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What you do when no one is looking matters.

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Hi this is the Restoring Word podcast and I'm Leanne Friesman and today I want to start

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off with a beautiful example here in Matthew 14 verse 23.

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After he had sent the crowds away, now this was Jesus, he went up to the mountain by himself

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to pray and when it was evening he was there alone.

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You know one of the greatest secrets to walking successfully with Jesus is what do you do

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when nobody is looking?

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What do you do, just you and Jesus that only he knows about?

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Well my pastor Billy Joe Doherty used to call it the breakfast of champions, other people

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call it quiet times or daily devotionals or whatever you want to call it but you know

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if we follow the example of Christ in our lives, there was a moment where Jesus had

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to send everyone away and he had to get quiet.

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This is from Psalms 5, 2 and 3, Hear my cry for help, my King and my God, for you I pray

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in the morning, Lord you hear my voice, in the morning I lay my request before you and

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I wait expectantly.

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I've learned the hard way what to do and what not to do and I know from doing it the

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right way that when I'm alone in the mornings and it's quiet and I go off alone to be with

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him that that is where my strength is going to come from for the day.

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I pray over the things that concern me that don't concern me, I invite him into everything

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I can think of and even when I don't have the time and there are times guys you get

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too busy I mean you can get so busy doing good things for the kingdom that you don't

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spend enough time with him alone one-on-one and when you do that you can get in trouble.

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This season is season four and we're talking about our Catalina sailboat the 25 that we're

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restoring and one of the secret things about this sailboat is the keel.

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Now what is a keel?

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Well it's a gigantic chunk of lead that comes down out of the hull and it goes down on 25

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about two feet eight inches and it's got a flare on the bottom of it it's got a wing

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and this piece of lead is so vitally important because what it does is it stabilizes the

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boat it stabilizes it when the wind blows too hard one way or the other way it keeps

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the boat upright and moving forward and you know what guys that is what early morning

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prayer does for me it keeps me upright because guess what stuff is gonna happen all day long

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it's gonna try to what blow you over knock you over suck the strength out of you if the

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shocking things that you're gonna get hit with or the challenges you've got a face or or the

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thing that pops up out of the blue that you really were not prepared for if you will let

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the presence of God and the Word of God stabilize you steady you keep you upright when things get

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crazy I can guarantee you you're gonna keep moving forward because even how this keel is

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designed it's designed to help the boat actually lift up or fly inside the water I can tell you

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that when I get serious about it and I discipline myself in the correct way and I have that quiet

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time in the morning I feel the lift of the Holy Ghost I feel the lift of his presence I feel the

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lift of him moving me forward by the Holy Ghost and there's things that don't shake me they don't

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I mean you know I mean stuff happens right but there's just something about rooting yourself

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and grounding yourself in the word so that when it does happen you might get

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knocked over a little bit but guess what you're gonna come right back up

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Psalms 25 verse 5 says lead me in your truth and teach me for you are the God

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who saves me and all day long I put my hope in you. Now I don't get to think

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about the Lord all day long I get to think about my kids and their academics

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and their challenges and why aren't they understanding fractions or why can't we

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diagram the sentence or whatever but you know what when he walks with me during

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the day what happens is he will help me here he will help me figure out the best

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solution for my kids. You know life isn't going to be easy but I think I

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just want to challenge you today what what grounds you what keeps you steady

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what is the hidden secret in your life the thing that no one sees and no one

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knows about but you that your strength comes from Jesus wants to be the center

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of your life the Holy Spirit wants to quicken you and give you peace that

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passes all understanding he wants to empower you to go forward he wants to

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walk with you he wants to talk with you just like the old song says but you've

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got to put him first now sometimes you can't do it in the mornings well then do

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it in the evenings sometimes you don't get enough time in the mornings you got

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to pray in the car and you gotta listen to praise and worship don't get

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legalistic about it just know that when you are sincere at heart and when you're

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alone with Jesus and you have that opportunity to just be quiet before him

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he will give you peace that passes all understanding thank you for listening

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and have a great day oh one more thing I am going to record another message soon

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on the three things that the body of Christ needs to keep an eye on right now

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regarding the future and the prophetic I hope you'll stay tuned watch again for

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the next broadcast and have a great day