The Key to Hearing God's Voice with Chris Garcia

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Well, with me today in person in the studio here

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at Charisma Headquarters is one of our new authors,

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Chris Garcia, who we met virtually

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because of his YouTube channel,

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where he spends time leading people

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into the presence of the Lord in private worship,

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in private time with the Lord,

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which is something that you can't do

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in a big environment normally.

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He's done that.

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We're gonna talk about that in a little bit.

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But that intimate time with the Lord

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is something that we're always trying to learn.

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How do we get better at?

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How do we spend more time with the Lord?

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How do we make our time more with the Lord more effective?

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And how do we hear the voice of the Lord

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in such powerful ways?

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And so Chris, it's great to have you here in person

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to be able to talk about this.

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Your book, Fresh Oil, will be coming out this fall.

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Super excited about that.

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Excited, very excited.

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I know that it's gonna bless a lot of people,

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and God's gonna move through that book.

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I'm believing that the book will excite the spirit

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to be alone with the Lord, which is the whole purpose,

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just to be with him.

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Let's talk about this being alone with the Lord,

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because we know throughout the scriptures,

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the Lord has called people to be alone with him,

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whether it's Elijah going to the cleft of the rock,

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or David had to go, he was obviously being chased,

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but he had time in the wilderness.

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The children of Israel as a group, as a congregation,

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they had to be into the wilderness,

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but that's the glory of the Lord took them there.

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And of course, we know that Jesus went alone

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to be with the Lord.

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I believe that in our modern day and age,

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we're so longing for community,

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that in our quest for community, we often devalue

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our community with God.

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Right.

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Let's talk about that and how the glory of the Lord

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comes out.

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Well, absolutely.

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So like the first and highest ministry

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that the believer is called to,

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is to minister directly to God.

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The Bible says in Revelation chapter one,

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it says that Jesus has called us to be a kingdom

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of priests unto our God.

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That's echoed from second Peter,

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and that's also echoed back to the original.

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I believe it's in Deuteronomy or in Numbers,

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one of those in the Old Testament.

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But basically, what does it mean to be a priest?

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A priest is someone who stands to minister directly to God.

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And for us, we have Jesus in us.

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We're born again of the Spirit,

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and the highest ministry is to minister to him as a priest.

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When we use terms like priest or kings,

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this is symbolic language for someone

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who stands with the Lord.

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What marked Jesus's ministry, his powerful ministry,

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yes, he casted out devils, he healed the sick,

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he raised the dead,

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but there was a relationship between Jesus's prayer life

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and the power of the Spirit and activation,

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so much so that the disciples were like,

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Master, teach us to pray.

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They saw a relationship between his alone time

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with the Father and his public ministry of power.

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What we also see is, for example,

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Moses in Deuteronomy chapter 24,

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I believe is in, no, or Exodus 24,

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scripture says, the Lord spoke to Moses and he said,

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come up to the mountain and be there,

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and I will present to you the tablets of instructions

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and the testimonies of the covenant,

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but God says, come up to the mountain and be there.

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Scripture says, be still and know that I am God.

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The person of God, the man or woman of God

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is called to be with the Lord,

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and unfortunately we've deduced prayer

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to a list of things that we have to do,

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or we've deduced it to a chore or a list

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or different things like this,

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but it's more important that we have God's attention

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and that he has our attention and that we are with Jesus.

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We are with the Lord.

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The scripture says, and I believe in 1 John,

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John the apostle, he says,

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that which we have seen with our eyes,

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which we have held, that which we have handled,

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the word of life, him, we declare to you.

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We are to come from a place of experiencing God

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and declare that which we have seen.

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And so unfortunately in Christianity,

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especially in the West, we've reduced it to formula

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and it's spiritual.

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Like we're supposed to connect with God.

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It's relational.

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And so community is important.

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We need community, absolutely.

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We need relationships,

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but we can't forget communion with Jesus.

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And everything should stem from that place.

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It's a true community is found

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in the communion of Christ first.

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When I say communion, I'm not necessarily talking

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about bread and wine.

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I'm talking about the actual word communion.

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What does that word mean?

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It means the shared feelings and thoughts

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expressed one to another.

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You and I are called to share space with God.

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Where his thoughts become our thoughts,

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his feelings become our feelings.

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That's oneness.

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And the great mystery that's in,

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what is it?

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Colossians chapter one, verses 26 and 27 is Christ and you,

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the hope of glory.

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He's the final hope of glory.

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The glory of God that resided in the wilderness,

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in the tabernacle, the glory of God that transitioned

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from the tabernacle to the temple.

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That very glory became man, it's Jesus.

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And now through the Holy Spirit,

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that same Jesus is in the church, is in us.

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That's where the glory of God resides.

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And I think conferences are powerful.

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And I've been a part of them and I speak in them

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and I love doing them.

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I enjoy them very much,

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but we have to get back to a place of coming back

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to the Lord first love, loving him,

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ministering to him directly,

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have the priority to be the secret place and to seek him

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and to seek his kingdom.

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And all of those things will be added to us.

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Yeah, you know, Chris, there's so many distractions

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in this day and age and we just scroll on our devices.

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And a lot of times we don't know how to be alone anymore.

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We don't know how to just sit and be still.

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And that is something that I try to practice

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in my own life where it's like,

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oh, I could be on my phone doing something,

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but let me just stand here.

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Like waiting in line, like we used to actually have to wait

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in lines and be like alone with our thoughts.

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Now we don't have to do that.

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And so we've gone to the same,

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we basically put the same principles in with God

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where it's, you know, we're not spending the time

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with the Lord alone,

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where we're almost uncomfortable being alone with him.

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Now there's, how do we deal with that uncomfortableness

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with being with the Lord?

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Yeah, it all goes back to the level

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of your knowing of the Lord.

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And so like, for example, if you've met someone

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that you just met and you are in the car with a person

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that you hardly know and there's moments of silence,

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that's really awkward.

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That's really uncomfortable.

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Why?

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Because you don't know that person.

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But now flip the script to your spouse.

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You can drive an hour without saying anything,

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just enjoying the moment.

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Why?

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Because you know that person.

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And I think a lot of people are uncomfortable

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with being with the Lord is because that level

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of knowing him hasn't fully yet developed.

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And I think that the more you pursue knowing him,

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those moments of awkwardness go away because you know him.

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Sometimes it's hard to be still

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and it's not necessarily just that it's

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because you may not know him.

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It's that you don't know, the person may not know how to.

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And so, for example, the first five minutes

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you spend time being alone, it might feel really weird

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because it's like, I'm used to getting my phone out.

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I'm used to doing all these things.

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But I tell people in order to develop a deep prayer walk

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with God, it simply starts with setting the Lord before you.

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So like when you're in line,

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put your attention on him for just a few moments.

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When you're driving, put away the distraction

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or the care for just a second and just acknowledge him.

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And these little acknowledgements throughout the day

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become an invitation to a greater awareness

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of the presence of God.

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And for me, I used to struggle so much in the area of prayer.

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I didn't understand how people can spend like an hour

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or two praying, like, what are you doing?

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What are you saying?

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But the more you learn to acknowledge the presence

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of God throughout your day, the more it becomes natural

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to slip into a deeper prayer walk.

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And some people have a hard time

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because they're comparing themselves.

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Well, I don't have a prayer life like brother so-and-so

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or sister such-and-such, but it's just more about

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just learn to acknowledge him throughout your day.

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And then it grows, it becomes easy.

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Prayer shouldn't be a chore.

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Prayer is easy.

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Prayer is just turning your attention to the Lord.

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That is prayer.

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You don't even have to say anything.

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It's more about just being with him to enjoy him

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for the sake of being with the Lord.

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And for me, I used to think like prayer was,

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I have to pray this way, have to get on my knees

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and save this and try.

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No, it's more about enjoying the present time

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with his presence.

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Think about the word, the presence of God.

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What is the presence of God?

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It's God being present with you in the present moment.

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And we have to learn to do that.

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And so sometimes it's hard because our minds

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are so preoccupied, but when we learn to acknowledge

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those little baby steps, it starts to grow

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and it becomes an enjoyment.

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Prayer should be something that is not a bondage,

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it's an enjoyment.

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Yeah.

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You know, Chris, you're here because you've written a book

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and that book is gonna be coming out this fall

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and we're excited about that.

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And it's called Fresh Oil.

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That's part of the ministry that you have

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where you're on YouTube a couple of times a week

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and you are leading people into the presence of the Lord.

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And what has come out of that has,

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there's been some powerful prophetic moments

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that's led to us connecting.

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And then now it's led to this book.

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Tell everybody what it is that they're gonna get

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from this book.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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So the Fresh Oil Secrets to Intimacy with the Holy Spirit

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is just different keys and secrets that the Lord

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has given me throughout the years to teach

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on how to spend time with God.

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And so I don't wanna give away all of the details

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in the book, but there are things that the Holy Spirit

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has taught me in my personal walk with him

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that I felt in my heart to share in book form

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where it will be a blessing to you.

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So if anything, the aim of the book is less informative

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and more impartational.

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If it leaves you with wanting to be a part of it,

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to be alone with God, then that's pretty much

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why we're doing the book.

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So yeah, it's Fresh Oil comes from Psalm 92 10,

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where it says, you've anointed my head with oil.

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It says, no, I'm sorry.

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You have exalted my horn like a wild ox,

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which is a symbol of strength.

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And you have anointed me with fresh oil.

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God wants to anoint you with fresh oil.

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Fresh oil for what?

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The fresh oil of his presence.

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We, the Bible says in Proverbs 20 27,

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that the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord,

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searching all the innermost parts.

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The vessel of a lamp is a container that contains oil.

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And so it's all symbolic for the stewarding

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of the Holy Spirit in your life and prayer.

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And as you grow in prayer, you grow in sensitivity.

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And as you grow in sensitivity,

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you grow in power in the spirit.

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And so that is pretty much the premise of the book,

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what the book's about.

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It's all about coming back to these little keys

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that we're spiritual first.

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Like we're living in a day and age, John,

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where people want to be spiritual without having Christ.

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Yeah, that's very true.

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But Christ is inviting us by Christ

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and for Christ to return back to being spiritual for Christ.

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And that's what the book is about,

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a return to cultivating intimacy with the spirit,

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different things that the Holy Spirit has taught me

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throughout the years to deepen my walk with him.

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Recently, I was just reading through the New Testament

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and came across where Jesus talks about new wine

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versus old wine.

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Oh yeah.

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And how new wine can't be put into old wine skins.

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That's true.

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And just like a new patch of cloth

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can't be sewn onto an old patch

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because it's gonna cause tears.

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But the wine symbology really stuck with me,

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more so this time, just for different reasons,

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because I really want the presence of the Lord,

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the Holy Spirit, the infilling of the Holy Spirit

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in my life of fresh, that fresh oil, that fresh wine.

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I'd like to talk about the whole concept of that wine,

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that new wine going into the new wine skins.

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And because Jesus talks about how those that have tasted

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the new wine, they still want the old.

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But whenever you're talking about wine,

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it's oftentimes the wine that has been aged

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that is the most valuable.

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So I've been mulling this over,

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okay, God, we're supposed to desire the new wine,

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but the old wine we know is still good

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and actually has value.

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I've been kind of looking at this as,

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is this kind of like new in fillings and old in fillings

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and rather than comparing and contrasting, I don't know.

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I'd love to hear your thoughts on that passage.

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Yeah, so I'll start off with the new wine.

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The symbolism of the Holy Spirit is oil, a dove, flame.

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Another symbol is wine.

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And wine is so powerful because just the story

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of how wine becomes wine, there's an element

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to prior to that as well.

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Like for example, you start off with grape juice,

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but the grape juice has to ferment,

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but that fermentation to become wine takes time.

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Well, even before that, the grapes have to be picked.

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The grapes have to come from the vine, the true vine.

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And then they have to come and then they have to be picked

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and then they have to be crushed and bruised and broken.

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And the juice has to then be forced out.

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It doesn't come out by itself.

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That's right, yeah.

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And that's a whole preaching right there.

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That's a whole preaching right there.

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But once you have that callus or that vessel for wine,

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there's time that needs to be spent.

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And in order for that fermentation to settle,

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it must take time.

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And if you want the new wine of the Spirit,

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you have to spend time just sitting there.

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So new wine is not grape juice.

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It's allowed to have fermentation.

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Yes, there's fermentation.

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We're not talking about alcohol so much

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as we're talking about the presence of the Lord

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and letting that ferment in your life.

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Absolutely, 100%.

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And the scripture says, do not be drunk with wine,

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which is an excess, but be filled with the Spirit.

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Well, he's correlating wine with the filling of the Spirit.

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Again, that fermentation, that has an aspect of changing

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the way you talk and walk.

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The Holy Spirit does that.

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The Holy Spirit should cause you to walk and talk

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and maneuver yourself in a newer and vibrant way

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as opposed to the worldly wine.

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So there's many relationships there.

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But one of the things is this,

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is when Jesus is talking about old wineskins versus new wine

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is this concept of if you put new wine

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into an old wineskin, that wineskin will burst

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because of the energy and the air

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and the process of the wine.

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It will completely just tear that thing open.

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And in order for you to preserve the new wine and the skin,

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you have to have a new skin.

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And so for me, Jesus is speaking concerning

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the old religious system versus the new kingdom,

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the kingdom that is at hand.

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But also it can be translated into the life of the believer.

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You want to have the new freshness

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of the wine of the Spirit.

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You've got to have a new wineskin.

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You've got to have a new renovated mindset of the Spirit.

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They that mind the things of the flesh

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will from the flesh reap corruption,

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but they that mind the things of the Spirit

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will from the Spirit reap life everlasting.

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New wine is received and sustained by a new wineskin.

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And that new wineskin is the renovation of the mind

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to renew in the Spirit of your mind.

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That is enabling you to sustain what God wants to do.

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Many times God wants to do something new

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and vibrant in our life,

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but we can miss out on it with an old mentality.

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It kind of reminds me of in Isaiah where it says,

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behold, I will do a new thing, shall you not perceive it?

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And so in order for us to receive the new

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and sustain the new and maintain in the new,

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we've got to allow the new thing to renovate us.

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We've got to allow the power of the meditative words,

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the scriptures meditating on that causes us

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to have a new mindset and then allow the Spirit

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to pour into us to give us that new wine.

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Communion with God is eating and drinking,

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meaning you consume the bread, which is the word of God.

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Man doesn't live off of bread alone,

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but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God

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and the Spirit, which is meant to be drunk,

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is meant to drink in, you need food and water to survive.

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In the Spirit, you need very much the same.

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You need the word of God to renovate your mind

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that you need the Spirit of God to take you afresh

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and bring into new waves of glory.

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And the thing is, is that the Lord is never stagnant.

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He's always gonna bring you from glory to glory,

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from faith to faith, from new wine to new wine.

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And so that's what I would say to that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's a good answer.

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You know, I've loved just thinking about this whole process

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and I've heard that if you can actually take an old wine skin

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and make it new by soaking it and beating it,

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kind of like you would like a baseball glove, you know,

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you make it pliable.

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So I've always just tried to make sure

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that I don't get rigid.

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Right.

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Because when we get rigid, then we break.

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Yeah.

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We gotta stay pliable.

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That's right.

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Let's talk about the presence of the Lord

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and how it causes us to bend.

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Yes.

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And how we need to be able to carry the glory

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so it doesn't break us.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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This is why waiting upon the Lord is so important.

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The scripture says,

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they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.

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They shall mount up with wings of eagles.

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And this is why I like to use the term soaking

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in his presence because that's what prayer is.

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I like to liken it to this,

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like you take a cold freeze dried steak,

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it's rigid, it's cold.

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What do you need to do?

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You need to turn on the hot faucet,

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let the water soak in that,

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let that sit there for a little bit.

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And in time, it'll soften.

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It's the same, our hearts apart from the spirit

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will naturally be disposed to being carnal and cold.

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And so we need to take that attentive time

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to get under the fountain of life, which is the Lord,

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and just sit there.

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And that soaking will cause a pliability.

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Our hearts will be softened.

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I can't tell you how many times,

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and I'm telling on myself,

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I can't tell you how many times

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I've allowed hardness to enter into my life

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because of busyness or other things that have crept in,

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it happens, it's the cares of life.

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That's so easy in life.

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And so I can't tell you how many times I have felt that.

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And I've had to be like, Lord, help me love you,

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help me grow in sensitivity

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because I am not feeling this right now.

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But when you spend intentional time

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and you throw yourself on God,

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and you sit with him, he will shift your heart.

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Amen.

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And God will do it, and he's faithful to do it.

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So maybe for whoever is watching,

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maybe you feel like you've once loved the Lord,

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but you no longer desire him the way you did.

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Well, tell him that.

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Ask him to give you the desire to desire him.

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It takes, as my friend Eric Gilmore says,

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it takes God to want God.

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It takes God himself to desire God.

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Once you taste the Lord, you want him more and more.

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And it's so easy for the flesh to kick in

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and for us to forget the Lord, even though we know him,

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sometimes we can forget that sweet touch and embrace

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and communion of the Spirit because life hits us.

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And so we've got to throw ourselves

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under the fountain of water and just sit there.

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Sometimes you don't even have to do anything.

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That's a revelation right there.

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Sometimes you don't have to do anything.

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Just be there.

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We're so conditioned to not sit still.

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We're so conditioned to not be in our thoughts

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or to not let ourself actually process.

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We're just busy, busy, busy, busy, busy all the time.

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That's powerful right there.

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Yeah, there is something to that because the scripture says,

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it's not by might nor by power, but it's by my spirit.

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And so it's the spirit of the Lord that moves upon your heart

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to desire the Lord and go after the Lord.

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I used to have such a hard time connecting with God

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because I've allowed my heart to just,

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because of the busyness of life,

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to really, really hard to spend time with God.

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But I learned if you just be with him,

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just solitude with the Spirit will soften the heart.

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And it's his spirit doing it.

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The more you get out of the way and the more you decrease,

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the more he increases.

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Absolutely.

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And it's supposed to be, what's the word?

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Effortless is the word.

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And I love that on your YouTube channel,

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what's your schedule for that?

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Yeah, so it's Monday, Wednesday, Friday

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at 7 a.m. Central or 8 a.m. Eastern.

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And we spend time in the presence of the Lord

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and we spend like an hour and a half just sitting still,

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putting on some worship and just being still.

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And it's so funny, because we'll get so many people,

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I need this, I need that, help me.

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And we purposefully don't give attention there.

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We give attention to the Lord.

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And then we will respond to a prayer we got.

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But it's to teach people how to be still.

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Because sometimes we need examples, sometimes we don't know.

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And so the Lord told me about two, three years ago,

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people don't know how to spend time in my presence.

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And I just want you to just show by example,

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show and tell, just lead by example.

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And so we do that, Monday, Wednesday, Friday,

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7 a.m. Central, 8 a.m. Eastern.

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Spend time in the presence of the Lord.

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And then you can search for us,

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you can search for Chris Garcia,

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or you can search for Fresh Oil.

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And it's there on YouTube.

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That's wonderful.

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And I definitely recommend that you check that out.

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You join Chris for those Monday, Wednesday, Friday sessions

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because they are powerful.

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And block out the time.

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Don't let yourself just have it playing in the background.

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This is an opportunity for you to engage with the Lord

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and be led in that experience.

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And to be not just an experience, in that practice.

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Because we need to practice the presence of the Lord.

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And that is such an important thing that we neglect so much.

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And Chris, I'm gonna ask you to just pray

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for everybody that's watching right now.

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Would you just pray for them

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that they would encounter the Lord in a special way today?

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Father, we just come before you, Lord,

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in Jesus' mighty name.

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And I lift up every person, Lord, that's listening.

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And I ask you, Lord, that you would begin to draw them in.

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That you would begin to woo them by your presence, Lord.

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Lord, that they would begin to see and to taste

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that you are good, Lord.

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And I just pray that you would cause a deep yearning

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of the Spirit, that it's not by might,

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it's not by efforts or our own strength.

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It's by the gentle grace of your Spirit,

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that you're leading, that you're guiding,

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that you're feeding, that you're instructing.

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Father, I pray for a spirit of wisdom and revelation

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in the area of your very glory,

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just to overtake everyone watching.

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And that you would cause the hunger to arise.

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If there's anyone that has lost their first love,

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I pray that they would recover their first love.

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If there's anyone that their hunger has waned

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and they've lost the desire to be with you,

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I pray that you would quickly recover that

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and fan into flame those lost desires, Lord.

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And Father, I thank you, Lord God,

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that you would just impart by your Spirit, by your grace,

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the desire to seek your face,

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to be at that place, Lord, of surrender,

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and just humbling.

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And I just thank you Father, that you're doing that,

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even now, in Jesus' precious name.

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I thank you for your sweet anointing, Lord.

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Your anointing is present.

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I thank you that that anointing rests

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on every single individual,

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breaking every yoke of bondage,

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bringing us to fullness of who you are

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and who we are in you, in Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen, amen, Chris Garcia,

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I'm so glad that you've got a book with us now.

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I'm so glad that you're part of the family here at Charisma.

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And it's been a pleasure to be able to sit with you

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in person.

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Amen, same here.

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I'm excited to be here.

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It's been, I'm excited to be part of the Charisma family.

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Amen. Amen.

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God bless you, brother. God bless you.