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#143 Guided Meditation: Love in Action! · Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation

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  Pastor Robert Young: Welcome to this week's Guided Christian Meditation on, Love is an Action Word.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Our scripture is from Matthew, chapter 28, verse 19.
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  Pastor Robert Young: But first let's enter into worship by focusing on Psalms 100, verse 4, where it tells us to enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Give thanks to him and praise his name.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Take a moment to lift up your voice in praise and thanksgiving to our Heavenly Father, who is worthy of all honor and glory.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Before we start to reflect on the scriptures, et's get a little bit more centered.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths as you invite the presence of God to fill you.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now take a few deep breaths in for a count of seven.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Hold the breath for a count of five and slowly exhale for a count of seven.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Repeat the exercise.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Let's begin our muscle relaxation exercise by simply tensing each muscle group for three seconds and then releasing the muscle.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Remember, don't hold your breath for this portion of the meditation.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Begin with the calves ightly tense the calf muscles for a count of three.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now release.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Moving upward to the hamstrings, quads and the glutes, lightly tense for three seconds, now release.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Moving to the chest and back areas Lightly tense for three seconds, now release.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Finally, moving to the arms and the shoulders, lightly tense these muscle groups for three seconds, now release
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  Pastor Robert Young: .
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  Pastor Robert Young: Let's begin to focus on Matthew, chapter 28, verse 16 through 20, where it says Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.
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  Pastor Robert Young: When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted.
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  Pastor Robert Young: When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Then Jesus came to them and said All authority in heaven and
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  Pastor Robert Young: earth has been given to me.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
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  Pastor Robert Young: name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you, and surely I am with.
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  Pastor Robert Young: you
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  Pastor Robert Young: always, to the very end of the age.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Imagine Jesus coming to you right now and asking you to go forth and tell the people in your circle of influence about how you have.
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  Pastor Robert Young: know and love Jesus.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Picture yourself joyfully telling family or friends about being in and being filled with his joy, joy that doesn't depend on everything going right in your life, the joy that cannot be explained human intellect.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now take a deep breath in and receive his strength to be able to complete this honorable loving command.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Repeat this affirmation now and every day for the next seven days.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Thank you, god, for the strength and joy for telling someone about your love for us.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Again, thank you, god, for the strength and joy for telling someone about your love for us.
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  Pastor Robert Young: As you continue to breathe deeply, take two minutes and reflect on God loving us so much that he would give his only son for us.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Reflect on the fact that you will tell someone else about God's love and the heavenly love and earthly difference this will make in their lives.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Thank you, thank you.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now slowly open your eyes and exhale the calming yet energizing power of God in your life, knowing that he is always with you.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Amen, thank you.