Howdy and welcome to the Breakaway Podcast. Thanks for listening. We're so excited to announce this year's Shalom Project.

This year we're turning our attention to four key needs in our world today.

Together we want to provide medical care for sex trafficking survivors in New England,

offer access to safe drinking water to the people of Liberia, build peace centers for children

subjected to the conflict in Sudan, and share the story of Jesus in the heart language of

unreached people groups in Central Asia. If you'd like more information on how to

be involved, visit our website at breakaway ministries.org slash Shalom. We hope

you'll consider partnering with us in the Shalom Project this year and enjoy the podcast.

Well it's great to be back with you guys this week.

We have been in the series that we're calling never been closer and the whole

thought behind the series is that this could be a semester where you say you know

what I've never been closer to Jesus this is by far without a doubt my best semester yet with Jesus.

And so I just want to make sure that we're all on the same page in terms of where we've been.

I've asked Breakaway Worship to kind of help me illustrate this but we started the

semester by talking about treasuring the word of God and treasuring the word of

God the word of God is in a sense like the drums of the band of your life.

It's what sits at the foundation, okay?

It's what provides the beat, okay?

You have to have engagement with the word of God at the foundation of your

relationship with Jesus Christ and then week two we talked about prioritizing

prayer and what prioritizing prayer does is it's kind of like the base.

What the base does is it kind of fills out the rhythm section.

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