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Hanaya has been picking up on something about Hiroto for a while. She feels it's about time to say it, and when she does, Hiroto opens up. 

Could this be a God moment?

What about you? 
Are you trying to fix your heart?

You might need to hear this, or you might want to pass it on to someone who really needs to listen to it.

Hanaya Oki Series:  https://superdifferent.com/hanaya 

As Hiroto spends more time with Hanaya, more of her world is bleeding into his. The more he listens to Hanaya, the more he wants to get to know God the way she does.

He's been reading the Bible that Hanaya gave him and asking questions. But is he into it because he's secretly crushing on Hanaya? Or is he genuinely coming through?

In this clip, Hiroto encounters another of Hanaya's unique ways of seeing things.

Hanaya Oki Series:  https://superdifferent.com/hanaya 

Are you living a self-absorbed life? Is there no anguish? Is there not a cause? Doesn't your heart cry out, “Oh God, something has to be done"?

How do you plan to use your short years on this planet to do what God has entrusted you to do?

The clock is ticking, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock...

I hope this conversation between Hanaya and Yuri awakens a greater diligence to own your call like never before. I hope you will faithfully steward your gifting, time, money, and resources to be less about yourself and more about revealing Jesus to the world.

Come to the end of your life—your one and only precious, God-given life—and let the last great work of your life, before you give an account to your Creator, be this: playing softball and collecting shells. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: “Look, Lord. See my shells.” That is a tragedy.
– John Piper

Hanaya Oki Series:  https://superdifferent.com/hanaya

I lost all my friends at school, now that I’ve begun to ‘walk my talk’, they make fun of me. I don’t even know what I have done. I don’t really have to say anything and they turn from me. But you know what, I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus. I am not going to justify my faith to them, and I am not going to hide the light that God has put into me. If I have to sacrifice everything I will. I will take it. If my friends have to become my enemies for me to be with my best friend Jesus, then that's fine with me.
— Rachel Joy Scott | From her diary, 1998

I dedicate this clip in memory of Rachel Joy Scott. Rachel was 17 years old and the main inspiration behind the character Hanaya Oki.

If you want to know about Rachel and what happened to her, you can read the post "Rachel Joy Scott: The teen who loved Jesus".

Is Jesus the most important person in our lives? When the trials of life arrive, and we suffer loss, is Jesus still worthy?

We can never glory in our capacity to love Him back. The spotlight isn't really on us or Rachel. Those who know they're loved best, love best.

If you have lost sight of Jesus, may your heart be awakened, recalibrated, and reset as you listen to this clip.

It's not the stretch of life that matters. It's the depth of life. It's not how long we live. It's how we live.
— Leonard Ravenhill

God can’t do anything in your life unless you meet him halfway. You have to make room for him. A lot of room. Go after God. Whatever it takes, do it. And don’t give the excuse, “I am just a teenager” or “I’ll do that when I grow up,” because it doesn’t work that way.
— Rachel Joy Scott | From her diary

I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ.
— Apostle Paul

Hanaya Oki Series:  https://superdifferent.com/hanaya

On their way back from Shichirigahama beach, Hanaya and her mom engage in a conversation about what causes the hardening of the heart and the falling away of believers.

Many are walking away from their faith. False prophets, false Christs, false Gospel, and a false church are proliferating among us.

How do believers get off track? What throws them into confusion and deception?

Hanaya's mom cites that the fundamental problem is not the ignorance of the truth. There's a basic reason why people do not own up to the truth.

As you listen to the words of caution and encouragement in this conversation, tend to the soil of your own heart.

The most ridiculous thing you can ever say is keep God first, keep God number one. Don't ever say that. Because you're assuming He's in the same category with everyone else. God's in a box all to Himself. There is no second. He's in a category completely separate and distinct from everything else that exists and He's there alone. I labor in my own heart to drive out other loves, competing loyalties. Let us get a greater vision of Him that He might be singular in our hearts.
— Paul Washer

Proverbs 4:18 tells us, “The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day.” When we walk the path of the righteous or the right path, our walk will become continually brighter no matter how much darkness increases around us. If this is not the case, if we, too, are experiencing increasing darkness, depression, and disorientation, then we have gotten off the right path. If we ask the Lord, He will help us understand where we got off track, but we must make the choice to turn around and be decisive in doing so.
— Rick Joyner

Hanaya Oki Series:  https://superdifferent.com/hanaya

God created time. He cut off a piece of eternity for you to live in. You're not here by accident. You are not just a random number in the vast sea of the human population. You have been created by God purposefully. He knows you intimately better than you know yourself. 

He is all-knowing and everywhere. Because of who He is, you're never alone. He can whisper in your ear and your whole life can change. I'm not talking about hearing with your physical ears. Do you really know God in an out-of-the-box non-religious way?  

I hope you will get outside your own bubble, and tune your heart to believe from the core of your being what you're about to hear. This is from the Bible and speaks of God's intimate knowledge of you. May it invoke curiosity in you to dig deeper and go farther.

Being known by God has deep transforming effects upon the human heart. Namely, it produces love for God.
— John Piper

Hanaya Oki Series:  https://superdifferent.com/hanaya

What we see depends on what we look for. There's always more to every story. There is no arriving. Jesus is the goal.

As you listen to Hanaya's contemplation about the world she sees and her pursuit, may it help you refocus and realign your walk with Jesus.

Hanaya Oki Series:  https://superdifferent.com/hanaya

Paul Washer on temptation and ongoing sin and why you must kill it before it's too late. 

Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.
– Charles Stanley

Are some battles we're fighting so hard to win worth losing?

Noriko dreams of becoming a K-pop trainee. She has been submitting videos showcasing her talent for the past three years, hoping to get noticed by an agency. Despite her best efforts, she hasn't received any response. Lately, she is questioning her self-worth. One day Hanaya and Yuri happen to see Noriko sitting alone at the beach. As they start talking with her, Noriko shares her feelings about not getting through the K-pop trainee auditions.

Noriko has heard the Gospel before. She has heard about Jesus and God's love. But what's holding her back? This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory means good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.
― C.S. Lewis | The Weight of Glory

Hanaya Oki Series:  https://superdifferent.com/hanaya

Feeling mixed emotions? Trust God's process. Embrace the season you are in. Time spent in preparation is never wasted. Listen to this short poetry and cheer up!

Don't surrender the symphony in your heart to the tyranny of delay. Trust God's timing. It is perfect. Your dream you cherish has a reality attached to it. Frustration is evidence that a greater purpose in you is yet to be fulfilled. You are actually a coiled spring being compressed. Soon that delay will give vent to a divine release and fruit will break forth in your life.
— Lance Wallnau

Hanaya Oki Series:  https://superdifferent.com/hanaya