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Making room for Jesus · Fostering Faith

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  Hello and welcome to Fostering Faith today this episode 6 will be about Making room for Jesus.
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  And so as we start this podcast this week we wanted to share a review and encourage you
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  guys to rate and review and leave comments and we could read them on air.
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  And so this one came from Kim from Hawaii.
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  This is 703 at Hawaii and I just wanted to let you know that I just started my first
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  full day here and listen to your podcast.
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  Thank you and gia, for pouring out to me the word and I will be finding my joy and seeking
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  the wonder in this beautiful part of the world that God has created.
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  So we wanted to thank her for leaving that message for the review and we wanted to open
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  up this podcast in a prayer as far as making room for Jesus and also to ask questions and
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  we can answer.
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  And so right on to us we have a YouTube page.
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  It's Tracie Foster on YouTube.
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  Send us some messages and we would be happy to answer questions, concerns that you guys
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  have and topics for the next couple podcasts.
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  Because we're always willing to help our viewers be more in touch with God.
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  And so as we open up this podcast, if you bow your heads, Dear Heavenly Father, thank
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  you so much for today.
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  Thank you so much for the ability to reach people in every country.
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  Thank you that you are opening up our hearts.
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  Thank you for the vision.
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  Thank you that you are allowing our minds to be renewed by your word.
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  Thank you for scripture.
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  Thank you for loving us.
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  Thank you that you have never left us.
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  Thank you that you are always here for us.
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  In Jesus' name I pray.
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  Amen.
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  And so, Gia, as we come into this podcast, what is it that about finding Jesus, why did
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  you want to do this podcast?
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  Why did I want to do this podcast?
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  Because I went to a church camp called C.I.Y.
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  And then this girl, we call them kingdom workers when they do something for God that makes a
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  big, big impact and I saw that she did a podcast and I was like, Mom, I want to do a podcast
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  too because you know a lot about Jesus and I'm a teen and I like, I want to get, I want
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  all teens to get closer to God and that's why I want to do this podcast.
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  Okay.
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  So whenever we talk about making room for Jesus, what does that mean or how does that
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  look like making room for Jesus as a teen?
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  Making room for Jesus as a teen is basically like getting rid of all the bad stuff that
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  you have, like all the bad thoughts, all the bad stuff that you see online are here or
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  like all the rumors and everything, just getting rid of all that and just bringing Jesus into
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  your life.
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  So prioritizing relationships and putting him above all things and I think for adults
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  as a mom, as a wife, as a professional woman, I think that really having centered relationships
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  on Jesus, we have to put Jesus in the beginning of our day and just prioritizing him above
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  our husband, above our children, above our work because it's about if we put him first,
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  then really everything kind of falls into place.
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  As you are wanting to get closer to God, do you feel there's barriers that would make
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  you not, what are some barriers that a teen would have?
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  Not to get closer to God, to making room for Jesus.
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  What are some barriers?
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  I feel like a big one for me is like my phone time and everything because when I get on
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  the tape, I just keep on scrolling and scrolling and just like just on my phone a lot.
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  And you look up and it's been three hours.
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  Do other distractions as far as you feel like you're well intended, like you get up, you
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  have your breakfast and you're like, I'm going to read scripture today.
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  And then you jump on your phone first.
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  So what would be a way to get that distraction like out?
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  Well, you could, if you want to wake up in the morning and like have a rule that like
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  you don't get on your phone until like you read like a chapter in the Bible or until
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  you pray to God, talk to God and then you can be on your phone.
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  I feel like that's a good way and like just set some like like rules and everything.
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  Sets a tone.
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  And that way you don't get discouraged either because you set a goal for the day and even
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  maybe blocking your phone so you can't open it till seven o'clock, eight o'clock.
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  And that way you give yourself maybe ample time to sit down, read a devotion, read not
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  even a chapter because that could be overwhelming for some people just starting with just a simple
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  verse could help encourage people.
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  And then what does your and so as a busy mom, if I don't get up early and put him first,
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  I have a thousand distractions in my day.
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  You know, we have phone calls, we have computers, we have meetings, we have workouts, we have
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  practices, we have supper, we have lunch, we have all these distractions.
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  And so we just have to prioritize what is important in our days.
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  We always make time in our day for what's important.
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  And so we feel that God is important and that time that we spend with him, I think that
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  people would make more time for him because he's a priority.
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  And so my priority is first and foremost is him every morning.
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  I just pray whenever I go to sleep at night that he wakes me up at a certain time and
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  he wakes me up every morning.
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  I get my mushroom coffee ready and then I go and get to read for an hour and be in prayer
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  and devotion and that way I don't have any distractions and nothing gets in my way.
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  What are some daily devotion times that would work for teens?
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  And so four o'clock in the morning is not going to work for a teen.
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  So what would be a healthy habit as kids are going back to school?
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  What would be a healthy habit to prioritize our daily devotion time?
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  So what I do is, so I get ready then after that, like while I'm eating breakfast, I
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  watch a devotion.
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  It's on the Bible app on your phone that you can get, like you can like set devotion things
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  like it usually has like a YouTube video or something and then you read your devotion
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  or I do it on the way to school when I drive there.
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  Whenever you were being drove there because you cannot drive.
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  Honestly, I think I could but like I feel like that's a label.
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  It is.
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  And also too in Sunday school this day we had a student that said that a really good reminder,
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  there's a reminder app on your phone and so his dad even said, hey, put a reminder app
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  on for every hour to pray.
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  And so it's just a daily encouragement because we're supposed to, you know, pray without
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  ceasing and so be in prayer with God all day long.
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  And so just, you know, thinking, you know, at 10 o'clock at 9 o'clock at 11 o'clock
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  just, just say thank you to God.
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  And so just giving thanks to him, I think would be a great idea.
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  What are some ways to prioritize worship?
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  Um, to pray, um, I feel like a good one will be like listening to it and everything and
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  like just put it like instead of listening to all that bad music and everything, um,
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  I feel like you, I feel like you feel way more better and like fuller when you listen
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  to worship music.
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  I feel like that's what I feel like.
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  And I think that just, um, to include worship time at home in your car, in your room, in
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  your basement, worshiping does not just have to be at church on Sundays.
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  It can be every day.
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  And so here, you know, we try to only listen to worship music.
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  We don't listen to a lot of secular music, um, and, and just giving that attention again
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  and making room for, for God in our worship.
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  What about just simplifying your life?
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  What are some benefits of just having, just simplifying and not being so busy?
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  What would be some ways that a teen could just simplify their morning and not be in
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  a rush and be in a hurry?
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  And that way they don't squeeze Jesus out of their morning routine.
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  I feel like for a lot of like teen girls, like when they're getting ready to do like
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  all of your skincare and makeup, I feel like that's a good time to like watch a video.
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  Like Bible projects really good.
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  It's really like interesting and everything.
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  And like, Tim Mackey is wonderful.
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  Yeah.
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  And like when you're like, you're doing your hair or something, brushing your teeth, it's
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  a good thing to just squeeze in Jesus anytime you can really.
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  And I, and I mean, as an adult woman, uh, so after my workout on the morning, uh, I do
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  take a cold shower and then I listen to a sermon after I have read scripture.
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  So I listen to a sermon while I'm getting my makeup ready too.
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  So I think for teens and for, uh, mature women, I think that's a great time because
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  you're not doing anything anyway.
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  You're in there for about a 15, 20 minutes anyway.
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  And so that's a great time to listen to a sermon, listen to the Bible on the U version
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  Bible app or whatever Bible app you have.
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  And that way you can just listen to it.
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  Do we have any, um, stories that you could say, like from church camp that would encourage
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  or inspire youth just to give Jesus a chance?
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  So basically at our church camp, C I Y, it's really good.
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  Um, you can find on my Instagram and everything on Google.
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  I went and like every time I go, you get a chance to like renew yourself to Jesus.
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  And if you feel like you've been growing far apart from Jesus, this is like, it gives
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  you another chance to get, um, just get reborn into Christ and, um, churches, they usually
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  have like a baptism Sunday or something like that.
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  And you can get, you can get baptized and finally bring your life into Jesus.
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  And so that brings us to a great scripture, Matthew 11, 28, 30, and it says, all things
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  have been committed to me by my father.
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  No one knows the son except for the father and no one knows the father except for the
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  son and those to whom the son chooses to reveal him, come to me all you are weary and burdened
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  and I will give you rest.
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  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will
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  find rest with your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
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  And so I think that's a great, um, way to maybe in the podcast is just knowing that,
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  that Jesus is for us and that knowing him as your Lord and savior, knowing that he died
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  for you to pay for our sins and our life is a free gift to him, to us from him.
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  And so just making room for Jesus in those like little practical ways, I think is a great
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  way to start your day, end your day and just be with him all throughout the day.
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  Because if we prioritize Jesus and make room for him, that you really, you really will
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  see your life change in such a positive light.
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  So as we end this podcast, um, we just want to thank you for tuning in this week.
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  Stay tuned for next week, our episode seven and have a great week.
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  Bye.