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Time with God - A Noticeable Shift in Your Heart · Quiet Time Conversations | Practical Discipleship

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why is quiet time necessary?
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  SPEAKER_00: Time with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a perfect example this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get up, it's a regular day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not really wanting to do quiet time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's other things that I could do.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm committed.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I get my coffee and I sit down in my chair and I feel nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just start talking to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just start talking and I'm praying.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I always remember this enter his courts with thanksgiving and praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's always my default.
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  SPEAKER_00: Enter his courts with thanksgiving and praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I want to enter his courts this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how I'm going to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanksgiving and praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: So now I just sit in my chair and I begin thanking him and praising him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I praise you for this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I praise you for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I keep going until something changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel different.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know how to explain that, but I go from feeling nothing to feeling him, feeling something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll know if you try this out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it probably took 10 to 15 minutes of I thank you and I praise you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm really, I'm not just saying words, I'm really thanking him and I'm really praising him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so then once I get over that hump and I start feeling him, then everything changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's now all God focused, whereas a minute ago, it was all me focused, and what am I going to do with my day?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the whole thing has just shifted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and not permanently, but while I'm doing this, it has shifted.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thought, you know, daily I am reminded that you are everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it shifted.
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  SPEAKER_00: My my what what is it?
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  SPEAKER_00: My spirit, my soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: It went from everything is here on earth, and it flipped over to you are everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: You give me everything, you provide everything, you're my life, you're my love.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And from one minute to the next, it was it's a complete change.
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  SPEAKER_00: I see this a lot in David's Psalms.
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  SPEAKER_00: I David's Psalms, a lot of times they will start out with his complaint, where are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't hear you, I can't see you, people are after me, where are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then there comes a time in the psalm where the net the very next paragraph, he's like, Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna do this, you're gonna do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what happened between one paragraph and the next?
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  SPEAKER_00: The flip, the switch.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: This the internal faith switch, it switched, and now instead of being completely alone, feeling alone in all of the stuff that I'm having to go through, I I just don't, I don't feel it anymore because it has I have moved into the courts.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm in his courts, I'm with him now, and everything just looks different over on this side.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I thought, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not daily that I'm reminded that he's my everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's when I spend time with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because there's a c there have been a couple of mornings uh this week that I had something to do and I didn't spend time with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the the day, the flesh, it just takes over.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just takes over.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I don't spend time with the Lord, I become my everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the one that I have to depend on, or my husband is the one that I have to depend on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when he doesn't do something, if he does something that doesn't make me happy, I'm mad at him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is the one that did something wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or my kids become my everything, or my job becomes my everything, or my bank account, or my stocks, or um my drugs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I say that?
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  SPEAKER_00: I've never been on drugs, but can I say that it becomes your everything?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or my alcohol becomes the thing that's going to get me through the day?
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  SPEAKER_00: Anything else will fill that blank for you when you don't spend the time, spending any time with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I realized this morning that when I don't spend time with him, I or something else becomes my everything for the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the thing that gets me through the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to say this I want to continue my faith journey to live in a place where my heart is with him all day, that it doesn't take a quiet time for me to be in this place where he is my everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm striving for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna teach me how to get there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, I don't know how to get there, but he teaches me something every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're headed there, and I'm excited about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think it is just natural to the flesh for something I see and hear to become my everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's in front of me, I can see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't see God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't, sometimes I can't feel God.
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  SPEAKER_00: For a lot of people, I can't hear God because we're listening intellectually and not faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, and intellectually, that's not where he speaks.
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  SPEAKER_00: He speaks in our hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: He lives in our hearts, he has set eternity in our hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where he speaks.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's where you have to learn to listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how?
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  SPEAKER_00: By sitting down with him and spending time with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to hear him, you have to spend time with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's just how it goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's harder for something you don't see to become your everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's all I wanted to say today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I encourage you to give it a try.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll see you next time.