March 11/D70: Hanging With The King (Ex. 24-27)

he wanted to be with his people.

And obviously, there's so many reasons

why he couldn't be specifically

because of what happened in the Garden of Eden.

Welcome to Rinse Reflect Repeat,

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Okay, so we are on

another day's podcast.

And today's podcast,

I am calling,

hanging with the King.

And I have a very special guest

on here today.

I want you guys to all welcome

Carrie Fabian.

She actually is a very good friend of mine.

And if you have gotten the devotional

so far and you've read the

acknowledgement section,

Carrie is listed in the

acknowledgement section.

And I wanted to have her come on

because today is a really cool day,

and you will see why she is on here.

We are on day 70 of

walking through the Bible.

If you're following the dates,

it's March 11th.

And today's morning rinse is

Exodus 24 through 27.

And you're going to read how the

Moses goes up to the mountain,

and he gets the instructions of the

tabernacle.

And so go ahead and read those

chapters and come on back.

And we're going to talk about the

featured verse.

Okay, so the featured verse is

Exodus 24 11,

yet he did not stretch out his hand

against the nobles of the

sons of Israel.

And they saw God and they ate

it.

So the first of the precursor,

we bought a house about eight

years ago now.

And when we purchased our house,

one of my favorite memories was

when we moved into our new house,

there was like all these neighborhood

kids.

They began showing up at our

front doorstep just to hang out

with our two teenage kids.

And it was amazing to us.

We had initially invited them over

to just shoot some basketball

and eat some s'mores and play

gaga ball.

I don't know if you guys have

ever played gaga ball.

This is a very trendy hand game

that's in this like makeshift

pit or so.

And once these like new found

friends became really comfortable

with us, they actually began to

show up at our house just unexpectedly.

They just to hang out and they

would knock on our door and they

would ask if my teenage kids were

around and they just came to

just hang out.

And that very first summer,

almost the entire summer

that first year,

it was like almost a nightly

event to wear the like

at least several of the kids

you know around the neighborhood

came over and there was always

these extra kids in our

home and sometimes sometimes

that number was all the way

to like 15 total kids just

hanging out and just having

a really good time and that

memory of those summer

you know, I mean, we had like

sweaty teens all in and out

of our kitchen grabbing

snacks and water and kids

giggling out in our patio

and our husband, you know,

grilling hot dogs and just

a lot of extra fun.

And I bring Carrie into this

because she can relate

from a natural standpoint

as well as a spiritual

standpoint where we're

going to go with today's

podcast because Carrie in

my opinion is like a

super chill parent.

I was like, I'm

no Carrie for a long

time and she's got

teenage kids and we've

done kind of life together

and her teenage kids kind

of model what my teenage

kids did back, you know,

where your teenage kids

also have friends

that come over and just

hang with you, right?

In my mind, I will

forever be grateful that our

home was a place of comfort

and peace for them to just

hang out.

And I view Carrie as that

kind of parent as well, like

her home.

I've never been there before,

but her home is just a place

of peace where, you know,

kids can come no matter what

they believe, no matter where

they're at in life.

Carrie is somebody who I

would want my kids to just

be able to hang out with.

So I bring all that to say

that God loves hanging out

with us in that same exact

manner.

He enjoys our company.

He is not this, like,

stern and gruff person

with this judge's

gable in his hand,

waiting to crack it down,

you know, on the sound block

to just pass judgment on us

for, you know, all of our

latest wrongdoing.

And so he literally enjoys

us, and that's how I view

Carrie's relationship with

God.

Like he enjoys us.

I mean, wouldn't you agree,

Carrie, I mean, you just...

Yes, absolutely.

Yeah, I feel that way,

even with my kids and their

friends, I know that there have

been times when they're,

if they have like a new

friend come over that's never

met my husband and I before.

And they always kind of think

that we're going to be, like,

you know, the parents that are

like, they're going to,

the kids are going to go

off and kind of hide in a

different room because the

parents are always...

And I'm being controlling

or stiff or...

I don't know really what it

is, but you know, that

teenage thing.

And then they'll find

themselves hanging out

with all of us.

And we're just comfortable

and we enjoy each other.

And we're just having fun.

And that's been a fun thing

to see.

I think that to see young people

just have a different perspective

of what it means to, like,

even though, obviously,

I am a parent and their

friends of my teenage

children.

Like, so there's, we're

on a, say, you can say

different level.

And yet we still very much

enjoy each other's company

and we can have just a nice

time, even while maintaining

that respect in those boundaries

and just doing nothing,

just hanging out and talking

or...

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, it kind of...

I like it too.

You come across in the

natural realm as really

enjoying your kids and

your kids as friends.

Like, God enjoys us,

just like that.

And he created us.

And, you know, another thing

is, as I was, as we had

moved into our new home,

and I was unpacking,

I found this, like,

old painting of my

daughters from when she was

really little.

I think she was a

kindergartener when...

And so I pulled it out

and I did some

decor revisions and I had

this picture framed

and I hung it up and

I just think too.

Like, in general,

we enjoy just like God enjoys

looking at us.

We also enjoy looking at

our creations,

whether that's paintings

or homemade decor

or those cookies that we make

for our guests.

God is no different.

He enjoys looking at us.

He enjoys being around us.

And so I was like,

thinking to myself,

can you imagine just sitting

with him and laughing and

eating and talking with him?

And this is what he wants.

And so in today's morning

rinse, God had brought

Moses, Aaron,

Nadab,

and Abihu,

along with,

I think there were 70

elders up into this mountain

to kind of hang with him.

And I know that he had

some barriers there

that they couldn't actually

go super close into him.

But he brought them up,

not to judge them,

but to be with them

and to give them the

instructions of the

tabernacle and he spent

time with them.

And he gave them those

detailed instructions for Moses

to build the tabernacle

so that he could dwell

amongst the rest of the people

because he wants to be with us.

And that was where that

whole story was,

along with it.

And I know that you've been

studying the tabernacle

and, you know,

some interesting things about it,

which I didn't even know that

you had been doing a deep dive

into the tabernacle.

So I've been telling,

until right before this meeting,

which is so cool.

But kind of tell us,

like what you have been

studying about, you know,

what was going on

with the building of the

tabernacle.

Yeah.

So I think what kind of

sent me on the deep dive again.

It's all scripture I've read

before.

But they, you know,

if you,

typically when you're

reading scripture,

you're kind of,

whether it's a book by book,

you, you know,

you're reading it left to right.

And all those events

don't happen back to back.

All of the, the tabernacle

and the temple.

There's obviously a,

a great amount of time

in between them.

And so I never started

to make the connection.

But there is,

there's ones that scripture

where, where God is instructing.

And he says to tell my people

to build this so that I can

dwell with them.

And I was really struck

with God's heart in that.

He wanted to be

with his people.

And obviously there's,

there's so many reasons

why he couldn't be,

specifically,

because of what happened

in the Garden of Eden.

Back in the Garden of Eden,

back in the Garden of Eden,

he, he had,

he was in direct communion

with Adam and Eve.

They, they were together.

And then when I started

to kind of look at the Garden

and the tabernacle,

and then the first and second temple,

I realized that the structure

of them was all very similar.

So in the Garden of Eden,

they were in the presence of God.

And then when Adam and Eve

sinned, they forever severed

that connection.

And left had to leave

the Garden of Eden

and left to the East.

And then at the East Gate,

where the,

their cherubim placed

there with a flaming sword

to guard the gate

from anyone re-entering the Garden.

And then looking at the instructions,

because the scripture is so specific

about the descriptions

of the tabernacle

and the temple and these things.

And the, the tabernacle,

then again, was instructed,

and God said,

to do this,

so that I can dwell with my people.

And the entrance

to the tabernacle

is from the East.

And then the holiest of holies

is all the way to the West,

and it's in the tabernacle,

which is guarded by cherubim.

They're a cherubim

that are sitting on the,

on the, on the arc

of the covenant.

And actually,

the curtain that separates

the holy,

the holy place

from the holy of holies

has cherubim woven into it.

So this,

very kind of like symbolic

of the cherubim

at the gate

or the entrance

to the presence of God,

which now in the tabernacle

is the arc of the covenant.

Because he says,

then I will,

I will speak to you

from above the arc.

So being in that holy of holies place.

And then the temple,

then later on,

that Solomon built,

was, was the same,

the gate face,

the East.

There were the cherubim

that their wings

have spread over the arc,

and they guarded the presence

of, of God.

And studying all of that,

but through all of that,

God was,

I mean, God is,

actually,

it's kind of silly,

but when I was reading

that scripture about,

like,

build this so that I can

dwell with my people,

and then seeing the actual,

like, size of the room.

And I'm,

and I'm thinking,

God is,

Almighty Creator,

omnipresent,

omniscient God, right?

And he's like,

you can just put me in this tiny little box,

like, right here in the temple

or in the tabernacle,

I'll just go in this little room,

and that's where you can talk to me,

and it may think of,

in Aladdin,

with the genie,

and now,

I'm not saying God's a genie,

by any means,

like,

is God the Highest

Creator,

then that.

But where he says,

like,

is itork is it like

phenomenal cosmic powers?

He knew he lived His faith in him

days,

you know,

when he's referring to how he has to live

in this tiny little land.

And I thought,

God was so desperate

to be with us

that He instructed the building

of this temple

and of the tabernacle

so that He could

be present with us.

And then to know now

with when Jesus came

of that separation of the Holy of Holies,

that veil being torn,

and we're no longer separated from God's presence.

No longer separated by, and from the cherubim,

we're no longer separated by the veil.

Now we get to have the Holy Spirit dwell within us.

And I think we take that for granted.

I don't think we realize just how special it is

that we can just hang out with God.

Like we don't have to go through the cleansing rituals

and all of the sacrifice and all of the things,

and quite frankly, if you weren't of the proper bloodline,

it didn't even matter.

You didn't even have the chance to enter the Holy of Holies.

Only if you were of the priestly line,

could you go into the Holy of Holies?

And I know I'm not, because I'm a Gentile.

So the fact that I can have and sit in God's presence

wherever I am with no free ceremonial type of things

I had to do, it just makes me so grateful,

so much more grateful than I ever was aware I should have been

before with Jesus and His sacrifice

and just the true significance of that.

But yeah, just learning to just,

and then it doesn't matter where you are.

Like that's a beautiful thing, is you can be anywhere

and you can be in God's presence.

And I don't have to go to some special spot.

I don't have to set up some special scenario.

God's presence is with me constantly.

And I know, it's just so beautiful.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, God is so cool that way.

I mean, when you look at all of the instructions,

he, like you are right, he was so detailed

with what he was looking for in the tabernacle.

I mean, in those instructions with,

you know, the bronze altar in the veil and the curtains

and, you know, just all of the things

that he was so detailed about

and yet how that Christ has revolutionized our ability

to just go right to Him and hang out with Him.

I don't know, it's so cool.

And I just liken that to how we on our earth

like hanging out with other people.

But yet God is so deeply wanting us to be with Him

so much so that He sent His Son.

I mean, we don't have to do all the things

that they had to do.

Those are some interesting observations

and really cool to hear your deep dive into the tabernacle

and how yet we can hang out with Him so easily.

Yeah, it just, it showed God's desperation for us,

the desperation to then be willing to be

in a small little room and then truly to understand

His desperation to sacrifice His only Son.

So that He could then dwell with us as He said

and now walk with us as His people.

And just God's love for us is just so, so great

that He's willing to take His huge incredible,

uncontainable self and contain a portion of Himself

in this small room and then after that

to then take again, a grand portion of Himself

which is His Son, a portion of the Trinity.

And again, sacrifice that so that we can just be in communion

with one another again, like in the garden.

It wows me that God loves us that much,

that He would just so deeply sacrifice of Himself.

I love how you are saying the word desperate.

It's like God is so desperate to just be with us.

That, you know, He comes into this little box

in the tabernacle, this little room,

I never thought of it that way,

that He is so desperate and He still is so desperate

to be with us wherever we are at.

And I guess the big question today is,

do are we that desperate?

Do we want to be with Him?

Do we long and have that hunger?

And, you know, if we don't, then we can ask God

for that hunger to be desperate and to want to be with Him

just as much if, you know, if He wants to be that desperate,

can we also be that desperate to hang out with Him?

So I think of it, you know,

the just kind of the hanging out with Him.

When you're gone on vacation and vacation is fun and exciting

and you're always like, yeah, I can't wait for vacation.

But then towards the end, you just start to feel like,

I just can't wait to be home.

Like there's not anything grand at home.

You know, there's no like surprises or excitement

or new things waiting for you at home.

But just you, you just long to be home.

And then that moment when you finally get home

and you get to sit wherever your comfortable spot is

in your house and you just finally like,

and you can just be at peace.

Like, is that how we feel when we finally allow

ourselves to tune into God?

Is that how we feel?

Like we have this built in longing in our souls

to be with God.

And I mean, we were created in His image.

So in His image, we have that desperation as well.

And if we can allow ourselves to recognize that

and to then just sit in His presence and breathe and relax

and to just settle, I just, I don't think we know

how to settle anymore, to just calm ourselves down

and just be present and not be constantly thinking

of what's next.

So that would be a really good challenge to dig deeper

with the people who are listening or watching

is that there's a lot of different ways

to hang with our Heavenly King.

Like a lot of different ways.

So some hang with Him by like meditating on scripture,

others hang with Him by conversing with Him as they drive.

Others love the peace that they feel

while they're in their church home.

But however anybody likes to hang with Jesus,

it's that effort of what people want to make every single day.

And so I like how you mentioned how that it's just,

I think we've forgotten how to just turn the other noise

off around us and just hang and chill

and just be with Him and to talk with Him and laugh with Him

and just hang with the King.

And do you have any other suggestions

that maybe somebody is listening here

and they are listened to us talking about how cool it is

to hang with the King.

And even though we don't have the tabernacle,

we don't have to have the tabernacle go right to Him.

And maybe somebody who's listening to this

or is watching online, they can't yet figure out

how to do that or maybe some other examples

of just hanging with Him.

Do you have any guidance or suggestions

or things that maybe you do that might help them

to relate to, oh, I can do that and still talk to God, you know?

I guess I would just for my own personal experience,

maybe encourage people to go counter

to what they think their personality is

or what their nature is.

So I am not a morning person.

Anybody that knows me well knows I'm not a morning person

when I get text from Anita like 4.30 in the morning.

I'm like, how are you awake right now?

I hope I don't hurt you up.

No, I see it later when I actually do wake up

that it came in at 4.30.

But I'm just, I'm not a morning person at all.

But I realized my desperation for time with God.

And so instead of trying to go into something

that was comfortable for me,

I tried to go the exact opposite.

And so I would wake up and I do regularly wake up

about an hour and a half earlier than I need to

to just sit in quiet time with God.

And sometimes I'm so tired I can't read

because if I read a fall asleep

and so recognizing your own limitations is also okay.

But then that just means I'm just sitting

and just it's like when you have that comfortable friend

where the silence is comfortable.

You know, you have the awkward silence

and the comfortable silence.

I just have my comfortable silence with God.

And sometimes I'm praying and talking with him.

And other times I'm just like, I have a big chair

and I curl up in it.

And in my mind, I'm just curling in my father's lap

like a little kid, I'm just crawling up in his lap.

And as you would with a father,

like I don't need him to necessarily

to tell me a story or to talk to me or do anything.

I just want to sit on his lap.

I just want to sit with him just to be with him.

But all that to say, like it is very counter to who I am

waking up that early.

But I found that it's changed everything for me.

It's changed my daily, my day in and day out

and the way I feel during the day,

the way I process things and spiritually,

mentally, emotionally, how I am.

It also then makes my actual morning routine so much easier

because then by the time I actually do have to start

getting ready, I'm ready.

So anyway, just to say like just maybe

if you get creative, if the things that you've tried

before haven't always worked,

maybe go counter to what you would expect would work well

for you and you might be surprised.

And then give it time.

That's the other thing is in the same way

that I was describing like home feeling comfortable

and relationships, relationships usually aren't

comfortable immediately.

You don't have the comfortable silence right away.

Sometimes it's awkward silence

and eventually it develops into comfortable silence.

And you know, when you first move,

that home isn't like, oh, home,

but after living there for a while,

it starts to become that.

So just also being patient in whatever the areas are

that you try, don't do that one time wake up early one time

or stay up late one time or find a corner spot one time

and be like, yeah, that didn't work for me.

That's like meeting somebody for the first time

and be like, oh, you know, we stopped talking

for five seconds and it was awkward

so we're not going to be friends.

Like being patient.

Being patient.

Yeah, and another thing too is that, you know,

hanging with the king and having those moments with God

can happen, you know, yes, we want that devotional time.

I know you read your devotional in the morning

and have your quiet time.

But then there's also, you know, throughout the day,

we can also hang with him and have those moments

of talking with him throughout the day.

It's like this conversation like you're talking about

the silence, but there's also as well when, you know,

when we're with that really great friend,

we can be real with them.

We can, you know, share as more of a conversation

and hanging with the king is like that as well.

We can hang with him and talk with him

throughout the day in various, you know,

whether you have a big chair and you're hanging out

with him at night or whenever it's like a,

he's with you all the time and hanging with him

is part of him, allowing him to do life with you

is kind of a way to describe it.

And also too, one of the things that you do that I love

is that when you go to, you know, film festivals or,

and by the way, if anybody doesn't know Carrie,

she's a fellow actress as well and helps with film

and stuff, so that's how I know Carrie.

But one of the things that you, you have done

and have made a habit of for years is when you go

to film festivals, you will take people's business cards

and you will bring them home.

And every day you pull out a different business card

and you pray for those people in the industry.

And that is in and of itself hanging with the king as well

because you're actually talking to God about this person

and if God's saying, I need for you to pray about this

if something comes into your spirit about praying

for that individual about that,

it's all part of the process as well.

Like we can have silence, we can have conversation,

we can pray for other people.

And I feel like I liken that, you know,

you do that on a regular basis.

I think daily you pray for people

from your business card bowl.

And, you know, like you said earlier, you know,

you don't have to go into the Holy of Holies,

you don't have to go into that little room

that was in the tabernacle,

we now can go directly to his throne

and climb up in his chair and talk to him right then.

So that's so cool.

Thank you, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

I guess it's funny as you were talking,

I was thinking like I have very intentional time every morning

and that's when I pray for all the people in the industry

and stuff like that.

But I guess I didn't think of, I mean, I do,

I hang out with that all day.

It's because it's in everything.

I don't maybe even really realize that I'm doing it.

I know that doesn't entirely make sense,

but I guess what I'm saying is in all things in life,

all day long, I might be walking through the grocery store

and see something and I'm talking to God about it.

Like I am regularly talking to God all day long.

Now generally I do most of the talking.

I guess that's just, I'm not, although I do try to listen

and usually it's when I don't realize I'm listening

that that's when God is able to speak to me.

But I just, it's so casual

and that almost feels wrong

because I am also very reverent of God,

but then that hanging with the king, as you say,

it is a very casual like throughout the day.

He's there all the time.

So whatever it is that's on my mind,

as you would with a good friend or a spouse or a family member,

like you're just regularly talking to the people

you love about the things that are interesting

or the things that have come up

or the things you're thinking about.

And that's what I do with God, date, like all day long.

I probably annoy him with as much as I talk to him.

I don't know, I doubt that.

I doubt that.

He probably chuckles once in a while.

I'm sure I'd say probably chuckles

with some of the things that I do too.

He probably chuckles, but I don't know.

I don't know.

But I think sometimes we do try to make it too much of a thing.

We do try to make it a bit more of that

the ceremonial washing before going into the holy of police.

And God's like sitting next to us like,

what are you doing?

Like I'm right here.

Just why, you can start talking to me already.

Like we're already here, we're already together.

Like you don't need to do a thing.

We don't need to make this into a big thing.

Like I was with you five minutes ago.

I'll be with you 30 minutes for now.

So, you might as well just talk.

Like, you know, I just, yeah, I do.

I think we just make it into a big deal.

And those best relationships, like the great friendships

that you can have is when it's not a big deal.

When you're just hanging out,

I sometimes will say to one of my kids

that they're hanging out with their friend,

like, what are you guys doing?

And they're like, hmm, we're just hanging out.

Do you want me to plan something?

They're just hanging.

And they haven't made plans because they don't need to.

They're just there together and that's enough.

That is so cool.

I like just how you also reiterated that it's all day long

in everything that we do.

We're really hanging with God, hanging with the King,

going to the store together,

talking to him about stuff in the store.

Whatever it is, we're already doing that.

And he wants to continue that with us.

He wants to not make it such a big deal, right?

But I do like that there's intentional times

that we spend in our devotion time

and in our times with him,

whether it's reading the Bible through in a year

or whatever you're doing, that intentional time

is there, but then also too,

we hang with him throughout the rest of the day.

So I like those examples.

And I like what you brought about the details

of the tabernacle and just some of the things

that we're reading in Exodus right now

with all of the details that are lined up,

God's so specific.

And he's a detailed God, you know?

He's not got a chaos.

And I think it just spoke to me about his heart so much.

When I was seeing like, when he detailed the tabernacle

and he detailed the temple,

you could see his heart longing for the garden.

Like, I feel like maybe that I'm being a bit presumptuous

maybe like to assume I know what's got,

what is God's heart in that.

But it's just, you know, when you start to see,

you can see people's thoughts and their longings

in the things that they're doing

and in the actions and stuff like that.

And I just felt like in the way God set up the temple

and the tabernacle, he just, it's so mirrored

when he used to be in direct communion with Adam and he's

and that longing to return to that

in whatever way he could figure out to,

and I mean, and we were so good as humans

to screwing it up basically every time

that he kept having to get creative and,

but like, he just kept like that longing

to return to that space was just,

it just, it meant so much to me to just know that he just,

he just loves us that much that he just wants to be with us

and so much of what he's done through time.

And you know, the tabernacle was created to be mobile

because they were wandering.

And so he, so that was his way of like,

I'm wandering with you.

Like, you take me with you.

Don't build a temple or, you know, like sometimes

they would like build an altar of stones

and then like, because this is where God had a thing

and then they leave it.

He was like, you know, this, you're building this thing

and we're going along together.

Like, I'm coming with you.

And then when they finally had this

the permanent space for Solomon to then build the temple,

then it was a more permanent space

for that promise fulfilled and so on.

Anyway, yeah, it's just, God is so cool

because, you know, how, like what you were saying,

how that it was, he was wanting,

he's like, I'm wandering with you.

Take me with you.

And how relevant that is in our lives today is he,

he's like, take me with you on your life's journey.

Don't leave me back.

You know, if you're looking for a new job,

I want to go with you into that interview.

I want to go with you in that decision.

Like, I'm coming with you.

Whatever you are doing, I'm wandering with you.

That is so cool.

I love that.

So it's hanging with the king or wandering with the king.

What the hell is going on with the king or singing it?

Whatever it is.

However, we're hanging with the king, that's so cool.

I think sometimes people think that their Bible,

like that this is where God's presence is

or in wherever it is that they go to church

on Sunday morning.

So that like they set down their Bible, say they're really good

and they do their morning devotion

and they're evening devotion, whatever.

They set down their Bible and like, that's where God stays.

He's just, that's his presence

and I'm going to go walk away from it.

And God's like, yeah, no, that's just my word.

I'm walking with you.

We can return back to that.

But that's not like God doesn't live in this book.

He lives here.

And he doesn't live in that church building.

He lives here because we are the church.

That's just a building.

And like with our church family,

we are very intentional that like when we say we're going,

we always say we're going to the building on the like

instead of a lot of people will say on Sunday morning,

like, oh, I've got to go over to the church

and we're very intentional about saying to the building.

That's what we call it.

I mean, I guess other churches will call it the tabernacle

or whatever they have their own names for it.

But just and I know it's a mantix,

but just to be specific to say like we are the church,

we are where God's presence is.

That is just a building where we all kind of collect

on a regular basis.

But that's that.

So God isn't stuck in that building.

Like I always want to put him in these little

holy of holies places, right?

And I'm like, no, I'm done with that.

Yeah, yeah, I could be done with that.

We're not we're not doing that little box anymore.

We're not doing that.

Yeah.

So that's a really good challenge for people

who are watching or listening,

you know, all of these examples and all of the ways

that we've been talking about how to hang with the king

and just really trying to gather or grasp

a little bit of his heart to want to hang with them.

So, you know, that challenge of whoever is watching

or listening, how can they be challenged

to really change the perspective of God's not in the book,

but we're here and God's in our hearts.

And how am I going to, you know,

feel like I'm hanging with the king.

And so when people pull out their journal tonight

or when they're reflecting on their day,

I want people to write down what they did today

to hang with God.

Did they solidify kind of what was in their hearts?

Like, am I really close to God when I'm talking to him?

You know, maybe people were listening to this

and they didn't realize that they were actually

hanging with the king when they were talking to God

or maybe they just are wanting a little bit more

of a confirmation that they are close to God

when they're talking.

So I'm wanting people to pull out their journal

and just write down today, like what did I do today

to hang with God or was it a really cool observation

that I actually am hanging with God when I'm doing this?

Like, just something that makes them feel empowered

to go to God and makes them feel like, you know,

hey, I'm on the right path in my hanging out

with the king kind of a thing.

And so I'm really feeling good and confident and loved

and like God's really wanting to be with me.

And so just having people write down in their journal

something that maybe struck this conversation

and make them think a little bit more about that

and just give them a boost and umph that yes,

I'm on the right track.

And yes, I am hanging with the king

or this is what I did or I did this, you know,

even a little bit more.

Just something that will encourage people

as they're listening to what you have to say,

Carrie and, you know, hearing that God really does

want to hang with us.

Yeah, so he is desperate for it.

So is there anything else that you that comes to mind

that you wanted to add as we're closing out this?

Yeah, just encouraging that and something that I try to do

just to increase my awareness, you know,

we can kind of just go into that like autopilot

and to just be more aware of the fact

that God is with us all the time

and to take advantage of that a little bit more

in communicating with him throughout the day

to not just be stuck on autopilot

but to be really present in every moment

and talk with your creator, hang with the king,

he's with you all day long.

So just be present, be aware and again, be patient

because sometimes it takes a while to develop that

and even just the ability to develop an awareness

can take time.

So be patient with yourself and forgiving

with yourself.

It's not something that you have to nail

and be perfect at every day.

Again, as relationships go,

some days we do really great in our relationships

and some days we kind of mess up

and we need to ask for forgiveness

or just work to be better the next day

and God is full of grace and forgiveness for us

and so we don't need to be perfect in it.

So just be patient.

No, no.

See you guys if you're listening

or if you're watching online, you know now

why I love to carry so much

and love me and just getting a little bit of an insight.

She's such a great soul.

So I hope that today encouraged you guys

as we were talking about the dynamics of hanging with the king

and I hope and I know carry hopes

that you guys are encouraged

and you can be intentional or aware

of your conversations with God and hanging with him.

So thank you all for coming.

Thank you, Carrie, for coming.

And until tomorrow, keep rinsing, reflecting and repeating.