Welcome to call to freedom with Barbara.
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This is Jimmy Lakey and I’m delighted that you are joining us for this half hour. You can reach call to freedom at Box 370367, Denver, Co 802 three, seven or by going to the website at www.freedom St. dot.
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And now, let’s join Barbara in the studio.
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Oh.
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Welcome to call to freedom.
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This is Kimberly once again sitting in for Barbara.
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She is traveling back to Denver right now as we speak, and I just called her 10 minutes ago, she said. She was in the lowlands just right outside Denver.
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I’m thinking she might be seeing Denver International Airport.
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That right? Hi, mom.
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Say that because she’s.
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She’s close enough that she can get the station loud.
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Clear so.
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We’ve been praying for your your safe journey and wow, look at you.
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You almost made it in time to be.
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The air.
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Me.
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And I love that.
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Wow, there’s just one bit of business that I want to mention before I start into what’s on my heart for today, and that is the Christmas meeting for call to freedom.
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Coming up December 14th.
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That’s a Saturday, Saturday morning.
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We would love to see you if you can come and join us for that Christmas meeting.
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You give us a.
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Give us your RSVP. I’m actually going to be the one doing the traveling next week.
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And I’ll be there, Lord willing. And if he tarries, I will be there for that Christmas meeting on December 14th.
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So let us know if you can make it. Call that number 877-917-7256.
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And let us know that you are going to be.
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We’d love to see you. And I know I’m doing this a couple weeks early, but I’m kind of doing that selfishly.
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Getting really excited about this Christmas season.
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We were.
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To drive around the Tulsa and Broken Arrow area.
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Last night.
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And there are already so many Christmas lights, maybe even more than we’ve ever seen before. And right now, as I’m on the air with you, I’ve got somebody on my roof putting up Christmas lights on my house too, so.
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It is just.
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Season of excitement and as we were looking at all the Christmas lights.
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Lights we just mentioned to one another isn’t this.
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There’s there’s this excitement in the air and I don’t think it’s just the political season that that we just came out of.
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I think there’s something really moving.
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God is moving on the hearts of his people and causing us to to expect with a with a hopeful expectancy, and I we’re praying that over all of you, I am so excited about Christmas and.
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Fellowship and meeting together to worship.
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Come, let us adore.
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Oh, come let us come together and adore him.
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So we’re looking forward to.
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Again, that’s December 14th on Saturday. So Mark your calendar and plan to join.
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We would love to see you and as we are moving into this Advent season, I’m looking at Luke Chapter 2.
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And in verse 7 it says she gave birth to her first born son and she wrapped him in cloth and laid him in a Manger because there was no room for him in the inn.
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It says there was no room for them in the inn.
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But I took that really personally about Jesus.
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Harry is the Lord has come.
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And there’s no room for him.
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Well.
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I have some some people on my mind lately. My son is one of them.
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He has a new roommate and he’s been living in his own space for a few months and thoroughly enjoying that. But now he’s adjusting to having someone else in his space.
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I also have a friend who’s currently sharing her home with her daughter, her son-in-law, their toddler and their dog.
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And that’s just a whole new dynamic. When you invite others to live with you, it can take quite a bit of adjustment.
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So I’m thinking about roommates and I’m thinking about Christmas, Advent and I’m.
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You know, I’m just looking at how we try to hold on to our boundaries when we’re.
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We’re asking someone else to do things our way, or they’re asking us if they can do it their way, whether it’s taking care of the home, cleaning the kitchen, the bathrooms.
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Or how much time you take in a bathroom.
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So all of those things can cause some tension and conflict.
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But let me tie this in with Advent now, because we have a new roommate, right?
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His name is Jesus and it made me wonder about Jesus moving in when Jesus moves into our hearts. You know, how do we accept him?
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What kind of a roommate are we?
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He is so kind and he is such a gentleman that he actually takes the lowest room in our home and that’s what the word of God tells us.
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Taking this story of him.
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Appearing to the world.
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Because it says there was number room available, no space for him to stay in the upper rooms in the guest rooms in the Nice places.
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He was actually laid in a feeding through.
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Where the animals gather, it’s a place that when Matthew and I visited, we saw it’s carved out of.
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It’s usually underneath the homes, it’s down under and it’s where they would keep the frail animals or the animals that were young or.
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Weak or vulnerable to enemies, so they would keep those animals in there, and I imagine it did not smell very good at all.
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That is the place that Jesus chooses to move into.
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That’s where he first appears is in the lowest place, the darkest place in the feeding through.
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And he is so kind and so generous that he doesn’t demand being moved up to a higher place.
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He stays there and he waits for us to notice him.
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I’ve been wondering about what kind of a roommate I have been for. Jesus.
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Have I made more room for him since he first moved in, or am I still tightly holding onto my boundaries and my desires, my agendas, my comforts?
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I had a roommate over three decades ago.
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Was so thoughtful.
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Choosing styles of decorating that suited me and colours that I liked.
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It was really very kind, but I was too immature and too entitled at the time.
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Maybe spoiled would be a good word to even recognize how blessed I was to have a roommate like that.
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Now of course I realize.
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And I wonder, you know, wow, what kind of a roommate was I?
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I was.
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Very good to them, I’m sure.
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What if we were all like this other roommate of?
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What if we were all thinking of others before we think of ourselves?
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This is exactly what Jesus emulated when he came to this realm. He was thinking of us.
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And moving into a place where everyone could visit him.
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The lowest of shepherds and the highest of.
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They were all allowed to go into that place, that low place where he was.
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You may have heard me talking this year.
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About how I’ve attempted to fast my thoughts at the beginning of this year.
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I realized everything that I think in my mind is being shared and I know that it doesn’t really make much sense to fast our thoughts.
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Do we do that?
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We’re just constantly thinking there’s always something in our mind.
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But I think I’ve just been more aware than ever that I’m sharing this space, that I call me.
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I am not my own.
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I belong to someone else and this space is actually his.
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He doesn’t have to give me the free will to try all my own ways, and he certainly doesn’t have to pay the price when I lead myself into ******* or into rough places. But that’s exactly what he did.
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Moved in to.
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His face.
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I’m his. He created me.
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And then he gave me free will to make all the choices about how I’m going to host him.
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Oh, I don’t ever want to forget that he has paid such a high price and he’s so kind and generous and loving that he’ll just stay on the sidelines and let me make all the decisions.
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I want to start remembering that he gets to make decisions too.
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Do you know anyone else?
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Is so good.
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Anyone else that is so kind as him, so generous as him.
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Anyone else who would take the lowest place in your life and lay his own life on the line?
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I’ve been listening and meditating to a worship song and it’s called sure been good to me.
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And I just want to focus on that for a little while. How good Jesus is.
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Listen to that now.
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Who?
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Hey.
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I.
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But you love me like I.
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One of the spaces on the tree.
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‘Ve always.
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Nobody else is going.
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Nobody.
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Else.
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Nobody else would lay the life down.
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On the life.
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Nobody else could do.
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Even if they tried.
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Nobody else could bomb and save.
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Every time.
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But you’ve.
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Been.
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Just.
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You’re.
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You’re good to me.
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You.
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And offend yourself.
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Good to.
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Look, we know your love. We know.
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Making me into.
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I.
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Spacing between.
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Span’s right?
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Nobody else can run.
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You.
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Oh, my God. You sure name girl?
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Do you have to take my son?
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His people and our.
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To get it, if you have to call me.
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Save my soul.
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It’s.
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You didn’t.
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To take my shame.
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I.
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I.
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Was.
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OK.
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Told me.
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I.
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I.
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I.
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I.
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I.
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Me.
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Wonder like I.
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Filling up the space is over three you always spend.
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That song has just turned into one of my favorites.
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I just keep it on repeat and if you are just tuning in, this is called a freedom and we’re talking about the goodness of God.
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What kind of a roommate he is to us and what kind of a roommate we are for him?
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His love is so great.
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So kind when he moves into our lives, he treats us with the utmost patience.
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And he does exceedingly more from behind the scenes from the lowest places in our apartment complex of our body and mind.
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The kind of roommate that doesn’t leave me like I was.
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And he always knew there was a better meat that he always knew there’s a better place to stay in me, but just loves me like I was filling up all the spaces in between.
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He is always enough.
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That is the kind of roommate that everybody would long for.
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And do we make room for that roommate?
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What would happen if we gave him the presidential suite of our minds and our?
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What if we gave him all of our choices that are swirling around in our minds and can give him control of all the emotional waves? I know that he would make us into the best.
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Surfers I would be a really good surfer, you know, on top of all those waves, I we would be the most amazing wave walkers. We could just walk on top of the water.
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He is the reason that we can have any joy at all and he is the only one who can hold that title of Prince of Peace.
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If you’re feeling lost or stuck, he is the wonderful counselor and in the middle of impossible situations he is mighty God. His arm is not short.
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And any lack or any need that you may have can be brought to him because he is the everlasting father.
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The Hebrew words in that part of Isaiah 9 that calls him wonderful Counselor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God, Everlasting Father. Let me tell you where it says, Everlasting father.
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It’s been.
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Translated that way in the English, the Hebrew is literally the possessor of eternity. He is the owner of it all. On every space of the timeline, outside of the time line. He puts us at all.
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So he can fill everyone of those spaces in our lives.
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What do those spaces look like?
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Are those spaces loneliness?
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Is it just feeling really lost?
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Is it needing control over something?
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What about lack financially?
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It could be weakness.
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In our bodies, in our minds.
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And.
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Yet he feels all the spaces of our lives with himself.
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He is more than enough.
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He wants to fill those spaces as as the very best roommate.
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The planet.
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And again, I’m getting this idea from Luke Chapter 2 and verse 7 where it says that she gave birth to her first born son.
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And after wrapping the newborn baby in strips of cloth, they laid him in a feeding through.
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Because there was no room available, no room.
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I want to make sure that I am making room for him in my heart and in my mind, and as we are in the month of December and looking forward to Christmas with so much excitement in the air so much.
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Energy and life and light, including Christmas lights. We see it all over.
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I just want to encourage each one of you to make room for him.
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There was no room, but we make room every.
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We are making decisions and those decisions lead us to more and more of him.
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And that’s that’s the one part that we do have some control.
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We get to decide what we’re going to do with the emotions, with the loneliness, with the pain, the suffering, the weakness in our body. We get to decide what we’re going.
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Do with it.
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Are we going to sulk and give in to anger?
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Give in to self pity, maybe even unforgiveness, bitterness, resentment.
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Or will we recognize the best roommate in the universe and realize how kind he is, how good he is that he has been doing exceedingly more behind the scenes than we ever could think or hope for?
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Or imagine.
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He didn’t have to take that messy room that we gave him at the very bottom of our life in a feeding through, he didn’t have to take it, but he took that place.
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And he was happy to take that place any space at all.
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That’s what he is happy to take and as he moves into that messy place, he’s willing to take our shame and our pain and our sin.
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And he didn’t have to do it.
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He did not have to call you friend.
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But that is just how good of a God he is.
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Calls you friend and he didn’t leave.
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Never moved out.
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He is Emmanuel.
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Do you know what Emmanuel?
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God with us.
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In every space in any space that we might provide.
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Right. I just want to be encouraging each one of us to choose to give him higher space and higher place, meaning higher priority.
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Make him first in your life.
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Give him that top priority. Kind of like on the cell towers. You know, each of us are vying for that top spot because.
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All want the.
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We all want to be heard.
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How much more so? The one who made us for himself.
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Let him be heard in your mind and in your heart.
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Let him be heard in your emotions instead of justice. Letting those emotions and those thoughts take over.
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Give him first place.
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Them to him.
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Ask him what he wants to do with it. Because guess what.
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Is your roommate.
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Is.
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He’s experiencing it all with you anyway.
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Let him help you make the very best decision with what you are in the middle of.
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Because he is working all things together for good.
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And that is something that we can count on that he’s doing exceedingly more than we could ever hope for than we could ever imagine.
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And we can give him our gratitude and our.
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We’re just coming off of a a week of Thanksgiving, a day of Thanksgiving, and wow, I was just so aware of how much I can eat and maybe forget to keep giving thanks to keep.
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You.
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Just stop what I’m doing and say thank you.
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Thank you for this.
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Don’t let me hurt myself with all of these gifts you’ve given me and all of this food you’ve given me, God.
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Keep me grateful.
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Keep me thankful.
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Help me always be thinking of you at every moment.
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I remember my dad telling me at one point that he had heard John Wesley had mentioned. I believe that’s who he was talking about, and I’m going to have to look this up, but.
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One of the Wesley’s I believe mentioned that he wanted to keep God so present in his thoughts that he would cause himself to think of the Lord to think on Jesus.
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Every minute of every day.
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And that seemed like a really impossible goal for me.
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That’s why I started.
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Yeah.
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Trying to fast my thoughts so I could include him in every thought and give him the highest place in my mind and my emotions as we enter this season of Advent. We encourage you all to think about what kind of a roommate you are.
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For Jesus, make room for the one who was and who is and who is to come because he deserves the highest place in our lives.
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And we will have so much greater joy giving him the place that he deserves.
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Thank you for joining me for this half hour.
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I bless your day and look forward to talking with you again soon.
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Take joy.
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Until next time, remember, Jesus loves you. Barbara loves you.
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