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Okay, so suddenly you have 12 minutes free in your day.

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What are you gonna do?

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How are you gonna spend it?

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Are you gonna check social media?

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Are you gonna call a friend?

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Maybe grab something at the fridge?

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If you're a girl, fix your makeup, I don't know.

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It doesn't seem like there's a whole lot

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you can do in 12 minutes, right?

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I mean, there's 1,440 minutes in a 24-hour time period,

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so 12 minutes of that is 8%,

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or 0.0083333333 going on to eternity.

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I just love that eight represents eternity

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and 333 represents completion,

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fullness and resurrection, actually.

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Well, did you know that actually

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that 8% of your day can result in long-term,

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eternal benefits in your life?

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Because here's the beautiful thing.

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In as little as 12 minutes a day,

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if you meditate on a good God,

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you can change neural pathways in your brain.

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That's the interior singulate cortex of your brain.

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This is part of your brain

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that has to do with your decision-making,

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at least they believe so, and your free will.

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It kind of resides right in between

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your left and your right brain,

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and you form these new neural pathway connections.

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But when you form neural pathway connections,

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they don't always last,

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so you have to do it over and over again,

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which is why we say 12 minutes a day, right?

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And it's kind of like, when you go on a hike

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and you look and you see a path that's already,

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is a well-worn, traveled path,

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it's like lots of people have been there before,

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you want to take that one, right?

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Because you know it's tried and true.

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That's what our brain does.

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So we need to form these new pathways

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that have the possibility of sticking.

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Well, good news, there's something else we can do

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that will help that pathway to stick and to stay.

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So not only do we meditate on a good God,

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but we put it together with another activity.

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There's something called the Hebean principle,

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and it says this, neurons that fire together,

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wire together, they make them stickier.

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So we take two activities that have the ability

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to change your neural pathways and we put them together.

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So contemplating a good God is one of those.

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And music, that's another one.

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You put those two together, huh, sounds like worship.

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Well, in this case, it's a very intentional kind of worship

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because we're actually meditating on that good God,

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contemplating who he is, the fastest of who he is.

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And by the way, did you know that contemplating

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an angry vengeful God can result

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in negative neural pathways?

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Yeah, we're not doing that.

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We're meditating on who God really is.

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He's a good God, he's a vast God,

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but he's also the same God who designed you,

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who created you, who wants to have a relationship with you.

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That's so crazy.

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So we look at the vastness of who he is

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and we contemplate him through music.

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And then suddenly those pathways become stickier.

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We're able to go down to them so much easier.

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So the next time that you are caught up

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in that same negative way of thinking,

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that maybe something triggers you and you get angry,

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you get frustrated, you get worried,

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and maybe you get caught in fear,

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or maybe you run to the refrigerator, whatever it is,

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you actually now start to go down a new pathway.

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The pathway reminds you not just who God is,

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but how he feels about you.

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And it gives you the ability to change your thinking

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and change your path because did you know

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the Bible says that as a man, as a woman thinks,

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so he or she is.

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That is crazy.

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The way we think is who we are.

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Yeah, so we better get ahold of our thoughts

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because God wants to transform your thinking,

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he wants to transform your lives,

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he wants to transform you into the people,

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the person that he knows you're meant to be,

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that he created you to be.

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So when we do this, when we worship a good God,

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when we meditate on him in just 12 minutes a day,

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we are partnering with him to experience

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that transformation that he has for you.

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So I can't wait for you to go on this journey with us,

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we're gonna do this.

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This is the thing, we are going to,

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at least three days a week,

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we are going to worship with God,

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we're gonna meditate on who he is,

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and we're gonna allow him to transform us into people

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he knows we are.

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