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Well, thank you for checking in.

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My name is Leanne Friesman, and this is Restoring Word.

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It's a video blog designed to build your faith in God.

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Thank you for taking time to listen today.

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It's that time of year when we're all setting goals.

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And it's an exciting time, but I have a lot of scriptures I want to share with you today.

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And these scriptures have to do with inviting God into your plans that you're making for

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the new year.

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I've got some interesting and thought-provoking questions with some awesome scriptures just

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to invite the Holy Spirit into your journey and into your process.

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You know, when I started this journey in June, I had no idea that it would grow as fast as

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it has.

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And I want to thank you for taking time just to listen.

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Some of you see it on one platform, but not on another.

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And I want to thank you all for subscribing.

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There's over 15,000 subscribers.

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Most of them, of course, are not on YouTube.

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Viewers are on Facebook and on Instagram.

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And then I've got eight podcast channels that I'm on.

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And just thank you for liking and sharing and taking time, especially share this with

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someone that you feel needs to be encouraged in the Word of God.

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And that's why I'm doing all of this.

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Okay, so it's time to start the new year.

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And it's time to start setting goals for the new year.

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What are some important biblical things that you should think about?

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You know, God wants to be involved in every aspect of your life.

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No matter what it is, God wants to be involved in the journey.

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So I have a couple things for you to think of.

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First off, have faith and trust in God and know that He wants to be a part of that journey.

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He wants you to invite Him into that.

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And then He will, as you invite Him into the process, He may adapt or adjust some of those

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yearly goals that you set out for yourself.

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You know, when I set out on this journey, my goal was to just get people that needed

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help to be able to listen.

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I wasn't looking to sell anything.

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I wasn't looking, you know, to take an offering or get bookings or anything like that.

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I just wanted people to hear the Word of God.

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I taught Bible for 28 years.

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It was part of my gifting.

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I knew what I could do.

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I knew where my heart was.

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And I didn't think that at this point in my life that the Lord was going to stop using

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that gifting.

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So I had to set some goals.

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And I had to learn some technology.

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And then I had to be consistent.

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And then I had to figure out how to make it better and more professional.

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And then I had to figure out how to market it and promote it and get it out there.

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And all of it has been a big journey.

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But in the very beginning, I just had to get a word from Him.

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Lord, were you wanting me to do this?

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Whatever the Lord is asking you to do, you want to invite Him in, especially in the early

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part of those planning stages.

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And you want Him to be involved in kind of laying the foundation in what it is that you

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feel He's telling you to do.

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Because I can tell you that if you will invite Him into the process, you will meet the right

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people.

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You will get the right help.

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You will get the right assistance.

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God will take you on a journey in Him and through others.

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And He will be glorified in it, which is ultimately the goal.

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But first and foremost, you've really got to invite Him into that process.

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Then it's going to take some diligence and some perseverance.

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It just seems like I never ever get to stop learning new technology.

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It's part of what He's doing in my life.

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It's part of what He's doing in terms of my calling.

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It just seems like there's always something new for me to learn.

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You're going to have to be diligent.

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Be prepared for that.

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But He will give you the grace and the strength to go forward.

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There's going to be a cost.

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You're going to have to invest in yourself.

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You're going to have to invest in what He's telling you to do.

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You might have to spend a little money to get it started.

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For me, time is money because I just never ever have enough time.

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So if I can find people like the Kingdom Messengers group that I'm a part of that

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will mentor me and help me learn all of this technology so that I don't make the

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mistakes that others have made, it's going to be more productive.

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And I'm thankful every day for the Divine Appointment.

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on this journey that I started because in my diligence and perseverance I had

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to have good advice and have wisdom. I had people that would teach me and show

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me how to do things and when he's in the journey and he's on it with you he's

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going to lead you to the right people at the right time and at the right place.

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The other thing that when you're starting something new you definitely

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want to check your motivations and for me I think this was really a hard one

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because I'm not gaining anything by doing this every week. I'm gaining

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because what I do is I grow in Christ when I pour into other people. In pouring

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into other people, other kids, my students, even my family, even the Bible study that

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I'm doing now online. In getting ready for that it actually feeds me spiritually

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so that's the number one motivation and then the number two is just to be

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obedient. You never know how God will use something when you're just

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getting started. His idea of what you should do is always going to be bigger

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than what you think it is. Did I think I would have 15,000 people

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listening to me last June? No, not at all. I'm thankful. I'm humbled actually. I'm

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kind of blown away that I have people that will listen and I'm

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thankful. I don't take that for granted. I take your time. I know how valuable your

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time is and honestly that's why I try to keep these things under about anywhere

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from 10 to 15 minutes because your time is valuable. So I've got some 25 verses

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here to share with you and I'm just going to skip around and kind of read

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aloud the ones that I think are important and then I'll try to post

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these underneath the broadcast on YouTube and even in the comments and

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discussion on Facebook. 2 Chronicles 15 7 but as for you be strong and do not

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give up for your work will be rewarded. There is a reward to receive from being

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obedient in him and ultimately that reward is to glorify God and to bring

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people into the kingdom. Discipleship is an important principle and that's what

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we're called to do is disciple others. Psalms 20 verse 4 he may give you the

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desires of your heart so that your plans will succeed. If you invite him

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into it and it's really your heart to do something for him and you invite him

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into the process he's going to show you how to help it be successful. Psalms 33

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and I've got a lot of scriptures from Psalms and Proverbs. Psalms 33 11 but the

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plans of the Lord stand firm forever the purposes of his heart through all

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generations. One thing God is interested in is building the kingdom. If what

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you're doing is going to involve building the kingdom then he is going to

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get involved with it. He's interested in others. He loves people and he loves

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those that share his word and he will honor his word. Psalm 37 verse 4 and 5

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take delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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Commit your way to the Lord. Trust him. Commit the way to him. You know I had a

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conversation with Grant I think it was Mother's Day about starting Restoring

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Word and I didn't have really the resources in my hand until the first

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week of June and then the Lord started dealing with me up in Sioux City. I

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needed to start this and that's actually where it all began. Invite him into the

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journey. Psalms 118 verse 8 it's better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust

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in humans. There are going to be people who are going to come across your path

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and they're going to try to give you their advice but ultimately you really

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want to be led by him. Psalms 127 verse 1 unless the Lord builds the house the

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builders labor in vain. You know if you're going to build something for the

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kingdom you don't want it to be in vain and you don't want it to be a waste of

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your time and your energy. You really want it to be productive. Well if you're

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going to do that then you've got to invite him into the process and you've

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got to ask for those divine appointments. You've got to ask for the

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right people at the right time at the right place. He'll give it to you and of

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course my one of my favorite verses of all time it was given to me years ago

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Proverbs 3 6 trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own

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understanding but in all your ways that doesn't mean just some of your ways or a

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couple of your ways but in all of your ways acknowledge God in those things and

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He will direct your path, he's going to show you what it is that you need to walk in.

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Proverbs 21.5 the plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.

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Step back and take some time, think about it, don't do things in a hurried manner.

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Take a moment just to kind of say okay now Lord you know what I'm going to need, you

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know what I'm going to have to do, you know what it's going to take to do this, I'm going

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to wait and make sure that you're here.

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You know the one thing that is most necessary to obey God is divine appointments.

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You've got to be at the right place at the right time, you've got to have the right people

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come and step in at the right moment for you to accomplish those things that you're called

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to accomplish.

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God moves through people.

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Thank God for the people who got us down here to Oklahoma and thank God for the people at

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ORU who mentored me.

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I needed to study with the Delevins.

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They poured their heart into me and taught me about intercession.

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You know God will bring people across your path that you need.

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The Delevins prepared me to walk into what was happening at Victor Christian and then

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at Victor Christian there were teachers there that just became my closest friends and they

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poured their heart into me and I had a pastor, Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty who had a vision

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for Christian education but Christian education that would train praise and worship leaders.

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You know if I hadn't been under a pastor that not only had a vision for Christian education

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but had a vision to train the next generation of praise and worship leaders I couldn't have

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done what I did.

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I literally walked into and completed something that was really part of their vision.

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I had the licensing and the certification to do it but really the vision was just as

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much theirs and I just kind of walked that vision out.

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God's heart is to raise up leadership.

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He's always interested in discipling and training and mentoring the next generation and I'm

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literally was at the right place at the right time and part of that was actually also being

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at Word Explosion that year.

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Bensonita Hossa was ministering and there was an altar call for people and it's a wonderful

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glorious story in my book Born for More but it's really true.

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Don't count people out of your journey.

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You need to be at the right place at the right time.

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You need to work with others who also have the same calling and the same vision and then

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you need to have the diligence and the perseverance to literally like what I did start with nothing.

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There's no curriculum.

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Nobody was training kids in high school how to lead praise and worship.

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If anything I was told I couldn't do it.

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I'm glad I didn't listen.

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I'm glad I obeyed God.

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Habakkuk 2, 2-3.

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Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so whoever reads it may run with it.

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Journaling is important and when you're when you're really inviting God into God this is

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the new year.

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I'm organizing my life.

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Write it down and make it plain.

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What is it that you are attempting to do and you feel that God's calling you to do and

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then begin to organize it so that those that are called alongside you can walk in agreement

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with you and together you can build something for the kingdom of God.

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That's him.

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He moves through people.

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Matthew 17, 20.

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Truly I tell you if you have faith as small as a mustard seed you can say to this mountain

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and move from here to there and it will move.

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Nothing will be impossible for you.

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If God's in it he will supply.

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He will bring the people.

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He will bring the equipment.

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He will bring the resources.

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He will bring the money.

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Invite him into it.

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But in writing everything down you also need to sit down and estimate and count the cost.

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This comes from Luke 14, 28.

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Suppose one of you wants to build a tower.

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Don't you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete

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Know what you need.

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Don't hesitate to ask God for it.

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Yes, he often will supply what you need and you won't.

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You won't even know that you need it, and it will come to you, but really you need to

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count the cost.

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I thank God every day for my mom.

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My mom believed in my program.

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She believed in me, and God really used my mom early out at Victory Christian School.

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We had an operating budget of $237 for the first 20 years I was there, and I really had

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to believe God for a lot of those resources, and because my mom had been a music teacher,

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I had a lot of those resources come in, and that's why it happened.

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I'm thankful every day, but count the cost.

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Organize it.

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Think about it.

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What are you going to need to accomplish what God's calling you to do?

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Romans 12.2.

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Don't conform to the pattern of the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your

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mind, and then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is.

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You're supposed to attest it and approve it, his good pleasing, his good, his pleasing,

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and his perfect will.

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Okay, there's a good will.

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That's a good thing.

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There's the pleasing thing, and then there's the perfect.

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I can't always say that I've walked in the perfect will of God.

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I know I have, but I have definitely tried to do what was pleasing for him.

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I've definitely tried to step to the plate and do what was honoring and glorifying of

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him, and I honestly, humbly, with all of my inabilities and my insecurities, tried to

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do the best that I could to raise up the next generation.

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I can tell you, if God's birthing something in your heart that's big, you really need

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to invite him into the process.

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And then you want to, is this the good will?

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Is this the pleasing will?

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Is this the perfect will?

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Ideally, we would like to land on his perfect will.

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I got good news for you, honey.

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If you miss it, and you start off with good, keep going.

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Just keep going.

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You can land on perfect will.

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Okay?

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We're all going to miss it.

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We're all going to have times where we stumble and we fall and we make mistakes and things

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we should or shouldn't have done.

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We're human.

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We're all going to miss it.

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But if we're humble and we invite him into the process and we invite him into the journey,

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he will come in ways we couldn't have even imagined.

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This is from Philippians 3, 13, Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have

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taken hold of it, but one thing I do, forgetting what is behind and straining towards what

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is ahead.

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I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me in heavenward

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in Christ Jesus.

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Press on.

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Press in.

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Keep going.

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Don't get weary in well-doing.

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In due season, you will reap if you faint not, but the good news is he's going to be

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with you even when you do get weary, even when you do fail.

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Keep going.

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Step to the plate.

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Don't give up.

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If you screw something up, I got good news for you.

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His grace is sufficient.

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He will help you.

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He will help you.

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He'll bring the people across your path.

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Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right,

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whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, what anything is excellent or

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praiseworthy, think about these things.

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When you start into this journey this year, I can tell you the enemy's going to mess with

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your head.

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He always does.

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He's a liar.

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He's a deceiver.

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He comes to bring confusion.

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Confusion is not of God.

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If it's lovely, if it's pure, if it's noble, if it's admirable, if it's excellent, it's

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a thing of God.

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If it's confusion, if it's fear, if it's anxiety, those things are not of God.

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That doesn't mean that you won't experience those occasionally, but ultimately you're

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going to have to guard your mind.

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Guarding your mind is the highest form of spiritual warfare that it is.

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If you're called to do something for him, then you're going to have to guard your mind

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daily.

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Guard your mind.

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Think on him.

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Think on the word.

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Organize your life in such a way that you can, whether it's praise and worship in the

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car or podcasts while you're doing dishes or folding laundry or playing with kids, whatever

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it is, think on godly things that will give you peace and he'll guide your path.

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Philippians 4.13, I can do all things through Christ that gives me strength.

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You can't do a lot of things in your own strength, but let me tell you, when you do it in His

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strength, you can do a lot of things, supernaturally, because His supernatural grace and strength

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carries you.