WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.800 So, welcome to Activation Sunday. 2 00:00:05.800 --> 00:00:12.720 It is Friday, December 17th, and we are activating the message that we got from Jackie in yesterday's 3 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:14.400 Supernatural Saturday Call. 4 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.560 And you guys, I love how God, people always say to me, I don't hear the voice of God. 5 00:00:18.560 --> 00:00:21.840 How do you guys hear the voice of God? 6 00:00:21.840 --> 00:00:27.080 Sometimes He's very literal in how you hear from Him, in that people will give you the 7 00:00:27.080 --> 00:00:28.800 same exact message. 8 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:34.160 Two different people will give you the same exact message, or you'll hear a song on the 9 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:37.520 radio that matches the message that you heard. 10 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:42.160 So, for those of you that are waiting sometimes for the audible voice of God, and you're getting 11 00:00:42.160 --> 00:00:47.960 all like your panties in a wad about it, look for the stuff that's right in front of you. 12 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:53.040 If somebody gives you a message or a word, see if somebody else confirms it and something 13 00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:54.620 else confirms it. 14 00:00:54.620 --> 00:00:58.840 And then you go, oh, that's the Lord trying to tell me something. 15 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:06.520 And so for me, you know, I was half, I'm not going to lie you guys, I was half listening 16 00:01:06.520 --> 00:01:11.700 to Jackie yesterday, like half listening because I was getting ready to make my Christmas cookies. 17 00:01:11.700 --> 00:01:15.120 So I was counting out stuff at the same time. 18 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:17.940 And then she was like, hey, I'm going to need somebody to cover for Sarah. 19 00:01:17.940 --> 00:01:18.940 Renee, can you do it? 20 00:01:18.940 --> 00:01:22.740 And I'm like, oh boy, I was half listening. 21 00:01:22.860 --> 00:01:27.980 And then I listened again, and then I went to church this morning and I swear him and 22 00:01:27.980 --> 00:01:32.060 Jackie were tracking because it was pretty much the same sermon that I got this morning. 23 00:01:32.060 --> 00:01:37.060 So I was like, all right, well, clearly Renee needs this message more than anybody else. 24 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:38.560 Because that's what the Lord's going to do. 25 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:44.220 Like sometimes he's going to actually ask you to step out into a word and it's like 26 00:01:44.220 --> 00:01:46.380 you learn as you go kind of thing. 27 00:01:46.380 --> 00:01:47.940 And so we're going to kind of do that. 28 00:01:47.940 --> 00:01:54.060 And so the three were, I'm actually, I took notes, which of course my printer's not working. 29 00:01:54.060 --> 00:01:56.580 So I'm going to be going back to my computer. 30 00:01:56.580 --> 00:02:01.340 So we have three main categories that we're going to be doing tonight. 31 00:02:01.340 --> 00:02:05.220 And I'm going to give you time to journal your answer if you hadn't had time since, 32 00:02:05.220 --> 00:02:10.100 and then we're going to share some of it out loud in a form of a prayer. 33 00:02:10.100 --> 00:02:12.980 And I know I can be a stickler about this, you guys. 34 00:02:12.980 --> 00:02:17.060 I know that sometimes when different leaders are on, there's just sharing and talking, 35 00:02:17.060 --> 00:02:18.500 sharing and talking. 36 00:02:18.500 --> 00:02:21.900 And I like going after it using God's holy language. 37 00:02:21.900 --> 00:02:25.100 Like I don't want you to tell me, I want you to tell God. 38 00:02:25.100 --> 00:02:27.620 And I just get to eavesdrop in on your prayer to him. 39 00:02:27.620 --> 00:02:28.620 Does that make sense? 40 00:02:28.620 --> 00:02:31.340 So you don't need to tell me, you don't need to explain it to me. 41 00:02:31.340 --> 00:02:33.940 You're just going to go right to him. 42 00:02:33.940 --> 00:02:35.960 And I just get to listen in on it. 43 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:41.780 So the first, there's three things that we're going to need to do is we're going to be pledging. 44 00:02:41.780 --> 00:02:43.660 So that's the first thing that we're going to do. 45 00:02:43.660 --> 00:02:49.300 Then we're going to be pruning, and then we're going to be planning and preparing. 46 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:51.820 And so we're going to kind of talk a little bit about that. 47 00:02:51.820 --> 00:02:55.500 So as we head, and we, you know, obviously some of us were already preparing for the 48 00:02:55.500 --> 00:02:57.640 new year with Rosh Hashanah. 49 00:02:57.640 --> 00:03:02.420 It is the year of the door, open doors, which also means doors have to close. 50 00:03:02.420 --> 00:03:06.500 You can't open new doors without old doors getting closed. 51 00:03:06.500 --> 00:03:10.940 And so the chapters that my pastor read today, so you can write this down. 52 00:03:10.940 --> 00:03:16.000 We don't have time to read it, but if you want to read Joshua three and four, it talks 53 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:22.180 about how the Lord prepared Joshua and the 12 tribes of Israel as they were crossing 54 00:03:22.180 --> 00:03:24.220 the river Jordan. 55 00:03:24.220 --> 00:03:25.220 And you guys, it's really cool. 56 00:03:25.220 --> 00:03:28.820 Cause I actually got to cross the river Jordan and it's not as wide as you think it is. 57 00:03:28.820 --> 00:03:35.020 Like I'm like, and it's very muddy in a lot of sections and, but the current can get pretty 58 00:03:35.020 --> 00:03:39.120 strong depending on what time of the year it is. 59 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:45.160 And so what I loved about reading that is, you know, God was really clear about Joshua, 60 00:03:45.160 --> 00:03:48.180 like the arc of the covenant went before them. 61 00:03:48.180 --> 00:03:56.280 And then as soon as they crossed over into Jordan, they were asked to prepare a memorial 62 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:57.720 and give honor to God. 63 00:03:57.720 --> 00:04:02.280 So before they did anything else, they had to take this time out to God. 64 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:08.760 So that was one of the first things that Jackie said that we need to do before we go into 2024. 65 00:04:08.760 --> 00:04:13.720 We have to pledge our loyalty to Jesus and the finished work of the cross. 66 00:04:13.720 --> 00:04:17.800 We have to believe him when he said it is finished, right? 67 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:25.040 So whenever you guys think, or I think that anything we said or did or happened to us 68 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:28.880 is still going to affect our life, then we believe that God did not, or Jesus did not 69 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:30.600 finish it at the cross. 70 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:34.160 And so I want you to really write down what does that mean? 71 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:36.460 I want you to really think about this. 72 00:04:36.460 --> 00:04:40.620 What does it mean for you to pledge your loyalty to Jesus and the finished work of 73 00:04:40.620 --> 00:04:41.860 the cross? 74 00:04:41.860 --> 00:04:46.140 What is it you're going to do to show your loyalty to him? 75 00:04:46.140 --> 00:04:47.840 What is the outward sign? 76 00:04:47.840 --> 00:04:52.300 And I really, really want you guys to think about that for, I mean, and you're like, well, 77 00:04:52.300 --> 00:04:54.200 I don't even know what that means, Renee. 78 00:04:54.200 --> 00:04:59.580 And so here are two specific things the Lord was very clear to me on. 79 00:04:59.580 --> 00:04:59.980 I got. 80 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.800 into seminary school in October, but I almost talked to myself out of doing it because of 81 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:11.280 financial resources. And I just was like, this is just not the right time. I don't have the money. 82 00:05:11.280 --> 00:05:14.400 I don't know what I'm doing with my life. Why am I going to start a master's when I don't even know 83 00:05:14.400 --> 00:05:20.000 where I'm going with my life? And God was really clear. He was like, no, I opened a doorway for 84 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.880 you to do this. I got you in and you're finishing that. So that's the first way I'm going to pledge 85 00:05:24.880 --> 00:05:29.040 my loyalties. I'm going to trust him that each semester when that bill comes up, I'm going to 86 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:33.200 have a way to pay for it, that I'm going to somehow have the way to study, that it's not 87 00:05:33.200 --> 00:05:36.320 going to get in the way of my work or my work's not going to get in the way of the setting. 88 00:05:36.320 --> 00:05:40.560 So that's the first thing I'm going to do to pledge my loyalty. Now that's me. Not all of 89 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:46.000 you are going to seminary school and you don't need to. The second thing is I had really slowed 90 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:51.520 down on my tithe as my income really dropped this year because I was like, again, I think if you 91 00:05:51.520 --> 00:05:57.440 listened to my testimony last Saturday, you know, I'm spreadsheet girl. And so the money just wasn't 92 00:05:57.440 --> 00:06:04.320 working. And so I started pledging my time to the church. And, um, then the Lord gave me a clear 93 00:06:04.320 --> 00:06:10.480 number. I had to give the church and I did. And he almost immediately gave it back to me in savings 94 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:16.320 and other places. And today in church, God was very clear. It is time to start tithing again, 95 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:22.160 that 10%, whatever, whenever I get a contract check in, I have to tithe. And that, and I'm 96 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:25.520 not saying have to, I'm saying have to is it doesn't sound really good. So those are the two 97 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:31.040 ways I feel like I need, cause you guys, I already tell all my friends and family, like all my whole 98 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:35.360 world already knows. I love Jesus. I have no problem sharing the gospel. I have no problem 99 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:42.400 laying down my life for the gospel. Like, so for me that, that wouldn't stretch me to pledge my 100 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:46.720 loyalty. We'll start talking to your gay friends, start talking to this person who doesn't know 101 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:51.360 Jesus, start talking to your Muslim friends. Like that wouldn't be hard for me or scary for me 102 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:56.640 because I've already done it and I already continue to do it. So for me right now, committing 103 00:06:56.640 --> 00:07:02.960 to school and committing to my tithe are two ways that I'm being stretched to pledge my loyalty. So 104 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:08.160 I'm just going to let you take two minutes. I will play some background music while you do this. 105 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.360 And then you're going to come out and declare it to God. And you're just going to say, 106 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:18.080 God, I pledge my loyalty to you. I believe that when you, when Jesus said is finished, 107 00:07:18.080 --> 00:07:21.680 it was finished. And here's how I'm going to show my loyalty to you 108 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.440 in 2024. So go ahead and start journaling that. 109 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:51.440 So 110 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:54.240 So 111 00:09:14.640 --> 00:09:16.640 Oh my god, I just 112 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:21.520 I know you love us so much. You love us so much 113 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:24.800 That your son was willing to die for us father 114 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:27.920 God that when he hung on that cross and he took all of our sin 115 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:30.900 And he ascended to hell and then he ascended into heaven 116 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:38.040 He took care of it and so father God, I just I just thank you I thank you I thank you I thank you and 117 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:42.960 I I just I confess the times that I don't believe you or it doesn't seem like enough 118 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:46.280 Oh my gosh the times that I don't think the cross was enough 119 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:51.400 Please forgive me for that father God as we go into 2024 120 00:09:51.920 --> 00:09:55.820 Each of us on this call. We're gonna just share with you 121 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:00.060 We are your children and we're gonna each take a time to come off the mic and we're 122 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.640 We're going to share with you how we're going to pledge our loyalty. 123 00:10:03.640 --> 00:10:08.600 And Father God, I know that I've already declared that I'm going to pledge my commitment to 124 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:11.960 my tithe and my commitment to my master's degree. 125 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:17.640 But Father God, if there's another area that I need to be bold and step out and to pledge 126 00:10:17.640 --> 00:10:23.280 my loyalty, Father God, I ask that you reveal that to me in the coming moments, hours, and 127 00:10:23.280 --> 00:10:28.980 days so that when I go into 2024, I know where you would want me to pledge. 128 00:10:28.980 --> 00:10:33.900 And so Father God, I now lift up and open the space for my brothers and sisters to also 129 00:10:33.900 --> 00:10:38.820 share how they are going to tangibly pledge their loyalty to you in this next year. 130 00:10:58.980 --> 00:11:13.360 Oh, Jesus, you are so wonderful. 131 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.620 Thank you for this opportunity to speak out to you, Lord. 132 00:11:16.620 --> 00:11:21.380 I do want to ask for forgiveness for the times that I did not believe and my doubt just kind 133 00:11:21.380 --> 00:11:22.740 of wavers. 134 00:11:22.740 --> 00:11:28.260 And during this quiet time, I heard you clearly say to stop trying to fix yourself, Joanne. 135 00:11:28.260 --> 00:11:37.620 You are not broken, that your cross healed me, that there's nothing to fix. 136 00:11:37.620 --> 00:11:42.680 And so what I pledge for 2024 is to get out of that mentality that I need to do something 137 00:11:42.680 --> 00:11:50.740 to make it better, to fix what I'm not doing right, Lord, but instead to really watch what 138 00:11:50.740 --> 00:11:54.500 I'm thinking and watch what I'm saying. 139 00:11:54.500 --> 00:11:59.500 So I pledge, Lord, to use my imagination to see myself as the way you see me. 140 00:11:59.500 --> 00:12:01.540 I am not broken. 141 00:12:01.540 --> 00:12:06.300 I am on a journey, but that journey has already been proclaimed from you and what you have 142 00:12:06.300 --> 00:12:07.540 done. 143 00:12:07.540 --> 00:12:12.220 And I want to sit back and enjoy this journey as I learn to be kinder to myself and kinder 144 00:12:12.220 --> 00:12:13.220 to others. 145 00:12:13.220 --> 00:12:18.740 And I thank you for this opportunity to speak it out loud, and I seal it with your blood. 146 00:12:18.740 --> 00:12:19.380 Amen. 147 00:12:25.500 --> 00:12:35.700 Lord, I thank you for your sacrifice for me. 148 00:12:35.700 --> 00:12:46.820 I'm pledging to you my feelings of never being enough, of not being worthy of being loved. 149 00:12:46.820 --> 00:12:55.620 I pledge that, and I'm going to change my way of thinking. 150 00:12:55.620 --> 00:13:01.820 Thank you, Lord, for your sacrifice for me. 151 00:13:01.820 --> 00:13:17.060 Father, I thank you because you are ever mindful of us, and forgive me for the times 152 00:13:17.060 --> 00:13:22.220 that I have tried to take the pen away from you and write my own story and tell you how 153 00:13:22.220 --> 00:13:28.900 to maneuver things and work things out when you are the master of everything. 154 00:13:28.900 --> 00:13:31.900 Forgive me, Lord, for not thinking your cross was enough. 155 00:13:31.900 --> 00:13:40.300 Lord, I lay on the altar the things in my life that are dear and that I, the expectations 156 00:13:40.300 --> 00:13:47.900 that I have, and I leave them in your hands to develop them and bring them when it's time. 157 00:13:47.900 --> 00:13:55.300 Father, I just thank you that you're a good, good father, and every good thing comes from 158 00:13:55.300 --> 00:13:56.300 you. 159 00:13:56.300 --> 00:14:00.500 You are the Lord of bounty and prosperity, so Lord, thank you for what you have given 160 00:14:00.500 --> 00:14:01.500 me. 161 00:14:01.500 --> 00:14:08.500 I, in 2024, I pledge my company, my future marriage, all my wealth and investments for 162 00:14:08.500 --> 00:14:09.500 the kingdom purpose. 163 00:14:09.500 --> 00:14:10.500 In Jesus' name. 164 00:14:10.500 --> 00:14:11.500 Amen. 165 00:14:11.500 --> 00:14:19.060 Dear Heavenly Father, I just honor you and glorify you. 166 00:14:19.060 --> 00:14:25.300 I just give you thanks for all you're doing for me and for the growth you've given to 167 00:14:25.300 --> 00:14:33.500 me, and Father, I'm just pledging that I'm not going to second guess you as you're trying 168 00:14:33.500 --> 00:14:34.500 to speak to me. 169 00:14:34.500 --> 00:14:41.540 I'm learning to hear from you and not be influenced by maybe any other opinions coming in, but 170 00:14:41.540 --> 00:14:46.900 just learning to hear from you in the various ways that you speak to me. 171 00:14:46.940 --> 00:14:49.140 I just give you thanks, in Jesus' name. 172 00:14:49.140 --> 00:14:50.140 Amen. 173 00:14:54.500 --> 00:14:59.940 Jesus, I pledge to stop looking back. 174 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:19.000 back at my last relationship, and to stop looking back into bitterness, but to look forward in the hope and the promises that you, you have for me. 175 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:29.000 Oh my father, I just thank you for this opportunity that we get to look to next year with expectation. 176 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:36.000 And I just pledge my future, I pledge my future and I pledge my life into your hands. 177 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:42.000 I continue to put down the pen and rest in your finished works. 178 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:49.000 So I pledge my love story. I pledge my comfort. 179 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:57.000 I pledge my trust, my dependence and my reliance into your hands. In Jesus name. 180 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:08.000 Lord, 2023 was a very unexpected year you know for a lot of blessings reconciliation, multiple deliverances and miracles Lord. 181 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:19.000 I blew my mind, but I still have this one thing, and it's still occurring so I pledge the timing of when I meet my kingdom spouse, and the whole preparation. 182 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:21.000 I know it soon. 183 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:44.000 Help me not be obsessive over the circumstances and the decades of waiting. So I pledged that in the timing of everything that is going to be falling into place in 2024. 184 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:47.000 Father, I thank you. 185 00:16:47.000 --> 00:17:13.000 I thank you that you have asked me time and time again to come out of hiding that the little girl that keeps hiding and retreating into that dark corner that she's coming out of hiding permanently and forever in 2024, because I'm trusting in you and I'm trusting. 186 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.000 What Jesus did for me on the cross. 187 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:27.000 And I'm going to take 2024 to unwrap the gift of who he is truly understand what he has done for me. 188 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:40.000 So I thank you, Jesus. Amen. 189 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:53.000 Thank you God for bringing me to this group and giving me the opportunity to continue to strengthen my relationship with you and continue learning more about what you do for us and what you've already done for us. 190 00:17:53.000 --> 00:18:17.000 I'm going to show you my loyalty by stopping complaining about what you're not doing and actually focus and praise you for what you have done in my life and the blessings that you've given me, and I'm going to stop telling you how I want things to go and how I expect things to go but really to listen to what plan you have for me and what else I can be doing and I know part of that is going back to church consistently. 191 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:35.000 Show my loyalty to Jesus that I'm delivered, redeemed, I trust the Lord that I will complete this task for him that he has given me. 192 00:18:35.000 --> 00:19:04.000 And now healed my body and soul. I trust that they perceive the trust and faith that God gave me so that I'm finally, I can finally believe once and for all that I've been set free from all the shackles of my past two means my ancestors my family, and I trust that Jesus has now given me and I'm complete as I am, it's time to go out now no matter what, just as I am that I can help just who I am. 193 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:18.000 Just as I am that I can be loving and I can, I am lovable, and I'm strong enough and courageous and compassionate, and the Lord wants me to be abundant reaching all areas of my life. 194 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:25.000 I now dissolve all my false beliefs about love, health, wealth, with the blood of Jesus. 195 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:44.000 I now entrust my entire life, my love, my career, my business, I'm ready to receive the glory, the glorious promises, new beginnings, richness, wealth, happiness, my soul, spirit, me. 196 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:51.000 This, I receive in the name of Lord Jesus Christ. 197 00:19:53.000 --> 00:20:00.000 So good you guys so good. So there's three parts of our activation tonight and we just use the first third of our time. 198 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:00.840 to start that. 199 00:20:00.840 --> 00:20:03.100 If you did not get to go, 200 00:20:03.100 --> 00:20:05.480 you will hopefully get to go in the next section 201 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:06.640 or in the last section. 202 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:08.800 So if you've already shared out loud, 203 00:20:08.800 --> 00:20:11.820 let's try to hold space in this next section 204 00:20:11.820 --> 00:20:13.820 for new people to come on. 205 00:20:13.820 --> 00:20:16.600 Remember, you don't have to have the mic on 206 00:20:16.600 --> 00:20:18.600 like so God can hear you 207 00:20:18.600 --> 00:20:21.080 and we can hear you supernaturally. 208 00:20:21.080 --> 00:20:23.400 So the second part is the pruning. 209 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:25.340 And you guys, this is the really hard one. 210 00:20:25.340 --> 00:20:29.000 And so I really wanna sit in this pocket for a bit 211 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:31.640 because it's easy for us to jump ahead 212 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:32.520 and be like, all right, 213 00:20:32.520 --> 00:20:34.840 here's all the things I'm gonna do next year. 214 00:20:34.840 --> 00:20:37.440 But there's some stuff that we need to lay down. 215 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:39.400 And so when you think about, 216 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:40.960 when you guys, when we have, 217 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:44.120 and when we prepare for a crash landing on a plane, 218 00:20:44.120 --> 00:20:45.440 what is it that they tell us? 219 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.160 They tell us how much can we take with us 220 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:49.600 when we have a crash landing? 221 00:20:49.600 --> 00:20:50.840 Nothing. 222 00:20:50.840 --> 00:20:53.040 We're not even at like, I'm always the gal. 223 00:20:53.040 --> 00:20:53.880 I don't know about you, 224 00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:56.760 but I'm always the gal that leaves my cross body on 225 00:20:56.760 --> 00:20:57.600 because I'm like, 226 00:20:57.600 --> 00:21:01.000 I'm the girl that's gonna sneak out of here with my purse 227 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:03.520 because I'm not screwing with my license 228 00:21:03.520 --> 00:21:06.460 and my credit cards and my phone. 229 00:21:06.460 --> 00:21:09.060 I'm getting off this plane with that stuff intact. 230 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:11.040 But the Lord, I mean, 231 00:21:11.040 --> 00:21:12.560 but those flight attendants are like, 232 00:21:12.560 --> 00:21:14.300 you're going with nothing. 233 00:21:14.300 --> 00:21:16.280 And so when you think about them crossing over 234 00:21:16.280 --> 00:21:17.680 into the River Jordan, 235 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:19.720 they could not hold their stuff 236 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:21.280 to cross over the River Jordan. 237 00:21:21.280 --> 00:21:24.120 They just had to cross empty-handed, right? 238 00:21:24.120 --> 00:21:26.700 And so there are some things we need to lay down. 239 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:31.020 Either people, we need to lay down promises, 240 00:21:31.020 --> 00:21:34.860 plans, things that have hurt us. 241 00:21:34.860 --> 00:21:36.300 I wrote down a whole list of things. 242 00:21:36.300 --> 00:21:37.620 Let's see. 243 00:21:37.620 --> 00:21:41.000 Grudges, hurts, whatever has happened. 244 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:43.460 And you guys, especially the promise. 245 00:21:43.460 --> 00:21:45.560 There are some of you on this call, 246 00:21:45.560 --> 00:21:47.880 I have seen for a year ago, 247 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:50.600 the Lord promised this when I was 16 years old 248 00:21:50.600 --> 00:21:52.860 and I had three prophets confirm it. 249 00:21:52.860 --> 00:21:55.020 And so it hasn't happened yet. 250 00:21:55.020 --> 00:21:56.180 And what's gonna go on? 251 00:21:56.620 --> 00:21:57.460 Well, it didn't. 252 00:21:57.460 --> 00:21:58.580 So we gotta let it go. 253 00:21:58.580 --> 00:22:01.660 You gotta lay down that promise that you were given 254 00:22:01.660 --> 00:22:03.860 because it's gonna be a different promise now. 255 00:22:03.860 --> 00:22:05.860 I don't know why it didn't happen 256 00:22:05.860 --> 00:22:07.900 the way you thought it was gonna happen. 257 00:22:07.900 --> 00:22:10.800 But if you feel like there has been a promise 258 00:22:10.800 --> 00:22:13.820 that was given to you, that was confirmed, 259 00:22:13.820 --> 00:22:17.580 but it literally in the natural cannot happen anymore, 260 00:22:17.580 --> 00:22:19.180 I need you to be willing to lay it down 261 00:22:19.180 --> 00:22:21.660 because it means that God has something good for you. 262 00:22:21.660 --> 00:22:24.460 And the way my pastor kind of described it is, 263 00:22:24.460 --> 00:22:28.420 if we're holding on to old promises and grudges like this, 264 00:22:28.420 --> 00:22:30.300 like we're just holding on like this, 265 00:22:30.300 --> 00:22:33.540 like, God, you promised, but that person hurt me 266 00:22:33.540 --> 00:22:35.240 and they haven't paid the price 267 00:22:35.240 --> 00:22:37.200 and their consequent hasn't happened. 268 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:40.380 You guys, if I'm holding tightly to the pain, 269 00:22:40.380 --> 00:22:43.340 the broken promises and the people from my past 270 00:22:43.340 --> 00:22:47.680 are my hands in any shape to grab something new? 271 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:48.540 No. 272 00:22:48.540 --> 00:22:50.880 So I have to lay it down. 273 00:22:51.820 --> 00:22:52.780 So I want you to, 274 00:22:52.780 --> 00:22:55.700 so we're gonna go back into a moment of prayer 275 00:22:56.580 --> 00:22:59.260 and I want you to start to journal 276 00:22:59.260 --> 00:23:01.380 and we're gonna just lay it before the Lord 277 00:23:01.380 --> 00:23:03.180 to start to think about what God needs you 278 00:23:03.180 --> 00:23:05.180 to leave behind in 2023. 279 00:23:07.340 --> 00:23:09.020 Some of you started to do that, 280 00:23:09.020 --> 00:23:10.820 but we're gonna go a little further. 281 00:23:22.780 --> 00:23:32.780 ♪♪♪ 282 00:23:32.780 --> 00:23:42.780 ♪♪♪ 283 00:23:42.780 --> 00:23:52.780 ♪♪♪ 284 00:23:52.780 --> 00:24:02.780 ♪♪♪ 285 00:24:02.780 --> 00:24:12.780 ♪♪♪ 286 00:24:12.780 --> 00:24:22.780 ♪♪♪ 287 00:24:22.780 --> 00:24:32.780 ♪♪♪ 288 00:24:32.780 --> 00:24:42.780 ♪♪♪ 289 00:24:42.780 --> 00:24:50.780 ♪♪♪ 290 00:24:50.780 --> 00:24:54.780 ♪♪♪ 291 00:24:54.780 --> 00:24:56.780 Oh, Father God, 292 00:24:56.780 --> 00:24:58.780 I know this message was for me too. 293 00:24:58.780 --> 00:24:59.780 Father God, I... 294 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:05.600 I find it interesting that you even gave me a dream last night. 295 00:25:05.600 --> 00:25:08.880 This is a TMI moment, but my brothers and sisters can handle it. 296 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:13.000 In this dream, I needed to go to the bathroom, but I couldn't go to the bathroom. 297 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:17.920 And so I started Googling spiritually what that means, and it talks about how there are 298 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:22.480 things that need to be released that are holding us back, that we just need to leave stuff 299 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:23.480 behind. 300 00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:26.920 So, gosh, Father God, you gave the message from Jackie. 301 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:31.400 You gave it to me in a dream last night, which was creepy weird, but I trust you in that. 302 00:25:31.400 --> 00:25:33.480 And then you brought it to me in a sermon today. 303 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:38.200 And so, Father God, I'm leaving behind things that make me sad to leave behind. 304 00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:41.440 I'm leaving behind that broken friendship with my best friend. 305 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.320 It was on my Jesus Care Board this year for that friendship to be restored, but Father 306 00:25:45.320 --> 00:25:48.840 God, I leave that friendship in your hands. 307 00:25:48.840 --> 00:25:54.440 You know the hour and the time and the way that if there is supposed to be reconciliation, 308 00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:59.040 only you can manifest it, and there's nothing I can do to do that. 309 00:25:59.040 --> 00:26:01.440 So, Father God, I release that relationship to you. 310 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:06.520 Father God, I still have dreams about my former company and the person who I passed the baton 311 00:26:06.520 --> 00:26:07.520 to. 312 00:26:07.520 --> 00:26:09.840 And so, Father God, I release that to you. 313 00:26:09.840 --> 00:26:15.160 I ask for a complete purning for my connection, that there's any pain left of my connection 314 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:16.320 to the old ministry. 315 00:26:16.320 --> 00:26:20.200 And so, Father God, I leave those two things behind. 316 00:26:20.200 --> 00:26:24.400 It makes me sad to do it, and I'm just admitting that it makes me sad to do it. 317 00:26:25.360 --> 00:26:30.640 But I know that what you have in front of me, the relationships, the ministry, I can't 318 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:34.080 receive them with open hands if my vision is looking back. 319 00:26:34.080 --> 00:26:38.360 So, I just trust you in that, and so that is when I'm laying down. 320 00:26:38.360 --> 00:26:43.200 And Father God, I now just ask my brothers and sisters to do the same, whatever you are 321 00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:47.560 asking them to lay down, even if it's hard for them to do it, or they do it with sadness 322 00:26:47.560 --> 00:26:50.800 and grief, let them be confident to do it. 323 00:26:51.800 --> 00:26:59.560 Heavenly Father, I lay down to you all the broken promises I hold on to, all the disappointment 324 00:26:59.560 --> 00:27:06.320 I have felt, the past relationships that no longer matter, I leave them, and the memories 325 00:27:06.320 --> 00:27:12.280 and what ifs in the past, and open my eyes to what you have for me that I cannot see 326 00:27:12.280 --> 00:27:13.280 yet. 327 00:27:13.280 --> 00:27:18.120 I ask for a complete pruning of all things that hold me down, in Jesus' name. 328 00:27:20.800 --> 00:27:38.320 Heavenly Father, I lay down any security that I find in worldly things, or even in 329 00:27:38.320 --> 00:27:45.600 your blessings, whether that's finances, or familiarity, familiar places, familiar people, 330 00:27:45.600 --> 00:27:54.360 God, or I'm just kind of resting in that space of feeling safe in anything that isn't 331 00:27:54.360 --> 00:27:55.360 you. 332 00:27:55.360 --> 00:27:58.360 So, God, I just release that to you. 333 00:28:04.360 --> 00:28:11.760 Lord, I lay down the idea of a man having to take care of me, I lay down my past mistakes 334 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:21.200 of my previous relationships, and wanting to have biological children, and that I didn't 335 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:29.120 pick or commit well to find a good man and have a family in my time frame, I lay it down. 336 00:28:42.120 --> 00:29:02.720 Heavenly Father, I release all beliefs, the hurt of my previous colleagues, church servants, 337 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:08.600 all the judgment of people, all those companies that hurt me, belief that I get sick always, 338 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:15.000 hurt by bullying of other people, I release all cycle of unemployment, unwise managing 339 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:21.920 of wealth, me keeping my heart, love, so as not to get hurt, repeating from going out, 340 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:29.400 fear of success, people, rejection, and perfectionism, I release them, in the mighty name of Jesus. 341 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:47.680 Lord, I lay down my need to know, my need to know why, my need to know when, my need 342 00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:57.240 to know where, what, just my need to know, Lord, I lay down my need to please everyone 343 00:29:57.240 --> 00:29:59.280 around me, I release that. 344 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:10.000 I release my need for reconciliation, a belief that I thought was a promise from you. 345 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.000 I'm laying that down. 346 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:14.000 I'm trusting you. 347 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:20.000 Trusting that you know what's best for me. 348 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:21.000 You know. 349 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:22.000 You know. 350 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:24.000 I don't need to know you know. 351 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:36.000 I just need to sit on your lap and just let you actually just let you take the pen of my life. 352 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.000 So freaking hard. 353 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:40.000 Sorry. 354 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:47.000 It's so hard but I know that you that you got me. You always have, you always will. 355 00:30:47.000 --> 00:31:05.000 So I thank you that I may not know what the heck is going on, but you do, and I'm just going to trust you that you'll, you'll lead me and guide me in your way everlasting because that's what you do and it's what you've always done. 356 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:06.000 Thank you. 357 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:16.000 Father for just loving me. 358 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:26.000 Lord, I have a lot on my list, but I'm just gonna say a couple I lay down fear and anxiety. 359 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:44.000 And I'm also leaving behind self hatred and comparison to others and an old identity in 2023. 360 00:31:45.000 --> 00:32:04.000 I leave behind in 2023, all the things I didn't do or should have done to be obedient to you, Lord, and I leave behind the things I can't control in my job, my finances, things I can't control with my daughter. 361 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:29.000 And just the fact that I haven't met my spirit mate yet Lord Jesus but you have him in your due time Lord Jesus and I just pray that you just prune me to be the right fit for him as well, but mostly for you, and for the relationship for him and I, and you, in Jesus name. 362 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:48.000 Father God, I need to lay down the feeling that if I'm not over performing and overachieving. I'm failing and Lord that I don't have to prove my worth to anybody my worth resides in you. 363 00:32:48.000 --> 00:33:00.000 And my second thing is that I lay down all resentment of my body for not being able to meet my expectations of what it should be able to do, and society's unrealistic view of beauty and health. 364 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:05.000 I lay down the worry that creating a healthy body will draw the wrong kind of attention. 365 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:13.000 Amen. 366 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:18.000 I lay down. I need to lay down immaturity. 367 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:23.000 Your word says that we are to put away childish things. 368 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:27.000 And I need to lay down idols. 369 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:34.000 Just the obstinate spirit, and as someone said earlier fear and anxiety. 370 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:38.000 In Jesus name I pray. Amen. 371 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:45.000 I'm laying down hearing too much about what other people think of me. 372 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:57.000 I am fearfully and wonderfully made and I will not allow myself to continue to be held hostage by thoughts of what other people might think about in the name of Jesus. 373 00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:12.000 Amen. 374 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:25.000 Lord, I lay down resentment from expectations that I've put on you, and I put on myself Lord. 375 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:36.000 I lay down resentment towards friendships, and even towards my church for not being supportive to single women. 376 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:43.000 So Lord I just lay all that down to you and I lay down comparison. 377 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:59.000 Comparison of others comparison to other married couples Lord, and I just released that to you and receive your, your guidance for the new year. 378 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:00.000 My fear. 379 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.720 of missing out FOMO in the name of Jesus I'll let it go 380 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:49.960 this is good I want to tap into just a few of these if you're if you're brave enough 381 00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:56.000 and you don't have to visit these are always an invitation if you have to lay down barring 382 00:35:56.000 --> 00:36:01.200 a Sarah and Sarah and Abraham moment because the Lord you know it can happen barring this 383 00:36:01.200 --> 00:36:06.400 Sarah and Abraham moment if you are laying down being able to have biological children 384 00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:11.760 it doesn't mean you don't get to be a mom in a hundred other ways but if you need to 385 00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:18.360 lay that down I need to lay it down you guys I mean I'm pretty sure I'm out of menopause 386 00:36:18.520 --> 00:36:22.840 that doesn't mean it can happen but for the most part I've got to lay that down 387 00:36:25.720 --> 00:36:31.080 anybody else needing to lay that down yeah and you can go ahead just raise your hand yeah just 388 00:36:31.080 --> 00:36:36.520 go ahead and raise your avatar hand I'm just going to pray over that one real quick father 389 00:36:36.520 --> 00:36:41.800 God for every woman on here that has had to raise their hand because in the natural we are beyond 390 00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:47.240 childbearing gears or we're close to it or maybe these women have had to have a hysterectomy 391 00:36:47.240 --> 00:36:51.480 father God because of some other medical condition and so father God if there is still 392 00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:57.640 a desire to mother for each of us who has raised our hand father God I know that you can do above 393 00:36:57.640 --> 00:37:03.640 and beyond what we ever thought or that we can imagine and so if being a mother is something 394 00:37:03.640 --> 00:37:08.760 you still have on as a call for our life father God I know that you can redeem it I don't know 395 00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:15.000 how and I don't know in what way but I know that you can redeem it and so that we women who's had 396 00:37:15.160 --> 00:37:21.960 to lay that down that we will be able to pick up a new way to mother and we believe that when 397 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:26.680 that moment happens we're going to look back to this moment because we laid it down and we trusted 398 00:37:26.680 --> 00:37:31.320 you that you handed it back to us even bigger and better and more amazing that we could imagine 399 00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:38.040 awesome awesome you guys I just I feel that one with you I just feel that one deeply okay the 400 00:37:38.040 --> 00:37:45.880 other one I want to call out for more folks is if you have to lay down a relationship whether it's 401 00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:53.800 with a sibling a parent a child a best friend you were hoping it was going to reconcile you may still 402 00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:59.320 want it to reconcile but you hoping it and praying for it has been so painful because it's just so 403 00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:04.600 close to you still that you're literally just laying this relationship down and you're like 404 00:38:04.600 --> 00:38:12.600 I got nothing Lord I wanted this to reconcile but father God this relationship is now in your hands 405 00:38:12.600 --> 00:38:18.520 and I trust your will to be done so father God I just pray for every single person on here who 406 00:38:18.520 --> 00:38:24.120 has to lay down a relationship it could be a co-worker a family member a friend it could be 407 00:38:24.120 --> 00:38:29.800 the the guy or the girl that they were dating it could be the guy or girl that they were pining for 408 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:34.360 that they were they were getting crumbs all these weeks and months and they thought for sure 409 00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:40.440 it was going to be the relationship that you had for them and maybe it was and maybe they're just 410 00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:46.440 in disobedience right now and maybe the relationships that need to be pulled away from us 411 00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:52.280 are their disobedience not our lack of obedience and so father God we want to be safe and so we 412 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:58.600 just we give you those relationships we lay them at your feet and we know that in its place you 413 00:38:58.600 --> 00:39:03.880 will fill us relations with relationships that are healthy that are kind that are loving that 414 00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:09.640 are going to fill us and they're going to be with us in the new season doing the new things building 415 00:39:09.640 --> 00:39:17.720 the new dreams that you have for us in Jesus name awesome awesome awesome awesome okay um we're 416 00:39:17.720 --> 00:39:22.840 going to keep going I just wanted to call out those two because those just really jumped up 417 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:29.160 a lot um oh one more because I know this is me and Rachelle I think you kind of tapped into it 418 00:39:29.160 --> 00:39:36.600 if you have to lay down your anger at your church for not doing a better job um you know how the 419 00:39:36.600 --> 00:39:43.000 word says we have to take care of the widows and orphans and I would argue 2023 single women over 420 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:49.000 the age and men over the age of 30 expect especially fall in that category of what I 421 00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:53.160 would call the widows and orphans and we're kind of like why aren't you preaching about being 422 00:39:53.160 --> 00:39:56.920 single from the pulpit I'm tired of it just being a Thursday night thing or there's no 423 00:39:56.920 --> 00:39:59.960 Thursday night thing or you never talk about it or you have a great 424 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.520 singles ministry for the 20 year olds and you have nothing from my age group. If you have to forgive 425 00:40:05.520 --> 00:40:11.520 your church, maybe you have spiritual wounding, spiritual abuse that you need to forgive your 426 00:40:11.520 --> 00:40:17.520 church. And there's a lot of stuff going on in the church. Some of us grew up with a strong 427 00:40:17.520 --> 00:40:24.960 denomination that really relied a lot on guilt and shame and fear. And so maybe you just need to not 428 00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:31.040 just forgive your little C church that you go to, but maybe the church overall. Father God, 429 00:40:31.040 --> 00:40:36.800 I just ask for covering and healing. Father God, these wounds that are so deep and painful, 430 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:41.360 and they're deep and painful because it's in the house of the Lord. It's connected with brothers 431 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:46.880 and sisters. It's connected with people that we think should know better, right? It is one thing 432 00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:52.240 when this secular world messes up with us and hurts our feelings. But Father God, when we are 433 00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:59.120 hurt by the church body and we are hurt by the church, it cuts deeper. And somehow it makes us 434 00:40:59.120 --> 00:41:05.120 severed in our relationship with you. And we just ask for forgiveness for that. And we lay down that 435 00:41:05.120 --> 00:41:10.960 sadness and we lay down that pain and we don't want to bring that pain, that anger, that bitterness. 436 00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:16.480 We just don't want to do that. We are not bringing that bitterness with us and that resentment with 437 00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:23.040 us into 2024. So thank you so much for forgiving us in our complete honesty, where we've been 438 00:41:23.040 --> 00:41:29.120 angry at the church, your church in Jesus name. Okay, let's keep going. I want to take a couple 439 00:41:29.120 --> 00:41:36.720 more before we go into the third section of today, which is planning with purpose and promise. So 440 00:41:36.720 --> 00:41:42.320 anybody else either want to pledge something, lay something down. I want to make sure you have space 441 00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:46.160 to get to do that before we go to the next section. 442 00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:27.280 I'm just checking the chats to make sure we got everything before we go to the next section, but feel free to jump in if you want to pray. 443 00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:46.480 I'd like to surrender my deepest pain. I've tried to heal and ask the Lord for healing about 444 00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:59.680 abandonment, not feeling worthy, not being given enough love by my family, parents. They're just 445 00:42:59.680 --> 00:43:06.480 busy with work, but it's just that it's there and it has caused so much problems in my life. 446 00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:14.800 All the rejection, perfectionism, everything I laid down and surrendered to God. Thank you so much. 447 00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:29.760 I want to surrender the hurt that I've been having from churches on not being able to see my 448 00:43:30.640 --> 00:43:37.840 ability to lead and to grow in the church. And I just want to forgive them for that. And I just 449 00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:43.600 want to trust God that if he wants me to lead, he will put me in a position no matter what these 450 00:43:43.600 --> 00:43:58.320 leaders say. So good. So good, you guys. I don't know about y'all, but I just feel like sometimes 451 00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:03.760 we think our prayer times have to be loud and cray-cray for the Holy Spirit to be moving, but 452 00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:11.040 I just feel a gentle Holy Spirit balm over this session right now. I feel like the Lord is with 453 00:44:11.040 --> 00:44:17.200 us in the most tender place. And I just, I could feel the presence of the Holy Spirit kind of going 454 00:44:17.200 --> 00:44:24.240 person to person. And we are across many miles, but he is giving gentle hugs to each and every 455 00:44:24.240 --> 00:44:32.720 single one of us. And he is saying, I see you, I hear you, and I am with you. And so now we're 456 00:44:32.720 --> 00:44:37.840 going to talk about, we're going to pray into what God is asking us to be in preparation. 457 00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:44.800 How are we preparing? How are we purposely planning? One of the words that Jackie used 458 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:50.320 was the word planting. And when we think about planting anything, whether we're planting a tree, 459 00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:57.280 a flower, an herb, a vegetable, you have to prepare the soil. Then you have to plant the 460 00:44:57.280 --> 00:44:59.840 seeds and then you have to tend to it. 461 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:06.660 And for the longest time, it doesn't look like anything is growing until it is. 462 00:45:06.660 --> 00:45:10.680 And I think about when a house is being built and they're working on the foundation and 463 00:45:10.680 --> 00:45:13.200 all the stuff under the ground, so to speak. 464 00:45:13.200 --> 00:45:17.320 And you drive by, like my church, we just had our church service today for the first 465 00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:18.840 time in our brand new building. 466 00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:22.760 I can't tell you how many weeks I drove past the pile of dirt and I'm like, what's going 467 00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:23.760 on? 468 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:24.760 Nothing's happening. 469 00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:26.480 It doesn't look like anything's happening. 470 00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:30.240 And then even two weeks ago when I was painting in the children's ministry, I'm like, there's 471 00:45:30.240 --> 00:45:32.280 no way we're going to be open in two weeks. 472 00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:33.780 There's too much to do. 473 00:45:33.780 --> 00:45:38.160 And then all of a sudden it's there and that time is there. 474 00:45:38.160 --> 00:45:40.320 And so be thinking about that. 475 00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:42.280 It is now winter. 476 00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:48.040 If you want a summer body, what do you need to be doing today to get to that summer body? 477 00:45:48.040 --> 00:45:52.640 Y'all like, I have avoided going to try on a wedding dress because Jack is like, you 478 00:45:52.640 --> 00:45:55.000 just need to activate it and go on and try a wedding dress. 479 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:58.640 And I've been like, no, I'm not going back into, I'm not going to go try on a wedding 480 00:45:58.640 --> 00:46:00.440 dress until I can fit in a size four. 481 00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:02.400 Like seriously, like that's my mindset. 482 00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:06.640 Well, I've just, by golly, I've decided I'm going to do something stinking about it. 483 00:46:06.640 --> 00:46:12.000 So I've been really working with fitness and nutrition coach really helping me since April. 484 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:16.800 And by golly, I'm going to be able to go try on that dress this summer one way or the other. 485 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:23.680 And so what is God asking you to prepare, plant, have a purpose for, and remember that 486 00:46:23.680 --> 00:46:31.200 whatever God's asking you to do now for the season ahead, he is going to go before you. 487 00:46:31.200 --> 00:46:36.240 In the same way, when Moses was taking all of the tribes with him, he always sent the 488 00:46:36.240 --> 00:46:43.440 12 leaders ahead to take care of the land, make sure was there food, shelter, clothing. 489 00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:44.920 Do we have to take care of an army? 490 00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:46.800 Do we have to fight to take the land? 491 00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:50.520 He never just brought people into the land without preparation. 492 00:46:50.520 --> 00:46:55.000 And then when they cross into the river Jordan, Joshua had them prepare and plan. 493 00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:59.800 And so now we're going to kind of pray into, so we're going to take a couple more minutes. 494 00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:02.800 I'm just going to give you a minute to do this because we're getting slower on time. 495 00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:07.240 We're getting lower on time and we're going to pray into what God might be asking you 496 00:47:07.240 --> 00:47:09.240 to do right now. 497 00:47:09.240 --> 00:47:12.640 So when this is going to get a little bit more specific and some of you are like, I'm 498 00:47:12.640 --> 00:47:14.080 going to get rid of fear and anxiety. 499 00:47:14.080 --> 00:47:15.080 I'm going to stop doing this. 500 00:47:15.080 --> 00:47:16.400 I'm going to start doing that. 501 00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:20.680 So you've done some, I'm going to stop doings and now you're going to kind of lean into 502 00:47:20.680 --> 00:47:22.700 what you're going to start doing. 503 00:47:22.700 --> 00:47:29.280 And I just want you to think about the one or two things that he's asking you to do tonight, 504 00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:33.060 starting tomorrow, not the 500 things. 505 00:47:33.060 --> 00:47:37.400 Now your list might come up with 500, but you're only going to claim tonight the one 506 00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:41.480 or two things because I want you to know, I want to know that you're going to actually 507 00:47:41.480 --> 00:47:44.240 do it and we're going to, we're going to hold you accountable to it. 508 00:47:44.240 --> 00:47:50.320 So we're going to go into a time of prayer and let the Lord lead you on with, and then 509 00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:51.440 I will start the prayer. 510 00:49:44.320 --> 00:49:47.520 It's just so hard sometimes for us to figure out what we need to pick up and do. 511 00:49:47.520 --> 00:49:51.880 And one of the things that Jackie shared, you know, with us yesterday was she was talking 512 00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:56.400 about somebody who said that we didn't need to do anything that if the Lord wants stuff 513 00:49:56.400 --> 00:49:59.800 for us, that he's just going to bring it to us and he doesn't need us. 514 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.320 Lord, we know you don't need us. 515 00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:06.000 I mean, you just blinked the world into existence. 516 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:08.120 You breathed life. 517 00:50:08.120 --> 00:50:09.900 You touched things. 518 00:50:09.900 --> 00:50:15.600 So Father God, we know that you don't need us, but we know that you want us to be a part 519 00:50:15.600 --> 00:50:17.720 of your army. 520 00:50:17.720 --> 00:50:22.080 We know that you desire for us to pick up our part and do our thing. 521 00:50:22.080 --> 00:50:26.920 And so Father God, I just, I think about the thing that you have asked me to do. 522 00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:34.080 And so as I prepare myself, um, for this next season that you have for me, I keep hearing 523 00:50:34.080 --> 00:50:37.000 the phrase, clear the deck, clear the deck. 524 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:43.280 And I know that means laying down some activities that just are time busters. 525 00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:44.760 They're not, they're not bad things. 526 00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:48.620 They're just, they're nice to have, they're good, but they're stopping me from the great. 527 00:50:48.620 --> 00:50:54.680 And so Father God, um, I really will pray into this Christmas season while I'm home 528 00:50:54.800 --> 00:51:01.200 to just start to think about all of the things, um, that I'm going to have to say no to, um, 529 00:51:01.200 --> 00:51:03.480 so that I make the big room for yeses. 530 00:51:03.480 --> 00:51:10.360 Um, and so Father God, I commit that I'm laying down some of my activity, some of my social 531 00:51:10.360 --> 00:51:15.160 activity and Father God, I just, even the stuff that feels good because I want to feel 532 00:51:15.160 --> 00:51:17.240 great in Jesus name. 533 00:51:17.240 --> 00:51:21.720 And now Father God, just listen to my brothers and sisters as they say the one or two things 534 00:51:21.720 --> 00:51:25.800 that they're going to do in preparation for what you have in front of them. 535 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:43.640 Heavenly Father, I want to start meal planning and house cleaning and start a new exercise 536 00:51:43.640 --> 00:51:48.680 plan and I need one that's going to fit my needs. 537 00:51:48.680 --> 00:51:53.640 And so I pray, Lord, that you will give me the creativity to give me the resources that 538 00:51:53.640 --> 00:52:00.440 I need to find something that will work well for me and my schedule and my lifestyle. 539 00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:07.240 And I pray for better habits, uh, starting now and even into the future in Jesus name. 540 00:52:07.240 --> 00:52:07.740 Amen. 541 00:52:08.700 --> 00:52:09.200 Amen. 542 00:52:16.140 --> 00:52:21.900 Father God, thank you for immediately letting me know to have fun, to ask help and remember 543 00:52:21.900 --> 00:52:26.300 my why, my family and the people that I need to serve. 544 00:52:27.020 --> 00:52:35.180 And it's all because of you to drop my shoulders and relax and just trust on you and have faith 545 00:52:36.140 --> 00:52:39.260 that this Christmas will be the best Christmas of all time. 546 00:52:40.780 --> 00:52:41.580 Thank you, Lord. 547 00:52:49.660 --> 00:52:56.940 Father, in order to combat the fear that wants to encroach on me, 548 00:52:57.580 --> 00:53:02.140 I will read Psalm 91 aloud every day. 549 00:53:05.180 --> 00:53:14.620 Lord, I will forgive the three additional people that you have placed on my heart. 550 00:53:14.620 --> 00:53:18.700 And I don't want to, but I will walk in obedience and I will forgive them. 551 00:53:25.900 --> 00:53:29.180 Lord, I hear you saying to me to start saving for my wedding. 552 00:53:30.140 --> 00:53:36.380 This seems really silly, but I'm going to open up an account, Lord, I'm going to do it. 553 00:53:36.940 --> 00:53:37.980 I'm going to activate it. 554 00:53:37.980 --> 00:53:38.780 I'm going to do it. 555 00:53:42.700 --> 00:53:47.900 Lord, I'm going to be more of a bride this year. 556 00:53:47.900 --> 00:53:51.340 That means stop pushing things in control. 557 00:53:51.500 --> 00:53:54.140 Stop pushing things in control. 558 00:53:55.020 --> 00:53:59.580 That means not binge eating when I'm stressed out. 559 00:54:00.460 --> 00:54:06.460 And that means just being more submissive to your will and just instructions of leaders, 560 00:54:06.460 --> 00:54:09.340 not, you know, double questioning everything, 561 00:54:10.060 --> 00:54:13.500 or just being a better steward of the resources that you've given me. 562 00:54:13.500 --> 00:54:13.900 Amen. 563 00:54:14.380 --> 00:54:19.500 I will start pursuing a job that includes ministry and seeking God's will 564 00:54:20.060 --> 00:54:22.540 on what he wants me to do and not what I want to do. 565 00:54:34.540 --> 00:54:42.940 Father, I thank you that I'm actually the opposite of Renee and I need your help. 566 00:54:43.020 --> 00:54:46.140 And I need to actually seek community. 567 00:54:46.140 --> 00:54:47.900 I need to seek friendships. 568 00:54:48.540 --> 00:54:50.220 I need a social life. 569 00:54:50.220 --> 00:54:55.740 And I need to stop saying no to invitations because I'm tired 570 00:54:56.380 --> 00:54:59.820 or because I just don't feel like it or that I guard my time. 571 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:29.000 So I'm releasing my time to you, and I'm going to start saying yes more to invitations and putting myself out there. Thank you, Jesus. 572 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:58.000 God, I am going to start scheduling how I'm going to use my leisure time so that there is a better balance between socializing and tending to my ministry, that neither is taking over the other, so that neither is neglected. 573 00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:13.000 God, I'm going to lay down the idea that I always have to say yes to everybody, that it's okay to say no to some things if you don't want me to do it. 574 00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:32.000 Yeah, I agree with that. I just agree with him, and I say no to people-pleasing and yes to God-pleasing, and God, just show us the direction on when to say yes, when to say no, and not feel bad about saying no, and not be a people-pleaser. 575 00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:58.000 God, just show us the difference through the Holy Spirit in our hearts and our actions. Give us the ability to be brave and stand up for our value and our worth and know who we are and our identity in kindness and in value and not where the pendulum swings the other way, where we're upset or bitter. 576 00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:03.000 God, help us to find that balance, Lord, to ask you for the balance. Thank you, God. 577 00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:26.000 Lord, I'm just going to commit to giving you my schedule as we all are, because you said to me the last time I was chatting with a man, I was saying, Lord, I wish I heard from him more, and you sweetly spoke to me, you don't have enough time for the amount of attention you think you want from him. 578 00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:38.000 It just burned me. So Lord, I just thank you that I commit to making room for you. That was the song I was listening to in my car on the way to church, and then we literally sang that at the end of church. 579 00:57:38.000 --> 00:58:00.000 So I will commit to making room for you, Father, because it's truly all your time and would help me to discern better and better what's good and what's God, because I think many of us, Lord, aren't even engaging in evil things or just frivolous things, even though we're doing a lot of really good things, but Lord, let us know what's God and what's good. 580 00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:20.000 And Lord, I thank you that I will care for my body as a vessel of the Holy Spirit as you've just continued to peel back the layers of my healing journey and showing me that the pendulum has swung in my life from anorexia to gluttony and all the factors in between, and you've shown me that they're all forms of self-harm. 581 00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:43.000 And so, Father, I thank you that you've continued to heal this childhood trauma I endured, where the root of that was, and I thank you, Lord, for your healing balm to just continue to bring light into those darkest parts of our healing souls, and I just praise you, Lord, that this is the best year ever. In Jesus' name. 582 00:58:50.000 --> 00:59:19.000 Lord, I just, first of all, just want to thank you for how my continence has changed due to this call. And tomorrow, Lord, I will be making a call to inquire about a space for my business that you've put in my heart, a seed that you planted, and I'm excited about writing out a business plan, hoping for a grant maybe, as you open the door, Lord. 583 00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:46.000 And I'm just grateful for how you just came in and just, whoo, just, I don't even know how to say it. I'm just so grateful for this, this group. It's just amazing. Because I'm just activated to be excited about what you've put in me, Lord. You've put, you've planted the seed in me. It's my calling. It's my calling and my business. 584 00:59:46.000 --> 01:00:00.000 I'm just, I'm so grateful for how you're going to open those doors and, you know, and just even just being excited about it. Even that is good enough for me right now. So thank you so much. And thank you for you, all you ladies who revolted. 585 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.600 vulnerable and shared in the men too. 586 01:00:01.600 --> 01:00:03.560 Just thank you so much for your vulnerability. 587 01:00:03.560 --> 01:00:04.620 It's been amazing. 588 01:00:04.620 --> 01:00:05.080 Thank you. 589 01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:06.280 Thank you, Jesus. 590 01:00:14.440 --> 01:00:20.800 This year I'm laying down and asking for God to really just to love 591 01:00:20.800 --> 01:00:22.920 me the way that he wants to love me. 592 01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:28.680 I try to put boxes and parameters on things and for the Lord to lead me the 593 01:00:28.680 --> 01:00:36.280 way that he wants to lead me so many times I say, you know, I'll give you 594 01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:40.520 this God, but not this, I've got this on my own and that's not how we're 595 01:00:40.520 --> 01:00:41.360 supposed to do it. 596 01:00:41.360 --> 01:00:46.080 It says we're supposed to give him everything and not just the things that 597 01:00:46.080 --> 01:00:49.640 we think that we should or that we need to, but to give him everything. 598 01:00:49.680 --> 01:00:55.400 So I want the Lord to use me in a way that he wants to use me and in the 599 01:00:55.400 --> 01:00:59.480 ministry in the direction that he would choose me to go, not what I have 600 01:00:59.480 --> 01:01:06.760 thought that I wanted to do or the way that I've done it in the past, there's 601 01:01:06.760 --> 01:01:09.080 more and he has more for me. 602 01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:11.960 And so now I'm giving it truly to him. 603 01:01:15.920 --> 01:01:23.000 Lord, I'm actually just planning to just be in prayer with you and just really 604 01:01:23.040 --> 01:01:27.160 try to hear from you on my next steps, especially as I'm transitioning into a 605 01:01:27.160 --> 01:01:34.400 new church and I'm building relationships and just keeping an open mind, you know, 606 01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:41.520 as you're just directing my paths and not try to be swayed by, you know, what 607 01:01:41.520 --> 01:01:46.840 others think of me or how, you know, trying to please people or anything like 608 01:01:46.840 --> 01:01:52.000 that, father, you know, just helping me to learn to hear from you, even if it's 609 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:57.760 daily prayer, whatever it takes to the baby steps that I have to take to get 610 01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:03.360 from one step to the next, and also ultimately meeting my spirit mate, you 611 01:02:03.360 --> 01:02:09.040 know, getting out any of the stuff that is going to get in the way for me to 612 01:02:09.040 --> 01:02:11.600 achieve what you want, what's best for me. 613 01:02:11.960 --> 01:02:17.400 So direct me to be in that right, in that right church, if it's where I'm at now, 614 01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:23.040 or if you have something else for me, and even directing me in my, in the 615 01:02:23.040 --> 01:02:25.240 ministry, I need to serve in father. 616 01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:29.480 So I just give you thanks father for your direction and feed of 617 01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:31.800 guidance in Jesus name, amen. 618 01:02:39.960 --> 01:02:41.400 You guys, this was so good. 619 01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:42.600 I don't want to stop. 620 01:02:42.640 --> 01:02:49.560 Um, I'm just going to believe that, um, some of you have more work and more 621 01:02:49.560 --> 01:02:54.040 time with the Holy spirit, and it doesn't have to end when we hit stop 622 01:02:54.040 --> 01:02:58.920 recording that if this is just sitting with you and you just want to continue 623 01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:01.880 to marinate, I just encourage you to do that. 624 01:03:01.880 --> 01:03:03.120 Father God, we thank you. 625 01:03:03.640 --> 01:03:06.800 Um, we thank you so much for this time. 626 01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:09.560 Father God, we know that you've spoken a lot. 627 01:03:09.680 --> 01:03:13.600 You've been present, but father God, I believe that there's more, I think 628 01:03:13.600 --> 01:03:16.280 there's more to be said, more to be revealed. 629 01:03:16.760 --> 01:03:22.920 And father God, as we have more prayer times and more activations that, um, you 630 01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:27.440 just continue to reveal that you continue to peel that onion back for the guy. 631 01:03:27.440 --> 01:03:30.720 I thank you for each and every single person who has been here alive. 632 01:03:31.400 --> 01:03:35.720 I ask that you give him sweet, Holy spirit, sweet, uh, sleep tonight. 633 01:03:36.040 --> 01:03:41.400 Father God, for anybody who watches this in replay, may you move them and, and 634 01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:45.400 cause them just to have an aha right where they are, no matter what time of 635 01:03:45.400 --> 01:03:47.400 date is that they have listened to this. 636 01:03:47.680 --> 01:03:49.000 We just thank you and praise you. 637 01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:51.560 And we lift all of this up in your precious name, Jesus. 638 01:03:51.600 --> 01:03:52.040 Amen.