 and most importantly our hearts and we're so glad that you're joining us for hope today because we love to bring you inspiration for your everyday life and I'm so happy that it's Monday and Tom and Amanda are here with us today and we have such an incredible guest with us. Oh, I know Patrick Morley is going to be with us. He has a book called The Four Voices and have you ever been frustrated with different voices in your head trying to sort that out? What's God and what's the other competing voices that are in there? We're going to find out exactly how to do that. You know what? It's going to set you on a new path of clarity in understanding the voice of the Holy Spirit. It's going to be great. Don't miss it. Awesome and then of course we had an amazing event y'all in our city this weekend. I'm still recovering. I mean I am shades of pink and red but it was an awesome time. You know this moment of Pittsburgh praise was we were singing amazing grace and this wonderful cloud blocked the sun from the crowd and I just thought in reality you know that is the grace of God that when he keeps the wrath that we should be getting from hitting us and I'm like I was ever grateful for that cloud and we should have just kept singing amazing grace because when we were done y'all the cloud left and the sun stayed but it was an awesome event. It was awesome. It was an incredible display of unity. I mean you saw people of all different colors and different backgrounds and I think it didn't matter if you're Catholic, Protestant, whatever. I feel like those that doesn't matter we are all one in Jesus Christ and it was so beautiful. I think there was a picture right there you see on the stage. I mean there was like overflow people and this was worship. I love that there was a community there was a unity choir so it was different people from churches from across the area and one touching moment at the very end that there was a cross that were carrying the cross and that was actually a cross made from light of life our friends that are over there and that there was prayers written for from the men and women who were at the shelter and actually the men that were carrying the cross are part of the program and the the covering of the purple cover was actually made from the women from light of life. So it was such a beautiful and touching tribute and we had an opportunity to show it here on Cornerstone too. So if you were able to watch and tune in we were all joined in. It was such an incredible time Tom. I know we were so glad to be able to broadcast that and you know it was it was something that we we kind of came in kind of late but we were able to get it all put together. In fact I got a text at like five minutes to four saying they're going to go longer than four o'clock because they were everything was a little bit behind. That's that happens a lot and we were able to extend that and put a broadcast another half an hour. But being there we moved out of the sun Amanda up into the shade. You know there was a little bit of a shade just a little bit of a shady area but it was great to see the body of Christ praying together showing the love of God and just you know praying for the city. It was awesome. It was truly incredible. You know one Pittsburgh pastor described Pittsburgh praise as dopeness which I wholeheartedly agree and those are the words from our dear friend Pastor Michael Day from Legacy International Worship Center and he's joining us live today from his church in the city's northside neighborhood to talk about a community initiative happening today with police officers. Pastor Mike we're so happy to have you with us today. Oh glad to be here thank you all for allowing me to do this part of me. I'm still recovering myself from an amazing day yesterday from all the different amazing events that happened here in Pittsburgh but thank you for having me live here at Legacy. Yeah I know I don't like we're all feeling it right now we're so getting the glory and just like the over after glow but you know tell us about what's going on today at your church and it's part of a new movement called faith in blue. Yes I'm really excited in a few hours clergy community leaders the police of Pittsburgh are all coming together live here at 11 o'clock for what is called the community cookout there's initiative faith in blue is partnering with one cop which is a national movement that is projected to make sure that clergy and the police and families are partners have great relationship and have fellowship within the community it's solely about police and clergy coming together to make sure we have safer cities and safer communities and so we're having a huge cookout here at 11 o'clock right here on the north side. Pastor Mike I love that so much and why would you say now more than ever especially here in the city of Pittsburgh I mean we've have seen so much violence and different things breaking up that it's important for faith leaders Christian leaders and the police to come together for such a time as this. Well we believe that the church should be the forefront should be the voice of any initiative that's going on in the world and so we believe that a part of that is connecting with the local authorities whether elected officials or our police department to collaborate and to partner to make sure that we have the proper resources support and partnership to make sure that our communities our youth and our families feel safe and that the police are actually are part of the relationship in our communities and so the clergy are making sure that we are doing that as well. We wholeheartedly like appreciate that and you know one thing how can we pray for you know the north side and the city of Pittsburgh I know at Pittsburgh praise yesterday Mayor Ganey was talking about praying for the youth there's you think we should be continue we're obviously going to continue to pray for the youth but there's anything specifically also that we need as a body of Christ to pray for your community. Pray pray for the youth pray for the families most importantly pray for strategy for us community leaders we need strategy so we have been doing a lot of meetings a lot of conversations around the violence of our youth but we really need the wisdom of God and the Holy Spirit to give us guidance on how to not only impact the youth but families but also how to collaborate with the police how to collaborate with that elected officials such as Mayor Ganey who are completely a hundred percent supportive of this movement and so we really need the wisdom of God because a lot of this is very new to especially specifically our city and so we want to make sure that we do it in excellence. That is so good thank you so much Pastor Mike and one final quick question do we need to bring anything to the cookout do we have to bring a dish or would sell we're all good. Everybody just come out the food is on its way the police department zone one is on its way in minutes and so just come anybody can come everybody you do you do only even have to be a part of the Northside community this is for the city and so we're just really excited to welcome everybody come on down 11 o'clock 21 31 Wilson Avenue Legacy International Worship Center we are excited to receive you. Well thank you so much Pastor Mike and we know it's going to be a great event thank you thank you Tom anytime you get people to get it for cookout it's a good time it's a good time in the city well our next guest is the executive chairman of the popular global man in the mirror ministry Patrick Morley is also one of the most respected authorities on the unique challenges and opportunities facing men and in his new book the four voices he shares how you can determine where the four conflicting voices in your mind are coming from and what they're saying and how you can let the Holy Spirit take control of the conversation Patrick welcome to hope today well thank you thank you Tom and Amanda Sydney good to be with you and hello Pittsburgh well great to have you and Patrick you know maybe we could start with you know are those those voices those four voices biblically what are the four voices that compete for real estate in my mind yeah so let me just give you the whole arc of the the book in like one minute okay so we all know that we have a running conversation with ourselves all day long we call it self talk we need self talk that's how we take all the bits and pieces of our lives and fit them together into some kind of a congruent story that helps us make sense of things however you are not the only voice in that conversation there are these four other voices the world the flesh the devil and the Holy Spirit and they are constantly exerting themselves to influence what we think say and do our job your job is to figure out which voice is speaking and then take control of the conversation pretty cool huh I mean that is so important to have that discernment which I really think this this is what this is it's a it's a discernment to know what what God is is is saying what the Holy Spirit is saying let me ask you about maybe we could take one of these right off the top here the world could you define that and how is the world getting inside you know getting into that conversation what things are happening to bring the world into that conversation in our minds oh that's a great question so Tom the world is in a biblical sense when the Bible starts talking about the world it's not talking about the whole creation I think it's important to understand that there's a lot of good in the fact Frodo said there's a lot of good in the world and it's worth fighting for it Francis Schaefer said that the world has a lot of leftover beauty so the world's a beautiful place but when the Bible talks about the world it's talking about that part of the world which is fallen or not redeemed so let me give you an example so when I was a young businessman just getting started I knew where I wanted to work what kind of work I wanted to do and I was able to get an appointment with the owner of the company this real estate company and he said you know I think you have a lot of promise but the problem is you don't have enough gray hair nobody's going to pay any attention to you so we can't hire you so that's the voice of the world saying you know you're too young to make a difference but then I have older guys tell me all the time that the message they're getting you know we don't need you anymore we're done with you you know you're expendable you've been used up you don't have anything to offer anymore and so the world's telling the older guy you can't make a difference so watch this the world the fallen world is telling you it doesn't make any difference whether you're young or you're older you really can't make a difference but the bible gives a totally different report so david was a commander of thousands and tens of thousands of men in his 20s joseph was leading egypt in his 20s jesus joseph and david all began their formal careers at the age of 30 so the bible says you know it doesn't make any difference if you're young you can make a difference and then on the flip side you look at sarah abraham moses paul they all played their best music in the last one third of their lives so the bible says it doesn't make any difference if you're young or old you can always make a difference and see how subtle the world's voice is in in in terms of trying to influence what we think say and do it but you can uh once under understanding how that works of course then you can make the adjustment i think this is a very needed concept for all of us today because there are so many voices that we are hearing but your reference you know to the bible as your guide as our plumb line that we line everything we're thinking about up to talk to us about you know how as sheep you know do we know the voice of the shepherd what does that look like well so it's it's very interesting father son holy spirit right so most of us can understand at least the analogy of god is our father he's creator sustainer redeemer and jesus of course was god in the form of human flesh taking on human flesh for a season so we could really understand god but the holy spirit is a bit more of a tricky idea for most people most people don't really have a visual image of the holy spirit in the mind let me give you an idea though that might help you in your thinking listeners the bible says in second tibia chapter three that all scripture is breathed by god and the bible says that god is spirit and so the spirit of god is is breathing his word through human agency inspiring 40 different human authors to use their own words but to get his ideas across and so the bible actually is the voice of the holy spirit how about that now that's a wild one am i just i might have just blown somebody's mind on that one i mean that that is so good to to know that voice of the spirit through the scriptures and you know i want to i want to just back up one one little step here to the the you know you mentioned the devil the voice of the devil and i don't really want the devil stomping around in my my brain like that and and giving me his thoughts how do we recognize when something because the devil can be subtle you know obviously there's there's clear things when we're tempted to do sin we know that's the enemy but how do we know when it's a subtle temptation from the enemy when you wake up in the middle of the night this is 2 a.m is when the devil does his best work right so you you wake up and you start having thoughts and those tumble on the other thoughts and before you know it you're way off base and so a friend of mine one of my co-teachers at our friday morning bible study he says if it doesn't sound like the holy spirit it's not him so when you have a voice in your head that is leading you to have negative thoughts about your spouse to be unduly angry at your children for acting like well however old they are and they're supposed to be acting that age anyway you can be fairly confident that it's either the the the world the flesh of the devil is working on you here's the problem with all these these three negative voices they don't raise their hand and say oh excuse me could i please say something now they just sort of jump in and they're often talking over each other so what i've done in this book to help you the reader is i've said to each of these voices you each of you go to your corner and don't say anything shut up and i'm going to talk about you individually so that people can understand who you are and how you operate and how to take control of the conversation when you're speaking so now in reality these voices are talking over each other right but those are just a few thoughts that you might take into account this is so needed i heard you talk about that that morning bible study and i know that that is an important part it should of all of our lives but if you could help us in our viewing audience you know how do we apply this how is the you have like a study book or something that a person could follow a guide to get to know god in his voice yeah so in this book okay if you've read my books then you know that i'm very careful i want to make sure that we're trying to solve the right problem because you've if you're trying to solve the wrong problem you can only succeed by accident right so we do spend a good amount of time 10 or 20 of the time trying to really understand what the issues are but the vast majority of all my books in this book included it's about solutions so i have 27 very practical strategies or ideas in this book all biblical right out of the bible on how we can control the conversation or in our head and there's some of the stand things you think about some of you who are followers of Jesus would know about the armor of god so about the armor of god in there i talk about the seven ways in the bible to concern god's will you're trying to figure out which voice is speaking figure out what the will of god is that's the situation and so i would say half of the book it's about the holy spirit and maybe half of the book is about the other voices is how you can get mastery of them you know patrick i know going through your book you've got i mean you've got even like charts to kind of help us discern where that voice is coming from let me just ask you for a story either a personal story someone you know that's been helped by really being able to sort out those voices in in our minds yes so i have a friend one of our table leaders at a friday morning bible study estranged from his father very difficult relationship both he and his sister estranged for decades from his father he took a job i'm in orlando he took a job down in palm beach which is about a three three and a half hour drive from here to be the c of a small startup insurance company and so he would leave every monday morning and then drive down and he'd come back on thursday evening to watch his daughter play soccer and then lead his table on friday morning so one morning he was on his way down to palm beach west bomb and about five thirty in the morning he heard a voice in his head call your father well he said i haven't talked to my father in decades and besides his five thirty in the morning and and then about an hour later he heard this voice again call your father he said why can't call my father he wouldn't answer anyways too early and then about a half an hour later the voice in his head when are you going to call your father and at that point he realized kind of like young samuel uh the uh hearing the voice of the lord for the first time that it must be the holy spirit and so he called his father not expecting his father to answer the phone at all his father picked up the phone and they had this great conversation and my friend david invited his father to come to the annual thanksgiving prayer breakfast that we put on here in orlando not expecting his father to say yes he did say yes he came he gave his life to jesus christ there was this incredible reconciliation between david and his father and his sister as well and then not only that the father started attending the friday morning bible study and sat at david's table and the son who was not discipled by the father was able to disciple his own father and that father sat at that table for the next 10 years until he died that's the power of knowing how to take control of the conversation wow that is such a tremendous story patrick uh thank you so much the book is called the four voices taking control of the conversation in your head patrick again thank you so much that was great thank you tom amanda sydney thank you so much well we're gonna take just a short break and we'll be right back to pray for you are you feeling distant from god could it be because you're ignoring his word maybe you don't know where to start maybe the long books and strange names feel overwhelming perhaps you just don't like reading whatever the case how to eat your bible will help you cultivate an appetite for lifelong study of god's word find practical guidance for overcoming the hurdles that have kept you from making bible study a regular 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here i hear him kids and that's the type of knowing that god wants us to have with him but it requires us spending time with him so with that being said i'd love to read our scripture for the day and it's coming from proverbs 423 and it says above all else guard your heart for everything you do flows from it said this is just full of wisdom for us today it is proverbs is a book that's full of wisdom and i just think about our hearts and our hearts like if we're all just want to keep it real our hearts can are very wicked there's a lot of yuck inside of there but when you spend time with jesus when you get into the like the quietness and just listen to him and he starts speaking to you but like you know what i want to deal with this issue i want to speak to you about what's going on here it's in those moments that i love that the holy spirit will share scripture with me that's very convicting or god will speak something to me to just kind of redirect my mind or my path and so i think it's so important having a relationship with god and being very connected to the word whatever god speaks to you always lines up with the word of god so i love that so much because out of our hearts they says everything you do flows from it so we got to have a heart check on the daily not just when we go to the doctor but we need every day to have a heart check with our heavenly father with our maker so that we can walk on the path and that we can do what he is calling us to do tom what about you it's interesting right before there we've been talking about the word of god and of course this is wisdom kind of talking but wisdom is talking for god here and and wisdom says my son give attention to my words incline your ears to my saying do not let them depart from your sight keep them in the midst of your heart so this is what we're talking about is we can have all these competing voices and competing affections things that just want look we all have things that we just love and those some of them are really bad and some of them are just okay and even good but they can draw us away our heart away guys from the the things of god i mean the things that god wants us to set those affections on that's where it's we've got to guard our heart we've got to guard our heart of those things because when you if there's something inside of you that you set your affections on so much that it's it's taking Christ off that throne so i just have to ask you is that something you've done is that something i think it's something we've all done at various points and that's where the Holy Spirit comes with this gentle conviction not condemnation that's the voice of the enemy like we talked about but this gentle conviction that pulls you back to say god i want to set you as the center of my heart as the lord of my heart that my affections and my thoughts will be on you completely we're the only jesus that people are going to see in a lot of cases and you know one prayer that from pittsburgh prays that i just keep hearing this mother says she talked about pride and arrogance and it needs to be shut down we need to not give life to the things that the enemy is doing and she said to operate in humility and that is one of the biggest things i think even with the pittsburgh leadership school that no matter what platform god gives you there is a rock that is higher than i and our our job here on earth is to be looking to that rock and pointing other people to that rock and who is that rock jesus christ and it is what our network here lives to do to spread the good news of jesus so that people can have the opportunity to stand on that firm foundation and to point others to him said no man this is you were just speaking i just think about you know we had this major gathering where thousands and thousands of people came together we're praying for you know our city we're praying for our nation we're praying for our world but the one thing that as amanda was just speaking that god laid on my heart is that nothing will change if we don't change and it talks about repentance and i think a lot of times that's a word we don't like to really hear because sometimes it means we have to look inside we have to look within and deal with the yuck and the junk in our lives because all of that if we don't deal with it it will infect other people sin is very little spread it's a virus it's the worst virus that's out there and one thing that god has just been really speaking to me did you know that repentance you know the way that i you know it's like yes we're sinners and but it really means it's a positive change it's when you seek the heart of the father when you listen to the holy spirit when you're transformed by the renewing of your mind when you allow god to get deep into your heart and to deal with those things that you really don't want to talk about you really don't want to face but guess what church we got to we have to because guess what the world is waiting on us we have the solutions we have the answers to what is happening in our world but we first we have to change i know we do a lot of finger pointing look at the world what they're doing now look at us it is time for us to look at ourselves and know what god wants to change in us and the biggest thing i love what amanda you were saying is pride and humility we got to lay it all down humble ourselves and be like christ any final thoughts tom you know uh we didn't get a chance to talk about it with patrick but secrecy is really that where the flesh grabs on what sydney was just saying when we get real when we get open and when we have that that again in a protected environment but open and say i'm struggling with this i'm i'm i'm not winning the battle here when you do that you begin to have that freedom you begin to have that that just take deconstructs all the chains that the enemy has tried to to to put around you and to hold you down and when you do that you're going to find 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