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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hello, thank you for listening to your Daily

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Speaker 1: Bible Verse, the podcast that examines one verse each day

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Speaker 1: to learn more about God and his will for us.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Carol McCracken. We're continuing our lent series,

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Speaker 1: God Meets You in the Wilderness, and after a short

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Speaker 1: word from our sponsor, we'll dive into today's Bible verse,

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Speaker 1: John six' thirty. Five Today's Bible Verses john six thirty.

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Speaker 1: Five Then jesus, DECLARED i am The bread of. Life

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Speaker 1: whoever comes to me will never go, hungry and whoever

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Speaker 1: believes in me will never be. Thirsty there's a particular

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Speaker 1: kind of exhaustion that doesn't come from a busy. Schedule

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Speaker 1: it comes from feeling spiritually. Empty you're doing the things

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to. Do you're showing, up you're, working, serving

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Speaker 1: loving your, family maybe even attending, church and yet something

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Speaker 1: inside feels, thin, worn. Hollow even it was the early

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Speaker 1: service for, me the room was, full the band started

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Speaker 1: AND i was singing along WORDS i know by, heart

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Speaker 1: Melodies i've sung hundreds of. Times my voice was, there

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Speaker 1: my posture was, there but my attention was. THIN i

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Speaker 1: wasn't fully, distracted just surface level, present going through the,

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Speaker 1: motions thinking about what was coming, later what needed to get,

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Speaker 1: done WHAT i forgot to respond. To my mind kept,

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Speaker 1: drifting and my heart felt howfully disconnected from the very

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Speaker 1: words THAT i was. Singing have you ever had that

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Speaker 1: moment where your body's, participating but your soul feels like

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Speaker 1: it's standing a few steps. Behind not, rebellious not, resistant just.

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Speaker 1: Empty that's a kind of Wilderness lent often, reveals not dramatic,

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Speaker 1: crisis not in deep, despair just to quiet awareness that

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Speaker 1: you're running on spiritual. Fumes you're showing, up doing the right,

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Speaker 1: things saying the right, words but something deeper is. Missing

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Speaker 1: and in that, moment standing there, singing the question pressed

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Speaker 1: in gently to, me what AM i actually feeding on right?

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Speaker 1: Now because it's possible to be in, church singing, truth

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Speaker 1: surrounded by worship and still feel spiritually. Hungry the wilderness

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Speaker 1: exposes that. Hunger in today's, Passage jesus speaks directly to.

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Speaker 1: It john six takes place right after one Of jesus's

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Speaker 1: most famous, miracles The feeding of the five. Thousand with

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Speaker 1: a few loaves and, fish he fed a massive. Crowd

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Speaker 1: the people were. Amazed they followed it they wanted, more

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Speaker 1: but their interest wasn't purely. Spiritual they were looking for another,

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Speaker 1: meal another, miracle another moment of. Relief so they asked

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Speaker 1: him for a. Sign In john six thirty, one they

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Speaker 1: referenced To moses and the man in the, wilderness our

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Speaker 1: ancestors ate The mana in the. Wilderness as it is,

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Speaker 1: written he gave them bread from heaven to. Eat in other,

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Speaker 1: words shut us something like that, again And jesus responded

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Speaker 1: by shifting their. Focus he explained that it Wasn't moses

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Speaker 1: who gave the true bread from. Heaven god, did and

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Speaker 1: Now god was offering something even greater than. Mana then

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Speaker 1: he said the words in verse thirty, FIVE I am

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Speaker 1: The bread of. Life in the wilderness Of, exodus mana

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Speaker 1: was daily. Provision the people couldn't store. It they had

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Speaker 1: to gather it fresh each, morning and it reminded them

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Speaker 1: That god was their, source not just, once but every.

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Speaker 1: Day When jesus calls himself the bread of, life he's

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Speaker 1: not just claiming to provide something. Helpful he's claiming to be.

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Speaker 1: Essential bread in the ancient world was the, staple, food the,

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Speaker 1: foundation the thing you couldn't live. Without to, SAY i.

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Speaker 1: Am the bread of life is to, SAY i am

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Speaker 1: your true. SUSTENANCE i am what your soul actually needs to.

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Speaker 1: Live The greek word translated comes in this verse, curious

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Speaker 1: the idea of continual movement towards, someone not just to

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Speaker 1: one time, approach but an ongoing. Relationship and the word

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Speaker 1: believes isn't passive, agreement it's act of. Trust jesus is

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Speaker 1: describing a RHYTHM i, think, coming, trusting, receiving, living and

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Speaker 1: then he makes an astonishing. Promise whoever comes to me

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Speaker 1: will never go. Hungry whoever believes in me will never be.

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Speaker 1: Thirsty this isn't about physical. Hunger it's about the deep

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Speaker 1: hate inside every human, heart belonging for, purpose, security belonging

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Speaker 1: forgiveness and. Hope and this moment is deeply connected to wilderness.

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Speaker 1: Imagery The israelites wandered in the desert and dependent On.

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Speaker 1: Manu they had to Trust god, daily they had to

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Speaker 1: believe he would provide again. Tomorrow Now jesus is SAYING

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Speaker 1: i am Your, manna not just in moments of, crisis

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Speaker 1: not just in dramatic, seasons but in every day. Life

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Speaker 1: So lint invites us into the same. Awareness it reminds

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Speaker 1: us that much of what we consume doesn't actually nourish.

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Speaker 1: Us we fill our lives with, noise, achievement, approval, entertainment

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Speaker 1: and still feel empty because the wilderness exposes our. Truth

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Speaker 1: nothing satisfies the soul Like. Jesus it's easy to assume

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Speaker 1: this verse applies to people who don't Know christ, yet

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Speaker 1: but it's just as relevant for those who have followed

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Speaker 1: him for. Years you can believe In jesus and still

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Speaker 1: try to feed your soul with something. Else we do

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Speaker 1: it when we look to success for, identity when we

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Speaker 1: look to relationships for, validation when we look to comfort for,

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Speaker 1: peace when we look to control role for. Security that

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Speaker 1: one's a big one for. Me and when those things,

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Speaker 1: fail as they always, do we feel the hunger. Again

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Speaker 1: jesus isn't scolding the crowd In john. Six he's inviting.

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Speaker 1: Them he's, saying you're chasing bread that Spoils i'm offering

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Speaker 1: bread that gives. Life what would it look like to

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Speaker 1: live Like that's? True it might mean starting your day

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Speaker 1: not with your, phone but with the moment of coming To.

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Speaker 1: Christ it might mean pausing when anxiety rises and asking

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Speaker 1: what AM i feeding on right? Now it might mean

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Speaker 1: recognizing that your deepest need today isn't, productivity it's connection With.

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Speaker 1: Him because spiritual hunger isn't a sign of, failure it's a.

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Speaker 1: Signal it's your soul reminding you where to. Go think

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Speaker 1: about a time when you've felt truly, sustained not, entertained not,

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Speaker 1: distracted not, busy but gring Did chances are it was

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Speaker 1: connected to a moment of closeness With, god maybe in,

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Speaker 1: prayer maybe in, scripture maybe in, worship maybe in a

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Speaker 1: quiet trust during a hard. Season that's the Burishment jesus

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Speaker 1: is talking, about not, hype not emotional, highs but, steady sustaining,

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Speaker 1: life the kind that carries you through wilderness seasons when

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Speaker 1: nothing else seems. Certain here's what this verse teaches us And.

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Speaker 1: Lent the wilderness doesn't create your, hunger it reveals. It

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Speaker 1: And jesus doesn't shame your. Hunger he satisfies. It he's

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Speaker 1: not an ann on to your, Life he's the source of.

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Speaker 1: It and the invitation remains. Open, come, believe. Receive as

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Speaker 1: you move through, today pay attention to what you're reaching.

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Speaker 1: For when you feel maybe stressed or tired or, Discouraged

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Speaker 1: is that something that fades, quickly or is It? Christ

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Speaker 1: even a simple Prayer, JESUS i come to you again

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Speaker 1: today is a step toward the bread that truly. Satisfies

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Speaker 1: because the promise still, stands whoever comes to him will

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Speaker 1: not go, hungry whoever blieves in him will not. Thirst

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Speaker 1: and in every wilderness, season that's more than. Enough will

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Speaker 1: you pray with, Me Dear lord in, Heaven you are

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Speaker 1: the bread of. Life you are the thing that. Sustains

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Speaker 1: will never go hungry with, you you, say give us

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Speaker 1: the faith to believe. That, lord give us the faith

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Speaker 1: to recognize what's happening when we're going through the. Motions

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Speaker 1: just to go through the. Motions because you have the

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Speaker 1: answer to, you you. Satisfy it doesn't have to be

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Speaker 1: something dramatic all the. Time it doesn't have to be

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Speaker 1: just the so called other. Meal, lord it's you and you,

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Speaker 1: alone and you give us great gifts in an abundant.

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Speaker 1: Life but you are the source of it. All help

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Speaker 1: us to remember that during This lenten season in our,

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Speaker 1: wilderness and your precious, name we Pray amen mm hm