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wherever you get your podcast. The reason I didn't want to read my Bible, pray, or spend time

with God is because I was given all of my attention to the world. And I was so full of the

things of the world that I was no longer

hungry for the things of God. So in order for me to get my passion back for actually wanting to follow God,

I had to change my appetite. What you have to realize is whatever you feed grows and whatever you

starve dies. Your decisions dictate your desire. So the more decisions that you make in a particular direction,

you are literally cultivating your desire for that particular thing. So the more that I was

choosing all of my vices, things that God had delivered me from, or whatever it may be that

wasn't of him, I was training my desires to want more of that. And so I had to shift it to

making decisions in feeling myself with the things of that. And so I had to shift it to making decisions in feeling

myself with the things of God. And that changed my appetite to a point where those spiritual

disciplines were actually what I wanted to pursue. And I almost think of it like this. Whenever I have

a big dinner, whether it would be friends and family, I love dessert. I'm like I have a crazy sweet tooth and anytime I'm having a meal

like that with friends or family, I'm typically always going to get dessert. But there will be some

moments where whatever I had for my actual entree in my meal, it was so feeling to the point where when I get done with my plate

and I'm seeing that cheesecake or that apple pie, even though it's something I know that I won't

have a desire for, I'll sometimes say what we all do is like, man, I don't even have room for dessert.

What I had was so good and filled me up to such a degree where I don't even need that. I don't

even want it. I'm

fine. I'm okay. And that's exactly what happens when you start feeling yourself up with the

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