You're listening to Baud my name is Kirby Minnick and welcome to the

Bot and Beloved Podcast. I'm so happy that you decide to join me here today,

that you're ready to get a good word from the word.

It's going to be, it's going to be pretty great.

Now, today's word, I'm actually really excited to share this one

because I just got back from a huge circuit of speaking. In case you don't know, not only do I host this

podcast, but I have a YouTube channel, an Instagram account, Twitter, Tik-Tok, you can look that up,

it's Kirby as a boss but I also do preaching and

speaking and God has just been so gracious to me to allow me to step into that

field something I'm passionate about something that I love I love to communicate clearly

that's why I have so many different platforms and in mediums and ways to communicate the

gospel but I had the honor and privilege of being able to preach up in New Jersey.

Hey, yo, I grew up there, I lived there for like seven years out of my life, and I loved it. I love that I got to go there.

But the reason why I say all of this is one, my voice is basically gone.

So you're going to just have to bear with me with that. But two, I was thinking about what I wanted to make a podcast about this week and honestly this word that I'm about to share with you guys is a word that I prepared for that conference.

It was the How to Life Conference, their international retreat. It was my third year speaking there. I love them. They're amazing. As I was sharing this word, I realized, wow, like this is good practical biblical truth that not only do the

students here need to know but this is information that I believe everyone

needs to know not just the baby Christian but even someone who's like really deep in their

faith. The topic that I spoke on was about what it meant to make Jesus the Lord of your life.

And that sounds really simple, right? I think as Christians, especially those of us who are Christians, we hear that and we're like, oh my gosh,

Christianese, I totally know what that means. But the reality is that making Jesus the Lord of your life is not just naming it and claiming it, right?

It's not just, it's not just Romans 10-9 where you confess and you believe that Jesus is Lord no it is it is choosing to

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