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Speaker 1 (00:04):
God has good things for you.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You can use your faith and believe God, and you
can expect miracles.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Don't let sit and steal what the Bible.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Says about you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I believe in miracles.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I'm Richard Roberts, I'm Lindsay Roberts.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is pray dot Com and you're listening.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
To Pray Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
How do you know the voice of God?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well, if you read the word, God talks like he writes,
and he writes like he talks, and he doesn't talk
like your worst enemy. He talks like your best friend.
And when you're settled in that, you know something inside.
And I have had, like I said, since I was
twelve years old. I had to operate on listening to God,
trusting God, trusting that I could trust God.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So I was used to that.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So when God began to talk to me, it wasn't
like Wow, first time I heard your voice, stranger, who
are you? This was something that I really I spend
a lot of time in my life in prayer, and
so because of that, it was familiar to me. And
when I heard what God was saying, it was so
foreign to me. I had to really pray it through
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and say, but God, I have such a peace, And
I think that's it. When you try to manipulate the
word of God, it's chaotic. When you have the peace
of God, it's completely different. And I had the peace
of God.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
And too, isn't there like an element of I mean,
hearing your story, it's not even something that you were
like like passionately desiring first and then like God real
Because I feel like a lot of times people manipulate
what they say, is the voice get a.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Thought in their head, yeah, and try to put it
in there.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So for you maybe because people listening, there's a lot
of people that listen that aren't even familiar with the
context of hearing the voice of God and what's all
that means. And you know when people say, within our context,
you know, God spoke to me, how have you learned
to be able to I mean, you talk about he writes,
you know, he talks like he writes and all that,
But how have you been able to navigate that? Because
I'm sure even for you it's been a process, right,
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like figuring out a killer.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Have you ever heard the expression I had that gut feeling?
So when you have that gut feeling and you don't
know the Holy Spirit and you don't know the Lord.
You think it's something within yourself, but you still know it,
and you still feel it, and you can't get away
from it. When you know the Lord and you know
the Holy Spirit, you no longer call it that gut feeling.
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You say, you know, I feel like the Lord is
saying something to me. So, whether it was before I
knew the Lord, I had that gut instinct, or after
I knew the Lord, there's just something, you know. ORAL
used to say, I know that, I know that, I
know that, I know. That's what it felt like.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
How do you know that? Because I had such.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Peace and it was something so foreign to me to
have peace. Listen, when by the time you get to
law school, you have studied, you've had no sleep, you've
spent a lot of money, You've worked hard.
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So for me to think I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Totally shift gears and change my ways, I had to
know that there was something beyond my telling me this.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Have you ever been in a position there where it's
felt the opposite, where like you felt like you knew
it was God, but it was hard to find peace
like I almost because of the natural circumstances.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
When you have this thought process that we call our brain,
and you develop your brain because you're supposed to. If
you're not careful and you overdevelop your brain and underdevelop
your spirit, or you overdevelop your spirit but you don't
use your head because He gave you a brain, then
it's chaotic. But when I feel like I don't know that,
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I know, I don't do anything. I'm the kind of
person I have this weird saying when in doubt, leave
it out. And so what I'll do is, I won't
do anything until I have prayed, like I said, for
me to have gotten married in sixteen weeks, I had
to know because I'm not the kind of moves that way.
I'm going to think about it. I'm going to analyze it,
I'm going to pray about it. I'm going to maybe
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ask somebody that I trust and have them pray about it.
So I think there's something good about that. So many
times we want a microwave answer, a microwave miracle, push
a button, your answer pops out. If it didn't pop
out in sixty seconds, God's not in it. Yeah, but
God took time. In the Bible, sometimes it takes time
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to develop and if it won't leave you. And if
it's always there with you, if it's in the front
of your mind and your thought process, if it's in
your heart, if it's in your spirit, and it's peaceful,
but you can't get away from it. You know. Evelyn
used to have a wonderful saying you have to pray
it through I never knew what that meant, and I said,
was pray it through me. And she would always say,
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pray until.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
You get through to God, pray until you get through.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And you know, there's that funny thing about your gut,
your spirit, your peace. You know when it's there, you
know when you've prayed.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So when you're even talking about peace, because you have
all these words that get hijacked in a lot of
ways by society and take on very vast meanings, right,
so you're talking about more than just an emotional calm.
You're talking about a knowing.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
When Jesus talks about being our peace, he's like, nothing missing,
nothing broken. We know that. But there's an interesting scripture
that says there is a peace that passes your human understanding.
It actually means it bypasses and like if you've ever
seen somebody that's had a heart bypass the traditional trajectory
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that it's supposed to go, and they have to stop that,
and they have to bypass it because something's not working.
Usually in our humanness, peace isn't always working. So what
we do is when we pray, there is a peace,
a spiritual concept of who God is and Jesus is
our piece.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It doesn't have it today, lose it tomorrow. He's peace.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So if I will tell my human side and my
brain am I constantly thinking because I'm real analytical, to
just chill, stop it, shut down and listen to God.
Just listen to that sweet voice of God. He will
bypass my human thinking and go into my spirit, He'll say, Lindsey.
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And my husband always says to me, down flesh.
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Because I am that way.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
My flesh does like to think things through or to
talk or to analyze. And when I can tell my flesh, lindsay,
don't you dare think about this, don't you dare have
an opinion of this? Lindsay, this is not about you,
down flesh, And I pray, and I honestly, without being ugly,
I shut my mouth. I let God make a decision,
and I know when it has bypassed my human understanding
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because even if it's illogical, makes no sense, seems totally
ridiculous God using the things the world calls foolish.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, I have peace about it. And so if you
have to say piece is defined as how are you
defining that now?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I define it as a knowing inside my soul. Your
soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions. Right
when my mind can be at peace, calm, not chaotic,
right and at the same time my will not chaotic,
and at the same time my emotions not chaotic all
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at the same time, Jackpot's that's peace and.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Does sometimes that take time to find? Like as far
as like isn't there? I feel like in my journey
there's been times where like I will internally know or
haven knowing, but emotionally still struggle through the imbalance of
man your emotions feel like a yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Want them all to be on the same page. And
if my mind, my will. You know, Oral used to say,
if you have a train and it's going down a track,
it has four wheels, right, if only one wheel is off,
you're headed for a train wreck.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So I think that way with my mind, my will,
and my emotions when.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
They're all in sync. That's something. It's not always that way.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You have to actually, in all honesty, pray it through.
We all have this human side that we got to
think it through and we got to do this. And
everybody says that I'm sixty three and now.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
It's sixty three.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I don't listen to that stuff anymore because even my
closest friends, who may even be Christians could miss it.
I take time, and I always take a step back.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
When you say that stuff anymore. What are you referring to?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
It's so easy to hear. I call it this voices
and choices. Listen.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
When I grew up, we didn't have cell phones. I mean, heck,
we hardly actually had communication without climbing.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Up a telephone wall and talking on one of.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Those wire things.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Okay, not that bad. It wasn't too tin cans and
a rope. It was kind of closed, but it wasn't
that okay.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
But we have this opportunity to get on the quote
information super highway, and it'll take you in superdirection you
can think of. So you are constantly bombarded with really
bad information, with really good information, with information you wish to.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
God you never heard, and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So I shut it down, I shut people down, I
shut it all down, and I have to trust that
if it's my decision, I have to go hear from God.
And God doesn't come and rumble the room and move
the windows. I'm not against that. I'd be lovely if
you did. Sometime, I just know that within my decision
making process I feel chaotic or all of the sudden,
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it's like all the cylinders start sparking together and I
can do this thing?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Is that something that just comes with time?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Though?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Like as far as the here's what I'm saying is
you say I'm sixty three, I just I shut it down. Yeah,
I would assume it hasn't always been that way, or
it hasn't always been that easy as just shutting it down.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I had to change gears at twelve, and I had
to learn how to This is a terrible word to
say to a twelve year old, but grow up. And
so at twelve, when I had to grow up, I
made some of the stupidest mistakes a human being could make.
Thinking at that time, wow, that was just brilliant, when
really it was just stupid. So I don't think you
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ever reach a place like that, in your age, or
your maturity or anything else. I think that it all
goes back to going into a place, shutting it down,
and saying, God, I want to hear from you, and
you can do it at twelve, you can do it
at five. Your humanness has so many opportunities to mess
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it up, and you know what, I mess it up
all the time. I still mess it up thinking that
was God, and God was like, maybe it was close.
But what you have to do is you're simple in
your humanness saying I repent, Tell me it again, Tell
it to you, tell it to me more clear, and
just get up and do it again. I don't think
we'll ever reach perfection. We're pressing towards the mark of
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the high, calling God did not make us perfection. Whenever
I goof up, I always think that's my human factor.
But if we stay in that, it'll be a disaster.
But if we say, okay, it's my human factor, Father, God,
show me a better way, teach me a better way,
give me inside information, or give it to me in
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a way I can relate to it.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
How are you shutting off the voices when your humanity,
I'm sure would pull you towards caring what people think.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
My whole life, I was a people pleaser and I
still am. When somebody's upset with me. If somebody thinks
I'm an idiot, if somebody thinks I'm a this or
I'm a that, I will cry until there are no
more tears, and then I figure out a way to
have more tears, and then I cry, and then when
all that's done, I throw up.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, because I'm human.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So what I have to do is say in eternity,
will God be pleased with this or not? And half
the time you think in my flesh, well, I hope
they liked me, you know, And I do because that's
my personality. And having so much rejection after you've been
through things in sixty three years, having all of that,
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and you have that much opportunity to fail, to be stupid,
to be smart, and to be invisible, having all of
those opportunities. If I give into the flesh, which I
do from time to time, I have to have the
good sense to know when you sow into the spirit
of the spirit, you reap life everlasting. When you sow
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into the flesh, you could reap a lot of corruption.
So I try to say down fleshouatur natural.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And I am.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I'm kind of like a real thinker, and so I
have to be very careful to say down flesh. And
I have to say to myself self, you got to
stop thinking so much, close your mind, close your mouth,
and let the Holy Spirit talk to you. And I
literally when I say close off, I'll go into a room,
I'll shut the door, I'll shut everything, i will shut
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it down. You know, in our cell phone society, if
you turn your cell phone off three minutes just to
let it reboot, yeah, you think you missed the whole universe.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I mean you really do. You just think, Wow, something
must have blown up during those three minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
But I have learned that if I don't, I think
too much, and that's dangerous. I'm Lindsay Roberts and this
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Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm Richard Roberts. I'm Lindsay Robert and you're listening to
Pray Radio.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
It's funny too, because society and culture currently is not
helping that paradigm. You know, I feel like in a
lot of ways, there's the human side that makes it
a constant and just humanity, right, this burden of caring
what people think. But then there is this bombardment in
a lot of ways you're bombarded with through technology that
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you feel this pressure in just life. This it's weird
how it's so sensory and almost feels primitive and like
it's like it's like it's a part of your like
a part of just like who you are to naturally
be fit into this pressure cooker of what people think,
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even when you even when you consciously don't want to,
like I want to be I want to be authentic,
I want to be who I am. I don't want
people to put me in a box. And then the
things you're sitting thinking about is what are they going
to think? Or what the pressure of other people?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You know how Jesus, when you think about who God is,
he is a creator.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Satan's not a creator.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
He can't create, he doesn't have the ability, but he's
a counterfeit so he can imitate. Jesus was moved with compassion.
Compassion will lead you to rid a person of the
problem they're facing Jesus was literally the embodiment of compassion.
And if we're not careful, Satan will use that against
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us and make us think, well, if I'm not compassionate,
I'm not relatable. Compassion is when God tells you to
do something, and if you're not careful, you want to
have compassion, and you could just teeter on casting your
pearls before swines. So you have to know that God
directs your steps.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Remember Psalm says someone one. He starts the Psalms out
with one one blessed is a man that doesn't walk
in the council of the ungodly.
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Well, that's today. You're gonna walk.
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In the council of the ungodly, nor stand in the
way of sinners. If you walk out the door, there's
going to be sinners, maybe in your own house.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Nor sit in the seat of scornful.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Listen, it is so easy to be a scornful, opinionated weirdo.
It is so easy because you hear it, you process it.
What goes in going to come out.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
But he said, if your delights.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
In the law of the Lord, and in that law
do you meditate day and night, It doesn't mean you
sit like a goose and you just pour it in
like you know, like like just sitting there all day long.
You're in the world, you're not of it. He said,
when you do, you'll be like a tree that's planted
by the rivers of water that brings forth this fruit
in this season. Whatsoever he does, so prosper. When you
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get into the word, and you let that word get
into you, it's your governor. It's that deserting thing, that
still small voice, it's that gut feeling, that instinct that
what you put in really is going to impact you. Now,
if you spend all day listening to critical news, it's
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going to come out your mouth. What you put in
is going to come out, you know, garbage in, garbage out.
If you spend spend all day.
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Listening to worship, whether you even mean it or not,
it's going to come out.
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If I challenged you, and I said to you, right
the second row, row row, you broke gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, early, merrily,
life is but a dream. About ten o'clock tonight, you're
gonna get.
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Mad, and said, I can't get back.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
So if you.
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Put it in your spirit with the word of God,
out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth is
going to speak.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
The proof of what you.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Know in God is to get up at three o'clock
in the morning, go to the refrigerator, have all the
lights out, trip over the furniture. Four of your toes
points south and the little tiny one points north.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
What comes out of your mouth.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Every once in a while, it is supposed to be
redeemed when you really get in pressure cooking situations. Not
when it's silly and goofy, because we all do that,
but when you get into pressure cooking situations and you
say something out of your mouth and you think, how
did I think that you didn't?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
It's been there, it's been processing. So the key really
to overcoming a lot of those, even social norms, is
based around what you're feeling your internal man yes with right, yep,
how do you know? We talk about spirit, soul, and body,
and I think that there's a lot in our world.
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You know people Obviously, the body is very visual, so
people pay attention to that.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
People.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
We come from a society that's been founded on religion,
so I think spirituality people are even curious about that.
I do think that the soul is somewhat of this
mysterious thing for a lot of people because we don't
know how to explain it or contextualize it. For you,
and like your conversations with people, how do you bring
attention to that?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Or Because we're made, whether anyone realizes it or not,
we're made in God's image. He created us as a
living spirit. There's something very natural for people to want
to find something spiritual. It's just your creating God's image,
and it's if that's your creator, it's kind of instinctive
within you to try and go back to I'm going
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to call it a weird word, the mothership, and I
don't mean that disrespectfully, but you know there is something
like you know, one of those homing pigeons know how
to go back Why it's instinctive when you're created in
God's image and you do or do not know it,
there's something within you that has that desire to figure
that out. You may not realize what it.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Is, but it's there.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Then you look at the physical body and you think, Okay,
my hair's too short, Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You know this, my dad, iye this, I that, And you.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Can physically see it and it's visual, so you know
instinctively that there's this spiritual side, and you know visually
you can't miss it. It's right there in front of
your eyeballs. The soul realms the tricky part. And Oral
used to say something interesting. We're trying being threefold and
everything like that, right body, soul in spirit. He said,
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think of it this way. If Father God created us
in his image, that spiritual side is there. But we
don't live up in heaven right now. Nor does God
God physically come to the earth where we can say, Hi, God,
how's it going. It doesn't work that way. So we
know that spiritual aspect is there. We know the physical
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aspect is there. The soul is the connector. It's the
middle man.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
So connects the body and the spirit.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yes, So when people say you're saved in your soul,
you have to change your mind before it changes your heart.
You have to change your will before it changes your heart.
You have change your emotions before you accept Jesus as
your Lord and savior. So when you know you have
that spiritual side that's just kind of hanging over there
because that's how you were made. And you know you
have the physical side, how do you join the spiritual
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side that God created us with with the physical side that.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
We already know about.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Well, it's the soul, that middle man, that middle connector.
Because whatever things are good and pure and lovely and
of a good report, think on these things. He wants
us to use our brain. He wants us to connect
our will. He wants us to know that we can
have a mind of Christ. But here's the tricky part.
Draw me, get a little pencil, paper out, and draw
me a picture of your mind. You can draw your brain,
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but you can't drin draw me a picture of your will.
You may be able to draw me a picture of
you having a temper to antrum, but you can't draw
me a picture of your will. You may be able
to draw me a picture of someone who is acting
out in an emotional way, but you can't draw me
a picture of your emotions. So that's where it gets tricky.
That's where we go back to the Bible. And he said,
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bless the Lord, oh my soul. So if I stop
some one O three, one through five, and I say
I bless you Lord with my mind, I might not
know what I'm doing, but I bless you with my mind.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I bless you Lord with my will.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
And it may be totally out of control right now,
but I bless you. I hand my will over to you,
and I bless you with it. I just use what
I call spiritual lip service, just begin to say, I
bless you Lord with my will, and Lord, may you
line my emotions up with your word in my flesh.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I'm thinking, what did I just say?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But if you will do that by faith, and it
says in all that is within me, not my hands
and my feet and my toes, but all that's within
my inner man, bless your holy name.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
And he said he.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Forgives your iniquities, your sins. He heals your diseases, He
redeems your life from destruction. It's getting cool now. He
crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies. He's not
going to pop a crown on your head. He's talking
about a revelation from his word. And he satisfies your
mouth with such good things that your youth is renewed
like eagles. He's working on your inner man. If you
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will connect to God and you will see that your
physical body can be connected in the middle, and you'll.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Give him your soul. Lord, I don't know what I'm doing,
but I give it.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
So it's more of an act of surrender than it
is understanding and.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
An act of faith.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It's true, you get to be sixty three year old
female and your emotions are not going to make a
lick of sense in the wind. You're gonna think some
of the dumbest things. Your mind's gonna run away with you. Yeah,
and you're gonna feel like, you know what, this morning,
I was a total crazy person.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
But that's the part when you have to really trust God.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I can tell you if I have five fingers, and
I can tell you what my hand's doing right now.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's not hard. I don't need faith for that.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But when my mind, my will, and my emotions are
something that I can't tangibly put in a box.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
So when I talk to Richard about this, I'd be like,
how do you just do that? It's like, I just
I just do it. You know, like, there's not like
this great sense of having to understand or having to
figure it all out. And I feel like that's the
same comment that at some point you have to let
go of your need to know everything right right. The
trust aspect for personality types who are hardwired right like
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it Yeah, so it's like me, yeah, like you're biologically hardwired.
Like if your operating system is I need to figure
this out? How do you do that?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I can always tell when I am being logical and
practical and analytical and it doesn't make sense and it's
not working, and I physically, out of my own mouth,
I use these words. May not make sense, but I
use these words down flesh. I have to physically tell
my flesh, this is not your business. And then I
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have to say, Spirit of the Living God, take over
this situation and water my mind with the word water
my emotions, water my spirit, water my soul. And I
have to physically make an act of my will, make
a choice to say, lindsay, don't be lindsay here, lindsay,
this is not your deal here. This is something God
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has to intervene. And if God's going to take like
if you're driving, if you want to give God the
wheel and let him drive, you better let go because
if he's pulling to the right and you're pulling to
the left, you're going to crash. So when you relinquish
that control coming from a control freak, when you really
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do relinquish the control. It takes so much faith to
turn the handle of that control over to God that
you better trust him or it will end badly. So
I have to know, Father God, you're more capable than me.
Father God, you're bigger than I am. Father God, you're
way smarter than I am. As an act of my
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will and as an act of my faith, I let
it go.
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But you guide that verbally.
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I do it with their mouth.
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So you say something, and that's what helps you separate.
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Remember in Genesis one, how God created the world. He
spoke it, and then he told us to do the same.
Spoken words the ruoc wind of God. It's a creative
life giving power of God. So there is a creative
life giving power to our words. If you don't believe that,
say something really ugly to somebody and see their whole
countenance change. Say something really sweet to somebody it see
their whole countenance change. There's power in our words. Then
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Jesus jumps over into Mark eleven and he says, have
faith in God. Say to the mountain, speak to this,
say speak, speak, say our words carry so much power
we probably don't even realize it. Talk to a little
tiny puppy and get ugly to that dog and watch
that dog start to cower. We have such power in
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our words that if we use them poorly, badly, we'll
see the results. But if we can take those creative,
life giving power of God, wind of God, ruoc wind
of God from our own mouth, out of the abundance
of the art, the mouth speaks, death and life are
not the tongue. They're in the power of the tongue.
There's power there, and they that love it eat the
fruit thereof. If I want to eat the fruit of
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God's decision, I speak it out. I say self down, flesh,
God have your way, and that works for me.
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Not perfectly it does, but it.
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Helps you break the cycle of your wiring telling you
you have to know how this works or understand it all.
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How many times have you waited and waited for an
answer that never seems to come. Galatians six' nine, says
don't get weary in your well, doing for we shall
reap induce season if we don't give, up if we don't,
faint if we don't. Quit so right NOW i pray for.
YOU i pray for the strength and courage for you
to wait according To god's plan and not give up
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even when we get tired or we get. Impatient, father
we ask for a supernatural. Strength we ask that you
will help us wait on your. Timing we ask for
patients to hold fast to your. Promise. Lord we know
that you have a plan for, us and that plan is,
Good So, lord help us to wait patiently according to your.
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Will Father. God we know that you have a plan for,
us and that plan is. Good So, lord help us
wait patiently and expect and believe even when we can't
see the answer. Immediately thank you for your, Grace thank
you for your, Provision Father. God thank you for your
patience during the time of. Waiting In jesus'. Name. Amen
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How do you know the voice of God?
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Well, if you read the word, God talks like he writes,
and he writes like he talks, and he doesn't talk
like your worst enemy. He talks like your best friend.
And when you're settled in that, you know something inside.
And I have had, like I said, since I was
twelve years old. I had to operate on listening to God,
trusting God, trusting that I could trust God.
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So I was used to that.
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So when God began to talk to me, it wasn't
like Wow, first time I heard your voice, stranger, who
are you? This was something that I really I spend
a lot of time in my life in prayer, and
so because of that, it was familiar to me. And
when I heard what God was saying, it was so
foreign to me. I had to really pray it through
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and say, but God, I have such a peace, And
I think that's it. When you try to manipulate the
word of God, it's chaotic. When you have the peace
of God, it's completely different. And I had the peace
of God.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
And too, isn't there like an element of I mean,
hearing your story, it's not even something that you were
like like passionately desiring first and then like God real
Because I feel like a lot of times people manipulate
what they say, is the voice get a.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Thought in their head, yeah, and try to put it
in there.
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So for you maybe because people listening, there's a lot
of people that listen that aren't even familiar with the
context of hearing the voice of God and what's all
that means. And you know when people say, within our context,
you know, God spoke to me, how have you learned
to be able to I mean, you talk about he writes,
you know, he talks like he writes and all that,
But how have you been able to navigate that? Because
I'm sure even for you it's been a process, right,
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like figuring out a killer.
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Have you ever heard the expression I had that gut feeling?
So when you have that gut feeling and you don't
know the Holy Spirit and you don't know the Lord.
You think it's something within yourself, but you still know it,
and you still feel it, and you can't get away
from it. When you know the Lord and you know
the Holy Spirit, you no longer call it that gut feeling.
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You say, you know, I feel like the Lord is
saying something to me. So, whether it was before I
knew the Lord, I had that gut instinct, or after
I knew the Lord, there's just something, you know. ORAL
used to say, I know that, I know that, I
know that, I know. That's what it felt like.
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How do you know that? Because I had such.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Peace and it was something so foreign to me to
have peace. Listen, when by the time you get to
law school, you have studied, you've had no sleep, you've
spent a lot of money, You've worked hard.
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So for me to think I'm going to.
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Totally shift gears and change my ways, I had to
know that there was something beyond my telling me this.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Have you ever been in a position there where it's
felt the opposite, where like you felt like you knew
it was God, but it was hard to find peace
like I almost because of the natural circumstances.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
When you have this thought process that we call our brain,
and you develop your brain because you're supposed to. If
you're not careful and you overdevelop your brain and underdevelop
your spirit, or you overdevelop your spirit but you don't
use your head because He gave you a brain, then
it's chaotic. But when I feel like I don't know that,
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I know, I don't do anything. I'm the kind of
person I have this weird saying when in doubt, leave
it out. And so what I'll do is, I won't
do anything until I have prayed, like I said, for
me to have gotten married in sixteen weeks, I had
to know because I'm not the kind of moves that way.
I'm going to think about it. I'm going to analyze it,
I'm going to pray about it. I'm going to maybe
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ask somebody that I trust and have them pray about it.
So I think there's something good about that. So many
times we want a microwave answer, a microwave miracle, push
a button, your answer pops out. If it didn't pop
out in sixty seconds, God's not in it. Yeah, but
God took time. In the Bible, sometimes it takes time
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to develop and if it won't leave you. And if
it's always there with you, if it's in the front
of your mind and your thought process, if it's in
your heart, if it's in your spirit, and it's peaceful,
but you can't get away from it. You know. Evelyn
used to have a wonderful saying you have to pray
it through I never knew what that meant, and I said,
was pray it through me. And she would always say,
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pray until.
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You get through to God, pray until you get through.
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And you know, there's that funny thing about your gut,
your spirit, your peace. You know when it's there, you
know when you've prayed.
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So when you're even talking about peace, because you have
all these words that get hijacked in a lot of
ways by society and take on very vast meanings, right,
so you're talking about more than just an emotional calm.
You're talking about a knowing.
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When Jesus talks about being our peace, he's like, nothing missing,
nothing broken. We know that. But there's an interesting scripture
that says there is a peace that passes your human understanding.
It actually means it bypasses and like if you've ever
seen somebody that's had a heart bypass the traditional trajectory
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that it's supposed to go, and they have to stop that,
and they have to bypass it because something's not working.
Usually in our humanness, peace isn't always working. So what
we do is when we pray, there is a peace,
a spiritual concept of who God is and Jesus is
our piece.
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It doesn't have it today, lose it tomorrow. He's peace.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So if I will tell my human side and my
brain am I constantly thinking because I'm real analytical, to
just chill, stop it, shut down and listen to God.
Just listen to that sweet voice of God. He will
bypass my human thinking and go into my spirit, He'll say, Lindsey.
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And my husband always says to me, down flesh.
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Because I am that way.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
My flesh does like to think things through or to
talk or to analyze. And when I can tell my flesh, lindsay,
don't you dare think about this, don't you dare have
an opinion of this? Lindsay, this is not about you,
down flesh, And I pray, and I honestly, without being ugly,
I shut my mouth. I let God make a decision,
and I know when it has bypassed my human understanding
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because even if it's illogical, makes no sense, seems totally
ridiculous God using the things the world calls foolish.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, I have peace about it. And so if you
have to say piece is defined as how are you
defining that now?
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I define it as a knowing inside my soul. Your
soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions. Right
when my mind can be at peace, calm, not chaotic,
right and at the same time my will not chaotic,
and at the same time my emotions not chaotic all
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at the same time, Jackpot's that's peace and.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Does sometimes that take time to find? Like as far
as like isn't there? I feel like in my journey
there's been times where like I will internally know or
haven knowing, but emotionally still struggle through the imbalance of
man your emotions feel like a yeah, I.
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Want them all to be on the same page. And
if my mind, my will. You know, Oral used to say,
if you have a train and it's going down a track,
it has four wheels, right, if only one wheel is off,
you're headed for a train wreck.
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Right.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So I think that way with my mind, my will,
and my emotions when.
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They're all in sync. That's something. It's not always that way.
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You have to actually, in all honesty, pray it through.
We all have this human side that we got to
think it through and we got to do this. And
everybody says that I'm sixty three and now.
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It's sixty three.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I don't listen to that stuff anymore because even my
closest friends, who may even be Christians could miss it.
I take time, and I always take a step back.
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When you say that stuff anymore. What are you referring to?
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It's so easy to hear. I call it this voices
and choices. Listen.
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When I grew up, we didn't have cell phones. I mean, heck,
we hardly actually had communication without climbing.
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Up a telephone wall and talking on one of.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Those wire things.
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Okay, not that bad. It wasn't too tin cans and
a rope. It was kind of closed, but it wasn't
that okay.
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But we have this opportunity to get on the quote
information super highway, and it'll take you in superdirection you
can think of. So you are constantly bombarded with really
bad information, with really good information, with information you wish to.
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God you never heard, and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So I shut it down, I shut people down, I
shut it all down, and I have to trust that
if it's my decision, I have to go hear from God.
And God doesn't come and rumble the room and move
the windows. I'm not against that. I'd be lovely if
you did. Sometime, I just know that within my decision
making process I feel chaotic or all of the sudden,
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it's like all the cylinders start sparking together and I
can do this thing?
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Is that something that just comes with time?
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Though?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Like as far as the here's what I'm saying is
you say I'm sixty three, I just I shut it down. Yeah,
I would assume it hasn't always been that way, or
it hasn't always been that easy as just shutting it down.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I had to change gears at twelve, and I had
to learn how to This is a terrible word to
say to a twelve year old, but grow up. And
so at twelve, when I had to grow up, I
made some of the stupidest mistakes a human being could make.
Thinking at that time, wow, that was just brilliant, when
really it was just stupid. So I don't think you
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ever reach a place like that, in your age, or
your maturity or anything else. I think that it all
goes back to going into a place, shutting it down,
and saying, God, I want to hear from you, and
you can do it at twelve, you can do it
at five. Your humanness has so many opportunities to mess
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it up, and you know what, I mess it up
all the time. I still mess it up thinking that
was God, and God was like, maybe it was close.
But what you have to do is you're simple in
your humanness saying I repent, Tell me it again, Tell
it to you, tell it to me more clear, and
just get up and do it again. I don't think
we'll ever reach perfection. We're pressing towards the mark of
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the high, calling God did not make us perfection. Whenever
I goof up, I always think that's my human factor.
But if we stay in that, it'll be a disaster.
But if we say, okay, it's my human factor, Father, God,
show me a better way, teach me a better way,
give me inside information, or give it to me in
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a way I can relate to it.
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How are you shutting off the voices when your humanity,
I'm sure would pull you towards caring what people think.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
My whole life, I was a people pleaser and I
still am. When somebody's upset with me. If somebody thinks
I'm an idiot, if somebody thinks I'm a this or
I'm a that, I will cry until there are no
more tears, and then I figure out a way to
have more tears, and then I cry, and then when
all that's done, I throw up.
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Yeah, because I'm human.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So what I have to do is say in eternity,
will God be pleased with this or not? And half
the time you think in my flesh, well, I hope
they liked me, you know, And I do because that's
my personality. And having so much rejection after you've been
through things in sixty three years, having all of that,
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and you have that much opportunity to fail, to be stupid,
to be smart, and to be invisible, having all of
those opportunities. If I give into the flesh, which I
do from time to time, I have to have the
good sense to know when you sow into the spirit
of the spirit, you reap life everlasting. When you sow
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into the flesh, you could reap a lot of corruption.
So I try to say down fleshouatur natural.
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And I am.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I'm kind of like a real thinker, and so I
have to be very careful to say down flesh. And
I have to say to myself self, you got to
stop thinking so much, close your mind, close your mouth,
and let the Holy Spirit talk to you. And I
literally when I say close off, I'll go into a room,
I'll shut the door, I'll shut everything, i will shut
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it down. You know, in our cell phone society, if
you turn your cell phone off three minutes just to
let it reboot, yeah, you think you missed the whole universe.
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I mean you really do. You just think, Wow, something
must have blown up during those three minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
But I have learned that if I don't, I think
too much, and that's dangerous. I'm Lindsay Roberts and this
is pray dot Com. I'm Lindsay Roberts. Follow me on
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I'm Richard Roberts. I'm Lindsay Robert and you're listening to
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It's funny too, because society and culture currently is not
helping that paradigm. You know, I feel like in a
lot of ways, there's the human side that makes it
a constant and just humanity, right, this burden of caring
what people think. But then there is this bombardment in
a lot of ways you're bombarded with through technology that
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you feel this pressure in just life. This it's weird
how it's so sensory and almost feels primitive and like
it's like it's like it's a part of your like
a part of just like who you are to naturally
be fit into this pressure cooker of what people think,
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even when you even when you consciously don't want to,
like I want to be I want to be authentic,
I want to be who I am. I don't want
people to put me in a box. And then the
things you're sitting thinking about is what are they going
to think? Or what the pressure of other people?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You know how Jesus, when you think about who God is,
he is a creator.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Satan's not a creator.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
He can't create, he doesn't have the ability, but he's
a counterfeit so he can imitate. Jesus was moved with compassion.
Compassion will lead you to rid a person of the
problem they're facing Jesus was literally the embodiment of compassion.
And if we're not careful, Satan will use that against
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us and make us think, well, if I'm not compassionate,
I'm not relatable. Compassion is when God tells you to
do something, and if you're not careful, you want to
have compassion, and you could just teeter on casting your
pearls before swines. So you have to know that God
directs your steps.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Remember Psalm says someone one. He starts the Psalms out
with one one blessed is a man that doesn't walk
in the council of the ungodly.
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Well, that's today. You're gonna walk.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
In the council of the ungodly, nor stand in the
way of sinners. If you walk out the door, there's
going to be sinners, maybe in your own house.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Nor sit in the seat of scornful.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Listen, it is so easy to be a scornful, opinionated weirdo.
It is so easy because you hear it, you process it.
What goes in going to come out.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
But he said, if your delights.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
In the law of the Lord, and in that law
do you meditate day and night, It doesn't mean you
sit like a goose and you just pour it in
like you know, like like just sitting there all day long.
You're in the world, you're not of it. He said,
when you do, you'll be like a tree that's planted
by the rivers of water that brings forth this fruit
in this season. Whatsoever he does, so prosper. When you
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get into the word, and you let that word get
into you, it's your governor. It's that deserting thing, that
still small voice, it's that gut feeling, that instinct that
what you put in really is going to impact you. Now,
if you spend all day listening to critical news, it's
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going to come out your mouth. What you put in
is going to come out, you know, garbage in, garbage out.
If you spend spend all day.
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Listening to worship, whether you even mean it or not,
it's going to come out.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
If I challenged you, and I said to you, right
the second row, row row, you broke gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, early, merrily,
life is but a dream. About ten o'clock tonight, you're
gonna get.
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Mad, and said, I can't get back.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
So if you.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Put it in your spirit with the word of God,
out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth is
going to speak.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
The proof of what you.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Know in God is to get up at three o'clock
in the morning, go to the refrigerator, have all the
lights out, trip over the furniture. Four of your toes
points south and the little tiny one points north.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
What comes out of your mouth.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Every once in a while, it is supposed to be
redeemed when you really get in pressure cooking situations. Not
when it's silly and goofy, because we all do that,
but when you get into pressure cooking situations and you
say something out of your mouth and you think, how
did I think that you didn't?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
It's been there, it's been processing. So the key really
to overcoming a lot of those, even social norms, is
based around what you're feeling your internal man yes with right, yep,
how do you know? We talk about spirit, soul, and body,
and I think that there's a lot in our world.
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You know people Obviously, the body is very visual, so
people pay attention to that.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
People.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
We come from a society that's been founded on religion,
so I think spirituality people are even curious about that.
I do think that the soul is somewhat of this
mysterious thing for a lot of people because we don't
know how to explain it or contextualize it. For you,
and like your conversations with people, how do you bring
attention to that?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Or Because we're made, whether anyone realizes it or not,
we're made in God's image. He created us as a
living spirit. There's something very natural for people to want
to find something spiritual. It's just your creating God's image,
and it's if that's your creator, it's kind of instinctive
within you to try and go back to I'm going
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to call it a weird word, the mothership, and I
don't mean that disrespectfully, but you know there is something
like you know, one of those homing pigeons know how
to go back Why it's instinctive when you're created in
God's image and you do or do not know it,
there's something within you that has that desire to figure
that out. You may not realize what it.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Is, but it's there.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Then you look at the physical body and you think, Okay,
my hair's too short, Okay.
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You know this, my dad, iye this, I that, And you.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Can physically see it and it's visual, so you know
instinctively that there's this spiritual side, and you know visually
you can't miss it. It's right there in front of
your eyeballs. The soul realms the tricky part. And Oral
used to say something interesting. We're trying being threefold and
everything like that, right body, soul in spirit. He said,
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think of it this way. If Father God created us
in his image, that spiritual side is there. But we
don't live up in heaven right now. Nor does God
God physically come to the earth where we can say, Hi, God,
how's it going. It doesn't work that way. So we
know that spiritual aspect is there. We know the physical
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aspect is there. The soul is the connector. It's the
middle man.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
So connects the body and the spirit.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yes, So when people say you're saved in your soul,
you have to change your mind before it changes your heart.
You have to change your will before it changes your heart.
You have change your emotions before you accept Jesus as
your Lord and savior. So when you know you have
that spiritual side that's just kind of hanging over there
because that's how you were made. And you know you
have the physical side, how do you join the spiritual
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side that God created us with with the physical side that.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
We already know about.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Well, it's the soul, that middle man, that middle connector.
Because whatever things are good and pure and lovely and
of a good report, think on these things. He wants
us to use our brain. He wants us to connect
our will. He wants us to know that we can
have a mind of Christ. But here's the tricky part.
Draw me, get a little pencil, paper out, and draw
me a picture of your mind. You can draw your brain,
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but you can't drin draw me a picture of your will.
You may be able to draw me a picture of
you having a temper to antrum, but you can't draw
me a picture of your will. You may be able
to draw me a picture of someone who is acting
out in an emotional way, but you can't draw me
a picture of your emotions. So that's where it gets tricky.
That's where we go back to the Bible. And he said,
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bless the Lord, oh my soul. So if I stop
some one O three, one through five, and I say
I bless you Lord with my mind, I might not
know what I'm doing, but I bless you with my mind.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I bless you Lord with my will.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
And it may be totally out of control right now,
but I bless you. I hand my will over to you,
and I bless you with it. I just use what
I call spiritual lip service, just begin to say, I
bless you Lord with my will, and Lord, may you
line my emotions up with your word in my flesh.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I'm thinking, what did I just say?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But if you will do that by faith, and it
says in all that is within me, not my hands
and my feet and my toes, but all that's within
my inner man, bless your holy name.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
And he said he.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Forgives your iniquities, your sins. He heals your diseases, He
redeems your life from destruction. It's getting cool now. He
crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies. He's not
going to pop a crown on your head. He's talking
about a revelation from his word. And he satisfies your
mouth with such good things that your youth is renewed
like eagles. He's working on your inner man. If you
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will connect to God and you will see that your
physical body can be connected in the middle, and you'll.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Give him your soul. Lord, I don't know what I'm doing,
but I give it.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
So it's more of an act of surrender than it
is understanding and.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
An act of faith.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It's true, you get to be sixty three year old
female and your emotions are not going to make a
lick of sense in the wind. You're gonna think some
of the dumbest things. Your mind's gonna run away with you. Yeah,
and you're gonna feel like, you know what, this morning,
I was a total crazy person.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
But that's the part when you have to really trust God.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I can tell you if I have five fingers, and
I can tell you what my hand's doing right now.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's not hard. I don't need faith for that.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But when my mind, my will, and my emotions are
something that I can't tangibly put in a box.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
So when I talk to Richard about this, I'd be like,
how do you just do that? It's like, I just
I just do it. You know, like, there's not like
this great sense of having to understand or having to
figure it all out. And I feel like that's the
same comment that at some point you have to let
go of your need to know everything right right. The
trust aspect for personality types who are hardwired right like
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it Yeah, so it's like me, yeah, like you're biologically hardwired.
Like if your operating system is I need to figure
this out? How do you do that?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I can always tell when I am being logical and
practical and analytical and it doesn't make sense and it's
not working, and I physically, out of my own mouth,
I use these words. May not make sense, but I
use these words down flesh. I have to physically tell
my flesh, this is not your business. And then I
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have to say, Spirit of the Living God, take over
this situation and water my mind with the word water
my emotions, water my spirit, water my soul. And I
have to physically make an act of my will, make
a choice to say, lindsay, don't be lindsay here, lindsay,
this is not your deal here. This is something God
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has to intervene. And if God's going to take like
if you're driving, if you want to give God the
wheel and let him drive, you better let go because
if he's pulling to the right and you're pulling to
the left, you're going to crash. So when you relinquish
that control coming from a control freak, when you really
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do relinquish the control. It takes so much faith to
turn the handle of that control over to God that
you better trust him or it will end badly. So
I have to know, Father God, you're more capable than me.
Father God, you're bigger than I am. Father God, you're
way smarter than I am. As an act of my
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will and as an act of my faith, I let
it go.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
But you guide that verbally.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I do it with their mouth.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
So you say something, and that's what helps you separate.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Remember in Genesis one, how God created the world. He
spoke it, and then he told us to do the same.
Spoken words the ruoc wind of God. It's a creative
life giving power of God. So there is a creative
life giving power to our words. If you don't believe that,
say something really ugly to somebody and see their whole
countenance change. Say something really sweet to somebody it see
their whole countenance change. There's power in our words. Then
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Jesus jumps over into Mark eleven and he says, have
faith in God. Say to the mountain, speak to this,
say speak, speak, say our words carry so much power
we probably don't even realize it. Talk to a little
tiny puppy and get ugly to that dog and watch
that dog start to cower. We have such power in
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our words that if we use them poorly, badly, we'll
see the results. But if we can take those creative,
life giving power of God, wind of God, ruoc wind
of God from our own mouth, out of the abundance
of the art, the mouth speaks, death and life are
not the tongue. They're in the power of the tongue.
There's power there, and they that love it eat the
fruit thereof. If I want to eat the fruit of
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God's decision, I speak it out. I say self down, flesh,
God have your way, and that works for me.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Not perfectly it does, but it.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Helps you break the cycle of your wiring telling you
you have to know how this works or understand it all.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I'm Lindsay Roberts, and this is pray dot Com. God
has good things for you.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You can use your faith and believe God, and you
can expect miracles.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Don't let sit and steal what the Bible says about you.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I believe in miracles.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I'm Richard Roberts, I'm Lindsay Roberts.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
This is pray dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
And you're listening to pray radio.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
How many times have you waited and waited for an
answer that never seems to come. Galatians six' nine, says
don't get weary in your well, doing for we shall
reap induce season if we don't give, up if we don't,
faint if we don't. Quit so right NOW i pray for.
YOU i pray for the strength and courage for you
to wait according To god's plan and not give up
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even when we get tired or we get. Impatient, father
we ask for a supernatural. Strength we ask that you
will help us wait on your. Timing we ask for
patients to hold fast to your. Promise. Lord we know
that you have a plan for, us and that plan is,
Good So, lord help us to wait patiently according to your.
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Will Father. God we know that you have a plan for,
us and that plan is. Good So, lord help us
wait patiently and expect and believe even when we can't
see the answer. Immediately thank you for your, Grace thank
you for your, Provision Father. God thank you for your
patience during the time of. Waiting In jesus'. Name. Amen
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if you need, prayer call The Abundant Life Prayer group
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or go To Richard roberts dot org slash. Prayer I'm Lindsay.
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