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This is your daily reminder. God has not run

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out of mercy, not for you, not today. Welcome

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to the New Mercies Podcast. Welcome to the New

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Mercies Podcast. Maybe you have been a listener

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before. Maybe you've listened to one of the 400

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episodes that are already out there. But we've

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changed a little bit. It looks a little different

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than before. Maybe you're watching on YouTube

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for the first time. Maybe you are listening on

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one of the many podcast streaming platforms.

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But here's the deal. We are going to relaunch

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this as a daily podcast again so that we understand

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Scripture matters. And we need a little bit of

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Scripture every single day. The more we get,

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the better off we are. So this first episode

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back, I want to give you the full explanation

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of why this is a scripture -based podcast that

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is coming to you every single day. Listen to

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what it says in 2 Timothy 3, beginning at verse

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16. All scripture is breathed out by God and

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profitable for teaching, for reproof. for correction

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and for the training in righteousness. Verse

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17, that the man of God may be complete, equipped

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for every good work. I cannot help but think

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what would we do if when we picked up the Bible

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every day, it was no longer just a book of instruction

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to us. It was no longer a textbook. It is the

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very breath of God. When we open it, God breathes

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on us. When we read the scripture, it's God's

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breath coming out of it. It wasn't just given

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to us by God. It was breathed out by God. It's

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active. As scripture says over and over again,

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it's sharper than any two -edged sword. It's

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alive and active. And sometimes we... miss out

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because we don't wait for the breath. You can't

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rush breath. You can receive it. That's what

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happens. So we need to look through scripture.

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I want to give you a little example out of Ezekiel

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chapter 37. When I open the Bible, I wonder sometimes

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how is it we can read this book and And it come

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out dry. It feel dry. Our relationship not change.

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Our faith not grow. Our faith not deepen in the

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Lord. And I realize it's because we're kind of

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like the Valley of Dry Bones. Now, that was a

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prophetic thing that happened that I believe

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was pointing to the future. But I think we can

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also get an application from it. Because the

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bones stood up. Ezekiel was in a valley, right?

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He was not on a battlefield ready to take over

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something. He wasn't in a garden. He was in a

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graveyard. A bunch of bones everywhere. The prophecy

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takes out in Ezekiel 37, and we begin to watch

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as he is speaking to the bones, and the bones

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begin to shake and rattle whenever the prophetic

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word comes, and they join together. The word

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brings together that which was once broken apart.

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But then the army is standing there in front

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of him, and God says, can these bones live? And

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Ezekiel saying, well, God only you know. You're

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the only one that knows. And then he says, prophesy

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to the breath. And when breath comes in, it's

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a living army. The breath brought life. That's

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what brought the army to life. It was the breath.

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As I look through Scripture over and over again,

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I can't help but think, if Scripture is God -breathed,

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maybe we're wondering why we don't feel like

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we're alive. It's because we're not letting the

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breath come into us. I look through the scripture

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again and I see Jesus showing up in the New Testament,

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in the Gospels. Jesus is the Word, right? John

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chapter 1, the Word was with God, the Word was

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God. Jesus is the Word. Well, what does Jesus

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do after he dies and raises from the dead? Listen

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to what it says in the book of John chapter 20,

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verse 22. And when he had said this, he breathed

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on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

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This is Jesus with his disciples in the room

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after he's conquered death, and he breathes on

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them. That word is important. That word is only

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used one other place, and it's when God breathed

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into the first Adam. Remember, God made Adam,

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and then he was just a lifeless being until the

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breath of God entered him. Then he was made alive.

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Here Jesus is in this room after he's conquered

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death, hell, and the grave and all of it, and

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he breathes on his disciples. Why does he do

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it? A few verses later, down in verses number

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30 and 31, it says, Believing in him so that

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you have life in his name. That's why Jesus breathed

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into them. That's why he breathed on them. He

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breathed out and said, Receive the Holy Spirit.

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Why? Because you receive breath. That's what

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you do. We open the word every day. And here's

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the problem. We skim and we scroll and we move

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past it too quickly. And we end up not waiting

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on the breath. We end up not waiting. And then

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we wonder why we have no life. We have no excitement.

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We have no thrill anymore. This, let me just

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go ahead and tell you, every day you're going

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to get a podcast episode from me. And this is

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not a podcast that's built on a commentary. I'm

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not trying to get into the depths of Scripture

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and help us understand little minute details.

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I'm not trying to give you just content every

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single day. What I'm trying to do is I'm trying

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to open the Scripture daily and wait on the breath.

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That's what I want for us. That's what I want

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for us more than anything else. Whether you're

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a member of the church that I pastor or whether

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you are just a person in the body of Christ,

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let's wait on the breath. Revival doesn't start

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whenever everybody feels good in the room. Revival

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begins whenever there's breath that enters. And

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the breath enters when the Word is proclaimed.

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It's not a feeling that we get. It's the Word.

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If you're in the Word, that's where revival will

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happen. That's where revival starts. That's where

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we need to go first and foremost. If Scripture

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has ever felt distant to you, if it's not because

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God is not speaking, It's because we're Russian.

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It's because we're not allowing the scripture

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to breathe into us. It's God's breath. He didn't

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stop speaking. He's still speaking. Open the

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word, wait and watch and see what lives again.

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Because see, here's the deal. The Bible is not

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just a book we read. It is a moment where God

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is breathing and something in you or something

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in me refuses to stay dead. Let's wait on the

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breath.