Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters, where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Good morning, you guys. Good morning, indeed. We're picking back up with new morning mercies, and Tory's just going to take it from here.

Yes, y'all, let's do it. It says this

every day you need it you and I simply can't live without it. What is it? The

indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit.

I don't know where I was when the memo went out.

I'm not sure why I missed the discussion.

I can't explain why I had this miserable gap in my understanding of the Gospel.

I can't tell you why this item was missing in my theological outline,

but it was.

And the fact that it was missing made my Christian life pretty miserable.

Here was my functional theology of my life as a child of God.

I knew that by grace I had been granted God's forgiveness, and I knew that I had been granted God's forgiveness and I knew that I had been

graced with an all-inclusive past to eternity but I thought that between now and

then my job was just gut it out. It was my responsibility to identify sin, to cut

it out of my life, and to give myself to living in a much better, more biblical way.

I tried this. Trust me, I tried it and found it didn't work. I messed up again and again.

It seemed that I failed more times than I succeeded. I became more and more frustrated and

discouraged. It felt as if I had been drafted into a game that I had no ability to

play by someone who kept perfect score. I can remember the moment in college when it all came to a head.

It was six o'clock in the morning as I was having the devotions that I really didn't want to have

when I finally put my head down on my desk and

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