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Hello, my name is Monica Perez-Burnett,

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and I am the founder of Faith Led Business

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and the Faith Led Business podcast.

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Today, we are going to be taking a posture of peace

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by taking a look at the gift of obedience.

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Hey, we have a guest host today.

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I am so excited to introduce you

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to my fellow kingdom messenger, Monica Perez-Burnett.

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Together, we're gonna be emboldened

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to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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Let's go ahead and begin with scripture, shall we?

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Deuteronomy 5.33 says,

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walk in obedience to all that the Lord,

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your God, has commanded you,

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so that you may live and prosper

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and prolong your day in the land that you possess.

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I love this scripture because it reminds me

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that God is always for me and not against me.

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It's not a punishment to have to obey his commands.

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It's not a punishment to have to sacrifice

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and let go of certain things.

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They are actually the pathway,

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the opening to opportunities

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that we, by ourselves, could never achieve.

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We could never accomplish.

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We could never even fathom or hope for

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because they only come through the process of obedience.

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I looked up the word obedience in Hebrew

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and it means submission to what is heard

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as a response to someone speaking.

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Let me tell you my experience

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around hearing someone speaking.

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It was December of 2019

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and I was looking for my word of the year.

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I couldn't decide, but I was actually here in my bedroom

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and I heard the word speak.

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I didn't know what that meant in the moment,

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but after some prayer, I heard,

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Monica, you are going to go live

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and do a daily devotional podcast

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every single day of 2020,

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bringing together faith and business.

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And because I have eight children and two sets of twins,

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I am a very busy person

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along with the businesses that I run.

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And I said, Lord, are you sure?

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Are you sure that's what you want me to do?

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You know the amount of time that I have.

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And I didn't get a response.

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It was basically, are you going to do it or not?

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So I said, yes, I will give it a try.

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That was my response, I will try.

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I didn't say, yes, I'm going to do it

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because I knew how many different things

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could go wrong in a year

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for me to miss at least one of those episodes.

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Well, long story short, you would never believe it.

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I couldn't believe it,

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but he gave me the grace through my obedience

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to go live 365 days.

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And we are now on 393.

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It is amazing the lessons that I learned,

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the gifts that I received

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by going through the process of obedience.

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And I want to share those with you today.

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The first gift that I received through this experience

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was understanding that I didn't need to have it

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all figured out before pressing the go button,

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before moving forward and proceeding.

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See, what I learned was that my assignment

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already had victory written all over it.

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My only job was to step into those shoes,

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being willing to go into the field and work.

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So if you have something that God has been telling you to do,

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maybe you're confused about what your next step is.

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I would encourage you before moving actually forward

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with the next step, go back and be obedient

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with the last thing that he told you to do,

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because that is going to give you the opportunity

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to not jump ahead of yourself,

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to let God work in his perfect timing,

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to mold you, to teach you what he wanted to teach you

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the last time he called you to do something.

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He always wants to grow us.

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He always wants to empower us to be him in the world.

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And the only way that we can do that is by modeling him,

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by understanding the beautiful ways that he works within us

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when we are willing to let him work through us.

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The second gift.

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gift I received was coming to understand my value and identity in him and not being willing

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to please others over pleasing him.

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There were many occasions where in fact in order to get this done I would just roll out

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of bed, no makeup, my hair all over the place and in fact in my PJs and I would still go

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live and show up and speak.

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And understanding and being willing to do that showed me that me being willing to be

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authentic, to not wear the labels and the masks that I had used in order to gain approval

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of people instead of God, the people who were listening were actually so touched because

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they said I get it, I wake up like that, I'm like that, I don't have to be perfect

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to be used, I don't have to be perfect to be understood and in fact it created a touch

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point with my audience, with the people that God called me to serve in such a beautiful

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way where honesty and leading with integrity by being willing to be obedient became more

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important than what it looked like, what I thought it should look like or what other

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people thought it should look like.

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The final gift that I want to share with you around being obedient is that God will give

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you the strength to get through whatever he has assigned you to do.

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To me it was so fascinating to watch 365 days where many days I would wake up even

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sick or just with a headache or tired and the moment that I stepped up and did what

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he called me to do, all of the sudden I would receive this amazing boost of energy, this

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determination and commitment to fulfill my assignment and so it was just a revelation

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to me to know even when my emotions said Monica you don't want to do this, even when my body

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said you are depleted, you are in a moment of lack, God would always show up with overflow.

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He gave me the opportunity to work in overflow.

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So I want to tell you once again, if he has called you to be obedient in any area of your

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life, in your work, in your business, in your home, with yourself, he will give you the

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strength to pursue that.

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He will give you the strength to complete that and he will give you the ability to acknowledge,

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praise him and worship him every step of the way because you know it is a testimony to

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you and to the people who see you being obedient that you could not do this on your own, by

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your own strength.

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It comes straight from him and that is one of the biggest gifts, one of the biggest revelations

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that we don't have to do it on our own.

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We have a father who loves us enough to call us into the gift of obedience.