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09/02/2026

Why Do I Still Feel Like The Old Me?
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)
An old name can feel more believable than the new one.

We can love Jesus and still hear "addict" when a craving hits. We can still think, "This is just who I am," after losing our temper or falling back into something we thought we were done with.

Some thoughts have been around so long that they feel like facts.

Why does the old version of us sometimes feel more real than what God said?

Paul gives us a firm foundation and deep understanding. When we trust Jesus, God counts us as belonging to Him.

That's what "in Christ" means here.

The tense that Paul uses matters.

He doesn't say we might become new creatures once we finally get ourselves together. He says we are new right now.

"New creature" means God has made you someone new in Christ. The struggle can still be real while that identity stays true.

That doesn't make a relapse harmless.

It means we don't have to crawl back to God as the people we used to be. We come to Him as His children who need help.

We don't crawl back, we come back. Different C's.

Think about learning to ride a bike. At first, you keep losing your balance and putting one foot back on the ground.

You don't quit because you wobbled. You get back on and keep correcting your balance until staying up becomes familiar.

Trusting what God says about you can feel like that. Each time the old label returns, we answer it with the words God used in the Bible.

That verse was true before we read it today but since we're human do tend to forget.
That's why Paul also says to renew our mind daily, meaning remember.
We should always be coming back to the word to remember our true nature.

Paul explains how God can call us new a few verses later:

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."

2 Corinthians 5:21 (KJV)

Jesus had never sinned, but He took our sin as His own. God gives Jesus' righteousness to everyone who trusts Him, and "righteous" means "right with God".

We didn't earn that identity by going long enough without falling back into the old habit. Jesus gave it to us because of what He finished when He died for us on the cross.

What He did carries more weight than the worst thought in our heads.

Your feelings may still bring up the old name today. You don't have to pretend they're gone.
But you should never take ownership for something that's not your own.
This is why I teach so heavily on distrusting your thoughts and trusting only what the word of God says.

If you're in Christ, God calls you a new creature. The struggle may require serious help, but it doesn't get to rename you.

Here's how to trust what God says about you today:
1. Put the thought next to the verse.

Write the exact label your mind keeps repeating. Under it, write 2 Corinthians 5:17 in full. Seeing the label beside the verse helps you separate what you feel from what God said.

2. Read the present tense out loud.

When the old feeling comes back, read the words "he is a new creature" out loud. You're agreeing with what God has already said, even before your feelings catch up.

3. Take one action that agrees with your new identity.

If addiction is active, call the person helping you stay sober before the craving makes the next decision. Getting help is one way you stop handing your life back to the old name.

If your thoughts are telling you to hurt yourself, tell a trusted person or contact emergency help right now. You don't have to fight that alone.

PRAYER
Father God,

The old names still feel true sometimes.

My thoughts keep taking me back to who I was and what I have done.

Today I bring those thoughts under Your Word.

Help me trust that I'm a new creature in Christ, even while I'm still getting help and learning how to walk in that truth.

Give me the courage to reach out before I act on the craving or lose my temper.

Thank You for making me right with You through Jesus.

In Jesus' wonderful name we pray. Amen.

Blessings,
Pastor Johnny Chang

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09/01/2026

What Do You Do When Your Spouse Won't Change?
“If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.”
Romans 12:18 (KJV)
Wanting a spouse to change can take over a marriage.

We explain the same hurt again because we hope the right words will finally help our spouse understand. Before long, every conversation becomes another attempt to change them.

Paul, who wrote Romans, gives us a boundary that's easy to miss.

He's teaching people who trust Jesus how to live when someone is doing wrong and peace may not be possible. He tells them to pursue peace, but look closely at the limit he puts on it:

"If it be possible, as much as lieth in you"

Romans 12:18 (KJV)

"As much as lieth in you" means "as far as it depends on you."

God holds us responsible for our own words and choices. We can tell the truth and own what we did.

We can also decide what behavior we won't stay around.

Your spouse still decides what they will do. You can't make that decision for them, even when it hurts you.

My mother learned that after more than twenty years of trying to change my father.

He drank and abused her. When she started talking to him about Jesus, the abuse got worse.

A pastor finally asked her who had the power to change my father's heart. She knew the answer wasn't her.

The verse he gave her was this:

"(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"

2 Corinthians 5:7 (KJV)

Walking by faith didn't mean pretending the abuse was okay. It meant she stopped treating my father's heart like something she could control and asked God to do what she could not.

My father later came to Christ, and so did my brother.

My family's testimony isn't a promise that every spouse will change or that God will make it happen on our schedule.

Trusting God never means calling abuse good. If you're being threatened or harmed, get somewhere safe and tell someone who can help you.

Caring deeply about a marriage can make us feel responsible for decisions only our spouse can make. God knows where our responsibility ends.

You may need to speak plainly and ask for outside help. You may need distance from harm.

You still have a next step, even if your spouse keeps making the same choice.

Here's how to own your responsibility and trust God with their choices today:
1. Write down your responsibility.

Write down what you need to apologize for or one boundary you need to keep. Do not write down what your spouse should do.

2. Take one step that doesn't require their cooperation.

Make the apology that belongs to you or ask a wise person for help. If you're in danger, use this step to get somewhere safe.

3. Pray about the response you can't control.

Tell God exactly what you want to change, then ask Him to lead you in your next choice. This is how we align back to God. Faith means trusting God when you cannot see what your spouse will do.

PRAYER
Father God, I'm tired from carrying choices that don't belong to me.

Today I bring You the person I love and the conflict I can't fix.

Show me which words and choices are my responsibility.

Give me the courage to tell the truth and keep the boundaries I need.

Lead me to safe help if I'm being harmed.

Keep me from using pressure when I feel afraid.

Help me walk by faith without pretending I know how this story will end.

In Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen.

Blessings,
Pastor Johnny Chang

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08/30/2026

Why It's Okay That Your Faith Sucks
“If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”
2 Timothy 2:13 (KJV)
In the beginning of my walk, I was so inconsistent with God that I felt like He was straight up pulling away from me.

I would feel ashamed, because I would wake up feeling like Superman, believing that I was going to read the Bible and truly change my life.

By the end of the night, I was feeling defeated and worse off than when I had started.

Paul says, in such a beautiful passage, that although we may not believe, God stays faithful to us.

I used to hear this term all the time: "God is faithful."

It wasn't until I realized how unfaithful I was that I was able to grasp the true nature of this verse.

Although we deny God daily and even walk away from Him at times, God never walks away from us.

God never loses faith, and He truly loves us and stands by His word.

This broke my brain.

I thought I was going to get rewarded for my consistency, but God's faithfulness was never rooted in my consistency or my dedication, but in His own nature.

For Him to stop being faithful would be for Him to stop being God, which is impossible.

I remember crying over this verse and feeling so grateful for this heavenly Father that we all share.

I stopped living a performative Christian life after realizing this.

Whether I had a strong week or a weak week, I recognized that He was always strong and His grace was sufficient no matter what.

The most comforting thing about God is that He can never deny Himself, and to not help us would be Him denying Himself.

Instead of making me feel like I can just sin freely and do whatever I want, it made me thank Him, and that love and gratitude in my heart cast out the need to want to sin.

I felt almost like I was truly betraying God if I just decided to utilize His faithfulness for my comfort.

This verse made me realize that God is the burning fire, and although we may flicker, all we need to do is go to Him and reignite that flame.

The amazing thing is that it also points back to the gospel: before I was ever faithful to God, He was faithful to me on that cross 2,000 years ago.

He kept His promise so much so that He died for someone that didn't even know Him, and I think we all share the same story here.

Here's how we walk this out.
1. Stop measuring God by your last 24 hours.

Most of us decide how close God is based on how we did today.

Strong quiet time, He's near. Blew it again, He's disappointed.

That's you projecting your own scorekeeping onto Him.

His nearness isn't a reaction to your performance.

Take Him at His word before you take yourself at your feelings.

2. When you fail, run to Him, not from Him.

Our instinct after failing is to hide until we've cleaned ourselves up enough to face God again.

But you don't reignite a flame by staying away from the fire.

The moment you notice you've flickered, that's your cue to go straight to Him, not wait until you feel worthy.

3. Let His faithfulness make you grateful, not comfortable.

This isn't a license to sin freely because "He'll be faithful anyway."

When you really see what He did, gratitude does the work that guilt never could.

It starts casting out the desire to sin on its own.

Ask God to let His faithfulness produce love in you, and let that love be what changes your behavior.

PRAYER
Precious Lord, I've been measuring Your faithfulness by how well I did today.

When I fail, I feel like You are pulling away from me.

Thank You for staying faithful when my own faith feels weak.

Today I come straight back to You.

Keep me close to You, and let Your faithfulness make me grateful.

Help me trust what You said about Yourself when my feelings tell me something different.

In Jesus' beautiful name we pray. Amen.

Blessings,
Pastor Johnny Chang

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08/28/2026

Why Am I Ashamed to Tell the Truth About My Debt?
“The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”
Proverbs 22:7 (KJV)
A lot of us know what each debt payment costs, but we've never added up the full amount we owe.

We avoid opening every account because the total feels like it'll prove we can't be trusted with money.

The debt may have come from choices we regret or costs we couldn't cover, and for most of us, it's some of both.

How do I bring that number to God when I can barely say it to myself?

Solomon, the king who wrote this verse, uses one line to tell us what borrowing does, no matter how the debt started.

The word "ruleth" means "has power over."

He ends the verse with this:

"the borrower is servant to the lender."

Proverbs 22:7 (KJV)

Then Solomon calls the person who owes the money a "servant" to the person or company that lent it.

When a payment is due, some of the money we earn has to go back to the lender, which limits what we can do with it.

Owing money doesn't change how God sees the borrower, even though the financial pressure is real.

We take a number on a statement and turn it into a description of ourselves, like stupid or beyond help.

We fear that a spouse or trusted friend will see the total and decide we can't be trusted.

If finances are shared, the other person is already affected by the debt and may be making choices without knowing the total.

Even if they are angry, both of you need the full number before you can make a plan.

God knows the full total, even though each lender only knows what you owe them.

Avoiding the balance leaves us with the debt and a secret to protect.

When you pray, tell God the exact total while you're figuring out how to repay the debt.

Paying back the debt takes time, but you can be honest about it today.

Jesus welcomes us while the debt is unpaid and the plan is unfinished. He already knows the full number and still lets us come to Him for wisdom.

Here's how to tell the truth about the debt today:
1. Put the full number on one page.

Write every account balance on one page, using the amount shown on each account, then add them together.

2. Say the exact total to God.

Tell God the amount and what makes you ashamed. Ask Him for wisdom and courage to stay honest while you make a repayment plan.

3. Show the page to someone safe.

If your spouse shares your finances and the conversation is safe, show your spouse the page. If that conversation would put you at risk, or if you manage money alone, show it to a trusted friend or credit counselor who will tell you the truth without humiliating you.

Ask that person to sit with you while you make one first move, like calling a lender to confirm the balance or making a repayment plan for one account.

PRAYER
Father God, I know what each payment costs, but I've been afraid to add up what I owe.

I've been treating the total like it can tell me who I am.

Thank You that I don't have to clean this up before I come to You.

Today I'm going to write down the real total and bring it to You.

Give me courage to show it to the right person.

Give us wisdom for the first step.

Help me stay honest while I work to pay back the debt.

In Jesus' wonderful name we pray. Amen.

Blessings,
Pastor Johnny Chang

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08/27/2026

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08/27/2026

Why Do People Who Ignore God Seem To Be Doing Better Than Me?
“For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.”
Psalm 73:3 (KJV)
Asaph, the man who wrote Psalm 73, almost stopped trusting God when he saw people who ignored God doing better than him.

He was jealous of their success.

The Psalm calls them "wicked." Asaph isn't talking about somebody who has doubts or misses church. He describes proud people who speak against God and still prosper.

They had the money, health, or easier life he wanted.

Somebody can ignore God and still have more money than we do. Their relationship can work out while ours falls apart.

They can get the opportunity we've been praying for.

Psalm 73 doesn't tell us to call any of that fake.

Asaph's problem wasn't that he noticed their lives looked better. His problem was what he decided their success meant about God.

By verse 13, Asaph says he had kept his heart clean "in vain." Basically, he was starting to think living for God had been pointless.

This is where envy gets dangerous, because we take one part of somebody's life and use it to decide whether God cares about us.

They have what I want, so God must have forgotten me.

They ignored God and still got it, so living for God must not matter.

The turn comes later in the same Psalm:

"Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction."

Psalm 73:17-18 (KJV)

The "sanctuary" was a place of worship.

When Asaph went there, the people he envied were still prospering.

Their money didn't change. His understanding and heart did.

Asaph finally understood "their end," which means the final outcome of the path they were on. "Slippery places" means their prosperity was not secure, and "destruction" means God would bring their proud path to an end.

The Psalm doesn't tell us exactly when or how that end would come, so we don't need to guess. It doesn't promise they'll lose their money next week.

Its point is that present comfort was never proof their path was safe.

Prosperity can show us what somebody has right now.

It can't tell us that God approves of how they live. It also can't measure God's care for us.
Asaph didn't do this out of hate either. He just wanted clarity and received it as soon as he turned back to God.

After his understanding changes, Asaph also sees what he had missed about his own life. A few verses later, he says God had been holding him by the right hand and would guide him.

While Asaph had been watching what the other people had, he missed what was true in his own life.

God hadn't left him. God was holding him.

The Psalm's answer isn't that those people were secretly doing worse in every part of life. Sometimes the person we're watching really does have more in the area where we feel empty.

That one area can't tell you what is true about God.

When you think, "They're doing better than me," finish the sentence. Better in what way?

Say it honestly. Maybe they have more money, the relationship you wanted, or the opportunity you've been praying for.

Stop before you turn what they have into proof that God doesn't care about you. Their life can't answer that question.

Bring the exact envy to God before it pulls you away from Him.

Here's how to do that today:
1. Finish the sentence.

Tell God, "I'm jealous of ___ because ___." Use the person's name and say what they have that you want.

2. Read Psalm 73 from beginning to end.

Pay attention to what Asaph saw and what he decided it meant. Notice what he understood after he went to God.

3. Ask God to guide you in your own need.

Tell Him what you're still waiting for. Ask Him to keep somebody else's life from becoming the measure of His care for you.

PRAYER
Father God, I've been watching people who ignore You and wondering why their lives look better than mine.

I've been jealous of what they have and tired of waiting in my own life.

I've used their success to decide that You must have forgotten me.

Thank You for holding Asaph even while his attention had been pulled away from You.

Today I bring You the person I've been comparing myself to and the success I envy.

Help me be honest about what they have without making it mean You don't care about me.

Hold me steady in my own need.

Guide me while I wait.

Keep my envy from pulling me away from You.

In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen.

Blessings,
Pastor Johnny Chang

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08/26/2026

Am I Going To Be Single Forever?
“But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:”
1 Corinthians 7:32 (KJV)
Some days it feels like everybody around us is married. We start wondering if we will always be single.

The first part says:

"But I would have you without carefulness."

1 Corinthians 7:32 (KJV)

In the King James Bible, "carefulness" means "anxious worry," the worry that can take over our whole mind.

Then Paul, the man who wrote this letter, says:

"He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:"

1 Corinthians 7:32 (KJV)

"Careth" means "is concerned about" or "gives attention to." Paul is talking about what holds our attention.

Marriage brings real responsibility because a husband or wife should love and care for their spouse.

If we are unmarried, we do not carry that same responsibility. A few verses later, Paul explains that an unmarried person can focus on the Lord without being pulled in two directions (1 Corinthians 7:35).

Jesus loves us, and being unmarried does not change that.

We give God our attention when we open the Bible and talk honestly to Him in prayer. When He shows us how to live, we follow Him.

Paul never says marriage is coming here, but he does say we can focus on the Lord while we are unmarried.

Jesus already knows how much we want to be married. We do not have to hide that desire when we pray.

Here's How To Respond Today:
When worry about marriage fills your mind, tell Jesus exactly what you are afraid of. Ask Him to help you give your attention to Him today.

PRAYER
Father, I want to be married.

I am afraid it may never happen.

Thank You for loving me.

Help me give You my attention today.

In Jesus' precious name I pray. Amen.

Blessings,
Pastor Johnny Chang

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08/25/2026

People Laugh When I Talk About Jesus
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.”
John 15:18 (KJV)
The bigger my page gets, the more people come at me for talking about Jesus. They call me a cult leader, a false prophet, a heretic, a fake minister, I've heard all of it.

I'm a person with feelings, so some of it can get to me, of course.

Most of us aren't getting that from strangers online.

We get it at work when we mention church and somebody smirks.

Or at dinner. We tell our family what God did, then watch them change the subject like we never said it.

Then we get home and go back over the conversation. Did I say it wrong?

A couple hours later we're not even thinking about them anymore. We're wondering whether we're doing any of this right.

The order Jesus says it in matters:

"it hated me before it hated you."

John 15:18 (KJV)

Before you. Before you ever opened your mouth about Him.

So whatever you think you set off, you didn't start it.

"The world" there means the people who want nothing to do with Him.

He says why, in the very next line:

"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."

John 15:19 (KJV)

It has nothing to do with how well we said it.

The world loves what belongs to it. Jesus says He chose you out of it, so you don't belong to it anymore.

People pick up on that even when they couldn't explain it.

Nobody had a problem with me when I was living for myself. I could do whatever I wanted and my homies were right there in it with me.

The second I started talking about Jesus, the same guys who swore they'd take a hundred years in prison for me started spazzing out.

They were reacting to who I belonged to now.

Then He tells them what to expect:

"Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."

John 15:20 (KJV)

A servant is a worker. His lord is the man he works for.

You don't get better treatment than the Man you work for.

He doesn't end on the bad news either. Where they kept His word, He says they will keep yours too.

They stood at His cross and laughed while He was dying. They told Him to come down and prove who He was.

He could have done it in a second.

He stayed up there for the same people running their mouths at Him. That is how you and I got saved.

You're going to keep getting the smirk and the subject change. Jesus told you that Himself so you'd be ready for it.

The look on their face tells you nothing about where you stand with God.

You're standing exactly where He said you would be.

Here's how to carry it the next time somebody laughs:
1. Read John 15:18 before you replay the conversation.

He told us it was coming so it wouldn't shake us when it did. Let Him talk first.

2. Ask God once if you were harsh, then be done with it.

For about five years after I got saved I used the Bible to win arguments, and not one person came to Jesus through me in all that time.

Your delivery is worth checking. You don't fight pushback with pushback, rather you fight it with purpose.

Ask Him honestly, fix what's real, and quit going back over it all week because somebody laughed.

3. Pray for the one who laughed, by name.

That's what He did while they were still going at Him.

You can do it today, right now. It will do more for you than the comeback you keep writing in your head.

PRAYER
Gracious Father, somebody laughed at me. I went home wondering if I'm doing any of this right.

You were there for the whole conversation. You saw what it did to me.

Thank You that Jesus said this was coming. I don't have to take it as You pulling back from me.

Help me pray for them instead of rehearsing what I should have said.

Today I quit grading my faith by the look on somebody's face.

Give me the words next time. Give me peace either way.

In Jesus' wonderful name we pray. Amen.

Blessings,
Pastor Johnny Chang

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08/24/2026

How Do You Actually Break A P**n Addiction
“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”
Hebrews 4:15-16 (KJV)
Most of us believe the way out of p**n is to feel bad enough about it that we finally stop.

That becomes the plan. Get a handle on the p**n first, then go talk to God about it.

A lot of people reading this discovered p**n at a very young age.

I was introduced to it at the age of 10 by a local drug dealer from the projects.

They've grown now and still fighting it, still waiting to get clean before they'll pray about it.

Nobody waits for a broken hand to stop hurting before they go get it looked at. With God we wait until we think we're better before we'll say a word to Him.

Some of us have been waiting years.

So why does promising yourself it's the last time never make it the last time?

This verse tells us the underlying issue.

A high priest was the one man allowed to walk into God's presence. Everybody else stayed outside, and he went in for them.

This high priest represents Jesus.

Then comes a line about Him that's easy to skip.

He can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. "Infirmities" is the old King James word for our weak places, the spots where we don't hold.

He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.

Yet without sin. We hear that and figure He doesn't understand, that temptation came easy to Him because He never gave in.

That's backwards.

None of us knows what that pull feels like at full strength. We give in long before it gets that far.

He never did. He felt the whole weight of it, all the way down.

The same letter says it plainer two chapters earlier. Read it slow:

"For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted."

Hebrews 2:18 (KJV)

"Succour" means "to run to somebody's aid." He comes and gets you.

One word in this verse carries the most weight:

"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace."

Hebrews 4:16 (KJV)

Therefore.

Everything the verse tells you to do next rests on who Jesus is, and not one bit of it rests on what kind of week you've had.

"Boldly" means walking in with confidence, the way somebody walks in who already knows they belong there.

You're the one being told to walk right up to that throne.

"Grace" is strength God hands you for free. You did nothing to earn it. Who is this grace for exactly?

"and find grace to help in time of need."

Hebrews 4:16 (KJV)

Time of need.

That means while the wanting is still on you, not once it's behind you and you've stacked up a clean month to show Him.

Shame will let you feel awful about the p**n for years and that's how Satan keeps you away from God.

It makes you feel like you have to handle it yourself and come back once you're decent.

There's no such condition anywhere in either of those verses.

Jesus is the reason that's true.

He is the one who went in on your behalf.

There is not a single person who came to Jesus "clean".

The pull isn't going to be gone by the weekend. This verse never promised you that.

What it promises is help in the middle of it, from the one Person who has felt everything you feel and isn't disgusted by any of it.

God is not waiting on a better version of you.

The more you go to God to fill your heart, the less control p**n has over it.

Here's how to go to God in the middle of it today:
1. Talk to Him while it's still on you.

The second the pull shows up, before you have any idea how tonight is going to go, say a word to Him right then. That's the exact moment Hebrews 4:16 was written for.

It's the one we've all been skipping.

2. Use the real word for it.

Don't pray around it and don't dress it up. You're not telling Him anything He doesn't already know.

You won't shock somebody who was tempted every way you've ever been.

3. Ask for the help He promised instead of the one we keep asking for.

We ask God to take the wanting away. When it's still sitting there, we read that as a no.

He promised grace to help in time of need. Ask Him to hold you through it, then take what He hands you.

PRAYER
Almighty God, I've been treating You like somebody I have to be presentable for.

I've been carrying this a long time. I've spent years feeling terrible about it, and feeling terrible has never made it stop.

For years I waited to get a handle on the p**n before I'd bring it to You.

Today I quit waiting.

Thank You that Jesus knows that temptation better than I ever will. He has never looked at me like He was disgusted.

Thank You that the way in stood open the whole time I sat outside trying to get decent.

The next time the wanting comes, help me talk to You in the middle of it instead of going quiet.

In Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen.

Blessings,
Pastor Johnny Chang

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"I went from guilt, stress, and a hundred questions to finally getting real answers." - Naomi R.

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