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Why Do We Pray · Urantia Radio

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Welcome to yet another edition of the Rancho Radio Podcast.
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You know, we're heading into August soon, and August is a
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particularly exciting month because it's the month of
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Jesus's birthday, according to the Rancho Papers.
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And so we'll probably spend some time over the next couple of
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podcasts exploring some interesting parts of Jesus's
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life. And I hope that that's okay I
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haven't really delved into. But there's so much to his life
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that's just so enjoyable to retell.
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And I'll enjoy doing that for you, but this time up, we're
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going to talk about something that's very important, something
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that is vital to the human spirit.
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We're going to talk about prayer and what it means in just a
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moment. I've been thinking about the
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Great Migration, noon and night. They leave the flock and I
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imagine their destination. Meadow grass, jagged rock.
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The Lord is my engineer. The Lord is the earth I ran on.
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The Lord is the face in the atmosphere, the path I slipping,
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I slide on. All right.
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Welcome to the Rancho Radio Podcast.
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My name is Jim Watkins and I'm here to godspeak you.
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How do you pray? How do you pray?
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You close your eyes and put your hands together and get on your
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knees. And then what?
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And then you open your heart. That's how you were taught to
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pray. That's how most of us have
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learned to pray, and it's probably the most appropriate
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way for people to pray. The vast gulf and distance
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between the Supreme Creator and you is almost inconceivable.
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And yet, because He has His spirit fragment in you, you can
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place the call. It's a it's always a collect
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call and he always pays and it's an open line.
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You know, they're a good friend of mine turned me on to this old
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teacher of the ranch book, Bill Sadler.
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And he said something remarkable one day that I just, I just,
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it's stuck in my mind for a couple of weeks.
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He says, you know I'm a little bit.
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What was the word he used? It was a great word.
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You don't hear the word very often, but it's a good word.
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I was a little bit Askew or something like that.
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I think I have it here. I'd have to find it.
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But anyway, it's he says I. If I go to God directly, he's
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he's got a big universe to run. But his spirit fragment, he's
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got all the time in the world for me.
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And he's right because that that spirit fragment lives inside of
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you. And think of it as an we have
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this machine in radio, it's called a skimmer.
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And what the skimmer does is it's constantly recording and
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then when it's done with the recording, it stops, it files it
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away and then it starts a new recording.
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Well, in many ways the thought adjuster that is talked about in
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the Ranch book. Is like a skimmer because it's
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constantly taking in your life, my life, our life experiences,
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and it is spiritizing your life. It's taking all of your
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experiences and somehow spiritizing them, pulling out
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from those experiences, the spiritual value of that
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experience, someone you love. A relationship that you have
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with your children, or a good friend, or maybe it's some task
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that you're having to deal with at hand, and you're you're
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determined to do the task in the best possible way.
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And so that experience becomes spiritized and held in sacred
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trust by the spirit fragment. And you say, well, why would God
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want to do that? See, that is the whole point.
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Because see I say this, I say it.
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I understand it. Maybe other people don't.
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God is existentially perfect. There was never a time in time
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when God the Father was not perfect.
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He was. He is existentially eternally
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perfect. There is nothing outside of God,
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and so even still. God said there has to be
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something more than just existential perfection.
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I'm perfect, but what about the experience?
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How can I achieve experiential knowledge, wisdom to the fullest
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possible extent? Certainly God knows everything.
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He's omnipresent, He's omnisent, but he lacks one thing,
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experience. Living experience and the
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relationship with the other. Because when two people have the
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same experience, that's a whole new set of reality.
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When the when the Father created the eternal Son in that
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existential moment and then the conjoint actor came into being
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because the conjoint actor was necessary in order for these two
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personalities now to communicate.
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That said, everything else in motion.
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In fact, it was such a powerful event.
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Such a powerful event. The third source and center
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uniting the first and second sources of center or deity, and
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that became the Trinity. The Trinity was activated and
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whoo what comes into existence, Havona and it's 1 billion
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perfect spheres that encircle the Isle of Paradise, the
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residential home. Of the Trinity and God the
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Father. And then subsequent to that
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comes into formation the seven super universes.
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And that's where the magic begins.
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That's where the chefs start to create their stews and the
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different sections of the Galaxy, the known universe, the
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known living universe, the first stage of super universe
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creation. And we are on the outskirts of
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the seventh of those seven universes.
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This is all spoken of in the Ranch book and beautifully
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illustrated. What is the spiritual value that
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comes from having this knowledge?
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Whoa, look at how we went from 14 billion years that the
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universe was old, estimated to be this week they announced what
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we made. A little bit of a mistake.
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Turns out that the universe is actually 26 point something
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years billion years old. 26 is just from 14, which was already
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a pretty big number to 26 billion.
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You know why? Because they discovered an
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earlier universe that predated our current universe and it's so
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far away and so huge it could not have existed 14.
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It would have required much more time for this universe to not
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only get to where it is in its distance from us, but to be that
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size. So they're speculating now that
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time was somehow different back in the day, and they're stuck on
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The Big Bang. And they don't understand that
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the universe is circular. It's Infinity.
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It's a giant wheel. If you look at an atom, if you
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look at a, you know, a neutron. What's spinning around it,
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right? Proton and electron.
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It circles around, circles around, and you get the
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molecules and what circles around them and then everything
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circles around each other. In terms of matter, you've got a
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solar system, just like you have electrons and protons and they
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circle and they have this force, You know, space is not empty.
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In fact, the further they they delve down into the microscopic,
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the more they realize there's just more empty space.
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You know, you have Sufis and people who are enlightened and
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they'll tell you, you know you we're all connected by molecules
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and energy. There's energy that flows
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between us. You ever have somebody walk into
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a room or you get into a conversation with them on the
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phone and there's just sort of an energy that you feel from
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them, either good or negative. The universe is energy, but it's
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energy put into motion and it's directed by mind.
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And it's out evaluated by spirit.
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Spirit is the flavor. It is the value assessment of
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the mind, recognition of its environment.
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So when we pray, what are we doing?
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We're making the connection between you out here and God.
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Who's over here? And that spirit connection that
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bridges the Gulf, it's like Bluetooth.
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I say, you know, it is a lot like Bluetooth.
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The way that your headphones will connect to your device, the
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device is God and it's connecting.
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The device is looking for those, those spirit fragments that are
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out there that are born into all the worlds of evolutionary life.
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And he is personally knowledgeable of every living,
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every living thing. The Son knows everything that's
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going on. The son is actually our father's
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son, the eldest in the family and the conjoined actor.
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The Spirit knows all too, because the Spirit is the
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conduit by which God's fragment can can exist.
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And coordinate the two identities.
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The two personalities, God's personality and your
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personality, are bridged by the spirit fragment.
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In fact, it's the only thing that makes it possible for us to
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escape materialist the fetters of materialism.
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It's one of my favorite words, the fetters of materialism.
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Because we are in a body, we we are housed in a body.
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Our body is our arms, our legs, our heart.
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Our beating heart never stops beating.
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And yet we have a mind that moves in reality.
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It moves in the environment and it has choice to go left or
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right, forward or backwards. It makes decisions every single
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day. We feed our body so that our
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mind can continue on. We actually.
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Give energy to our mind to continue to make decisions, to
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have relationships, to think about new things, to discover
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new truths. Our mind is is super material.
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And then there's above the mind, the spirit, the spirit, the
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spirit energy. And you as a mind have a choice
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between following and working with that spirit energy.
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Making good choices. Whenever you do a good thing,
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you are doing something that is spirit driven.
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When you decide you want to feed someone who's homeless or you
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want to take on an active cause, it is the spirit that drives
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you. Because that spirit is God.
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God is only good, only loving, only merciful.
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So anything that replicates that.
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Personality trait of God is representative of that
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personality trait of God. When we pray, we seek connection
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with that God. We seek connection with our
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destiny and our source for personality.
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And that's what I'll leave you with today.
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So whatever the method that you use in order to reach out to the
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Divine Father or His Son is perfectly acceptable.
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As long as your heart and your mind are truly desirous of
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making that connection, you're not doing what with preconceived
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words or a rehearsed prayer that was taught to you when you were
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young. Now those things may get you
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into that space, but ultimately it's in your heart, in your mind
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and your will, that connects with God, your thoughts, and He
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hears every supplication. He may not answer.
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In a hard time frame. But if your prayers and
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petitions are sincere, the universe will respond, God will
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respond, and God is the Father and the source of the universe.
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So we work in tangent with this great creation to bring about
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the eventual evolution of the Supreme Being, where we all play
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a part in getting God to that. Experiential level of supremacy.
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Not just so that he is existentially perfect, but by
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becoming experientially finalized.
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And then comes the next stage of adventure, and I'll share that
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with you. There's a whole plan.
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There's a plan that takes you far into the future, and I'm
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going to share that plan with you, as I try to do on this
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podcast all the time. So we took a departure today,
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and I wanted to just summarize the importance of having God in
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your life. And I I hope that I have
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achieved that. I don't do it often, but
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recently there were changes made in my life that have given me a
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little extra time for for thinking and doing the things
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that I love. And one of the things I love is
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talking about the Iranji book. So I thank you for listening.
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And I'll look forward to our next conversation.
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And if you have any questions or comments or request, we not only
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have a listener line, which is 941-800-2937, that's again
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941-800-2937 where you can leave a comment or a question.
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But you've always been able to e-mail me your Rancho book,
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radio@gmail.com. Until next time, thank you for
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stopping by. And God bless.