Welcome everybody to another Be Still and Be Love podcast. We're going to take a few minutes to quiet ourselves.

Not easy to do in our day-to-day moments but I sure hope that you are doing this.

I think it's a powerful way to practice and train your intimacy with God. He tells us that he speaks and we as his

sheep hear his voice. We're going to just do that. We have to practice that. So

turning off all the sounds of the world your

phones your emails your computers whatever it is that you might have that could interrupt

to the best of your ability power them down and push yourself away from that, whatever is right in front of you right now,

and turn your gaze, simply turn your gaze towards a God who delights in you who loves you and says that you have great

favor that you have his favor. So find yourself a quiet space, you can lay down, you can sit, but maybe in a comfortable attentive

position. Okay.

So just take a moment to draw your attention to your breath with an inhalation. Exhale. Resting your lips together again and inhaling through the back of the throat and the lungs elevate as you inhale.

And as you exhale.

The sound of your breath is the soundtrack to your life. When you are practicing your breath it will start to sound maybe like the ocean waves

crashing onto the shore and drawing back into the sea.

Good, relaxing the creases between your eyebrows and maybe your jaw, just soften your jaw.

Notice where you're holding tension maybe in your head, in your fists, in your shoulders.

So Holy Spirit come and rest upon us as we take this time

to say that we are desperate for you. We are a desperate people. Very aware

that in our own strength we are limited in our own mind capacity. the landscape of our mind, God is limited and we want more of you.

So come and fill us in this quiet space.

Continue to draw your attention to your breath,

continue to draw your attention to your breath, inhaling, sitting tall or feeling longer

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