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A God-centered Life · The Pilgrim

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  SPEAKER_00: When I just started following Jesus Christ,
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  SPEAKER_00: I knew that there's a certain life God wants us to live.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though if you have asked me several years ago, more than a decade ago,
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  SPEAKER_00: to tell you what kind of life does God want us to live,
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  SPEAKER_00: I might not be able to articulate it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I believe that God wants us to live a certain kind of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that life should
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  SPEAKER_00: be It should not be self-centered.
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  SPEAKER_00: It should be centered on Him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And several years ago, I started writing a devotional called Joy to the Outermost.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wrote that devotional for 12 months before it changed direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some of the things that I wrote were actually my own reflection as I read
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  SPEAKER_00: the Bible and how the Bible shaped how I think, I taught about God,
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  SPEAKER_00: how I taught about the Christian life, about faith, about prayer, about everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it was 2020, 2019, 2019, 2020.
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  SPEAKER_00: So everything, how I viewed the Christian life changed and I started writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So...
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  SPEAKER_00: This book was born from my own study.
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  SPEAKER_00: A God's entire life was born from my own study of God's Word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me just read one of the first things I said.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, the first paragraph, let me read what I said.
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  SPEAKER_00: I said, I believe we are called to live a certain kind of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can call it the deeper life, the crucified life or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: After more than a decade working with the Lord,
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  SPEAKER_00: I have discovered that what makes a deeper life deep
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  SPEAKER_00: and a crucified life crucified is that God is at the center of such a life.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of my favorite Bible verses is 1 Corinthians 10, verse 31,
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  SPEAKER_00: which says that whatever you do, whether you're eating or drinking,
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  SPEAKER_00: do all for the glory of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a God-centered life is a call.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a call that we should live life for the glory of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever we do, whether it's prayer, whatever we do in our everyday life,
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  SPEAKER_00: we should live for the glory of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this book, This book would give you that 31 meditation.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can read it one meditation, one chapter per day for the next 31 days.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this book would aid you in your daily work with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this book, it's a book you should read if you're seeking purpose, meaning,
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  SPEAKER_00: and a deep sense of God in your everyday life.