Developing a Relationship with God with Kyle Pritchard

That was brilliant.

And I want to, because you're in Tennessee and I'm up in the northeast in New Jersey, New York area, and I'm noticing quite a difference in, you know, the belief system where I am versus where you are.

And that's okay, right? We want to connect with people first.

Yes.

A lot of times, church scares people in my area.

They don't know the prayers.

And for me, it was the same thing.

I had recognized it growing up as the prayer, the prayers that I'm supposed to say, but it was the initial.

Because you're talking with people that are in recovery, maybe suicide prevention, and a lot of times they don't know God at all and never had a relationship with God.

To me, it's just about building some sort of relationship.

It's not about repeating the Lord's prayer for me in the beginning.

For me in the beginning, it was about just having a relationship and God not like judging us.

God is not judging us, but God is actually just there and he wants to support us.

And sometimes it's just talking raw to God like he was one of your buddies.

I don't know.

Can you elaborate on that?

I can't, I can't, can I get theological just a minute? Let me, I want to share, I'm actually working on a devotional right now.

So when somebody that's struggling with addiction gets out of treatment, they are told when they're leaving treatment, you need to go do 90 meetings in 90 days.

So that's one meeting every day for 90 days.

So A-A-N-A, celebrate recovery, some kind of peer recovery, right? and so i'm working on a devotional right now 90 scriptures in 90 days kind of the same concept i just want to connect people to the lord and so i actually was working on that writing some this morning before we got on here to do this podcast and i was working on this verse and it's isaiah 43 3 and it says for i am the lord your god the holy one of israel and your savior So I want to do this really quick, even though I can spend hours just on a little bit of this.

So you start with the word God.

It says, for I am the Lord your God.

And so God, we think of the creator God, the God that spoke life into existence, the God that sits on the throne of sustaining life and making things happening and being our protector and the God who gives and takes away if you will well Isaiah describes him as the Lord and if you're reading in the Bible and you see Lord L-O-R-D in all caps it's actually the personal name of God Yahweh or Jehovah depending on One's Hebrew and one's Latin.

Same name, Yahweh and Jehovah, the same thing.

And so it's the personal name of God.