Okay, so suddenly you have 12 minutes free in your day.
What are you gonna do?
How are you gonna spend it?
Are you gonna check social media?
Are you gonna call a friend?
Maybe grab something at the fridge?
If you're a girl, fix your makeup, I don't know.
It doesn't seem like there's a whole lot
you can do in 12 minutes, right?
I mean, there's 1,440 minutes in a 24-hour time period,
so 12 minutes of that is 8%,
or 0.0083333333 going on to eternity.
I just love that eight represents eternity
and 333 represents completion,
fullness and resurrection, actually.
Well, did you know that actually
that 8% of your day can result in long-term,
eternal benefits in your life?
Because here's the beautiful thing.
In as little as 12 minutes a day,
if you meditate on a good God,
you can change neural pathways in your brain.
That's the interior singulate cortex of your brain.
This is part of your brain
that has to do with your decision-making,
at least they believe so, and your free will.
It kind of resides right in between
your left and your right brain,
and you form these new neural pathway connections.
But when you form neural pathway connections,
they don't always last,
so you have to do it over and over again,
which is why we say 12 minutes a day, right?
And it's kind of like, when you go on a hike
and you look and you see a path that's already,
is a well-worn, traveled path,
it's like lots of people have been there before,
you want to take that one, right?
Because you know it's tried and true.
That's what our brain does.
So we need to form these new pathways
that have the possibility of sticking.
Well, good news, there's something else we can do
that will help that pathway to stick and to stay.
So not only do we meditate on a good God,
but we put it together with another activity.
There's something called the Hebean principle,
and it says this, neurons that fire together,
wire together, they make them stickier.
So we take two activities that have the ability
to change your neural pathways and we put them together.
So contemplating a good God is one of those.
And music, that's another one.
You put those two together, huh, sounds like worship.
Well, in this case, it's a very intentional kind of worship
because we're actually meditating on that good God,
contemplating who he is, the fastest of who he is.
And by the way, did you know that contemplating
an angry vengeful God can result
in negative neural pathways?
Yeah, we're not doing that.
We're meditating on who God really is.
He's a good God, he's a vast God,
but he's also the same God who designed you,
who created you, who wants to have a relationship with you.
That's so crazy.
So we look at the vastness of who he is
and we contemplate him through music.
And then suddenly those pathways become stickier.
We're able to go down to them so much easier.
So the next time that you are caught up
in that same negative way of thinking,
that maybe something triggers you and you get angry,
you get frustrated, you get worried,
and maybe you get caught in fear,
or maybe you run to the refrigerator, whatever it is,
you actually now start to go down a new pathway.
The pathway reminds you not just who God is,
but how he feels about you.
And it gives you the ability to change your thinking
and change your path because did you know
the Bible says that as a man, as a woman thinks,
so he or she is.
That is crazy.
The way we think is who we are.
Yeah, so we better get ahold of our thoughts
because God wants to transform your thinking,
he wants to transform your lives,
he wants to transform you into the people,
the person that he knows you're meant to be,
that he created you to be.
So when we do this, when we worship a good God,
when we meditate on him in just 12 minutes a day,
we are partnering with him to experience
that transformation that he has for you.
So I can't wait for you to go on this journey with us,
we're gonna do this.
This is the thing, we are going to,
at least three days a week,
we are going to worship with God,
we're gonna meditate on who he is,
and we're gonna allow him to transform us into people
he knows we are.
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