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Speaker 6: We're hanging on to you. Hey, man, you may be seated.
Speaker 6: You know, we have such a privilege in prayer. You know,
Speaker 6: sometimes we take prayer for granted, but prayer is a privilege.
Speaker 6: It's talking to God, communicating with God. You see, the
Speaker 6: Bible says that when our spirit connects with God's spirit,
Speaker 6: something incredible happens. We are ignited with the power of
Speaker 6: Almighty God. See, the strongest part of you is not
Speaker 6: your physical body. It's not your emotion or your souls realm.
Speaker 6: The strongest part of you, the eternal part of you,
Speaker 6: is your spirit. Man, and when you connect, the strongest
Speaker 6: part of you with the strongest force in the universe.
Speaker 6: There's an exchange that takes place. There's a powerful transformation
Speaker 6: that takes place. See, God is a big God. He
Speaker 6: flung the stars into space. He's in full control. Just
Speaker 6: like we're saying about God is unshakable. He's huge, and
Speaker 6: we have the privilege to commune with this huge God.
Speaker 6: We cannot take for granted that we can speak to
Speaker 6: God and that God hears us. It says in Roman's aid,
Speaker 6: God's spirit testifies with our spirit. You see, God's spirit
Speaker 6: is constantly telling our spirit when we get into communion
Speaker 6: with him, who we are, what we can do. Our
Speaker 6: spirit is picking up the signals of God. It's changing,
Speaker 6: it's growing, it's taking on a new dimension, a heavenly dimension,
Speaker 6: a dimension that you can't get on this earth. You
Speaker 6: can only get it when you ignite and connect your
Speaker 6: spirit with God's Spirit. Now that sounds far out, doesn't it.
Speaker 6: But it's the truth.
Speaker 2: It's the truth.
Speaker 6: You are a spiritual being and you were designed to
Speaker 6: connect with your spiritual father. In fact, when Jesus left
Speaker 6: this earth, you know what he said, He said, I'm
Speaker 6: leaving the Holy Spirit here with you. The person of
Speaker 6: the Holy Spirit. That's who we get to talk to
Speaker 6: every single day. Paul told us and encouraged us all
Speaker 6: through the New Testament to pray continuously, to pray without ceasing,
Speaker 6: to pray all kinds of prayers, all kinds of requests,
Speaker 6: all kinds of petitions to God. He was saying, go
Speaker 6: for it. Talk to God, Talk to God.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 6: Isn't that incredible that God doesn't judge us when we
Speaker 6: talk to him. He communes with us. Think about when
Speaker 6: your child comes up to you, you don't judge them.
Speaker 6: Your heart goes out to them. You want to help them.
Speaker 6: The first thing that you want to do is fix them,
Speaker 6: encourage them, strengthen them. You're looking at what they're doing right,
Speaker 6: not what they're doing wrong. Well, when you come to God,
Speaker 6: he is looking at what you're doing right. He sees
Speaker 6: that recreated spirit within you, and he is connecting his spirit.
Speaker 6: The very lifeline of heaven is being connected to you.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: Jesus gave us an example of a that he had,
Speaker 6: and it says that Jesus would often withdraw to lonely places,
Speaker 6: leaving the crowd to connect with his father in heaven.
Speaker 6: He also told us this in Matthew six. But when
Speaker 6: you pray, go into your room and shut the door.
Speaker 6: He says, when you pray to your Father, who is unseen,
Speaker 6: in secret, he will reward you openly. You see, Jesus
Speaker 6: was saying, not only do I need to get away
Speaker 6: from the crowds, my crowded life, the needs of the world,
Speaker 6: to get with my Father, but you should too. We
Speaker 6: must withdraw from this busy schedule, from this crazy, hectic
Speaker 6: world and get.
Speaker 2: Alone with God.
Speaker 6: We need to meet with God every single day alone.
Speaker 6: In fact, Jesus said in Matthew six, he says, when
Speaker 6: you go into your room and you shut the door,
Speaker 6: you pray in secret, and God will reward you. In secret.
Speaker 6: God will communicate and bear witness with your spirit that
Speaker 6: you are a child of the most high God. You
Speaker 6: are connecting the strongest part of yourself with the strongest
Speaker 6: force of the universe. You are transforming your inter life,
Speaker 6: your inner life. That's where the spirit dwells. The Bible says,
Speaker 6: it's the spirit of the man that sustains the man.
Speaker 6: We want our spirits to be strong, and the only
Speaker 6: way we can do that is when we come into
Speaker 6: this personal relationship with God. You know, it's interesting because
Speaker 6: when Joel and I were dating, we would just get alone,
Speaker 6: look into each other's eyes, sit over dinner. We really
Speaker 6: wouldn't even have to say much. Somehow, when we were together,
Speaker 6: we just had this connection. We fell in love that way.
Speaker 6: Can you imagine if we dated and we never got
Speaker 6: a loan, all we did was hang out with all
Speaker 6: our friends. He was always with his buddies. His buddies
Speaker 6: were always around. My girlfriends were always there, always doing something,
Speaker 6: always distracted. Would we have fallen in love the way
Speaker 6: we fell in love, when we just sat with each other,
Speaker 6: looked at each other, got to know one another. It's interesting.
Speaker 6: I know him quite well. In fact, we were married
Speaker 6: eight years before we had our son, Jonathan, so we
Speaker 6: spent a lot of alone time together. I know what
Speaker 6: he likes to eat. I can pretty much tell you
Speaker 6: what he likes and doesn't like. In fact, if we're
Speaker 6: not together somehow, if an if I'm by myself and
Speaker 6: a situation arises, I just know what he would tell
Speaker 6: me to do. Now, if I do it or not,
Speaker 6: that's another sure. Somehow, from being with him and building
Speaker 6: this relationship, I know what he would want me to do.
Speaker 6: And you know that's how it is with our relationship
Speaker 6: with God. We learn about God, we develop this relationship,
Speaker 6: this intimacy with him when we're together, when we're away
Speaker 6: from the distractions, just when we're gazing into his eyes,
Speaker 6: simply sitting at his feet. You see, when we set
Speaker 6: ourselves apart, God sets us up to win when we're
Speaker 6: willing to let go of the distractions, to push through
Speaker 6: getting alone with Him. And I can tell you that
Speaker 6: there is a push through that you have to do
Speaker 6: because sometimes you can sit there and you don't know
Speaker 6: what to do. Maybe you take a scripture and you
Speaker 6: just ponder it over and over. Maybe you sit there
Speaker 6: and you just say God, I thank you, I love you,
Speaker 6: thank you for breath to breathe, thank you for this day.
Speaker 6: Thank you from olding me and making me who I am. Father,
Speaker 6: I want to know you more, reveal yourself to me.
Speaker 7: God.
Speaker 6: I don't know what that intimacy looks like for you,
Speaker 6: but I can tell you this that you have a need.
Speaker 6: The only thing that's going to satisfy your soul, the
Speaker 6: only thing that's going to give you vision for your life,
Speaker 6: is to sit at the feet of Jesus, to set
Speaker 6: yourself apart to say it's worth it, It's worth building
Speaker 6: a relationship. See, Jesus is waiting for you. He's waiting
Speaker 6: to fill you with victory. He's waiting to fill you
Speaker 6: with joy. He's waiting to fill you with a new
Speaker 6: dimension in your thought life. He's waiting for you. Sometimes
Speaker 6: we think we're waiting for him, but you know what,
Speaker 6: He's waiting for us to separate ourself out, to give
Speaker 6: him the time he deserves. To set ourself apart so
Speaker 6: that we can be holy and be sanctioned by him
Speaker 6: to do everything that he's called us to do.
Speaker 8: I believe this year.
Speaker 6: That we're going to develop this habit.
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Speaker 6: It's not going to be a second thought. We're not
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Speaker 6: Time is precious and if we don't carve it out,
Speaker 6: it'll get away from us. We need to spend our
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