How To Abide In Jesus | Girls Gone Bible

0:00Guys have you ever been in a relationship and kept having unwanted doubts like do I love them enough and am I really happy what if God has someone better for me and those questions felt impossible to ignore and suddenly you're repeatedly praying for certainty or signs constantly comparing your relationship to others asking friends what they think over and over but you can't find peace no matter what you try unwanted relationship doubts can feel so real and scary but here's what's important to know thoughts like these can be a sign of relationship OCD unlike the stereotypes about being organized real OCD is a serious condition that can latch on to anything we care about relationship OCD creates this never-ending loop of doubt and anxiety followed by behaviors you do to try to feel better but the relief never lasts but OCD doesn't have to take over your relationships because it's highly treatable with a type of specialized therapy called exposure and response prevention or ERP and that's why we want to tell you about no CD no CD is the world's leading OCD treatment provider in all of their licensed therapists specialized in ERP therapy with no CD is

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2:12why why I had a mental crisis good for you I almost did that I almost did that three months ago haha we're past that you imagine you and I bald I've you know I always wanted to go bald for a role one day I just felt it'd be so empowering yeah what you don't like the shape of my head to be bald you're so rude I saw it in your eyes I heard angel likes to make fun of me of like past things that I've said go ahead why don't you know it's my favorite thing that you said you were talking about suicidal ideation you said I shall live and not die and I think it's iconic and it's scripture I think it's it's something that you should literally spew out of your mouth when you have suicidal thoughts yeah truly I shall live and not die what's the other thing that you when I said my king of kings my king my king of kings um guys I got him from a song I got

3:12a ticket at your house today again why don't you tell me I don't know but I'm really disappointed I have about I think it's 13 tickets I have to pay right now I have a lot of toll tickets I don't even know how to pay that money either I know I tried paying my tolls online and they wouldn't I have like 25 on there why do we do that and then they all they start out as like two dollars but then I forgot that to pay for months and months and then and then it's like my life is about to get suspended your license is going to get suspended that's not like you can also have to go to traffic school because I have a point no you have a point I've never had a point my license and I've crashed my car I know you've crashed a car you crashed a car many times I've I've crashed my car on two Cinco de Mayo once when I was in high school and then once when I was about 20 and so I don't celebrate Cinco de Mayo because it's bad vibes hmm Cinco de Mayo is a Spanish holiday right yeah May 5th do you know any Spanish did you take Spanish okay see do you know

4:17that porque means why and porque also means because okay porque means why but it also means because guys my Spanish brothers and sisters you let me know if I'm right I love Spanish I can't believe how much I want to be Spanish my tongues all of a sudden one day like when I speak in tongues all of a sudden one day they obviously like shift what are you laughing at I'm just they obviously like Spanish and tongues um no but my tongues sound Spanish now I like roll all of a sudden one day it's like I was gifted I don't think I'm I'm not speaking Spanish but I have a Spanish accent when I'm speaking in tongues and I don't know where it came from but I roll my ours and it's a very it's like spicy how I know what does it like sound like I'm not gonna tongues are for me you know and I miss to edify me to build up my my inner man yeah I think people that are Spanish are very blessed I mean I just I don't know what it is I just want to be Spanish I think Spanish girls

5:21are truly the most beautiful girls in the world I just yeah and I have about three Brazilian shirts I actually should wear one on one of the opposite yeah up the Brazilians you tell people you're a Brazilian when we're out that's how I used to book every single job when I was in the entertainment industry because they thought I was exotic you are exotic am I exotic well you're Albanian you're you're like white you're not white when people ask me I have to be like I'm like Dutch I'm German Italian Boston do I look Albanian yes really yeah but you don't look like Duolipa I don't look like why don't I look like Duolipa and I'm just kidding I'm fearfully in one of food made I just love Duolipa leading people Australia these days no we are having fun and we decided remember that episode on comparison we decided that we are gonna be ourselves and

6:27have fun and sometimes ourselves is a little bit sarcastic and a little bit real like sometimes yeah we're saying we want to look like this person do I want to look like anyone no I want to look like you margarabi you do look like margarabi my gosh would you look like margarabi please you please and you're a good singer you can not quote the wolf okay that's where we draw the line really quick you guys last night please if anybody's ever done this I want to know and I want you to message me because it's not okay second time in my life where I drive away at the gas station with the pump still in my gas tank and I rip it off the thing and it's like and she did it one time and the gas started exploding out do you remember was that you know no that wasn't me who's that that wasn't you no one time we did it when we live in Florida and we

7:35we want I wish we lived in Florida I don't sign what is wrong with me no we live in California we live in California and Ari and I got our taxes back how much we have to pay a taxes and I was at the gas station I call Ari we were locked out we were losing our mind this is a fresh year we have a business and we got to pay the taxes we were not prepared to be robbed in the state of California so I'm at the gas station and I'm freaking out Ari's freaking out I drive I book it I drive with the pump in the gas tank and I drive so fast and I rip the thing off and I was so I didn't know what to do like that was the first time I didn't know what to do I called a friend of mine and I was like what do I do and then about the taxes or the gas pump but same literally and then so the guy comes and he gets my he got my like registration and or whatever my insurance and

8:37maybe my insurance paid for I don't even know and then um this time last night I don't even know why I did it I don't even know I had no excuse I didn't have a bad phone call and stuff thinking about when we when we was so guys what if your Jesus is shaped more by culture than by scripture we've created a personalized savior who exists to me our individual needs and bless our lives we've made him into a life coach a therapist for our anxiety or a political ally that Jesus is safe manageable convenient he fits comfortably into our lives without disrupting them too much the missing Messiah a new book by Kyle Eidelman and Mark Moore helps us understand how Western culture has gradually reshaped Jesus into our image and recognize the difference between a personalized savior and a revolutionary king it's about the true cost as well as the true gain when we stop treating Jesus like a spiritual accessory and start following him as the Messiah if you believe

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11:41to yourself we're just sitting in those ugly blue chairs with the books and the weird lighting the lighting was so bad and then also someone I was dying laughing when you guys are funny it just makes my whole life you have no idea someone commented and said yeah I have no idea without Harvard looking background was and it was like yeah it's not it wasn't can you guys like being communication with us and let us know when you don't like something yeah tell us everything we were seriously we read everything even those comments that this feels sad a little bit what would you go where'd you go I don't know where I went I don't like when you do that this is all the angel I'm like oh where are you all my friends go in I don't like when you're crying when you're quiet everything okay yes everything is so good so good you want to go to the Catholic church I wish you know oh yeah I was on the phone with you we should go say I you should go

12:47with me I did that the other day you guys the little Catholic church where I found Jesus is my little meeting place with him and I went the other day and sat there for a few hours and there's something so sacred and holy about sitting in that church alone and looking at Jesus on the cross it's so it's like that moment of solitude with him and the silence I was with I was with Michael Kulianos and Jess a little while ago and Michael was saying to me because Michael grew up Greek Orthodox and he obviously knows that I grew up Catholic and he told me he was like listen you're never going to be Catholic again he's like but it'll always be in you he will always have a draw towards the tradition in the reverence and just like and I feel that even more recently of just like I want to be in those like incredibly reverent and holy spaces I miss I miss being in the

13:51presence of of non's there's nothing holy I mean that that's their whole life is intimacy with Jesus my mom said that to me yesterday I'm not even kidding because we were talking about my stomach she goes I just don't know what's going on no it's just because she goes what do you think you think maybe Jesus wants you to be a nun alright all right guys we just want to start off by saying we genuinely love Hosanna revival Aryan I have been using Hosanna Revivals Bibles and notebooks and there's something so special about them like you can tell that there's intention behind every detail they're absolutely beautiful and for me personally it's changed the way I sit with the word there's something about opening a Bible that feels beautiful it slows you down it draws you in and I really believe that a beautiful Bible can be an invitation into the beautiful word of God because sometimes it's not that you don't want to spend time with God you just need something that helps you begin again something that makes you want to open it for the first time or the first time in a long time and that's actually the heart behind Hosanna Revival they create beautiful

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17:10Joseanna bibles this is our new one our spring one I love my my beat up one but those are the best the beat up ones are the best yeah we are going to church today we have so many exciting topics for the next few weeks we just want to grow in intimacy with Jesus we want to get back into the word we just want to remind you guys that like there is nothing and when I say nothing there is nothing more important than the word of god there is nothing more authoritative than the word of god our lives need to be fully and completely submitted to the word Jesus himself submitted to the word how much more should we I think I was talking to a couple people the other day actually you were there okay we are all in a conversation the other day and we're talking about revival because there's clearly revival happening right now in america all over the world and me

18:13and my friend were talking about the revival that took the revival that took place in like the 70s in the 80s and just like the outpouring of the spirit that took place and she our friend actually lived through that and I was asking her what's the difference between that revival and this one and she said that revival was like the pouring out of the Holy Spirit the gifts like a hypercharismatic movement where the Holy Spirit just like tore through every bit of like religiosity and everybody got to know the Holy Spirit and this revival is of course spirit filled spirit led this is the sort of the spirit this revival that's taking place is like an honoring of the word like you see everywhere people are in love with the word my pastor Darren he literally like is a Bible scholar and his church is exploding and I truly believe that it's because he honors the word the way he does and I have so many pastors and leaders that I admire in respect who typically would teach kind of like

19:18revelatory teaching which is still rooted in scripture but it's a little bit it's revelatory as opposed to like expository teaching and I see those leaders moving a little bit away from revelatory teaching into expository teaching because we're starting to realize that like we need to be standing on the word the author's intent the context that the word was written in and I think what's happened in this season is we've moved away from this idea I think what happened with Christianity is it started to blow up it started to become trendy everybody's on social media everybody is an Christian influencer and it just became this really trendy thing to be a Christian and I think as it started to explode and there was famous Christians people wanted to say the next best thing like it's like people just wanted the next profound thing to say and talk about and so everyone is always trying to come up with something new or something great to say and I think the Lord is just like really really pruning and refining us and the whole body

20:24and our teaching and and bringing us back to the basic principle that the word is enough we don't need anything more than that it's enough to teach directly from the Bible we don't need to come up with anything new and I just really wanted to say that because it's so important to me and Ari it's there's nothing more important than the word especially in a season that I've been in where you can't rely on emotions and feelings whenever you're going through something you really really really need to make an emphasis not to rely on those emotions and feelings and not gauge whether you're closer far to God or not based on how you feel because our feelings lie constantly and so for me the safest that I feel in my faith in this very moment is when I'm reading the word yeah because it's not based on my feelings it's not based on anything that it's the most solid thing that we have and yeah sorry to go on a tangent I just scream

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25:47you feel feel fearful or you feel uh anxious or you feel like things are not well i want to give you guys a little teaching about just the first verse in som 91 it's those who dwell in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty reverse verse one 91 verse one oh okay so in the nlt version is those who live in the shelter of the most high will find rest in the shadow of the almighty but i'm reading from niv those who dwell in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty and so first i want to recognize this this line it says those who dwell in this in the secret place of the most high as i'm reading the scripture i realize that something is being established here and it's that the secret place is his the secret place we talk about the secret place all the time the secret place that we cultivate actually belongs to jesus and that is important for him to let us know because i think a lot of people

26:51including myself we are on a journey of our own lives we're the main character of our own lives and we feel like god at times is a great accessory to the life that we're already living and so we go about our lives including jesus in our plans in our dreams and the things we want to do and it says if we just bring him along on our days but the truth is there's a place that he's established for us to meet him and it's his it's the secret place of the most high so if you want the second half of this verse to continually abide in his presence you have to first meet him in the place that he's called you to the other part i love about this so much those who dwell in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty so there's the difference between dwell and abide to dwell means to live in or to reside so it literally means that you make your residence somewhere to dwell means that you are living there you're a resident it's permanent and

27:52to abide means that you remain or stay so do you see the difference one is you make residence somewhere and the other one is you remain or you stay we make our residence with god when we dwell in the secret place we literally make our home with him and this is the thing everybody wants to go out and beyond mission and start a podcast or start a ministry or do all these things or even simply just go and evangelize like we need the abiding presence of jesus with us as we go it's the power of the holy spirit um i was with a friend recently and she told me she was doing like a series of podcasts um in dc and she said something that stuck with me she said i feel like everywhere she'd like had so much warfare leading up to it and even when she was there she got food poisoning and then she said every episode that they filmed she said that she felt like the peace of god follow her and i'm like that is the abiding presence of god that she's not sitting on her knees in the secret place she's out and about on mission doing the things but the abiding presence has

28:55gone with her yeah and so whatever we want to do in life whether it's speak and preach the gospel in front of a hundred thousand people or go to the grocery store we need the abiding presence with us everywhere we go but we only receive that abiding presence when we make our home in god and so that's why we talk about the secret place so much because everything that we want in jesus is first found in the secret place you have to dwell you have to spend time um and then i wrote this down the shadow of the most high follows and covers those who faithfully dwell in secret and so if you're looking for the type of intimacy with jesus that protects you as you go that covers you you find it when you first dwell when you go to the place that he's established for you both and i just love that so much that like it's not only um that we create a place because we know that we need something from him god is calling us to the secret place he's called us there there

29:59are no shortcuts you don't just get to receive power without spending time with jesus you don't just get to and i know from experience what it's like to go and try and be on mission when i'm not filled when i haven't spent when my lamp is not filled with oil when i have not taken time to sit still and get alone and quiet with god i know what it's like yeah and it's powerless yeah you know yeah my mom will say that to me like show she'll she'll always know when i when i didn't dwell because i have this little bit of an attitude i'll be sure yeah should we like oh you didn't spend time with jesus today wow and i'm like i call you back my mom whenever i'm anxious my mom goes have you read the bible yeah yeah did you go to the capitol exactly yeah yeah um and then my last point that i want to make on this that i love so much is the secret place isn't meant to be visited it's meant to be dwelton yeah to make your home in um and i feel like a lot of us

31:03including myself at times we treat the secret place intimacy with jesus as a place like to check off a box yeah and to simply just visit when it's like no no you're and you're walking through the front door of the home that god has prepared for you and he's literally sitting at the table every morning that we wake up god is sitting at the table he's prepared a meal he's prepared the place mats there's a drink with your name on it and he's saying come and dine with me yeah like it is hey what's up see you later he's inviting you to eat with him yeah he's inviting you to enter in like truly truly enter in um and the last thing i'll say the secret place intimacy with jesus is a paradise it's a paradise that alone time that beautiful precious secret time that we have with jesus is a paradise because it's filled with joy and renewal

32:06and fulfillment and refreshment and heavenly wisdom and hearing the voice of god and so yes it's a paradise but we cannot treat it like a vacation it's a home we enter into our home we take our shoes off we take our coat off we sit at the table and have a meal with our dad yeah and so we will never stop emphasizing the secret place and how powerful it is um but for me this has been transformative just this one verse those who dwell in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty i need to be under the shadow of the almighty when i go into the world right now i need to be covered by his shadow because in my own defenses right now i am complete on all the time i'm completely powerless and so another thing that i'll say is i value the secret place so much and i know what it's like to have a really hard time

33:06being in there like i know what it's like to be in so much pain and so anxious um specifically with a mind that is running wild and not being able to sit still it is so painful like when everything in your body just wants to run yeah i would say getting still with the Lord is so important it's so important you have to um and there have been so many times where i forced myself to sit down and just and just like stayed silent and just kept breathing kind of in a meditative way and waited for my thoughts to calm down i think it's like um i think the study is that it's about seven minutes or maybe 13 minutes some we can look it up it's at least let's say 10 minutes before your mind is actually in a place of stillness for me it's around 20 maybe yeah yeah so like getting still sometimes means not immediately opening the word but just sitting and and just not

34:07talking yeah and like meditation is an amazing thing and just waiting until your thoughts quiet in your heart is still enough but i will say like i have it's been transformative for me going on prayer walks and worship walks i sometimes i don't take my phone and i just walk and i talk to Jesus that is making your residence in god like that isn't a lot of time so i just want you guys to know that it doesn't have to look like something specific um you can and that's another thing though of having that a lot of time in the morning is that then the next the rest of your day commuting with the Holy Spirit is so easy that abiding presence where you just you can't even help yourself but like every thought that you have you're like Jesus what do you think about that lord what do you think about this Jesus that was weird what did you think about that like yeah that that is cultivated in the secret place first you know i love that you talked about um sometimes it's not easy and i know we were talking about that last night and i just i i love sitting in my quiet time but when i

35:15am full of that anxiety where my head is spinning the last thing i can do is sit and so sometimes when you're talking i was just thinking of something that i did like when you can't sit sometimes the best thing to do is literally in that moment you start walking around your room and be like god help me i need you like those simple little prayers of crying out help me i'm overwhelmed my mind is spinning help me i need you right now i need you right now like those are the most powerful things you can say exactly and so i just want to like can i tell you guys the tiny thing that instantly makes me feel more put together pretty nails which is not what i have right now there's just something about having your nails done it makes you feel put together even on the most chaotic days aerogel mani system is a game changer it comes with everything you need in one box the led lamp all the tools the polish and it gives you that glossy salon look that actually lasts up to 21 days and guys i'm genuinely obsessed with their new spring edit the colors are so good and what i

36:19think i love most is that it fits into real life like you don't have to plan your day around a salon appointment you can just do your nails whenever it works for you and i honestly don't miss the time or the cost of going to the salon at all they're also hosting their diy mani challenge the year my nails turned pretty which is all about learning how to do your nails at home in a way that actually feels doable all of in june has taught millions how to mani now it's your turn visit all of in june.com slash ggb for 20% off your first system that's ol iv e a n d j u n e dot com slash ggb for 20% off your first system you know that i hear you about thank you being so anxious yeah but being like but wait i have to sit and dwell but i can't my mind sping i can't even open the bible and when you guys are in situations like that you you you switch it up you switch it out start walking around start just start saying like like david mm-hmm jesus where are you i need you like things like that's and that is sometimes the most powerful thing you can do i something else that i want to

37:22say that builds intimacy so much um we've never done an episode on tongues but like praying in the spirit praying in tongues has changed my entire life tongues are for the edification of yourself it's to build up your spirit man so you don't pray in tongues for other people you pray in tongues for yourself for your own spirit all of the other gifts of the spirit are for other people like prophetic gifting is for the benefit and the edification and the building up of the church the gift of healing same thing um evangelism same thing the gift of tongues is for your personal strengthening and during my hardest moments where i don't have words to pray the past few months of my life i've probably prayed in tongues more than i've prayed in english because i don't know what to say i literally don't know what to say and in the moments that i don't know what to say and it feels even inauthentic to pray because i'm like i don't know i'm just praying the i don't know what to say

38:26i don't know what to say i will run around my room praying in the spirit on the at the top of my lungs and i truly believe it's like one of the greatest ways to process emotions and pain um because when you pray in english of course it's amazing and you can process with the Lord and be like god this is what i'm feeling what do you what do you say about this emotion would you speak truth over it but for me um i just feel like there's something so much deeper than i can even express with words and scripture says that the holy spirit prays on our behalf with groanings that can't be other so i'm like whatever i might know what i'm feeling on the surface but there's something so much deeper and under that that when i pray in the spirit i feel a major emotional release i feel i don't know even know what i'm praying but the Lord does the holy spirit does and those are like the biggest releases that i have of anxiety um because again stress and high anxiety make it so hard to pray

39:27and like you can say Jesus take away the anxiety all you want and a lot of the time for a lot of us it doesn't happen right away it doesn't so that's a tool that i've used is praying in the spirit and there's so many videos you guys of of the gift of tongues and John Bevere has a really good teaching on the gift of tongues i really want everybody to pray in the spirit i want everyone to pray in tongues it's so edifying it builds you up so much yeah and then if you don't speak in tongues you just go right to the scripture and start just stay saying it out loud so good when you have when you don't have the words to say start speaking scripture out loud yeah simple scriptures and the last thing that you said is you intercede there's there's so many times i don't have the words or i don't know what to say i have this highlighted this is one of the scriptures i actually will say out loud and this is like an example of what you can do when you don't have the words when your anxiety so deep that you just can barely pray you go right to scripture go right to God's

40:32and you say the scripture as if it's you and the Lord says i will rescue those who love me Lord you will rescue me because you love me you will protect me i know i'm in this anxiety right now but you will protect me because you will protect those who trust in your name when i call on you Lord you will answer you will be with me in trouble you will rescue me you reward me with a long life and you will give me salvation like when you start speaking that out in your anxiety and your despair there is a peace that comes upon you there's sometimes we just don't have the words we don't know what to say and that's okay he sees that and that's when you go to the scripture the truth i love what you said when you said don't rely on your emotions we can't the heart is so deceitful i spent my whole life relying on my emotions i'm depressed i'm anxious and i would say and months on end being debilitated believing the lies believing my mind and so that's why the word the truth reading scripture saturating yourself in it is the greatest thing you can do

41:36so if you guys can go to john 15 it says i am the true grapevine and my father is the gardener he cuts off every branch of mine that does not produce fruit and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more you have already been pruned and purified by the message i've given you remain in me and i will remain in you for a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me yes i am the vine and you are the branches and those who remain in me and i and them will produce much fruit so i love this because he this has been my life since finding Jesus he cuts off every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit that's anything that's disconnected from him for me that was having idols in my life striving to be successful putting all these things that disconnected me

42:39from god and he's and he prunes the branches that do not bear fruit so they can produce even more when he talks about fruit he's talking about the kind of character that he develops in you as you remain in him i love this scripture because it's just such an incredible description of what Jesus does as you go on your journey with him he cuts off every branch that doesn't produce fruit that's what he does with us everything that disconnects us from Jesus he starts to prune for me i was constantly trying to do things on my own i was constantly trying to strive on my own i was constantly trying to chase success chase this chase that chase idols chase relationships so he started pruning those things off of me and then he says he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more as you abide in Jesus you stay connected to him you spend time with him that's what relationship is think about a person that you love think about a relationship that you're in right now what do you do you spend time with them you put effort into them you sit

43:42with them it isn't just five minutes of Jesus thank you then then you walk out no it's you sit and you abide and you listen and you cultivate this a beautiful relationship you spend time all day you talk to them you ask some questions you put effort into them that's what it looks like to abide and to have relationship i think so many of us we miss that yeah and so to understand Jesus is to spend time and understand that you can trust them so much his love his his security his safety and that comes with relationship in time and abiding in his presence it's not about performance as you spend time in his presence your heart starts to transform and you start to bear the fruit bear the fruit of what of love of joy of peace of patience of goodness of kindness where you were bitter your heart will start to cultivate the heart of Jesus where you have

44:42unforgiveness you start to bring that in the presence of Jesus abide in Jesus and then your heart softens and then he says for a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine meaning that if the branch cannot stay alive if it is not connected to the vine in the same way for a spiritual be spiritually dead yes if we are not constantly connected to Jesus yes so how do you stay connected to Jesus through prayer through obedience through sitting through not just always talking but actually listening through cultivating a relationship through asking questions the other day i when i was driving home from your house i had about an hour drive and i said you know what i'm going to i was thinking a whole bunch of things in my mind and i said let me shut off my radio right now and let me say this out loud and so for an hour and a half i just found myself talking to Jesus Jesus what do you think about this i need to tell you about this so listen to this and the next thing you know i was home yeah i spent the whole hour just

45:45talking to Jesus telling them how i feel telling him what i want praying to him and that is what relationship looks like it's not a one-time thing where you go to church on Sundays and then you go about go about your week so good this is to have a relationship true relationship it's considering him in every single one of your decisions it's talking to him throughout the day it's asking out how Jesus how's your heart it's we do a lot of talking in our prayer time but do we ever sit and listen after yeah i love that Jesus how's your heart how's your heart i say that all the time but that's what it looks like to remain in him and then he remains in you his presence dwells in you and it is true from apart from me you can do nothing i mean that says it all yeah that's why everybody's spiritually dead that's why everybody is living in chaos and anxiety because we're severed from the vine we're living apart from Jesus you know the next part right after what are you read that i love so much if you remain since we're talking about the abiding presence how to truly

46:46abide and remember abide means to remain to stay so it's all about going about your day continuing to remain in the presence of God no matter where you are even if you're not praying necessarily it's about that abiding presence that goes with you that lives within you and follows you everywhere you go and so the next thing a practical thing that God gives us if you remain in me in my words remain in you we started out this episode talking about the power of the word the power of the Bible how important the word is if my word if you remain in me and my words remain in you listen to this you may ask for anything you want and it will be granted we don't even take a moment to think about the actuality of what that means he's saying if you remain in me and my words remain in you anything you ask will be granted now i think of that does that mean if i ask for a ranger over um or like whatever that he's going to give it to me it will be granted i don't think

47:51that's what it's saying and i'm just now realizing this if you remain in me so first you abide continually and specifically my words remain in you if the word of God is within you your heart your mind will be renewed and your heart will be aligned with scripture so that automatically your prayers will align with scripture yeah and if your prayers if what you're praying and what you're asking for is in accordance to the scriptures which is an accordance to the will of God yeah it will be granted yeah so it's this through line of you remain in Jesus his words remain in you you will automatically be praying the prayers of the Father and that's what prayer really is yeah it's about joining heaven and praying the prayers that are already on God's heart yeah that align with his will yeah and i love that so much so that's like a practical thing we remain in Jesus his word is in us anything we ask for will be granted um and then the next thing i have loved you even as the Father has loved me listen remain that word remain again to abide to remain remain in my love

48:55and you can ask how do i do that well he literally answers it in the next sentence when you obey my commandments you remain in my love just as i obey my Father's commandments and remain in his love thank you Jesus he always gives us the perfect example why do we do the things we do because Jesus does it first Jesus obeys his Father's commandments in that way he remains in his love never straying away from the will of God never straying away from the purposes of heaven um so if you want a really practical way to abide to remain in the love of the Father you obey his commandments and that's why obedience is so unbelievably important so yes it's spending time in the secret place and it's cultivating that relationship and that intimacy but it's also the practical steps of simple obedience yeah um being obedient to what the word says and then being obedient to the voice of the Holy Spirit these are all ways that we remain in his love so much she makes it so easy and then and then i love because so many of us feel like but i'm not good enough yeah and i really want to talk about

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52:04favorite podcast that free included with prime it disrupts it like you feel like you cannot sit in as present when you do not feel worthy so true it says inverse it says inverse um 15 I no longer call you slave because the master doesn't confide in his slaves you are my friends you didn't choose me I chose you so many of us feel like we choose him and we have to constantly gravel for a relationship with Jesus and that's not what it is he didn't he says you did not choose me I choose you I've been chasing after you even when you turn your back on me I'm chasing you to come back to me I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit so that my father will give you whatever you ask for using my name this is my commandment love each other thank you Jesus I love that so much yeah I want to talk about that because I always say like and when I'm in my secret

53:05place I will pray till the performance is out yeah because there are times where I I can almost hear myself performing yeah so I will be praying and I will get finished and I will feel nothing and I'm like all right let me get real yeah and so you will see a difference when you start performing he is not asking for your performance he's asking for your honesty and that's why I love David so much he did not sugarcoat his prayers if you read through the song God why did you turn your face for me Lord help me like where are you like he is crying out in anguish and he you see him go through all of these emotions of anger and frustration to Jesus but he's honest in all of his prayers I think about the person that I trust the most I run to them that's the first person I run to them the person that I know I can be completely messy and honest with and you can be like that with Jesus what about Jesus I'm struggling with last so much today I'm struggling with anger and

54:09bitterness yeah I'm scared help me like these are the moments where you will see the wonders and the presence of God come down and so I I wanted to talk about that because I feel like we struggle so much of shame and not being able to be honest I was literally in church yesterday and my pastor Darren he taught on acts something I can't remember but he basically I wrote this down because I was so profound and spoke so deeply to my heart yesterday he said don't just pray it away pray him into it and so this is what I want people just going based off of what you said of like honest prayers to build true intimacy I think what he means by this don't just pray it away pray him into it like yeah if you look at so many stories in scripture Jesus on the boat with the disciples there's a massive storm and Jesus isn't necessarily taking the storm away but the point is that he's

55:12in the boat with them yeah Jonah is in the belly of the whale that's a disaster that's not a good thing that's a really weird place to be a dark place to be God is with him in it we have Daniel who's in the lion's den that's not a good place to be but God is with him in there Jesus is led by the spirit into the wilderness that's not anybody's nobody wants to be in the wilderness but God is in there with him and so that spoke to me so much yesterday because I am constantly praying it away pray the pain away pray the grief away pray the sad pray the anxiety away and it's been really pivotal for me to realize it's not just about praying it away it's about inviting him into it the point is that he's in it with me and so often we pray for the bad things to go away and they don't go away right away because God doesn't want them to go away right away because it's producing something within you it's producing long suffering yeah it's producing

56:15strength and resilience but the point is if you're praying for it to go away yeah and it's not it's time to pray Jesus into it yeah Lord I invite you into my grief I invite you into my pain I invite you into my fear and I rebuke it in the name of Jesus and when if it doesn't go away you pray him into it yeah that's the whole point yeah is that God is with us in the mess he's with us in the disaster and I wrote this down Jesus consistently moves toward exposed and messy places not away from them you look at every female in the Bible all almost every girl in the Bible their message the guys too trust me but I'm just talking about the girls the girls don't come to Jesus completely buttoned up and perfect and ready to go they usually have probably snot going down their noses their faces in the ground and I think something that I've been walking through that arena we're talking about last night that I kind of felt like the Lord revealed to me because I was in church and worship has started and I was like commanding my soul to worship Jesus

57:21I'm like I like and I was I felt numb I was feeling numb and I was like Lord this is my worst nightmare I hate feeling numb I and I realized and I felt the Lord say to me I'm meeting you exactly where you are and I literally got down on my face I laid down I think it's called prostrate I laid down and I started bawling my eyes out because I got this sense that like something that's been revealed to me in this season is that like I know that suffering brings other people closer to Jesus I know the scripture that God is close to the broken hearted I don't believe it for myself yeah and in this specific season well God is revealed to me the most is that there's so many scriptures that I know cerebraly that have not taken root in my heart and I believe them completely for other people and I don't believe them for myself and it's shame that stops that from happening it's fear

58:23yeah and so I realized like you were saying that suffering makes you feel closest to Jesus and for me suffering I've realized makes me hide away because I I don't believe that he loves me in my suffering yeah like I I've realized I know he does but I don't feel that because every time I'm suffering I'm like oh he he would want nothing to do with me right now so I'm going to shy away yeah and I'm gonna wait till I feel a little better yeah so there are times where I'm like oh I want to read the word right now but I don't feel good yeah I'm anxious my mind I'm just gonna wait and then there'll be a moment where like it kind of lifts a little bit and I'm like oh this is the perfect moment yeah I feel good and I get into the secret place and I'm not feeling numb so I feel the presence of God and I'm just like oh my gosh I've had it so backwards I've had it so yes you take advantage of the moments where there's relief and you can feel in all those things but when I'm shaking in the morning and I'm feeling my worst and I'm so anxious and my hands are

59:24shaking and I'm opening the word I did it the other day where I was like I feel like absolute garbage right now physically emotionally and I'm gonna open the word anyways and I've literally felt the Lord be like this is this is where I meet you and so that was a profound moment for me because yeah I just I've realized that I truly truly believe that God wants nothing to do with me unless my heart is full of faith and I'm feeling so joyful and excited for life and inspired and not angry with him it's been a season of constantly praying when your heart is hardened towards people I think it can become hardened towards God if you're not careful and so it's a continual prayer and like also having patience and grace for myself that I'm a human and God is so patient and gracious that he's like don't worry in time you learn to trust again and so that's kind of the space that I'm in right now of like I'm having to learn to trust again

1:00:27and I know I trust him with my mind but you can think your way into something as much as you want but until your spirit grabs it and catches it and like receives that revelation there's like a shift in the spirit it has to happen supernaturally until that happens is when there's like true breakthrough so yeah and one more thing that I just want to say that I wrote down back to like the abiding life I wrote many people relate to Jesus as someone they visit and not somebody that they are joined to yeah and like that's the definition of an abiding life is that we don't just visit him in the secret place place we don't just visit him in the morning Christ lives in us it's an identity we are joined we are joined spiritually emotionally physically I am under the Lord ship of Jesus Christ we are in oneness with one another union like we are he lives inside of me and I remain in him like it is a continual conjoining of us in Jesus and it does not get severed

1:01:33so I think it's just like it's so important to understand that as you go throughout your day you are never separated from Jesus you are never separated from the Holy Spirit from the voice of the Spirit from the presence of the Spirit like it's just I also wrote down that we have to shift the conversation from quiet time to abiding life I love quiet time I love the secret place but it's not our relationship with Jesus is not just it's formed in the secret place so we can't get away from or graduate from the secret place but it's it's a broader picture that it's not just about that one quiet time in the morning it's an abiding life all day long 24 is the day 70s a week oneness with Christ I just love him so much I love I love the imagery of the cross the death of burial and resurrection of Jesus I love this idea that we are buried with Christ and we are raised to life with him that the day we give our lives to Jesus we have been

1:02:37buried our old self is gone it's not us who lives anymore but Christ lives in us and I just love the idea that I have truly been buried I my prayer every day is Lord I join you in your burial I join you in your death first and then I join you in your burial and then God I join you in your resurrection um I love them I love them too and I love that you said that sometimes your heart gets hard and because it's so real and it's so human if you ever think anyone has a perfect intimacy with Jesus they're lying to you as humans we get better we get frustrated we turn we can't open our bibles we don't feel like it I just feel like just don't be so hard on yourself truly because I there's so so many of you guys are like but does this person have a closer relationship with Jesus because they can sit for two hours like am I not close enough to Jesus no it's called we're all humans and we go through seasons where we're angry anxiety sometimes

1:03:39we can spend hours sometimes we can't I really need you guys to know that like as human beings we're just we're so messy and we go through so many seasons of different things and it's normal I need you guys to know it's normal but we can't have secrets from someone we trust and so there's nothing that God yearns more than our openness to him that's all he asked for I know that from experience I know that from trial and error it's just error I just think this is a journey of all of us learn it really learning the love of Jesus this is a this is a forever thing that we will never quite fathom the love of him but we would really know how to rest easy if we truly could fully see the love of Jesus and someone oh five it says search for the Lord and for his strength continually seek him yes continually seek him that means it is a constant pursuit of Jesus what

1:04:41is your attention focus on right now yeah what idol do you have on your in your life what do you have on the pedestal Jesus should be first above everything it is a constant pursuit so many people say how do I how do I stay on fire for Jesus it says right here in verse five remember the wonders he has performed his miracles and his rulings he has given sometimes when I feel so dull and dry and my seasons with Jesus I will sit there and I will just meditate on every moment that I've had with him where he has come through for me all of those moments of my pain and my heartbreak where he was right there for me I will literally meditate on his face me in the shower me in that church like meditate on them go to the scriptures go to John go read about the character in life of Jesus all the miracles he's performed it creates this fire back in you oh yeah that's who Jesus is like we sometimes we need that reminder get a picture of his face like really dwell in that I know

1:05:42from my own life when I feel so distant from God and you're like but I'm praying and I can't hear anything well are you living in constant rebellion like these are things that really do separate us so I want to talk about that real quick before we ended it says and Isaiah 55 verse 6 see the Lord while you can find him call on him while he is near let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong let that let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them yes turn to our God for he will forgive generously when you're living a life of compromise when you have hidden repentance that you are not bring to the fourth foot of Jesus yeah when I have pride and stubbornness when I have unforgiveness in my heart when I'm when I'm in my word and I'm praying but you're going out and you're living the opposite yeah of what and you're doing what griefs is heart yeah that's going to separate you from Jesus and so if you are sitting there being like but I pray right but I said and I'm with him but you're living a completely different life a life

1:06:45of compromise then yes that is going to hinder your walk with Jesus but the good news is he says let them turn to God that he may have mercy on them and you can turn to him and he will forgive you generously do not hide your sin he's opening up he yearns for you to bring that to him to talk to him about that to say Lord help me with my loss help me with this compromise in my life I want to live for you give me a heart to to hate what you hate and then you go on this journey of trusting him and abiding in him and it's the safety that you have with him and you will run a run to him and then through that love of trusting him you will want to live for him and that compromise that you're sitting in right now you'll say what have I been doing I don't want to live like this anymore and that's how he prunes you and then you will be of the fruit of him so good so good I mean truthfully you know that scripture the prayers of a righteous person avail much imagine how much

1:07:48more sitting compromise affect your prayers I have sat in shame so much scripture says that the righteous fall seven times but will rise again when I read that that is one of my favorite scriptures that I've tattooed on my heart it he knows that we are going to fall yeah he he expects us to fall but we will rise again we will bring that to him and we will rise again condemnation will hinder your relationship with Jesus so true and I'll end this with I was just telling and last night I used to let my thoughts my the the condemnation thoughts take over me so much so that I just felt so unworthy and now as I get stronger and stronger which came with intimacy with Jesus and in saturating myself in the word I'm able to to literally hear my thoughts and catch them and be like that's not true God doesn't condemn me he doesn't tell me that I I'm shameful in all these things if you can take authority over those thoughts and understand that God will never condemn your mind he God's voice is graceful he will never tell you do not come to

1:08:56me he'll say oh he'll correct you but he will say come to me though whenever you hear that condemning thoughts catch that thought immediately take authority and and replace that with the word of God so good and then when you take authority over those thoughts there's a power that you carry the devil can't even come close to you so true you know 100% my pastor told me this yesterday he said I encourage you all this is all an exercise for us get away and get into solitude with Jesus take a whole day put your phone away get out a journal whether it's the beach it's somewhere that that is secluded and silent where you have no distractions we are never where this busy chaotic life it's it's it's too much yeah get somewhere quiet with Jesus you're never too busy for a day with Jesus take a day spend like six to eight hours yeah get comfortable with being uncomfortable sit in the silence when you get past that uncomfortability you will start to he you will start

1:09:57to see the wonders of God it's in that solitude and silence with Jesus where you don't sit there and talk talk talk but you sit there in that silence where you will start to hear God you will start to see his presence come down so I'm going to encourage us all to take a day and spend about six to eight hours somewhere and just complete somewhere that somewhere that I love to go to a park where there's greenery a beach anywhere somewhere that where it's just complete silence where nobody's around where it can just be you and Jesus so let's all do that together I want to do that I need to do that yeah it's called it like a Jesus retreat it's that's what it is a Jesus retreat so let's all find a day and do that and let's all see what happens guys we love you so much we can't wait to see you next week thank you for being our best friends we love you we love you go be with Jesus go abide in the presence of God every day we love you so much may the Lord bless you and keep you may he make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you may he turn his face towards you

1:11:00and give you peace shallow shallow shallow you love you