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affirmations and to order my day and we're going to do that together today. So

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we're going to be having a morning spiritual practice together. So, so

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grateful to be able to have us all together. So I'm going to start with a

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couple scriptures, some prayer. We're going to do a meditation. We're going to do

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each of these things of the morning meditation. So get yourself in a

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comfortable place. Take a couple deep breaths. Silence all distractions. This is

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your time. This is your time with you. This is your time with your Creator who

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loves you, who adores you, who longs to be with you. This is your special time.

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Don't let anything interrupt it. Shut up all the possible things that can

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interrupt and take a deep breath and allow this to be the first day of the

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rest of your life. Romans 12 to says and do not be conformed to this world but be

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transformed and progressively changed as you mature spiritually by the renewing

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of your mind. I love this. We do not have to be conformed. That word is like jello

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mold. We don't have to be jello put into the mold of the world. The fear, the doubt,

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the worry, the anxieties, the manipulation. That doesn't have to shape

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us if we choose for it not to. We have the option to be completely transformed,

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made new. And I love the way the Amplified Translation makes it clear.

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Progressively change. We have the ability in Christ to go from glory to glory to

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glory to glory. From new revelation to new revelation. From new love to new love

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to new love. From new power, from new joy. We can progressively be changed as we

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mature spiritually. And how is all of that done? By the renewing of your mind.

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Romans 12 to. That's the basis of what we're talking about. So notice that

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transformation is progressive. In other words, it's progress not perfection. For

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any of you that are busy focusing on your warts and your dents and your

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things that haven't worked and your couldas and shouldas, during this series

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we're going to release that. Because it's not about being perfect right here,

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right now. You actually are perfect in Christ. You're covered with the robe of

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righteousness. But it's about progress as you mature spiritually by the renewing

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of our mind. Now God keeps bringing something to mind as I'm talking so I'm

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going to say it. If you think about the prodigal son, there's a fascinating, I

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like reading it in the Amplified translation. I don't even have this on my

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notes but it keeps coming up so I'm going to say it. If you remember he was

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sitting at the lowest point of his life. He was eating with pigs. A good Jewish

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boy covered with pig poop and mud and filth and he's sitting there eating the

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pig food. This was a child of royalty. A son of royalty who had taken his

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inheritance, squandered it, not added value. Sitting in the pig pen, sitting in

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the pig poop, eating carapods. And there's a couple verses there in the Amplified

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it says, and he would have continued eating there but it could not satisfy.

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Could not satisfy. And then there's a powerful verse that says, and he came to

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himself. He suddenly realized who he was, who he could be, where he'd come from,

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what was possible. There was a moment of awakening and he came to himself and he

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said, I'm going back to the Father. I'm going back to who I am. I'm remembering

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who I am. And there's another fascinating part about that. The Father greets him

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while he's still a long way off. I believe the Holy Spirit, I believe God's

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gonna meet you even when you're a long way off during this week. And he throws a

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party, kills the fatted calf, and then

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He says something so amazing.

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He says, my son was dead, but now he's alive.

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Resurrection power, that's what we're celebrating today.

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My son was dead.

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He forgot who he was, but now he's alive.

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We're gonna have a party.

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I pray at the end of these seven days together

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that you're gonna be able to say that.

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I was dead, but now I'm alive.

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I have new life in me.

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Because 2 Corinthians 5, 17 in the Passion Translation

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says now if anyone, that's you, that's me,

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anyone is enfolded, other translations say grafted

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into Christ, he has become an entirely,

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entirely, completely, totally new creation.

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All that's related to the old order has vanished.

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Behold, everything is fresh and new.

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This call is about releasing the old

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and stepping into the new, into the fresh,

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into the fullness of all that God has for you.

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I'm so excited about that.

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I am so excited.

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I pray you are too.

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I mean, my heart is just beating.

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My prayers are just circling for each one of you

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that this is, that you let go of anything that you knew,

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that you don't allow yourself to get religious

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and don't allow your brain to say, oh yeah,

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I know that and tune it out,

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but that today you'll have a fresh revelation,

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a fresh revelation.

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So the key idea, each day there'll be a key idea.

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So today's key idea is that I can choose,

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I can choose to let go.

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I can choose to release.

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One more verse, we're gonna get into it.

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Philippians 3, 13 and 14 in the Passion translation.

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He says, I don't depend on my own strength

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to accomplish this.

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Today we're not depending on our own strength.

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We're inviting the Holy Spirit to do this fresh work

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that's been promised.

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We're opening our hearts to receive this fresh.

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We're not muscling.

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It's not my might, not by strength,

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not by willpower, but by the very spirit of God

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to accomplish this.

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However, I do have one compelling focus.

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This is our compelling focus, the purpose of these calls.

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One compelling focus.

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I forget all of the past

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as I fasten my heart to the future instead.

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I run straight for the divine invitation.

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Today I pray you are running straight for

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the divine invitation of who God is calling you to be,

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the purposes he's placed in you,

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the power he's placed in you,

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the way he has uniquely woven you together

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and fashioned you.

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I pray that today is the day that you choose

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to stop believing the lies, to stop playing small,

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to release the old mindsets that are based on lies.

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Release the mindsets of believing in lack,

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that you are not enough, or you don't have enough,

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or there's not enough time.

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Believe the mindsets of separation, that God is far away.

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Release, like Paul said, the childish things.

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Release the sin that entangles the weight.

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And I like not just the theological definition of sin,

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which means missing the mark,

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but I like the acronym, self-inflicted nonsense.

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Releasing the self-inflicted nonsense.

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Releasing the judgment of yourself and others.

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Releasing the criticism of yourself and others.

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Releasing your perceived failure.

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It's not failure, it was an important lesson,

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an important stepping stone.

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In making you who you are and allowing you to minister

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in the way you're called to minister.

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No failure, just lessons.

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Releasing the pain, releasing the suffering.

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You know, we're the only creature on the planet

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that God has made.

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that beats themself up over and over and over again for the same mistake this is

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not God this is not biblical today I pray you release your past and today I

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pray you step into the new I pray you get a new perspective a new vantage

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point new insights new mindset new life today the key idea I can choose to let

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go it is your God-given choice you can choose not to God has made you have

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free will you can choose you can choose to let go release the old mindsets

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childish things sin judgment criticism failure pain and you can choose to walk

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in the new Isaiah says behold I'm doing a new thing will you not perceive it we

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need perception we need perspective we need insight we need revelation we need

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a new mindset to walk in the life that God has so every day when you do your

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morning spiritual practice begin by setting an intention intention is so

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powerful I don't have time to teach on it but I can tell you scientifically

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there's been so much research done on intention all of nature responds to our

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intention you can set intention toward plants and the plants will grow or the

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plants will die intention is powerful so today as you go into this call what is

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your intention what old desire do you desire to release write it down in your

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journal write it down say I choose my intention is I choose to release and

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then fill in the blank what is your intention I choose I choose what are you

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choosing and now let's pray over that intention let's pray over this call

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father I thank you for this day I thank you for your word your living

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transforming word the truth the light unto our path I thank you that you have

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promised that old things when we engraft ourself in you old things pass away they

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disappear they dissolve into nothingness I thank you that old things are gone

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behind us as far as the East is from the West and all things become new Holy

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Spirit I ask that today you renew our mind I ask that you open our hearts I

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ask for a fresh season of refreshing I ask for a washing of our mind in the

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word a renewing of our mind I asked for a washing of our heart I asked that

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today miracles happen for everyone listening to this call move Holy Spirit

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have your way we step into the new with you thank you that today chains are

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being broken chains of beating ourselves up chains of holding on to the

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past chains of fear chains of unforgiveness chains of suffering and

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pain thank you that they're being broken in Jesus name today is a new day today

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is a new day

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now I'd like for you to get in a comfortable place we're going to do a

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little bit of visualization a little guided meditation it's based on Micah

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719 that says that he will cast all our sins into the depth of the sea

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so I'd like for you right

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Now to get in a comfortable place, your feet on the ground if you're able to, your back straight.

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I'd like for you to just take a couple cleansing breaths. Just breathe in

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and release. Relax your whole body. Breathe in everything that we've just discussed,

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all the good that God has for you, the power of the Holy Spirit. Breathe it in.

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Exhale, let go of everything that no longer serves you.

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One more deep breath.

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And I'd like you to imagine that you're sitting in a movie theater in one of those

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really comfortable chairs and you're just comfortable there and you're looking at this huge

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screen. And as you watch the screen, all of a sudden you tune in and you realize that

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there's this beautiful meadow right beside a lake, beautiful clear crystal lake.

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And the meadow is filled with beautiful flowers. The sun seems to just dance on every leaf and

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every flower. The air is so crisp, you can just feel it. And you notice that there's a person.

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And you try to look at focus and you zoom in and you notice that that person is you.

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You realize it's you.

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You are in this beautiful place.

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You are smelling the fragrance of the flowers, feeling the warmth of the sunshine,

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and seeing the sparkling water. And there's something in your spirit that calls you

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to get in the water. You walk over, you have your shoes off,

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you have very light, comfortable clothing, and you put your foot in the water and you realize

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that it feels so good. There's something almost magical about this water. It's so refreshing.

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And you feel a call from the deep to your deep. You feel called to go in to the deep.

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So you keep on walking deeper and deeper and deeper.

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And as you're going under the water, you realize that there is something happening to you.

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You realize that there is something happening. There is a washing. There is a cleansing.

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There is a releasing. It's as if the water is removing everything dead on you.

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Every weight on you. It's almost as if every thought,

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every lie, everything that is clung to you, everything that has held you back,

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it's as if it's being washed. And you decide that you're going to take the plunge.

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You hold your breath and you go down, down, under, under, under, and everything is washing

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off of you. Everything is being left behind. You're being cleansed. You're being renewed.

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You're being washed. You hold your breath as long as you can. It's such a good feeling.

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You want every bit of cleansing to take place. You secretly pray, Holy Spirit, wash it all.

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Holy Spirit, take it all. Holy Spirit, I surrender all. Holy Spirit, I die to the ego.

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I die to the old. I die to everything that is not meant to be in me. I leave it behind right now.

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Hold your breath. Hold it. And then you come up out of the water.

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Oh, you take a deep breath of new life. You take a new breath.

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and you begin to walk out of the water into the warm sunshine. The sun is

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brighter, the air is cleaner and fresher, and you are lighter. You know that

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something has changed. You know that you have left behind and you are reminded

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that you have cast all of your sin, physical, emotional, spiritual, every

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self-inflicted nonsense, every lie that you held on to, every belief that wasn't

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serving you, everything that was keeping you playing small, everything that was

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keeping you stuck.