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- episode 01 one breath one commitment: Father, I thank you for today. I thank you for the blessings. I thank you for the time we get to spend with these men. Thank you for the hardships that you're going to give us today. Please wrap a hedge of protection around us as we work and travel. Soften our hearts towards each other and towards other men. Give us the wisdom and the courage to follow the path. Help us to be the light and the darkness. It's in Jesus' name. Amen. How quickly does it take to get to rage? Not long. Less than the blink of an eye. There you go. So say when. Yep. So how fast should you be able To be at peace. And what does peace actually feel like to you? What is peace? Is it an idea? Or feel what is peace? So that's that's the part and believe we've talked about it enough. You have an idea of what peace is, but can you get to peace inside your body as quickly as you can anger? And what I'm trying to open up the door for is knowing that you can. Can love not overcome anger quickly? But I've practiced it ten thousand times a day for ten years. And that's what I want you to be able to have the idea to do intentionally for 20 days. Not the process, not the producing, not the doing more, not even the part of okay, I can identify it and see it and then still stay in your mind about it. No. One breath, one shift, one new perspective. this is my truth. This is Christ. This is Jesus. This is love and truth and reality. This is this is all of it. And you shift. Repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. And that's why you're stepping away from so many things. You want to do that. You you are choosing to do that. It is by choice to be able to put yourself in this place for you to be able to have this experience that nobody else around you is having. By choice, they don't even know. And it's amazing. It should motivate your soul to know. I don't have to have them know. That's why when you you start doing that, you're gonna hear other men, yeah. I did a fast, I did this, and I did it, and I stepped away from the food. And and it's a it's a it's an experience of like I did this and all these things, and it's not like What was revealed about you? What did God teach you about you? What were you able to then lay down and then step into and be free? What did it what did that learning create experientially in that moment? What transformed your life? What do you what do you mean transform my life? I just didn't eat, man. This here, the experience that you could have with God in these moments. You step into covenant with him, you do what you say you're gonna do, you separate from what you're said you're gonna separate from. You have the possibility there, if you're truly asking and seeking him, your experience with him will set you free. Mean like There are days that I wake up And I'm all excited about doing something and then Halfway through the day The incense the intensity or the excitement of doing that just feels off I don't talk much. fight. I can wake up a whole day without talking to anyone. if if I don't go to class and then I don't go around any of my friends. I can go the whole day without talking to a single person. Going a whole day without talking to somebody, that sounds pretty damn enjoyable. Okay. very good ability. Not many people have it. They need some stimulation. They need someone to keep their attention. But if you can just be without constant stimulus and entertainment from everyone, it's pretty powerful. What happens when you can just focus without speaking all the time. You learn a lot from watching and listening. As long as it's from the right the right intention though. So the whole Christ he withdrew but he didn't isolate. So I used to isolate a bunch because it was the wrong intention. But now withdrawing Either to connect or seek is to me that's the right intention of that that stillness, that quietness, watching, listening, observing, thinking, being Very good point. What if though to have a different experience? If it's if it's happening over and over, to have a different experience, you had to have a different mindset. You had to have a different perspective. Place different meaning on it. Once you place a different perspective or see it from a different place, then then you have the opportunity to experience it completely different. You create a completely different world. Thing is, is most often we can't see it from a different perspective. So we don't experience it emotionally from a different place. For the consecration, we know what the plan is going in. And we we know what it's not. And so as your mind tries to justify a different place, you know, even like, I'm gonna do this more and I'm gonna make it even harder and I'm gonna do this. Okay, well, you're setting yourself up for failure. Stay with what you said. Because you're gonna make it more intense, and then you're not gonna finish. What you have the opportunity is to notice, like, man, my soul is restless. Why is it restless? And if you settle in and calm your mind. And you can be still like we were at the at the forge, and you find presence in what it is, and you connect emotionally, this experience of no crazy thoughts. And I'm the one that's I'm turning one thought from a thousand thoughts into one. And I'm seeing and I'm choosing to have my thought on this. And I'm able to experience a different experience. When you can stay in this place and operate from that power and not have to create another alternate reality in your life in your mind to keep you biddy, busy and satisfied, two totally different experiences. That's what I want to see in my life, right? Lord, give me the opportunity to be able to experience you. in these other moments and choose you because I say that I want to choose you. But all too often we don't. Okay. And when you connect with that experience, there's an opportunity to have that experience where you're going to go, Man. Once I stopped thinking about YouTube and that it's the fix and that it is, I actually was able to slow down my mind, and my body was radiating with his presence, and I was at peace, and my mind was actually quiet. Good. But Close it out. John, will you breathe and pray us out, please, sir? Sure. Breathe in. Hold it. Exhale. Breathe in. Yeah, except. Lord, we thank you for the time that we've had this morning. We thank you for who you are. We thank you for everything you have us go through to mold our character. And Lord, I pray that as we go through the struggle in life that we seek you, we would seek your name and your guidance and your direction, Lord. So that Our character is as men, as Christian men, will be strengthened and represent you stronger. That people will see you in our lives through our actions and our words. Lord, I pray that you will protect each and every one of us as we go out into the world today in our lives. And I pray that everything we say and do may it always bring honor to you in Jesus' name. Amen. The truths of others. But you're not changing your choosing. True that.