Howdy and welcome to the Breakaway podcast. Thanks for listening.

Breakaway is a Bible study recorded on the campus of Texas A&M University.

Today's message is from Breakway's executive director, Timothy Ateak.

We hope you enjoy the message. Well, howdy? Well, howdy?

All right. All right. Hey, we've? All right.

Hey, we've missed you guys.

I hope they had a great Christmas break.

Happy 2020.

We are so excited about what God wants to do this semester.

I want to start just by simply asking you a question. I want you to think,

when was the time in your life where you were closest to Jesus Christ? Just think about that.

Is there a time in your life? Is there a particular season or a particular place or an event in your

life that you can look back and just say, yeah, that was the time in my life where I would say,

hands down, without a doubt, I was by far the closest

with Jesus that I've ever been.

Like for me, I think back, anytime I think about

when was I closest to Jesus, my mind automatically

goes back to two years after college when I was in Israel for about three and a half weeks

because my life was just at a low point.

So I went over to Israel to stay with some family.

And while I was there, it really felt like it was just God and me.

And so at night I would just open up the Word of God

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