May 27, 2025 • 15 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.
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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.
Orthodox spirituality expands through mindful prayer, Orthodox communities find God in present-moment awareness, Orthodox theology embraces contemplative meditation, Ortho
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.
Orthodox spirituality expands through mindful prayer, Orthodox communities find God in present-moment awareness, Orthodox theology embraces contemplative meditation, Ortho
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something that God is saying.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You know what, I'm taking you through something uncertain right now.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Who is this for?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm taking you through something right now that you've never
seen before. But just because you've never seen it before
doesn't mean it's not normal, Thank you, Jesus. Just because
I have never known it doesn't mean it's not normal.
You mean it can be normal for me to have
a heart that is at peace.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yes, Yes, that's how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You are supposed to have peace in the middle of
a storm. Jesus, did he slept through stuff that we
scramble about because he's not from here. See, when you're
from someone else or somewhere else, it changes what you
see as normal.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Help me preach, Stand up and help me preach.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Because I come from a different place, because I am
not from this world, because.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It is not my home.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I do not have to accept the patterns of this
world that's normal. I don't have to accept each if
this normal? And what if God is trying to bring
me into a new normal? But I'm so I'm so
afraid that I reach for what's familiar. Can I tell
(01:21):
you when new normal? I think God is trying to
give us right now, better priorities because we are so
toxic in the way we treat each other, what we
say to each other, how we categorize and box each other.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, we can't box each other like that anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Now I need you and you need me, And if
we don't all do what we're supposed to do, we
may not ever get out of this. God is making
a nation. God is bringing the people through the Red
Sea together, but not for them to go through, for
them to get there, there's something that they have to
give up. Question, what is God calling you to give
(02:08):
up to get there? What if there's a new normal?
What if your true nature has been so buried and
embedded in what Romans twelve calls the patterns of this world?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Can I show you this?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But here's what I want to show you from Romans
twelve one. Some you've heard the scripture before, but let's
put it in context. Okay, just like the children of Israel,
we're going through the Red Sea. And remember all they've
known as normal, all their parents knew is normal, All
their parents' parents knew is normal, All their parents' parents'
parents knew is normal. This is four hundred and thirty
years look how weird our world has gotten in just
(02:50):
a few weeks. Okay, this is four hundred and thirty
years of you thinking you're never supposed to have enough,
you'd never before. This is what it's like to be
in bondage. And some of you know this because you've
been in bondage to depression. You've been in bondage to
patterns of thought. And this is a chain breaking scripture
(03:11):
in Romans twelve to one. And I never saw it before, y'all.
I never saw it before. Rob Debby, Chelsea Dawn, Lisa, Shanika,
May Sharon, I never saw it before. Somebody's name on
here is honey. That is not a normal name.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I like it. If it's my message. My name is honey.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
What's your name? My name is honey. That's us one
way to get a date. All right, my name is honey,
Call me honey.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
But watch the scripture in Romans twelve verse one.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Are you ready this revelation to me? I've read both
of these scriptures a lot. They're both classic passages. The
children of Israel coming through the Red Sea. They want
to go back to Egypt. They want to go back
to what they've known. They want to go back to
what's familiar, because they are afraid. I'd rather go back
to what is negative, even if it's not really normal.
(04:00):
So we'll call negative normal just because it's what we know.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You see this, Some of.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The things that I've called normal my whole life aren't normal,
and this scripture shows me just the full extent of it.
In Jesus Christ, now let's put the Gospel on this
Old Testament passage. Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters,
in view of God's mercy, that's not normal.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That's not normal.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
How many of you in a relationship can just do
wrong over and over and over and over and over again,
and the person fully accepts you only God. So in
view of that kind of mercy, and that's where we
get used to things. We get used to things that
we used to be grateful for, we become entitled to.
(04:50):
But remember, for this community that Paul is writing to,
none of this is normal. They're used to relating to
God through a sacrificial system. So when they come before God,
they have to make offerings and spill blood in order
to have their prayer request heard, in order to meet
with God, in order to atone for sin.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So this is not normal.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
For Paul to be talking about mercy coming to God
on the basis of grace.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
This is new, this is a new normal.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And you know what their temptation was to go back
to the old way. So he's telling them no, no, no,
no no, in view of God's mercy.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I urge you.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
God needs you to I'm begging you to stop trying
to get back to normal.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Stop thinking that there's something you could.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Do to earn God's love, and realize that it's already
been done through the gift of his son Jesus Christ,
that the blood has already been shed. Instead of getting
back to normal, move forward into this new way of life.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And instead of offering pigeons.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
And turtle doves and lambs and goats and rams, offer
your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And pleasing to God.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
This is your true, true You're true and proper worship.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
This is your new normal.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Your new normal is that you are forgiven and not condemned.
Your new normal is that you are a child of
the Most High God. I am no ordinary child. I
am a child of God. Me and Moses have acts
seven twenty in common. I am no ordinary child.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I am a.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Child of God, I am a royal priesthood, I am
a holy nation. I am set apart. I'm not trying
to be normal. Normal is broken. Normal is broken, The
culture is broken.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The world is weird.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And it didn't just get weird when a virus was unleashed.
The world has been weird for a long time. I'm
gonna show you in the Bible Romans twelve to two.
This is way before coronavirus.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Romans twelve to two. Do not conform to the pattern
of this world. Why not because the world is weird.
I don't know about Christians, they're weird. You know what's
you know what's kind of cool about going through something
really traumatic? What used to be weird now is the
(07:33):
only thing that works. That's the only thing I'm excited about.
I'm not excited about anybody being sick, anybody dying, anybody
losing their job, anybody losing their company, anybody losing their
life's work. I'm not excited about anybody having to work
twenty hour days.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I'm not excited about any of it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
But what I am excited about is that our faith
finally fits.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
See the world always operates by life.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But now we've come to a red sea, and so
the world is trying what is always tried. Ah more
information ah rah, and none of it works. So now
there's room to do what Romans twelve one says, and
worship isn't weird anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's not weird to worship now, is it? Because the
only thing I can do.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Now is call on God. People are praying right now.
Who used to think that praying was superstitious? It's not
weird anymore. For once, we're not the weird ones. We're
not weird for just a minute. Let's just take this moment.
It's like it's like we're a middle school boy who
finally hit a growth spur and our voice isn't cracking,
and we finally fit.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
The church finally fits.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You could send this link to somebody today and they
wouldn't be annoyed that you invited them to church.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
They'd be excited. They are bored to death. They've got
three ulcers, They've.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Got ulcers in places where you don't even normally get ulcers.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
So faith finally fits.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
This is our moment, this is our time, this is
what we were born to do. Oh I'm born to
be normal. We fit this amazing moment. Finally there's space
for faith in your life. Long as everything's normal, there's
(09:21):
no space for faith.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh I got this. I figured this out. Here's what
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I took the kids here, and I took the kids there,
and I took the kids there, and I take the
kids here. The Lord said that in this season, he
is helping people reset their schedule. And since you didn't
want to do it manually, now as the whole thing
(09:46):
is shut down, one of the new normals that God
might bring us into is that we have a different
baseline for busy or a reordering of Think about this.
Many of us worshiped soccer more than we worshiped the Savior.
(10:08):
I know that sounds like one of those cliches I
would normally do it in the country preacher.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Voice, you worship soccer more than the Savior.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
But it's the dang truth. And I don't have anything
against soccer other than I hate it. But listen to me, Church, listen,
you're listening to me right now, Sit up and listen
to this. God said, I'm not trying to get you
back to the normal, to where you worshiped your kids'
activities and left no space for me.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm not trying to bring.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You back to that Egypt where you had to make
bricks without straw.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And you were just spinning your money and spending your time.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And never full and holds in your purses and just
running after this and running after that to impress people.
So now you're going through a season where you can
put on any clothes you want, Nobody's going to see them.
God's reordering some priorities because Romans twelve to put it
back on the screen. Please, I feel this message. I
want another week of this next week. Thank you, Jesus.
(11:10):
Do not conform anymore to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Why
the world was weird to begin with. It's not normal,
and even the way you develop your construct of.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
The world is important. Right.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
If you get your construct of what the world is
like from the news, you will not know normal. The
news does not make money by showing you normal. The
news makes money by showing you the most extreme example
to keep you watching. You think the news is there
(11:50):
to inform you. The news is not there to inform you.
The news is there to engage you so you'll keep watching.
Were getting your construct of the world right now from
the news, the news, the news, the news.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
That's not normal. I'm not telling you not to check
the news.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I'm telling you not to watch it just all the time.
It's not normal. That is not normal. You know how
the world has these patterns. It's like all these patterns
of the world where we overextend ourselves all the time,
and we do all these things to impress people. That
has never been normal, That's just been culturally accepted. That
(12:30):
doesn't make it normal. What does God call normal? That's
what I want to know in this season. What does
God call normal? I've told Elijah the other day, I
don't care if you like sports or don't like sports,
if music is your thing, because I grew up with
this too. The kids who did sports were normal. The
(12:50):
kids who liked music were weird.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I'm forty and I probably can't play sports anymore either,
even if I was good at them at one time.
I can still make music. So watch this. What was weird? Then?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Is making ministry happen?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Now?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Can I preach? Do not be conformed?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's to be acted upon by the outside that's conform.
You can make it what you want it to be.
That's what the world has done to us for so long.
Your faith goes here. Don't talk about your faith. Your
faith is just Thus that's not normal.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
The world is weird. Faith is normal.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the
evidence of things not seen. And now we get it
that the unseen is the most significant. I've been preaching
this since the beginning of the year, but now we
finally get it that what is unseen is most significant.
(13:51):
We get it because we're fighting a virus that we
can't see. So now we understand that the things which
are seen were made of things which do not appear.
Faith finally fits because we are standing in front of
the red Sea and we no longer understand, and we
can't count on the things we used to count on,
(14:11):
and in one sense we want.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Them back for comfort.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
But God cannot bring change while we hold to comfort.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
There is a new normal. There is a better you,
a truer you, are real you. The patterns of this
world are just pretend. It is not real.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
There is a peace that comes from above. There is
a wisdom that whispers, and it doesn't show, and God said,
I'm not trying to get you back to normal. I'm
trying to bring you into it. I'm looking forward to normal.
Somebody say it in the check. I'm looking forward to it.
(14:47):
I'm looking forward to God reinventing me. I'm looking forward
to God increasing my capacity to connect with people for real.
I'm looking forward to God. I prayed that God would
help me with my gratitude. I'm looking forward to being
able to put it into practice in the next season.
I'm looking forward to normal, not trying to get back
to it. Hey, thank you for watching. Make sure you
(15:09):
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Speaker 1 (15:18):
Thanks again for watching.
Something that God is saying.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You know what, I'm taking you through something uncertain right now.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Who is this for?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm taking you through something right now that you've never
seen before. But just because you've never seen it before
doesn't mean it's not normal, Thank you, Jesus. Just because
I have never known it doesn't mean it's not normal.
You mean it can be normal for me to have
a heart that is at peace.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yes, Yes, that's how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You are supposed to have peace in the middle of
a storm. Jesus, did he slept through stuff that we
scramble about because he's not from here. See, when you're
from someone else or somewhere else, it changes what you
see as normal.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Help me preach, Stand up and help me preach.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Because I come from a different place, because I am
not from this world, because.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It is not my home.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I do not have to accept the patterns of this
world that's normal. I don't have to accept each if
this normal? And what if God is trying to bring
me into a new normal? But I'm so I'm so
afraid that I reach for what's familiar. Can I tell
(01:21):
you when new normal? I think God is trying to
give us right now, better priorities because we are so
toxic in the way we treat each other, what we
say to each other, how we categorize and box each other.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, we can't box each other like that anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Now I need you and you need me, And if
we don't all do what we're supposed to do, we
may not ever get out of this. God is making
a nation. God is bringing the people through the Red
Sea together, but not for them to go through, for
them to get there, there's something that they have to
give up. Question, what is God calling you to give
(02:08):
up to get there? What if there's a new normal?
What if your true nature has been so buried and
embedded in what Romans twelve calls the patterns of this world?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Can I show you this?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But here's what I want to show you from Romans
twelve one. Some you've heard the scripture before, but let's
put it in context. Okay, just like the children of Israel,
we're going through the Red Sea. And remember all they've
known as normal, all their parents knew is normal, All
their parents' parents knew is normal, All their parents' parents'
parents knew is normal. This is four hundred and thirty
years look how weird our world has gotten in just
(02:50):
a few weeks. Okay, this is four hundred and thirty
years of you thinking you're never supposed to have enough,
you'd never before. This is what it's like to be
in bondage. And some of you know this because you've
been in bondage to depression. You've been in bondage to
patterns of thought. And this is a chain breaking scripture
(03:11):
in Romans twelve to one. And I never saw it before, y'all.
I never saw it before. Rob Debby, Chelsea Dawn, Lisa, Shanika,
May Sharon, I never saw it before. Somebody's name on
here is honey. That is not a normal name.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I like it. If it's my message. My name is honey.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
What's your name? My name is honey. That's us one
way to get a date. All right, my name is honey,
Call me honey.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
But watch the scripture in Romans twelve verse one.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Are you ready this revelation to me? I've read both
of these scriptures a lot. They're both classic passages. The
children of Israel coming through the Red Sea. They want
to go back to Egypt. They want to go back
to what they've known. They want to go back to
what's familiar, because they are afraid. I'd rather go back
to what is negative, even if it's not really normal.
(04:00):
So we'll call negative normal just because it's what we know.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You see this, Some of.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The things that I've called normal my whole life aren't normal,
and this scripture shows me just the full extent of it.
In Jesus Christ, now let's put the Gospel on this
Old Testament passage. Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters,
in view of God's mercy, that's not normal.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That's not normal.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
How many of you in a relationship can just do
wrong over and over and over and over and over again,
and the person fully accepts you only God. So in
view of that kind of mercy, and that's where we
get used to things. We get used to things that
we used to be grateful for, we become entitled to.
(04:50):
But remember, for this community that Paul is writing to,
none of this is normal. They're used to relating to
God through a sacrificial system. So when they come before God,
they have to make offerings and spill blood in order
to have their prayer request heard, in order to meet
with God, in order to atone for sin.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So this is not normal.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
For Paul to be talking about mercy coming to God
on the basis of grace.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
This is new, this is a new normal.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And you know what their temptation was to go back
to the old way. So he's telling them no, no, no,
no no, in view of God's mercy.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I urge you.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
God needs you to I'm begging you to stop trying
to get back to normal.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Stop thinking that there's something you could.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Do to earn God's love, and realize that it's already
been done through the gift of his son Jesus Christ,
that the blood has already been shed. Instead of getting
back to normal, move forward into this new way of life.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And instead of offering pigeons.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
And turtle doves and lambs and goats and rams, offer
your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And pleasing to God.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
This is your true, true You're true and proper worship.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
This is your new normal.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Your new normal is that you are forgiven and not condemned.
Your new normal is that you are a child of
the Most High God. I am no ordinary child. I
am a child of God. Me and Moses have acts
seven twenty in common. I am no ordinary child.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I am a.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Child of God, I am a royal priesthood, I am
a holy nation. I am set apart. I'm not trying
to be normal. Normal is broken. Normal is broken, The
culture is broken.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The world is weird.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And it didn't just get weird when a virus was unleashed.
The world has been weird for a long time. I'm
gonna show you in the Bible Romans twelve to two.
This is way before coronavirus.
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You got it.
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Romans twelve to two. Do not conform to the pattern
of this world. Why not because the world is weird.
I don't know about Christians, they're weird. You know what's
you know what's kind of cool about going through something
really traumatic? What used to be weird now is the
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only thing that works. That's the only thing I'm excited about.
I'm not excited about anybody being sick, anybody dying, anybody
losing their job, anybody losing their company, anybody losing their
life's work. I'm not excited about anybody having to work
twenty hour days.
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I'm not excited about any of it.
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But what I am excited about is that our faith
finally fits.
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See the world always operates by life.
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But now we've come to a red sea, and so
the world is trying what is always tried. Ah more
information ah rah, and none of it works. So now
there's room to do what Romans twelve one says, and
worship isn't weird anymore.
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It's not weird to worship now, is it? Because the
only thing I can do.
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Now is call on God. People are praying right now.
Who used to think that praying was superstitious? It's not
weird anymore. For once, we're not the weird ones. We're
not weird for just a minute. Let's just take this moment.
It's like it's like we're a middle school boy who
finally hit a growth spur and our voice isn't cracking,
and we finally fit.
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The church finally fits.
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You could send this link to somebody today and they
wouldn't be annoyed that you invited them to church.
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They'd be excited. They are bored to death. They've got
three ulcers, They've.
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Got ulcers in places where you don't even normally get ulcers.
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So faith finally fits.
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This is our moment, this is our time, this is
what we were born to do. Oh I'm born to
be normal. We fit this amazing moment. Finally there's space
for faith in your life. Long as everything's normal, there's
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no space for faith.
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Oh I got this. I figured this out. Here's what
I do.
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I took the kids here, and I took the kids there,
and I took the kids there, and I take the
kids here. The Lord said that in this season, he
is helping people reset their schedule. And since you didn't
want to do it manually, now as the whole thing
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is shut down, one of the new normals that God
might bring us into is that we have a different
baseline for busy or a reordering of Think about this.
Many of us worshiped soccer more than we worshiped the Savior.
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I know that sounds like one of those cliches I
would normally do it in the country preacher.
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Voice, you worship soccer more than the Savior.
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But it's the dang truth. And I don't have anything
against soccer other than I hate it. But listen to me, Church, listen,
you're listening to me right now, Sit up and listen
to this. God said, I'm not trying to get you
back to the normal, to where you worshiped your kids'
activities and left no space for me.
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I'm not trying to bring.
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You back to that Egypt where you had to make
bricks without straw.
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And you were just spinning your money and spending your time.
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And never full and holds in your purses and just
running after this and running after that to impress people.
So now you're going through a season where you can
put on any clothes you want, Nobody's going to see them.
God's reordering some priorities because Romans twelve to put it
back on the screen. Please, I feel this message. I
want another week of this next week. Thank you, Jesus.
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Do not conform anymore to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Why
the world was weird to begin with. It's not normal,
and even the way you develop your construct of.
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The world is important. Right.
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If you get your construct of what the world is
like from the news, you will not know normal. The
news does not make money by showing you normal. The
news makes money by showing you the most extreme example
to keep you watching. You think the news is there
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to inform you. The news is not there to inform you.
The news is there to engage you so you'll keep watching.
Were getting your construct of the world right now from
the news, the news, the news, the news.
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That's not normal. I'm not telling you not to check
the news.
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I'm telling you not to watch it just all the time.
It's not normal. That is not normal. You know how
the world has these patterns. It's like all these patterns
of the world where we overextend ourselves all the time,
and we do all these things to impress people. That
has never been normal, That's just been culturally accepted. That
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doesn't make it normal. What does God call normal? That's
what I want to know in this season. What does
God call normal? I've told Elijah the other day, I
don't care if you like sports or don't like sports,
if music is your thing, because I grew up with
this too. The kids who did sports were normal. The
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kids who liked music were weird.
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You know what.
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I'm forty and I probably can't play sports anymore either,
even if I was good at them at one time.
I can still make music. So watch this. What was weird? Then?
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Is making ministry happen?
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Now?
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Can I preach? Do not be conformed?
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That's to be acted upon by the outside that's conform.
You can make it what you want it to be.
That's what the world has done to us for so long.
Your faith goes here. Don't talk about your faith. Your
faith is just Thus that's not normal.
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The world is weird. Faith is normal.
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Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the
evidence of things not seen. And now we get it
that the unseen is the most significant. I've been preaching
this since the beginning of the year, but now we
finally get it that what is unseen is most significant.
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We get it because we're fighting a virus that we
can't see. So now we understand that the things which
are seen were made of things which do not appear.
Faith finally fits because we are standing in front of
the red Sea and we no longer understand, and we
can't count on the things we used to count on,
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and in one sense we want.
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Them back for comfort.
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But God cannot bring change while we hold to comfort.
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There is a new normal. There is a better you,
a truer you, are real you. The patterns of this
world are just pretend. It is not real.
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There is a peace that comes from above. There is
a wisdom that whispers, and it doesn't show, and God said,
I'm not trying to get you back to normal. I'm
trying to bring you into it. I'm looking forward to normal.
Somebody say it in the check. I'm looking forward to it.
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I'm looking forward to God reinventing me. I'm looking forward
to God increasing my capacity to connect with people for real.
I'm looking forward to God. I prayed that God would
help me with my gratitude. I'm looking forward to being
able to put it into practice in the next season.
I'm looking forward to normal, not trying to get back
to it. Hey, thank you for watching. Make sure you
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