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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to the Praying Christian Women Podcast. I

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Speaker 2: am Alana here with Jamie. How are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great?

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Speaker 1: How about you? Good?

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Speaker 2: We are here with part two. So a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks ago we talked about blocks that keep Christian women

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Speaker 2: from spending more regular Bible time. Then we all feel

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Speaker 2: like we should be spending or I'll say at least

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Speaker 2: eighty percent of us feel like we should be spending.

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll guess.

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Speaker 2: That there's a portion of you listening who have a

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Speaker 2: system and feel good about it and are doing it

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Speaker 2: just fine. But for everybody else that I am convinced

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Speaker 2: as a majority and I know includes you and me,

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Speaker 2: it is hard to not feel guilty about the lack

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Speaker 2: of Bible study time we spend. And it's just practically

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Speaker 2: hard to do all the things like finding the time,

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Speaker 2: I'm finding the focus, finding the right routine. Where do

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Speaker 2: you start? So in part one we talked about some

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Speaker 2: of the mental or spiritual blocks that can keep Bible

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Speaker 2: City from becoming a more regular part of our spiritual life.

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Speaker 2: And today we are both coming to you with different

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Speaker 2: tips for how to incorporate more Bible time into.

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Speaker 1: Your daily schedule. So I'm really excited we get to

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Speaker 1: jump into this. Me too.

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Speaker 3: I love this topic. I think it's going to be

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Speaker 3: really good.

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Speaker 4: We can start off with our verse of the day,

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Speaker 4: which is Jeremiah, chapter fifteen, Verse sixteen. When your words came,

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Speaker 4: I ate them. They were my joy and my heart's delight,

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Speaker 4: for I bear your name, Lord, God Almighty. And I

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Speaker 4: love this because I feel like this idea of God's

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Speaker 4: word being our joy and our heart's delight, and not

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Speaker 4: just reading them as a thing to check off our list,

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Speaker 4: but consuming them and incorporating them because God's word is living, inactive,

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Speaker 4: and I think more than just changing to fit our

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Speaker 4: circumstances or the Holy Spirit translating them to fit our circumstances,

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Speaker 4: the word of God, like when we take it in,

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Speaker 4: I really believe that something happens. You know, it's food, literally,

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Speaker 4: I think for our soul. We take it in and

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Speaker 4: it's consumed and it's processed, and it's becomes part of

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Speaker 4: us in a way that just you know, that is

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Speaker 4: more than just reading by looking at words or you know,

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Speaker 4: consuming content.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I think that the idea of food is

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Speaker 2: really applicable as well in terms of it's not like

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Speaker 2: I come to your house and you say, hey, can

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Speaker 2: I fix you something to eat? And I say, oh, no, thanks,

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Speaker 2: I ate last week. Right Like, just because you ate

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Speaker 2: last week or yesterday or this morning doesn't mean that

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Speaker 2: you still need to eat something later.

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Speaker 1: And that can be a big block.

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Speaker 2: And I know we about that when you know, well,

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Speaker 2: I basically know the bulk of what the Bible teaches,

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Speaker 2: or I know the gist of it, which is what's important,

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Speaker 2: and that completely misses a pack That's like saying, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, I ate a meal when I was in

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Speaker 2: third grade, so why do I need to eat anymore? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And we went through a lot of the reasons

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Speaker 4: that kind of keep us from the Bible. But there

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Speaker 4: are just so many different ways that I think people

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Speaker 4: don't realize to incorporate scripture into their lives that I'm

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Speaker 4: so glad we're doing this because I just think pointing

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Speaker 4: out a few opens the floodgates for more ideas for

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Speaker 4: our listeners, because it's done that for me when I start,

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Speaker 4: you know, when we started talking about this and working

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Speaker 4: through some of the ways, I think, once you start

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Speaker 4: thinking outside the box, it's going to just open up

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Speaker 4: so many more creative and just really effective ways of

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Speaker 4: incorporating Scripture into your life that you might not have

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Speaker 4: thought of.

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Speaker 1: I agree.

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Speaker 2: My brain's been going over some of the blocks we

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Speaker 2: up with solutions to some of my specific Bible blocks,

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Speaker 2: and so I love that. I want to go back

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Speaker 2: to your Bible versus about food for ar just for fun.

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Speaker 2: I have been having like the strongest food craving. So

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Speaker 2: I want to know if you had like a complete

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Speaker 2: fill that day with?

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, like a whole bunch of.

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Speaker 1: Things or anything you want.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you mine, because like my mouth was just watering.

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Speaker 2: It started with a dream about creamy seafood lasagna and

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Speaker 2: So I came up with an entire my if I

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Speaker 1: Be my lunch.

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Speaker 2: And for dinner it would be like that creamy pasta

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Speaker 2: with a cheesecake for dessert.

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Speaker 1: That is my like dream meal day. Do you have something?

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Speaker 4: I have so many things going through my head right now,

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Speaker 4: I can. So I would say, like a latte. I've

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Speaker 4: been drinking either lattes or black coffee with no sugar

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Speaker 3: A little bit of a nilla or hazel nut.

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Speaker 4: So I would say like a sweetish, not sweetish, sweetish, sweetish, a.

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Speaker 4: Qishe with a whole bunch of like vegetables, and like

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Speaker 4: came to mind, so we're kind of on the same wavelength.

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Speaker 1: We really are.

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Speaker 2: Got the same So you know, I think that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that was literally just a frivolous, just for fun question.

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Speaker 2: But if people are thinking like I could hear in

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Speaker 2: your voice and I could feel in my body like

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Speaker 2: this sounds so good, right, And I think a beautiful prayer,

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Speaker 2: So what I don't want to be is like and

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Speaker 2: this is just how you should feel about the Bible, right,

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Speaker 2: and you know, come down heavy handed, But I think

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Speaker 2: a beautiful prayer would be like, God, help me to

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Speaker 2: crave your word in this way. I love going through

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Speaker 2: Psalone nineteen, and you don't need to read it all

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Speaker 2: It's like a I mean, it literally is a poem,

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Speaker 2: this idea of longing for God's word, loving God's word

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Speaker 2: craving God's word. It's sweetness to my soul. If you

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Speaker 2: Bible the way that Jamie and I feel about cheesecake, A,

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Speaker 2: that's okay, that's normal, but be a great prayer.

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Speaker 1: Could be God, give me that longing for your word.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And it's kind of the sort of thing where you

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Speaker 4: won't speak for everyone, but I have to put the

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Speaker 4: just hate to tread on this because like you don't

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Speaker 3: Does that make sense?

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Speaker 2: So I'm one hundred percent behind what you just said.

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Speaker 2: I think about it kind of like a runner's high.

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Speaker 2: It's not like and I am not a runner, but

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Speaker 2: I know enough runners know about this, but.

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Speaker 3: We understand what it might be like to be a runner.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's not like every.

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Speaker 1: There needs to be discipline to get to that point.

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Speaker 2: So I am one hundred percent behind you, and I

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Speaker 2: it brings me so much joy, or it brings me euphoria.

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Speaker 1: Or it makes me so inspired.

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Speaker 2: If those are selfish reasons to read the Bible, then

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Speaker 2: my only other reason is because God's going to be

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Speaker 4: John Piper in his book Desiring God, he has this

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Speaker 4: term that he coined I think he coined it Christian hedonism,

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Speaker 4: and the idea is that when we seek God for

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Speaker 2: Amen, Well, I will go ahead and start with the

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Speaker 2: being tactile is the reason why I love writing out

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Speaker 2: Bible verses. And you can do it in a beautiful way,

442
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 2: or you could do it just in a way, or

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Speaker 2: even sitting with a highlighter and highlighting. That is a

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Speaker 2: tactile experience there. And if none of those work for you,

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Speaker 2: I would encourage some people who are tactile are going.

446
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Speaker 1: To love this.

447
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Speaker 2: Learn how to sign a Bible verse and see if

448
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Speaker 2: learning how to do the sign language to a Bible

449
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Speaker 2: verse helps bring that verse to life for you. So

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Speaker 2: being tactile, I love to not just ruminate because that

451
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 2: feels more mental. I love to manipulate a verse, right,

452
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Speaker 2: which is why I like for me writing it out

453
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Speaker 2: can do that for me, but for some people well,

454
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Speaker 2: like the act of learning the sign language. It keeps

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Speaker 2: your hands engaged and it slows down your brain so

456
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 2: that you're having to think about each word. Pairing words

457
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Speaker 2: to motion is proven to increase your memory. So if

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Speaker 2: you're trying to memorize the Bible, learning the sign language

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Speaker 2: to it can be significantly more effective than just sitting

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Speaker 2: down and forcing yourself to learn the words to it.

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Speaker 2: So if your tactile learner and you want to try that,

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Speaker 2: go for it and let us know how that works

463
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Speaker 2: for you.

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Speaker 4: That is something I've never thought of, but I still

465
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Speaker 4: remember the signs for this song that I did in

466
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Speaker 4: like early elementary school. It was like be kind to

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Speaker 4: each other and love one another, and I remember the

468
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Speaker 4: signs to all of it. And it really does when

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Speaker 4: you incorporate that other, that motion aspect that is neat.

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Speaker 3: I think I want to start that. I want to

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Speaker 3: I want to.

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Speaker 4: Get into that and and learn some verses with sign

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Speaker 4: language or even just hand motions. You think about subjects

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Speaker 4: when you do songs of hand motions. But yeah, that

475
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Speaker 4: that is pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Did you ever do the walk through the Bible program

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Speaker 2: or do you know it?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I loved that.

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Speaker 1: That was so neat.

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Speaker 4: Was that the one where it's like and he was

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Speaker 4: seen and seen and seen? Was that part of it

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Speaker 4: when we were talking displaying himself?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh.

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Speaker 4: And it takes you it, I mean, it is what

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Speaker 4: it says. It like literally takes you through the Bible

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Speaker 4: from beginning to end. And I remember coming away from that.

489
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Speaker 4: I don't remember the motions to that. But for our

490
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Speaker 4: listeners that don't know, it's basically a program where the

491
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Speaker 4: person comes and they'll do this, you know, presentation of

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Speaker 4: teaching hand motions to help you remember the Bible.

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Speaker 1: Story of the Bible. It starting time.

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Speaker 4: From Genesis to Revelation, and it just takes the highlights

495
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Speaker 4: and high points of each I don't not necessarily book

496
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Speaker 4: of the Bible, but each each important event of the Bible,

497
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Speaker 4: and presents it in a way with hand motions to

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Speaker 4: remember it. I'd like to do it again so I

499
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Speaker 4: could actually remember it and put it to memory, because

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Speaker 4: it was for the first time I think I put

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Speaker 4: the Old Testament and the New Testament together in a

502
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Speaker 4: way that was very really transformed the way I saw

503
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Speaker 4: the Bible as a whole, which kind of brings us

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Speaker 4: to another, you know, ways of incorporating scripture into your

505
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Speaker 4: daily life. When we talk about prayer, I just have

506
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 4: been finding I think this two part episode came about

507
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 4: because we were both talking about I think I'd shared

508
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 4: with you that I just had realized that I'd been

509
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 4: coasting on Bible knowledge from you know, previous Bible knowledge,

510
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 4: and I had been focusing so much on prayer that

511
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 4: my prayers were not I did not feel like my

512
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 4: prayers were being as powerful because I was not as

513
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Speaker 4: rooted in scripture.

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Speaker 3: And Jesus talks about if you.

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Speaker 4: Remain in me and my words remain in you, ask

516
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Speaker 4: whatever you wish and it will be given you. Well,

517
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 4: my prayers had been more driven by kind of what

518
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 4: I wanted and my whims and my hopes and dreams,

519
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Speaker 4: which isn't bad. I mean, God wants us to bring

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Speaker 4: all of it to him. But I just believe that

521
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 4: by being connected with God's word and knowing it in context,

522
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 4: not just pulling out little snippets here and there, but

523
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 4: knowing it in context, which this walks through the Bible,

524
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 4: helps you to gain that perspective. I just really believe

525
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 4: it refines our prayers so that the prayers we pray

526
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Speaker 4: are more in alignment with who God is and what

527
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Speaker 4: he wants and not just kind of vending machine kind

528
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Speaker 4: of prayers.

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Speaker 3: If that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Definitely. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, in one of the tips that I had for me,

532
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Speaker 2: I don't get very much out of intellectually reading a

533
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Speaker 2: chunk of the Bible in order. I think it's important,

534
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 2: and I think things like walk through the Bible are important.

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Speaker 2: I think a good litmus test is ask yourself, do

536
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 2: you know, like if somebody just said, okay, walk me

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Speaker 2: through Genesis to Revelation and walk.

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Speaker 1: Me through the flow.

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Speaker 2: And that doesn't mean you need to know exactly who

540
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Speaker 2: Obadiah was and which minor prophet came first, but do

541
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Speaker 2: you know the general flow? Do you know that Daniel

542
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 2: had to come after David because David was the first king,

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Speaker 2: and David had to come after Abraham because Abraham was

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Speaker 2: the first patriarch, Like do you know that just very

545
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 2: general flow of Bible history? And if you don't, then

546
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:05,959
Speaker 2: something like walk through the Bible that can give you

547
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 2: that just bird's eydeal can be really helpful, or a

548
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 2: chronological Bible or starting in in the Old Testament and

549
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 2: just going those can all be really helpful things. But

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Speaker 2: for me sitting down and reading the Book of Romans

551
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: start to finish, what I get out of that is

552
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Speaker 2: not the intellectual This is what Paul taught to the Romans,

553
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Speaker 2: and this is the history of what was going on

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Speaker 2: with the Christians in Rome at the time. What I

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Speaker 2: get are the verses that jump out to me that

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Speaker 2: I find inspiring or encouraging. And like I said, I

557
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Speaker 2: am trying to get over the fact that I've been

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Speaker 2: taught that I should feel guilty for that. I've been

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Speaker 2: taught that I should feel guilty for reading the Bible

560
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Speaker 2: for inspiration. And when you put it in those exact

561
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Speaker 2: words like I hope everybody understands that sounds really stupid,

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Speaker 2: which is not a word stupid y close to a

563
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 2: four letter word in our vocabulary, And but I hope

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Speaker 2: that people if you put it in those terms like

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Speaker 2: I hope that sounds appalling, right, Like if you have

566
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Speaker 2: a love letter that your husband wrote you and you

567
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Speaker 2: say I read it because it makes me feel so good,

568
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Speaker 2: and someone's like, well, that's stupid.

569
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Speaker 1: You should love your husband because he's your husband.

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Speaker 2: Like I hope people understand what I'm saying. I'm also

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Speaker 2: not saying that if you read the Bible and you

572
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Speaker 2: don't feel an emotional connection or a sense of grand

573
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Speaker 2: or a sense of inspiration, that you're doing it wrong.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying we're wired differently. I read the Bible

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Speaker 2: for that sense of this was beautiful, this was lofty,

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Speaker 2: This was encouraging to me. And ay, I think if

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Speaker 2: you're like me, that doesn't mean that you can ignore

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Speaker 2: all the context. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't have

579
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Speaker 2: at least a general view. Okay, Paul is running to

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Speaker 2: the Romans, and this is after Jesus's ascension to heaven,

581
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Speaker 2: and you know, this is for Christians today. This isn't

582
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Speaker 2: a letter that somebody wrote to the exiles of Jerusalem

583
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Speaker 2: in the Old Testament, right, Like, you kind of need

584
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Speaker 2: to know at least where it fits. But beyond that,

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Speaker 2: if you're like me and you are looking to go

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Speaker 2: maybe deeper into a verse or two, or into a

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Speaker 2: concept or two, as opposed to I want to learn

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Speaker 2: everything about the history of this. You know of this

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00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 2: book or something one way that I have learned. And

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Speaker 2: this is going to sound really silly, or we were

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Speaker 2: frivolous to some people. But I have been doing a

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Speaker 2: little bit of tapping through like a specific Bible verse,

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Speaker 2: And so if you're not familiar with tapping, Jaimee and

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Speaker 2: I recorded several episodes. The first one we did was

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Speaker 2: tapping prayerfully to overcome a phobia. And you can find

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Speaker 2: that that might not be the exact verbatim title of it,

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00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 2: but you know, google praying Christian women tapping phobia and

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Speaker 2: it's gonna pull up for you. And what I have

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Speaker 2: found again, I think this go back to me being

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Speaker 2: really tactile. Is it when you are applying pressure on

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Speaker 2: certain points of your body To me, it allows me

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Speaker 2: to focus in a way that I have not been

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00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 2: able to replicate in any other setting. So as a

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Speaker 2: quick example, I love doing this for versus that feel like, oh,

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Speaker 2: I've read this so often that it doesn't even mean

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Speaker 2: anything to me anymore. So let's take Psalm twenty three

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Speaker 2: The Lord is my Shepherd. I won't talk you through

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Speaker 2: all the or actu pressure points that I'm tapping on,

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Speaker 2: but just go watch our video previously, or maybe we

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Speaker 2: could even do just a clip of this tappic I'm

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00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 2: going to do right here, and throw it up on

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Speaker 2: our Instagram and YouTube and stuff. But I'll start on

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Speaker 2: one of the points, say the Lord is my shepherd.

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Speaker 2: The Lord is my shepherd, The Lord is my shepherd.

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Speaker 2: And then when I feel like that has sunk in. Right,

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Speaker 2: like when I water my plants, there's the and they're

617
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 2: really dry, I need to wait until I see that

618
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 2: the water has sunk in before I can do anything. Otherwise,

619
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 2: you can't just keep pouring water on really dry soil

620
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 2: because it just falls off the site. So once i

621
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 2: feel like it's sunk in, then I'll go to the

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Speaker 2: next part of the verse. I shall not be in one.

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Speaker 2: I shall not be in want, I shall not be

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Speaker 2: in one. And maybe I'm gonna stay here for several

625
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 2: rounds of tapping, and I'm just gonna say I shall

626
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Speaker 2: not be in one.

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Speaker 1: I shall not be in one.

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Speaker 2: To me, that helps me to slow down, which as

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Speaker 2: someone who is reading the Bible for that sense of

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00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 2: connection to God and to somebody who really likes having

631
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 2: a tactile sensation, that really helps me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I know.

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Speaker 4: At least one of our tapping episodes is episode three

634
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 4: seventy one Tapping for Christians, and it's about insecurities. There

635
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,959
Speaker 4: was also a phobia one, and I just I do

636
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 4: think that. You know, the idea behind tapping has to

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00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 4: do with pressure points and you know actu pressure, But

638
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 4: even if you take all of that out, it's like

639
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 4: the hand motions, it's the act of doing it does something.

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Speaker 4: So so you like to pace while you think or talk.

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00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 4: It's so funny because our middle kid the other day

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00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 4: he was talking, we were I was helping him study

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Speaker 4: for something, and he stood up like on a chair.

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Speaker 3: I have done that before.

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Speaker 4: So when I worked in laboratory research, when I was

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00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 4: thinking through a problem, one of my lab mates was like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I like to like stand up on this like stool thing.

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00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 4: It helps me think better. So I tried it and

649
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 4: I was like it does. It helped me work through

650
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Speaker 4: problems better. And so when he did that, I said, oh,

651
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 4: does that help you think better? He's like, yeah, it does.

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Speaker 3: And he said.

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Speaker 4: Another thing is when I when I'm pacing and walking,

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Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh, I have to tell a lot

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Speaker 4: of that because that's what you do. You like to

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Speaker 4: pace while you're thinking and brainstorming. And I do the

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00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 4: same thing sometimes when I'm on the phone and it

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Speaker 4: really the act of doing something with your body other

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00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 4: than thinking helps incorporate it in better somehow, and.

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Speaker 1: I just does it sink shit.

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Speaker 3: Happing really does help.

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Speaker 2: But if you don't like the tapping side of it,

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Speaker 2: or if if you're in a place where like you

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Speaker 2: can't be tapping because you're sitting in church or something,

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Speaker 2: another way you can do it is just like squeezing.

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Speaker 1: Each individual finger.

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Speaker 2: So let's say I want to meditate on the fruit

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Speaker 2: of the Spirit, so I'm gonna squeeze, and it doesn't

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Speaker 2: really matter where you do it. I'm squeezing my pointer

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Speaker 2: finger just thinking love. God is love, Thank you God

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Speaker 2: for your love.

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Speaker 1: And then I'm going to my next.

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Speaker 2: Finger and squeezing it thinking joy, God, please give me joy,

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Speaker 2: give my friend's joy. Then I'm going to my next finger.

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Speaker 2: So that can be another way. And it goes back

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Speaker 2: to one of our very first I think this might

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Speaker 2: be our very first quote prayer hack that we have

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Speaker 2: ever talked about, and that's praying with the timer, and

679
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Speaker 2: it's setting a timer for one minute and realizing how

680
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 2: much you can get done in one minute, and it

681
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 2: completely shatters this false assumption we all have that in

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Speaker 2: order to pray thoroughly, you need to have a huge

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Speaker 2: chunk of time, and you need to be in exactly

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Speaker 2: the right mindset. Do the same thing with a Bible

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Speaker 2: verse or a Bible passage. Tell yourself, I'm going to

686
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Speaker 2: think about this passage for one minute, and it is

687
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Speaker 2: going to blow your mind how deep you can get

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Speaker 2: in that short amount of time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and along those lines, one thing that probably just

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Speaker 4: has transformed my prayer life through scripture is scripture memory.

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Speaker 4: And I don't memorize things easily. It doesn't come easily

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Speaker 4: for me to memorize things without a context, so it

693
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Speaker 4: was tough in the beginning. But when I was in

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Speaker 4: college for the very first time, I did scripture memory,

695
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Speaker 4: like a bunch of verses. The navigators had like scripture

696
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Speaker 4: memory cards, and I wasn't part of the navs, but

697
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Speaker 4: I ended up getting those cards, a little like plastic

698
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Speaker 4: thing that you put the cards in. I remember walking

699
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Speaker 4: across campus and I would memorize. I had an accountability partner,

700
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Speaker 4: my roommate Stephanie and I and we every week we'd

701
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Speaker 4: memorize a new verse and then we would add the

702
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Speaker 4: next week and we would kind of quiz each other

703
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Speaker 4: and it was so cool to me, because you know,

704
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Speaker 4: Jesus said that when he sent the Helper the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 4: that he would bring to mind the words that I've

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Speaker 4: said to you, But he can't bring to mind words

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Speaker 4: that you don't know. So when I started memorizing scripture,

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Speaker 4: I just found that I was all of a sudden

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Speaker 4: able to bring God's word into my circumstances at my need,

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Speaker 4: at the time of need. And I at the time

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Speaker 4: there were not smartphones, so you couldn't just look up

712
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Speaker 4: a verse like you had to go to your concredits.

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Speaker 4: You had to look in the back and figure it out,

714
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Speaker 4: and may or may not find it. And so there

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Speaker 4: were times when I was stuck and I couldn't find

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Speaker 4: a verse, and it helped me. Now, I guess fortunately Unfortunately,

717
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Speaker 4: now all you have to do is type in the

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Speaker 4: gist of a verse or Bible verse about X, Y

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Speaker 4: or Z, and you could get a whole list of them,

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Speaker 4: you know, because of our ability to search. But scripture

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Speaker 4: memory is still the very best thing. I don't always

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Speaker 4: I seldom remember the reference, but I remember the verse,

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Speaker 4: and so I just think it's a great Scripture memory

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Speaker 4: is a great way to incorporate scripture into your life

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Speaker 4: in a way that it just keeps on giving. It's

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Speaker 4: the gift that keeps on giving, it keeps coming.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, Yeah, let's go ahead and just put a pin.

728
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Speaker 2: Let's do our next episode together on just tips and

729
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Speaker 2: tricks for memorizing scripture, the importance of scripture memory. Yeah,

730
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Speaker 2: because that, honestly, I feel like, puts a cap on

731
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Speaker 2: exactly what we're talking about, because you can't memorize scripture

732
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Speaker 2: without meditating on it. You can't meditate without it turning

733
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Speaker 2: into something akin to prayers. So I think that that

734
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Speaker 2: really ties it into who we are as praying Christian women.

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Speaker 2: And I agree that it's important. But there are tips, tricks,

736
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Speaker 2: and blocks that we can discuss for that.

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Speaker 1: Which I think would be great.

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Speaker 2: So back to incorporating just regular Bible reading into your day,

739
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Speaker 2: I've got one more tip. This is straight from Atomic Habits,

740
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Speaker 2: which kind of follows the ideas of habit stacking and

741
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Speaker 2: that kind of thing. And so it's this idea of

742
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Speaker 2: make your Bible reading something that is going to be

743
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Speaker 2: easy and convenient and inviting for you. So whatever that means,

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Speaker 2: if that means that you always set your Bible out

745
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Speaker 2: the night before on the table, so when you go

746
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Speaker 2: and eat your breakfast, it's right there.

747
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Speaker 1: Do it.

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Speaker 2: Theoretically, should we all have the discipline to be about

749
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Speaker 2: to sit down at breakfast, notice our Bible isn't there,

750
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Speaker 2: and go and get it. Absolutely, but we don't. So

751
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 2: let's not feel guilty about that, and let's just do

752
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 2: what works well, you know. Or you can also do

753
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 2: the opposite. Maybe when I read my Bible, my phone

754
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 2: must be more than fifteen feet away from me so

755
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Speaker 2: that I'm not tempted to go and you know, pick

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Speaker 2: that up. I am going to sound really really old school,

757
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Speaker 2: but you talking about concordances made me realize tactile me

758
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 2: has lost a lot by not using concordances anymore to

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Speaker 2: look up books or to look up verses, because there

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Speaker 2: was something Like I said, flipping through the pages of

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Speaker 2: the Bible is like pacing for me. It is like

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Speaker 2: the act of movement that solidifies what you have just

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Speaker 2: read or what you're thinking about. And I'm going to

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Speaker 2: throw in one extra bonus here that just popped into

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Speaker 2: my head. If you have a really hard time, some

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Speaker 2: of us have hard times now like reading because we

767
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Speaker 2: have gotten so used to skimming, or we have just

768
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Speaker 2: gotten so used to needing distraction. Don't beat yourself up

769
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Speaker 2: over it. Recognize that that's what your brain has done,

770
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Speaker 2: and then ask yourself what can I do to improve this?

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Speaker 2: So keeping your phone farther away from you is one.

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Speaker 2: Also going back to reading actual books, whether you love

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Speaker 2: reading novels or nonfiction or like. So I'm not just

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Speaker 2: saying it has to be the Bible or books about

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Speaker 2: the Bible, but training your brain in your eyes to

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Speaker 2: get back into the habit of reading like lying to

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Speaker 2: line and not.

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Speaker 1: Just skimming, can really help.

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Speaker 2: I find that reading fiction is so important because we

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Speaker 2: talked about having that bird's eye view of the Bible

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Speaker 2: as a story, and if you don't know story structure,

782
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Speaker 2: you're not going to be able to grasp that as easily.

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Speaker 2: So one of my best high school teachers was my

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Speaker 2: literature teacher, and I had him for two years, and

785
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Speaker 2: I owe him some of what made me a writer,

786
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Speaker 2: even more so because I wanted to be a writer

787
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Speaker 2: like way before I met him. More so, I owe

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Speaker 2: him to teach me how to read, and that taught

789
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Speaker 2: me how to understand scripture, and we were reading like

790
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Speaker 2: crime and punishment. We weren't reading the Bible, but learning

791
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Speaker 2: how to look for symbolism, learning how to follow a

792
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Speaker 2: character arc, just learning how stories are shaped made the

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Speaker 2: Bible so much more accessible to me. When I was

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Speaker 2: a kid, I would watch movies, and I actually didn't

795
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Speaker 2: follow the story of a movie. To me, a movie

796
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Speaker 2: was like a scene and a scene and a scene

797
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Speaker 2: with the same characters. A lot later, like late teens,

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Speaker 2: maybe even earlier day builthood, that movies started to be

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Speaker 2: a fully formed story to me. And I think that

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Speaker 2: once you learned that the Bible is a story, and

801
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Speaker 2: you learn how to look for those story arcs, and

802
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 2: you learn to look for those things like symbolism and

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00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 2: motif and parallel and you know all those literary terms,

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Speaker 2: you can understand the Bible so much better.

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Speaker 4: I'm still stuck on how that trend that has to

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Speaker 4: have something to do with your process as an author,

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Speaker 4: So we'll have to talk about that another interesting maybe

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Speaker 4: that does well, very interesting the way that you. I

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Speaker 4: just wonder if it's because you analyze it so because

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Speaker 4: you know, just like with scripture, there's nothing wrong with

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Speaker 4: analyzing the compartment and seeing it for what it is,

812
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Speaker 4: because each book of the Bible, each chapter, each segment.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it has benefits and should be looked at

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Speaker 4: in that way, but it needs to also have that

815
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 4: big picture in order because of things like different verses

816
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,760
Speaker 4: that say different things that could be perceived as contradictions,

817
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 4: but put together gives you like a broader picture of

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Speaker 4: what God's message is overall. But anyway, I would love

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Speaker 4: to talk to you another time, just out of curios

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Speaker 4: about how that translates to you as an author and

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Speaker 4: a creative.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well how about biggest takeaways are think about

823
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 2: your own personality and your own learning habits and find

824
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 2: the things that work for you and step away from

825
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Speaker 2: the guilt, step away from the shame of Well, a

826
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Speaker 2: real Christian wouldn't need to reward himself with a cup

827
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Speaker 2: of coffee for reading the Bible, But you know what,

828
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Speaker 2: if it works and it gets you into God's word,

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Speaker 2: do it, And that cup of coffee is a gift

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Speaker 2: from the Lord just as much as his word is,

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Speaker 2: you know, or maybe not just as much.

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Speaker 1: But I hope everyone gets the gist of what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think to give yourself permission to find

834
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Speaker 4: hacks to get yourself into the routine of scripture for

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Speaker 4: the sake of connecting with God.

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Speaker 3: That's what it's all about.

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Speaker 4: And not to be afraid to do the things out

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Speaker 4: of discipline to get to the point of loving it

839
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Speaker 4: and not being guilty for not loving it right away,

840
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Speaker 4: and also not being afraid to ask God to give

841
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 4: you a love for His word. Yes, just as a

842
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Speaker 4: great starting point desire.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and the idea of like, well, a real

844
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Speaker 2: Christian shouldn't need to hack their Bible reading. I think

845
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Speaker 2: there's also humility in recognizing, Okay, maybe you're right. Maybe

846
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 2: I shouldn't need to have to reward myself. Maybe I

847
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 2: shouldn't need to have to have my Bible here the

848
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Speaker 2: night before in order to get into God's Word. But

849
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Speaker 2: because I'm not as perfect as some people think I

850
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 2: should be, these are the things that I've chosen to

851
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,359
Speaker 2: do to make it work for me. There's humility in

852
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 2: recognizing that, so, did you have anything else you wanted

853
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 2: to add or you want to jump into our blessings

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Speaker 2: of menediction?

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Speaker 4: Now I feel like we kind of wrapped it up,

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Speaker 4: and I'm just excited because I think now that people

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Speaker 4: have started to get some ideas. I think our listeners

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00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 4: are going to have, like some of their own ideas

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00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:22,760
Speaker 4: coming up, So I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the best ideas are going to come from you,

861
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Speaker 2: because you and the Lord know.

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Speaker 1: What works for you exactly, exactly well.

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Speaker 2: To leave you with our blessing and men addiction. Then,

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Speaker 2: may God stretch the mature your faith on a daily basis.

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Speaker 2: May mountains move as a result of your prayers. May

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Speaker 2: He me even your areas of weakness and help you

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Speaker 2: in your unbelief. May valleys rise up, and mountains and

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Speaker 2: hills be made low before you, so that nothing will

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Speaker 2: hinder your prayers. May the Holy Spirit breathe hope into

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Speaker 2: your prayers, so that every day your faith and strength

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Speaker 2: are renewed like the eagles.

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Speaker 4: And our benediction comes from Psalm twenty verses one through five.

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Speaker 4: May the Lord and answer you in the day of trouble.

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Speaker 4: May the name of God of Jacob protect you. May

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Speaker 4: He grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans.

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Speaker 3: Amen.

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Speaker 4: We'd like to take just a quick second to thank

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Speaker 4: the team at life Audio for their partnership with us

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Speaker 4: on the podcast. If you go to lifeaudio dot com,

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Speaker 4: you will find dozens of other faith centered podcasts in

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Speaker 4: their network. They've got shows about prayer, Bible study, parenting,

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