Open Waters Podcast
This podcast is all about what God is doing in Utah through the church, and through the ministry of Open Waters Worship. If you don't know who we are, we are a worship ministry in the heart of Salt Lake City, Utah who's reason for being is JESUS. We want all people to have GROWTH, not only in relationship with our King, but with the people around us as well. We also want people to cultivate a deep and pure INTIMACY with God, and from that intimacy a FREEDOM to be who we are called to be; and to top it off we want the body of Christ to radiate UNITY. The body as a whole can accomplish so much more than one person alone. So we want to ask you, are you ready to join us in an effort to unify the body, and grow in relationship? Are you ready for what true intimacy with the King looks like? If so, come give us a listen! We'd love to hear your feedback as well. Tell us your thoughts and if you have a question feel free to reach out to us! We love you and pray for an overflowing in all avenues of your life <3
Open Waters Podcast
36: Not Simply Cutting It Off, Throw It Away
Have you ever stood at the edge of a decision, the weight of your past pulling you back, but the promise of a future calling you forward? This week's episode is a heartfelt conversation about the art of surrendering to God's plan, finding that sweet spot between rest and productivity, and the transformative power of letting go.
Let's talk about the treasures God has in store for us, shall we? Together, we examine the poignant lessons from the Kairos event, where the choice between clutching a dusty box of past sorrows and embracing a present filled with divine gifts becomes starkly clear. It's a deep dive into the significance of identity, forgiveness, and the necessity of shedding burdens to fully receive what's meant for us. I'll also share my personal battle with laziness, revealing the delicate balance needed between consecration and overindulgence in rest.
As we wrap up, the focus shifts to how we curate our lives for deeper worship. I share my own decision to cut out secular music in favor of tunes that draw my soul closer to God, and how this intentional act can peel away layers between us and the divine. We close with a powerful prayer, seeking guidance for our listeners to discern what might need to be laid down for a season to walk in God's abundant will. So, friends, if you're ready to explore what letting go truly means for your faith journey, this episode is an invitation to join a community seeking to live a life in harmony with the highest calling.
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stuff that I've laid down. It's gonna be there because I'm not ready to let go of it, and it comes between me and God. That still comes between me and God and I'm still distracted from really being able to just open that box up and see what God has for me and to really enjoy it, because I'm still distracted by it's still there. I've let it go, but I haven't really let it completely go. I haven't really cut it off.
Speaker 2:How's it going? Good, how are you doing? I'm doing well. Yeah, how are you doing?
Speaker 1:How are you doing?
Speaker 2:We're on video. We're on video. So this is the ghetto setup we are. I'm currently under construction or in building process of the studio. And so once it is done, we will be recording from there. Have a couple cameras in there, so it'll be good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cool, it's exciting.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is.
Speaker 1:So we're so glad you joined us. We do release these podcasts every week, the pitter patter that you're hearing If you're hearing it I don't know if you are or not is this girl right here, just size little baby. But anyhow, we released the podcasts and now the video cast.
Speaker 2:The video cast. I don't know what to call them videos. Anyway, we released those on the Tuesdays however, we the goal is to release them on Monday, every Monday of the week, but this week it's going to be on Wednesday. This one will be coming out tomorrow, Wednesday. We just got behind it and so I'm gonna. My goal is to get a repertoire of episodes.
Speaker 1:Okay, so Mondays are the days from now on.
Speaker 2:Mondays are the days.
Speaker 1:Mondays are the days from now on, so look for our podcast and video Every Monday. Casts every Monday for Open Waters Worship and if you're new to us. So we started off with doing every Saturday of the month, but now we've moved to the second.
Speaker 2:So we've we used to do every second and fourth Saturday of the month for Open Waters our worship nights, and we have now transitioned to the very first Sunday of every month. So we will be doing the very first Sunday coming in March. So what, we will see you there. If you live in Utah, then you will have the chance and the opportunity to join us and worship Sunday night at four o'clock.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think the Lord is moving us and stirring us to do some cool things with Open Waters Worship, and I'm sure you'll hear more about that in the podcast and broadcast, whatever to come.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so I've been looking about, looking at some of the farmers markets and stuff. I we actually just last Sunday we had the youth come up and because they do outreach every third Tuesday of the month and they do evangelistic work and they go out to mall, the mall and then they go and pretty much just spread the word of God, it's a really it's a difficult place to do that, especially in Utah, cause you've got different theologies and religion. Yeah, but it's made me think about how we could possibly do the same thing with Open Waters.
Speaker 2:And not just in the sense of going out and telling people Jesus loves them, but also, just you know, using our musical talents to draw people in and it's. It doesn't have to be a place of performance still even in the, when it's in front of people that may not know we're worshiping, it's still worship.
Speaker 1:So oh, 100%. I'm so excited. I'm also a little bit nervous about some of the plans, but it's going to be not in our strength, it's in God's strength and it's not about us.
Speaker 1:Whenever we're moving out, and kind of like an evangelistic mode, it sometimes can be made about us, but it's not about us. We have to make it about them, about those that we're going out because they need to hear and experience the love and the truth of God so that they can be free and all that good stuff. So, yeah, I'm excited. So stay tuned for more of that, and we're going to do a little more about a segment Doot, doot, doot.
Speaker 2:Yes, ma'am. What is it? What's the question?
Speaker 1:Okay, when building a house, what is your least favorite part? Yes, this very house that we're sitting in. Josiah actually did a lot of work to make this house be what it is today. So what is your? Least favorite part of when you've been part of constructing a literal house.
Speaker 2:From beginning to end, including furniture and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Well, like framing, oh, so you mean like actual, without anything else Sloring all that stuff.
Speaker 2:Okay, so my least favorite would be Decorating. My least favorite actually would be I don't know, I would say painting. We did not get the luxury of renting a Calm down.
Speaker 2:We did not get the luxury of renting a sprayer, so getting up on the stairs and stuff like that it was a little rough because we had this ladder that had, like the, you know, different level of legs you can make, and so it was a little rough. Calm down, I had my mom holding the thing and she was not there all of the entire time. What I felt like she was gonna let me drop.
Speaker 1:No, I would never do that. You're my son, she's like I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2:I don't think you're going fast enough. I'm like whoa mom. And so we're on this top of the stairs and I'm over here, you know, on this ladder, the top stair of the ladder, and she's like you know what?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah a little bit. That's all Anyhow. So my ties my I know. Okay, Jesus, I just pray that you would heal Josiah and that he would release that trauma and forgive me and Jesus name, Okay. So for me, my least favorite part of doing the whole job which we didn't do the whole job here, but we have done all the parts of it Um, I would say is do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
Speaker 2:Are you thinking or are you?
Speaker 1:saying. I don't really know, I don't. I guess for me I didn't like the painting, but I love painting Usually. It's just that we had to do three no two basements in two days, so that was really hard. So I'm going to say that was my least favorite job.
Speaker 2:This time Painting. Huh, still mine. That's fine, that's fine All right, I'm not stealing yours. Well, I guess we'll move into the topic for today.
Speaker 1:What is it, Josiah?
Speaker 2:So the topic today um, if this isn't the verse that got me inspired to do this, but, um, this is the verse to kind of go along with it. So, all all my goals to try to bring more scripture into this, um, I'm, I'm still in like shred face, and so I'm still just listening, whenever I can, to the word.
Speaker 1:So our shred phase is reading the Bible in, the whole Bible, in one month.
Speaker 2:Yes, but I'm not doing that anymore. I am in bulk reading. Whenever I'm listening it's it's not just a chapter or verse at a time. It's not just like chapters and verses and books possibly.
Speaker 1:It's good.
Speaker 2:It's, it's for me, it's just how it's. I've been liking it. So, anyway, the verse today is just going to be Matthew 18, six to 10, not through 10 to 10. Um, if anyone causes one of these little ones those who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble. Such things must come, but woe to the person whom they come. If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life of enter life maimed or crippled, but then you to have two hands or two feet and to be thrown into the internal fire. And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It's better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. Pretty nuts scripture right there. I'm not going to lie. Uh, very, very, uh visual with the millstone around your neck. Yeah, the gouging around of eyes and stuff, that's what I like to pay attention to. He's the gore of the Bible. Anyway, I'm just kidding. There's plenty of that in the Old Testament, so pretty much it goes hand in hand with the topic today, which is I don't really have like a like a title, but it's pretty much don't just. I guess the title could be don't just cut it off, throw it away, and which goes along with the verse and it's pretty much.
Speaker 2:The gist of it is we have a bunch of things in our life that we have to get rid of. Um, whether it's things we waste our time on, things we've put our focus on, and it's not just the sense of, oh, we're wasting time on this. I got to throw it away. Like, for me, video games. I use a lot of time on video games.
Speaker 2:For me, I don't think it's a waste of time, but it's like, could I do it less? Yes, I totally could. There are other things that I just do randomly that it's just like I don't need to do that, like I don't need to watch YouTube shorts for an hour. I could cut that off and throw it away. But the difference between just cutting it off is, I think a lot of people, um, they say they want to bring God to the forefront of their life, or they want to focus more on this something or whatever it is. It's pushing other things off to the side, the things that are unneeded. I want us to get to the point where we're not just putting them off to the side, we're now just throwing them away, like this verse says, and when you throw something away, it's no longer able to be returned. Um, yeah, pretty much that's it.
Speaker 1:I think when you said that you kind of had this concept for the podcast, in part because of the Kairos event, was it the analogy that I did with the gifts? Yeah, yeah, so I'm just going to say what that analogy? Was what up open waters?
Speaker 2:family. I just wanted to take one quick second away from the podcast. I'm sorry to ask you if you could please go ahead like comment, share your thoughts or something that you have in mind, like rate and subscribe to this podcast, because it does wonders for us reaching more people so that we can get the word of God out to people and what God is speaking to us. Open waters is all about building up intimacy with God, building up the morale of Christianity in the body of Christ, as well as building fellowship. So if you have any friends, please send them our way so we can get to know them as well. Take care, I love you guys.
Speaker 1:So we did an event called Kairos. Kairos, obviously, well, it's Greek for basically, kind of right now moment, and so that's really putting it very like basically. But it's an event that we do that has, like I call it like a group type sozo event. It's where you, you have different stations and they all are kind of prophetic acts and there's some teaching that goes along with it that allows people to walk in greater freedom and identity and truth, which obviously allows them to walk in their destiny. And so we had one of these just a few days ago and it was pretty amazing because we were speaking on identity. We're speaking on forgiveness.
Speaker 1:So I spoke on forgiveness and I did this analogy with a gift to get. Actually it was a gift that God's trying to give us Beautiful, shiny, just for you. It's what you love, what you want, it's what he knows that will make you happy and that is part of how you're in alignment with how you were created. And then you have this dusty box that maybe you pulled out of storage, has lots of dust on it, inside of it, has broken pieces of glass that when you get it out, it cuts you, it hurts you. Has a CD, if you know what a CD is, to replay messages or lies over and over, and so you can make that box in context of what Josiah is speaking about, as it could be sin, it could be distractions, it could be. It doesn't have to be good or bad. Even In this context, it was forgiveness and offenses and actually judgments and so. But just talked about how, when you have that box in your hand, you can't receive the gift that God is freely giving you because you are holding on this box. That is just. It's hurting you, it's it's it's been stored away for a long time, but it's yours and you've been holding on to it because it's what you know, it's habitual, it's all the things some people, protectors, all sorts of things and you're holding on to it.
Speaker 1:Well, so there's one phase of just like, okay, I'm going to take your gift. Now I have two. I have this box that I don't want to let go of and I have the gift from God. But I'm double minded, essentially because I'm holding on to both things. Right, I'm holding on to the whatever it is and the gift, and I'm not really able to open that gift.
Speaker 1:And then there's we're okay, I'm going to put it down, I'm going to put down the box in my hand so that I can maybe try to pick up, but I'm just going to not forget about that, that stuff that I've laid down. It's going to be there because I'm not ready to let go of it and it comes between me and God. That still comes between me and God and I'm still distracted from really being able to just open that box up and see what God has for me and to really enjoy it, because I'm still distracted by it's still there. I've let it go, but I haven't really let it completely go. I haven't really cut it off and released it to Jesus fully so that I can fully embrace what's right in front of me that he's given me.
Speaker 2:I just want to like ask a question like how many times do we like like a dog returning to its vomit go to the things that we said we were not going to do again? Like, oh, I'm not going to go spend all day binging a show, because it's a waste of time and there's so many things that God has for us. It's just. It's just we need to look up from what we're currently having in our hands and it just requires us to look up from what we're currently doing to receive it. And I think even more than that.
Speaker 2:I think God's like we've been talking about this for a long time now, but just the season of consecration that he's leading the body into, and it's we need to cut off the things that are unnecessary. I went to a men's group it was like a few weeks ago, maybe I think four weeks ago and one of my friends and me pretty much said the same thing. It's just like you know, we just need to cut off and fully like let go of the things that are unnecessary in life and truly unnecessary. Like it's okay to rest, but there's sometimes there's something called overindulgence in rest and gluttony in rest.
Speaker 1:And so, or even just sometimes, you do need to laziness escape.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:You know. But when it becomes a coping mechanism or you're living in this world, this escapes this disassociated state it is. Then it becomes a problem.
Speaker 2:And that is something like for me personally. I really I fight with laziness so much because it's like just my nature. I just don't want to do anything. I do yeah, okay, yeah, and so pretty much like I have to, this laziness is something that I've got to, I've got to cut off and I've got to part ways with it because it's it's not doing me any favors and also it's just denying what God has for me, the blessings that I know he has for me. If I'm just willing to work hard, it's okay. God's going to bring the blessing because I'm doing the things that I can with the talents he's given me.
Speaker 1:Anyway, and then I'm on the other side of the spectrum.
Speaker 2:You're gone.
Speaker 1:Where I'm like actually, this song by it was so cool. I wonder if I should tell this story. I think I'm going to tell this story because I think it could encourage you. It doesn't really have to do with what we're talking about, but it does. So I'm going to tell it. But Do you want me to hold the dog? There's a sure hold your puppy, your girl, anyway. So I was.
Speaker 1:We're submitting songs for a U hop event that we're going to be doing and I submitted this one song off this album. So I really liked the album. So I just started listening to the whole whole thing. It's by Summit Sounds and it's their volume three altar songs, and so as I'm listening to it, I come across this one song called communion and I just like, oh, there's this one part of the song that really hit me.
Speaker 1:And I had a friend, stephanie, who actually sent me a song when I was on the way back from a trip and I'm like I'll look at that later. Well, I was getting ready to meet with her actually today and I was like I want to listen to that song before I meet with her. And I was headed out of my workout and I'm like but I really want to listen to that communion song and I thought to my head, maybe funny if it was the same song. And I really didn't think that was possible, because there's no reason why these, why these? It's not like we're all listening to this album or anything like that. Well, I get in my car, I turn on them, like I'm gonna listen to the song that she sent. It was that song, communion and so I thought I felt so loved by God in that moment because it was like God, you know, I needed to hear this. So for me it was just further evidence that this is something that he's working in me, because I've really been, it's come to my forefront of my consciousness that I need to deal with this and that is this. I've been dealing with it for years and really just I've gotten healing and freedom from it.
Speaker 1:But this performance piece that is tied to my personal value, and so for me and there's this line, this song that talks about you're not a runner in a race or a warrior on a battlefield and it just hit me so hard because I mean there are scripture verses that talk about there are certain elements of that being a part of our walk, but this feeling of striving, that is not a healthy way, or warring in our own strength. Jesus has already overcome the world. We just stand in authority on the battlefield. We don't have to actually like it's not. There's no great like. You did so good because you were, you know, fighting so hard against the enemy. That's not the finish, that's not the other side of the cross. He's done it. We walk in it.
Speaker 1:So, and I'm like a runner in a race, doing all these things so much in my life and it I just got overwhelmed and I and some of it was tied to this performance piece. So for me, I can do too much because I do like to be productive, but also, so well, you may have one side, I have the other side and both of those sides of the spectrum are, are not healthy and they can be sinful. And I'm laying it down and I really want to be free, like, like it makes me. I'm emotional about it because it's not good for me. It's not. It's not me living the life that Jesus died for.
Speaker 1:Much like another person could not be walking in all of their gifts and their talents and in a, in a, you know, whatever it may be, I don't want to put words into your mouth, josiah, but that God has given you. You know our pastor talked about, you know, jesus, like we're not going to fall into an escapist mentality, but we need to be ready. Jesus feels like he's delaying right now. It feels like he's delayed. That was such a good word. And so what do we do when we feel like Jesus is delayed in our minds? Like, come on, they thought the disciples thought Jesus was coming back. Right, he was going to come back in their lifetime, and so it seems like he's delayed. And I know there, we know that there's good reasons, because we serve a good, good father, and he's probably waiting until that last person who is going to say, yes, I don't know there's a lot of pieces that need to fall into place, but the prophetic has been fulfilled.
Speaker 1:So what do we do in the waiting, in the delay we have? We can either be the steward that is, stewarding our talents and our gifts and we're walking out in that and again it's not to the point, like I was just talking about with me performance, because I'm getting something out of it and I'm running this race and exhausting myself because I want other people to love me.
Speaker 1:And it's not the person who puts their talent in the ground because they're trying to save it, because they're protecting it. It's so special to them and they're putting it in the ground because they don't want to lose it. It's not that either.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and pretty much just that's the gist of it.
Speaker 1:So we don't. We want to cut off, we don't, we want to receive this gift fully. That Jesus did for us, all of that entails, and all that that and unpack all that means for us individually. It's, it's he did it all. Everything the same for everybody. How it presents itself in our, in our lives, is different, because he's made us all unique but same, but it's different. And in order for us to unpack that, we have to completely let go, like completely release to Jesus all the things and cut them off. You know, we're not talking about literally cutting our hand off or literally there are extremes. We're not talking about that. It's we have to let it go to Jesus so that we can open that gift and so that we can walk and be ready for when he comes back.
Speaker 2:That's what it takes.
Speaker 1:Bring in the harvest.
Speaker 2:To be honest. I mean some theologians still have. They don't know if they are being serious or it was satire, but I think some theologians, I think even we should take it more seriously. You know, if your right hand causes you to stumble.
Speaker 1:Well, we can agree to disagree on that one.
Speaker 2:I think, you know, God prefers us, to you know, to be in his plans for our life than to be at risk of.
Speaker 1:And I think he overcame the world.
Speaker 2:It's true. It's true, and the Holy.
Speaker 1:Spirit enables us to work and do.
Speaker 2:But I would like to ask, like the audience, like maybe in your spare time, just go ahead and ask yourself or I mean the Holy Spirit's given to us as the advocate and as a guide for us to become more like Jesus, and so just ask him, maybe, what we should maybe cut off and throw into the fire and cut it off and throw it away. Like that might be. I mean, some stuff could range from very serious like relationship with people need to just go. Unfortunately, like sometimes God asks hard things of us. You know it's not always gonna be. Oh yeah, he just wants my video games. Oh, he just wants my food. Oh, he just wants me to give everything away.
Speaker 2:Like there's a rich man in the Bible where God said he had everything, except for he was not. He was too connected to his money and he walked away with a heavy heart, if you know what I'm referencing. It was just a guy who knew the commandments, he knew the doctrine, and asked Jesus what do I need to do to be saved? He got asked him a couple of questions and the last one was I want you to sell everything, give the money to the poor. And he wasn't willing to do it, and so I think Just use his new heart.
Speaker 2:Yes, just like he knows our hearts and ultimately, that's what it comes down to is, if we're not willing to throw something away to become closer to God or to you, know further our relationship with Jesus, we need to ask what is really our priority. And so, anyway, don't just cut it off and don't. I think a lot of people just take what they have, like my time off or my sleep. I really love sleep. So instead of throwing it away, you know, and I'm gonna get my normal eight hours of sleep, and then I'm just not gonna overindulge in sleep, I'm gonna move it to the side. I'm gonna get my eight hours of sleep for maybe a month and then I'm gonna go back to getting 12, 13 hours of sleep. So that's not what we're supposed to do, Like it's in that verse. We should cut it off and throw it away. It's fully. I'm going to now make this my lifestyle Never go back?
Speaker 1:well, repentance. The word repentance refers to not just I'm sorry, I'll I'm sorry. It's a 180 degree change. You literally turn from what you're doing and go in the other direction. And so it requires you not just to say I'm sorry, not just to kind of keep going where you're going and make some changes. It's a 180, I'm gonna totally change direction. I lay it completely down, I'm walking away from it and I'm not going back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's pretty much it. I don't really have any more commentary on it. I know it's a little bit short over an episode, but next week's will probably be a little longer, cause we do have an interview with a couple of friends of mine from church and it's gonna be awesome, and so will we have video. We will see, so you will see, we better have video. But yeah, I just, I'll just pray for it. You can join in prayer if you want, but what are you gonna say?
Speaker 1:I just wanna let everybody know. So the next Open Waters worship that we will be doing together will be March 3rd, and that will be at 5 pm at our place. If you need that address, just private message us. You can find us where, josiah, all the places.
Speaker 2:You can find us on Instagram, youtube or you can email us at openwaterworshipgmailcom. That's not Open Waters, it's openwaterworshipgmailcom.
Speaker 1:But yes, our Instagram, our Facebook are all Open Waters worship.
Speaker 2:If you haven't already, go ahead and take a gander at our Prath plethora of over a Prath plethora. I think it's over a year worth of episodes of the show, cause there's gotta be something in there for you. But yeah, for sure, our goal is to you know, bring what God is speaking to us this is what he's speaking to me right now is just cutting things off and letting it.
Speaker 1:Letting it go fully, not just pretending to myself that it's gone, yeah, and I just want to add to like how, how does this apply to worship Cause? We are more worship geared. I mean other people are going to, I mean other, even if you're not. Everybody's a worshipper basically. But whether you're, if you're not, a worship leader or whatever, these topics still apply. But specifically speaking to our worship leading, worship involved audience, how does cutting off and letting go play out in the, in the, in the worship world?
Speaker 2:Well, for me, one of the things that I started doing I don't know how long it's been is the things that I was called to cut off as secular music, or I guess that secular is kind of a hard. Some people don't understand what I say, what I mean when I say that, but it's like any music that is not instrumental worship music. Maybe it's classical music or just straight up Christian music. I don't listen to anything really except for those, and that's because I feel like what you listen to is very important. Obviously, it is because you know what you listen to. It goes into your soul, regardless of what you, if you're paying attention or not. And I really connect with music just because I'm a musician myself. So I I tend to process music oh, that's a cool beat, that's a cool sound, and I pay attention. So just listening to tunes that are not centered or focused on God can really make you have a hard time on what you're focused on.
Speaker 1:So yeah, for me, I think, when I like I had a pretty big breakdown and I know there was a lot going on that was beyond even what we're talking about. But it can affect your ability, when you're leading worship, to really connect with God. It becomes like just another thing to do for me, like when there's performance. That's how it would kind of affect having that in between us, especially after you're aware it's not, it's. You're no longer able to be ignorant about things, the ignorant things. Sometimes they'll go under the you know, under the radar for a while, and then they do start to affect things. And then they'll come into your conscious where you're like okay, I see it now. And then you have a choice Am I going to do this or am I not going to do this? Am I going to change it, or or what? And when that choice comes, when you don't, the consequences of not doing it, I think, become greater.
Speaker 1:So for me, that made it itself out in worship where I just got overwhelmed and I can't, can't, couldn't really do worship and worship leading Couldn't really get that place of connection with God, because I was just having this overwhelmed feeling. And so when I choose to cut it off and totally let things go that the Lord shows me and that I now know I can't ignore it and I've got that choice. I have greater connection with the Lord and I can worship more fully because all of me is presented before all of him and there's not this in between us and that obviously translates into the people that the Lord is putting me in front of to help lead into his presence. So it really it really stops you up when you don't really release things to, whether it's your creed, any kind of creativity.
Speaker 2:I will just add one little small thing as well is that God doesn't always ask you to cut things off and throw it away. Sometimes, things he does ask us to have seasons. For True, it is a season of I need to read my Bible and I need to get really.
Speaker 2:Which we talked about recently and other yeah we did, and it's just like you know, sometimes there's, there's seasons for everything. You know what I'm saying, and so that's where you have to work. It's different for every person and what God's asking us to truly lay down and throw it away. You got the Holy Spirit for that. I'm not here to be the Holy Spirit for you, so yeah, so go ahead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pray for people.
Speaker 2:Okay, lord, I just want to thank you for everybody watching and listening. God, I just pray that they would truly just be in tune with you, god, the Holy Spirit, the advocate, our friend, that gets to be with us throughout our life, guiding us into a holier life, a more pure life, god, god, we just ask you to direct us into the things that you're asking us to lay down and cut off, god, and not just cut off, but throw it away, jesus, and fully get rid of it, because, god, if it's something that's not necessary to be, to live life and to be in the will that you have for us, god, it's not necessary. So, god, I just pray that you would like, I just like, a piece of beef, god, being trimmed off, the fat being trimmed off to make the meat the best it can be. God, I just pray that you would make us as holy and as righteous, god, and as as sharp as we can be God, like an arrow being sharpened for war. God, we've got one purpose, god, and that's you, jesus. So, god, if it's unnecessary, god, just let it be gone and let it be thrown away.
Speaker 2:Jesus, I just pray that in our quiet times tonight, god, and going on into the future, god, that we would, just as we get inspired and as we get the thought of different things that may not be necessary or may not be as important as they once were, god, you would just talk to you about them, god, and just ask you what do you think about this, god? Is this something that's no longer necessary for life, god? And if it's not, I pray for the boldness to step out and just throw things away. I mean, it might be physical things, it might be relationships.
Speaker 2:Obviously, when you're working with different people, god, I pray that we would let those people know, and love God, that it's just. Things are not going the way that they used to and so, god, I just pray that you would lead us in how to live our life and how we can just become more of who you've called us to be, jesus. Thank you, god. Yeah, yep, and God, we just pray that everybody have a great night and a blessed time. In Jesus' name, amen, we'll talk to you guys in the next episode. Yes, we love you.
Speaker 1:Rate review, subscribe. Peace out, Bye.
