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The Holy Spirit is always calling all of us near, no matter how we respond or whether

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or not we even realize it.

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It's who He is and what He does.

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Jesus called us to abide in Him and He abides in us.

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We are connected to God.

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And the Holy Spirit is always calling us near to show us new perspectives, to free us to

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live in that connection.

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I sense my awareness of God in the core of my being, my center, not my mind.

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And when my mind and feelings sometimes resist God thoughts, I have learned that I can say

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yes to those thoughts and receive them into my center.

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The Psalms, Isaiah, and Song of Solomon all refer to a place of meeting with God, a private,

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safe, secret, inner place.

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Paul writes about our inner person.

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He also says quite a bit about our center.

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In 2 Timothy 1.7 he writes, God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of love, power,

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And there are several translations, discipline, sound mind, sound judgment.

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So I looked up the Greek.

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That word is Sophronis Mas.

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Its root words are sozo, which is saved, and phrein, which means midriff.

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God has given us a saved phrein, a saved midriff, a saved center.

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Phrein is translated understanding or thinking in English.

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Not midriff or center.

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So what Paul says about the core of our being is easy to miss.

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1 Corinthians 14.20 is the only verse that contains phrein all by itself.

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As I read it I am going to substitute phrein for thinking.

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Brethren do not be children in your phrein.

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Let an evil be babes, but in your phrein be complete, mature.

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Since our phrein can be immature or unsaved, it appears to me that as with our minds, everyone

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has a phrein, a center.

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The New Testament contains several compound words that include phrein, but there are almost

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30 verses with phrein to exercise the phrein, to exercise our center.

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I am looking forward to exploring what the New Testament says about the connection between

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Holy Spirit calling us near and the exercise of our phrein.

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I'll give you scriptures in Greek words.

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They along with other scriptures and all our life experiences can be dots for us to

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collect.

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Holy Spirit will connect those dots with us in our phreins, our centers, individually

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in the ways that work best for us.

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That can be frustrating for our minds, which tend to want answers quickly.

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However, here's a part of what Jesus said in John 16, 12-14.

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I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

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But when He, the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth.

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He shall glorify me, for He shall take of mine and shall disclose it to you.

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Thank you for joining me.