Welcome to the Jeff Kaven show where we talk about the Bible, discipleship and evangelization putting it all together and living as activated disciples.

This is show 307. One hour can change everything.

Well, thanks for joining me again and thinking about you. Just got back from Israel actually was my 60th pilgrimage, 60.

That is 60th pilgrimage to the Holy Land and every one of them is a retreat. It is a treat and it's an opportunity to really go walk with Jesus, right?

Where everything happened. It's a life transforming experience.

Well, I was thinking about a lot of different things over the last few days when I was in Israel and I wanted to share with you one of the things that was going on in my mind and I actually put into practice and I want to share it with you.

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Okay, so I was in Israel this last week and I started thinking about the condition that a lot of people are in and when they go on a retreat, you you hear about you hear people talking about how busy life has been and how stressful life has been and so forth.

And they've got a lot of things on their mind, but a pilgrimage gives you an opportunity to kind of slow down and put things into perspective.

And I was thinking about one discipline. It's dealing with an hour and you probably are guessing a holy hour. It's kind of but not not really. It is but not really and I'll share that with you.

It's something you can do in one hour that I have found literally changes everything. If I'm all stressed and I'm all caught up in the cares of this world and you know thinking about the future and so forth.

Emily will oftentimes tell me you need to go up and spend some time with the Lord and I'm like, yeah, well, you need to too, you know.

Be sure answer, right? What would Jesus say? Not, but I listen to her and I end up going up to church and everything changes. It's what you do in that hour that can make all the difference in the world.

So life can be busy. Life can be crazy. We live at the speed of thought oftentimes buried in technology and so forth. And I want to just give you a number of situations that you could find yourself in right now.

Maybe you are experiencing one of the following and if you are, then the prescription or what I'm going to give you in the show today may just be the ticket that you're looking for to deal with the stress and to deal with all that's going on in your heart.

Hey, all of us go through periods in our life that we could say is like a desert. You know, a year ago was so exciting and things were happening and so forth and all of a sudden you find yourself in kind of a dry, arid place.

And when we really look back on our life over the last year, so we can identify, we can identify attitudes and we can identify disciplines that got us into the situation that we're in.

So let me list off a number of situations that you could find yourself in one is you're going a hundred miles per hour life. It's the speed of thought. You're just you're waking up and you're just going and going and going and if you've got kids and sports and things like that, you know what I'm talking about life gets to be so busy, so busy.

So number one, going in a hundred miles an hour in life, number two, we get caught in ruts where we compare ourselves to other people.

And when we compare ourselves to other people, I'll tell you one thing we don't compare generally, that's virtue, that's holiness.

Very seldom will someone start comparing themselves, you know, and who's more patient that guy or me, but typically when you start comparing yourself with other people, be it at work or home.

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