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- 0:00Kimberly: So, Elizabeth, we've been telling people about our Ruach Journey 2 conference that's coming up in October.
- 0:06Kimberly: Are you getting excited for?
- 0:07Elizabeth: it.
- 0:07Elizabeth: I am getting so excited about it.
- 0:09Elizabeth: We have officially opened up our registration and people are starting to sign up and I can just feel the anticipation building inside of me for it.
- 0:18Elizabeth: And you know, Kimberly, you and I are starting to spend time praying and dreaming and asking God exactly what he wants this conference to look like, Because every Ruach conference we do is a little different from the last because it's based on who's there and what they're hungry to learn and what they want to know about and what God is laying on our heart for this particular group of people.
- 0:39Elizabeth: So I am super excited about this event coming up.
- 0:42Kimberly: So just to remind people, it's October 16 through 18.
- 0:46Kimberly: And it is in Maryland, at the Sandy Cove Retreat Center.
- 0:50Kimberly: It's a gorgeous place.
- 0:51Kimberly: Some of you have maybe not be familiar with Maryland.
- 0:54Kimberly: I know we have a lot of listeners that are in the Southeast.
- 0:56Kimberly: We really have listeners all over the place and we would love for all of you to come and join us, because Elizabeth and I the two of us went there right Like a couple of months ago.
- 1:05Kimberly: Oh, yeah, I didn't want to leave.
- 1:06Kimberly: Yeah, we were just there for a day and it was like can we stay longer and just sit and enjoy this beautiful place?
- 1:12Kimberly: So I think it's gonna be a great place for a conference, don't you?
- 1:15Elizabeth: I do, and there's two different airports people can fly into, and so all the major airlines, including Southwest Airlines, can fly you to an airport near this retreat center.
- 1:24Elizabeth: And you know Southwest, if you're listening, you want to throw out one of those $49 fair deals.
- 1:29Elizabeth: We're open so that we can all get to the conference, but I think it's going to be a great, great time and something we're going to do.
- 1:36Elizabeth: A lot of people are asking so what do I need to do to get ready for this conference?
- 1:40Elizabeth: There's several different things that you can do to get ready for this conference.
- 1:44Elizabeth: You can listen to the podcast that we released last fall on the study on rock journey.
- 1:49Elizabeth: This summer we hope to continue to talk about some of the themes that we're going to be talking about at the conference.
- 1:55Elizabeth: Those would be great to continue to listen to to prepare our hearts for the conference and for the month of june.
- 2:01Elizabeth: We are going to reduce the price of the Ruach Journey study that's available on our website Now.
- 2:08Elizabeth: It's a 13 week study and some people get intimidated going.
- 2:11Elizabeth: Oh, my goodness, I don't have 13 weeks to do this, right, because summer's busy and crazy.
- 2:16Elizabeth: It's broken down into 13 lessons, but a lot of those teaching videos are just about 20 minutes long, so you can find ways from now until the end of the summer to get through the study at whatever pace you want, to do it with yourself or with a group of friends, and so we're going to be offering it at a discount rate to encourage people to go through the study, to refresh the ideas and the principles of Ruach journey in their mind, to get their hearts ready for what we're going to have in October.
- 2:47Kimberly: So go to our website at thefathersbusinesscom.
- 2:49Kimberly: If you want to order the study kit, you can go to the store.
- 2:52Kimberly: If you want to sign up for the conference, you can go to the events link page and remember for now the conference is our early bird price is $3.99 a person.
- 3:01Kimberly: You can pay extra if you want your own room.
- 3:03Kimberly: We may be offering some special cost surprises coming up soon.
- 3:08Kimberly: So you'll want to pay attention to the podcast Listen for those things.
- 3:10Kimberly: If we offer that, remember it's October 16 through 18.
- 3:14Kimberly: It's in Maryland.
- 3:14Kimberly: You can fly into Baltimore.
- 3:16Kimberly: You can fly into Philly.
- 3:17Kimberly: We're going to help you figure out how to navigate to the conference center once you get there, so just stay tuned for more details.
- 3:25Kimberly: We've got frequently asked questions on the website, but we're excited about it.
- 3:29Kimberly: We look forward to seeing you then.
- 3:33Elizabeth: The Father's Business was founded by Sylvia Gunter to encourage people to a deeper relationship with God.
- 3:38Elizabeth: Thank you for listening to this devotional Choose.
- 3:42Speaker 3: Life Deuteronomy 30, 19.
- 3:45Speaker 3: Spirit, listen to your Father's heart from His Word in Deuteronomy 30, 19.
- 3:51Speaker 3: Spirit, come to the front and be blessed in the name of the One who is life.
- 4:08Speaker 3: Your Father is pleased that Jesus, his son, lives in you and his spirit makes his home in you.
- 4:15Speaker 3: Choose the abundant life of Jesus in you.
- 4:18Speaker 3: He will never cease living in you.
- 4:21Speaker 3: God chose your spirit to be his dwelling place before he created the physical body to place you in.
- 4:28Speaker 3: Be blessed to choose life, his life in you.
- 4:32Speaker 3: Your life is secure in him.
- 4:35Speaker 3: God pledges the full faith of his great name to you.
- 4:40Speaker 3: His word says in 1 Samuel 12, 22,.
- 4:43Speaker 3: For the sake of his great name, the Lord will not reject his people because the Lord was pleased to make you his own.
- 4:48Speaker 3: You have the pleasure of the Lord.
- 4:49Speaker 3: Will not reject his people because the Lord was pleased to make you his own.
- 4:50Speaker 3: You have the pleasure of the Lord.
- 4:53Speaker 3: He is pleased that you are his.
- 4:56Speaker 3: You belong to him.
- 4:58Speaker 3: You are precious in his sight.
- 5:00Speaker 3: You are a divine choice.
- 5:02Speaker 3: Celebrate your chosenness.
- 5:05Speaker 3: You are an expression of the embrace of the everlasting love of God.
- 5:10Speaker 3: By His grace, seize your opportunities every day to choose life, to be life to give life.
- 5:21Speaker 3: Choose against what distracts you, confuses you and puts in jeopardy the life of the Beloved in you.
- 5:27Speaker 3: Choose to live from the loving heart of your Father, spirit.
- 5:33Speaker 3: Be blessed in the encouragement that comes from being united with Christ.
- 5:37Speaker 3: Receive comfort from His love.
- 5:40Speaker 3: Be blessed to choose fellowship with the Spirit.
- 5:43Speaker 3: Bask in His tenderness and compassion.
- 5:46Speaker 3: Make His joy complete by receiving His unshakable purpose for you and your father.
- 5:53Speaker 3: You have not read the final chapter of his plans for you.
- 5:56Speaker 3: He has written a future and a hope for you In Jeremiah 29, 11,.
- 6:02Speaker 3: God says I know the plans I have for you.
- 6:04Speaker 3: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
- 6:08Speaker 3: Plans to give you a hope and a future.
- 6:10Speaker 3: This verse was written to people who were exiled and captive in a foreign country for 70 years.
- 6:17Speaker 3: God kept his promise and they returned to the land he gave them.
- 6:23Speaker 3: The pain you feel is real.
- 6:26Speaker 3: Your circumstances are what they are, but be blessed with hope for your future in Him who chose your life.
- 6:33Speaker 3: Choose to believe and hope that he who called you is faithful.
- 6:38Speaker 3: It is your choice.
- 6:40Speaker 3: Spirit, be blessed with trusting His thoughts and plans for your welfare and peace, for your good and not for evil and peace for your good and not for evil.
- 6:55Speaker 3: Be blessed in the name of the one who has life in himself and his light is in your life.
- 6:59Elizabeth: This devotional is from you Are Blessed in the Names of God, by Sylvia Gunter.
- 7:03Elizabeth: Thank you for listening to this devotional.
- 7:09Elizabeth: You can find an archive of devotionals and other podcasts on our website, wwwthefathersbusinesscom.
- 7:18Elizabeth: This podcast is made possible through donations from people like you.
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