Start With Who

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Welcome to The Overflow Podcast. My name
is Craig Booker. The title of this

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episode is Start With Who. A lot of the
material for this week’s episode was

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inspired by Craig Groeschel’s book the power to
change mastering the habits that matter most

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note I will talk a lot about mental health but
please note this is not a substitute for therapy

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or mental health care I am not a counselor or
a physician if you need help with mental health

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challenges please find a qualified mental health
professional the title of this episode is start

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with who in the last episode we talked about call
to who before do in this section of the book uh

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Craig Rochelle starts out talking about how he has
a thing for nicknames and so you know if you work

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with him he says you will end up with a nickname
you might not like it but that’s his thing so uh

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it’s a very light-hearted fun story and you know
if we look back at the Bible you will see on many

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occurrences that God has a pattern of changing
people’s names we can see that Abram became

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Abraham Sarai became Sarah Jacob became Israel
and Simon became Peter uh so Abraham Abram’s new

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name means father of many uh Sarah which is
sarai’s new name uh Sarah means princess or

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mother of Nations Jacob means supplanter uh he
was the second born tricked uh and he tricked

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his father Isaac into giving him Esau’s blessing
we have Gideon uh the angel showed up and said

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the Lord is with you mighty warrior and that was
judges 6 12. so why did God change people’s names

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uh this is a quote from Craig Rochelle and
it says because he knew who they truly were

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who they would become and what they needed to
do Abraham and Sarai were going to have children

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and become the father and mother of the nation of
Israel Jacob’s children would become the original

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12 tribes of Israel Gideon would become the mighty
warrior who led God’s people into battle against

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the midianites Peter would become a foundation
a stabilizing influence for the early church

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all right in the book Craig Rochelle
says God changed their names because

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change starts with your identity you do what
you do because of what you think of you for

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them to do what they needed to do first they
had to think the right thing about themselves

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he goes on to say for you to do what you need to
do for you to change you first need to think the

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right thing about yourself you need to know your
true identity understand your true identity and

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start with your identity you start with who
not do why because your identity drives your

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behavior if you don’t start with your identity
any Behavior change you make won’t last all right

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so we have an exercise and it says complete this
open-ended sentence with true aspects of your life

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if today I lost blank I would feel totally lost
and not know what to do some examples he provides

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is a job money social status a talent or a skill
and next one he says describe how each aspect of

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your life you wrote down is connected to who
you are your identity and not just what you do

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how can you turn each one of them each one from
do to who and how can you surrender that aspect of

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your life to the point where if God took it away
you’d still be okay so lots of questions there

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um another example for this part what he says
I feel like my career has become who I am not

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just what I do but if I if I got let go or could
could no longer work I would still be a child of

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God still have my life my calling and family
I would still have the most important things

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in my life so the principle for this section says
to change you need to think about the right thing

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about yourself know your true identity
and start your identity with who not do

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in Philippians 1 6 of the NLT it says I am
certain that God who began the good work

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within you will continue his work until it is
finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus

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returns that’s all for this episode thank you
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