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Becoming Strong in the Lord Pt. 4 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm John North. I'm here to help you
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  Speaker 1: start your day the best way, walking with Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: listening to Him, getting involved in your relationship with Him
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  Speaker 1: in a way that is life changing.
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  Speaker 1: Have you learned the secret of spending daily time with God?
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  Speaker 1: It changes your life. It changes the way you think
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  Speaker 1: about life. It changes the way you respond to life.
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  Speaker 1: It changes the way you are able to respond to
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  Speaker 1: difficult circumstances, even to tragedies that come your way. It
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  Speaker 1: changes the way you think about your conversations with people.
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  Speaker 1: Everything about life changes when you're walking with God.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking this week at the theme of becoming strong
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: That's what God wants for you. We've seen that the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of that is God's word, learning to spend time
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  Speaker 1: in God's word, to build your life around what God's
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  Speaker 1: word says. And secondly, to learn to obey God when
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  Speaker 1: you know what God wants for your life. To have
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  Speaker 1: already come to the conclusion, God, whatever you want from
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  Speaker 1: me is what I want for me too, even if
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  Speaker 1: it's hard, I know it's the best.
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  Speaker 1: And then to realise that God has a goal in
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  Speaker 1: your life. He is working in your life to make
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  Speaker 1: you more and more and more like Jesus Christ, in
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  Speaker 1: the way that you live, in the way that you choose.
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  Speaker 1: In the way that you respond to various situations, in
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  Speaker 1: the way that you relate to other people. That's his goal.
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  Speaker 1: And when that becomes your goal too, it gives you
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual motivation that gives strength to your spiritual life.
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  Speaker 1: Today I want to look at another key to becoming
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  Speaker 1: strong in the Lord. Found in Psalm 119, starting in
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  Speaker 1: verse 15. The psalmist says, I will meditate.
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  Speaker 1: On your precepts.
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  Speaker 1: And regard your ways.
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  Speaker 1: I will delight in your statutes. I will not forget
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  Speaker 1: your word.
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  Speaker 1: Deal bountifully with your servant that I may live and
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  Speaker 1: keep your word. Open my eyes that I may behold
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  Speaker 1: wonderful things from your law.
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  Speaker 1: Um. Yesterday we looked at becoming like Jesus. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to become like Jesus, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: develop in you what the Bible calls the mind of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: you need to know His word.
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  Speaker 1: That's how he reveals to you what is on his
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  Speaker 1: heart and mind. You gain strength by personally searching the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures and then applying it to your daily life.
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  Speaker 1: I will meditate on your precepts and regard your ways,
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  Speaker 1: the psalmist says. I will not forget your word.
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  Speaker 1: Have you learned to put into practise a prayerful practical
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  Speaker 1: outworking of the word of God in your life? Have
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  Speaker 1: you learned to just stop and think for a while,
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  Speaker 1: Have you learned to just stop and think for a
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  Speaker 1: while about what you've just read that really spoke to
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  Speaker 1: you and allow God to turn it over in your
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  Speaker 1: mind and bring into clarity what it means for you?
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  Speaker 1: Have you learned to then respond to God in prayer
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  Speaker 1: about what He's saying to you and showing you?
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  Speaker 1: Um. Learn to love time with God and to meditate
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  Speaker 1: and think and work out what you're reading in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Other people will begin to see it and be attracted
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  Speaker 1: to what God is doing in you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North.