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S2: Practical from the Bible. Tips and tricks to kill. Not tricks,

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S2: but tips and tricks. Tips and tricks to kill.

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S3: All of my attempts to, you know, prop myself up

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S3: Even if other people were.

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S2: The gospel changes everything.

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S4: Freedom in Christ. Man, it's like that backpack of cement

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S1: Now, from the call of Hope Studios, this is Carl

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S1: and crew. Everybody got your systems in order.

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S5: Everybody got your life systems lined out, squared away. Oh, perfect.

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S3: I have a bit of an issue.

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S5: Oh, I want to know.

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S3: I cannot remember my password.

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S2: Like your your work login password.

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S3: Just wiped it away, huh?

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S5: Oh, no. No. You're joking me, right?

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S3: Sitting here staring at a.

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S5: Oh. Hold on, time out, time out. God, I want

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S3: I mean, this is not good. I'm just staring at

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S3: Um, yeah. So I guess it's time to fess up,

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S5: Well, let's all guess together. Let's all get muscle memory.

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S3: Muscle memory kick in here. I love that we have

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S5: Oh, yeah. Like like I get the notice again and

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S5: And it's we're born with this malady. We we create

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S5: It's Carl and crew. Oh my goodness, man. I just

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S8: Oh, the book I'm writing. After I write about my

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S6: Dog power blaze is if you. If you're new.

449
00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:56,820
S5: Blaze is my new puppy. I went to Alaska and

450
00:23:56,820 --> 00:23:59,100
S5: picked him up from Mitch Seavey. Mitch Seavey is the

451
00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:01,659
S5: three time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

452
00:24:01,660 --> 00:24:05,260
S5: He has what is known as the best breed of dog.

453
00:24:05,380 --> 00:24:08,180
S5: In fact, the guy that won it last year had

454
00:24:08,180 --> 00:24:11,020
S5: a lot of his breed of dog. When I say breed,

455
00:24:11,380 --> 00:24:14,980
S5: I've got a pedigree on my dog blaze that goes

456
00:24:14,980 --> 00:24:17,379
S5: back further than any y'all's pedigrees.

457
00:24:17,859 --> 00:24:20,740
S3: Well, it's so funny because, you know, if dogs could talk,

458
00:24:20,780 --> 00:24:23,540
S3: you think that blaze would be like, yeah, you know,

459
00:24:23,580 --> 00:24:26,980
S3: my mom and my dad both ran the Iditarod. No.

460
00:24:27,420 --> 00:24:28,500
S6: No big deal.

461
00:24:28,540 --> 00:24:30,860
S3: They both won it. Like. I mean, it's such a funny, like,

462
00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:31,980
S3: what a flex, right?

463
00:24:32,180 --> 00:24:35,540
S6: I'm big stuff. Yeah. No, he didn't know diddly.

464
00:24:35,820 --> 00:24:39,140
S5: He just he just. He does not know. He does

465
00:24:39,140 --> 00:24:42,300
S5: not know that he is a super athlete. And I

466
00:24:42,300 --> 00:24:45,780
S5: mean he is a super athlete. It's bizarre. I mean,

467
00:24:45,820 --> 00:24:49,580
S5: the folks stop and look at him and they go, wow, that's, uh,

468
00:24:49,580 --> 00:24:53,020
S5: that's a husky, but that's not your usual husky because

469
00:24:53,020 --> 00:24:56,379
S5: he's got long legs and already rippling muscles, and he's

470
00:24:56,380 --> 00:24:58,940
S5: cute in a bug's ear. And he's got ears, by

471
00:24:58,940 --> 00:25:03,540
S5: the way, speaking of ears, his ears look like satellite dishes, man.

472
00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:05,020
S6: He's got her talking to him.

473
00:25:05,060 --> 00:25:07,540
S5: Yeah, I mean, it's like, wow, dude, you must be

474
00:25:07,580 --> 00:25:10,860
S5: able to hear stuff a long ways away. But here's

475
00:25:10,859 --> 00:25:14,859
S5: here's the thing. You know, it's interesting. So already I'm

476
00:25:14,859 --> 00:25:18,179
S5: having to I'm having to slow him down because he,

477
00:25:18,580 --> 00:25:22,660
S5: he can actually run too hard at right now. and

478
00:25:22,660 --> 00:25:24,540
S5: he pulls too hard. And have you ever seen a

479
00:25:24,540 --> 00:25:28,660
S5: dog that's kind of wants to. Okay. Find another dog.

480
00:25:29,180 --> 00:25:31,420
S5: A dog sees another dog and it's like. And they

481
00:25:31,460 --> 00:25:35,780
S5: and they're loping and they're the owner can't give them

482
00:25:35,780 --> 00:25:39,020
S5: all that leash. So they're kind of churning in space

483
00:25:39,020 --> 00:25:41,939
S5: right there. Well, that's the way he lives his life

484
00:25:41,940 --> 00:25:44,100
S5: when we go out for a walk. So I'm trying

485
00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:46,260
S5: to I'm trying to get him geared down. But here's

486
00:25:46,260 --> 00:25:51,220
S5: what you need to know. When he's trotting along, he's

487
00:25:51,220 --> 00:25:55,260
S5: standing tall. But when he really wants to get after

488
00:25:55,260 --> 00:25:57,900
S5: something and it's usually a leaf or a stick on

489
00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:00,580
S5: the path or a dog that's one block ahead of us,

490
00:26:01,140 --> 00:26:07,580
S5: you know what happens. Instinctively he goes down. He kind

491
00:26:07,619 --> 00:26:11,899
S5: of lowers the body about six inches, and he gets

492
00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:14,300
S5: what I call position for power.

493
00:26:14,980 --> 00:26:15,980
S6: Yeah. Yeah.

494
00:26:16,020 --> 00:26:21,180
S5: And it's beautiful. And I want you to be the blaze,

495
00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:24,940
S5: because a lot of us are walking along in our

496
00:26:24,940 --> 00:26:28,979
S5: relationship with God and we're trotting along and would you

497
00:26:29,020 --> 00:26:32,460
S5: know and would you believe and would you do this,

498
00:26:32,460 --> 00:26:38,540
S5: that really it's about our posture and getting positioned for power.

499
00:26:38,540 --> 00:26:43,780
S5: And the way forward is to go down lower, just

500
00:26:43,780 --> 00:26:47,820
S5: like blaze. Now he reaches down not to tap into

501
00:26:47,859 --> 00:26:52,180
S5: any kind of energy outside of himself. We lower ourselves

502
00:26:52,180 --> 00:26:54,540
S5: so that we can tap into the power that comes

503
00:26:54,540 --> 00:26:59,580
S5: from God. And unlike blaze, it goes down about six inches.

504
00:26:59,580 --> 00:27:02,700
S5: We're wisest to do a belly flop on the asphalt

505
00:27:03,180 --> 00:27:04,060
S5: and just go.

506
00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:04,820
S6: God, I.

507
00:27:04,820 --> 00:27:05,660
S5: Need you now.

508
00:27:05,820 --> 00:27:07,700
S2: Yeah, that's our position for power.

509
00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:09,380
S5: That's our position for power.

510
00:27:09,420 --> 00:27:09,820
S6: Yeah.

511
00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:15,180
S5: And what's interesting about this is that we we're talking

512
00:27:15,180 --> 00:27:18,220
S5: about this in the first hour heavy. But we, we

513
00:27:18,260 --> 00:27:22,540
S5: kind of fall off on this. In this whole issue

514
00:27:22,540 --> 00:27:26,379
S5: of getting position for power, we think either man, I

515
00:27:27,540 --> 00:27:29,700
S5: I've got to go out there and make this happen.

516
00:27:30,020 --> 00:27:34,100
S5: That's the substitute for being position for power. Or we

517
00:27:34,100 --> 00:27:37,700
S5: get so exhausted that we like I've got to check

518
00:27:37,740 --> 00:27:43,460
S5: out and. It is we're going to talk about here

519
00:27:43,460 --> 00:27:50,060
S5: with a good doctor is so different. It's not the

520
00:27:50,060 --> 00:27:52,820
S5: presence of nothing. This is why we come back from

521
00:27:52,820 --> 00:27:54,700
S5: vacations totally tuckered out.

522
00:27:55,900 --> 00:27:59,859
S3: Everybody's done that. You wait, you know, all half a

523
00:27:59,859 --> 00:28:03,420
S3: year or all year to. For that week of vacation

524
00:28:03,420 --> 00:28:06,380
S3: to some place with a beach. If you don't live

525
00:28:06,380 --> 00:28:08,859
S3: near a beach like us here in the Midwest, that's

526
00:28:08,859 --> 00:28:11,460
S3: a big deal. And then you go and you're away

527
00:28:11,460 --> 00:28:13,300
S3: for a week, and you come back and you feel

528
00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:16,580
S3: a sense of kind of disappointment, like the Mondays creeping up.

529
00:28:16,740 --> 00:28:19,290
S3: I'm headed back to work. I don't feel rested. I

530
00:28:19,330 --> 00:28:22,930
S3: actually feel way more tired than I did when I left.

531
00:28:22,970 --> 00:28:23,490
S10: Yeah, and.

532
00:28:23,490 --> 00:28:25,610
S5: That tiredness I'm going to be I'm going to give

533
00:28:25,609 --> 00:28:29,530
S5: you the punchline here. Sometimes we've disconnected from life, but

534
00:28:29,570 --> 00:28:32,649
S5: inadvertently disconnected from the source of life.

535
00:28:32,690 --> 00:28:37,010
S3: Yeah, that's very true. We've checked out of everything.

536
00:28:37,130 --> 00:28:40,170
S5: Yeah, we got to redefine rest, and that's what we're

537
00:28:40,170 --> 00:28:44,250
S5: going to do. Oh my goodness. Uh, I sat down

538
00:28:44,250 --> 00:28:48,210
S5: with this good doctor, Sandra, and she just nailed it.

539
00:28:48,210 --> 00:28:51,770
S5: So much. So my bride said, oh, bub, this stuff

540
00:28:51,770 --> 00:28:54,490
S5: is smoke on the water. Give it a listen. Coming up.

541
00:28:55,730 --> 00:28:58,890
S1: Get to know the team behind the scenes. Follow Carl

542
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S1: and crew on Facebook and Instagram.

543
00:29:01,210 --> 00:29:01,930
S10: Our whole week.

544
00:29:01,930 --> 00:29:05,130
S5: Is committed to taking hold of the life that God

545
00:29:05,170 --> 00:29:08,810
S5: has for you in 2026. I want that for you,

546
00:29:09,090 --> 00:29:11,970
S5: want it for myself. Want it for those that I love,

547
00:29:11,970 --> 00:29:14,170
S5: that are close in my life and those far away

548
00:29:14,170 --> 00:29:16,650
S5: like you who are close in our life. And We

549
00:29:16,690 --> 00:29:19,770
S5: want that for you. The reality is, when we look

550
00:29:19,810 --> 00:29:22,370
S5: at issues in our life, sometimes we get into a

551
00:29:22,370 --> 00:29:24,330
S5: fight mode. I got to go get it, and that

552
00:29:24,330 --> 00:29:28,170
S5: fight turns into failure because we actually run away from

553
00:29:28,170 --> 00:29:30,650
S5: the grace of God. On the flip side of that

554
00:29:30,650 --> 00:29:36,250
S5: high ridge of experiencing God's grace is flight. And we

555
00:29:36,250 --> 00:29:38,170
S5: think that, oh, what I've got to do right now

556
00:29:38,170 --> 00:29:43,290
S5: is I'm just checking out. One is dogged resolve. The

557
00:29:43,290 --> 00:29:47,370
S5: other one is no resolve at all. It's actually resigning

558
00:29:47,370 --> 00:29:50,410
S5: ourself that well, might as well check out on this one.

559
00:29:50,930 --> 00:29:52,730
S5: I've got a guest right now that I think has

560
00:29:52,730 --> 00:29:55,930
S5: some secret sauce for how to take hold of this

561
00:29:55,930 --> 00:30:00,330
S5: grace of God, and it's the issue of rest. Sandra

562
00:30:00,370 --> 00:30:02,690
S5: Dalton Smith, sister, it's so good to have you with

563
00:30:02,690 --> 00:30:04,930
S5: us this morning. I want to explore this one a

564
00:30:04,930 --> 00:30:07,010
S5: little bit, because this has been near and dear to

565
00:30:07,010 --> 00:30:10,290
S5: my heart ever since I started studying Sabbath rest, that

566
00:30:10,290 --> 00:30:14,250
S5: it's not what we stop doing. It's resting into the

567
00:30:14,250 --> 00:30:17,090
S5: one who gives us perfect rest. This is why we

568
00:30:17,130 --> 00:30:20,770
S5: sometimes come back from vacations more fried than ever, right? Sandra?

569
00:30:20,810 --> 00:30:21,690
S4: Absolutely.

570
00:30:21,730 --> 00:30:25,010
S5: Explain that a little bit. What is rest as you've

571
00:30:25,010 --> 00:30:27,570
S5: studied it? You're an expert on this topic.

572
00:30:27,730 --> 00:30:29,730
S11: I think for many of us we think of rest

573
00:30:29,730 --> 00:30:32,650
S11: and we just think of those, as you mentioned, cessation activities.

574
00:30:32,650 --> 00:30:35,290
S11: We just think of stopping. But if we really look

575
00:30:35,330 --> 00:30:39,410
S11: at Sabbath. Sabbath is about restoration. It's about pouring back

576
00:30:39,410 --> 00:30:42,650
S11: into the places of depletion. It's a it's a posture

577
00:30:42,650 --> 00:30:46,250
S11: of receiving. And it requires us to then look at

578
00:30:46,410 --> 00:30:49,290
S11: what are the things that we need poured back into

579
00:30:49,290 --> 00:30:52,690
S11: our lives. And it allows us to then rather than

580
00:30:52,690 --> 00:30:55,130
S11: just thinking, I just need to sit around on the

581
00:30:55,130 --> 00:30:57,690
S11: weekend and call it a Sabbath, what parts of my

582
00:30:57,690 --> 00:30:59,570
S11: life need to be poured back into? Do I need

583
00:30:59,570 --> 00:31:01,730
S11: to be poured into through the word and through time

584
00:31:01,730 --> 00:31:04,210
S11: in his presence? Maybe I need to be poured into

585
00:31:04,250 --> 00:31:07,450
S11: by spending time out in nature, or being poured into

586
00:31:07,450 --> 00:31:11,730
S11: with relationships that remind me of the beauty of who

587
00:31:11,770 --> 00:31:15,690
S11: God is, and that bring me into community and into

588
00:31:15,730 --> 00:31:18,850
S11: times of fellowship. We have to realize that there's so

589
00:31:18,850 --> 00:31:22,410
S11: many aspects of us that get depleted in our lives,

590
00:31:22,410 --> 00:31:24,770
S11: and that's what God wants to pour back into us

591
00:31:24,770 --> 00:31:25,450
S11: and restore.

592
00:31:25,730 --> 00:31:29,370
S5: Yeah. Doctor Sandra Dalton Smith is a doctor, and so

593
00:31:29,370 --> 00:31:32,570
S5: she's done a lot of research on this, and she's

594
00:31:32,570 --> 00:31:38,290
S5: speaking internationally. She's board certified internal medicine physician, CEO of

595
00:31:38,290 --> 00:31:43,370
S5: Restore and Workplace Wellbeing consulting agency. That's what it is.

596
00:31:43,410 --> 00:31:47,170
S5: And it helps organizations and people just like you avoid burnout.

597
00:31:47,210 --> 00:31:48,690
S5: I want to go back to this. I'm so glad

598
00:31:48,690 --> 00:31:51,810
S5: you've got a biblical worldview. Otherwise, this could turn into

599
00:31:51,850 --> 00:31:54,930
S5: I really believe this rest without an awareness of the

600
00:31:54,930 --> 00:31:58,930
S5: presence and power of God to fill us, does turn

601
00:31:58,930 --> 00:32:02,170
S5: into checking out from the fight that we're in day

602
00:32:02,170 --> 00:32:05,650
S5: to day, and it turns into flight. Why is it

603
00:32:05,650 --> 00:32:09,330
S5: so different with God filling us up, as opposed to

604
00:32:09,370 --> 00:32:10,770
S5: us just doing nothing?

605
00:32:11,050 --> 00:32:14,960
S11: Because in that situation, you you start realizing that rest

606
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,920
S11: is not the thing you do at the end of

607
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,760
S11: the work, but rest is actually where you begin. You

608
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,880
S11: start in this posture, and really, this is scriptural. It

609
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,400
S11: comes from Genesis. We hear that on the sixth day,

610
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,400
S11: mankind was created. On the seventh day, God rested well.

611
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,080
S11: We also hear that God never slumbers or sleeps, so

612
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,240
S11: why does he need rest? It was showing us a

613
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,960
S11: pattern of how to be, because that first full day

614
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,080
S11: for mankind on the earth wasn't the sixth day we

615
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,040
S11: came in. Halfway through that day. The first full day

616
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,600
S11: was the day of rest. And so if we start

617
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,560
S11: off our fullness of our day with resting, it empowers

618
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,520
S11: us to go do the work God's called us to do.

619
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,120
S11: Rather than thinking we have to earn our rest through

620
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,800
S11: working more, doing more, accomplishing more, striving more. That's what

621
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,400
S11: the world's trying to teach us, and all it does

622
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,800
S11: is it leads us into a place of desperation because

623
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,920
S11: we can't. We can't accomplish things of the spirit in

624
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:14,720
S11: our own power.

625
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,560
S5: This is a huge aha moment for a lot of

626
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,920
S5: people because when I, when I first heard a preacher,

627
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,320
S5: probably 30 years ago, say Sabbath rest is not about

628
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,840
S5: what you don't do. It's about moving toward the God

629
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,520
S5: who can fill you in that day, that season like

630
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,760
S5: no other can. Gets real practical here. Coming up here

631
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,400
S5: in a little bit, we're going to break down these

632
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,280
S5: seven different ways in which we can rest. But just

633
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,480
S5: on this concept of rest alone, I think a lot

634
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,719
S5: of people get confused. Still. We say, okay, take a

635
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,959
S5: day where we're resting and they think, okay, good. I

636
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,080
S5: get to watch the my favorite football team or I

637
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,360
S5: get to Olympics are coming good ice skating. And that

638
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,600
S5: could be rest, but it might well not be. And

639
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,080
S5: certainly social media isn't rest, is it?

640
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,640
S11: It's not resting in the way that we go about it,

641
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,760
S11: and that most of the time it's just pulling us

642
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:05,080
S11: away from the things of God.

643
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:10,640
S5: Okay, so how many doctor of your patients, people that

644
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,719
S5: you met with try to put a percentage on it.

645
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,640
S5: I mean, committed Christ followers that have experienced the grace

646
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,640
S5: of God. How many have learned what biblical rest is

647
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,960
S5: and are taking hold of it? What is? Give us

648
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,759
S5: our prognosis here, or analyze this for a second, if

649
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:25,200
S5: you would.

650
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,960
S11: Oh this question. Oh, my. It's not good. So many

651
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,880
S11: of my patients that were coming to me in a

652
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,640
S11: state of burnout were pastors, which I think says a lot.

653
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,520
S11: How can the shepherd lead the flock if they are

654
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,719
S11: in a place of burnout? It's a toxic situation. And

655
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:43,640
S11: so I think it's such a it's such an important

656
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,719
S11: topic within the church because it it has to be

657
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:51,160
S11: something that we're all viewing as God's best for us.

658
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,879
S11: We oftentimes treat Sabbath as if it's a punishment. Like

659
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,560
S11: God says, go sit in the corner. I'll come get

660
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,080
S11: you when you're ready, you know, and it's and it's not.

661
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,560
S11: It's actually supposed to be a gift, but many of

662
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:07,200
S11: us are refusing the gift. It's no different than someone

663
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,799
S11: who doesn't know the grace of Christ to help them

664
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,239
S11: be able to come out of their sin. It's no

665
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,000
S11: different than that. It's a gift we have to receive.

666
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,680
S5: I'm sold. Sister. This is so good. Such an important topic. Okay.

667
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:25,080
S5: Coming up here, doctor Sandra has identified seven types of

668
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:29,160
S5: rest found lacking in many of her patients. And how

669
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,680
S5: we can turn this thing around. Hang on. More with

670
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S5: Doctor Sandra. Straight ahead.

671
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,480
S1: Romans eight brought her to Jesus while broadcasting traffic overnight.

672
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S1: Super di is in the crew. It's Carol and crew

673
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:43,719
S1: on Moody Radio.

674
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,760
S5: Doctor Sandra Dalton Smith, my guest right now. Amazing stuff.

675
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,479
S5: All right, let's pick up where we kind of left off.

676
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,239
S5: But I don't want to leave what we already covered hanging.

677
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,960
S5: Let's get it nailed down. Doc, biblical rest is not

678
00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:00,880
S5: doing nothing. It's moving into the one and his presence.

679
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,840
S5: Who can do everything. Is that fair?

680
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,680
S11: Absolutely.

681
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,000
S5: How do we do that? And what have you learned?

682
00:36:06,110 --> 00:36:08,950
S5: What are the seven types of rest you find lacking

683
00:36:08,950 --> 00:36:12,230
S5: in people? And as you're listening to these guys, I

684
00:36:12,230 --> 00:36:15,350
S5: want you to listen to the Spirit of God say, bang,

685
00:36:15,390 --> 00:36:17,390
S5: that's me right there. What do you say, doc?

686
00:36:17,710 --> 00:36:20,350
S11: Yes. And let me say this. These seven types came

687
00:36:20,350 --> 00:36:23,230
S11: from me looking at the Scripture in the life of Jesus.

688
00:36:23,550 --> 00:36:27,669
S11: So there they are, science backed, but they're spiritually based.

689
00:36:27,989 --> 00:36:35,030
S11: The seven include physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, sensory, and creative.

690
00:36:35,230 --> 00:36:37,910
S11: And if we take any one of those and look

691
00:36:37,910 --> 00:36:40,830
S11: at the life of Jesus, everything from the times when

692
00:36:40,830 --> 00:36:44,109
S11: we see him sleeping, physical rest, the times when he

693
00:36:44,110 --> 00:36:47,670
S11: we see him setting some very secure boundaries around how

694
00:36:47,670 --> 00:36:50,950
S11: he's going to function in that there are times when

695
00:36:50,950 --> 00:36:53,549
S11: he was with his smaller group. There are times when

696
00:36:53,550 --> 00:36:57,710
S11: he's with the masses. He he had limits and boundaries

697
00:36:57,710 --> 00:37:00,270
S11: around these things. He had people in his life for

698
00:37:00,270 --> 00:37:03,029
S11: emotional rest. The three who are with him on the

699
00:37:03,030 --> 00:37:07,070
S11: Mount of Transfiguration, as well as in the Garden of Gethsemane.

700
00:37:07,430 --> 00:37:13,390
S11: He had a real practical application of these seven. But

701
00:37:13,390 --> 00:37:16,750
S11: we oftentimes miss it, and we wonder, how can someone

702
00:37:16,750 --> 00:37:20,830
S11: accomplish so much in their life in 33 years, who

703
00:37:20,830 --> 00:37:25,030
S11: was all human? He was all man and all God

704
00:37:25,030 --> 00:37:27,910
S11: at the same time. So that means that this is

705
00:37:27,910 --> 00:37:30,710
S11: an example we can follow. We can't we can't just say, well,

706
00:37:30,710 --> 00:37:33,910
S11: that was Jesus. We can't do that. That is the

707
00:37:33,910 --> 00:37:37,910
S11: exact opposite. We can accomplish the same thing if we

708
00:37:37,910 --> 00:37:39,670
S11: apply some of the same principles.

709
00:37:39,710 --> 00:37:40,230
S10: I love this.

710
00:37:40,230 --> 00:37:41,430
S5: Man. We're going to have a link for you guys

711
00:37:41,430 --> 00:37:44,190
S5: in just a moment. Doctor Sandra Dalton Smith is my

712
00:37:44,230 --> 00:37:46,870
S5: guest right now. Okay, doc, I gotta tell you, this

713
00:37:46,870 --> 00:37:51,270
S5: fires me up. And here's why. I think we have

714
00:37:51,910 --> 00:37:58,910
S5: given spiritual disciplines to the church that actually fight against rest.

715
00:37:58,910 --> 00:38:03,310
S5: And it promotes activity, busyness. And we've missed the most

716
00:38:03,310 --> 00:38:06,230
S5: essential discipline. So here's my contention I think we've given

717
00:38:06,230 --> 00:38:09,589
S5: get to small group. Get a Bible reading plan. Do this,

718
00:38:09,630 --> 00:38:11,790
S5: do that. And those are all great. But if they

719
00:38:11,790 --> 00:38:14,870
S5: flow out of a restored heart, they've got power. If

720
00:38:14,870 --> 00:38:18,670
S5: they flow out of an exhausted heart, they're just more

721
00:38:18,670 --> 00:38:22,870
S5: shame and condemnation. You hit this one mental the ability you.

722
00:38:22,910 --> 00:38:27,549
S5: This is your definition to quiet cerebral chatter and focus

723
00:38:27,550 --> 00:38:31,549
S5: on things that matter. You know, I've been doing something

724
00:38:31,550 --> 00:38:35,469
S5: early every morning. Did it this morning. Early, early going

725
00:38:35,510 --> 00:38:38,710
S5: to Psalm 139, going, God, search me, know me, try me.

726
00:38:38,750 --> 00:38:40,670
S5: See if there'd be any hurtful way in me and

727
00:38:40,670 --> 00:38:43,910
S5: lead me in the way everlasting. Doctor, I gotta tell you,

728
00:38:43,910 --> 00:38:46,710
S5: I have found this to be revolutionary for me. I

729
00:38:46,750 --> 00:38:50,270
S5: am being quiet first thing in the morning, listening to God,

730
00:38:50,270 --> 00:38:54,150
S5: and the stuff he's telling me is filling my soul.

731
00:38:54,150 --> 00:38:58,390
S5: Sometimes it's convicting, but it's this mental rest. Me not

732
00:38:58,390 --> 00:39:00,230
S5: thinking how am I going to tackle this day? It's

733
00:39:00,230 --> 00:39:02,509
S5: me asking God to search me and tell me how

734
00:39:02,510 --> 00:39:04,790
S5: to tackle the day. How am I doing, doc?

735
00:39:05,070 --> 00:39:08,509
S11: I think you're setting some foundational things in place that

736
00:39:08,510 --> 00:39:10,750
S11: give God room to move in your life. And I

737
00:39:10,750 --> 00:39:12,670
S11: feel like that's what a lot of us are not doing.

738
00:39:12,790 --> 00:39:15,469
S11: We are so busy doing things that we think will

739
00:39:15,469 --> 00:39:18,629
S11: please him when he just wants us. I find so

740
00:39:18,630 --> 00:39:21,990
S11: often someone will, especially if I say something like spiritual rest.

741
00:39:21,989 --> 00:39:25,310
S11: They're like, well, I have a Bible reading plan. And

742
00:39:25,350 --> 00:39:28,029
S11: you know, I read through the Bible in a year. Yeah.

743
00:39:28,070 --> 00:39:30,510
S11: And I'm like, well, that's fantastic. I think it's great

744
00:39:30,510 --> 00:39:32,910
S11: to read the Word of God. But sometimes I think

745
00:39:32,910 --> 00:39:35,190
S11: the Word of God needs to have room and space

746
00:39:35,190 --> 00:39:37,990
S11: in our lives to read us and to tell us

747
00:39:37,989 --> 00:39:41,150
S11: and and to be quiet enough before God to hear

748
00:39:41,150 --> 00:39:43,469
S11: what he's saying. Prayer is not supposed to be a

749
00:39:43,469 --> 00:39:47,310
S11: one way conversation where we just recite our list of stuff,

750
00:39:47,710 --> 00:39:52,469
S11: and silence and solitude and time in his presence has

751
00:39:52,469 --> 00:39:55,350
S11: been cheapened, and I feel like it's hurt us.

752
00:39:55,390 --> 00:39:58,830
S5: Why have we done that? We have cheapened that. We have. I,

753
00:39:58,870 --> 00:40:01,819
S5: I think it doesn't comport with the American dream, which

754
00:40:01,820 --> 00:40:03,460
S5: is get up and go. You know what I mean?

755
00:40:03,780 --> 00:40:06,259
S11: Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. We

756
00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:10,060
S11: we all we're so productivity focused. And I say that

757
00:40:10,060 --> 00:40:11,500
S11: laughing because I'm that way too.

758
00:40:11,540 --> 00:40:12,299
S6: Yeah. You are too.

759
00:40:12,620 --> 00:40:17,460
S11: Focused. But I realized there is no satisfaction in productivity

760
00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:20,020
S11: unless we know the purpose behind it. Unless we know

761
00:40:20,020 --> 00:40:23,380
S11: God's heart positioning behind why we're doing the things he's

762
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S11: called us to do. It just becomes more busy work.

763
00:40:26,980 --> 00:40:28,940
S11: And that's where we we struggle.

764
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S5: Okay. Physical. Mental. Spiritual. Emotional. Social. Sensory. Creative. And we're

765
00:40:34,260 --> 00:40:36,260
S5: going to have a link for you here in a moment. Guys,

766
00:40:36,260 --> 00:40:40,219
S5: I'm telling you, this is gold, especially for the start

767
00:40:40,219 --> 00:40:44,460
S5: of 2026. What are the biggest ones of those seven

768
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S5: that you see? I, I can see where they touch

769
00:40:48,100 --> 00:40:50,660
S5: all of us. They all touch all of us. But

770
00:40:50,660 --> 00:40:53,259
S5: what are the big boys that were really missing it in,

771
00:40:53,260 --> 00:40:53,980
S5: would you say?

772
00:40:54,340 --> 00:40:56,259
S11: You know, the one that I found. It was interesting

773
00:40:56,260 --> 00:40:58,700
S11: after the book came out many years ago, and and

774
00:40:58,700 --> 00:41:01,340
S11: it's just been an ongoing study with me and God.

775
00:41:01,340 --> 00:41:03,939
S11: But one of the things that really I felt like

776
00:41:03,940 --> 00:41:07,540
S11: had to go another level was the emotional rest aspect

777
00:41:07,540 --> 00:41:10,220
S11: of it. It resulted in me writing another book titled

778
00:41:10,260 --> 00:41:15,540
S11: Being Fully Known The Joyful Satisfaction of Beholding, Becoming and Belonging,

779
00:41:15,739 --> 00:41:18,299
S11: because I feel like that is the aspect of emotional

780
00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:21,500
S11: rest many of us are struggling with. We stay in

781
00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:26,220
S11: this place of dissatisfaction, so we're constantly searching for something

782
00:41:26,219 --> 00:41:29,299
S11: that will fill up the places that feel empty, that

783
00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:31,580
S11: will fill up the areas of our life where we

784
00:41:31,620 --> 00:41:35,220
S11: we show up in performance and striving. And it begins

785
00:41:35,219 --> 00:41:38,899
S11: by beholding him, allowing that to be the area where

786
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:43,020
S11: we start, and then from what we're seeing in him

787
00:41:43,260 --> 00:41:47,620
S11: becoming more like Christ as we behold him. And I

788
00:41:47,660 --> 00:41:51,620
S11: noticed for myself that that has just been transformational in

789
00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:54,740
S11: the level of peace and satisfaction in my life, because

790
00:41:54,739 --> 00:41:59,020
S11: then I stop trying to be everything to everyone, and

791
00:41:59,020 --> 00:42:01,940
S11: it allows me to give God the the room to

792
00:42:01,980 --> 00:42:04,260
S11: tell me who I am to him, show me where

793
00:42:04,380 --> 00:42:07,299
S11: I'm supposed to be spending my time and my energy

794
00:42:07,500 --> 00:42:11,660
S11: not just to produce, but to be in purpose and

795
00:42:11,700 --> 00:42:12,820
S11: on purpose for him.

796
00:42:12,860 --> 00:42:15,380
S5: Here's what's interesting about what you just said. This is

797
00:42:15,500 --> 00:42:19,700
S5: a providential thing. We're talking this morning kind of wetted

798
00:42:19,700 --> 00:42:23,540
S5: up with your topic here today. We're talking about broken systems,

799
00:42:23,540 --> 00:42:26,220
S5: and we're going to the prophet Jeremiah who said, you've

800
00:42:26,219 --> 00:42:29,739
S5: carved out for yourself broken cisterns, which all that is,

801
00:42:29,739 --> 00:42:31,660
S5: is you've carved out a life for yourself that can't

802
00:42:31,660 --> 00:42:35,700
S5: hold water. It seems to me that that emotional wreck

803
00:42:36,540 --> 00:42:40,940
S5: is the very thing that allows us to identify what

804
00:42:40,940 --> 00:42:44,340
S5: is happening, that we're on this treadmill of performance, trying

805
00:42:44,340 --> 00:42:47,740
S5: to please other people, or sometimes even trying to please

806
00:42:47,739 --> 00:42:51,420
S5: God when he loves us dearly as we are. What

807
00:42:51,420 --> 00:42:51,899
S5: are your thoughts?

808
00:42:51,940 --> 00:42:55,260
S11: Yeah, that's been my battle for most of my life.

809
00:42:55,540 --> 00:42:58,819
S11: I grew up in a situation where I fell in

810
00:42:58,820 --> 00:43:01,660
S11: love with Jesus as a teenager, but I had this

811
00:43:01,660 --> 00:43:06,020
S11: broken theology. I love Jesus, and I loved him because

812
00:43:06,020 --> 00:43:09,820
S11: he could understand how mean the father could be. Okay,

813
00:43:10,060 --> 00:43:13,060
S11: so I had no relationship with the father, right? And

814
00:43:13,060 --> 00:43:17,700
S11: it was years of God mending that back together. When

815
00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:21,700
S11: you have this thought of, oh, I've offended God in

816
00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:24,380
S11: some way, we then start to try to fix it

817
00:43:24,380 --> 00:43:27,180
S11: with our own works. That is not what Grace looks like.

818
00:43:27,180 --> 00:43:29,540
S11: And I think for a lot of us, we do

819
00:43:29,540 --> 00:43:31,660
S11: this because maybe we had a sin when we're not

820
00:43:31,660 --> 00:43:34,100
S11: sure if he's forgiven us of whatever that sin is,

821
00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:37,219
S11: or something's happened in our life. And and these systems

822
00:43:37,219 --> 00:43:41,100
S11: get broken in so many different ways. But we have

823
00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:44,500
S11: to accept the grace of God to be the the

824
00:43:44,540 --> 00:43:47,980
S11: glue that mends it all back together. Makes me think

825
00:43:47,980 --> 00:43:49,980
S11: of and I can't remember the culture. I think it's

826
00:43:50,020 --> 00:43:53,620
S11: a Japanese culture where you have this broken vase or

827
00:43:53,620 --> 00:43:57,020
S11: or something, and they mend it together with gold. And

828
00:43:57,020 --> 00:43:59,660
S11: I feel like that's what God does oftentimes in our lives.

829
00:43:59,660 --> 00:44:03,939
S11: He brings the goodness of everything he has in the

830
00:44:03,940 --> 00:44:07,420
S11: mending part. But we have to be willing to receive.

831
00:44:07,420 --> 00:44:09,819
S11: And for myself, one of the things that has really

832
00:44:09,820 --> 00:44:14,100
S11: helped me is I started to have this mindset. Jesus

833
00:44:14,140 --> 00:44:17,020
S11: paid the price for me to receive this healing. I'm

834
00:44:17,020 --> 00:44:20,660
S11: going to receive on his behalf. Even if I don't

835
00:44:20,660 --> 00:44:23,939
S11: feel worthy, I will never be worthy. But he is

836
00:44:23,940 --> 00:44:27,860
S11: worthy so I can receive every good gift of God

837
00:44:27,900 --> 00:44:29,620
S11: on behalf of Jesus.

838
00:44:29,820 --> 00:44:33,899
S5: I love it. Doctor Sandra Dalton Smith. Guys, we got

839
00:44:33,900 --> 00:44:37,060
S5: a resource for you and this will put you onto

840
00:44:37,060 --> 00:44:39,379
S5: a website. And guess what? You're going to take a

841
00:44:39,380 --> 00:44:42,620
S5: rest quiz. We got it all here for you. So

842
00:44:42,620 --> 00:44:47,500
S5: just want you to text the word rest to 805 5578, 98.

843
00:44:47,540 --> 00:44:53,850
S5: Rest to 805 5578, 98.

844
00:44:54,850 --> 00:44:58,609
S1: Start your day moving closer to Jesus. You're listening to

845
00:44:58,650 --> 00:44:59,690
S1: Carl and crew.

846
00:45:00,489 --> 00:45:04,290
S5: So we're talking broken systems here today. It comes from

847
00:45:04,290 --> 00:45:07,050
S5: Jeremiah two. And you might say, well, what do systems

848
00:45:07,050 --> 00:45:10,649
S5: and systems have in common? Simple. Try to carve out

849
00:45:10,650 --> 00:45:13,129
S5: a life for herself that doesn't hold water. I mean,

850
00:45:13,170 --> 00:45:16,450
S5: come on. That's just the bottom line. And here's here's

851
00:45:16,450 --> 00:45:18,210
S5: the amazing thing. And then we're going to check in

852
00:45:18,210 --> 00:45:21,370
S5: on Allie's broken system, because God providentially gave us an

853
00:45:21,370 --> 00:45:24,690
S5: example of this today. I do not even know the update,

854
00:45:24,690 --> 00:45:27,330
S5: but I am dying to know. So here's the here's

855
00:45:27,330 --> 00:45:31,810
S5: the deal though. When you see broken cisterns that cannot

856
00:45:31,810 --> 00:45:37,529
S5: hold water, what happened is either because they inherited a

857
00:45:37,530 --> 00:45:40,450
S5: way of living or they adopted one. Along the way

858
00:45:40,489 --> 00:45:44,969
S5: they forsake the streams of living water and they forsook God.

859
00:45:45,010 --> 00:45:47,450
S5: They walked away from him, but then they carved out

860
00:45:47,450 --> 00:45:49,609
S5: a life for themselves that couldn't hold water, even if

861
00:45:49,610 --> 00:45:53,770
S5: it was irrigating it. That's a problem. And it's a

862
00:45:53,770 --> 00:45:55,770
S5: problem that we're born with. So we're born with our

863
00:45:55,770 --> 00:45:58,410
S5: backs to God. And part of being born on this

864
00:45:58,410 --> 00:46:01,089
S5: broad path that leads to destruction is we're looking for

865
00:46:01,090 --> 00:46:03,090
S5: God's substitutes all over the place, little things that are

866
00:46:03,090 --> 00:46:05,770
S5: going to prop us up. And we create systems for

867
00:46:05,770 --> 00:46:10,530
S5: living that don't work. They don't hold water. And God's

868
00:46:10,530 --> 00:46:13,129
S5: in the business of discipleship is all about God. I'm

869
00:46:13,130 --> 00:46:14,570
S5: hitting my microphone. I'm so excited.

870
00:46:14,570 --> 00:46:14,890
S6: Here.

871
00:46:15,610 --> 00:46:24,050
S5: Um, discipleship is all about God restoring and rebuilding broken systems. Now,

872
00:46:24,050 --> 00:46:27,489
S5: it can be as funny as Ali forgetting her password

873
00:46:27,489 --> 00:46:29,930
S5: and being locked out of a system.

874
00:46:29,969 --> 00:46:33,210
S3: I mean, I sat here and stared at this computer

875
00:46:33,210 --> 00:46:38,850
S3: screen going, what is this password? I've entered it in many, many,

876
00:46:38,850 --> 00:46:39,530
S3: many times.

877
00:46:39,610 --> 00:46:40,570
S10: Get a mouthful of coffee.

878
00:46:40,610 --> 00:46:42,050
S6: Don't make me spit it. Yeah.

879
00:46:42,130 --> 00:46:45,410
S3: And then just boop. So here's the update.

880
00:46:45,450 --> 00:46:45,689
S10: Okay.

881
00:46:45,969 --> 00:46:47,610
S3: I did.

882
00:46:47,650 --> 00:46:48,290
S6: Come up.

883
00:46:48,290 --> 00:46:49,490
S3: With the password.

884
00:46:49,530 --> 00:46:50,210
S6: Oh. You did?

885
00:46:50,410 --> 00:46:53,290
S3: Yes. I had written myself a little note and hid

886
00:46:53,290 --> 00:46:56,210
S3: it somewhere strategic for such a time as this.

887
00:46:56,250 --> 00:46:56,930
S2: That's awesome.

888
00:46:58,450 --> 00:47:01,570
S3: So I was able to find where I had hidden

889
00:47:01,570 --> 00:47:05,010
S3: my little password. So I entered the password. I entered

890
00:47:05,010 --> 00:47:08,650
S3: the password only to get the notice. Your password has

891
00:47:08,650 --> 00:47:14,009
S3: expired and you need to change it now. So after

892
00:47:14,050 --> 00:47:17,370
S3: recovering my password, I had to then come up with

893
00:47:17,370 --> 00:47:21,529
S3: a new password because the moody cycle has cycled around

894
00:47:21,530 --> 00:47:23,610
S3: and you know, we have to change our passwords every

895
00:47:23,610 --> 00:47:26,450
S3: so often and that every so often hit this morning.

896
00:47:26,450 --> 00:47:30,250
S3: So I'm all set now and I will probably forget

897
00:47:30,250 --> 00:47:32,770
S3: the new password. So I better rehide it in a

898
00:47:32,770 --> 00:47:33,810
S3: strategic place.

899
00:47:34,010 --> 00:47:36,210
S6: Just tell us we'll keep it for you. Okay.

900
00:47:37,810 --> 00:47:41,089
S5: So in the first hour I was mentioning I have

901
00:47:41,090 --> 00:47:46,170
S5: this whole home water filtration system and I was hearing

902
00:47:46,170 --> 00:47:48,530
S5: this very faint Beep.

903
00:47:49,090 --> 00:47:51,810
S12: Beep beep beep.

904
00:47:51,850 --> 00:47:54,489
S5: And it's like one of those drive you crazy.

905
00:47:54,530 --> 00:47:54,770
S6: Like.

906
00:47:54,770 --> 00:47:56,129
S5: Oh, yes. Yeah. One of these.

907
00:47:56,170 --> 00:47:57,170
S2: I gotta find this now.

908
00:47:57,210 --> 00:47:59,570
S5: I gotta find this. And I'm, like, searching that thing.

909
00:47:59,570 --> 00:48:01,969
S5: And you know what's funny about these beeps? It's hard

910
00:48:01,969 --> 00:48:04,089
S5: to pin down initially where it's coming from.

911
00:48:04,130 --> 00:48:04,530
S2: Yes.

912
00:48:05,090 --> 00:48:08,009
S5: Yes. Where is that sucker? Where is it? And my

913
00:48:08,010 --> 00:48:10,569
S5: puppy blaze, he's listening. And he's like, hey, I hear

914
00:48:10,570 --> 00:48:11,050
S5: it too.

915
00:48:12,170 --> 00:48:12,529
S6: And his.

916
00:48:12,530 --> 00:48:13,250
S3: Ears are better than.

917
00:48:13,250 --> 00:48:13,810
S6: Yours.

918
00:48:13,850 --> 00:48:17,209
S5: Oh, you oughta see his ears. His ears are. I mean,

919
00:48:17,210 --> 00:48:21,610
S5: they look like. They look like dishes, man. Like satellite dishes.

920
00:48:21,610 --> 00:48:24,450
S5: Two of them placed on top of his head. They're awesome.

921
00:48:24,730 --> 00:48:27,370
S5: So he's listening. I'm listening. I'm like, where is that

922
00:48:27,370 --> 00:48:30,210
S5: coming from? I'm asking a 15 week old puppy. Where's that?

923
00:48:30,250 --> 00:48:33,529
S5: Where's that coming from, please? And finally I track it down.

924
00:48:33,530 --> 00:48:35,610
S5: I go into my mechanical room and there it is.

925
00:48:35,610 --> 00:48:36,210
S5: Sure enough.

926
00:48:36,370 --> 00:48:37,490
S12: Beep beep.

927
00:48:37,610 --> 00:48:39,969
S5: Beep. And what it is, is it's saying that one

928
00:48:39,969 --> 00:48:45,730
S5: of my filters is reaching an expiration date, which I

929
00:48:45,730 --> 00:48:47,560
S5: think is just a ploy to get me to buy

930
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,799
S5: new filters a little more regularly than needed, but that's another.

931
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:55,040
S5: I digress. So the bottom line is they they have it.

932
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,719
S5: It's foolproof so that if if you don't replace that

933
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:00,960
S5: thing in time, it'll kind of shut down the ability

934
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,440
S5: for that thing to do anything.

935
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:02,800
S6: Oh.

936
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,160
S5: So, you know, some of you have a beep beep

937
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:10,640
S5: beep going off in your head. Yeah. And, you know,

938
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:14,439
S5: you got a broken system in your life. You carved

939
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,760
S5: out a section of your life that just doesn't hold water,

940
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,080
S5: and it's broken. And you're like, oh, I got this thing.

941
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,239
S5: And in the first hour we reviewed a couple of

942
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,400
S5: these things. So I want to go back to these.

943
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:32,000
S5: These are so horribly convicting. Right, guys? We were rehearsing

944
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,800
S5: some of these the first hour and everybody's going, oh,

945
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:40,480
S5: so let me give you seven. Choose 1 or 6,

946
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,759
S5: however many you need. They kind of define you. Let

947
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:49,439
S5: me go through these quickly. We lack essential spiritual disciplines,

948
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,000
S5: so we miss out on hearing the voice of God

949
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:58,360
S5: the moment we most need it. Boom! And you might say,

950
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:04,440
S5: my man, is that the motivation? Yeah. See, spiritual disciplines

951
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,440
S5: are not geared so that we're just checking a box.

952
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,720
S5: It's when we need his voice most. We've got.

953
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:11,000
S6: It.

954
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:13,120
S5: Isn't that. Isn't that cool?

955
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:13,920
S2: Yeah. It's good.

956
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:14,719
S5: Convicting.

957
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:18,000
S2: Well, yeah, it's helpful for getting into it, though, when

958
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,080
S2: we think about it that way, instead of checking a

959
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:24,359
S2: box because God gives us all things for a purpose,

960
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:27,080
S2: and his purpose is, hey, I want to be closer

961
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,239
S2: with you. I want you to hear my voice. And

962
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,879
S2: in the moments where you need it most. So spend

963
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,560
S2: some time with me, grow with me and it will

964
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:36,600
S2: benefit you.

965
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:37,160
S6: Yeah.

966
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,799
S5: Big time. So we're diagnosing a problem here. We'll get

967
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,120
S5: to the hope part. But first we got to go

968
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:46,040
S5: through the pain. The beep, beep beep coming at you.

969
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,320
S5: So let me give you another one. We're not mindful

970
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,600
S5: of who we are in Christ. So we're easily beaten

971
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:57,200
S5: back into a cave of insecurity and inaction. Oh.

972
00:50:57,960 --> 00:50:58,680
S2: So real.

973
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,000
S5: Boy. That's why we got a wallpaper. Our mind with

974
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:06,160
S5: who we are in Jesus, man. That broken system of

975
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:10,879
S5: the mind that is wallpapered with lies from childhood. Things

976
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:15,280
S5: that we believed ourselves both self loathing and self elevating.

977
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,240
S5: By the way. And what's.

978
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:17,839
S6: Amazing?

979
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:20,680
S5: We can have two of those conversations going at the

980
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:21,440
S5: same time.

981
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:22,600
S6: Definitely.

982
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:27,120
S5: Okay. Third. Um, we try to manage or and cover

983
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,719
S5: our tracks of our sins or our sin winds up

984
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:35,320
S5: managing us and smothering us with shame. That's a broken system,

985
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:36,000
S5: isn't it, guys?

986
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,520
S3: It is. This is one of those, like on the

987
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:42,760
S3: quiz where? Check all that apply. Right? I mean, Because

988
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,239
S3: you should be able to mark more than one, right?

989
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,799
S3: I mean, this is this is very convicting. Do we

990
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:49,000
S3: want the rest of them?

991
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:49,440
S6: I don't know.

992
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,480
S5: But let me go anyway. Number four, we gather foolish

993
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,920
S5: friends around us. So every time we attempt to make changes,

994
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,839
S5: we get pulled down to their level. And by the way,

995
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:07,200
S5: foolish friends, this isn't a the goal isn't to denigrate

996
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:09,239
S5: people that are around you. Sometimes you have to look

997
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:10,719
S5: in the mirror and go, am I a friend that's

998
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:12,280
S5: pulling someone else down here?

999
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:13,600
S2: Totally.

1000
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,359
S5: My dragging someone else into something.

1001
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,480
S6: Should be asking ourselves that all the time.

1002
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:21,760
S5: Yeah, and I don't know why I go back to this,

1003
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:25,080
S5: maybe because it's so prevalent, but I mean, there's certain

1004
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,760
S5: Christian I use air quotes there, kind of Christian sins

1005
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,839
S5: that seem to get greenlighted and they're okay. Gossip is

1006
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:32,359
S5: one of them.

1007
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:32,760
S6: Sure.

1008
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,880
S5: I mean, it's just hard. All right. This is getting

1009
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:41,710
S5: it's getting heavy. All right, number five, we stop taking risks.

1010
00:52:41,710 --> 00:52:44,950
S5: So we've settled for a life guided by mediocrity in

1011
00:52:44,950 --> 00:52:50,390
S5: the expectations of others. Donk and risk, by the way,

1012
00:52:50,390 --> 00:52:54,029
S5: is not. It's. It's just faith. Because when you walk

1013
00:52:54,030 --> 00:52:56,590
S5: by faith, there, isn't there a certain level of risk involved?

1014
00:52:56,870 --> 00:53:00,790
S3: Yes. Because your faith is the often the unknown. You

1015
00:53:00,830 --> 00:53:05,589
S3: don't necessarily see five steps down the road. Maybe you

1016
00:53:05,590 --> 00:53:06,670
S3: see the first step.

1017
00:53:07,150 --> 00:53:13,070
S5: Yeah. And then we step out and it's like, why

1018
00:53:13,070 --> 00:53:17,230
S5: am I sinking? Okay, here we go. Number number six.

1019
00:53:17,230 --> 00:53:19,830
S5: We're almost done. The pain is almost done. A little

1020
00:53:19,830 --> 00:53:23,070
S5: Novocaine here coming at you. Little poke. The dentist says

1021
00:53:23,070 --> 00:53:24,510
S5: little poke here. Little poke.

1022
00:53:24,550 --> 00:53:26,190
S3: Don't feel pain. Just a pinch.

1023
00:53:26,230 --> 00:53:29,990
S5: Just a pinch. Uh, we lack focus around our unique

1024
00:53:29,989 --> 00:53:33,989
S5: calling and gifting. So we find ourselves aiming at nothing

1025
00:53:33,989 --> 00:53:39,469
S5: and hitting it. Uh. And God wants to fix that one.

1026
00:53:40,070 --> 00:53:42,710
S2: Oh, goodness. Yeah. He's got so much more for you

1027
00:53:42,710 --> 00:53:44,870
S2: in your life than just sitting around.

1028
00:53:44,910 --> 00:53:48,510
S5: Yeah. Okay, I got a final broken system. We don't

1029
00:53:48,510 --> 00:53:51,470
S5: redeem time, so we see our days swallowed up by

1030
00:53:51,469 --> 00:53:54,990
S5: others expectations and squandered by our weaknesses.

1031
00:53:56,190 --> 00:53:57,710
S2: I think that's one of the biggest ones.

1032
00:53:57,710 --> 00:53:58,830
S5: Laughing about these.

1033
00:53:58,870 --> 00:54:00,669
S13: How are you feeling this morning, everyone?

1034
00:54:03,430 --> 00:54:04,350
S14: Oh, goodness.

1035
00:54:04,430 --> 00:54:08,190
S5: Okay. Okay. We're going to open up our text line

1036
00:54:08,190 --> 00:54:11,270
S5: and I want you to be look, rub a dub dub.

1037
00:54:11,630 --> 00:54:16,510
S5: We're all in the same tub. Everybody is in recovery.

1038
00:54:17,390 --> 00:54:19,750
S5: I haven't even mentioned that this week yet. Ali. We're

1039
00:54:19,750 --> 00:54:20,910
S5: all in recovery.

1040
00:54:20,950 --> 00:54:23,990
S3: Very true. It's not just the person who has had

1041
00:54:24,110 --> 00:54:26,070
S3: an addiction to a substance.

1042
00:54:26,469 --> 00:54:29,629
S5: No, man. I mean, we've got broken systems, and some

1043
00:54:29,630 --> 00:54:33,310
S5: of them we inherited from family systems. Isn't that amazing?

1044
00:54:33,510 --> 00:54:37,950
S5: And as much as we think I've, I've I'm illuminated.

1045
00:54:38,030 --> 00:54:40,069
S5: I see what I don't like. I don't want to

1046
00:54:40,070 --> 00:54:43,870
S5: do that. It's like boom. And here's why. Because there's

1047
00:54:43,910 --> 00:54:47,550
S5: patterns that get grooved in our life. And God knew this,

1048
00:54:47,550 --> 00:54:51,230
S5: and he sent Jesus to liberate us, not just into

1049
00:54:51,230 --> 00:54:56,029
S5: a relationship with Jesus, but then out of these broken systems.

1050
00:54:56,350 --> 00:54:58,990
S5: And he can make all things new.

1051
00:54:59,030 --> 00:55:00,950
S3: It's so true. You know, it was I got to

1052
00:55:00,950 --> 00:55:03,590
S3: see a friend over, over the holidays who I hadn't

1053
00:55:03,590 --> 00:55:06,950
S3: seen in a while, and we've been friends since seventh grade.

1054
00:55:07,550 --> 00:55:09,350
S3: So this has been some years.

1055
00:55:09,510 --> 00:55:10,989
S5: You know her and she knows you.

1056
00:55:10,989 --> 00:55:12,549
S3: And we you know, we hadn't seen each other in

1057
00:55:12,590 --> 00:55:14,430
S3: a while, and we were joking about how we are

1058
00:55:14,430 --> 00:55:17,750
S3: both one of four siblings and all adults, and we

1059
00:55:17,790 --> 00:55:22,070
S3: were joking about how for each of us and our siblings,

1060
00:55:22,070 --> 00:55:25,549
S3: you are this person in your regular life away from

1061
00:55:25,550 --> 00:55:29,470
S3: your family. But somehow when everybody comes back together around

1062
00:55:29,469 --> 00:55:32,310
S3: the holidays, you're with all four of your siblings and

1063
00:55:32,310 --> 00:55:35,790
S3: everybody kind of reverts into this role that you were

1064
00:55:35,790 --> 00:55:39,150
S3: in that family when you were young, and how it's

1065
00:55:39,150 --> 00:55:41,790
S3: almost unavoidable. And we were joking about it because it

1066
00:55:41,790 --> 00:55:45,270
S3: happens to everyone. It's like, wait a second. But I'm

1067
00:55:45,310 --> 00:55:48,310
S3: like an adult out living life doing my own thing.

1068
00:55:48,310 --> 00:55:50,189
S3: And then I come back and I'm like, number two

1069
00:55:50,230 --> 00:55:52,189
S3: in the family, with an older sister and a younger

1070
00:55:52,190 --> 00:55:55,150
S3: sister and a younger brother. And somehow those dynamics get

1071
00:55:55,150 --> 00:55:56,950
S3: back into that grooved path.

1072
00:55:56,989 --> 00:55:59,069
S13: It's like you're mentally back at the kids table.

1073
00:55:59,110 --> 00:56:01,670
S3: Exactly. And I'm like, is this? This is a thing.

1074
00:56:01,710 --> 00:56:03,629
S2: I'm 30 years old and I've still got a bruise

1075
00:56:03,630 --> 00:56:05,230
S2: on my arm from where my brother punched me over

1076
00:56:05,230 --> 00:56:06,110
S2: the Christmas break.

1077
00:56:07,790 --> 00:56:08,350
S5: Do you really?

1078
00:56:08,390 --> 00:56:10,390
S2: Yeah, I do. I just sent a picture to him

1079
00:56:10,390 --> 00:56:11,910
S2: last night. I said, hey, just so you know, it's

1080
00:56:11,910 --> 00:56:12,430
S2: still there.

1081
00:56:12,830 --> 00:56:14,670
S3: It's craziness.

1082
00:56:14,710 --> 00:56:17,950
S2: So, man, 30 years old doesn't change.

1083
00:56:17,950 --> 00:56:21,669
S5: Youngest man. The rinky brothers. Rough crowd.

1084
00:56:23,870 --> 00:56:24,550
S2: That's right.

1085
00:56:24,590 --> 00:56:27,350
S5: Rough crowd. Oh, yeah. Okay, so we got a fun

1086
00:56:27,350 --> 00:56:30,110
S5: one for you. Oh, this is hilarious. Somebody said sad

1087
00:56:30,110 --> 00:56:32,230
S5: in La Grange Park. Most of those are me.

1088
00:56:33,150 --> 00:56:34,870
S15: Most of those are a lot of us.

1089
00:56:35,190 --> 00:56:35,710
S13: Yeah.

1090
00:56:36,190 --> 00:56:39,790
S5: Yeah. So pick one. What do you believe is the

1091
00:56:39,790 --> 00:56:44,029
S5: most broken system that God wants to. Really, by the

1092
00:56:44,030 --> 00:56:49,230
S5: power of his grace, restore in you. A system that

1093
00:56:49,230 --> 00:56:53,430
S5: does not hold water and you know it. And God

1094
00:56:53,430 --> 00:56:57,109
S5: wants to heal it. Text it to us. I think

1095
00:56:57,110 --> 00:56:59,190
S5: we're going to take some time to pray over him even.

1096
00:56:59,950 --> 00:57:05,870
S5: 800 555 7898. What's the broken system in your life

1097
00:57:06,550 --> 00:57:10,310
S5: that God needs to heal? 2026 can be a year

1098
00:57:10,310 --> 00:57:15,390
S5: of woe. The cistern can hold water. A life system

1099
00:57:15,390 --> 00:57:21,470
S5: that's been leaky, can't hold water, can now be healed

1100
00:57:21,470 --> 00:57:26,870
S5: up by the grace of God. 800 555 7898 and

1101
00:57:26,870 --> 00:57:29,110
S5: we'll get to those coming up here in just a moment.

1102
00:57:29,310 --> 00:57:34,140
S5: 800 555 7898 let's do pray over McCauley. We won't

1103
00:57:34,140 --> 00:57:35,540
S5: be able to read them all out because they're going

1104
00:57:35,540 --> 00:57:37,300
S5: to come in by the droves. But let's do, man.

1105
00:57:37,300 --> 00:57:38,780
S5: Let's take it before God.

1106
00:57:38,980 --> 00:57:39,420
S12: Whoo!

1107
00:57:39,820 --> 00:57:41,740
S5: We got a God who cares? And he can.

1108
00:57:41,740 --> 00:57:42,419
S12: Move.

1109
00:57:43,300 --> 00:57:46,700
S5: Anyone else fired up about that? Amen. Come on.

1110
00:57:46,740 --> 00:57:48,580
S3: Yes, because we can't fix ourselves.

1111
00:57:48,620 --> 00:57:51,260
S5: Oh, no. We can't. Hang on. Uh, we'll read them

1112
00:57:51,260 --> 00:57:54,900
S5: out with no numbers. We don't have your names. Just

1113
00:57:54,900 --> 00:57:59,060
S5: shoot them to us. It's good for you. 800 555, 78. 98.

1114
00:57:59,100 --> 00:58:05,060
S5: What's that? One broken. Pick one. One broken system. Uh,

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S5: we got them coming in already. Unredeemed time. Sin. Good.

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S5: What's the one broken system that God needs to heal

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S5: in your life? 800 555. 78. 98.

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S2: Hey, it's young Thunder. I wanted to take a quick

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S2: pause to let you know if you don't. We're actually

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S2: a live radio show. You can hear us Monday through Friday,

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S2: 5 to 9 a.m. Central time. If you want to

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S2: know more, go to Carl and Crew org to get

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S2: details for your listening area. All right, back to the show.

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S1: He was sharing the gospel on the radio, and then

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S1: he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl

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S1: and crew on Moody Radio.

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S5: Man, nothing like getting honest or tackling broken systems. You know,

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S5: here's the bottom line. The broken cisterns that Jeremiah the

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S5: prophet spoke of is they were these water reservoirs, and

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S5: you can see them still. I don't know. Somebody ai

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S5: what the capacity is of these things. I'm guessing they're

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S5: they range in size from, I would imagine, a few

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S5: hundred gallons to maybe thousands of gallons.

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S3: I mean, was it kind of like like a water,

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S3: like the like a water tower?

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S5: It's like a water tower at ground level. It's just

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S5: a big old carved out chunk of rock that can

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S5: hold water. That's something.

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S2: Yeah. So this is, uh, for biblical times. Uh, they

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S2: had small household tanks that could hold, you know, tens

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S2: of cubic to massive public reservoirs, like one in Jerusalem's

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S2: temple area, capable of holding millions of gallons. So 7500m³.

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S5: That's fascinating. So when the prophet Jeremiah spoke, you've carved

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S5: out cisterns that can hold no water. Oh, baby. No

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S5: wonder they were so ticked off.

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S14: Oh, goodness.

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S5: Everybody wants to be a prophet. But nobody wants to

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S5: die for what God tells them to say to people.

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S5: Because it cost these guys a ton. Back in the day. Uh,

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S5: here's the deal. Broken cisterns are broken systems. It's a

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S5: life that we carve out for ourself that is not

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S5: going to hold water, and God wants to heal it up.

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S5: We've asked for you to identify what are those broken

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S5: systems in your life. And we got a lot of response.

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S3: Yeah. And I'm not going to give numbers, but I'll

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S3: just give you an idea of what's come in. Uh, procrastination,

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S3: lack of time management, health healing, resentment, gambling. Lack of focus.

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S3: Self doubt. Fear of reaction to confrontation. Self-sufficiency. Some family relationships.

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S3: Lack of emotional control. Food intake. That's anger. Bitterness. Trust issues. Self-Reliance.

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S3: Just a bit of what's come in.

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S5: Okay, we're going to pray about those in a moment here.

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S5: But this is I am so thrilled. I love being

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S5: with you here five days a week so much. I

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S5: decided to give another Saturday morning to this thing, and

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S5: I this is I'm joyful about this. You know, discipleship

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S5: at the end of the day is not about. And

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S5: we used to hit this heavy. We used to talk

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S5: about knowledge brokering. Explain that Ali. Knowledge brokers.

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S3: Yeah. I mean knowledge brokers, you think about just simply

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S3: the exchange of information and information is great, but acquiring

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S3: a lot of information that doesn't actually make any sort

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S3: of impact or change in your life, that's knowledge brokering.

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S5: Yeah. And and the kind of the, the most general

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S5: way that we go at discipleship is. And I'm not

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S5: casting aspersions here, I'm just giving a general viewpoint here,

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S5: broad brush. We I think we've translated discipleship into we

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S5: got to get more good information into our life. And

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S5: here's the reality. Jesus in the sermon on the Mount said, no, no, no, no, no.

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S5: You want to get a system that can hold water.

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S5: You want to have a life that's built to last.

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S5: You want to have a life that survives. Storms mix

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S5: in metaphors here, but they are all aimed the same direction.

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S5: It's about the understanding that knowing the word is one thing.

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S5: Applying the word is everything, and it's a game changer.

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S5: And the question is, how in the world do we

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S5: fix these things? And all you have to do is

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S5: go back to Scripture. In fact, go back to the

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S5: first words out of Jesus's mouth. In the sermon on

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S5: the Mount, he says, blessed are the poor in spirit,

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S5: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. When we see

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S5: and realize looking at these and they're still pouring in here,

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S5: my goodness. Uh, these broken systems in our life and

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S5: things negative self thought, things rolling around in our head.

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S5: Sin of pride and envy. I mean, I'm just reading

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S5: what's coming in here. Um. Uh, overspent in in debt. Okay.

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S5: All the all this stuff and that, it goes on

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S5: and on. When we realize that God just doesn't speak

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S5: to that issue. Truth, but truth applied, that clings to God,

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S5: that says, God, I can't do it. That's where change

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S5: begins to happen. And so we're going to pray over

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S5: these in just a moment here. but I'm really spiking something.

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S5: And how we got to this. It's too long a story,

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S5: but it's God's providence how we even landed on us

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S5: doing this this week. But we got a lot of

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S5: you that have even looked at these things that you're

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S5: somebody's got. Perfectionism just came in. Oh my goodness, friend,

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S5: we can't hit it. But I know we keep trying.

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S5: It's like, oh I gotta I got to get this perfect.

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S5: No matter what these broken systems are, I'm excited to

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S5: spend a Saturday morning, January 17th, for 2.5 hours. And

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S5: we're going to have one of the coolest things. And

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S5: Ali likes to say you, this is not going to

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S5: be the Brady Bunch screen. Yeah, this is a webinar

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S5: because a lot of people get freaked out. Oh no.

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S5: You can remain totally you will remain totally anonymous. But

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S5: I want you to come and bring your broken systems

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S5: because I am going to be leading a webinar. We

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S5: might have a special guest that I'm going to try

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S5: to announce tomorrow, but I'm going to be leading a

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S5: webinar that is going to walk us through how to

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S5: cling to God, who has the grace to change what

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S5: you cannot change in your strength. Bottom line. And I

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S5: really want you to get here. I really do. So

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S5: it's simple. You just text the word power and get registered.

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S5: And by the way, getting your name in. Now I'm

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S5: going to send you some things you can be doing

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S5: to prep. Not a lot of homework or anything like that.

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S5: Just a couple prep things that will get you ready

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S5: for this event. Uh, just text the word power to

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S5: 800 555 7898. I'm so fired up about this, guys.

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S5: I've done this seminar before, and the results have been

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S5: truly a blessing. And I pray that your faith begins

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S5: to make sense as a result of this webinar. Text

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S5: power to 800 555 7898 and get registered and I'll

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S5: be sending some communication in the next few days. And

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S5: it's it's really cool. Well, Ali, these all these broken

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S5: systems are getting covered up with all these links going

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S5: out for the word power right now, but you remember them.

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S5: Would you pray?

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S7: Yes, yes.

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S3: Lord, we thank you that you know us. You've numbered

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S3: the hairs on our head. You formed us in our

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S3: mother's womb before even the beginning of time. Lord, you

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S3: you knew us, God. And what a comfort that is.

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S3: So we can come to you with our deepest needs,

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S3: our brokenness, our shame, and know that it's not a

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S3: surprise to you. God, you don't look away from us.

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S3: You're not turned off. You move toward us. God, when

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S3: we draw near to you, you draw near to us. So, God,

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S3: I just pray for each person who's feeling this morning,

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S3: a new year that started, but maybe feeling a sense

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S3: of hopelessness that the same old things that they've been

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S3: battling for years have followed them right into 2026. Yes. So, God,

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S3: I just pray that you would bring a sense of hope. Lord,

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S3: not in our own ability, in our own strength, but

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S3: in your power. God, to to fix us, to change us,

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S3: to make us new from the inside out. So I

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S3: pray that for every person today who's identified something, some

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S3: system that's broken, Lord, that you would bring that to mind,

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S3: that you would bring a hope, and that you would

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S3: help us to cry out to you, trusting that God. Yeah,

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S3: this year actually can be different when we lean on you.

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S3: So God do a new thing in each one of

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S3: us today. God, we're believing you for it. Maybe we've

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S3: prayed this prayer a thousand times. We pray it again

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S3: because you told us we can. We can come near

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S3: to you. We trust you. We love you. In Jesus name, Amen.

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S5: Amen and let it be. Plop down January 17th. Enjoy it.

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S5: Text power to our number here 800 555 7898.