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Embracing God's Plan for 2025: Meditation from Jeremiah 29:11 #177 · Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation

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  Pastor Young: Hi friends, this is Pastor Robert Young of Not your Parents Religion Podcast.
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  Pastor Young: Welcome to this week's Guided Christian Meditation.
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  Pastor Young: I am your host, pastor Robert Young, and thank you for allowing me to be your guide on this journey.
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  Pastor Young: Today's meditation is entitled God has a Plan for you in 2025.
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  Pastor Young: Our scripture is from Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse 11.
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  Pastor Young: But first, proper worship of God requires us to be completely involved and free sin in mind, body and spirit.
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  Pastor Young: Let's prepare our hearts by asking God to forgive us of sin that might be in our lives, by reciting Psalms 51, 1-4.
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  Pastor Young: It says have mercy upon me, o God, according to thy lovingkindness, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin, for I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.
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  Pastor Young: Before we start to reflect on Jeremiah 29, verse 11, let's prepare our mind by closing our eyes and taking a deep breath as we invite the presence of God to fill us.
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  Pastor Young: Now take a deep breath in for a count of seven.
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  Pastor Young: Hold the breath for a count of five and slowly exhale for a count of seven.
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  Pastor Young: Repeat the exercise.
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  Pastor Young: Now.
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  Pastor Young: Let's prepare our body with muscle relaxation exercises.
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  Pastor Young: We will simply tense each muscle group for three seconds and then release the tension from that muscle.
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  Pastor Young: Remember, don't hold your breath for this portion of the meditation.
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  Pastor Young: Let's begin with the calf muscles, lightly tense for a count of three, now release.
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  Pastor Young: Let's move upwards to the hamstrings, the quads and the glutes, lightly tense for three seconds, now release.
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  Pastor Young: Moving to the abdominals, chest and back area, lightly tense for three seconds, now release.
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  Pastor Young: Finally, moving to the arms and shoulders, lightly tense for three seconds, now release.
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  Pastor Young: Now we can enter into worship of our Heavenly Father by focusing on Psalms 100, verses 1-3, where it tells us to Shout for joy to the Lord all the earth.
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  Pastor Young: Worship the Lord with gladness, come before him with joyful songs.
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  Pastor 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 Young: Now that we have prepared our mind, our bodies and our spirit, let's begin to ponder on Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse 11, where it says For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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  Pastor Young: Then you will call on me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you.
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  Pastor Young: You will seek me and find me.
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  Pastor Young: When you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you.
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  Pastor Young: This passage speaks to the Israelites about their exile and the comfort that God, the Father, would bring them.
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  Pastor Young: It speaks of when they call upon God with their whole heart that he would hear and bring them back from captivity.
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  Pastor Young: This principle of giving your whole being to seeking God for the purpose of relationship with him and God hearing it runs throughout the Bible.
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  Pastor Young: Whether it's captivity to another nation, to sin or to thinking like the world thinks, God is ready to bring us back to himself.
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  Pastor Young: In 2025, if we will seek him with all our heart, he will give us the plan, his plan and his definition of success for our lives.
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  Pastor Young: Let's take two minutes to really reflect on the following questions: The
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  Pastor Young: questions are 1.
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  Pastor Young: What held me captive in 2024 and away from totally seeking God?
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  Pastor Young: 2.
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  Pastor Young: Am I willing to give it up to regain a full fellowship with God?
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  Pastor Young: Thank
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  Pastor Young: Repeat the following affirmation, now and for the next seven days.
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  Pastor Young: "my soul longs for fellowship with God the Father.
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  Pastor Young: Again, my soul longs for fellowship with God the Father.
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  Pastor Young: Imagine walking toward the best, most fulfilling plan for your life, based on the real you, the you that God created.
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  Pastor Young: Imagine the complete joy that would flow through you as you walk in God's plan for your life.