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July 20, 2023

Why Do We Pray

Why Do We Pray
Why Do We Pray
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Why Do We Pray

I was inspired to share the beauty of prayer with you, for those who wonder why we pray. Prayer is a superfood for man's spirit as the Spirit of God seeks to make contact with even his mortal beings of time and space.

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Welcome to yet another edition
of the Rancho Radio Podcast.

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You know, we're heading into
August soon, and August is a

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particularly exciting month
because it's the month of

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Jesus's birthday, according to
the Rancho Papers.

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And so we'll probably spend some
time over the next couple of

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podcasts exploring some
interesting parts of Jesus's

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life.
And I hope that that's okay I

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haven't really delved into.
But there's so much to his life

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that's just so enjoyable to
retell.

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And I'll enjoy doing that for
you, but this time up, we're

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going to talk about something
that's very important, something

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that is vital to the human
spirit.

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We're going to talk about prayer
and what it means in just a

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moment.
I've been thinking about the

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Great Migration, noon and night.
They leave the flock and I

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imagine their destination.
Meadow grass, jagged rock.

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The Lord is my engineer.
The Lord is the earth I ran on.

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The Lord is the face in the
atmosphere, the path I slipping,

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I slide on.
All right.

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Welcome to the Rancho Radio
Podcast.

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My name is Jim Watkins and I'm
here to godspeak you.

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How do you pray?
How do you pray?

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You close your eyes and put your
hands together and get on your

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knees.
And then what?

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And then you open your heart.
That's how you were taught to

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pray.
That's how most of us have

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learned to pray, and it's
probably the most appropriate

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way for people to pray.
The vast gulf and distance

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between the Supreme Creator and
you is almost inconceivable.

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And yet, because He has His
spirit fragment in you, you can

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place the call.
It's a it's always a collect

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call and he always pays and it's
an open line.

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You know, they're a good friend
of mine turned me on to this old

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teacher of the ranch book, Bill
Sadler.

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And he said something remarkable
one day that I just, I just,

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it's stuck in my mind for a
couple of weeks.

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He says, you know I'm a little
bit.

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What was the word he used?
It was a great word.

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You don't hear the word very
often, but it's a good word.

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I was a little bit Askew or
something like that.

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I think I have it here.
I'd have to find it.

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But anyway, it's he says I.
If I go to God directly, he's

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he's got a big universe to run.
But his spirit fragment, he's

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got all the time in the world
for me.

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And he's right because that that
spirit fragment lives inside of

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you.
And think of it as an we have

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this machine in radio, it's
called a skimmer.

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And what the skimmer does is
it's constantly recording and

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then when it's done with the
recording, it stops, it files it

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away and then it starts a new
recording.

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Well, in many ways the thought
adjuster that is talked about in

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the Ranch book.
Is like a skimmer because it's

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constantly taking in your life,
my life, our life experiences,

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and it is spiritizing your life.
It's taking all of your

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experiences and somehow
spiritizing them, pulling out

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from those experiences, the
spiritual value of that

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experience, someone you love.
A relationship that you have

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with your children, or a good
friend, or maybe it's some task

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that you're having to deal with
at hand, and you're you're

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determined to do the task in the
best possible way.

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And so that experience becomes
spiritized and held in sacred

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trust by the spirit fragment.
And you say, well, why would God

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want to do that?
See, that is the whole point.

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Because see I say this, I say
it.

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I understand it.
Maybe other people don't.

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God is existentially perfect.
There was never a time in time

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when God the Father was not
perfect.

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He was.
He is existentially eternally

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perfect.
There is nothing outside of God,

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and so even still.
God said there has to be

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something more than just
existential perfection.

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I'm perfect, but what about the
experience?

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How can I achieve experiential
knowledge, wisdom to the fullest

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possible extent?
Certainly God knows everything.

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He's omnipresent, He's omnisent,
but he lacks one thing,

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experience.
Living experience and the

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relationship with the other.
Because when two people have the

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same experience, that's a whole
new set of reality.

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When the when the Father created
the eternal Son in that

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existential moment and then the
conjoint actor came into being

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because the conjoint actor was
necessary in order for these two

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personalities now to
communicate.

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That said, everything else in
motion.

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In fact, it was such a powerful
event.

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Such a powerful event.
The third source and center

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uniting the first and second
sources of center or deity, and

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that became the Trinity.
The Trinity was activated and

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whoo what comes into existence,
Havona and it's 1 billion

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perfect spheres that encircle
the Isle of Paradise, the

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residential home.
Of the Trinity and God the

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Father.
And then subsequent to that

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comes into formation the seven
super universes.

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And that's where the magic
begins.

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That's where the chefs start to
create their stews and the

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different sections of the
Galaxy, the known universe, the

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known living universe, the first
stage of super universe

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creation.
And we are on the outskirts of

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the seventh of those seven
universes.

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This is all spoken of in the
Ranch book and beautifully

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illustrated.
What is the spiritual value that

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comes from having this
knowledge?

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Whoa, look at how we went from
14 billion years that the

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universe was old, estimated to
be this week they announced what

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we made.
A little bit of a mistake.

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Turns out that the universe is
actually 26 point something

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years billion years old. 26 is
just from 14, which was already

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a pretty big number to 26
billion.

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You know why?
Because they discovered an

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earlier universe that predated
our current universe and it's so

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far away and so huge it could
not have existed 14.

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It would have required much more
time for this universe to not

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only get to where it is in its
distance from us, but to be that

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size.
So they're speculating now that

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time was somehow different back
in the day, and they're stuck on

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The Big Bang.
And they don't understand that

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the universe is circular.
It's Infinity.

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It's a giant wheel.
If you look at an atom, if you

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look at a, you know, a neutron.
What's spinning around it,

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right?
Proton and electron.

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It circles around, circles
around, and you get the

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molecules and what circles
around them and then everything

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circles around each other.
In terms of matter, you've got a

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solar system, just like you have
electrons and protons and they

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circle and they have this force,
You know, space is not empty.

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In fact, the further they they
delve down into the microscopic,

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the more they realize there's
just more empty space.

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You know, you have Sufis and
people who are enlightened and

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they'll tell you, you know you
we're all connected by molecules

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and energy.
There's energy that flows

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between us.
You ever have somebody walk into

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a room or you get into a
conversation with them on the

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phone and there's just sort of
an energy that you feel from

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them, either good or negative.
The universe is energy, but it's

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energy put into motion and it's
directed by mind.

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And it's out evaluated by
spirit.

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Spirit is the flavor.
It is the value assessment of

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the mind, recognition of its
environment.

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So when we pray, what are we
doing?

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We're making the connection
between you out here and God.

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Who's over here?
And that spirit connection that

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bridges the Gulf, it's like
Bluetooth.

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I say, you know, it is a lot
like Bluetooth.

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The way that your headphones
will connect to your device, the

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device is God and it's
connecting.

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The device is looking for those,
those spirit fragments that are

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out there that are born into all
the worlds of evolutionary life.

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And he is personally
knowledgeable of every living,

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every living thing.
The Son knows everything that's

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going on.
The son is actually our father's

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son, the eldest in the family
and the conjoined actor.

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The Spirit knows all too,
because the Spirit is the

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conduit by which God's fragment
can can exist.

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And coordinate the two
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The two personalities, God's
personality and your

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personality, are bridged by the
spirit fragment.

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In fact, it's the only thing
that makes it possible for us to

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escape materialist the fetters
of materialism.

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It's one of my favorite words,
the fetters of materialism.

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Because we are in a body, we we
are housed in a body.

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Our body is our arms, our legs,
our heart.

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Our beating heart never stops
beating.

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And yet we have a mind that
moves in reality.

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It moves in the environment and
it has choice to go left or

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right, forward or backwards.
It makes decisions every single

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day.
We feed our body so that our

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mind can continue on.
We actually.

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Give energy to our mind to
continue to make decisions, to

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have relationships, to think
about new things, to discover

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new truths.
Our mind is is super material.

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And then there's above the mind,
the spirit, the spirit, the

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spirit energy.
And you as a mind have a choice

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between following and working
with that spirit energy.

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Making good choices.
Whenever you do a good thing,

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you are doing something that is
spirit driven.

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When you decide you want to feed
someone who's homeless or you

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want to take on an active cause,
it is the spirit that drives

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you.
Because that spirit is God.

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God is only good, only loving,
only merciful.

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So anything that replicates
that.

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Personality trait of God is
representative of that

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personality trait of God.
When we pray, we seek connection

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with that God.
We seek connection with our

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destiny and our source for
personality.

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And that's what I'll leave you
with today.

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So whatever the method that you
use in order to reach out to the

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Divine Father or His Son is
perfectly acceptable.

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As long as your heart and your
mind are truly desirous of

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making that connection, you're
not doing what with preconceived

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words or a rehearsed prayer that
was taught to you when you were

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young.
Now those things may get you

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into that space, but ultimately
it's in your heart, in your mind

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and your will, that connects
with God, your thoughts, and He

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hears every supplication.
He may not answer.

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In a hard time frame.
But if your prayers and

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petitions are sincere, the
universe will respond, God will

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respond, and God is the Father
and the source of the universe.

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So we work in tangent with this
great creation to bring about

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the eventual evolution of the
Supreme Being, where we all play

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a part in getting God to that.
Experiential level of supremacy.

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Not just so that he is
existentially perfect, but by

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becoming experientially
finalized.

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And then comes the next stage of
adventure, and I'll share that

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with you.
There's a whole plan.

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There's a plan that takes you
far into the future, and I'm

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going to share that plan with
you, as I try to do on this

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podcast all the time.
So we took a departure today,

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and I wanted to just summarize
the importance of having God in

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your life.
And I I hope that I have

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achieved that.
I don't do it often, but

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recently there were changes made
in my life that have given me a

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little extra time for for
thinking and doing the things

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that I love.
And one of the things I love is

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talking about the Iranji book.
So I thank you for listening.

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And I'll look forward to our
next conversation.

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And if you have any questions or
comments or request, we not only

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have a listener line, which is
941-800-2937, that's again

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941-800-2937 where you can leave
a comment or a question.

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But you've always been able to
e-mail me your Rancho book,

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radio@gmail.com.
Until next time, thank you for

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stopping by.
And God bless.

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