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When God Gets Your Attention Pt. 2 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Here to take some time with God together with you today.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking this week about the topic when God gets
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  Speaker 1: our attention. I wonder if you've ever had that experience
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  Speaker 1: in your life, where you're just kind of cruising along
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  Speaker 1: and life is good and you're kind of forgetting your
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  Speaker 1: need for God. Prayer is receding. It's not as much
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  Speaker 1: a part of your life as it once was, and
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  Speaker 1: your relationship with the Lord is becoming a bit more distant.
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  Speaker 1: And God needs to get your attention. And many times
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  Speaker 1: when God needs to get your attention, He begins to
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  Speaker 1: upset the smooth surface of your life, to remind you
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  Speaker 1: that He is necessary to you and your life.
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  Speaker 1: In the book of Esther.
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  Speaker 1: We find this beautiful story of Esther and her uncle
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  Speaker 1: Mordecai who guides her and helps her grow strong in
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  Speaker 1: her relationship with the Lord, and her uncle Mordecai is
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  Speaker 1: trying to help Esther have the mindset that recognises that
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  Speaker 1: God is in control of the circumstances of her life
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  Speaker 1: and that she needs to constantly be thinking of how
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  Speaker 1: God wants to use her.
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  Speaker 1: And the king Ahazurus has an advisor, one of his
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  Speaker 1: top men in the government named Haman, who hates Mordecai,
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  Speaker 1: Esther's uncle, and is trying to do away with him.
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  Speaker 1: And the king Attaurus in the middle of being manipulated
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  Speaker 1: by his prime minister.
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  Speaker 1: It says in Esther chapter 6 verse 1, During that night,
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  Speaker 1: the king could not sleep.
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  Speaker 1: So he gave an order to bring the book of records,
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  Speaker 1: the chronicles, and they were read before the king, and
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  Speaker 1: it was found written what Mordecai had reported, and it
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  Speaker 1: goes on from there, you know.
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  Speaker 1: If God wakes you up at night.
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  Speaker 1: You should use that time to say, Lord, what are
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  Speaker 1: you trying to say to me? What are you trying
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  Speaker 1: to do if God gives you an uneasiness, a sense
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  Speaker 1: that things are not right in your life? Well, go
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  Speaker 1: to God. Don't.
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  Speaker 1: First go to other people or first go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: The place you need to go first of all, the
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  Speaker 1: first stop in your life should be on your knees
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  Speaker 1: talking to the Lord with your Bible open in front
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  Speaker 1: of you and saying, Lord, ah, what is it?
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  Speaker 1: What are you trying to say to me? What needs
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  Speaker 1: to be realigned in my life? What values have gone
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  Speaker 1: askew in my life?
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  Speaker 1: And as you search for what God might be trying
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  Speaker 1: to say to you, then talk to other people as
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  Speaker 1: well and say, uh, do you have any sense of
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  Speaker 1: something the Lord wants you to say to me? Go
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  Speaker 1: to the Bible, read your Bible, search, pursue what God
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  Speaker 1: is trying to say into your life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some people can't bear to get quiet with God.
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  Speaker 1: To just have an extended time of silence with the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: they've got to be doing something or reading something or
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  Speaker 1: thinking about something actively.
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  Speaker 1: But
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  Speaker 1: You need to learn to get your Bible out when
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  Speaker 1: you have a sense that God is trying to get
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  Speaker 1: your attention.
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  Speaker 1: And then just get quiet.
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  Speaker 1: And say Lord, speak to me and let the Lord
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  Speaker 1: direct your thoughts. If you need to start with one
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  Speaker 1: passage of Scripture and just say, Lord, do you have
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  Speaker 1: something to say to me here.
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  Speaker 1: Learn to listen when God gets your attention.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North