[Randy Nettles]

Guys! I apologize 🙇‍♂️ I did not see where anybody ever replied me in the app to discuss anything until I figured out how to access it today! 🤦‍♂️ Welcome to my “band” & I SO appreciate you discussing the Affirmation I started with to get us going! 👍🏼

One of the ways I “die to self” is to physically remove myself from where I am (flee from temptation, right?) in order to see God & feel his presence…instead of mine. This morning, I am at our beach house, sitting with my “toes in the water, ass in the sand,” with a cold water in my hand, watching the Son rise, realizing that God is SOOOOOO much more vast, more infinite and more Power-full than ANY of the temptations, problems, or difficulties I think of a stressful in my life. ❤️🏖️

I wrote a song (that I am in the middle of finishing right now) that is called, “Just By Being Nearer,” and in it one of my favorite lines is, “When you run from yourself, there’s no place to hide.” But in it, I also lament that I wish I could feel this way “just by being nearer, nearer to Thee.”

How do y’all (I AM from Texas), get nearer to God? What are the ways you find it easier to “deny yourself?”