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Speaker 1: that it's all inspired by God. So even if I'm

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Speaker 1: reading through Leviticus or this story in the Old Testament

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Speaker 1: that it's like, I don't even know how this applies

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Speaker 1: to me. I'm reading inspired. I'm reading words inspired by

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Speaker 1: God that show me who he is, like they give

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Speaker 1: me opportunities to reflect on It's part of what meditation is,

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Speaker 1: like all right, what is this passage? Yeah, teaching me

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Speaker 1: about who God is, which is important. Sometimes we just

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Speaker 1: jump into the Bible like okay, what can I get

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Speaker 1: out of this from my life today?

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Speaker 2: Which is what you cover. You cover that in chapter

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Speaker 2: number two how not to read the Bible, And every

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Speaker 2: time you mentioned a point in chapter number two it

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Speaker 2: ended with me something something for me, it's.

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Speaker 1: All of us, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and and and

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Speaker 1: it's and that's so important. That's part of why I

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Speaker 1: started with that, because yeah, there are actually ways to

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Speaker 1: read the Bible that are unhelpful for yeah, and uh uh,

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Speaker 1: and so to be careful to avoid those. But even

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Speaker 1: there two uh to even if I read something, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what how this would apply or

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Speaker 1: anything like, there's still value in this, like you're hearing

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Speaker 1: to go back to the very first question you asked,

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Speaker 1: the voice of God? Which is our greatest need? To

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Speaker 1: be in tune with his voice in every fast in

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Speaker 1: my life? Like I think about my life as a dad,

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Speaker 1: as a parent, as a dad of six kids, as

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Speaker 1: a husband, as a pastor, and just a job, or

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Speaker 1: as a friend, whatever, Like my greatest need in all

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Speaker 1: those facets of my life is to be walking in

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Speaker 1: step with God and his spirit according to his voice. Now,

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Speaker 1: Leviticus may not have given me instructions for a parenting today,

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Speaker 1: but what it did is it made me more in

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Speaker 1: tune with his voice. So that illustration I often use

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Speaker 1: is like if I were to get a call right

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Speaker 1: now on my phone, and if I didn't look down

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Speaker 1: to see who it is, and I just picked it

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Speaker 1: up and said hello, and the other voice on the

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Speaker 1: line said hey, babe, Like I wouldn't be like, who's

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Speaker 1: this like, and she'd be like Heather, Heather, who And

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Speaker 1: she'd be like, you know your wife five years and

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Speaker 1: other of your kids. Oh yes, of course, of course

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that. Why because I know how she speaks.

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Speaker 1: I recognize your voice. Part of reading and meditating on

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Speaker 1: the Bible is being familiar with the voice of God

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Speaker 1: so that when you're in whatever situation today and you

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily have it. There's so many things we walk

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Speaker 1: through in this world that are not specifically addressed in

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Speaker 1: God's work. But the more we know his voice and

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Speaker 1: are in tune with His spirit, the better equipped we

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Speaker 1: are for a million situations that are not specifically dressed

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Speaker 1: in God's word because we've been in His word that morning.

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Speaker 2: Ay Man John Tan Jesus says, my sheep hear my voice,

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Speaker 2: and I know them. They follow me. If you need

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Speaker 2: to get a hold of me for any reason, go

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Speaker 2: to cameo dot com slash Granger Smith. In fact, I

486
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Speaker 2: just literally got a message from Cameo that says a

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Speaker 2: guy named Ian now has a request for me. So

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Speaker 2: what I do is I open this up and I

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Speaker 2: go check out what Ian wants me to say for him.

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Speaker 2: And for this it is a happy birthday to Melinda.

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Speaker 2: So I will reach out to Melinda. I say happy Birthday.

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Speaker 2: It's Granger Smith here. I hope you have an amazing day.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell her what else that I have

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Speaker 2: here on the little list that Ian has given me,

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Speaker 2: and then I send it back to him and then

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Speaker 2: he has a video message from me that then goes

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Speaker 2: out to Melinda. It's really cool. It's super easy. I've

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Speaker 2: been doing this for about six years now. So if

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Speaker 2: you want to find me and get a special video

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Speaker 2: message of any kind, go to cameo dot com slash

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Speaker 2: Granger Smith. Yeah, this is beautiful stuff. What not to

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Speaker 2: do is the emotional approach. This is one example on

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Speaker 2: the chapter of what not to do, the emotional approach.

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Speaker 2: What feels good to me. So let's let the Bible

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Speaker 2: dictate and tewod Timothy three to sixteen doesn't say so

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Speaker 2: that the Man of God may be almost mature or

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Speaker 2: almost complete in addition to what he gets from the

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Speaker 2: world or what he gets from other things. It's we

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Speaker 2: have everything we need right here. Let's go to memorize.

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Speaker 2: This is the the next m.

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Speaker 1: The reason I'm meditate and memorize together on that M

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Speaker 1: and this acrostic is because well, one I think memorization

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Speaker 1: is probably the most practical way that we can meditate

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Speaker 1: on scripture, like to make it so internal to us

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Speaker 1: that it's just a part of us. Like to memorize

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Speaker 1: a verse so that it just flows out of you,

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Speaker 1: like it's hidden in a saw A one nineteen kind

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Speaker 1: of way in your mind and in your heart at

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Speaker 1: that point. And so I I mean this is without question.

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Speaker 1: I mean we've talked about how just reading, meditating on

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Speaker 1: the Bible is like a core discipline that drives everything

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Speaker 1: in the Christian life. I would say memorization of scripture

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Speaker 1: has had more of a formative influence in my life

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Speaker 1: as a spiritual discipline than just about any other because

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Speaker 1: I don't want.

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Speaker 2: To disconnect that from prayer.

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Speaker 1: But it's just for God's word to literally fill your

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Speaker 1: mind and your heart in such a way that it

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Speaker 1: is a part of you. It just flows out of you.

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Speaker 1: It transforms your prayer life, it transforms your relationships to

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Speaker 1: be able to encourage others with the Word because it's

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Speaker 1: hidden in you and it just flows out of you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's one of the things when when Deuteronomy

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Speaker 1: four and six talk about like when you walk along

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Speaker 1: the road and when you sit by the way and

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Speaker 1: when you lie down, when you wake up, let's be

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Speaker 1: talking about the word. Well, how can you do that

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Speaker 1: if you don't have the word in you, Like, it's

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Speaker 1: not just when you're carrying the word around you. It

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Speaker 1: transforms your prayer life. You get into the heart of

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit and a passage when you memorize it.

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Speaker 1: So I just I definitely want to encourage as we

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Speaker 1: meditate on scripture. One way too meditate on it is

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Speaker 1: to memorize and to have an intentional plan for memorizing scripture.

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Speaker 1: And many people will say, oh, I'm just not very

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Speaker 1: good at memorization. And that's one of the things I

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Speaker 1: try to walk through in the book, like you can

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Speaker 1: memorize Someone nineteen talks about how God's word is more

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Speaker 1: valuable than thousands of gold and silver pieces. Like if

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Speaker 1: I gave you a thousand for every verse you can

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Speaker 1: memorize over the next twenty four hours, I'm guessing anybody

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Speaker 1: can learn to memorize pretty quick. Because so that's the question,

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Speaker 1: what's more important us, money or God's word?

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Speaker 2: So you make the argument work. You start this this argument.

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Speaker 2: What you're saying right now, children in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Speaker 2: today are attending Muslim schools and memorizing the entire Quran

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Speaker 2: by the time they're thirteen years old. Many of these

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Speaker 2: children speak different languages Pashto, Urdu, but they are memorizing

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Speaker 2: the Koran in its original language, Arabic, and they have

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Speaker 2: the full collective support of their parents and their communities,

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Speaker 2: and they learn these words of their so called God.

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Speaker 2: And then you make the argument, can you imagine a

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Speaker 2: children's ministry in church today teaching children to memorize the

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Speaker 2: entire New Testament in Greek and then they move on

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Speaker 2: to the Old Testament in Hebrew. We might say that's impossible,

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Speaker 2: we can't even do this in English.

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Speaker 1: Such a.

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Speaker 2: That's such a good quote.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and it is possible for like us too. Yeah

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Speaker 1: to Now I'm sitting here, what's going through my mind?

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Speaker 1: Like I was just with a brother last night who's

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Speaker 1: memorized the whole New Testament, like he the whole thing,

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Speaker 1: and and and various books in the Old Testament. And

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Speaker 1: this brother, he's so humble, loves the Lord, just walks

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Speaker 1: with God. I'm not saying everybody is going to do that,

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Speaker 1: but the beauty is everybody, with the rare exceptions, the

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Speaker 1: rare exceptions can hide God's word in our heart in

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Speaker 1: some way, in a way that I promise will transform

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Speaker 1: your life when you do. So. That's that's why I

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Speaker 1: think memorization is really important.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you start, you send the book just one verse,

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Speaker 2: Start with one verse. You're not saying memorize fifty Start

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Speaker 2: with one verse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I tell I use the illiteration. I think. I

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Speaker 1: always think about this one brother in our church, we

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Speaker 1: were we were walking through we were I was preaching

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Speaker 1: through First John, and so we challenged the church to

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Speaker 1: memorize the first chapter First John. And this brother, I

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Speaker 1: don't think he'd really ever memorize scripture at all, and

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Speaker 1: he was like, I mean a whole chapter. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: try it. So he started doing it with his son,

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Speaker 1: and his teenage son. They would work on it on

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Speaker 1: the drive to school in the morning, and so they

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Speaker 1: did it. They memorized the whole first chapter of First

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Speaker 1: John together, and they were and the dad was like,

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Speaker 1: this is amazing. I cannot believe this. I just did this.

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Speaker 1: I did this with my son. And his son was like,

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Speaker 1: we're not stopping here, are we. And so they ended

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Speaker 1: up memorizing the whole book. They just kept going every morning,

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Speaker 1: and I mean this yeah, and this is just average

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Speaker 1: ordinary dude who just his taste buds started changing, and

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Speaker 1: not just his his teenage son's taste buds started changing. Like,

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Speaker 1: there's no question they do not regret memorizing the Book

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Speaker 1: of First John. They went on a journey together that

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Speaker 1: was transformative in their lives.

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Speaker 2: Credible man. So how about apply chapter five? Apply?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So this is another way if like, what does

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Speaker 1: James one say, everyone who hears these words, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: well that's Matthew seven. Everyone who hears these words of

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Speaker 1: mind it does not put them in practice. Is like

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Speaker 1: a man who built his house on with no foundation.

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Speaker 1: It's going to crash when the storm comes. And then

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Speaker 1: James one says, don't deceive yourselves by just reading the

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Speaker 1: word and not doing what it says. So you realize,

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Speaker 1: wait a second, just to hear Jesus' words it can

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Speaker 1: actually be deceptive and can lead to your life crashing.

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Speaker 1: So not just reading, we must obey the word, do

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Speaker 1: what it says. Everyone who hears on these words of

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Speaker 1: mine and puts them into practice. So that's where apply is.

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Speaker 1: I just kind of use a framework to think through

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Speaker 1: how does God's word change the way we think, the

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Speaker 1: way we feel, the way we act, the way we

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Speaker 1: relate to the people around us, and then just the

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Speaker 1: way we view our whole purpose in the world. And

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Speaker 1: it's so good to yeah, whenever we are meditating on

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Speaker 1: scripture then to say, okay, how does this how does

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Speaker 1: this change me? Like not just read it? If that's

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Speaker 1: all we do and we kind of turn off the

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Speaker 1: phone or you know, put the devo aside, then we

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Speaker 1: were actually deceiving ourselves. We've got to do what it says.

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Speaker 1: So how does this change me? From the inside out?

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Speaker 1: And so that's that's the whole purpose of diving into

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Speaker 1: that a apply.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so good man. That gets us to pray,

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Speaker 2: which is you mentioned earlier you said, I don't want

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Speaker 2: to disconnect prayer, and I could. I but you we

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Speaker 2: could also make the argument that without these these without

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Speaker 2: meditate and memorize and even apply prayer, life is very difficult.

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Speaker 2: We almost have nothing to pray at that.

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Speaker 1: Point, yes, yeah, and well, and Jesus says this, this

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Speaker 1: is John fifteen. He says, if you abide in me

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Speaker 1: and my words abide in you, then ask whatever you

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Speaker 1: wish will be given to you. So so actually, our

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Speaker 1: prayer life asking is supposed to be based on His

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Speaker 1: words and that are abiding in us. So and this

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Speaker 1: is where I that's what I love about. And I

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Speaker 1: walked to a whole another acrosstic with pray, just praise, repent,

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Speaker 1: and ask ill based on what we've heard in the Word.

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Speaker 1: But when you think about there's so many things that

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Speaker 1: we pray for that we we don't know how God's

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Speaker 1: going to answer like we ask. Like I just think

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Speaker 1: about somebody I was praying for this morning for healing,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't know for sure if God is gonna

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Speaker 1: heal this person in this particular way at this particular time.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that. But I have in God's Word

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Speaker 1: that I'm reading every day scores of things that I

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Speaker 1: know if I pray for this, that I'm praying according

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Speaker 1: to the will of God and particularly for my own life.

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Speaker 1: Like I mean, yeah, I go back to some one

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Speaker 1: twelve what we were talking about earlier. As I'm praying, God,

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Speaker 1: I pray that you would free me from fear of

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Speaker 1: bad news. That I pray for a heart that is

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Speaker 1: firm and trusting in You. I know that's a prayer

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Speaker 1: God desires to answer, will answer as I ask him

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Speaker 1: for because I'm asking according to His word in that

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Speaker 1: way in my life. And then to pray that for

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Speaker 1: others lives. God, I pray for this person or that person,

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Speaker 1: my family or whoever else, they would not be afraid

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Speaker 1: about it. I know I'm praying according to God's will

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Speaker 1: what God wants for that person. And so yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think this is where to your point, our prayer life

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Speaker 1: devoid of the Word, really misses the whole point of prayer.

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Speaker 1: Prayer is dependent on God's revealed word to us. It

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Speaker 1: leads us to praise Him for who he is, to

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Speaker 1: repent of different things as we're reading through God's Word,

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Speaker 1: to repent of sin as we're convicted by it, and

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Speaker 1: then to ask him all kinds of things. That's where

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Speaker 1: even started a while back, just a little five minute

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Speaker 1: podcast called Pray the Word, because it's all based on

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Speaker 1: it's really just the overflow of my quiet time. But

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Speaker 1: it's just what I'm doing each day as I'm reading

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Speaker 1: through Isaiah and Salms today, just praying based on what's

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Speaker 1: in the Word, and then to yield and say, God,

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Speaker 1: help me to obey your word today.

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Speaker 2: And all these ways that I looked at and apply

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Speaker 2: and then, man, that's so helpful. It also really helps

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Speaker 2: if your prayer life is feeling stagnant or you're kind

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Speaker 2: of you feel like you're being too repetitive and you

689
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Speaker 2: and and you're you're losing the depth of it. You

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Speaker 2: could pray from your morning reading. One of my favorite

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Speaker 2: seminary professors, Don Whitney, you know, wrote the book Praying

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Speaker 2: the Bible and it's he wrote an entire book just

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Speaker 2: on this idea to pray what you're reading. You could

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Speaker 2: find passages, which is what's what's so helpful to move

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Speaker 2: forward in the Bible every single day and you have

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Speaker 2: a fresh word to take and say, you know what,

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Speaker 2: I've been stuck. What I'm praying for my mom and

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Speaker 2: I'm kind of stuck and what to pray because it's

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Speaker 2: the same situation. She's getting the same result and I'm

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Speaker 2: praying the same thing. But I just read today and

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Speaker 2: and in the Psalms that there's this and I can

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Speaker 2: I can pray this and over and it transforms your

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Speaker 2: prayer life.

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Speaker 1: So good man, that's so good, because yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: about it, and that's where I even as we talk

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Speaker 1: about these kind of different steps that I walk through

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Speaker 1: in the book. It really becomes it's it's not like

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Speaker 1: it's mechanical, Okay, do this and this and this, because

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Speaker 1: like I think about reading Isaiah this morning, and I'm

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Speaker 1: getting the verses that are talking about like this was

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Speaker 1: God's judgment on the nations uh and and their sin

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Speaker 1: and his own people and their sin both and and

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Speaker 1: it was talking at one point just about the pride

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Speaker 1: of men and God bringing the pride full low and

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Speaker 1: God exalting the humble, and so just to read that

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Speaker 1: and just pause, and God, please remove pride from me. God,

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Speaker 1: I pray for humility. I want humility. I need humility.

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Speaker 1: I need forgiveness for my pride. I want deliverance from

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Speaker 1: my pride. Again, you're praying according to God's Well, this

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Speaker 1: is absolutely what God wants for you. But it's just

721
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Speaker 1: a couple verses that if you're not careful you just

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Speaker 1: kind of skip over. But let it soaka and just

723
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Speaker 1: pray according to it. And then, like you said, I'm

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Speaker 1: praying for your mom or whoever it might be. You

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Speaker 1: come to some one twelve seven, which I keep going

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Speaker 1: back to today. That's I mean, how many people do

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Speaker 1: you know who are worried or afraid or anxious about

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Speaker 1: any number of things. And so just to spend some

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Speaker 1: time praying over people in your life who you know

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Speaker 1: might be worried or if you're afraid or anxious about

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Speaker 1: other things, like it just leads to all kinds of

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Speaker 1: intercession for others based on Gun's work.

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Speaker 2: So beautiful. You know, I find myself my prayers. It's

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Speaker 2: pretty tough for me to pray. I'll say it this

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Speaker 2: way before I read in the morning, because I just

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Speaker 2: wake up. My heart's cold as ice, and I just

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Speaker 2: you know, I get my cup of coffee and put

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Speaker 2: on my glasses and I start my reading. And then

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, my heart starts warming and that

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Speaker 2: ice melts, and then and then and I'm ready then

741
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Speaker 2: to pray. I'm in a position to pray after the

742
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Speaker 2: Lord has spoken to me first. Sometimes we mix it up,

743
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Speaker 2: and it's hard. It's hard to do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that, man, that's so true. I can

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Speaker 1: totally identify with that. And and it makes sense, like, well,

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Speaker 1: I what I love about what you just shared. And

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Speaker 1: I hope that the sense of what people are hearing

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Speaker 1: in this whole conversation is that That's what this is.

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Speaker 1: It is. It is a conversation with God like and

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Speaker 1: basically what you just said is I find it my

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Speaker 1: heart warmed and more easier too, and more engaged in

752
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Speaker 1: speaking to God when I've listened to Him speak to me.

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Speaker 1: So this is not this is.

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Speaker 3: And that's where the wonder, the wonder of this grangeer

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Speaker 3: that like we're talking about communion with God, God who

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Speaker 3: spoke in the world, came into being that this morning

757
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Speaker 3: I I was talking to him and he was listening

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Speaker 3: to me, and not just listening to me.

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Speaker 1: He was talking to me like speaking to my heart,

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Speaker 1: and he was he was listening to what I was saying.

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Speaker 1: I'm pouring out my arm before him and and He's

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Speaker 1: promising to answer according to his word and his power

763
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Speaker 1: and his wisdom. Like communion with God. And obviously it's

764
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Speaker 1: not just being, it's anybody, and it's you, it's anybody

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Speaker 1: who trusts in Jesus to restore us to relationship with

766
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Speaker 1: God through it's what Jesus died to make possible for

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Speaker 1: us to live in every day. So again it just

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Speaker 1: goes back to over your time earlier, why would we

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Speaker 1: not like make time for this for communion with God,

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Speaker 1: and why would we rush through it, Like, let's set

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Speaker 1: aside to the extent that we can just some concentrated

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Speaker 1: time to be with Him.

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Speaker 2: Amen. So that this would not be an appropriate David

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Speaker 2: Platt book if we didn't finish with the es the

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Speaker 2: share Yeah, tell me about share.

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Speaker 1: Yeah? That this word, I mean everything we're talking about, bro,

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Speaker 1: Like it's too good to keep to ourselves like this,

778
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Speaker 1: this word. You find treasure somewhere, Like you don't keep

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Speaker 1: that to yourself, you, I mean unless you're like you're

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Speaker 1: super selfish, like you share that with others. You spread

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Speaker 1: it to others because then that's the beauty. Uh there's

782
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Speaker 1: enough treasure to go around. Uh, so so you spread

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Speaker 1: it others. So to be really intentional. That's why like

784
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Speaker 1: this this across it. It's like, okay, really we need

785
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Speaker 1: to emphasize, like the word is not intended to stop

786
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Speaker 1: with us, It's intended to spread through us. So I

787
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Speaker 1: just think about it. I mean, obviously we're having this

788
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Speaker 1: conversation about how to read the Bible, and so my

789
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: Bible reading this morning has come up, but I can

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Speaker 1: I think about yesterday there was something else I'd read

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Speaker 1: and saw one eleven greater your work, so God studied

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Speaker 1: by all those who delight in them. And uh. And

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Speaker 1: then I was just about an hour after my time

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Speaker 1: in the Lord, I'm talking with this brother and sister in

795
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Speaker 1: Christ and she started talking about something she'd seen in

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Speaker 1: creation that just was just had owed her. And I

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Speaker 1: was like, this is totally so on lefl first too,

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Speaker 1: like it's de lightful to see the work of God creation.

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Speaker 1: So all that to say, like, look for opportunities all

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Speaker 1: throughout the day to encourage others with the Word and

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Speaker 1: not you're like you got to prepare a sermon or something.

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Speaker 1: This is just for every day. That's the beauty of

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Speaker 1: Deuteronomy six. It's just as you walk as you live,

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Speaker 1: talk about the word yes with other brothers and sisters

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Speaker 1: in Christ, encourage them and your family, your friendships and

806
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Speaker 1: church relationships whoever might be. And then obviously with unbelievers

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Speaker 1: to look for opportunities. Again. And this is where I

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Speaker 1: would say should be happening in our lives in a

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Speaker 1: natural way, not like we have to force it, but

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Speaker 1: just to talk about, Yeah, things we are learning about

811
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Speaker 1: life and relationship with God should just flow from us.

812
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Speaker 1: So to be really intentional on the s to share,

813
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Speaker 1: to spread the word with others.

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Speaker 2: That's so good. So I want to finish with this.

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Speaker 2: You you are, You're always busy. You're you're always a

816
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Speaker 2: busy guy. You have a lot of stuff going on,

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Speaker 2: but today in particular, let's let's look at today. You're

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Speaker 2: you're at a conference TGC. You're in Indianapolis. My wife

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Speaker 2: is there too, but you are in a hotel room.

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Speaker 2: You just came in from from here in Piper Preach.

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Speaker 2: Tell me, tell me how your Bible reading was this morning,

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Speaker 2: because this is the kind of morning Practically someone listening

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Speaker 2: would think, well, this is the morning he skipped reading,

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Speaker 2: but you didn't. So tell me what was that like?

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Speaker 2: Walk me through your morning today.

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Speaker 1: I So I'm about to say again, I don't mean

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Speaker 1: to sound like over dramatic or just it's like I

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Speaker 1: cannot I can't live without bread alone.

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Speaker 2: That you can't live on bread alone.

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Speaker 1: I can't live and I and I say that so

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Speaker 1: real quick background, Like I there have been times in

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Speaker 1: my life where I've I've tried to live like that

833
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Speaker 1: without that, and times as a pastor like so it's

834
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Speaker 1: not just because I'm a pastor, Like I can point

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Speaker 1: to a long season in my life as a pastor where, yeah,

836
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Speaker 1: the church I pastor was growing. I'd read in a

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Speaker 1: book that a lot of people were reading. I was

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Speaker 1: getting invited to travel to places like this and preach

839
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Speaker 1: all the time. And my I didn't have that time

840
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Speaker 1: of the Lord in the morning. Like I would study

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Speaker 1: just to like prepare a sermon, but I wouldn't like

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Speaker 1: read the Bible just to know God. And I could

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Speaker 1: turn on a public prayer like that, but I just

844
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Speaker 1: I never got alone in a room just to be

845
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Speaker 1: with God. And that's that's frightening to me. Like, how

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Speaker 1: so it's don't I wouldn't want anybody just assume, Okay,

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00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: yeah you're a pastor of course, Like no, I've actually experienced,

848
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Speaker 1: like in a really dangerous way, what it's like the

849
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Speaker 1: pastor without walking into the sea with God. And yeah,

850
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: so all that to say, the Lord did some things

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Speaker 1: in my life to wake me up big time years

852
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: ago from that that season in my life, and uh

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Speaker 1: and ever since then, I can just say, and I'm

854
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Speaker 1: not saying I never ever missed the morning like occasionally,

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Speaker 1: but I can't. I can't live with that so yeah,

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Speaker 1: this morning, first thing I did woke up. I one

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Speaker 1: of the things I talked about in the book. I'm

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Speaker 1: big on journaling. I'm just a I can't point to

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Speaker 1: a verse that would say you should journal, but it's

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Speaker 1: helpful for me to not my mind, keep my mind

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Speaker 1: from wandering, to be less distracted. So I just start

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Speaker 1: and I don't have like an elaborate system. I just

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Speaker 1: have like a running word file for twenty twenty five yep.

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Speaker 1: And so this morning it was like April whatever, and

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Speaker 1: so it's and I just start just just thanking God

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Speaker 1: for grace, for new mercy this morning, and I'm writing

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Speaker 1: out a lot of these prayers. Not everything I'm praying

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Speaker 1: I'm writing out, but a lot of it. And so

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Speaker 1: I'm writing out prayers, and then I start reflecting on

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Speaker 1: the day before, just thanking God for different things from

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Speaker 1: the day before, praying for people that I interacted with

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Speaker 1: the day before, just kind of reflecting on what God

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Speaker 1: taught me from the day before, writing out some of

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Speaker 1: those things. And then much like you talked about, I

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Speaker 1: just dive into the word. And so that's when I

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Speaker 1: walk through these verses of these chapters in Isaiah and

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Speaker 1: psalms and all on the way, I'm doing what we've

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Speaker 1: been talking about, and I in the journal, I'm oftentimes,

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Speaker 1: not oftentimes and most all the time. I'm so I'm

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Speaker 1: doing a lot of this on my either iPad or

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00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: computer my laptop. So I'm I'm like cutting and pasting,

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Speaker 1: copying and pasting from the word into my journals. So

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Speaker 1: day eleven one says this about this branch to come

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Speaker 1: talking about prophecy of Jesus. So I'm pasting that in

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Speaker 1: here and uh and then writing out a prayer based

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Speaker 1: on that or writing out how this applies my life.

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Speaker 1: So I'm doing this. It's just helpful for me to

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Speaker 1: be really intentional to write it down. Not saying everybody

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Speaker 1: has to do that, but it's helpful for me. So

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Speaker 1: I'm doing that all through and so that's leading to prayer,

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Speaker 1: and that's leading to and I would add I do

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Speaker 1: it oftentimes with just I've got a playlist that's like

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Speaker 1: my quiet time playlist that has just worship songs, and

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Speaker 1: it's I love it when whatever song is going on

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Speaker 1: just coincides with what I'm reading. Again, it's not over time,

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Speaker 1: but there are times when it's like, oh, this is,

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Speaker 1: and I just I love I love when I press

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Speaker 1: the shuffle button and it just I'm like, Lord, you

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Speaker 1: take it wherever you want. And uh and sometimes the

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Speaker 1: song comes on it's like I need to go past

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00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: that one. It doesn't. But oftentimes it's just like and

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Speaker 1: that it happened this morning. And so anyway, have you

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Speaker 1: shared that?

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Speaker 2: By the way, have you shared that? What's that? That playlist?

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00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 2: Have you ever shared?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm not I show. Yeah, that's a good idea. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's I was. Yeah, that's a good idea at.

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Speaker 2: Least at least text it to me.

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Speaker 1: It's just like the challenge funny side note one time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's really the only playlist I have. And

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00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: so I was running like ten K and I wanted

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Speaker 1: to listen to some music. But it's the only playoffs.

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Speaker 1: And I'll just say, like my Shane and Shane like

914
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Speaker 1: quiet time, it's not what you need to be listening

915
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 1: to when you're trying to run it down. Ok, it

916
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: doesn't the same way, but anyway, uh yeah, so then

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Speaker 1: and then uh so that is my time in the

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Speaker 1: Lord this morning, and and and then I I do

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Speaker 1: have some intentional things I try to pray for on

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00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: a daily basis, just from my family and church and

921
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Speaker 1: the world and that sort of thing that's kind of

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Speaker 1: tacked on to the Bible reading part. So but yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was my time of Lord this morning.

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Speaker 2: And how long do you plan to do that in

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Speaker 2: your life?

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Speaker 1: You mean, like how long per day? Or like how

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Speaker 1: long like the rest.

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Speaker 2: Of the rest of your life? How long? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I man, I oh like bro. I sat at the

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Speaker 1: bedside of a spiritual father of mine in life and ministry,

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Speaker 1: just a guy who's had a huge impact from my life,

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Speaker 1: Jim Shattocks, And he went to be the Lord a

933
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Speaker 1: couple of months ago after I actually dedicated this book

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Speaker 1: to him after a year battle with brain cancer. And

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Speaker 1: he's he he more than anybody else in my life,

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Speaker 1: taught me to love God's word and teach it with

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Speaker 1: fear of it. And anyway, I sat by his bed

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Speaker 1: like he's hospice. He's hardly able to speak, like just whisper,

939
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Speaker 1: and I'm just reading verses over him. He's like under

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Speaker 1: his breath, he's like finishing the verses. It's just like

941
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Speaker 1: he his his mind, I mean, totally ravaged by brain cancer.

942
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Speaker 1: But the word was hidden so deep and it was

943
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Speaker 1: just flown out of him like he could hardly breathe,

944
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Speaker 1: and the words what's coming out? And I was like God, maybe,

945
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:40,839
Speaker 1: so like I want to live so that when I've

946
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Speaker 1: gotten hardly even have breath left, your word is is

947
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Speaker 1: still just flowing in me through me. So maybe it's

948
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Speaker 1: like I want I want to live for that day.

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Speaker 2: So ah, So your answer to that is every single

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Speaker 2: day you have left in this fleeting vapor of a life.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's some one, bro, it's it's blessed like happy

952
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: is the one who whose delight is in the law

953
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Speaker 1: of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day

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Speaker 1: and night like he will be like a tree planted

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Speaker 1: by streams of water. They yield it's fruit in season,

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Speaker 1: and all that leaf will not wither, and all that

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Speaker 1: he does, he prospers. Like who doesn't want that? Who

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00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,399
Speaker 1: doesn't want like true prosperity, not worldly prosperity. Who doesn't

959
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: want true happiness, not fleeting happiness? Who doesn't want like

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00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: your leaf not to wither like fruit from your life? Forever?

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Speaker 1: We all want that?

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Speaker 2: Everyone?

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Speaker 1: So what how do you do it? Meditate on this

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Speaker 1: word day and night, every day, every night like meditate.

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Speaker 2: It no better way to end this podcast than that,

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Speaker 2: right there, Bro, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Bro, it's been delightful and tell you about this all

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Speaker 1: day long and just and so grateful for you and

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Speaker 1: the fruit of your life towards this end, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of other people's lives who I know are yeah,

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Speaker 1: pursuing God, walking with Him through his word as a

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Speaker 1: result of the fruit of His word in your life.

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Speaker 1: So praise God for sharing and that's how that's happening

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Speaker 1: in and through you.

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Speaker 2: Praise the Lord. Well, thank you brother, And how fun

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Speaker 2: at that conference. Yeah, thanks for joining me on the

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Speaker 2: Grangersmith podcast. I appreciate all of you guys. You could

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