May 27, 2025 • 16 mins
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In the sacred silence between heartbeats, where ancient wisdom dissolves modern chaos, Religious Mindfulness awakens the eternal truth that echoes through every faith tradition. Here, the timeless teachings of Jesus Christ resonate with Buddhist meditation practices, while Islamic prayer techniques flow seamlessly into Hindu mindfulness, creating a divine symphony where Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, and Confucianism unite in perfect grace.
Each episode transforms ordinary moments into sacred encounters, where the love of God vibrates through every breath, every meditation, and every prayer. Whether you follow the Protestant tradition, embrace Catholic wisdom, seek Orthodox truth, find joy in Pentecostal worship, or discover peace through Presbyterian contemplation, this podcast reveals how mindfulness becomes the universal language of faith. Every church community finds divine wisdom through contemplative theology that transcends religious boundaries.
Jesus taught mindfulness in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus demonstrated prayer through conscious presence, Jesus embodied love through divine awareness, Jesus showed how meditation deepens faith, Jesus revealed that God dwells in every mindful moment. The Bible echoes with mindfulness teachings, the Bible reveals that God dwells in conscious presence, the Bible demonstrates how prayer and meditation unite the soul with divine wisdom, the Bible teaches how Christianity embraces mindful worship.
Islamic mystics found divine grace in dhikr meditation, Islamic scholars revealed prayer as mindful surrender, Islamic tradition teaches that God's love manifests through conscious worship, Islamic wisdom shows how meditation deepens faith, Islamic prayer practices connect every believer with divine truth. Judaism proclaims that God dwells in every moment, Judaism reveals divine wisdom through contemplative practice, Judaism teaches how prayer becomes mindful awareness, Judaism demonstrates how meditation enriches faith, Judaism shows how love flows through traditional worship.
Buddhism teaches mindfulness as the path to wisdom, Buddhism demonstrates how meditation opens the heart to truth, Buddhism shows how prayer and mindfulness unite, Buddhism reveals how love flows through compassionate awareness, Buddhism teaches how peace emerges through contemplative practice. Hinduism announces that divine consciousness permeates everything, Hinduism teaches meditation as divine communion, Hinduism reveals how prayer opens the heart to God, Hinduism demonstrates how mindfulness becomes worship, Hinduism shows how love flows through devotional practice.
Taoism whispers that the Way flows through stillness, Taoism teaches wisdom through mindful presence, Taoism reveals how meditation connects with divine truth, Taoism demonstrates how prayer becomes conscious awareness, Taoism shows how love emerges through contemplative practice. Confucianism demonstrates that wisdom emerges through ethical mindfulness, Confucianism teaches divine virtue through conscious living, Confucianism reveals how meditation enriches moral practice, Confucianism shows how prayer becomes contemplative wisdom.
Your church becomes a meditation hall, your meditation cushion transforms into an altar of worship, your prayer becomes mindful breathing, and your mindfulness evolves into pure worship. This is where Christian contemplation meets Buddhist awareness, where Jewish mysticism embraces Islamic surrender, where Hindu devotion flows into Taoist simplicity, where Confucian ethics merge with divine joy found in every faith tradition.
Protestant communities embrace contemplative practice, Protestant churches integrate meditation with traditional worship, Protestant theology reveals how mindfulness deepens faith, Protestant traditions show how prayer becomes contemplative worship, Protestant wisdom demonstrates how Jesus taught mindful awareness. Catholic traditions deepen through Eastern wisdom, Catholic parishes discover mindfulness within their faith, Catholic theology embraces contemplative meditation, Catholic communities find God through mindful prayer, Catholic traditions show how Jesus practiced contemplative awareness.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What are you doing, man, I'm out here just trying
to recover from all that has happened with this book,
Relationship Ghost.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You got a number one book.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Man, God, it's so good. We gotta we gotta celebrate. Okay,
let's do it. How are we gonna do this? I
put something they've never seen what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We gotta tag team preach relationship Ghosts.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hold on me and you tag team preaching about relationship
though they're not ready for this, passive Stephen, because if
this actually happens, people are going to start winning in relationships.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Them again one one more time.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Hey, listen, if you're about.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
To click on this and keep watching this, this is
gonna change every relationship that you have right now, I'm
too hype.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'm about to go crazy at this current moment. You preach,
I've preached.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Everybody buys the book Relationship Goals in this corner, weighing
in one and eighty five pounds of annointy.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah it's from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh, you're the best selling author of Relationship Tank.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
I mean, except I don't wear one hundred and eighty
five pounds. Thank you for the annot.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Let's go and I think that if we could ever
start living by the principles of God, we would avoid
a lot of the problems of life. I'm gonna say
it again, if we could ever start living by the
principles of God, we would avoid a lot of problems
in life. Write down my first point right now. The
more principles you learn from the Word of God, the
(01:33):
less you pray about what to do. I'm gonna say
it again because some of.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
You are like, what did he just say? He said,
you don't have to pray that much. Listen to what
I just said.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
The more principles you learn from the Word of God,
the less you have to pray about what to do.
If you have a car made by manufacture. Whatever your
car is, a Kia, a Honda, Afford, whatever your car is,
the car comes with the manual.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Most of us have never read the manual.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Can we be honest if you have read the manual
to your car, lift your hands right now and I
see if you line put your hands down, Tremaine, you
know you didn't read the mandible.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Okay, most of us never read the manual.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So if something goes wrong with our vehicle, most of
us panic. Most of us if we start the car,
we start hearing a noise and then it slows down
and the acceleration goes down. We pull over to the side.
We start panicking, Oh no, what's gonna happen? And usually
we call a mechanic because the panic leads to problems.
(02:37):
And so when we start panicking, we then find problems,
and then we find a mechanic. When the mechanic gets there,
he comes in. He doesn't seem tense, worried, frustrated, nothing.
He comes in, he tries to start the car, He
listens to what's happening.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
He then goes up and he opens up the hood.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He goes past all of the other things and goes
straight to the problem. And he's able to fix exactly
what's wrong with the situation because he knows the principles
of a car. Okay, y'all gonna get this in a second.
You pay him three hundred and fifty dollars. Why because
you did not know how to fix it yourself. You
(03:15):
could have saved time and money and not had to
pay for it if you knew the principles. I'm talking
about your relationships, and you don't even know it. You
are paying so much in time and energy and hurt
and frustration, and you're losing purpose and losing your life
because you're paying for something that you do not know
(03:36):
the principles of.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Ooh, I'm already preaching.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And many of you are depleted and I dare say
overdrawn in your account because you're paying for not knowing
the principles.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
When I think about this, you need to understand this.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Principles simplify life. When you understand the principle of a thing,
life becomes simple. I want you to write that down,
principles simplify life.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Prove it to you.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The car that most of us drive works on the
principle of gasoline.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
You know how to put gas in your car. You
know that principle.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So when your car goes on e don't nobody be
praying about that because they know the principle. They don't say,
oh God, I'm on eve. Father, I just thank you
right now that you would send a ram in the bush. God,
I thank you Father that you would make a way
for the petro.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
To get into my tank.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
God, I need to call a phone, a friend, Holy Spirit.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Who should I call? Diane? Diane?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I need you to touch and a cree with me
because right now I'm out of gas, and I know
that God can be away where there is no way.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Lord, would you please bring a quick trick.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You don't do that because you understand the principle of gasoline,
so you don't have to pray about what you understand
the principle of. You don't have so pray about what
you understand the principle of. And so what ends up
happening is if you run out of gas, you'll find
the nearest gas station, you will put the gas in
(05:09):
the car, and you will pump it because you understand
how the principle of a car is supposed to function.
That's the way it's supposed to be for all your relationships.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
You're supposed to understand.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The principles of relationships, so you don't have to pray
about what you already know the principle of. See how
quiet it is, because the truth is, most of us
have never read the manual about relationships. Most of us
have never been taught the principles. Our parents didn't know
how to do it, so they didn't teach us about it.
(05:43):
Pop Culture acts like they know how to do it,
so they're the only ones stepping up and saying, this
is how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
This is how it's supposed to be, but.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
They didn't make it, so's it's one of those things
where they're telling you how it's supposed to work, but
they have no guarantees in their life. You ever got
a product that wasn't made by the manufacturer, so you
get no guarantees with it, And that's what's happening. A
lot of our relationships are broken because we're getting taught
and they're given to us by somebody who didn't make them.
(06:10):
And when you didn't make a thing, you can't guarantee it.
I feel that. So what I'm trying to tell you
right now, whatever happens in your relationship, you are supposed
to know exactly what to do, know what's wrong with it,
and how to fix it. But the reason we can't
is because we haven't read the manual. The reason I'm
trying to dig down on this, and y'all, I feel
(06:34):
like a teacher today. I really want to take you
through the words and build the value to why God
is supposed to be the ones to define our relationship,
why our relationship with Him is our ultimate relationship goal,
because out of that relationship, all of our other relationships
will be successful. Out of the relationship I have vertically
with him, everything I do down here will be able
(06:56):
to win. But what we've been trying to do is
do a relationship down here and ask him to bless
when he wasn't the first relationship go for us.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I think that many relationships fail not because of a
loss of love, but because of a loss of focus.
That would be one of the reasons that a church
fails as well, while we're at it.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Is that you lose your focus.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
When you stop caring about what God cares about, God
will no longer back you in your endeavor. And so
sometimes what we call failure is really just broken focus.
It's the reason why the passion that exists in some
(07:45):
parts of relationships when it's getting started tends to leak,
and you under where it went. It wasn't necessarily that
you lost the love, you lost the focus. It's very
difficult to keep that first love focus in any relationship.
I think Jesus is calling us back to focus. If
(08:05):
you'll notice the bread on the sandwich from the little
passage that we just read, Both of them start with seeking, seek,
first his kingdom, Ask and it will be given to you.
Seek and you will find on both ends of this
passage where Jesus is speaking on several different subjects.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Is this idea of.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Focus, especially in our culture. I think the focus when
it comes to our relationship tends to be a little broken.
When I say that it's broken, I mean that it's
misplaced and misleading. Sometimes we're so focused on falling in
love that we are very uneducated about the process of.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Staying in love. Talk to me anytime you want to.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
And there's a romantic notion that is reinforced with every
romantic comedy that the falling part is where the excitement is.
I was looking at an article getting ready for this
series where the author said, there's a reason that fairy
(09:13):
tales end in marriage because nobody wants to see what
happens next.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Nobody wants to talk about the other half.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Now watch this. The first area you gotta decide. You
got to decide your focus. Because you can always decide
your focus. You can't always decide about all the factors.
You can't always decide if somebody's gonna stay with you
or leave. You can't always decide if somebody's gonna ask
you out. You can always decide if they're gonna text
you back, but you can always decide your focus. So
is your focus number one on finding or becoming? Finding
(09:45):
or becoming? Jesus said, seek first the kingdom, and the
other stuff will move into position. But if you seek
first the other stuff, then you will have no center
of gravity for the stuff to revolve around. So it's
important that your focus is not I've been teaching this
(10:05):
for years, man. I used to go around to youth
camps and I would teach dating seminar and I would say,
you know, it's not an original quote from me, but
I would say it all the time because I think
it's true. Happiness isn't finding the right person. Happiness is
being the right person.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I'll take it.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Further, since your applause is so tepid. If you find
the right person and you are not the right person,
what do you think you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Do to that poor right person?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Now, I'm not suggesting, please, I'm not suggesting that if
you're not married or something like that is because you're
not ready yet. Because all we have to do to
disprove that stupid theory is to look at some of
the people who are married, So mary.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Doesn't equal ready.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Okay, I could offer you many examples of that, starting
with myself.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
But what I am saying is that it is important
to God. Says important to God that you have the
right people in your life.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
But the only way you're.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Going to have the right people in your life is
if you will be the right person in your heart.
That's the only way you're that's that's the only way
you're even going to attract them to begin with.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And that's the only thing you can control.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I can always can't control whether this person comes into
my life, but I can control the kind of person
that I am. You know how you have little memories
from your childhood that are so random that you wonder
how they're still up there from all these years, and
you kind of wish you could delete them, because honestly,
you need that space for more important things like your
children's names and stuff that you forget sometimes.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But I have a memory. I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I remember in sixth grade they gave us the Berkeley
County Writing Test.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I remember the.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Prompt of the Berkeley County Writing Test when I was
in the sixth grade, almost word for word. Pretend that
you are on an adventure or they called it a
journey with your friends, and on this adventure or journey,
you come across a valuable.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Unusual object. Describe the object. A couple weeks later.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
The teacher walked in with all of our writing tests
and made an announcement.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
She said, I've never had this happen.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Before in however many years of teaching, but every single
one of you failed the Berkeley County writing test.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
We laughed. She said, it's not a joke. She said.
You wrote beautiful essays.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You went into great detail elaborating on the journey with
your friends, but that was not the writing prompt. The
writing prompt was not to describe the journey. The writing
prompt was to describe the object. All of you wrote
essays about walking through the woods with your friends. Some
of you traveled across the seas with your friends. Some
of you flew through space with your friends.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It was highly.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Entertaining, but none of you described the object. The object
of relationship, the object of love, is not that somebody
else would complete you. I'm sorry, Renee Zellwegger, but you
(13:06):
got it wrong. Your line was touching. It just wasn't true.
Jerry didn't complete you touch your neighbors, say you can't
complete me.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Say we teach this stuff no wonder are single people
cut their fists up ready to fight me when I
want to preach about marriage, because the way we preach
it and teach it, we teach.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It like until you get married, your life hasn't started.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I only got one question to ask you.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
If that's true, how can you worship Jesus.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
We worship a guy who stayed single till they killed him.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Now, I'm not saying you have to stay single to
be like Jesus.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
I'm a hypocrite to say that, but I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I'm saying if Paul would have waited to fulfill his
purpose until he had somebody to complete him, we wouldn't
have twenty three percent of a New Testament.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And we teach it wrong. We teach it wrong. I've
taught it wrong. We teach it wrong.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
In the Book of Genesis, God's describing marriage. You talking
about Adam, and even he says that you know, the
man shall leave his father and mother and go be
with his wife, and it says.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
That the two will become one. Let me tell you
what it doesn't say. It doesn't say.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
The halves will become whole. But yet we teach it
and we treat it and we expect it, like the
halves are gonna become whole. But I found out if
you go into a marriage half, the two halves.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Are gonna make hell, not whole. It's great preaching, Pastor Stein,
And that's very true, Pastor. So what is your focus?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Is it what you can't control, which is what God
is doing in your life, or is it finding? You know,
you got to find a woman, Then you got to
find a ring. Then you got to find some money,
and you got to find a date to get married
and a place to get married that everybody can come
to that all on the same date, working out continents,
different continents, people coming together from all these different places
(15:17):
in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And got to find the dresses for the.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Brides, made something that they'll all wear and won't complain
about then look good against their skin tone. And you
gotta find a house and find a job, and finding finding, finding, finding, finding,
finding finding finding.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You see the pattern here.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
But God said, while all of that has its place,
if you will focus on becoming.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Remember you said the two will become one. That's the focus.
What are you becoming
What are you doing, man, I'm out here just trying
to recover from all that has happened with this book,
Relationship Ghost.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You got a number one book.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Man, God, it's so good. We gotta we gotta celebrate. Okay,
let's do it. How are we gonna do this? I
put something they've never seen what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We gotta tag team preach relationship Ghosts.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hold on me and you tag team preaching about relationship
though they're not ready for this, passive Stephen, because if
this actually happens, people are going to start winning in relationships.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Them again one one more time.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Hey, listen, if you're about.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
To click on this and keep watching this, this is
gonna change every relationship that you have right now, I'm
too hype.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'm about to go crazy at this current moment. You preach,
I've preached.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Everybody buys the book Relationship Goals in this corner, weighing
in one and eighty five pounds of annointy.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah it's from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh, you're the best selling author of Relationship Tank.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
I mean, except I don't wear one hundred and eighty
five pounds. Thank you for the annot.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Let's go and I think that if we could ever
start living by the principles of God, we would avoid
a lot of the problems of life. I'm gonna say
it again, if we could ever start living by the
principles of God, we would avoid a lot of problems
in life. Write down my first point right now. The
more principles you learn from the Word of God, the
(01:33):
less you pray about what to do. I'm gonna say
it again because some of.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
You are like, what did he just say? He said,
you don't have to pray that much. Listen to what
I just said.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
The more principles you learn from the Word of God,
the less you have to pray about what to do.
If you have a car made by manufacture. Whatever your
car is, a Kia, a Honda, Afford, whatever your car is,
the car comes with the manual.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Most of us have never read the manual.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Can we be honest if you have read the manual
to your car, lift your hands right now and I
see if you line put your hands down, Tremaine, you
know you didn't read the mandible.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Okay, most of us never read the manual.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So if something goes wrong with our vehicle, most of
us panic. Most of us if we start the car,
we start hearing a noise and then it slows down
and the acceleration goes down. We pull over to the side.
We start panicking, Oh no, what's gonna happen? And usually
we call a mechanic because the panic leads to problems.
(02:37):
And so when we start panicking, we then find problems,
and then we find a mechanic. When the mechanic gets there,
he comes in. He doesn't seem tense, worried, frustrated, nothing.
He comes in, he tries to start the car, He
listens to what's happening.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
He then goes up and he opens up the hood.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He goes past all of the other things and goes
straight to the problem. And he's able to fix exactly
what's wrong with the situation because he knows the principles
of a car. Okay, y'all gonna get this in a second.
You pay him three hundred and fifty dollars. Why because
you did not know how to fix it yourself. You
(03:15):
could have saved time and money and not had to
pay for it if you knew the principles. I'm talking
about your relationships, and you don't even know it. You
are paying so much in time and energy and hurt
and frustration, and you're losing purpose and losing your life
because you're paying for something that you do not know
(03:36):
the principles of.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Ooh, I'm already preaching.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And many of you are depleted and I dare say
overdrawn in your account because you're paying for not knowing
the principles.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
When I think about this, you need to understand this.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Principles simplify life. When you understand the principle of a thing,
life becomes simple. I want you to write that down,
principles simplify life.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Prove it to you.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The car that most of us drive works on the
principle of gasoline.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
You know how to put gas in your car. You
know that principle.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So when your car goes on e don't nobody be
praying about that because they know the principle. They don't say,
oh God, I'm on eve. Father, I just thank you
right now that you would send a ram in the bush. God,
I thank you Father that you would make a way
for the petro.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
To get into my tank.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
God, I need to call a phone, a friend, Holy Spirit.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Who should I call? Diane? Diane?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I need you to touch and a cree with me
because right now I'm out of gas, and I know
that God can be away where there is no way.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Lord, would you please bring a quick trick.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You don't do that because you understand the principle of gasoline,
so you don't have to pray about what you understand
the principle of. You don't have so pray about what
you understand the principle of. And so what ends up
happening is if you run out of gas, you'll find
the nearest gas station, you will put the gas in
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the car, and you will pump it because you understand
how the principle of a car is supposed to function.
That's the way it's supposed to be for all your relationships.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
You're supposed to understand.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The principles of relationships, so you don't have to pray
about what you already know the principle of. See how
quiet it is, because the truth is, most of us
have never read the manual about relationships. Most of us
have never been taught the principles. Our parents didn't know
how to do it, so they didn't teach us about it.
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Pop Culture acts like they know how to do it,
so they're the only ones stepping up and saying, this
is how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
This is how it's supposed to be, but.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
They didn't make it, so's it's one of those things
where they're telling you how it's supposed to work, but
they have no guarantees in their life. You ever got
a product that wasn't made by the manufacturer, so you
get no guarantees with it, And that's what's happening. A
lot of our relationships are broken because we're getting taught
and they're given to us by somebody who didn't make them.
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And when you didn't make a thing, you can't guarantee it.
I feel that. So what I'm trying to tell you
right now, whatever happens in your relationship, you are supposed
to know exactly what to do, know what's wrong with it,
and how to fix it. But the reason we can't
is because we haven't read the manual. The reason I'm
trying to dig down on this, and y'all, I feel
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like a teacher today. I really want to take you
through the words and build the value to why God
is supposed to be the ones to define our relationship,
why our relationship with Him is our ultimate relationship goal,
because out of that relationship, all of our other relationships
will be successful. Out of the relationship I have vertically
with him, everything I do down here will be able
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to win. But what we've been trying to do is
do a relationship down here and ask him to bless
when he wasn't the first relationship go for us.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I think that many relationships fail not because of a
loss of love, but because of a loss of focus.
That would be one of the reasons that a church
fails as well, while we're at it.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Is that you lose your focus.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
When you stop caring about what God cares about, God
will no longer back you in your endeavor. And so
sometimes what we call failure is really just broken focus.
It's the reason why the passion that exists in some
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parts of relationships when it's getting started tends to leak,
and you under where it went. It wasn't necessarily that
you lost the love, you lost the focus. It's very
difficult to keep that first love focus in any relationship.
I think Jesus is calling us back to focus. If
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you'll notice the bread on the sandwich from the little
passage that we just read, Both of them start with seeking, seek,
first his kingdom, Ask and it will be given to you.
Seek and you will find on both ends of this
passage where Jesus is speaking on several different subjects.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Is this idea of.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Focus, especially in our culture. I think the focus when
it comes to our relationship tends to be a little broken.
When I say that it's broken, I mean that it's
misplaced and misleading. Sometimes we're so focused on falling in
love that we are very uneducated about the process of.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Staying in love. Talk to me anytime you want to.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
And there's a romantic notion that is reinforced with every
romantic comedy that the falling part is where the excitement is.
I was looking at an article getting ready for this
series where the author said, there's a reason that fairy
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tales end in marriage because nobody wants to see what
happens next.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Nobody wants to talk about the other half.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Now watch this. The first area you gotta decide. You
got to decide your focus. Because you can always decide
your focus. You can't always decide about all the factors.
You can't always decide if somebody's gonna stay with you
or leave. You can't always decide if somebody's gonna ask
you out. You can always decide if they're gonna text
you back, but you can always decide your focus. So
is your focus number one on finding or becoming? Finding
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or becoming? Jesus said, seek first the kingdom, and the
other stuff will move into position. But if you seek
first the other stuff, then you will have no center
of gravity for the stuff to revolve around. So it's
important that your focus is not I've been teaching this
(10:05):
for years, man. I used to go around to youth
camps and I would teach dating seminar and I would say,
you know, it's not an original quote from me, but
I would say it all the time because I think
it's true. Happiness isn't finding the right person. Happiness is
being the right person.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I'll take it.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Further, since your applause is so tepid. If you find
the right person and you are not the right person,
what do you think you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Do to that poor right person?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Now, I'm not suggesting, please, I'm not suggesting that if
you're not married or something like that is because you're
not ready yet. Because all we have to do to
disprove that stupid theory is to look at some of
the people who are married, So mary.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Doesn't equal ready.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Okay, I could offer you many examples of that, starting
with myself.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
But what I am saying is that it is important
to God. Says important to God that you have the
right people in your life.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
But the only way you're.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Going to have the right people in your life is
if you will be the right person in your heart.
That's the only way you're that's that's the only way
you're even going to attract them to begin with.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And that's the only thing you can control.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I can always can't control whether this person comes into
my life, but I can control the kind of person
that I am. You know how you have little memories
from your childhood that are so random that you wonder
how they're still up there from all these years, and
you kind of wish you could delete them, because honestly,
you need that space for more important things like your
children's names and stuff that you forget sometimes.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But I have a memory. I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I remember in sixth grade they gave us the Berkeley
County Writing Test.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I remember the.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Prompt of the Berkeley County Writing Test when I was
in the sixth grade, almost word for word. Pretend that
you are on an adventure or they called it a
journey with your friends, and on this adventure or journey,
you come across a valuable.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Unusual object. Describe the object. A couple weeks later.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
The teacher walked in with all of our writing tests
and made an announcement.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
She said, I've never had this happen.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Before in however many years of teaching, but every single
one of you failed the Berkeley County writing test.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
We laughed. She said, it's not a joke. She said.
You wrote beautiful essays.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You went into great detail elaborating on the journey with
your friends, but that was not the writing prompt. The
writing prompt was not to describe the journey. The writing
prompt was to describe the object. All of you wrote
essays about walking through the woods with your friends. Some
of you traveled across the seas with your friends. Some
of you flew through space with your friends.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It was highly.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Entertaining, but none of you described the object. The object
of relationship, the object of love, is not that somebody
else would complete you. I'm sorry, Renee Zellwegger, but you
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got it wrong. Your line was touching. It just wasn't true.
Jerry didn't complete you touch your neighbors, say you can't
complete me.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Say we teach this stuff no wonder are single people
cut their fists up ready to fight me when I
want to preach about marriage, because the way we preach
it and teach it, we teach.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It like until you get married, your life hasn't started.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I only got one question to ask you.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
If that's true, how can you worship Jesus.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
We worship a guy who stayed single till they killed him.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Now, I'm not saying you have to stay single to
be like Jesus.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
I'm a hypocrite to say that, but I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I'm saying if Paul would have waited to fulfill his
purpose until he had somebody to complete him, we wouldn't
have twenty three percent of a New Testament.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
And we teach it wrong. We teach it wrong. I've
taught it wrong. We teach it wrong.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
In the Book of Genesis, God's describing marriage. You talking
about Adam, and even he says that you know, the
man shall leave his father and mother and go be
with his wife, and it says.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
That the two will become one. Let me tell you
what it doesn't say. It doesn't say.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
The halves will become whole. But yet we teach it
and we treat it and we expect it, like the
halves are gonna become whole. But I found out if
you go into a marriage half, the two halves.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Are gonna make hell, not whole. It's great preaching, Pastor Stein,
And that's very true, Pastor. So what is your focus?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Is it what you can't control, which is what God
is doing in your life, or is it finding? You know,
you got to find a woman, Then you got to
find a ring. Then you got to find some money,
and you got to find a date to get married
and a place to get married that everybody can come
to that all on the same date, working out continents,
different continents, people coming together from all these different places
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in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And got to find the dresses for the.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Brides, made something that they'll all wear and won't complain
about then look good against their skin tone. And you
gotta find a house and find a job, and finding finding, finding, finding, finding,
finding finding finding.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You see the pattern here.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
But God said, while all of that has its place,
if you will focus on becoming.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Remember you said the two will become one. That's the focus.
What are you becoming
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