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“About eight days later Jesus took Peter, John, and James up on a mountain to pray.\u00a0And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became dazzling white.\u00a0Suddenly, two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared and began talking with Jesus.\u00a0They were glorious to see. And they were speaking about his exodus from this world, which was about to be fulfilled in Jerusalem. Peter and the others had fallen asleep. When they woke up, they saw Jesus\u2019 glory and the two men standing with him.\u00a0As Moses and Elijah were starting to leave, Peter, not even knowing what he was saying, blurted out, ‘Master, it\u2019s wonderful for us to be here! Let\u2019s make three shelters as memorials\u2014one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.’ But even as he was saying this, a cloud overshadowed them, and terror gripped them as the cloud covered them. Then a voice from the cloud said, ‘This is my Son, my Chosen One.\u00a0Listen to him.’ When the voice finished, Jesus was there alone. They didn\u2019t tell anyone at that time what they had seen.” Luke 9:28-36, NLT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter, James, and John had such an amazing time with Jesus up on a mountain that they didn’t want to leave. Have you ever been to a youth retreat or had a time with God that was so cool you didn’t want it to end?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being away from the reality and problems of our daily life can seem inviting. But we can’t stay on a mountaintop forever. Instead of becoming spiritual giants, we would soon become giants of self-centeredness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We need times of retreat and renewal but only so we can return to help build up our family and friends. Our faith must make sense off the mountain as well as on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note from the Girls Life Application Study Bible<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“About eight days later Jesus took Peter, John, and James up on a mountain to pray.\u00a0And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became dazzling white.\u00a0Suddenly, two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared and began talking with Jesus.\u00a0They were glorious to see. And they were speaking about his exodus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,15,27,38,39,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5759,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions\/5759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/nlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}