You're listening to the Jeff Kaven Show episode 2-11, a shift in thinking that will change your world.

Hey, I'm Jeff Kavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible?

All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the Jeff Kaven Show.

And I do thank you for joining me again for episode 2-11, a shift in thinking that will change your world.

I do hope that you are having a wonderful week, and by wonderful, I mean fruitful, as far as your relationship with the Lord goes, your family, your relationships,

the things are firing on all pistons, sort of speak. I want to talk to you this week about a mindset that we have, whether we really realize it or not, we have a particular mindset about our relationship with the Lord, our relationship to all things, Kingdom of God,

and how I think that there might be a chance that our mindset is keeping us from really doing what the Lord has called us to do.

I have a lot of scriptures for you this week, and I am going to give those to you. All you've got to do is text my name, it's just one complete name, Jeff Kavens,

and the number that you text, my name too, is 33777, such a biblical number, 33777.

Well, at the time of this episode, we are getting ready to go into summer. It's spring right now in 2021, and I know that people are really looking forward to this summer, as they have gone through, most of us have gone through a really rough 2020 with a pandemic,

but I think people are looking forward to going outside, more freedom, more relationships and things to do, and I think it's going to be a great time.

And I do think that after a year in COVID and everybody being locked up, a lot has changed in people's lives, not only in their relationships, some of them not so good, but their habits as well, whether it's binge watching over the winter or self-medicating, getting themselves into trouble.

In the spring time, we oftentimes talk about spring cleaning, but I think there might need to be some spring cleaning in our relationship with the Lord as well.

A big reminder, we still do have room on the June trip to the Holy Land 2021, June of 2021, with Father Mike Schmitz and myself.

You can go to my website, Jeffkevens.com, find out information about that, love to have you. Join us, it's going to be a spectacular pilgrimage, it really is, and we'd love for you to join us.

Well, I want to talk to you now about a shift in our thinking as it relates to our relationship with the Lord.

And to do that, I want to start by going back a number of years when I first really, really got excited about following Jesus when I was, I was only 18 years old, I was in college, and I had this born again experience, I had this, this new relationship with the Lord via my girlfriend, Emily, who's now my, my wife, and I got to tell you my whole life changed at that point.

And I went out and bought a Bible, I started to go to meetings and prayer meetings and teachings and tent meetings and all kinds of things.

And I wanted to meet with people who knew about Jesus, and we would sit at the college, and we would talk about Jesus, all the Christians would gather at a certain place.

You could always walk by this place called the pit where everybody would gather, and you could bring your Bible sit down, and there was always someone to talk to about Jesus.

And those early years were really spent getting to know more about the Lord, you know, and learning and knowing the Bible.

And I had this, this sense of my relationship with Jesus was really one of following him, and you know when I teach on discipleship, I make a big deal out of this when I talk about Jesus saying,

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