Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin.
Speaker 2: This is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just
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Speaker 2: I think how you enter something is really important. And
Speaker 2: for me, I have to build in certain things to
Speaker 2: enter my day, to enter my week, to enter my role,
Speaker 2: to enter conversations, even to enter something like a workout
Speaker 2: or to enter an appointment. There are certain things that
Speaker 2: when I do those things as an entrance ritual to
Speaker 2: remind me that this is a gift and that God
Speaker 2: has given me what I need, it goes better.
Speaker 1: You know, not only how you walk in a room.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you should have theme music playing behind
Speaker 2: you when you go to work Monday, but I am
Speaker 2: saying maybe we could be more intentional about how we
Speaker 2: make our entrance. Because the children of Israel are entering
Speaker 2: the land and God says, hey, I want to give
Speaker 2: you a ritual and offering a ceremony that you can
Speaker 2: keep to remember that this is a gift that I'm
Speaker 2: giving you, that you can remember what the Lord did
Speaker 2: for you. And I think a lot of times when
Speaker 2: we start our day, if we could have a few
Speaker 2: rituals like prayers of thanksgiving or just listing our gratitudes,
Speaker 2: or sometimes sitting in God's word for a few minutes
Speaker 2: before we go into the day. That's what I mean
Speaker 2: by entrance ritual like this is a new day. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying you wake up and don't even need a
Speaker 2: snooze button because the favor of the Lord awakens you
Speaker 2: with the brush of angels wings and you feel so
Speaker 2: blessed and highly favored that you bounce out of bed.
Speaker 2: I just mean making a decision to end to the day.
Speaker 2: This is the day the Lord has made. I will
Speaker 2: rejoice and be glad in it. And even if it
Speaker 2: takes you a cup of coffee to get there, or
Speaker 2: if you shower first, or whatever you do that you
Speaker 2: kind of intentionally enter your day. Most people, I'm afraid don't.
Speaker 2: And I've been there, and I still can get there
Speaker 2: real quick. If I'm not intentional where I snooze to
Speaker 2: the last minute and I'm running around now, all my
Speaker 2: interactions with everybody that I live with are going to
Speaker 2: be rushed. Every encounter is going to be rushed. I
Speaker 2: have no margin. It's very different than when I plan
Speaker 2: to say I might have some time to decide how
Speaker 2: I enter this day. And like I've been preaching, I
Speaker 2: put on Christ, I shed off whatever the plaque is,
Speaker 2: the like your plaque.
Speaker 1: On your teeth or whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take some time to get my perspective right,
Speaker 2: get all the plaque off my perspective, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to get my focus today on what I have to
Speaker 2: look forward to, what I have to be thankful for,
Speaker 2: get syncd up with God so that what I'm stressed
Speaker 2: about today, I don't just feel it.
Speaker 1: In my body and ruminate in my mind.
Speaker 2: But kind of process with him. We're all gonna have
Speaker 2: a different way to do this. But you know, Holly
Speaker 2: is so good when we have a we have a
Speaker 2: family calendar that she sends out every Sunday night, and
Speaker 2: it's so helpful because she takes some time on Sunday night,
Speaker 2: even after ministering that morning and usually kind of resting
Speaker 2: in the afternoon, but she knows Sunday night, Hey, I
Speaker 2: got to get this week out in front of me,
Speaker 2: because if I enter this week with absolutely no idea
Speaker 2: of who is where or it's all scattered, or we
Speaker 2: don't have communication. We might find ourselves Tuesday or Wednesday
Speaker 2: in this week just needlessly frustrated or miss a line.
Speaker 2: So she learned that, so she enters the week intentionally.
Speaker 2: That's why it's good to do pre marital counseling. It's
Speaker 2: a way of entering marriage intentionally. But you know, you
Speaker 2: can also do it real quick when you know you
Speaker 2: have to have a conversation with somebody, like just setting
Speaker 2: your intention before you go into the conversation. That's an
Speaker 2: entrance ritual. By ritual, I don't mean a first fruit's
Speaker 2: offering or that you know, spin around three times or
Speaker 2: anything like that. I don't mean something that even anybody
Speaker 2: else knows you're doing. But it could just be even mentally.
Speaker 2: And the key to this is when you enter the
Speaker 2: land the Lord your God is giving you. That's what
Speaker 2: Deuteronomy twenty six one says. I want you to enter
Speaker 2: it knowing that He gave it to you, which gives
Speaker 2: you confidence because God gave it to you. So you're
Speaker 2: going into the land to fight battles. You're going into
Speaker 2: your day to fight battles that you know God has
Speaker 2: called you to fight God and called you to fight
Speaker 2: every battle, but go into the day knowing that God
Speaker 2: has promised you his peace and his provision for every
Speaker 2: challenge you'll face today. He has given it to you.
Speaker 2: Say it out loud, he has given me this day.
Speaker 2: He has given me this day. He has given me
Speaker 2: this day. And then whatever you're facing that day, knowing
Speaker 2: that this day is a gift. Knowing that God has
Speaker 2: given you his spirit. God has given you his wisdom,
Speaker 2: the mind of Christ. That you have, that that you
Speaker 2: have connection with God, you have forgiveness, that you have
Speaker 2: the power of God working on the inside of you.
Speaker 2: You have the spirit of faith, you have gifts to
Speaker 2: be able to do what you need to do.
Speaker 1: That you got it.
Speaker 2: And when you enter the situations that you face, go
Speaker 2: into them.
Speaker 1: Develop for yourself. Figure out what they are, those rituals,
Speaker 1: so that you pray before you start looking at everything
Speaker 1: that somebody else has.
Speaker 2: Posted, so that you think about what God has given
Speaker 2: you before you go into your day and start trying
Speaker 2: to earn or achieve more. All those things are good,
Speaker 2: But as you enter, as you enter a season, as
Speaker 2: you enter a challenge, as you enter a room, as
Speaker 2: you move from work to home or home to work
Speaker 2: or car to people. It's important to have these little
Speaker 2: things that we do. Now, this is a big one.
Speaker 2: I'm not equating, you know, saying a prayer in the
Speaker 2: morning or doing some deep breathing before you walk into
Speaker 2: a stressful situation to given an offering from the harvest
Speaker 2: in Deuteronomy twenty six. But again, big picture principles work
Speaker 2: in very common daily situations. And really that's where our
Speaker 2: life has lived out, not in a few special occasions
Speaker 2: or just an old Testament historical example of bringing that
Speaker 2: spirit of remembrance and intentional entries into your life.
Speaker 1: I think that be helpful for you, and they might
Speaker 1: have to change.
Speaker 2: You have to experiment with this. What works in one
Speaker 2: season may not work in another. Maybe you travel, maybe
Speaker 2: you can't do the same thing every day. Maybe you
Speaker 2: know it's not as predictable for you. Maybe your rhythm
Speaker 2: got knocked off. Maybe you're facing a certain obstacle that
Speaker 2: you can't do all the things you want to do.
Speaker 2: But is there a way that you can enter your
Speaker 2: day into your week, enter those situations, enter those relational
Speaker 2: confrontations that you know are kind of difficult for you.
Speaker 2: Can you change the way you enter so that you
Speaker 2: remember the gifts that God has given and a lot
Speaker 2: of times just remembering this day is a gift. This
Speaker 2: meal is a gift, This moment is a gift. I
Speaker 2: think this is pretty basic, but that's why we say
Speaker 2: the blessing before we start a meal, and if we
Speaker 2: can do it from our heart, even if we don't
Speaker 2: say a twenty minute prayer. Nobody likes that I used
Speaker 2: to have a friend. They don't catch up on your
Speaker 2: quiet time. Just say the blessing the fod's getting cold.
Speaker 2: Don't use the time to show off how many different
Speaker 2: ways you can name abba Father and slip in three
Speaker 2: Bible verses that you memorized. But just pray, however, taking
Speaker 2: the time to do it, pause it, say this as
Speaker 2: a gift and move into it. That'll help you, whether
Speaker 2: you do it out loud, whether you have some you know.
Speaker 2: For years, I've put a little anointing oil, since an
Speaker 2: anointing oil on my hands most weeks before I preach.
Speaker 1: It's just an entrant ritual before I get into pulpit.
Speaker 1: Boom athletes have.
Speaker 2: These, but we can have them too, those of us
Speaker 2: who are playing in the NBA, we still get to
Speaker 2: have entant rituals. We don't have to be in the
Speaker 2: wwe to have a walk out music. We can have
Speaker 2: a melody in our heart. Even singing is good. Right
Speaker 2: enter his gates with thanksgivings, so we enter into presence
Speaker 2: of God. Sometimes before I'm getting ready to preach, I
Speaker 2: have certain songs that help me enter that state of ministry,
Speaker 2: so that I get out of my head and into
Speaker 2: my heart and flow in the power of God. And
Speaker 2: the more of these that we create, not so that
Speaker 2: we become superstitious or have to jump through a bunch
Speaker 2: of hoops just to move from one thing to the other.
Speaker 1: Dyding on, I'm doing my entrant ritual.
Speaker 2: I can't come in yet, but they can be quick
Speaker 2: ways that we enter with gratitude, enter with confidence, interer
Speaker 2: with intention. I think that's what I'm trying to say,
Speaker 2: make your entrances with intention. Hey, I hope you enjoyed
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