{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"startTime":0.16,"endTime":3.44,"body":"You're listening to the My Morning Devotional podcast, episode"},{"startTime":3.44,"endTime":7.12,"body":"1272. Today's Devo is called Ungodly"},{"startTime":7.12,"endTime":10.96,"body":"Indicators, part two. Hey there. We're"},{"startTime":10.96,"endTime":14.68,"body":"the Alessi's, a ministry family working together in our church"},{"startTime":14.68,"endTime":18.4,"body":"in Miami, Florida. And if you're like us, when days get busy"},{"startTime":18.4,"endTime":22.24,"body":"and to do lists get longer, it can be hard to find devotional time."},{"startTime":22.48,"endTime":26.04,"body":"That's why we've partnered with our friend Allison to produce a five"},{"startTime":26.04,"endTime":29.72,"body":"minute daily dose of heaven. This is the My Morning"},{"startTime":29.72,"endTime":33.32,"body":"Devotional Podcast. Well, happy Tuesday, everybody. This"},{"startTime":33.32,"endTime":36.92,"body":"is the episode that started"},{"startTime":37.08,"endTime":40.8,"body":"the whole idea. This is the, the theme and"},{"startTime":40.8,"endTime":44.359,"body":"the ungodly indicator that we're going to jump into today."},{"startTime":44.44,"endTime":48.16,"body":"I'm Gabby Lessi, your host for the week, and I hope"},{"startTime":48.16,"endTime":51.76,"body":"you're enjoying this idea of the ungodly indicators. I do want"},{"startTime":51.76,"endTime":54.2,"body":"to, I do want to say it again because I really want to jump into"},{"startTime":54.2,"endTime":57.87,"body":"this. This is not something that is trying to tell you you're"},{"startTime":57.87,"endTime":61.39,"body":"wrong. This isn't something that's trying to blame you or"},{"startTime":61.39,"endTime":64.95,"body":"accuse you. The message of this and the hope and purpose is"},{"startTime":65.35,"endTime":68.83,"body":"that we would all see it as a course correction. Not that we're"},{"startTime":68.83,"endTime":72.55,"body":"completely off, but maybe we're not fully on alignment, maybe we're not"},{"startTime":72.55,"endTime":75.67,"body":"fully on the road that we need to be. And so this is just a"},{"startTime":75.67,"endTime":79.51,"body":"little course correction. Hey, you turned right back there. Now it's time to turn left."},{"startTime":79.51,"endTime":82.78,"body":"We're going to reroute you and get you in the right direction. So, like I"},{"startTime":82.78,"endTime":86.42,"body":"said, this was the theme that really did"},{"startTime":86.58,"endTime":89.78,"body":"convict me a couple of weeks ago. And today's"},{"startTime":89.86,"endTime":92.9,"body":"ungodly indicator is frustration."},{"startTime":94.02,"endTime":96.58,"body":"Frustration. I,"},{"startTime":97.86,"endTime":101.62,"body":"I have been dealing with some frustration. I won't lie. There are areas"},{"startTime":101.62,"endTime":105.34,"body":"in my life that are not as what I'm expecting they"},{"startTime":105.34,"endTime":109.02,"body":"weren't. And you might think it's surprising because it's like, oh, you're engaged."},{"startTime":109.02,"endTime":112.74,"body":"Everything is, is roses and butterflies and it is. And I gotta say,"},{"startTime":113.15,"endTime":116.95,"body":"life is good. But there are some areas that can be frustrating. Some things"},{"startTime":116.95,"endTime":120.63,"body":"that you thought by now, you know, it should be a certain way, but"},{"startTime":120.63,"endTime":124.23,"body":"it's not that way. And I started to notice that in one area of my"},{"startTime":124.23,"endTime":127.55,"body":"life, I started to get really frustrated. I started to find myself"},{"startTime":127.87,"endTime":131.67,"body":"out of my frustration. I started to nitpick. I started to see the"},{"startTime":131.67,"endTime":135.23,"body":"negative, I started to see the things that"},{"startTime":135.23,"endTime":138.51,"body":"weren't right. And I actually noticed that"},{"startTime":139.31,"endTime":142.87,"body":"every time I would go into this place in the environment that I was frustrated"},{"startTime":142.87,"endTime":146.67,"body":"in, only negative things would come to my mind and then come out of"},{"startTime":146.67,"endTime":150.15,"body":"my mouth. It was almost as if I couldn't see"},{"startTime":150.15,"endTime":152.91,"body":"anything that was good in it because of my frustration."},{"startTime":153.79,"endTime":157.31,"body":"And what started to happen was I was frustrated in my current"},{"startTime":157.31,"endTime":160.51,"body":"situation, and that started to cause strife in my mind,"},{"startTime":161.15,"endTime":164.51,"body":"in my heart, and then it flowed into my relationships."},{"startTime":165.76,"endTime":169.12,"body":"You see, when you're frustrated, just like I was. When we're"},{"startTime":169.12,"endTime":172.48,"body":"frustrated, we see everything through the lens of frustration,"},{"startTime":172.88,"endTime":176.28,"body":"which everything turns out to be negative. We're"},{"startTime":176.28,"endTime":179.76,"body":"frustrated that we're not in the season that we should be. We're frustrated that we're"},{"startTime":179.76,"endTime":182.96,"body":"not married yet. We're frustrated that we're not pregnant yet. We're frustrated that we didn't"},{"startTime":182.96,"endTime":186.44,"body":"get into this school. We're frustrated that this job or this boss isn't giving us"},{"startTime":186.44,"endTime":189.92,"body":"the promotion. So when there's frustration to begin with,"},{"startTime":191.69,"endTime":195.21,"body":"everything flows from your frustration. From frustration, you get"},{"startTime":195.21,"endTime":198.25,"body":"strife, you get anger, you get negativity."},{"startTime":198.89,"endTime":202.49,"body":"You get arguments where you're arguing with your"},{"startTime":202.49,"endTime":206.01,"body":"spouse or you're arguing with your friend or your roommate, and you're like,"},{"startTime":206.33,"endTime":210.13,"body":"I'm not even mad at you, but I'm just frustrated in my own. It's almost"},{"startTime":210.13,"endTime":213.85,"body":"like you're this ball of chaos that"},{"startTime":213.85,"endTime":217.17,"body":"you're not mad at everybody around yourself. You're just mad at the chaos that's inside"},{"startTime":217.17,"endTime":220.89,"body":"the ball. You're just mad because you're frustrated at what's going on on the"},{"startTime":220.89,"endTime":224.67,"body":"inside of you and what happen. We don't see anything that's good. We"},{"startTime":224.67,"endTime":227.83,"body":"just see everything that's bad. And frustration"},{"startTime":228.31,"endTime":231.75,"body":"really brings out negativity. And if we're not careful,"},{"startTime":232.31,"endTime":235.99,"body":"this can be an indicator. I do believe the Lord will use frustration"},{"startTime":235.99,"endTime":239.75,"body":"as an indicator to start looking at the things in your life in a different"},{"startTime":239.75,"endTime":242.31,"body":"way. So what happened was, for me,"},{"startTime":243.27,"endTime":246.95,"body":"hopefully I'll make this make sense. I was so frustrated by things,"},{"startTime":246.95,"endTime":250.68,"body":"I started to get stressed out. Goes back to the other indicator. The Lord"},{"startTime":250.68,"endTime":253.48,"body":"started working on my heart, and he asked me one day, he goes, gabby, when"},{"startTime":253.48,"endTime":256.64,"body":"was the last time you said something positive about your situation?"},{"startTime":257.84,"endTime":261.6,"body":"It hit me like a ton of bricks. He said, when was the last time"},{"startTime":261.6,"endTime":265.28,"body":"you looked through the lens of joy at your situation?"},{"startTime":266.24,"endTime":270.08,"body":"You see, James 1, verse 2 through 4 says, consider it pure"},{"startTime":270.32,"endTime":274.16,"body":"joy. My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials now, I want to stop"},{"startTime":274.16,"endTime":277.29,"body":"here because I love this idea"},{"startTime":278.01,"endTime":281.81,"body":"that James is talking about where he's almost saying, hey, you need"},{"startTime":281.81,"endTime":285.49,"body":"to consider joy. You need to think about joy. You"},{"startTime":285.49,"endTime":289.13,"body":"need to choose joy. We believe here, my dad's always said"},{"startTime":289.13,"endTime":292.85,"body":"it, that we don't chase happiness because happiness is based on"},{"startTime":292.85,"endTime":296.25,"body":"happenings. And so James is saying, consider it"},{"startTime":296.33,"endTime":300.17,"body":"pure joy. Consider and think and choose"},{"startTime":300.49,"endTime":304.22,"body":"joy. He goes on to say, whenever you face trials of many kind,"},{"startTime":304.46,"endTime":307.58,"body":"because you know that the testing of your face produces"},{"startTime":307.58,"endTime":311.18,"body":"perseverance. Then he goes on to say in verse 3 and 4,"},{"startTime":311.66,"endTime":315.14,"body":"let perseverance finish its work so that you may be"},{"startTime":315.14,"endTime":318.38,"body":"mature and complete, not lacking anything."},{"startTime":318.86,"endTime":322.46,"body":"You see, the Lord looked at me and said, gabby, I need you. And this"},{"startTime":322.46,"endTime":325.78,"body":"was a real demand that he gave me. He said, you, assignment for this season"},{"startTime":325.78,"endTime":328.78,"body":"is to look at everything in your life through the lens of joy."},{"startTime":330.1,"endTime":333.14,"body":"You need to consider it pure joy. You know why?"},{"startTime":334.26,"endTime":337.9,"body":"Because it's not that I'm just being negative. There are things around me that aren't"},{"startTime":337.9,"endTime":341.7,"body":"perfect. That's everybody, because life isn't perfect. There are things"},{"startTime":341.7,"endTime":345.46,"body":"around me that do not make me happy. There are things around me that stress"},{"startTime":345.54,"endTime":349.26,"body":"me out. But all it is is just the testing of"},{"startTime":349.26,"endTime":353.02,"body":"my faith. And all of these things, the"},{"startTime":353.02,"endTime":356.5,"body":"testing of my faith, it's going to produce perseverance. And"},{"startTime":356.5,"endTime":359.62,"body":"perseverance has to finish its work. We have to let"},{"startTime":359.62,"endTime":363.38,"body":"perseverance work itself out. We have to consider it pure"},{"startTime":363.38,"endTime":366.86,"body":"joy. We have to look at our trials through the lens of"},{"startTime":366.86,"endTime":370.62,"body":"joy. Because if we stop and we stop with"},{"startTime":370.62,"endTime":374.46,"body":"the perseverance, we stop with the struggle. And we don't let the struggle work on"},{"startTime":374.46,"endTime":378.22,"body":"us and build the faith muscles in us. And I'm sorry for"},{"startTime":378.22,"endTime":381.58,"body":"going long, but this is a word for some of us today. If we"},{"startTime":381.58,"endTime":385.33,"body":"quit when it's getting hard, that's like going"},{"startTime":385.33,"endTime":389.01,"body":"to the gym and you're on a really heavy rep and quitting"},{"startTime":389.01,"endTime":392.77,"body":"at that heavy rep. When really when it gets heavy and you're about to"},{"startTime":392.77,"endTime":396.57,"body":"fail, that's when the muscle starts to build. They tell you it's"},{"startTime":396.57,"endTime":400.41,"body":"about failure at the gym because when you're starting to fail, you're"},{"startTime":400.41,"endTime":404.21,"body":"stretching muscles. And all the fitness people help me out here, when"},{"startTime":404.21,"endTime":407.77,"body":"you start to stretch those muscles, that's when the building"},{"startTime":407.85,"endTime":411.61,"body":"takes place. That's when the muscle growth takes place. For you and"},{"startTime":411.61,"endTime":414.42,"body":"I today, when life is difficult,"},{"startTime":415.22,"endTime":419.06,"body":"when it's hard and we have to persevere, that's when"},{"startTime":419.06,"endTime":422.5,"body":"the spiritual muscles start to grow. That's where our faith"},{"startTime":422.5,"endTime":426.3,"body":"muscles starts to grow. And perseverance will finish"},{"startTime":426.3,"endTime":430.1,"body":"a work that will make us mature and complete, not"},{"startTime":430.18,"endTime":433.9,"body":"lacking anything. So here are the notes for you,"},{"startTime":433.9,"endTime":436.26,"body":"ready? Find joy in your trials."},{"startTime":436.98,"endTime":440.74,"body":"Trials are a training ground and the end result"},{"startTime":440.98,"endTime":444.42,"body":"is wholeness and completion. The"},{"startTime":444.42,"endTime":447.14,"body":"indicator is frustration. If you're frustrated today,"},{"startTime":448.02,"endTime":451.38,"body":"look at your life through the lens of joy. Consider"},{"startTime":451.54,"endTime":455.14,"body":"it pure joy. Choose joy"},{"startTime":455.379,"endTime":459.22,"body":"today. Father we thank you Lord. This might be"},{"startTime":459.22,"endTime":462.82,"body":"a weird prayer, but I thank you for the trials of life"},{"startTime":463.54,"endTime":467.06,"body":"because you are using them, Father, as a training ground of our faith."},{"startTime":467.62,"endTime":470.98,"body":"Because Lord, we need to be strong in you. We need to have a strong"},{"startTime":470.98,"endTime":474.82,"body":"faith for the trials that we will see in the future. And I pray"},{"startTime":474.82,"endTime":478.66,"body":"that you would give us all lenses of joy. Let us see through"},{"startTime":478.66,"endTime":482.18,"body":"the eyes of joy. Father, I pray that you would supernaturally"},{"startTime":482.18,"endTime":485.78,"body":"change all of our spiritual eyesight to a"},{"startTime":485.78,"endTime":489.62,"body":"prescription of joy. Give us a prescription of joy,"},{"startTime":489.62,"endTime":493.34,"body":"Father, that we can look through. And instead of being frustrated, instead"},{"startTime":493.34,"endTime":497.19,"body":"of being stressed out, instead of causing division, Lord, where there"},{"startTime":497.19,"endTime":500.75,"body":"doesn't need to be division, I pray that we would see the joyful things in"},{"startTime":500.75,"endTime":504.55,"body":"life. I pray that you would show us things and reveal things to us through"},{"startTime":504.55,"endTime":508.31,"body":"the lens of joy. And I thank you for it. In Jesus name,"},{"startTime":508.95,"endTime":512.79,"body":"amen. So there you have it. Your 5 minute daily"},{"startTime":512.79,"endTime":516.51,"body":"dose of heaven. Thank you so much for tuning in today. We pray"},{"startTime":516.51,"endTime":520.36,"body":"these devotionals empower you to take on your day. If you found value"},{"startTime":520.36,"endTime":523.84,"body":"in this devotional, share it with a friend, leave a comment or review"},{"startTime":524.08,"endTime":527.88,"body":"for us on the app you're using right now. Until tomorrow. We"},{"startTime":527.88,"endTime":531.36,"body":"pray that your latte is strong, but your love for Jesus is stronger."}]}