Divine Life Transformation - Samantha Taylor

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, it's Samantha Taylor. Welcome to Divine Life Transformation. This
is the show where I continue to show you how
to go through the scriptures and apply to your life
the power and knowledge that God gave us through the
Bible to see how it can transform you. And this

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show is called Divine Life Transformation because that is what
we focus on now. I do have a show on Pray,
a radio show every Saturday morning at nine am Pacific
and twelve Eastern, and I have a TV show. If
you haven't seen that, you want to check it out
because we go in epic scenery. We just did Hawaii,
New Zealand and Fiji and I take you to ridiculous

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scenery and just show you God's creation while we talk
about the Bible. So if you enjoy this content, you
definitely want to make sure you actually watch the TV
show as well. That's on Thursday mornings at eight thirty
Pacific eleven thirty easterns before we dive into this New
Year's Resolutions session today, because I want to help you

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know how you can accomplish your goals with God. One
great thing about the Prey app is if you click
follow on my page, you'll get notified of when I
put up new content on there as well. So new
Year's resolutions, you know, some people kind of get down
on these saying, oh, well they don't work. Well, they
work if you work them. You know, It's amazing how

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when you realize that this is just about analyzing your
life and setting goals and looking at where you've been
this last year, where you want to go next year.
I think the New Year is an amazing time to
have that reflection. And it frustrates me sometimes that people,
you know, put down New Year's resolutions saying they don't work.
I'm not going to do any of that. Well, that's

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not good because many people only analyze their life once
a year. Unfortunately, unless you're proactive and actually being engaged
in designing your life and building your life instead of
letting it just happen and then waking up ten years later,
twenty years later and going, wow, I did not accomplish
what I thought I set out to do this last

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ten to twenty years. And one thing I have learned
in this life is that if you are not actively
engaged in designing your life, planning your life, knowing where
God wants you to go with your life, then life
is just going to swallow you up in a sense
of time, in this vortex of busyness, and that if

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we are not focused on the ways of God and
focused on seeking after Him and understanding what our purpose
on this planet is supposed to be, then we are
going to easily get caught up in the busyness of
life and the day to day things that are constantly
consuming us. And you know, I was just really reflecting

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on this because when you think about why are so
many people not successful with setting goals and accomplishing them,
specifically the New Year's resolutions, I just kind of looked
up some stats about that because it is a common
thing that a lot of people. They say about eighty
eight percent of the people that set New Year's resolutions
fall off the wagon in the first two weeks. Okay,

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so that's why some people say that they don't work. Well,
sure they work if you work them. Maybe the system
you're applying is not working. But setting goals is an
amazing way to analyze your life and be proactive and
planning your life. And I was thinking about this last
night when I was celebrating New Year's and just watching

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a bunch of fireworks go off, and thinking about how
God specifically picked your parents, that he put you here
at the time that he did when you were born.
All of the things that were going to be happening
on this earth at the time that you were born.
I believe was specifically curated by God and that he

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decided when he was going to say, and your eternal
spirit to your mother's womb. The Bible says that God
knew us before he formed and shaped us in the womb.
So when you think about how endearing that is, and
realizing that your creator puts you here for a purpose,
and when you start to analyze your life and you

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ask yourself, am I actually following after God? Am I
following the purpose and plan that God has for my life?
And I've had to ask those hard questions many times
in my life, and sometimes I've realized that I am
not on track, you know, more so in the past.
I'm really focused on the purpose and plan of God

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for my life and focusing on exactly what God wants
instead of what I wanted with my busyness. You know,
I had a very successful personal training company, and unfortunately,
due to the pandemic and the difficulties that arose from that.
I eventually had to shut down five Personal Trained studios.
It was insane, and I know that in in the
midst of building that company. Yes, there was a lot

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of things that we did. We had trained over ten
thousand clients, I had five locations. I mean, it was booming.
But I knew that God wanted me to also be
doing other things, specifically related to the Bible. Specifically doing
what I'm doing right now at the TV show and
the radio show. Is that God has always told me
for the last thirty years that he had a platform

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for me to be able to share the Word of
God with people to encourage them how to change. And
if you haven't heard any of my shows, I'm very
open about the past of the life that I used
to live before I met Jesus and how God delivered
me of drugs and alcohol and you know, just struggling
with so many things and been able to transform my

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life through the Bible. So when I think about how
when we realize that God put us here for a
specific purpose, are you seeking after God and thinking about
what do you want me doing with my life? And
being that it's the new year, this is a perfect
time to analyze and think about that question. Are you

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actually doing what God has called you to do? And
if you don't know what God has called you to do,
that's where you'd want to be spending time with Him
and getting clear on what is the purpose that He
has for your life. And I find that the time
you spend with God in prayer and reading the Bible
and communicating with Him throughout the day, you know, you

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get revealed these things. And if you don't know God
in this personal way, that is the one beautiful thing
about God is that you can have a personal close
relationship with Him, not through religion. I'm not talking about
religion and checking off a box of some things that
you did. I'm talking about that deep, personal, intimate relationship

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with Jesus Christ that literally can be your whole life,
you know, not just a part of your life, but
your whole life, instead of compartmentalizing God and saying, oh,
this is my God time, Like I go to church
on Sundays, and a lot of people don't go to
church on Sundays and that's the only time they might
get the word in. Studies show that most Christians do

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not read their Bible and that is something that I
think is ridiculous, and it's one reason why we have
so many so called spiritually weak believers. And the Bible
talks about that because if we are immature in the
ways of God, we are not going to be strong
and know how to live out this life for how
God has called us to do it. So when we

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think about the new year and we think, well, how
do I set goals and how do I accomplish them? Well,
one of the things that's different for believers is that
a lot of you know, people that I talk to,
they say, you know, I never thought about including God
in setting my goals, or I never thought about asking
God to help me with that. Well, you know, when
you think about the fact that he's the one that

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puts you here, and he's the one that gave you
a plan for your life, and he's the one that
can guide you and shape you and form you into
the person you need to be, which is what he's
been doing for the last twenty thirty years of your life.
The more you work with him, meaning you don't fight
it and you actually embrace the transformation process, the more

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you're going to see it happen. So this is where
we want to realize that to be able to accomplish
what God wants us to, we need to be engaged
in this process inviting God into it. Meaning of course
he can do whatever he wants. But the point is
is that there's a very receptive relationship. Part of our

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relationship that we are to believe. The Bible says that
those that come to him must believe he is who
he says he is. Belief is a huge aspect of
our relationship with God and receiving what He has done,
done for us and given us. So there's no coincidence
that Jesus Christ the last thing he said on the

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cross was it is finished. That statement has so much
to unpack in there. The point is is that God
did so much for us through the crucifixion and the
resurrection of Jesus Christ, and what that means to believers
that when you actually believe that Jesus Christ rose from

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the dead and that he paid for the sins of
the people, and that he you know, all forgiveness comes
through him and access to God is through Christ. When
you have that connection and when you have that redemption
of what Jesus Christ paid for, I mean there's so
much to unpack there. The point is is that we
are called to go through this life and to be

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connected to God, to be receiving what God has already
done for us. That we are to understand what that
is in the life Bible. And if we don't include
God in our goal setting, and we don't include God
in you know, asking him what he wants for our life.
You know, if you don't know that, it's a very

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biblical principle that God speaks to his children. It's not
an audible voice usually for most that I'm aware of.
I know it is not that way for me, But
it's an internal knowing that you become sensitive to God's
voice and his instruction and his guidance. Even Jesus said
to his disciples when he told them that he was
going to be leaving, and they're like leaving, What do

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you mean? Where are you going? Why are you leaving?
They thought he was going to start a kingdom on
earth and help, you know, free them from the Roman government.
So he's telling them he's going to die and he's leaving,
and he said, I have to leave. It's better for
you that I go, because the Holy Spirit is going
to be released, and he cannot be released until he leaves,

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until Jesus Christ left the earth. So he said that
the Holy Spirit lead you into all truth. And this
is where when you learn to be receptive of the
fact that the Spirit of God lives in sight of you.
For those that have become born again and born of God,
the Bible talks about when you have been through this
second birth, which is the spiritual birth. Jesus told Nicodemus

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that you have your your first birth, which is your
obviously your human, your fleshly birth, and then you have
your second birth, which is your spiritual birth. That is
what being born again is called. The Bible says, when
that happens, the Holy Spirit comes to live within sight
of you. So this is the instruction that we receive
from God. That he gives us instruction. He guides us.

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This is something that happens all day long if you're
paying attention. And this is where you know, some people
say to me, well, you know, most people don't have
a relationship like that with God. Well you can, you know,
the Bible talks about that we can have that relationship.
Do you want that kind of relation relationship? I think
it's the most amazing thing you could ever imagine, to

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be communicating with your creator all day long. I mean,
the guidance and the wisdom that He gives me and
the things that I'm doing in this life are just
they just astound me. And the more I lean into that,
the more I ask God for his direction and his
guidance and what he wants out of my life. Wow.
I have just been pressing in this last few years,

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specifically because so much change has happened. When I had to,
you know, get rid of my business. I spent twenty
five years of my life building that company, and all
of a sudden, it's just gone overnight, it felt like.
And that was, you know, about three and a half
years ago. And if you've heard anything about my shows,
you know I unfortunately lost my husband of twenty nine

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years in the midst of all of that. He died
And it was just a horrible, horrible time in my life.
And I have to tell you that to seek God
and to know that I needed to dive into the
Word of God. I needed to be clear on what
he wanted for my life. Now everything that I had

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known for the last quarter of the century was gone.
My business was gone, my husband was gone, my favorite
dog died. I had this beautiful chameleon that died. I mean,
it was just insane, the level of things that happened
in a short amount of time. And I knew, specifically

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from other people that I heard that literally their whole
lives were destroyed when they had a child die or
spouse die, that how you handle those traumas is so
critical to where you're going to end up a year
from now, two years from now, three years from now,
and for me, it's been three and a half years,
and as I continue to process the level of grief

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that I had to go through, you know, it just
astounds me that the more you are connected to God,
the more you are clear on what He wants for
your life. And even more so I had to lean
in and press in at those times to understand, Wow, God,
now what well? I mean, what I thought? I was

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building my entire life for the last twenty nine years
of my life with my husband, and really twenty nine
years of my business because he was my first personal
trainer and only personal trainer. Actually when we first met
and I was seventeen, he was twenty one, and now
I'm fifty and it's just it's just been a very
bizarre experience. But yet I also have noticed that the

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more I lean on God and press into God and
seek God for what he wants for my life, the
more He reveals. So when you think about your goals
and you think about your New Year's resolutions, you know,
for someone to say they don't work, sure they work.
If you don't work them, then no, they're not going
to work. Most people, like I used to do as well.

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I would set goals and I would get excited about it,
but then I would write them down and I would
put it in a drawer and then I wouldn't find
it until a year later the next New Year, and
I'll be like, oh, man, I had those goals last year.
That was a good idea, and I either got further
away from them or better in some or worse, you know.
So this is where you realize that just writing them

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down is not going to do it. You've got to
also make sure you look at them and plan it out.
So this is where you want to incorporate your relationship
with God in this process and make sure that you
are asking God, what do you want me to do
with my life? This year, What do you want me
to do? And you know I tell you because I've

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mentioned things about my past. But when my husband and
I used to drink a lot, we got off drugs
over twenty five years ago. So praise be to God.
By the power of diving into scriptures in my relationship
with Christ and surrendering to God in the process, I
was able to get off about a ten year drug
addiction that almost killed me many times. And now I've

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been clean for twenty five years. And then though I
still struggle with alcohol here and there. And then fifteen
years ago, my husband and I set a goal to
go one year without alcohol. Now I must have been
drunk when I set that goal obviously back then because
we were just you know, talking about it and we
were inspired. Actually, even though I was a Christian, I

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still got drunk. And I know that, you know, trust me,
there's a lot of Christians that still get drunk. It
does doesn't mean it's a good thing. It doesn't mean
that God likes it. It doesn't mean that he respects
it or honors it, and it doesn't mean He wants
you doing that. One of the things God talks about
in the Bible is getting drunk. God does talk about
getting drunk in the Bible and how that is not
of God. There's a difference between having a drink and

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getting drunk. Those are two very different things. Or having
a challenge with alcohol. So I knew that I was
getting drunk. I wasn't just having a glass of wine
or enjoying it for that perspective, and it wasn't causing
problems in my life. So we set a goal to
go a whole year without alcohol, and we were gonna
do that for New Year's Resolution. Well, we got drunk

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the night before and we woke up the next day
and honestly, we didn't feel like we got drunk enough,
so we ended up getting drunk the next day. So
some would say, oh, well, you screwed up your goals.
You can't you can't start over. Nope, you're already messed up.
It's all over. Nope. We did get drunk again the
January first, that night, but then we started our resolution
on January second. So why do I say that, Because

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sometimes if you have that mindset, oh well, it's all
or none, you messed up. Nope, you can't do it.
So we still press forward, and I can tell you. Now,
guess what. It's been fifteen years since I've had a
sip of alcohol, which is pretty amazing to me because
I started drinking when I was in the seventh grade. Okay,

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I got so I did at an eighth grade dance
with a flask of Jack Daniels in my sock. That's
how bad I used to be. So my boint is
the fact that I have not had alcohol for fifteen years,
which is just awesome. So don't tell me. Resolutions don't work,
because they work if you work them and you have

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a burning desire for why you want to change. First
of all, it's God giving you the guidance and the
wisdom and the knowledge and the insight of what He
wants to do with your life. But second of all,
you need to have a burning reason why you want
to do it. Just let's say your goal is to
lose thirty pounds and you're like, yeah, I want to

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lose thirty pounds. Well, that's not really motivating, Like, you
need to be more clear. What is it going to
do for your life? How are you going to feel?
What are you going to you know, experience when you
imagine your life living in this success of this goal.
Let's imagine because it's the most common goal. Really, weight
loss and healthier eating is probably the most common resolution.

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Actually it is. I've looked it up online and look
at the data, and those are the most popular resolutions. Well,
if someone says I want to lose thirty pounds, well
that's not going to carry you through the difficulties of
when you're facing a pizza and you know you can't
eat that pizza every day and still lose thirty pounds
and ain't happen it. So this is where you want
to have a reason that is deeper than just I

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want to do this. You need to one know that
God is empowering you, that he's equipping you, that he's
giving you insight and instruction for how to do it,
and that that's what he wants for your life. Now,
obviously he wants us all to be healthy, but I'm
talking about looking at your goals, whatever your specific goals are,
and I know he wants us to be healthy because

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he tells us to honor our body as the temple
of God, to take care of this body. He gave
us this body to manage it. So where we look
at our life and say, well, why would I want
to accomplish that? For me? When I got off alcohol,
I actually felt so convicted that it was not very
christ Like to be getting drunk. And I really started

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to feel convicted about that that I knew that the
Bible talked about being drunk and that that was a
sin of the flesh, that that was not of God.
So this is where I just wanted to strengthen my
relationship with Christ and get stronger in God. And I
knew that that was not doing it, and that that
was not a good witness to others, And it also

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was not my relationship with Christ was not reflecting in
me getting drunk like that. It just doesn't. Those don't
combine together. Again, it's a big difference. If you can
have a drink and it doesn't cause problems in your
life and you're not getting wasted. Those are very different things.
So you have to, you know, know that for your
own life and ask God to reveal that to you

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as well. So when we look at our life with
goals and we think about the new year and we
think about, really, what do I want to accomplish this year,
sometimes it does help to kind of look back and
although you don't want to drive down the road staring
down the rear view mirror the whole time. But it
is good to look back and see, well, what have

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I accomplished this year? I think it is good to
celebrate and look at the things that you have done,
because if you're like me, I am very hard on
myself and I have very high standards for how I
feel I can and should live my life, so I
tend to not celebrate sometimes what I have accomplished. So
I think it is good to go back and look

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at what you actually have accomplished. But I also think
it's important to be honest with yourself and look at
the areas where you've totally slacked off. Because if we're
not honest with ourselves and really taking inventory of where
we're struggling, then how are you supposed to improve it?
You know, they say that you can not expect what

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you don't inspect, and if you're not inspecting it, all
of a sudden, ten years goes by and you're like, oh, wow,
I totally miss that boat. How did I not take
care of this? And how did I let that happen?
And how did I let that slip? You know, one
drip of a faucet adds up to a pool full
of water, one drip at a time, and you don't

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notice it because it's going down the drain. But if
that drain is stopped up, I dare you to do
it sometimes if you have a small drip somewhere to
kind of see how fast it's actually going to fill up,
because we don't realize it when it's one drip at
a time, And that's when we realized ten years later
that we're like, whoa, how did that happen? How did

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I not you know, have this happen in my life?
And how did I end up here? So these are
the things that if you are more proactive in your life,
and you are you know, leaning on God and understanding
his ways more, you're going to be able to accomplish
more in life. Now, God is about accomplishing things. There

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are so many scriptures that talk about taking action, accomplishing, doing, multiplying.
So this is where we look at Proverbs three five
through six. It says trust in the Lord with all
your heart, and lean not on your own understanding and
all your ways. Acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.

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That word weigh means a road or a journey. So
when it says to trust in the Lord and lean
not on your own understanding, and in all your ways
acknowledge Him. So your ways is the way you live
your life, the journey the road that you live on.
It also means a habit or a course of life.
So the things that you're doing in your life, are

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you giving that over to God and acknowledging God in
those things? It says when we do that, he will
direct our path. And that's one thing that's so critical
about studying the Word of God. If you're not in
the Bible and reading the Bible, that is one New
Year's resolution I would highly recommend you get serious about

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because I can tell you there is no way I
would be where I am today in my life had
I not been a student of the Word of God.
And I believe that that is probably one of the
biggest deficits in the Body of Christ is people do
not know what the Bible says. And it's really a

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travesty because it's such an amazing book that has so
much knowledge. It just blows my mind. Like even today
I got up and did a Bible study, and I
like to go into the Greek and the Hebrew. And
just to give you a little background, I mean, I've
been studying the Bible pretty solid for about twenty seven

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to twenty eight years, I would say closer to twenty nine.
And I knew way back when I became a Christian
twenty nine years ago, that I I was going to
be in some form of ministry. I'm not a pastor
or minister or anything like that, but I teach the Word.
I inspire people in the Bible. I help them to
strengthen their relationship with Christ, because that's what God's done

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for me, and that's what I'm called to do, to edify,
to equip, to teach, to exhort the body of Christ.
So I knew that I needed to study the Word,
and I knew way back then, over a quart of
a century ago, that I needed to be in the
Word at least an hour a day. And that was
something that God instilled in me, and I knew I

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needed to make that a part of my life. And
I had done that and still do today. It was
the same thing. So some days are less, some days
or more. But the point is is that is a
habit of my life now. Don't hear that and go, oh, well,
I can't do the Bible or read the Bible because
I don't have an hour a day. Five minutes is
better than nothing. So this is where you want to

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start with something. I know for myself it needs to
be that amount of dedication because it is a large
responsibility to inspire and teach people in the Word of God.
This is a I take that very seriously, so I
want to make sure I understand it. But I can
tell you that it is the Word of God that
transformed my life. This whole show to find Life Transformation.

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We have now filmed thirty three episodes and we just
did the last one was in Fiji and wow, I mean,
I have a helicopter drop us off on the top
of a mountain. I was riding a horse in the
Fijian ocean. We got these kayaks and we kayaked out
to this private island. I mean, I show you ridiculous scenery.
So you want to make sure that you actually see

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the TV show again. It's every Thursday morning on Prey
at eight thirty a m. Pacific and eleven thirty Eastern.
And if you click follow on my page on this app,
you'll be able to go to the page and see
any shows there as well. And keep in mind, I
do go over a lot of stuff when I do
these TV shows and radio shows. So with this radio show,

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if you want a list that goes way deeper, I've
got six more pages of notes that I'm not gonna
have time to talk about today this show. I will
text all of them to you. That'll have all the
scriptures and some more details about how to set your
goals with God. So you want to make sure you
text the word my goals to five eight six five

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hundred seven three three three. That's five eight six, five
hundred seven three three three, and I will give that
to you again at the end. So when we look
at Proverbs also in nineteen twenty one nineteen verse twenty one,
it says there are many plans in a man's heart. Nevertheless,
the Lord's counsel that will stand. So I just love

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finding scriptures. It talks to us about how to transform
our life. There's so much wisdom in the Bible. It
is astounding to me. It says, nevertheless, the Lord's counsel.
God wants to counsel us. God wants to give us insight.
There are many plans in the man's heart, it says,

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but God's counsel is what we'll stand. So don't just
plan your life, your year, your month, your day without
consulting with God. This is where when we realize that
to truly have success, we want to make sure that
we are focusing on those things. And I actually did

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film an episode in Vasquez Rocks in California, where the
actual Flintstones movie was filmed. We just filmed that a
cup last week and that one is on New Year's Resolution,
So make sure you go see that show. You should
see it. It actually aired this week on Prey and
I'll make sure I put it on my page as well.

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So I just encourage you to think about your goals
this year and really think about what is it God
wants me to do, you know, Commit your goals to
godocus on him. Proverb sixteen three says, commit your works
to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established. That
word works means a deed or business or pursuit. So

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commit your ways to God, the things that you're doing,
the deeds that you're doing, the pursuits, the business that
you're doing, and your thoughts will be established. That word
thought means a plan or a purpose. In this scripture,
will be established, which means set up, make ready, be stable,

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to arrange, or order. Now, think about that, when you
commit your ways to God. I want to commit my
pursuit to God, the business things that I'm doing, the
works that i'm doing, the actions, the deeds that all
my thoughts, my plans and purposes will be set up, arranged, order, stable,
made ready when I'm committing it to God. That is

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one thing I love about breaking down the scriptures because
when you really they realize how much meat for our
life is in the Bible. The Bible actually calls deeper
truths of the Bible meet because it's substance that our
body needs. And this is where when we think about
this and we realize, wow, I really need to include

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God in this process, not just coming up with these ideas.
You know, in Proverbs twenty one, verse five, it says
the plans of the diligent leads surely to plenty, but
those of everyone who is hasty leads to poverty. That
we're diligent means sharp pointed, diligent, strict decision. So those

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that are sharp pointed they're diligent, is going to lead
to plenty, which is abundance, profit, superiority, literally gain. So
the plans of those that are sharp pointed and detailed diligent,
they are going to have abundance and profit. But those
that are hasty, it's going to lead to poverty. Some

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scriptures also talk about laziness and how that is going
to lead to poverty as well. Then in Philippians three
it says Philippians three thirteen it says, I do not
count myself to have apprehended. This is Paul talking. But
one thing I do is forgetting those things which behind,
and I reach forward to those things which are a head.

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That word forgetting means to no longer care for, to
lose out of the mind, so meaning you don't want
to focus on your past and focus on your failures
and focus on what you haven't accomplished, because then you
just get into this badgering session of yourself, and that's
not of God either. This is where we want to
analyze the past, analyze what we've been doing, what we've

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not been doing, and utilize that as data and information
to move forward in our future, but not to focus
on it even Paul said that he forgets the things
of the past and he presses on to those things
in the field. And then the next scripture in verse
fourteen says, I press toward the mark for the prize,

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which also means an award of the high calling of
God in Christ Jesus. That word mark means the distant
mark looked at, the goal or end one has in view,
the end that you have in view. He says, I
press towards the mark, which is the goal. I'm looking
at the end I have in view, And he's talking

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about the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. So
Paul talked about how spiritual growth is similar to athletic training.
He talked about how in one Corinthians nine twenty four,
do you not know that those who run in a
race run to receive a prize? They run in such
a way that you might obtain it. You know, it's

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amazing because when you really study the Bible, there's so
many scriptures that talk about us achieving and doing and
multiplying and having fruit which which is a result an
effect in our lives. So I just love looking at
it from that perspective and understanding that the answer to
every question we have in life and anything that we

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need help with is in the Bible. And I am
living proof of that because it has transformed so many
areas of my life. It is astounding. One show we
recently did was at the Bible Museum in Washington, d C.
We did an episode out there, so that'll be airing
somewhat sometime soon. But it was a beautiful episode to

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run around and just see all of the Bibles and
the scrolls and the studies behind. How valid and strong
the Bible is an understanding meaning that it was not
written by man people. It was not written by some
person some people that don't understand or believe in the

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Bible and say, oh, that was just written by No,
it was divinely written by God through the people. There
is so much proof of this. There's no way human
beings could have planned everything that aligns in the Bible,
written over fifteen hundred years by over forty authors. I mean,
it is just astounding. It is the most historically accurate

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proven book in the history of any book, especially written
over a fifteen hundred year period. That all lines up.
And one thing that I was studying when I was
doing that show was an archaeologist said that he has
used the Bible to find over fifteen hundred archaeology sites
that were accurate. He said there was not a single

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Bible scripture that contradicted what he found in geography and
out there, you know, in the archaeological sites that they
talked about. So I thought that was pretty awesome. So
just keep in mind that this is not an overnight process.
Renewing your mind. Romans twelve one through two talks about
how you need to renew the mind and be transformed

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by the renewing of your mind. But it also talks
about submitting your life and your body as a living
sacrifice daily before God. Why daily, because you're alive. You're
not dead, You're alive, So it is a living sacrifice.
This is where you sacrifice the desires of the flesh.
It doesn't mean you can't enjoy food. God gave us

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the senses of our body. But the problem is is
when we do things that turn into addiction or lust
or you know that are not ways of the Bible.
So this is where we realize that God gave us
food to enjoy, He gave us senses to enjoy the
environment around us. As a human being. You know why,

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we're the eternal spirit that's living inside this body. So
if you don't know how to run it though this body,
it's gonna run you. The body will just take over
and it will default to things that are not good
for you. So this is where we surrender our life
to God continually. So when you look at your life
and analyze and say, wow, what do I want to

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accomplish this year compared to what I did last year?
I mean, when you think about it, how many new
years are you going to have? Nobody knows. I mean
some people have twenty, some people have fifty, some people
have one hundred, depends how long you're alive. So to
only analyze your life once a year is not really advisable.
It's something you want to do on a consistent basis.

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Those who have a great life, they have planned those things,
they have worked them out. Some people look at people
and they go, oh, they're so lucky, you know, look
at all that. Now. Some people are born into wealth
and born into things like that. But most people have
to work and plan and build and you know, put

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in the time and effort required to accomplish those things.
So this is where You know, it's interesting because obviously
I make these references a lot because it was my
life for twenty nine years when I was at the gym.
You know, people say, oh, yeah, I really want to
get in great shape and I want to have a
good body and be healthy. But if you don't show

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up and do the work, my friend, that is not happening.
The getting in shape is the one thing you can't
pay other people to do for you. You can pay
people to make food for you, but you can't pay
people to work out for you. That is the one
thing in life that you can't pay people to do
for you. You could pay a trainer to actually push you,
but you have to physically show up and do the work.

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So this is where we look at our life and realize, well,
how do I focus on God in my goals and
make sure that I'm incorporating Him in this process. Now,
one thing I want you to do is make sure
you text me at the number I'm going to give you,
because I'm going to send you all these scriptures. But again,
I've got five more pages of notes that I didn't

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go over today for time's sake. And then make sure
you see the TV show as well, because that one
airs literally this week and I will have it on
my prey channel. But text me the words my goals
at five eight six, five hundred seven three three three,
and I will send you these notes. So I encourage

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you to really pray and ask God to give you wisdom,
ask him what he wants you doing with your life?
Where does he want you to go? And sometimes you
need to think about, like, wow, where am I going
to be in five years? I mean, I know that's
really a crazy question in some senses to ask. I
say crazy, because nobody knows where they're going to be

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in five years, Like you might try to plan it
out of course, and that's why you try to plan things.
But certainly you don't know exactly where you're going to
be in five years. But if you want to have
a goal to end up somewhere, then you better start planning. Now.
People don't plan to fail, they fail to plan. And
if you don't start designing your life and designing your days,

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then the busyness of life is just going to swallow
you up. And that's one way that the enemy steals
from us, because if we are so consumed with the
busyness of life, but we don't actually plan our life
out and then every once in a while on New
Year's resolution, we will analyze our life and then eighty
eight percent of the people fall off the wagon in

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the first two weeks. That's pretty pathetic. That's why we
don't want to follow that system. We want to make
sure that we are incorporating God in this process. And
one thing that's critical. And again, when you text me
my goals to that number I gave you, I'll send
you the list of how to actually sit down and
write out these goals and have a little bit more
detailed process of it, because you want to actually invest

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some time in this. Get some worship music on, dedicate
an hour a half hour, and sit down and say,
you know, I really need to think about my life
and think about where I'm going with my life and
what am I doing? Where does God want me to go?
Because Wow, when you incorporate your spirituality in this process,
what an amazing experience. It's not something that we should

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just compartmentalize. For me, my walk with God is all
day long. I communicate with Him all day He is
constantly giving me guidance and wisdom and knowledge, and the
more you knock, the Bible says the door will be
open to you. You seek him, and you will find him.
He actually talks about he wants us to seek him.

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It is something that is amazing about the relationship that
we have with God because if we seek after him,
we will find him. And that is the beautiful thing
that the more I have sought after Him, the more
I have experienced this personal relationship with God all day long,
and it just it just boggles my mind. And it's

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actually an amazing experience. You know, if anybody says, oh,
it's boring to be a Christian, well, I don't know
what kind of Christian life you're living, because wow, it
is so far from boring. I can't even I mean,
of course, I don't do drugs, I don't drink, I
don't do all this crazy stuff I used to do.
And I have a bless serving God. I have so

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much fun every day seeking God and seeking the plan
he has for my life and following after him. I
tell you, it is an amazing adventure. But it is
something that is so required for you to submit and
surrender to God. So one of the more important things
about setting goals and accomplishing them is surrendering to God

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and asking what does he want you to do? So
when you get these goals, you want to make sure
that you're looking at them. You can't expect what you
don't inspect. And if you just write them down or
you think you have them in your mind, writing them
down is critical. Even hebakuk to too, says the Lord
answered me and said, write the vision and make it

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plain on tablets that he may run who reads it.
Write the vision. That word means when it says write
the vision and make it plain. That word plane means
to make clear. The word right means to inscribe or prescribe,
and the word run means to bring or move quickly.
Break it down so those who read it can run.

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Why Because you've made it clear, You've prescribed what is
going on in your life, and it helps your brain
to connect action to what you wrote down. And I
highly advise or encourage you to try to actually write
with a pen or a pencil on a piece of paper.

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Everything is so digital these days, and there's just something
about the engagement of our brain when you do that.
Like I forced myself to write on paper, and you know,
even I was talking to a teenager the other day
and she's like, I don't even I haven't written on
a piece of paper in months, And she didn't even
know where a pen was or any paper to write
anything down. And we're just so digital these days. So

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I encourage you sometimes to actually get paper and physically
write it on a piece of paper because it can
help your brain to focus on it. So if you
want to see this episode we did at Vasquez Rocks,
I encourage you to watch it. It's got an epic
scene at the end where I'm at the top of
this rock and the you know, the drone is flying
around and I'm reading these things out to you. So

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I encourage you to watch that. I'll also text you
the link to see that too when you get my
goals document, so text the word my goals to five
eight six, five hundred and seventy three three three, And
I encourage you to set a goal to listen to
this show weekly or watch the show. You know, it's
a part of feeding our brain and our mind with

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the word of God and helping us to grow. And
if you have a friend you want to encourage to
listen to it as well. Many people do things because
they're invited by others. So think about, you know, how
how many people am I telling about Jesus Christ, how
many people do I talk to about God? How many
do I invite to church? When do I actually share

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my faith? That's actually something a lot of believers. There's
a big study done on this recently, and many believers
actually admitted that they don't really share their faith and
they would if they had a way to do it. Well,
shows like this, other shows you have on the Prey app,
you know that might be something you click at the
bottom there's a little button that says share, and then

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you just text it to them. I actually did that
to people in my phone the other day. I'm like, Hey,
here's this show. Listen to this show, and I texted
them the link. So sometimes a way to share the
gospel or things about Christ, or you know, just things
that inspire you is to send it to people. Many
times they will listen to it and will inspire them.

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So I'm so grateful that you're here, and I just
encourage you to just experience setting your goals this year
and doing something different where you're actually praying about it,
You're asking God to give you insight, and I encourage
you to check in with yourself because if you don't
measure your progress, then you're not going to see change normally.

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So we can just say we're going to do something,
but we just get so busy in life. You've got
to check in, how are you doing? Did you accomplish
what you said you were going to do? You know,
I would say to look at it every day? Why not?
If you've got some goals for your life that you
want to focus on, especially to keep you focused, you
should look at them at least once a week, and

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some things every single day. So this is where you
know not to be a freak about it or obsessed
about it, but it helps your brain to have a
target because if you don't have something that you're directing
your mind to. When the Bible says that we need
to be transformed by the renewing of our mind, that
we're renewing means renovation, It means a renewal. It means

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it means renovating your mind. How you think, Well, how
are you going to do that if you're not directing
your brain on where to go. So that's why it
can be so powerful. Or write it down but actually
look at it, and I can tell you that one
big study that was done actually at Harvard, they did
a huge study on the graduating class and they saw

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that three percent of the graduating class had specific goals
that they'd written down for their future. Twenty years later,
three percent was found. That three percent was found to
be earning ten times more than the rest of the
entire graduating class, meaning that only three percent wrote down
goals for their future and what they wanted to accomplish,

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and twenty years later, those three percent were worth more
than the rest of the entire class as far as
what they'd accomplished, you know, financially and whatnot. So those
are clues to us that we need to write it down.
But it also tells us in the Bible to do
the same thing. So I am excited for this year.
I can tell you, Wow, the things that God has coming, Dad,

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I am so excited. This last year has been incredible.
I mean, twenty twenty four has just been epic with
the amount of things God has done and leaning into him,
seeking him, asking him what he wanted me to do.
Even with this TV show, I mean I just started
this TV show that is also on national television. It's
not just on the Prey app, but it's actually on

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a national Christian television station and that airs once a
week there as well, and they said it's one of
their fastest screwing shows on the network as well. So
it just amazes me because I sought God and I
asked God what he wanted me doing with my life?
What do you want me doing now? I mean I
had to really seek him and ask him those questions,

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and one thing led to the next, just consistently surrendering
to him and getting guidance from him, and one door
opened and another door opened, and then I got the
idea for this TV show and then I submitted it
to the station and they loved it. They picked it up,
and then Pray happened, and you know, I'm on this app.
So it's just been incredible. And I just finished my

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first book a couple of weeks ago when I was
in Fiji. I stayed out there another week and I
wrote it in about a week. It was amazing. So
I am gonna be actually submitting I have these really
amazing front covers. So if you don't follow me on
my Facebook page, I don't do a ton on Facebook,
but I'll actually post them probably somehow on my app

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in Prey. But I'm going to be having everyone vote
on the cover that they want. And these are pictures
that we took out in the scenery. So that book's
going to be published next month probably Divine Life Transformation,
and I'm just gonna talk to you deeply about how
to transform your life through the Bible. That's what I'm

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passionate about. That's what I know, and that is what
I am called to do in this life. So I
am on this adventure with you as well. So if
you want to see your life transformed by the Bible,
this is the place to hear how it can also
help you do that. My name is Samantha Taylor. Happy
New Year, and I will hear you or you will

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hear me on the next TV show or radio show
as well. This is Samantha Taylor, and I am happy
that you are here. I will see you or you
will see me on the next TV show and the
next radio show as well. Have a wonderful day and
take this to heart and make sure you text the
word my goals so you can get this whole list.

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Send it to five eight six five hundred seven three
three three Bye Bye,