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What Separates God_s Voice from your Inner Thoughts · Bible Ascent

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  Speaker 1: Three years ago, I made a fifty thousand dollars mistake
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  Speaker 1: because I was convinced God told me to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I was sitting in my office praying about a business
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  Speaker 1: opportunity that seemed too good to pass up. A friend
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  Speaker 1: approached me with an investment that promised incredible returns. I
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  Speaker 1: prayed about it for weeks. I felt peace, I felt excitement.
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  Speaker 1: I heard a voice that said, step out in faith.
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  Speaker 1: This is your moment. I'm opening a door for you.
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  Speaker 1: So I quit my stable job. I cashed out my
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  Speaker 1: retirement account. I moved my family across the country to
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  Speaker 1: pursue what I genuinely believed was a divine calling. My
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  Speaker 1: wife had concerns, but I assured her this was God's plan.
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  Speaker 1: Six months later, the business collapsed. The investment was a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: I was broke, my marriage was hanging by a thread,
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  Speaker 1: and I was sitting in an empty apartment at two
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  Speaker 1: in the morning asking myself the question that haunts millions
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  Speaker 1: of Christians. Was that really God? Or did I just
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  Speaker 1: hear what I wanted to hear. Here's what terrifies me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not alone in this Right now, someone watching this
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  Speaker 1: video is standing at a crossroads you're about to make
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  Speaker 1: a life altering decision based on what you think is
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  Speaker 1: God's voice. Maybe you're about to say yes to a
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  Speaker 1: relationship that your friends are warning you about. Maybe you're
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  Speaker 1: about to walk away from an opportunity that was actually
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  Speaker 1: his plan for your breakthrough. Maybe you're about to stay
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  Speaker 1: silent when you were supposed to speak up and change
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  Speaker 1: someone's life. And the worst part, you won't realize your
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  Speaker 1: mistake until it's too late, until the damage is done,
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  Speaker 1: until you're sitting in your own empty apartment wondering how
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  Speaker 1: you got it so wrong. But here's what most Christians
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  Speaker 1: don't know, and this is what nobody taught us in
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  Speaker 1: Sunday School. There's a test that ninety nine percent of
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  Speaker 1: believers miss, and once you understand it, you'll never never
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  Speaker 1: confuse God's voice with your own thoughts. Again, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give you that test in this video. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to break down exactly how to distinguish between three competing
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  Speaker 1: voices that are all talking to you at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: But first I need to show you the most dangerous
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  Speaker 1: lie the enemy has convinced Christians to believe about hearing
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  Speaker 1: God's voice. Stay with me, because what I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: reveal at the five minute mark will completely change how
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  Speaker 1: you make every major decision for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: The truth is this, God doesn't play hide and seek
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  Speaker 1: with his children. John Chapter ten, verse twenty seven says
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  Speaker 1: it clearly, my sheep hear my voice, and I know them,
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  Speaker 1: and they follow me. Not try to hear, not hope
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  Speaker 1: to hear, not occasionally get lucky and hear. They hear.
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  Speaker 1: Its present tense, it's ongoing. It's the baseline reality of
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  Speaker 1: being a believer. If you're struggling to hear, clearly, you
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  Speaker 1: might not have a spiritual problem. You might just be
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  Speaker 1: listening to the wrong frequency. And I'm going to show
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  Speaker 1: you exactly how to tune in. Look. I need you
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  Speaker 1: to know where I'm coming from. I've spent the last
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years in pastoral ministry. I've counseled hundreds of people
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  Speaker 1: through this exact struggle. I've sat across from the CEO
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  Speaker 1: who walked away from a million dollar deal because he
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  Speaker 1: thought God said no, only to watch his competitor take
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity and build an empire. I've held the hand
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  Speaker 1: of a single mom sobbing in my office because she
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  Speaker 1: stayed in an abusive relationship for three years, believing a
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  Speaker 1: voice that told her to have more faith and he'll change.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't theoretical theology for me. These are real people
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  Speaker 1: with real consequences. These are marriages that ended, businesses that failed,
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  Speaker 1: and lives that were derailed because someone couldn't tell the
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  Speaker 1: difference between God's voice and the enemy's whisper. So what
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to show share with you isn't just Bible knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Its battle tested wisdom that could literally save your life
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  Speaker 1: from years of regret. So why is hearing God's voice
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  Speaker 1: so confusing for so many sincere Christians? Let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you what I've discovered after walking through this with hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of believers. We were taught how to obey God, but
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  Speaker 1: we were never taught how to listen to God. Think
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  Speaker 1: about your experience growing up in church, or even as
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  Speaker 1: a new believer. You learned the Ten Commandments, you memorized
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  Speaker 1: John three point sixteen. You were told to read your Bible,
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  Speaker 1: pray every day, and show up on Sunday. You learned
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  Speaker 1: what to do and what not to do. But did
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  Speaker 1: anyone ever sit you down and teach you the difference
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  Speaker 1: between conviction and condemnation. Did anyone show you how to
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  Speaker 1: recognize the enemy's accusation versus the spirit's correction? Did anyone
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  Speaker 1: explain what God's peace actually feels like compared to the
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  Speaker 1: flesh's comfort. Probably not. Here's what happened. We built an
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  Speaker 1: entire religious system around compliance, and we forgot about connection.
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  Speaker 1: We reduced Christianity to a rule book instead of nurturing
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  Speaker 1: it as a relationship. We treated the Bible like an
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  Speaker 1: instruction manual you consult when something breaks, instead of a
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  Speaker 1: love letter you read to know the heart of the
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  Speaker 1: one who wrote it. We approached prayer like a one
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  Speaker 1: way monologue where we dump our requests and then hang up,
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  Speaker 1: instead of a two way conversation where we actually wait
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  Speaker 1: for a response. And now we have millions of Christians
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  Speaker 1: who are desperate to hear from Heaven but have no
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  Speaker 1: framework for what they're listening for. They're spiritually starving for
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  Speaker 1: intimacy with God, but they don't know how to cultivate it.
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  Speaker 1: But here's what I need you to understand. And this
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  Speaker 1: is the foundation for everything else we're going to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Hearing God's voice isn't a rare spiritual achievement. Reserved for
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  Speaker 1: super saints, prophets, or people who've been Christians for thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: It's not what a special gift that only certain people receive.
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  Speaker 1: It's the natural instinct of a sheep who knows their shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: Every single believer has the Holy Spirit living inside them.
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  Speaker 1: Romans eight fourteen says for all who are led by
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of God are children of God, not some,
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  Speaker 1: not the elite all. If you're saved, you have access
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  Speaker 1: to God's voice. The problem isn't that God isn't speaking.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is that there are three voices competing for
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  Speaker 1: your attention at any given moment, and most Christians don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to tell them apart. And here's the shocking
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  Speaker 1: part I'm going to reveal in just a moment. One
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  Speaker 1: of those voices sounds exactly like wisdom, It sounds exactly
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  Speaker 1: like logic, It even sounds like peace. But it will
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  Speaker 1: lead you straight into destruction if you don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to identify it. Let me introduce you to the three voices.
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  Speaker 1: Once you understand these, your entire spiritual life will she
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  Speaker 1: voice number one the flesh. Let me tell you about Sarah.
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  Speaker 1: She was twenty eight years old, successful marketing director deeply
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  Speaker 1: devoted to her faith and desperately lonely. She'd been single
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  Speaker 1: for five years, and she was starting to believe she'd
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  Speaker 1: missed her window for marriage. Then she met Ryan at
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  Speaker 1: a professional conference. He was charming, ambitious, shared her career interests,
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  Speaker 1: and everything looked perfect on paper. There was just one problem.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan wasn't a believer. He respected her faith, didn't mock it,
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  Speaker 1: but he had no personal relationship with Jesus. In his words,
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  Speaker 1: I'm spiritual, just not religious. Sarah knew what the Bible
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  Speaker 1: said about being unequally yoked. She'd even counseled her friends
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  Speaker 1: to avoid this exact situation. But then she started hearing
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  Speaker 1: a voice. It said, you can lead him to Christ.
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  Speaker 1: That's what love does, right. God brought you together for
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  Speaker 1: a reason. Don't let legalism rob you of your happiness.
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  Speaker 1: You've been faithful for so long. Don't you deserve this.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you trust God to redeem this relationship. That voice
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  Speaker 1: sounded reasonable, It even sounded spiritual, but it was the
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  Speaker 1: voice of her flesh. The flesh has very specific characteristics,
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  Speaker 1: and you need to memorize these first. The flesh is urgent,
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  Speaker 1: It creates artificial deadlines, It says, do it now before
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity passes. Strike while the iron is hot. You
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  Speaker 1: might not get another chance. The flesh doesn't want to wait,
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  Speaker 1: because waiting requires trust, and trust requires surrender. Second, the
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  Speaker 1: flesh is comfortable. It gravitates toward the path of least resistance.
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  Speaker 1: It calculates what's the easiest option, what requires the least sacrifice,
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  Speaker 1: What allows me to stay in control role and get
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  Speaker 1: what I want without having to die to myself. The
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  Speaker 1: flesh hates discomfort. It hates inconvenience. It hates anything that
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  Speaker 1: challenges its autonomy. Third, the flesh is impulsive. It operates
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  Speaker 1: on feelings, not faith. It makes decisions based on how
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  Speaker 1: things feel in the moment, rather than on long term
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  Speaker 1: kingdom purposes. Listen carefully to the message the flesh constantly broadcasts.
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  Speaker 1: God will understand your situation. You've earned this blessing. The
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  Speaker 1: rules apply to other people, but your circumstances are different.
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  Speaker 1: You've been faithful long enough. It's your turn now. The
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  Speaker 1: flesh is a master at using spiritual language to justify
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  Speaker 1: selfish decisions. It will quote scripture out of context. It
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  Speaker 1: will remind you of God's grace to excuse your disobedience.
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  Speaker 1: It will tell you that faith means taking what you
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  Speaker 1: want right now, rather than waiting on God's timing. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the biblical example that exposes the flesh perfectly. Jesus in
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  Speaker 1: the Garden of Deathsemine Matthew twenty six forty one. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: asks his disciples to stay awake and pray with him
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  Speaker 1: during his darkest hour. But what happens. They fall asleep
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  Speaker 1: three times, and Jesus makes this profound observation. The spirit,
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  Speaker 1: indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Notice the distinction.
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  Speaker 1: Their spirit wanted to support Jesus. Their spirit wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be faithful. Their spirit wanted to stay alert and intercede.
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  Speaker 1: But their flesh, their flesh was tired. Their flesh wanted comfort.
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  Speaker 1: Their flesh wanted to check out and avoid the discomfort
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  Speaker 1: of the moment. That's exactly how the flesh operates in
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  Speaker 1: your life. When God calls you to a difficult conversation,
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  Speaker 1: the flesh says, avoid conflict, keep the peace, don't rock
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  Speaker 1: the boat. When God asks you to forgive someone who
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  Speaker 1: wounded you deeply, the flesh as they don't deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: Protect yourself, build walls. When God prompts you to give sacrificially.
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  Speaker 1: The flesh says, you worked hard for that money. You
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  Speaker 1: need security. God doesn't expect you to be irresponsible. Now
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  Speaker 1: here's the critical nuance. The flesh isn't always wrong in
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  Speaker 1: its observations. You might actually be tired and need rest.
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  Speaker 1: The person might not deserve forgiveness in human terms. You
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  Speaker 1: might legitimately need financial wisdom. But the flesh is incapable
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  Speaker 1: of seeing beyond the immediate situation. It has no vision
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  Speaker 1: for what God is building in you through obedience. It
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  Speaker 1: can't see the bigger picture of how your temporary discomfort
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  Speaker 1: is producing eternal glory. Sarah ignored her uneasiness and married Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: That was two years ago. Last month, she sat in
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  Speaker 1: my office crying because he's pressuring her to stop going
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  Speaker 1: to church. He mocks her when she prays. He's isolated
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  Speaker 1: her from her believing friends. And now how she feels
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  Speaker 1: trapped in a marriage that dishonors God, all because she
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  Speaker 1: listened to her flesh instead of waiting on God's best. Now,
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  Speaker 1: before I show you the second voice, I need to
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  Speaker 1: warn you about something crucial. The next voice I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to reveal is so subtle. So deceptive that even mature
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  Speaker 1: believers with decades of faith fall for it every single day.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there's one specific phrase this voice uses that
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  Speaker 1: sounds exactly like godly wisdom, sounds like it came straight
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  Speaker 1: from scripture, but it's actually one of the enemy's most
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  Speaker 1: effective lies. I'm going to tell you what that phrase
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  Speaker 1: is in just a moment, and when you hear it,
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  Speaker 1: you'll realize how many times you've almost been deceived. Voice
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  Speaker 1: number two, the enemy. Let me tell you what happened
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  Speaker 1: to Marcus. He was a worship leader at a thriving church,
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  Speaker 1: married with two kids, and by all appearances, he was
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  Speaker 1: living the Christian dream. But Marcus had a secret. Years ago,
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  Speaker 1: before he came to faith, he'd struggled with addiction. He'd
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  Speaker 1: been clean for eight years, but the shame still haunted him.
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  Speaker 1: One night, after a particularly stressful week, he was lying
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  Speaker 1: in bed and heard a voice. It said, you're such
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  Speaker 1: a fraud. You stand on that stage every Sunday leading worship,
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  Speaker 1: but if people knew who you really were, they'd be disgusted.
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  Speaker 1: You're not worthy to serve God. You're contaminated. You think
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  Speaker 1: eight years of sobriety erases what you did. God knows
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  Speaker 1: the church would kick you out if they knew the truth.
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  Speaker 1: You should just quit before they find out. That voice
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  Speaker 1: kept Marcus paralyzed for months. He stopped volunteering, He withdrew
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  Speaker 1: from community. He convinced himself he was protecting the church
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  Speaker 1: by distancing himself. But that voice wasn't protecting anyone. That
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  Speaker 1: voice was the enemy trying to neutralize a threat. The
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  Speaker 1: enemy's voice has three primary characteristics, and understanding these could
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  Speaker 1: save you from years of spiritual bondage. First, the enemy's
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  Speaker 1: voice accuses Revelation twelve ten calls him the accuser of
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  Speaker 1: our brothers and sisters. His entire strategy is built on accusation.
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  Speaker 1: He reminds you of your past. He magnifies your failures.
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  Speaker 1: He replays your worst moments on a loop in your mind.
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  Speaker 1: He says, you call yourself a Christian, look at what
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  Speaker 1: you did, look at what you thought, look at what
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  Speaker 1: you still struggle with. You're disqualified, your damaged goods. God
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  Speaker 1: can't use someone like you. Second, the enemy's voice rushes you.
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  Speaker 1: He creates false urgency around decisions, especially bad ones. He says,
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  Speaker 1: you have to decide right now. You can't wait you're
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  Speaker 1: running out of time. If you don't act immediately, you'll
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  Speaker 1: miss your chance. Why because he knows that if you
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  Speaker 1: slow down, seek counsel, and wait on God, you'll recognize
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  Speaker 1: the trap. Third, the enemy's voice spreads fear. Two Timothy
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  Speaker 1: one point seven says God has not given us a
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  Speaker 1: spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and
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  Speaker 1: of a sound mind. So if the voice you're hearing
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  Speaker 1: is driving you toward fear, anxiety, paranoia, or despair, it's
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  Speaker 1: not God. It's the enemy. Now here's the most important
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  Speaker 1: distinction you'll hear in this entire video. Write this down,
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  Speaker 1: memorize it, teach it to your kids. God brings conviction
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  Speaker 1: that leads to repentance and restoration. The enemy brings condemnation
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  Speaker 1: that leads to shame and separation. Let me say it again,
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  Speaker 1: because this is life changing. Conviction says you made a mistake,
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  Speaker 1: but you're not a mistake. That action doesn't define you.
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  Speaker 1: Turn around, confess it. I'm still here, I still love you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move forward together. Condemnation says you are the mistake.
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  Speaker 1: That action proves who you really are. You're worthless, You're
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  Speaker 1: beyond help. Stay away from God because you're too filthy
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  Speaker 1: for his presence. Conviction produces godly sorrow that leads to life.
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  Speaker 1: Condemnation produces worldly sorrow that leads to death. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the garden of Eden in Genesis three to one. The
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  Speaker 1: serpent doesn't show up with horns and a pitchfork announcing
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to destroy you. He shows up with a
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  Speaker 1: subtle question. Did God really say you must not eat
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  Speaker 1: from any tree in the garden? Notice the strategy God
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  Speaker 1: had given clear instruction about one tree. The enemy twists
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  Speaker 1: it to make it sound like God was restrictive, unfair,
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  Speaker 1: and withholding good things from them. The enemy loves to
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  Speaker 1: attack your identity because if he can confuse you about
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  Speaker 1: who you are, he can control what you do. He whispers,
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  Speaker 1: you're a failure, You're an addict. You're unlovable, not smart enough,
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  Speaker 1: you're too damaged. You've messed up too many times. God
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  Speaker 1: tolerates you, but he's disappointed in you. And here's the
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  Speaker 1: phrase I warned you about earlier, the one that sounds
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  Speaker 1: spiritual but is actually demonic. God helps those who help themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard that before? It sounds wise, it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like faith and personal responsibility, but it's not in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually the enemy convincing you to operate in your
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  Speaker 1: own strength instead of depending on God's power. It's self
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  Speaker 1: sufficiency dressed up as spirituality. Here's how you spot the
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  Speaker 1: enemy's voice. It always moves you away from God, always
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  Speaker 1: isolates you from community, always makes you want to hide
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  Speaker 1: instead of run to the father. Marcus finally broke down
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  Speaker 1: and confessed his struggle to his pastor. You know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: The pastor hugged him and said, brother, that's why we
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  Speaker 1: have grace. Your past doesn't disqualify you. It qualifies you
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  Speaker 1: to help others who are struggling with the same thing. Today,
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  Speaker 1: Marcus leads a recovery ministry that's helped dozens of men
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  Speaker 1: find freedom. The very thing the enemy tried to use
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  Speaker 1: to silence him became his greatest platform for ministry. Now
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  Speaker 1: stay with me, because the third voice is the one
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  Speaker 1: you actually need to hear. But it's also the hardest
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  Speaker 1: to recognize because it doesn't shout. And I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: give you the most practical, actionable test you've ever heard
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  Speaker 1: for identifying God's voice in real time. Voice number three,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit. Let me tell you about Jennifer. She had
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  Speaker 1: a six figure job offer sitting on her desk, a
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  Speaker 1: fortune five hundred company corner office, impressive title, triple her
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  Speaker 1: current salary by every measurable standard. This was the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: of a lifetime, but Jennifer couldn't shake a feeling. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't dramatic. There was no audible voice from heaven, no
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  Speaker 1: angelic visitation, just a quiet, persistent uneasiness every time she
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  Speaker 1: thought about accepting the position. Logically it made perfect sense.
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  Speaker 1: Her family needed the money, this was career advancement. Anyone
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  Speaker 1: would say yes. But that uneasiness wouldn't go away. She
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  Speaker 1: told me, I can't explain it, but something in my
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  Speaker 1: spirit keeps saying no. It doesn't feel wrong exactly, but
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel right either. There's no peace. Jennifer turned
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  Speaker 1: down the offer. Her friends thought she was crazy, her
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  Speaker 1: family questioned her judgment. Three months later, a different position
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  Speaker 1: opened up at a Christian nonprofit, lower pay than the
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  Speaker 1: fortune five hundred offer, but still better than her current salary.
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  Speaker 1: The work aligned perfectly with her values, the culture honored God,
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  Speaker 1: and the moment she interviewed, she felt that deep, unmistakable
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  Speaker 1: peace she'd been waiting for the Holy. Spirit's voice has
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  Speaker 1: three characters arteristics that are radically different from the flesh
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  Speaker 1: and the enemy. First, it's still first. Kings nineteen eleven
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  Speaker 1: through twelve tells the story of Elijah encountering God. God
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  Speaker 1: wasn't in the powerful wind that tore mountains apart. He
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  Speaker 1: wasn't in the earthquake that shook the ground. He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in the fire that consumed everything. He was in the
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  Speaker 1: gentle whisper, the still small voice. Why does God whisper?
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  Speaker 1: Because whispers require intimacy. You have to be close to
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  Speaker 1: someone to hear them whisper. You have to eliminate the
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  Speaker 1: noise around you. You have to lean in with your
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  Speaker 1: full attention. God whispers because he wants proximity, not just obedience. Second,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit's voice is consistent. It doesn't contradict itself. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't change based on your emotions or circumstances. It aligns
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  Speaker 1: with the character of God revealed in scripture. James one p.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen says God does not change like shiftfting shadows. His
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  Speaker 1: voice today will be consistent with his voice yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: his voice tomorrow. Third, the spirit's voice brings peace. But
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  Speaker 1: here's the critical nuance most Christians miss. The peace of
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  Speaker 1: God is not the same as the comfort of the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the Spirit directs you towards something uncomfortable, even scary,
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  Speaker 1: But beneath the surface fear there's a deep, unexplainable piece.
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  Speaker 1: It's like standing in the eye of a hurricane. Everything
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  Speaker 1: around you is chaos, but where you're standing is perfectly still.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit's voice will challenge you without crushing you. It
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  Speaker 1: will call you out of your comfort zone, but it
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  Speaker 1: will do it with such grace that even in the difficulty,
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  Speaker 1: you sense his presence. The voice of the Spirit often
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a sudden knowing that won't go away, a
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  Speaker 1: persistent thought that keeps returning, a piece about a decision
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't make logical sense, or a conviction that challenges
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  Speaker 1: you to grow but never condemns you for where you are.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes God's voice tells you to do something incredibly difficult,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a lightness in your spirit, even though the
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  Speaker 1: instruction feels heavy. That's the paradox of his leading heavy instruction,
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  Speaker 1: light spirit. Okay, so now you understand the three voices,
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  Speaker 1: but how do you actually test what you're hearing? When
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  Speaker 1: you're standing at a decision point, and you need clarity
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  Speaker 1: right now. Let me give you three filters that will
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  Speaker 1: eliminate ninety five percent of your confusion. These are non
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  Speaker 1: negotiable tests. If what you're hearing doesn't pass all three,
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  Speaker 1: it's not God. Filter one scripture alignment. God will never, ever,
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  Speaker 1: under any circumstances, contradict his written word. Never. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how peaceful you feel about it. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: how much you've prayed. I don't care how badly you
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  Speaker 1: want it. I don't care if an age angel appears
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  Speaker 1: and tells you otherwise. If the voice contradicts clear biblical teaching,
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  Speaker 1: it's not God. Galatians one eight says, even if we
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  Speaker 1: or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other
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  Speaker 1: than the one we preach to you, let them be
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  Speaker 1: under God's curse. That's how serious this is. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: is your foundation, it's your plumb line. It's your measuring stick.
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  Speaker 1: For every other voice you hear, let me show you
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  Speaker 1: a biblical example. Matthew sixteen twenty one through twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus tells his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: suffer be killed, and rise again on the third day, Peter,
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  Speaker 1: who loves Jesus, deeply pulls him aside and says, never, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: this shall never happen to you. Now pause. Does Peter's
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  Speaker 1: rebuke sound noble. Absolutely, He's trying to protect his teacher.
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  Speaker 1: He's showing compassion, he cares. From Peter's emotional perspective, this
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  Speaker 1: is love. But look at Jesus's response, get behind me, Satan.
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  Speaker 1: You are a stumbling block to me. You do not
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  Speaker 1: have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus recognized that even though Peter's words came from a
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  Speaker 1: place of care, they were contrary to God's plan. They
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  Speaker 1: sounded good emotionally, they felt good relationally, but they were
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  Speaker 1: spiritually wrong because they contradicted what God had already revealed
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  Speaker 1: about the Messiah's mission. This is why you need the
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  Speaker 1: Bible as your unchanging standard. Your feelings can deceive you,
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  Speaker 1: your circumstances can mislead you, your logic can rationalize almost anything.
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  Speaker 1: But God's word doesn't shift with culture, emotions, or personal preferences.
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  Speaker 1: If someone says God told me to leave my spouse,
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  Speaker 1: but there are no biblical grounds for divorce, that's not God.
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  Speaker 1: If you feel led to pursue a romantic relationship with
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  Speaker 1: an unbeliever, that's not God because Second Corinthians six point
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  Speaker 1: fourteen already answered that question. If you sense permission to
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  Speaker 1: bend the truth, manipulate a situation, or compromise integrity for
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  Speaker 1: a supposedly good cause, that's not God because Proverbs twelve
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  Speaker 1: twenty two says lying lips are an abomination to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Filter two. The nature of peace. Here's where it gets nuanced,
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  Speaker 1: and this is where a lot of Christians get tripped up.
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  Speaker 1: The peace of God is fundamentally different from the comfort
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  Speaker 1: of the flesh. Let me say it again. God's peace
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  Speaker 1: and human comfort are not synonyms. Sometimes the voice of
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  Speaker 1: the spirit will direct you towards something uncomfortable, even terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: But beneath the surface fear, there's a deep, unexplainable peace
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  Speaker 1: that transcends your circumstances. It's the peace Paul describes in
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  Speaker 1: Felltpians four to seven, the peace of God which transcends
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  Speaker 1: all understanding. Isaiah twenty six' three says you will keep
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  Speaker 1: in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast because they
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  Speaker 1: trust in. You notice that the peace isn't dependent on
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  Speaker 1: your circumstances being comfortable or. Predictable it's dependent on your
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  Speaker 1: mind being fixed On. God let me give you a practical.
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  Speaker 1: Example Maybe god is calling you to have a difficult
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  Speaker 1: conversation with someone who hurt. You your flesh doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do, it your emotions are screaming against. It your
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  Speaker 1: logic says they don't deserve the confrontation because they won't change.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway but underneath all that, noise there's a quiet knowing that,
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  Speaker 1: says this is the right, Thing this is the path to.
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  Speaker 1: Freedom this conversation will bring, healing even if it's. Hard
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  Speaker 1: that's divine. Peace it's not the absence of, difficulty it's
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  Speaker 1: the presence of clarity in the midst of. Difficulty you
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  Speaker 1: can have peace about a hard decision because you know
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  Speaker 1: it aligns With god's, character his, ways and his purposes
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  Speaker 1: for your. Life now flip. It if you're considering a
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  Speaker 1: decision that seems, easy, comfortable and, beneficial but there's a
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  Speaker 1: nagging uneasiness in your spirit that won't go, away pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to. That sometimes what looks like an open door
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  Speaker 1: is actually a, trap and The Holy spirit is trying
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  Speaker 1: to protect you from a disaster you can't see. Yet
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  Speaker 1: filter three the, Fruit jesus said In matthew seven. Sixteen
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  Speaker 1: by their, fruit you will recognize. Them this principle applies
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  Speaker 1: to voices just as much as it applies to. People
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  Speaker 1: what is the end result of following this? Voice where
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  Speaker 1: does it lead? You the voice Of, god always without,
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  Speaker 1: exception draws you closer To. Him it produces the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit listed In galatians five twenty two through twenty. Three, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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  Speaker 1: gentleness and self. Control even When god's voice calls you
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  Speaker 1: to something difficult or, painful it results in deeper, surrender
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  Speaker 1: greater intimacy With, him and spiritual. Maturity the voice of
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  Speaker 1: the enemy pushes you away From god through, fear, shame,
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  Speaker 1: pride or. Isolation it produces, anxiety, depression spiritual, paralysis and relational.
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  Speaker 1: Breakdown if following a certain voice makes you want to
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  Speaker 1: hide From, god Avoid christian, community or withdraw from, accountability
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  Speaker 1: that's a massive red flag waving in your. Face the
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  Speaker 1: voice of the flesh pulls you toward temporary satisfaction followed
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  Speaker 1: by long term. Emptiness it produces immediate gratification that leads
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  Speaker 1: to regret shallow relationships built on selfishness and a perpetual
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  Speaker 1: cycle of pursuing more without ever being truly. Satisfied look
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  Speaker 1: At exodus thirty three eleven as your. Model The lord
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  Speaker 1: would speak To moses face to, face as one speaks
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  Speaker 1: to a. Friend that's the. Goal that's What god wants with,
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  Speaker 1: you not a, distant formal religious transaction where you submit
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  Speaker 1: prayer requests and hope for the. Best he wants. Friendship
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  Speaker 1: he wants. Conversation he wants an ongoing relationship where his
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  Speaker 1: voice becomes as familiar to you as the voice of
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  Speaker 1: your closest. Friend let me bring this full circle with
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  Speaker 1: a truth that completely transformed my life after that fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Disaster you cannot recognize the voice of a.
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  Speaker 1: Stranger think about this. Practically you know how you can
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  Speaker 1: identify your best friend's voice in a crowded room without
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  Speaker 1: even seeing their. Face you know how you can tell
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  Speaker 1: when your mom is upset just by the way she
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  Speaker 1: says hello on the. Phone you know how you can
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  Speaker 1: distinguish between different family members walking in the house just
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  Speaker 1: by the sound of their. Footsteps that kind of recognition
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  Speaker 1: doesn't come from reading a manual of voice. Identification it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't come from attending a seminar on auditory. Discernment it
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  Speaker 1: comes from. Relationship it comes from hours and hours and
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  Speaker 1: hours of. Conversation it comes from paying attention to, patterns, nuances,
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  Speaker 1: tone and personality over extended. Time it's exactly the same With.
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  Speaker 1: God the more time you spend in his, presence the
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  Speaker 1: more familiar his voice. Becomes you start to recognize his,
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  Speaker 1: Character you learn his, ways you understand his. Heart you
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  Speaker 1: develop a spiritual sensitivity that allows you to discern his
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  Speaker 1: leading even in, confusing complicated situations where there's no clear
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  Speaker 1: right or wrong. Answer and here's WHAT i desperately wish
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  Speaker 1: someone had told me BEFORE i made that fifty thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: mistake BEFORE i uprooted my, family BEFORE i cashed out
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  Speaker 1: everything on WHAT i thought was divine. Direction god is
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  Speaker 1: not hiding his will from death you like some cosmic
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  Speaker 1: puzzle you have to solve with the right spiritual. Formula
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  Speaker 1: he's not playing. Games he's not testing you to see
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  Speaker 1: if you're smart enough to figure him. Out he wants
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  Speaker 1: you to hear. Him he wants you to know. Him
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  Speaker 1: he wants you to walk in the confidence of his.
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  Speaker 1: Guidance but here's what we consistently get wrong As, christians
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  Speaker 1: and this is why so many of us are. Confused
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  Speaker 1: we Approach god looking for signs instead of seeking. Relationship
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  Speaker 1: we want the burning bush. Experience we want the audible
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  Speaker 1: voice that removes all. Doubt we want the supernatural confirmation
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  Speaker 1: that eliminates. Risk we Want god's guidance Without god's. Presence
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  Speaker 1: but What god wants to give us is so much
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  Speaker 1: better than a. Sign he wants to give us. Himself
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  Speaker 1: he wants to give us intimacy where his voice becomes second.
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  Speaker 1: Nature he wants to give us a relationship where we
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  Speaker 1: recognize his, leading not because we've mastered some, technique but
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  Speaker 1: because we know his. Heart remember that PERSON i described
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of this, video the one pacing in
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  Speaker 1: their room at two in the, morning desperate for, answers
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  Speaker 1: paralyzed by, confusion terrified of making the wrong. Choice that
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: was me three years. Ago that doesn't have to be
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  Speaker 1: you starting. Today you now have the. Framework you understand
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  Speaker 1: the three, voices you have the three, Filters you know
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  Speaker 1: what to look. For the knowledge is no longer your.
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  Speaker 1: Problem the question is what you're going to. Do with.
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  Speaker 1: It so here's WHAT i want you to. Do AND
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  Speaker 1: i need you to do this right, now not, later
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  Speaker 1: not when it's. Convenient if you're serious about Hearing god's
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  Speaker 1: voice with, CLARITY i need three specific actions from. You,
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  Speaker 1: FIRST i want you to comment below with your biggest
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  Speaker 1: struggle in Hearing. God AND i don't want a generic
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  Speaker 1: prey for me. COMMENT i want. Specifics tell me what
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  Speaker 1: decision you're facing right. Now is it a relation relationship
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  Speaker 1: you're unsure. About is it a job opportunity you're wrestling.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: With is it a conversation you're. Avoiding is it a
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: direction for your life you can't get clarity. On when
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  Speaker 1: you write it down, publicly you create, Accountability you invite
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  Speaker 1: community into your discernment, process AND i promise you someone
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  Speaker 1: else watching needs to know they're not alone in that exact. Struggle,
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  Speaker 1: SECOND i want you to commit right now to seven
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  Speaker 1: days of intentional, listening not seven days of talking At
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  Speaker 1: god with your prayer, list seven days of sitting in
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  Speaker 1: complete silence for just ten minutes each. DAY i want
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  Speaker 1: you to turn off your, phone eliminate every, distraction get
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  Speaker 1: to a place where you won't be, interrupted and simply,
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  Speaker 1: say Speak. Lord your servant is. Listening and then, wait just,
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  Speaker 1: Wait sit in the, silence don't fill it with more,
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  Speaker 1: Words Let god fill. It you will be absolutely shocked
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  Speaker 1: at what you hear when you finally stop filling every
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  Speaker 1: moment with noise and. Activity, THIRD i want you to
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  Speaker 1: share this video with one specific. Person you already know
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  Speaker 1: who they. Are their face came to your mind at
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: some point during this. Video they're about to make a major.
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  Speaker 1: Decision they're, confused they're desperate for. Clarity they need this.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Message don't wait until, tomorrow because tomorrow turns into. Never
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  Speaker 1: send it to them right, now text, it message, it email,
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  Speaker 1: it whatever it. Takes and if you want to go even,
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  Speaker 1: Deeper i've created a completely free resource called The Seven
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  Speaker 1: Day Listening. Challenge it's a detailed guide that walks you
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  Speaker 1: through exactly how to practice here In god's, voice with journaling,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: prompts scripture, passages and practical exercises for each. Day the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: link is right there in the description below this. Video
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  Speaker 1: over twelve thousand people have already downloaded. It when the
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  Speaker 1: testimonies we're getting are absolutely. Incredible people are hearing From
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: god for the first, time and years marriages are being.
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  Speaker 1: Restored careers are getting, clarity lives are being. Transformed but
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  Speaker 1: here's my final word to, you AND i need you
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  Speaker 1: to let this penetrate deep into your. Spirit god is
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  Speaker 1: speaking right, now at this very, moment while you're watching this.
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  Speaker 1: Video he's not, silent he's not. Distant he's not waiting
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  Speaker 1: for you to become more, spiritual more, mature or more
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  Speaker 1: worthy before he'll talk to. You the question has never
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  Speaker 1: been Whether god is. Speaking the question is whether you're
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  Speaker 1: tuned to the right frequency to hear. Him and after
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  Speaker 1: today you have absolutely no. Excuse you know the three
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  Speaker 1: voices competing for your, Attention you know the three filters
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  Speaker 1: to test what you're. Hearing you know exactly what to look.
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  Speaker 1: For so stop disqualifying yourself because of your. Past stop
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  Speaker 1: overthinking every disc decision until you're. Paralyzed stop waiting for
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  Speaker 1: perfect conditions that will never. Come the voice you've been
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  Speaker 1: desperately searching, for it's been there all. Along you just
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  Speaker 1: needed someone to teach you how to. Listen, now you,
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  Speaker 1: know start the conversation, today not. Tomorrow, today turn off this,
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  Speaker 1: video get somewhere, quiet and tell him you're ready to.
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  Speaker 1: Listen he's already talking he's been talking your entire. Life
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  Speaker 1: it's your turn to tune. In and remember you're not
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  Speaker 1: looking for. Signs you're not chasing. Experiences you're pursuing. Him
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  Speaker 1: when you find, him you'll find his. Voice and when
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  Speaker 1: you find his, voice everything else in your life will
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  Speaker 1: finally make, sense