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Let's get to it. Here's the message.

We've been doing a collection of guided prayers

and messages on this idea of being closer to God. We just completed. I recorded 15 guided

kind of prayers and experiences on getting closer to God. If you haven't had a chance yet,

don't take this. It kind of sounds like a pitch for content, but it's all free. I don't

get paid for doing this. It's really because I think if you'll join me for five, six,

seven minutes for 15 straight days in the morning, it's real like, I was really emotional when I

recorded it and I was in this beautiful spot. And so I sound really

breathy and emotional. So just get over that part. But it's, I think it'll really encourage you

just to realize how near and dear God is. And so we're kind of in the middle that we're still

doing a closer to God series. The 20 to 30 minute messages I record in the studio are available.

What I'd like to do today is give you kind of a, I'm taking a passage that's in the series,

but I'd like to preach a totally different message on it in relationship to this idea of getting

closer to God. Why closer to God? We discovered that the question,

how do I get closer to God or something like that, is one of the most Googled, researched, asked

about questions around God in the whole wide world. There is this idea that if there is a God,

could I be close to God? There's also this idea that

I couldn't be close to God. Why? Well, because you cuss or you smoke or you chew or you go with

the girls who do, like Judah, you're definitely 46. Okay, but you know what I mean? Like our behavior

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