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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

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Hey, what's up everybody? Hope you're having a great summer. Man, summer's been so much fun for me.

I've been teaching every weekend. I've been doing this podcast. I've been throwing kids in a pool, throwing frisbee on the beach, shooting hoops in the driveway, playing bad golf, doing s'mores and firepits, grilling on my blackstone, watching a grandkid walk across a graduation stage and watching another one learn how to walk. It's been an awesome summer, and I hope you're making some

memories as well, and thanks for making this just a part of the rhythm of your day. We've been

talking about finding guidance for the decisions that we're faced with, and we've been talking

about walking with God and hearing from God, and we've been hanging in a verse from Psalm 37 that

says, delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the

desires of your heart. And we've talked about how there's an A part to that verse that says, first of all,

delight yourself on the Lord, and then he will give you the desires of your heart. We can't reverse that

and say, give me the desires of my heart, God, and I will be delighted. No, we come to God saying, I just want to know you.

I want to know your desires, so that my desires and your desires are the same. I have desires.

There are passions in me. I think you put them in there, God. So I'm just going to trust your

leadership as you give me direction. I know that I can make my plans, but you, you order my steps. A couple of

episodes back we threw out this principle based on that verse, if you are pursuing his person,

then go wisely pursue your passions. If you are pursuing his person, then wisely go pursue your passions. And we introduce four ways that God

provides direction for us as we are wisely pursuing those passions. Let me just give you the first

one today. I have found that God gives us direction through the filter of his word, through the

filter of his word. I mean, God's word is a lot of things, full of hope, truth,

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