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Sep 2023
29m 20s

How to Surrender Like Mother Teresa

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Surrendering to God is difficult. Even the holiest men and women struggled to surrender to God. Fortunately, we can learn from them how to give our lives completely to God. Dr. Edward Sri shares in this episode Mother Teresa’s struggle to surrender to God’s will for her life. He reveals how we can follow her example.

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God will help you do the things you cannot do on your own.

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