Hey guys, it's Peter here. I am so excited for you to listen to this week's podcast.

My deepest heart is that you actually are equipped to walk in the spirit. I believe the Word of God makes it so simple.

We put off our old man. We're renewed in the spirit of our mind, and we put on the new man, which was

created just like Jesus. And so, as you listen, let the word of God, let it cut away your old

man, let his spirit refresh and renew and soften your heart to the beauty and joy of walking

like Jesus in the spirit. Love you guys so much. Welcome to the Upper Room Dallas podcast.

Good morning. What an intro. Wow. Thank you.

All right. What I love about the upper room is by this point, we've already had church,

so it takes a lot of the pressure off delivering the word. Amen? Well, let's hop right into the word.

Go to Ephesians chapter four. We're going to pray. How many of you were here last week? week raise your hand just going to see a show of hands

okay just a okay about half of you awesome well we're going to we're going to recap uh i shared last

week about the unified purpose of the fivefold leadership of the church that we all have the same

goal and it's to mature

into Christ-likeness and we talked about the possibility the wonder the

amazement of that and so for those of you who weren't here I'm just gonna read a

few scriptures to start out and so I'm gonna we'll start in we'll start in John 1, but I'm going to pray for us as we

start. So, Father, we come to your word today as it is, which is your word. And we humble our

hearts, Lord, before verses that we've read, Lord, we ask today, Holy Spirit, that you would breathe upon your

words and that they would sharply cut away our flesh and sin and darkness and demonic strongholds.

Lord, your word is alive. It is sharp, it is active, and it divides between soul and spirit.

Lord, we thank you, God, for sanctification today. We thank you that your word is like a hammer that shatters the rock. Lord, that any stony

hard place in our hearts or in our minds, even in our bodies, any stubborn area of sin or

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