Welcome to the Voo Church podcast. Many of us desire to change and improve. We long for this year to be better than last. Yet, resolutions without renovation are worthless. Finding our soul starts with recognizing where we are.

Today, Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. continues our collection of talks. Happy, healthy, holy. In this message, lost soul.

To discover collection resources, visit voochurch.com slash happy. Now let's lean into the message together.

Today's day 7 of 21 days of prayer and fasting when the church starts praying, God starts speaking. Amen.

And we are in a collection of talks entitled Happy, Healthy, Holy.

Losing the world and gaining your soul. And today is part 2, someone say part 2.

And what I want to try to attempt to do today is what I've realized about people is that many times the greatest obstacle to our spiritual formation is an inability or an unwillingness to recognize exactly where we are.

And so today, part 2 of this collection, I want to preach from the subject, lost soul. And I believe that as we get through this content today, that is going to lay a great foundation once again for the weeks to come.

Next week, some of you will be a little more preachy today. It's a little bit more teaching. In fact, I believe as you start the new year, you might as well take some notes.

Because research tells us that 99% of people who take notes get into heaven automatically. So today you might want to take some notes.

Lost soul is what we were calling today's message. Thank you, Fed. You're incredible.

Every year, for the last three years, I always start the year with this little trip that I call it, my wilderness week. And this actually began in 2020 when we were studying the gospel of Mark as a church.

And my wilderness week is sort of this time that I take a few guys away and we go out into a.k.a. the wilderness. Now when I say the wilderness, it's a state park. And the bathroom is not too far away. Praise God.

I'm from Miami. And it really was birthed out of a moment where I was wanting to go deeper into God's presence. And I was beginning to study things like spiritual practices, things like solitude, things like meditation, things like fasting.

Leave it to me, right? Like I invite people for my solitude trip. You know, that's totally me, right? Like that's when you know your next river. Hey, do you want to go and do solitude with me?

So every I've taken a few guys and we go out into Georgia and we do a wilderness week. And honestly, it's been one of the greatest.

One of the greatest things I've done for my soul for my soul, the days are very long. We started six in the morning and every hour is accounted for until we go to bed that night.

The days are filled with reading, prayer, silent solitude and a whole lot of hiking because we're getting our body into it. And every day we'll hike anywhere from 10 to 13 miles.

And day one this past year we were in Georgia and we had some new guys on the trip and we are kind of in the second half of our day.

And our first year going there, we discovered this waterfall. Now, I got to be careful as I say waterfall because I've come to figure out that it's not a real waterfall.

It's actually sewage water that falls over a little embankment. But, yo, I've never seen a waterfall. So I'm like, it's a waterfall.

And every year now, our third year going, it's sort of like one of these places that we love to go and like, let's go to the waterfall.

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