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Speaker 1: Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a

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Speaker 1: new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things

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Speaker 1: are become new Second Corinthians five seventeen. Dear Lord, you

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Speaker 1: make all things new. I am grateful that there are

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Speaker 1: countless second chances at the Cross. The former lies I

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Speaker 1: believed and life I led has been crucified with Christ,

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Speaker 1: and now I live a new life of purpose in You.

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Speaker 1: Help me when I stray back into my former habits

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Speaker 1: before I met You, continually refine me and remind me

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Speaker 1: of who I am in you. I want to live

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Speaker 1: in my identity as a new creature in Christ. In

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Speaker 1: g here's this name, Amen. Thank you for joining me

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Speaker 1: in prayer. Stay tuned for today's free podcast Meditative Prayers

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Speaker 1: with Zach Clinton, where you can draw close to God

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Speaker 1: and find strength in him.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to your meditative prayer on transforming yourself. To get

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Speaker 2: the most out of your spiritual journey, use pray dot

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Speaker 2: com every day and make prayer a priority in your life. Again.

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Speaker 2: Our goal for today's meditative prayer is transforming yourself. So

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Speaker 2: take a moment and head to your secret place, a

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Speaker 2: place where you can relax and let go of all

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Speaker 2: agitation a place where you can ignore all intrusion right now,

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Speaker 2: breathing deep through your nose and excel out through your mouth,

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Speaker 2: and reach out to God and prepare to let his

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Speaker 2: words fill your heart again. Today we'll be meditating on

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Speaker 2: Tewod Corinthians, chapter five, verse seventeen. From the King James version,

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Speaker 2: it reads, Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he

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Speaker 2: is a new creation. Old things passed away. Behold, all

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Speaker 2: things are becoming new. Take a moment right now, just

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Speaker 2: to pour out your adoration to God for his love.

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Speaker 2: I praise you Lord, for you are God. You made me,

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Speaker 2: and I am yours. I will enter your gates with thanksgiving,

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Speaker 2: and I will enter your courts with praise. I will

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Speaker 2: give thanks and bless your name, for you Lord are

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Speaker 2: always good, Your steadfast love endures forever, and your faithfulness

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Speaker 2: to all generations. Salvation kickstarts your transformation. It is the

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Speaker 2: variable that brings the promise and prospect of change. Salvation

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Speaker 2: does away with sin and provides the possibility of eternal

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Speaker 2: life from death. You no longer have to continue living

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Speaker 2: in sin, harmful and destructive habits. They can actually change.

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Speaker 2: Negative thoughts and emotions will lose their hold over you.

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Speaker 2: Vices and addictions no longer have to dictate how you live.

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Speaker 2: In accepting Jesus, he breaks the power of sin and

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Speaker 2: its control over your life. But perhaps you're struggling with

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Speaker 2: who you don't want to be. So take a moment

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Speaker 2: right now to open your heart up to God and

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Speaker 2: confess to Him the areas in which you're seine. Now

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Speaker 2: spend some time thanking God for the goodness of his salvation. God,

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Speaker 2: I thank you that by grace I am saved through faith.

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Speaker 2: I thank you that your love is not based on

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Speaker 2: my merit, but on your mercies. I thank you Jesus

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Speaker 2: for being the Way, the Truth, and the Light for

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Speaker 2: reconciling me back to God the Father. I thank you

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Speaker 2: God for loving me while I was at my worst.

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Speaker 2: You saw all my sin, my darkness, and my cruelty,

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Speaker 2: but you loved me anyway. Jesus, I thank you for

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Speaker 2: my transformation bought with your blood. God is present and

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Speaker 2: he's listening to you. Be mindful that Christ makes you

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Speaker 2: a new creation. The old sinful self no longer has

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Speaker 2: power over you. You now get to live a new

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Speaker 2: life with a new mentality and new habits. God sent

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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit to help you accomplish this change. The

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit enables you to succeed in your walk with Christ.

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Speaker 2: He is your helper, so ask him to help. Ask

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Speaker 2: him to make you more like Jesus. Ask him to

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Speaker 2: empower you to live the fullness of what God has

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Speaker 2: for you. Remember, if anyone belongs to Christ, then he

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Speaker 2: is made new. The old things have gone, Everything is

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Speaker 2: made new. God has given you a new life to live,

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Speaker 2: a life filled with godly thoughts and actions, with new

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Speaker 2: habits and a new goal. So do not hold back.

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Speaker 2: Be bold and be brave, and live your new life

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Speaker 2: with courage and joy for the future that is to come.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for completing today's meditative prayer on pray dot com.

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Speaker 2: By incorporating this healthy habit as a daily practice, you

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Speaker 2: are making prayer a priority and strengthening your walk with

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Speaker 2: God again. My name is Zach Clinton from the American

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Speaker 2: Association of Christian Counselors and we love being a part

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Speaker 2: of your life.