Being Podcast Matt Volkens

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Welcome to the Being Podcast.  Today's podcast is a Monday Meditation.  Monday Meditations will be a second release weekly on Mondays and will feature different focus areas than the Thursday Scripture meditation.

Today we'll be focusing on the fact that you have value.   Thomas Merton said "Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the light of God."  Invite God to give you a new filter in the moments of today.  Let Him transform your day in His light.

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Hey There!

Welcome to the Being Podcast.  Today's podcast is a Monday Meditation.  Monday Meditations will be a second release weekly on Mondays and will feature different focus areas than the Thursday Scripture meditation.

Today we'll be focusing on the fact that you have value.   Thomas Merton said "What am I?  I am myself a word spoken by God.  Can God speak a word that does not have any meaning?”  You are made in the image of God, with the breath of God.  You have infinite value.  You have meaning.  Focus on that today.

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Welcome to the Being Podcast.  Today we're continuing through Season 4: Love!  1 John 4:8 says that our God is love.  Not loving, not super duper good at love, he is love in it’s essence.  Love Is unable to exist without the literal adhesion to our God’s character.  We can be desensitized to the word love, over this next season we’ll be allowing God and the literal presence of love to reactivate our attentions by giving focusing and meditating on some of the most powerful scriptures on love.  Today we'll be exploring 1 Corinthians 13:1-7


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Love Is the Greatest


1 Corinthians 13:1-7
13 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
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Hey There!

Welcome to the Being Podcast.  Today's podcast is a Monday Meditation.  Monday Meditations will be a second release weekly on Mondays and will feature different focus areas than the Thursday Scripture meditation.

Today we'll be focusing on letting go of expectations.  Sometimes we hold onto pressure and stress that no one put on us but ourselves.  Sometimes we have to just let go of those expectations.  Life happens.  That's okay. 


You can find more information at:
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Hello!
Welcome to the Being Podcast.  Today we're continuing through Season 4: Love!  1 John 4:8 says that our God is love.  Not loving, not super duper good at love, he is love in it’s essence.  Love Is unable to exist without the literal adhesion to our God’s character.  We can be desensitized to the word love, over this next season we’ll be allowing God and the literal presence of love to reactivate our attentions by giving focusing and meditating on some of the most powerful scriptures on love.  Today we'll be exploring 1 John 4:13-19
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You can find links and episode updates at www.thebeingpodcast.com


Thanks for listening!




Loving One Another


1 John 4:13-19
 And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. 14 Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 17 And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.
18 Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. 19 We love each other because he loved us first.
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Hey There!

Welcome to the Being Podcast.  Today's podcast is a Monday Meditation.  Monday Meditations will be a second release weekly on Mondays and will feature different focus areas than the Thursday Scripture meditation.

Today we'll be trying to "fix our thoughts".  Philippians 4:8 calls us to fix our thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.   This week we'll try doing that with a Monday Meditation.  We'll focus on focusing on things you can be grateful for.  Things that are good.

You can find more information at:
thebeingpodcast.com
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