Ep.25 Producer's Pick: 'Building My Relationship With Jesus'

Producer’s Pick is a bonus episode. In it we dissect the line of a movie, song, quote, social media post, Scripture, or topic you suggest.

Episode Summary

Today's episode was suggested by Lisa, one of our listeners. Over the past few weeks our episodes have had a common thread. My guests and I have said repeatedly that our ability to live successfully in our singleness and to make wise decisions will depend heavily on our relationship with God. Lisa wanted to know how to build this relationship. specifically, she wanted to understand what it means to abide in Him as His Words abide in us (John 15:7). Golda and Doneilia help us to break down John 15:7. They explain the importance of  character development in building a relationship with Jesus, and why it's important to spend time with Him every day, all day.

Key Takeaways

• John 15:7 is about God becoming an integral part of our lives (2:46)
• As  we abide in Him, we will learn to pray according to His will and He  will respond because it is in line with what He wants (5:01)
• Abiding  is not just about speaking in tongues, seeing people fall over, long  prayers, although those are necessary sometimes. It's about intimacy and  consistency. (10:51)
• We're  not able to access the secret place because we have not decided to lay  aside whatever is hindering us from going into the secret place (12:13)
• Before  we get to Word, prayer, singing and so on, we need to deal with our  character, our heart posture and get rid of the bad habits and behaviors  (13:00)
• Religion  has taught us that we need to pray for an extended period of time and  in a particular way...we need to unlearn that (26:30)

Top Quotes

• Everything  pertaining to your life must happen in Christ, you're gonna stay in  him, you're gonna eat, you're gonna sleep, you're going to do every  single thing (3:07)
• You are never always in right standing with God. You are never always perfect
  and always holy (8:56)
• Because  of that desire to always want to be, always want to be in His presence,  it's almost like whatever I got yesterday is not good enough. Whatever I  got last week is not good enough. I'm always for more (10:21)
• There  is something that you have to do to get to that place where you're not  standing (just) outside the outer court waving to Jesus (11:59)
• Inconsistency  is going to build a gap. It's going to bring forth a gap between me and  God. It's going to separate me from the intimacy (14:08)
• When  you start doing these little snippets of prayer over and over  communicating with God it pushes you to say this five minute thing with  Jesus cannot work and it pushes you now to the point to say Jesus wake  me up 3:00AM (22:44)

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