Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

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Hey, welcome back. Today I need to begin by reminding you of something extremely important.

You are a vessel, created and recreated by God, to be filled with the Holy Spirit,

so that you can pour the Holy Spirit into the lives of every person you meet and know. I honestly cannot think of anything more important than that to tell you. I've made the commitment to preach

that sentence everywhere I've gone this year, and maybe for years to come. Embedded within it is this

crucial concept that you are valuable, that God has saved you and continues to utilize you

to carry out his good work in connection with the Holy Spirit.

And while we could build several lessons excavating all of the details behind those concepts,

in the end, in practical terms, it really just boils down to Galatians chapter 5 and the

fruit of the spirit. It is this basic idea that everywhere you go and every person

that you meet, God has sanctified and directed you to poor, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control into those people's lives.

I've talked about this in previous episodes.

Trying to carry all nine of those qualities every day is pretty tough.

So I wake up in the morning on my way to brushing my teeth and I touch nine tiles in the bathroom.

Love, joy, peace, patience.

And then after brushing my teeth, I go back and pick one.

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