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Episode [72]: [Hanging With The King]
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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,
the daily podcast inspired by my
action-driven devotional and guide
to reading the Bible through in a year,
alphabetically.
I'm Anita Cordell, and each day
we'll walk through the Bible,
discovering how even books
like Leviticus and Numbers
speak to our daily lives.
These short devotions are here
to cleanse our hearts and transform
our perspectives.
So, grab your Bible,
open your heart,
and let's journey through the living
water together.
It's time to rinse, reflect,
and repeat.
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.

Rinse, Reflect, Repeat 365 Alphabetical Bible Devotional w/ Anita Cordell

Rinse, Reflect, Repeat 365 Alphabetical Bible Devotional w/ Anita Cordell

Rinse, Reflect, Repeat 365 Alphabetical Bible Devotional w/ Anita Cordell
