sense of control, I feel unstable and when I feel unstable, it makes me want to withdraw.

And so I am working on actively showing up in my life without the need to be in control. And it is taking deep breaths and deep trust in God, which I really feel is the perfect segue into this week's question. Somebody sent me a question that I think many of us are going to be able to relate to. When we talk about overthinking, so context, in my book, in my book, Power Moves Ignite

Your Confidence and Become a Force, there's a back of each chapter, there's activate, marinate, and pray. And the goal of these three steps is to give people the tips to activate on a change, to marinate rather on a change they want to make in their life. And by marinating on it, it's like, how is this going to change my life? Who's going to be affected by it? How do I make that introduction? And it's there's thought connected to that.

And then how do we activate it once we're ready? Like how do I step into this on a small scale that's not necessarily overwhelming? And what do I need to be praying in the midst of it all? Some of you all though get a little stuck in the marination process. And I believe that that is a great segue from this question because it has to do with overthinking. And I believe that overthinking is a reflection of distrust.

But let me read the question first. Hello Sarah, how are you? My question is, how do you prevent yourself from overthinking? I'm one of those people that never experience a win. I'm always showing up for others and no one's showing up for me. I have realized that I am extremely traumatized

about my childhood. I'm 43 years old and with the grace of God, things have been getting better lately, but I still find myself overthinking situations that I don't have control of. What are some tips or ideas that you implement daily to prevent my wandering mind? Or maybe she meant that I can implement daily. Thanks for being so amazing. You are the reason why I realign my focus on God. Thank you, Audrey. That's an honor and a

privilege to be a part of what God wants to do in your life. So here is my two cents. Overthinking and anxiety have some correlation. I'm not a doctor. I didn't go to school, but I just believe it's possible. It's a possible. Watch Inside Out 2. Overthinking is our way of trying to prepare or protect ourselves from any number of outcomes and situations.

And when you have been rewarded in some ways for overthinking because you plan ahead, because you think of different possibilities and plan accordingly, it can be difficult to stop overthinking entirely. But eventually your mind starts burning out and then you start spiraling and you can overthink into a negative direction.

I've seen some people say that you need to overthink in a direction of positivity, that instead of thinking of all of the various negative outcomes, to begin thinking about all of the ways that things could work out positively. My thoughts are that you have to kind of enact that scripture about be anxious for nothing. Okay, so when I am overthinking,

I think to really get down to asking yourself the question, what am I afraid of? What outcome makes me feel the And really beginning to live in the confidence that you can do all things through Christ. Right? When I find my mind spiraling into overthinking, there's generally one particular outcome that feels like it would be the most devastating to me. And marinating on that over and over again just creates more worry and anxiety for me. And coming to a place where I rob anxiety with peace is the gift that I give myself. Robbing anxiety with peace happens for me when I realize that no matter what happens,

I can still access the presence of God. And because I can still access the presence of God, I can find healing. I can find comfort. I can find a safe place to rest. I really do believe that the enemy steals our peace with anxiety. And if the enemy is trying to steal your peace,

then you gotta rob the robber. Man, that feels like there's something on that for someone who needs to hear that. You need to rob the robber. That anxiety has stolen time. It has stolen joy. It has stolen your ability to be present in this moment. It is time for you to rob the thief with peace. By inviting God's peace and presence into your life, you are saying to anxiety, no matter what the outcome is, I'm going to be okay. I'm not saying it won't hurt. I'm not saying there won't be grief.

I'm not saying I won't be disappointed, but I will be okay. God is not finished with me. My worth, my value, my identity is not connected to this outcome. And if it works out and it is everything that I want it to be, I am not any more worthy. I am right now in this moment. And so overthinking has this moment where it becomes, where it goes from being a tool and turns into a weapon. And I think being able to know within yourself that I have ventured into dangerous territory with my overthinking, I need to take a deep breath. I need to acknowledge what I'm afraid of. And I need to take a deep breath. I need to acknowledge

what I'm afraid of and I need to allow the presence of God to meet me in this space of fear and to let perfect love cast out fear. I know if you're like me you're like the big bad wolf on the inside and so the idea of being afraid of like I would be quick to be like I'm not afraid of nothing like my husband's like what are you afraid of? I'm not afraid of nothing. But most of the time, there is a fear. I'm afraid that I'm not a good mother. I'm afraid that I'm not good enough. I'm afraid that I can't handle another heartbreak. Let's give that fear some language. And once we give that fear some language,

let's talk back to it. Let's speak the word of God over it. Let's speak the promises of God in the face of those fears. But you cannot, overthinking is not protection. And that's that on that. I wish I could say something. I hope that was helpful. It helped me.

If it didn't help you, Lord knows that it helped me evolve. Greetings, ghouls and girls, and welcome to Haunting, Purgatory's premiere podcast for all things afterlife. I'm your host, Teresa. We'll be bringing you different ghost stories each week, straight from the person who experienced it firsthand. Some will be unsettling. When she was with her imaginary friend,

she would turn and look at you, and you felt like something else was looking at you, too. Some unnerving. The more I looked at it, I realized that the thumb looked more like a claw, like a demon. Some even downright terrifying. The things that I saw, heard, felt in that house were purely demonic. But all of them will be totally true. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you live and get

your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to another exciting episode of the Trap Nerds podcast. This is not an episode, it's a promo. You know what it is, promo time. We in this piece. Trap Nerds, Trap Nerds. Real n**** like you never heard. Join the Trap Nerds podcast every Monday

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will feature individuals from different backgrounds, all walks of life who come together to share their unique perspective and engage in enlightening conversation. What you think the biggest disconnect between men and women is? I think the biggest disconnect is, is now there is a role reversal.

I feel like almost scientifically, if there's not a, in my opinion, my perspective, a natural order of the man being the head and the one following the relationship will almost always fail. I like my work as a music artist and executive. I allow diverse, thought-provoking viewpoints and experiences on a wide range of perspective

that you never knew you needed. But don't women know off the rip before they hit them with the, okay, this ain't even me. Once my feeling change, we're both our feelings supposed to change at the same time. At the same time, but you know what I'm saying, boys? You got to, they're just a woman, period. You know I love minding your business and I have a friend who likes to mind business too. Her name is Dr. Anita Phillips and she's a gift.

If you don't know who she is, I'm so sorry. I have done a disservice by not making sure that every single person who hears my voice is somehow connected to her. She's been very instrumental to me in my healing journey. Around the time that I met her, I started my own therapy journey of really understanding the negative impacts of my trauma and how it had shaped and misshaped, deformed my relationship with God. And as a result of books and therapy and incredible friendships like her, I have been able to really gain an anchoring in my soul and advocacy for my voice in a way that I didn't know that I needed. And so I asked her to speak when we were on tour about imposter syndrome, and I believe

that it is going to help so many of you who struggle like I have with trying to get comfortable in the skin that we're in. So let's check it out, sis. You know, I asked my friend, Dr. Anita Phillips, if she would join us for the LA stop. Yes, queen things. Yes. One of the things that we have consistently heard from city to city are people who are feeling like they are called to something, but also sabotaging or before they can actually move in the direction of

where they know power is flowing, that they talk themselves out of it or think that they are inadequate or not the one who can do it. And I am wondering if you can help us talk about fully possessing that power. Yes, I would like to do that. I'm going to lay my book down for a second, but I'll be back. Hey y'all! Hey y'all!

Man, I'm so excited to be here because power is already flowing through this room. Don't get too quiet. Make sure you stay alert so you don't miss a moment when you need to reach up and grab something for yourself. I heard this sister talking about, I'm studying grab something for yourself. I heard this sister talking about, I'm studying for this LSAT, I heard this sister saying she wants to get a PhD in behavioral science, I love that. So many of us have goals but

many of us struggle with something that we call imposter syndrome. Anybody in the room? I thought I heard, yeah I see a lot of hands with that and maybe not even fully for you but some aspect of it. Something that leaves you feeling like all the things you are doing is not translating to who you are being. I've taken the test, I've taken the quiz, I'm running this, I got this job,

I'm doing everything I can, but I don't feel like that person. And so it becomes so frustrating because you can actually have the door open up for you. You're sitting at the boardroom table. You got into the program. It's time to take the exam. It's time to show up It's time to walk down the aisle, but will I actually be a good wife? I finally got through this infertility journey and now I'm scared. I won't be a good mother It's like we're afraid of every single step. So even when we get through one thing, we're scared of the next thing So even when we get through one thing, we're scared of the next thing. And so fear continues to snatch us by the throat over and over again.

And so we call it imposter syndrome, but what we really should call it is fear. Because it is this, as Pastor Sarah said, this kink in the holes that's keeping the power from flowing to the area where we want it to be. So I want to talk to you about imposter syndrome a little bit, because we use the term a lot, but I want to take some power out of it tonight. We're going to stop power from flowing to that space. You ready for that? I like it.

First of all, imposter syndrome is real and it's not all coming from within you. Some of it has come from around us. The first research to find out about what this experience that women were having happened in the 80s, later 80s. There's a reason for that. In 1973 there was the passage of a law called the Fair Reporting Act. Let me teach you a little something. Sometimes you're blaming yourself for something that wasn't your fault. And at that time, it was the first time that women could get credit and have financial freedom

without a man's signature. That just happened in like 1974. I was born. So it's recent. Just a few years before that was the Civil Rights Act, which outlawed racism from blocking us from things. So black people got all this access to new things, people of color. Women got all this access to new things at the same time.

And so suddenly women and black people, and especially black women, had all these new opportunities and a demand from those who dig the fighting for you to go out and do all the things. And so suddenly we were the little kids saying we can be anything we want and that's wonderful but sometimes that's also a lot of pressure. And you may not realize how recent that was. And so now we're trying to achieve all the things that the doors got kicked open for and then nothing shifted in other realms and so we thank God for men like Pastor Torrey who stand next to his woman but but and he's multiplying in the earth we thank God God

multiplying but anyway and so and so we get out here but women were expected to go out do all those things and then still come home and do all the things and so you start getting tired and feeling like you can't check all the boxes and so the first thing to free yourself from this is that you can't check all the boxes. So how do I do everything? I don't. So I need you to let yourself off the hook a little bit. That Proverbs 31 woman, she had help. She had maids and servants and people. Okay? So I I need you to stop. I need you to bring it down a level. Okay, bring it down a level. You got a little if you got a little extra money, go ahead

and pay somebody to come. Employ another sister. So money into her cleaning business. Let somebody else fold some clothes. Let the Superwoman thing go. You ain't got to do everything. You're an imposter trying to be somebody that don some clothes. Let the superwoman thing go. You ain't gotta do everything. You're an imposter trying to be somebody that don't exist. Am I helping anybody?

Get free. All right, and so that's the first place that it came from. But then we also see that imposter syndrome is more common among women who were neglected as children, who have childhood trauma, and are trying to make up for some things, more common among people whose parents were pressuring them to achieve.

And so everything was, you have to make this level, you have to do this, and some of it sounded good. You're amazing, you're gonna be the first black woman president of the United States, and it sounds so nice, but really it's soaking into you like, I have to do it. I can't fail. I have to do it. And so some of our moms and dads, they meant well, but they were telling you how great you are and now you've believed it. And maybe you're actually not perfect. And maybe you're actually not required. And so some of us have some childhood stuff

to go back and work on. I need you to be willing to embrace the work of the trauma. One of the challenges that I see as a therapist is mental health awareness month, so let me throw this out. One of the challenges that I see as a therapist is that people come into the office and they wanna work on what they wanna work on.

Any therapists here? Kobe, am I, they come in, well, I just wanna work on this. So you come in and you say, I feel like I have imposter syndrome, no matter what I achieve, I never feel better, I always am afraid I'm gonna fail, and that's all you wanna work on. But then when I tell you that imposter syndrome

is often just a symptom of the childhood trauma, a symptom of generalized anxiety, a symptom of depression, you don't want to talk about the fact that you've been living with high functioning depression. Because depression also looks like I never really feel like getting out of bed in the morning. It doesn't always look like I'm about to take my life. It may just look like I never am happy to wake up. I feel like I'm moving slow.

My head hurts all the time. My appetite is off. I don't sleep well. High functioning depression can look like that. It can still look like you're getting work done. And one of the symptoms of that kind of depression, one of the symptoms of anxiety that makes you an excellent planner, that keeps getting you promoted because you're always thinking ten steps down the road.

Honey, you talk about I'm a planner, you are anxious. You anxious. Well, I want to get that plane ticket nailed down because if you buy it two years in advance, it's like they haven't even booked the tickets for two years. It's not even open. But you're trying to stay down the road. And when if I tell you you're terrified and you have anxiety, you say, I'm not scared. No, you think, because you think you're in control of everything by planning 80 steps

down the road, but you never get to relax and enjoy the things that you achieve. And so your imposter syndrome, your fear, is actually just a symptom of anxiety or depression that you don't want to treat. So I need you to be willing to not just unkink the holes at that point, but go all the way down to the first kink. I need you to go back to the rape at 13. I need you to go back to when that parent got incarcerated.

I need you to go back to you trying to be the mom for your sisters and brothers, because nobody else could do it, and now you felt like you were more mature. You weren't mature. You were traumatized and pushed into something that was too much for a child. And so you were an imposter then, an imposter parent,

because you were 12. And so for years, you've been doing things that were beyond what you should be doing. Now that you're only doing what you can do, you still have that sense of, I'm not enough. Greetings ghouls and girls, and welcome to Haunting, Purgatory's premiere podcast for all things afterlife. I'm your host, Tereza. We'll be bringing you different ghost stories each week,

straight from the person who experienced it firsthand. Some will be unsettling. When she was with her imaginary friend, she would turn and look at you, and you felt like something else was looking at you, too. Some unnerving. The more I looked at it, I realized that the thumb looked more like a claw, like a demon. Some even downright terrifying. The things that I saw, heard,

felt in that house were purely demonic. But all of them will be totally true. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you live and get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to another exciting episode of the Trap Nerds podcast. This is not an episode, it's a promo. You know what it is, promo time. We in this piece. Trap nerds, trap nerds.

Real n****s like you never heard. Join the Trap Nerds podcast every Monday and listen to us discuss all things inside and out of Blurred Culture. Whoa, Quint Tarantino squashes his beef with Marvel and be like, I got this. See, I mean, to put shots of road wheel, see, I be down with this.

Man, you know, I could be ex down with it. Maybe they'll be interested. With the best movie and TV reviews from a blur perspective. I think if Voldemort hadn't got fired, Kevin Pye would be in trouble right now. Preach. We giving you reliable gaming news and real genuine game reviews.

I'll stand for Lightning. Why does she have three games? Cause she a bad- I hate you so much right now. Listen to the Trap Nurse podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network, I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Yo, it's Big Bank. Check out my podcast, Prospective with Bank on the Black Effect Podcast Network.

Each and every Monday, Prospective with Bank podcast will feature individuals from different backgrounds all walks of life who come together to share their unique perspective and engage in enlightened conversation. What you think the biggest disconnect between men and women is? I think the biggest disconnect is, is now there is a role reversal. I feel like almost scientifically,

if there's not a, in my opinion, my perspective, a natural order of the man being the head and the one following, the relationship will almost always fail. I like my perspective, a natural order of the man being the head and the one following the relationship will almost always fail. I like my work as a music artist and executive. I allow diverse, thought provoking viewpoints and experiences on a wide range of perspective that you never knew you needed.

But don't women know off the rip before they hit them with the okay that this ain't even me. Once my feelings change, we're our feelings supposed to change at the same time. Yeah, at the same time, baby. You know what I'm saying, boys? They just want a woman, period. Every Monday, listen to Perspective with Bank on Black Effect Podcast Network.

Our heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Tonight, I want you to make a commitment to unkink the holes anywhere and everywhere that power is being backed up. And if that means you have to admit, I might have depression. If that means you have to admit, I might need to take medication. If that means you have to admit,

I cannot support you anymore. Generational curse breaker, hun, sis, sis, sis, sis sis it's generational curse breaking not generational back breaking you ain't got to carry as many people as it feels like I want you to just say maybe you're getting it done but I want you to just let us all discern what we're supposed to be carrying because it can feel like well if I don't do it, nobody will do it. Guess who might do it if you stop doing it?

You might make room for God to do it. So some of our issues, he's trying to get in the chair and we need to get out of the chair. And so our number one challenge when it comes to that, just veering off to that on the generational trauma, is that we need to be breaking that forward. I want you to work within yourself, I want you to work on the generation in front of you,

and then maybe you'll have the chance to go behind you, but we all start in the back. We try to grab mom, we try to grab grandma, and they're kicking and screaming at Auntie and they don't wanna come, and you'll spend your whole life stuck, still your inner child trying to rescue your mommy. Am I? I'm not talking to you.

I've had to do this work myself. And so there's so many ways that we are trying to be something that either we weren't called to be and then we feel like an imposter or we're trying to be something we are called to be but we're scared we can't be that and so we feel like an imposter or we're trying to be something we are called to be but we're scared we can't be that and so we feel like an imposter and so I came to tell you this is how you work with imposter syndrome now this is what they'll tell you but I'm gonna let you tell you what Sarah's telling us she didn't know she was talking about it in here but she was talking about it. Oh you ain't gonna get me I was at the DMV but we are on page 124. The world is gonna tell you that you get through imposter syndrome by changing

your mind about your own abilities but who's tried that and it didn't work? Acknowledge your expertise and accomplishments. Who's tried that? And still you found yourself feeling not enough. We can also remind ourselves that we've earned our place. Anybody remind themselves that and still find themselves feeling like no? And then finally, the world will tell you to focus on your achievements

as the measurement for how you're doing. But Sarah says that's a lie. If you go down toward the bottom of page 124, it's important for us to have real distinction between confidence and pride. Because pride is rooted in how much bigger or better you can become than others, and surprisingly, how much bigger and better you can be compared to who you were. I'm sure you've heard or read someone saying something about the only person they want to be better than is the person they were yesterday.

I've probably said it myself. But on the surface, this seems empowering and humble, but it doesn't lay a foundation for true confidence. If the only way you can become better is to see who you were yesterday as inadequate, your confidence is constantly being built and then demolished with each drawing of a new day. I hate to break it to you, she hates to break it to you, but better than you were yesterday may not be possible. The way life is set up, your yesterday can be peak adulting behavior filled with timeliness and patience and focus and discipline,

but tomorrow you could regress back to who you were five years ago with one phone call. On those days, if you lay your head down in shame, then you know that what you're pursuing is not actually confidence, but rather pride. Pride will not get you there. Do you know what will get you there? Knowing exactly what your limitations are and as Paul said, glorying in your infirmities. Now I'm big on having Christians recognize that they're not superhuman, that we have so much in common with other people, and so we do have depression and we do deal with anxiety, we do deal with imposter syndrome, but tonight I want to point out a place

where we actually do get to be different. By looking at how we define this, when Jesus comes into our lives, that is power flowing through us. Second Corinthians 4, 7 says, we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. And so if I understand that his power is constantly flowing through me, the power doesn't

have to be mine. In fact, when I recognize that it's not mine, I have learned to rush into that space. Because when I show up empty, when I show up inadequate, when I show up scared, when I show up without enough, God shows up and blows me away every time. Now, I know you don't like how it feels. Yeah. But Jesus' very first miracle

had to do with an earthen vessel. He was at a wedding, and they ran out of wine and that was about to make everybody look bad. Isn't that what you're afraid of? You're gonna look bad if you try this you're gonna get out here. It was about to make everybody look bad and so after his mama got on his case and told him to tell them what to do he said go get six water pots. Those are the same type of earthen vessel that 1st Corinthians 4 is talking about when it says we have this treasure in earthen vessels he

says go get six water pots six is the number of man so that was us fill them with water but that's not wine fill them with water so they filled them with the water because that was all that they had. But when the pots were poured out, wine came out. God sent me to tell you tonight, fill yourself with the water you have. Fill yourself with the water you have and when it is time, he's gonna tip you over and pour you out. And power will flow. I love you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. No. Let me tell you, Dr. Nita Phillips, ladies, and six gentlemen. I just want the six men to know that I do see you and you're safe here. You're welcome here. We're glad to have you. That is us talking about possessing the power that we do have and allowing God's power to

flow through us. about possessing the power that we do have and allowing God's power to flow through us. The next portion of this segment is called protecting our power and I want to talk about the reality that I have seen so many people experience and that is that they go through transformation, maybe they even go through therapy, maybe they come to conferences and events like this, but when it's actually time for them to live outside of their transformation, they're not able to present it to the world that they live in because they're afraid that presenting the most powerful version of themselves may in some way affect the people they are

connected to negatively. And so instead what we choose to do is stay internally frustrated or we deal with the reality that we have to protect our power from our own experiences and thoughts. Oh, my book's over here. I wanna read you guys a section of the book that speaks to protecting your power. Page 168. If your failures could change God's mind about you, he would have never have sent his son to save you. Each day, whether it's a day when your incompetence and inadequacy are on full display, or a day when you feel so powerful that you're shocking yourself, is an opportunity to ask God what he's trying to show you about his character

or yours. Not as listening to a podcast and being manhandled. Have you ever been manhandled listening to a podcast? Because I believe that you may have just been manhandled or was it just me? Dr. Anita knows how to say a thing and when a thing has been said, there is nothing left to add to it. I hope that you enjoy this as much as I did. Send me your thoughts podcast at womanybob.com. I want to hear from you. I want to know how this episode met you, challenged you.

Who do you need to pass it on to? Because I believe that this is a message that we all need to hear. I'm so grateful as always to share space with you. And I am praying that the work continues the podcast ends, but the work continues that you continue tapping and pressing in and really giving yourself a break. The release and relief that you need so that you can receive. Okay, release, relief, receive. And what ways could you be receiving right now that you are not?

Can you give that language? Because there's no need in acting like you don't have a need. You might as well give it language and oh my goodness I'm so professional You might as well give it language so that you can identify it when it shows up or express it when someone asked for it Ask for it. So I love you all from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. You make my heart go thump, thump, thump. I'm so honored to do this thing called Life With You. You are listening to the Woman Evolved podcast and I thank God that we've had an opportunity

to connect. Now, God, be with them in ways that they don't even know that they need your presence. God, I pray that you would show up, that you would rob them of all excuses, that you would surprise them in the ways that you are so in tune with who they are, and that it would cultivate a deeper level of trust in you. I thank you, God, for the work that you're doing on the inside of us.

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