Priorities: Where Do You Stand? [short]

hello everyone this is michael murdad and we're welcoming you to our next presentation of our friday night spiritual insights with michael mirdad we appreciate you joining us so to get started with the topic for today it's going to be about your first priority what is your first priority and what really is the best first priority obviously your relationship with god and when it comes to priorities let me clarify something take a moment to sort of check in and ask yourself this what is it you do most consistently

okay let's live obvious things like you sleep every day you use the washroom every day you have dinner every day um you know simple things like that we're not gonna really go that direction besides the absolute obvious necessity you sleep and so on besides that the doings what do you do most frequently you watch tv every day perhaps you read the newspaper every day perhaps god forbid but you might um you know so what do you do regularly do you call your children every day do you call your mom every day do you um

go to you know some some like a hobby related thing um do you go out to some event every day at home or outside you know things like that things that you're doing read a book every day now the reason i'm bringing that up is take a little inventory about what you do every day and it doesn't have to be every day it's what do you do most frequently so besides the sleeping eating besides that what do you do most frequently call my friends watch tv whatever that you do most frequently and then ask yourself this

if you wrote down the 10 things you most frequently do where is god in there the first the last is it not even on the chart you know you might want to ask yourself very very powerful question you might want to ask yourself where is god in there again besides sleeping things like that absolute things that just obviously happen every day besides that when it comes to hobbies and doings of the life the day-to-day life you know i would even throw in eating for myself just because i want to ask do i pray as often as i eat

let's say you eat three times a day do you also pray three times a day i'm not i'm not wanting you to feel bad i'm not trying to guilt you i'm just asking do you pray three times a day meditate three times a day it doesn't have to be five hours of meditation or prayer it's just do you even even for half a minute to a minute because then it still is done so where are you at with that take time to consider and and it's such a powerful question such a powerful exercise where is god in

there on anything that you do um you go for a leisurely drive uh how often are you intimate making love with yourself or someone else for that matter um you know do you gardening whatever kinds of things oh i garden every day great great so that might be towards the top but do you also take time with spirit every day so i would assume that most of us are going to say i definitely pray semi-regularly pray or meditate semi-regularly so maybe it's got that part of it maybe that part's got the maybe that's got the um

high ranking um for some you know like i meditate and i pray you know regularly but semi-regularly so it's it's maybe on your top ten chart but then just find out what rates above it what do you do more often than connect with god um now i could really push the envelope and say how often do you worry you know but that that's too challenging because most people worry a thousand times a day so we don't want to make us feel too bad by being that honest unless you you know you really want to look at that but

no really let's stick to the doings of the day gardening i garden every other day great do you you know let's pretend that's number five on your list what's above gardening well i um i watch tv every day okay fair enough so let's say that's number three on your list number one oh i call my kids every day okay great every day for some of these how many times a day well some of them twice a day some of them once a day okay fine so one rated above another but how often do you pray and meditate

i recommend every morning and every evening at least a half a minute to a minute of some kind of connection what'll happen just that little exercise and then try to connect during the day sometime but that one little exercise you'll be able to say to yourself to anyone else who asks or cares to even to god itself you'll be able to say oh my god my number one priority is god that's amazing it doesn't mean you put more hours more minutes or hours into it per day per week just how often do you do it and if

you're if you're lucky three times a day morning evening and sometime in between man that's just amazing and you should really give yourself credit there's a a part in the book of revelation that is it's an inventory it's in the about the seven churches and john the beloved who's having the vision of what we know as revelation the book of revelation john's having a moment where he's seeing this this what i'm calling an inventory there are seven churches and each of them are told

their gifts and challenges what that is is john was being initiated into christ consciousness and he was being told this chakra say root chakra heart chakra or whatever each of those seven seals and later in the book and early in the book the seven churches they're about the seven centers of the body the being and each of those is being evaluated as a you know how are you doing so heart chakra it could be a very loving but a little bit protected that that would be like what john was hearing he was told the pros and cons of each center but one

of the centers in particular it was like um you know here are the here the pros or the the gifts in that center but the one it was mentioned is you forgot your first love and that is god that's priority so if it were me and what i recommend to you but if it were me if i were you and i find that i might get around to praying or meditating a couple times a week which is better than nothing by all means a couple times a week i watch tv every day i call my kids every day i call you know i talk to my mother every day

i whatever else whatever else garden whatever else and i find that there are nine other things that i do every day and god comes every few days not a problem what i'm asking you to do is just see it start with just whoa wow that's kind of insightful then you ask yourself are you happy with that you might say totally it's all the time it's all i got time for it brush it off and fine be with it but you might say also no now that i see it i would like to correct it and sit with that and say i see i see this i refuse to forget my first

love i forget i forgive also that i you know i refuse to forget my first love but i also refuse to let that continue so i forgive myself and i'm joyously welcoming a new relationship with god more consistent i get to connect with god more often you know you might read romance novels every day but nothing spiritually inspiring why would you want that oh because these really you know they make me happy or they they're interesting they're intriguing i get that's fine but so is god so just bring it in

somehow guys you know bring it into your life more often inspirational reading like jesus calling or of course in miracles or whatever feels right for you there's also a book called god calling it's very beautiful daily messages and you can easily download an app or put on your computer things like quotes from let's say edgar casey the quote of the day thought of the day i think they usually call it big quote of the day or thought of the day you can go to daily word of unity church you can go to science of mind also known

as the centers for living and get their quotes every day there's no reason and you can download them in your app there's no reason that any of us should be able to say well i just don't think of it and i don't have that available easily available easily available one thing i recommend for folks is if you have an inspirational book whether it's course miracles or whatever when you're going to go to bed when you wake up in the morning first of all when you make your bed or whatever take

take your if you're going to have inspired reading on your nightstand put it on your pillow so that you have to see it and move it before you go to bed at night so you go to go to bed and it's sitting on your pillow great then open it read before you lay down so that's one way to have a discipline of course another like i said it's on your app but then if you have it on your nightstand now because you put it there when you after you read and you slept you wake up in the morning maybe if possible

reach over pull it over to you now you reach over and pull the bible that's a bit heady and a bit wordy so you want something just sharp and clear and you might even just have your own favorite prayer could be lord's prayer whatever but you you pull over to yourself you know a couple sentences put it back down lay back down for a moment push the snooze alarm or whatever you have and just kind of absorb that energy it's the way to start the day you absorb that same when you're going to sleep you read something

and you go to sleep in that energy i call it waking up on the right side of your mind okay in the morning and then going to bed on the right side of your head you know so it's it's a beautiful way not only to feed your soul to start and end the day in the right frequency but also it turns this into a priority i started in my day it's like saying god is the alpha and omega but instead of it being philosophical god is literally my alpha and omega i literally start and end my day with god if more people would do that

wow what a different world we'd have first of all but also begin and end every lifetime with god every major event in your life try to anchor that in you know anchor that in whatever you're doing in life you could you could anchor spirit in when you have meals and use a little blessing a little prayer i mean there are things you can do you could make it a ritual of some kind you can hang a little something in your shower that reminds you while you're showering because you're standing there you're

washing your hair rinsing or what while you're doing that say something say you know a moment of prayer god be with me today guide me in all that i think say and do guide me in all that you would have me think say and do show me how you want me to be how you want me to live how you want me to think etc it's very easy very doable and what a difference it makes in our lives it's it's like you suddenly were plugged in to a mystical experience you were suddenly plugged into like a spiritual family but it's your

own like an inner family um it it will make a huge difference so again going back over what i've shared today stop and take an inventory maybe write down in order preferably the things you do most frequently um you know barring sleep that's an obvious one but you know there's the necessities you know you might say go to work every day but that's that's fine if you want to add that or not i'm talking more about how you spend your day what you do not the things you kind of kind of have to like

you're steady you know sleeping every night if you want to include it fine but i'm looking more for and what i'm asking you to look for is more like your choices of things not the things you tend to have to do but what we call have to but more like the things you choose to do so i i choose to call this person i choose to watch tv those kinds of things because you don't want to create a competition between god and whatever you have to sleep every day but can you also pray every day and you don't have to call someone you

don't have to watch shows those are choices you're making so of all your choices are you choosing god anywhere in there at all now again i'm closing with this if if god doesn't rank in the 10 at all or ranks at 8 or 9 or whatever the point of this is not to guilt yourself it's to let it become like an awakening like an aha then what are you going to do with it after it's in aha what's the next step what what seems obvious for the next step what am i going to do about it well i like where it is

so be it then just kind of wrap your mind around it accept it let it be or or it's going to be i this is you know no god seventh place to to anything night gardening um on a date or whatever you do which ones and when you're done if you say well there's three still above the god piece just remember to ask yourself does it really make sense that calling my mother i do more often than calling god really don't kill yourself but just check in and go wow that's strange because anything that would raid above god

in the old school terminology would be called a false idol a false god because it has priority over god now god's not trying to guilt you and trip you out about that it is what it is but to ask ourselves why would i even consider that you know if i if i self-pleasure more often than connecting with god really okay wow that's a trip i drink more often because that's not a mandatory sleeping thing i drink uh three times a day i talk to god once every other day okay fine false god but why why would i why would i even consider

putting that first even exercise i exercise everybody great you exercise every day but not connecting with god more often how about saying a little prayer before you even exercise that would be okay ties that in there and keeps god up you know higher up in your priority list so please take time what are your highest priorities and where does god rank in that so to speak learn to make god your first priority or your first love your alpha your omega it'll make a huge difference in your life in every way shape and form

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