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RABBI: Lessons From THE Teacher 2

Discover what it means to choose spiritual intimacy over distraction and let Jesus shape your discipleship. Learn lessons from Mary at Jesus’ feet as you are challenged to make room for personal encounter and allow revelation to expand your faith. Embrace bold humility and see how God multiplies what you surrender to Him.

Key Insights

  1. Sitting at Jesus’ feet is a deliberate choice to be discipled by the Teacher.
  2. Bold humility empowers you to step out of old roles and embrace spiritual intimacy.
  3. Spiritual intimacy must be followed by obedient living, or your growth will stagnate.
  4. Foundational revelations of Christ’s nature shape your identity and deepen intimacy.
  5. Personal encounters with Jesus multiply and expand your understanding of God.

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Transcript
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Tonight, we're going to continue week two. If you didn't get a resource, it's back

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there on the table. Back there. But Pastor Barbie, let's. Let's give

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her as much time as she needs to prepare the Word, present the Word.

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We love you. As much time as I

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need. How much time you guys got?

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Oh, Lord. Okay, well, then we're just gonna jump in and see what the Lord

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has for us. I'm actually always excited about what the

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Lord has to say and what he has to share with us. And coming

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out of last week and laying the foundation for the rabbi, the master

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teacher, I was so excited about where he was going to take us this week,

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because this week we're coming at it from a little different angle. Last

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week we talked about our rabbi, the

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teacher teacher, the one who had mastered the subject matter

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and everything that that encompasses. And this week

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we're coming at it from the viewpoint and

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attitude of one of his students. One that we see only

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three times in Scripture. And we will

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just jump right in to that particular

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work. And then we're gonna. I wanna challenge you with a couple

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of things tonight, because when he challenges me, I get to

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you, right. I

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should have at least gotten an amen from April over there.

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I drag her into my messes all the time. Well, Father God, I thank you

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so much for your faithfulness, for your word and your truth and that it

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is alive, Father God. And I thank you, Lord, that you are

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sending your word for healing. That's what you do, Lord.

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You send your word and it heals your people. So, Father, whatever

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situation we're in tonight, we know, Lord, that your word brings

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healing. And so. So, Father, we're going to come under that word, under that truth

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tonight. And I ask, Lord, that you impart what you would impart. Let my

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stuff fall in your stand in Jesus name. Amen.

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Amen. So we're going to start with one particular scripture this

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week. We're talking about the Rabbi session, two better things.

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Now, it happened as they went that he entered a certain village and

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a certain woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. She

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had a sister, Mary, who sat at Jesus feet and heard his

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words. But Martha was distracted with much serving,

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and she approached him and said, lord, do you not care that

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my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore, tell

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her to help me. Now, let me pause for just a second, because isn't that

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kind of the pattern that we take? Lord, do you see this? And then we

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want to tell him how we would like him to Deal with our situation.

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Right. You know, tell. Can you even imagine?

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Of course you can imagine because you do it and I do it.

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It's not a real stretch for us to figure that one out.

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But that whole scene just gets me a little bit. It says, and

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Jesus answered and said to her, martha, Martha. Which is the

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preemptive of Brady Bunch. Marcia, Marcia,

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Martha, Martha. You are worried and troubled about many things, but

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one thing is needed, and Mary has chose what

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is better, and it will not be taken from her.

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I realize we have actually camped some in this particular passage of

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Scripture, well, last year and this year. But I think it's

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important. And what's really interesting is I actually saw.

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Once I had done that, I went. I saw a couple of other areas

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that the Lord was using this passage of Scripture. And I thought, okay, Lord, you

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got our attention. You've got our attention. So show us what you want to

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show us. And so the very first thing I want to ask you is this.

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When was the last time you sat at his feet?

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Now, see, this can be an uncomfortable question in some manner

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if we don't understand what that actually means. Right. You

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know, could you not tarry? You know,

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I have actually seen several. And in a different

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season in the church, you would see the At His Feet conference,

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women's conferences, all the time. And it was about spiritual

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intimacy and it was about coming to know and all of

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that. And that is absolutely accurate and it's absolutely

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true. But there's something else that is

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entailed in this. And as we get into this passage of Scripture, it's my

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hope that the Lord would show you something that challenges you,

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male and female, to find a place

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at his feet. Now, see, we're going to talk about Mary here,

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and we see her three times in Scripture, and I want to take you through

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each time that we see her, because if

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Jesus words in red is going to look at her and

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say, you have chosen the better thing, don't you want to know

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what the better thing is? Don't you want to know what that looks like

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and how that would play into your life?

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Let's see. Let's do this.

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What's interesting is I always, when I was a young, young

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Christian, when I was a young woman, and I really did

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understand this to only be, oh, that's like I said, spiritual

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intimacy. You know, that's just coming to know him in a different way. But if

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you bear it out in Scripture, it's something very different.

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See, in Jewish culture, I love.

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I love if we just Dig that the Lord will show us something that

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we haven't seen before, right? In Jewish cult, to sit

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at someone's feet was to declare

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yourself a disciple of that person.

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Let me read this to you right here. And we know this

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for a couple of reasons, is to declare yourself to be his

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disciple. And the boldness that it took Mary, in that moment,

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the first time we see her, to leave what she was doing and go

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and sit at his feet. It wasn't just a small thing, it

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was a huge thing. Look at this. Acts

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3 says, this is Paul.

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He says, I am a Jew,

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born in Tarsus of Sicilia, but

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brought up in this city, educated at the feet of

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Gamaliel according to the strictness of the law

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of our fathers. Paul, brought up

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at the feet of a scholar, brought up at the

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feet. And so this is something that we need to pay attention to when we

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see Mary go and take her place at the feet of Jesus. Let me read

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you this too. It said one biblical scholar,

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background, who does Jewish history. He said, people normally, when

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listening to a teaching, would sit on chairs or at banquets.

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They would recline on couches during those teachings. But

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disciples sat at the feet of their

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teachers. Serious disciples were preparing to be

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teachers. So they sat at the feet of

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the teacher. We see Mary,

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a woman who was not supposed to be taught in the first

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place and who was definitely not supposed to be taught by a

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rabbi and definitely not supposed to be taught

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with men. We see her leave

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this place and go into this room

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full of men. And she doesn't sit

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on the sofa, she doesn't recline at the table. She

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goes to his feet. Do you understand

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the declaration she was making in that moment? What she was saying

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is, teach me, teach

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me. We don't see anywhere in the

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Word where Jesus says, hey, Mary, come and join us. We don't

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say see anywhere where an invitation is given

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or permission is given for her to leave her task and come and

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join him. But she does.

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I said, lord, what kind of person does

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this, goes against the norms, steps

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out of the role that they thought they were supposed to fulfill,

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and breaks the rules in order to get to you.

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What was it in her that caused her to do this? And this is what

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I felt like. He said, to take a position at the feet was to

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act of bold humility.

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Bold humility.

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Ah,

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bold humility. I said, lord, what does that

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even mean? Because I don't think I had really heard that phrase before.

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And me being the scholar that I am, I put it in the Google search

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engine in a. Guys, listen to this. God

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can even use Google. I'm just telling you. Definition

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bold humility. Bold humility is a paradoxical

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concept combining courage and modesty. It

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allows leaders and individuals to confidently use their

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gifts and speak truth while remaining

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grounded, recognizing their limitations, and

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giving glory to God rather than themselves. Balancing

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conviction with gentleness and seeking growth

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over self preservation. It is about leading with

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strength and vulnerability, knowing when to act

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decisively and when to just sit still and

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listen. Is that not fabulous? That

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to me, that is amazing.

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Okay, the first amazing thing is that if you will

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sit and listen and ask him questions, he will

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answer them. I truly don't know that I

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had ever looked at that and gone, oh, she was.

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Mary had bold humility. I'm not that smart,

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seriously. But God was showing me an aspect of

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her nature that he had come to know that all of these

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generations later that I wanted to know about because I wanted

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to know what caused her to go to his feet.

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And then. Guys, oh my goodness. I asked that question too.

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What was the. What was the catalyst? I mean, she's in

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there obviously working with Martha.

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She's in there doing what she had planned to do.

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But then this happened. And we see it in Luke 10.

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It says, Martha was distracted with much

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serving. It says Mary, who also sat at the feet of Jesus

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and heard his words.

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She heard his words. And I can

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just see this one in my spirit because this is what I believe.

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Jesus words are the catalyst that moves us from distraction to

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what is actually needed in our life.

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See, there are things we want and there are things that we will present

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to the Lord as plans for our life. But when you begin to

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grab hold of the words of the Rabbi, of the Master,

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Teacher of Jesus, he begins to lead us toward what is

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actually needed in our lives.

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The distractions begin to fall away, begin to get

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drawn away as truth begins to pierce where we're living.

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See, his words do that. His words.

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People are moved by his words one way or the other.

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You cannot enter into a place where

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his words are dominant and not have a reaction.

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You're going to have a negative one or a positive one. The chief priests

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and Pharisees said, there never a man has spake

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like this man. Never. That's John

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46, John 4:6 and one says,

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were not our hearts burning within us while he was

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speaking. That's in Luke 24. He

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alone has the words of life,

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John 6. Can you even imagine what that must have been like

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to hear his words? From his own

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mouth. I think I would have had to throw the dish

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towel down, too. I think I would have had to gone into that room.

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And here's the thing, guys. I don't think. I don't think

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that Mary was even paying attention

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to who else was in the room, because it didn't matter

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who was in the room. She was after him. She was

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after his words.

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Huh? Is

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this going to work? Maybe not.

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We turn it when we choose to position

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ourselves at his feet, to be raised under the words of

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Jesus, just like Paul was raised

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under the words of his teacher,

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we position ourselves to become actual disciples

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of the faith. We begin to be

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discipled in coming under his word,

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in choosing, making the choice to position

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ourselves under the teaching of the

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Rabbi of the Teacher. We are making a conscious choice to

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allow ourselves to be discipled by the word

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of Truth. There's been a whole lot of talk about

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discipleship lately. A whole lot over in the 12, a whole lot

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in here. God is obviously dropping that into our spirits.

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But before you are discipled by any man or

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woman's words, may you be discipled by the words

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of Jesus Christ. Because he doesn't miss it.

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We miss it. We get it wrong. But if you will

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make this decision to sit at his

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feet, and you're not always gonna want to, you're not always gonna feel like it.

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There are always gonna be distractions. But throw the towel down,

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make a choice, and go sit at his feet.

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Hmm? We choose to be raised under his words.

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And here's the thing that I see in Mary and I, and I so love

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this. Her foundational revelation of J was as that

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of Teacher. That's what he shows us anyway. The very first

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time we see her is her listening to his words,

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making a bold act, and choosing to sit

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at his feet. Mary's foundational revelation

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of that was that of Jesus as teacher. Now, why

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does that matter? Why does that matter?

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Because I believe this. We

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come to identify with the Christ in accordance with our

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foundational revelations of his nature.

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We come to identify with him from that first

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place. Now, that's not where we're going to stay, but that's our first place

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as we get to know Him. Now, let me explain to you what that means

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or what that has meant in my life. So

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you might come to know Him, Carol. You might know him as

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healer because of everything he's done in your life. You know,

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you might know him as deliverer. You might know him as your

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peace because you've been walking through a Season of stress. And that is where

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you run to. That aspect of his nature has a tendency

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to be. Because that's what you know and that's what you're familiar with. That's where

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you run. Now, see, when I was a kid, I saw God as kind

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of like this wizard of Oz who was always asking us to go

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and get Satan's broomstick and bring it back to him in order to prove

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our loyalty in. And so my understanding

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of him was skewed. But I

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remember this day. I remember it had been a long

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day and it had been a hard day. Because

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when you're a kid and your dad leaves, sometimes

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there's stigma. Especially when I was a kid. Cause it wasn't like it was now.

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You know, there wasn't the level of understanding. There wasn't. And so there was a

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whole lot of taunting. And it was a specific day where parents were

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supposed to be at school and. And mom was working, and of course

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she couldn't make it. And my dad was gone, so he didn't. And it became

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the target that day of, well, you don't even have a dad. You don't

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even have a dad. And I just remember making it through my day, and I

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just remember thinking, I don't. I don't have a dad.

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And I remember running home and we had a mobile home at that time,

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and there was like one of those wooden wardrobes and.

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And I just remember crawling into that wardrobe and sitting on top of a stack

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of shoes and just being so broken in my

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spirit, having a concept and an understanding.

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I think I was 11 years old and it was hitting me. I

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don't have this. And I just. In my spirit, as I called out, I went,

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God, I don't have a father.

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God, I don't have a father. And as

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clearly as I have ever heard anything in

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my life, I heard him speak to my spirit. And he

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said, love, you have a father.

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Love, you have a father. And man,

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this seed went into my spirit. That. That gaping hole

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that had been there, he filled it in such a massive way,

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I knew as my

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father. And that that right there, that

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was my foundational revelation of who he was.

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And that foundational revelation has been where I

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have run to every single time because

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I come to him as a daughter. Now.

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See, your revelation might be something different, but because I have

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spent time with him, with him speaking wisdom and truth and

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protection and covering and all of those things that I might have

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expected from an earthly father, he

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poured into my life. And so my foundational

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revelation is that your place of revealed

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identity will become your most accessible space for spiritual intimacy.

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And from that intimacy, new revelations of his nature

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are birthed.

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Everything built on that foundation. I could trust

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him to cover me because he was my

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father. I could trust him to move on my behalf, to

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be my defender, because that was built on top of my

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relationship as him, as my father. That

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revelation, what is your

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primary revelation of the facets and nature

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of God? Mary ran to the teacher. And we're

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gonna see that again here in Scripture. Mary ran to the teacher because

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that's who she knew. He was teaching her,

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he was speaking truth to her. He was taking the limits and the

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boundaries off of her life that society had put on her

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life. And so she would run to his

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feet. Who do you run to

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when you pray? What's the first word?

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Father Jesus. Sometimes it's

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just, ugh,

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Foundational relationships.

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And see, here's this, that place, that place of

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intimacy of him teaching you and you sitting at his feet and

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him pouring over tea over you guys.

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It's the best thing in the world. It just is.

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It just is. And in that, in that,

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we can have a propensity to go, I'm just gonna stay right here

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forever. I'm just gonna stay right here forever.

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And that's wonderful. In that season

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when God is pouring into you and teaching you, breaking old things and

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just being that person for you, feeling

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new, replacing the old, all of it. But there will come a time,

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there will come a time when everything that you have gleaned and everything that you

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have learned in those intimate seasons, everything that he has poured into

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you, you have accountability for. At his

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feet are seasons in which we lean in, glean and grow. And

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they are crucial to adding layers and depth

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to your life because of the revelations

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as he speaks and as he pours and as he does

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all of this.

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But here's the thing. If seasons

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of spiritual intimacy are sustained, yet nothing is done with the wisdom and

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revelation gained, you may become root bound and

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self focused. Seasons of

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learning must be followed by

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obedience or we do not grow.

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Pastor Wayne used to look at me and go, barbie, come out,

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come out. I get that you're seeking him, but we're trying to minister

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to a body of people here. Come out and take everything that

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he just spoke into your life and share it.

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God growing us, the teacher teaching us,

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yes, it is the most wonderful thing. But he isn't

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just teaching us for us, he's teaching us

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for everybody. He's teaching

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so that you can Take it out. He's teaching so

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we can take it out.

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The next time we see Mary. The next time we

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see Mary

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is Lazarus. Her brother has died. And

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the scriptures tell us that she was in the house and that

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Martha had already seen Jesus. And

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she comes back to the house, and she says, mary,

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the teacher has come, and he's asking

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for you. See, she spoke to Mary at the place that

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Mary knew the teacher. Can you even imagine those

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words being spoken to you, Kevin, the teacher has come,

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and he's asking for you. And it said she got up

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immediately. I think I would, too.

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Well, maybe I would,

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because I believe he speaks to us all the time, and I believe

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he draws us all of the time. And we choose

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a little square box with people running around on it.

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God's going, if you would just come. The teacher's coming. So we

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see her run to him. We see her run to.

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The teacher has come, and he's calling for you.

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Hmm. Look what she

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does. It says, when

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Mary came to where Jesus was and she saw him, she

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fell down at his feet,

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broken. She had lost her brother. She. She was in a season of mourning

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and loss. But she throws herself at his feet.

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And she says, if you had been here, he wouldn't have died.

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And the scripture says that he saw her tears.

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It says that he saw her tears.

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And the scripture tells me that he groaned.

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He groaned. The groaning that he does here, it says,

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when Mary came, it says he groaned the spirit and was

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troubled. The word used there is embryo

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maomi. It's intensive. And it is this groaning

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as painfully moved as an

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intercession in nature. He groans and

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he groans because of what he sees.

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Not just Mary. We see that as they move toward Lazarus, when he

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says, where have they laid him? And they head toward the tomb, the other people

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are weeping, and it says, jesus sees them, and he

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groans again. The first time.

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The first time he groans, it's this. In the same way the Spirit helps us

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in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the

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Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groaning.

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That's the first groan. That's the first time

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when she's at his feet and she's calling out to this

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teacher, show me how to walk this out.

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Show me what to do, Lord, if

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you had been here. And he groans

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in intercession. And then as he goes a little bit further

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and sees the people and sees all of the weeping, the second time he

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groans. And this time when he groans,

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it's the same Usage of the word where it says, all

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creation groans in

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anticipation of his coming. The first time that

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he groans, he groans in intercession. And the next time, I would just present

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to you that standing at the tomb of a dead man who has

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been asleep for three days, and this time he says, father, I know that

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you have heard me. Well, we don't see any words where he's spoken to his

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Father before. But what we do see is him interceding with a

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groaning that we can't understand. Father, I know that you have heard me

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me understand. When you don't have words,

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he hears you. And so this time, when he groans

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in the same way that creation groans, I believe when he

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said with the second time, when he did that, I believe that that

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groan shook the earth. And I believe that

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wherever Lazarus was at that moment, that

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groan said, come out

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the creative breath that brings life.

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See? Jesus responds,

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Jesus responds,

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We are not the only ones who respond in those moments. I think I

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jumped you guys ahead. So

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are you guys on 12? Okay. All

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right, here's the thing. Upon that layer

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of teacher, upon that place

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in this moment, this intimate

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sharing, this miraculous moment with the Teacher,

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she now adds to knowing him as teacher.

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She now knows him as the resurrection and the

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life because she has experienced it

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firsthand. And see, when we allow

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the Lord to begin to build upon those revelations

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in our life, the most amazing thing

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begins to happen. This is the way I see it. The multifaceted

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layers of God are revealed in our intimate encounters with Him. Our

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revelation should be revelation expands, folding in

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and over itself and multiplying.

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Guys, it just begins, this

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snowball in the Spirit that just adds and

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grabs and moves and elevates and

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expands as we allow those revelations to

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take root in our life until we have but one

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response. And see, this takes us

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to the third time that we see Mary in Scripture.

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Having come through all of those places, having

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experienced him in all of these ways,

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we see the most beautiful thing happen.

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And Mary, only the third time we've heard her name,

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only the third time we've seen her. But we've watched her

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experiences. We've watched the Lord minister to her.

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We've watched him take the boundaries off of her life. We've watched him

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draw her. We've watched him make a place and a space

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for her, to welcome her into a discipleship

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relationship with him so that he can teach her, so that she

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can grow and these things can be added to her. And then not only

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that, he comes in her grief, in her

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brokenness, and calls for her.

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And then he does the most amazing miracle

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in her life. What do you do when the Lord has

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been that good to you? What do you do when the

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Lord has been that good to you guys? When I

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come in here, there are so many times that I come in here on Sundays,

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and I'll stand right there. And my mind can be everywhere else but

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here. It can be running through what I forgot to do

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or what it can be running through these places. But

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do you know what can bring me in? Do you know what can bring in

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all of those frayed edges, all of those moments when I begin to go,

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God, you've been so good to me. And I begin to recount

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his goodness. And I begin to think, see, the enemy wants you to come in.

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And thinking of all of the places that you failed or you fallen, all of

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the places that you're not getting what you want. And this is happening,

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and this happening. But we come in here to bring an offering

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before him. And I'm not talking about money. I'm talking about a

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fragrant offering that causes him to lean

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over and inhale this fragrance. Coming off

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of my life. Coming off of your life.

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Do you come in with an offering

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to pour at his feet?

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Mary took a pound of very costly oil,

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anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet

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with her hair. Wiped his

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feet with her hair. Think

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about that, it says, and the

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house was filled with the fragrance

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of the oil. It only takes one.

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It only takes one. Sister Hensley, growing

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up, being at the Church of God in Oak Ridge,

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when she decided to take a lap around the

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church, I'm telling you, when that woman, who I

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thought was old at the time, but she was probably my age now anyway, like

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I said, she wasn't old anyway.

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She didn't do anything lightly. Nothing.

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And when she would stand up and she

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would begin to bless the Lord, and she would begin to call on his names,

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and she would begin to speak his name, and she would just begin to move

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a little bit. She would just begin to move a little bit. And we would

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all, like, step over to the side. We knew what was coming. And she would

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just begin to bless the Lord. And pretty soon all of

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those declarations, all of the goodness of God would move her

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out of that pew, and everybody just make a way. But you know what would

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happen is when she did this, the fragrance did this,

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and we were all participants in her worship,

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it would be my prayer. It would be my hope. It would be just the

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most beautiful thing, guys, if we can come into this

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house, whenever we come into this house, carrying,

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not searching for, carrying oil

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and carrying the fragrance of God, so that when

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we're called to release it, we can release it, release that

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fragrance. Ay, yai yi, yi, yi.

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You know what?

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When Jesus looked. Looked at Martha,

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when Jesus looked at Martha and said, you're just

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distracted. You're just distracted.

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Mary has chosen the better thing,

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and it will not be taken away from her. Mary

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has chosen the better thing. What better

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thing has she chosen? She has chosen to be

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discipled by the Teacher. She has

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chosen to sit at his feet. She has

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chosen to find that place in him repeatedly, over and

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over and over in her life.

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She has allowed him to build layer upon layer

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upon layer of revelation of his nature and his character and

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his facets in her life. So when

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you see this, when it says, Mary

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has chosen the better thing, it was not about

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giving up helping in the kitchen. It was not about giving

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up this or giving up that. It was about making

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a choice to be discipled at the

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feet of Jesus. And guys,

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his word is true when he says, this will never be taken

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from her. Thousands of years later,

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we're still talking about it. We're still talking about

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the decision that she made in that moment to sit

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at his feet. So this is my challenge to you

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this week. This is my challenge to you

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this week. Find

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a place at his feet. I don't care

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if it's a shoe closet. I don't care if you're sitting

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on your porch. I don't care if you're sitting in your car at

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lunchtime. I want you to mentally and physically

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find a place at his feet

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spiritually and let him know

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your decision. Let him know your decision.

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I'm coming to your feet. I'm taking this not

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as an observer, not as someone on the sofa, not as someone

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reclining at the table, but I'm coming to your

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feet. And this is the position that I

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choose to sit at the feet

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of my teacher. Amen, Father God,

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I thank you so much for another opportunity to open your word

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and let you breathe over us. And so, Father, I'm asking that you

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would just awaken each of us, Father, in the depths of our spirit, that we

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would literally hear you calling, let the Teacher call

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for us and may we run toward his feet

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in Jesus name, Amen and

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amen. I love you guys.

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