Why don't you go ahead and take out your Bibles and open those up to Daniel Chapter 1

and today, Pastor Tom Lane and I began a brand new series called Drive.

You know, it all of our lives from time to time we go through wilderness seasons

We go through times when our life feels really really dry and it feels like we've gotten off track spiritually

Sometimes it feels like we're just sort of going through the motions,

playing with this thing.

I had a friend who told me that his aunt,

he had an aunt who never married, and when she got later in her life she bought

a parrot just to have some company around the house.

Well the thing about my friend's aunt was is that she had a prayer language.

And it was her common practice to walk around the house all day long,

praying out loud in her prayer language. Well in the course of time her

parrot learned her prayer language. Now listen this is not a preacher story I'm

telling you the truth here today.

This is a true story.

The parrot learned that prayer language.

But you understand that even though that parrot was saying those words,

that parrot was not really connecting with God, right?

All that parrot was doing was giving voice to somebody else's words.

I felt like that parrot in my life. I felt like that I was going to church and I was

singing my songs and I was reading my Bible and I was saying my prayers but all my

I was reading my Bible and I was saying my prayers, but all I felt like I was doing was giving voice to someone else's words.

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