Hi, Chris Valaton here. Welcome to my podcast where I hope to inspire you to walk in your royal

identity in Christ and experience God's goodness in every area of your life. I hope you enjoy this

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So why don't you grab my hand and we'll pray? Yes, you can get a date too.

So I thought what we do from now on is multitask so we can pray and get a date at the same time.

Or we can pray for a date. So I don't want to disappoint you because when you say

I was preaching, oh Chris is preaching tomorrow, we're going to get a date so you know I'm

making sure you have an opportunity. So Holy Spirit, we thank you for what you're doing.

We bless what you're doing. A little less over there. We bless.

And we pray for you to give us extraordinary wisdom tonight. In Jesus name, amen.

Well, I had a different message for you but I changed it in the middle of worship. So we'll

see how that goes. Turn to John 15. I want to talk to you about moving from slavery to friendship.

And I have it right here in my John 15. Will this start from verse 1?

I'm sure these are passages that you've probably really familiar with. So

you know, I'm finding that I'm finding hidden treasures in secret places of familiarity.

I don't know about you but I've been reading the Bible since I was 18, mostly every day since I was 22.

And yet I go back to pastures that I've read over and over and over again, especially recently.

I was reading the book about I'm going through the book of Acts this week and I'm finding things there.

I'm telling you, I don't even remember they were there before.

And so I find sometimes that we, you know, sometimes it's not new actions but renewed actions.

You know, Jesus told the disciples, place your nets on the other side of the boat and I'm thinking

they probably fish both sides of the boat, beans they fished all night. I'm like, oh, what a great idea.

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