Hi, everyone. Welcome to a time of being still and being loved. I'm so glad you're here.

And more importantly, God, your father, your maker, your creator, your lover, is glad

you're here. My name is Alisa Keaton, and I'm excited to just rest in his love with

you. So take a moment to maybe shake off some of the tension in your body, maybe even taking

a deep breath and inhaling audibly and maybe squeezing your muscles and relaxing them as

you soften into a position that feels restful to you, and let's breathe together, inhaling,

exhaling, exhaling. Make it your intention to slow the breath and expand the breath. Relax your

jaw, the crease between your eyes, and if you're breathing slowly and intentionally, you're doing it right.

And become aware of how near God is to you. He's as near as your breath. He gave you the breath of life.

You are holding a gift inside of you, receiving and giving the gift all day long. So with your breath,

enter his presence. In a more intentional way, right now, he's with us all day long. The question is

always, are we with him? So right now, God, we turn our face to you. We breathe because you breathe.

We are here, whether lying down or upright, to hear from you, to be with you. We give you our full

attention right now. And I ask Father that you would bind any distraction, any voice that would pull us away

from you. Only the spirit of the living God speaks to us in this space. All other voices.

Be gone.

I'm going to read a scripture for you to just hold on to you as you breathe. If other distracting

thoughts come, notice them and let your exhale push them away.

John 14 verse 5, Thomas said to him, Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?

Jesus said to him, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jesus's words are assurance for us. We are assured.

That with him there is a way with him there's truth and that he is life.

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