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I love to listen to great communicators take Scripture and make it so tangible, practical and applicable. I've been listening to a series by Greg Boyd called "Undivided" and have been really impacted by it so I called and requested a booklet that they wrote to go along with the series and it's full of spiritual exercises to help drive the truth a bit deeper.

Honestly, I haven't gotten past the first exercise. The Scriptures speak of tending our hearts because that's where our life flows from. Greg says that he gets up every morning and just stays in bed, quiet, asking the Spirit of God to search his heart and show him where he's got hang ups and where he needs to be more intentional about tending to his heart. He talks about how he has to do it before he gets out of bed because after that it's really hard to quiet thoughts to hear God speak. So I've been trying to do the same over the last couple of weeks. The issues that God has been revealing in my heart over the last ten days or so have just been amazing. He's shown me things that have been extremely eye opening and have really brought me closer to Him and to others.

I had the opportunity to lead worship on Sunday at Oakbrook Church where we are in an awesome community of Christ-followers and I led "guitar-free" for the first time in a long time. I had so many people comment that I seemed to really be connected with the Spirit and that they had been drawn so much more deeply into the worship time than normal. Some commented that maybe it was because I didn't have my guitar and was more free to move about, but I believe that God was and is doing something inside of me that is hopefully even palpable to those around me. There's been some things that I haven't liked seeing in myself over the last several days as God does His work, but as I listen to His voice in the mornings, I know I'm being made new and slowly being made more like the one I claim to shadow.