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Hey, everyone, I'm just getting this up and running in our recording and streaming into

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our Facebook group.

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Okay, we are live in Kingdom Messenger Advancement.

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Make sure I'm in the right group.

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How is everyone?

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Make sure I can see people.

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Okay, I see Amy is on, but her audio is not, and she might just be tuning in and someone

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is iPhone and hey, Bridget, I see you're here as well.

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And if you guys are watching on the Facebook group, feel free to join the Zoom.

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Just trying to get my camera to work.

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Sorry.

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That's okay.

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We have a whole course for that.

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Let me see if that'll work.

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There you go.

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It's actually my phone.

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Hold on.

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Are you iPhone or is that someone else?

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Oh, gosh, that doesn't help.

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Imagine if I had somebody to help me.

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I know.

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If only you had joined a group of people who could help you with your camera, it's totally

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fine.

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If you want to be on camera, if you don't want to, you can just join in on the audio.

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My phone's remote.

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Okay, hang on.

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Hey, Amy.

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Good to see you.

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Good to see you.

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Did you have a good holiday?

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Good Thanksgiving?

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I did.

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It was wonderful.

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Yeah, we got to travel to Nashville.

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Our baby is contemplating a move to Nashville and she had been there for two months.

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And so it was our off year, you know, where everybody was at their in-laws and she's not

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married yet.

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So we did Nashville.

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Nashville's fun.

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Yeah.

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Bruce's youngest brother lives there.

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Oh, he does?

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The only drawback to Nashville is that this time of year it gets dark at 4.30, earlier

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than 4.30.

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Really?

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Mm-hmm.

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So they're on the western edge of the central time zone.

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I never put that together.

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I mean, I knew that they were an hour behind us, we're Eastern time here in Georgia.

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That makes sense.

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That would make sense.

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Yeah.

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Because it gets, it's good to start.

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It's dark here right now, around 5.30 now.

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So it's okay, because we're going to hit that December 21st and then the days start to get

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long again.

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We're just on that trajectory.

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That's right.

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I see Susie's joining.

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So, you know, it hit me.

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I mean, obviously I knew this because of the calendar, but it hit me like, this is our

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final like prayer call for the year.

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And you know, it was just like, oh my gosh, like 2023 is right around the corner.

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Like I knew that, but I just went back to, at the December of last year, getting on talking

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to our community about this is going to be a year of breakthrough.

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And it's like, oh my goodness, here we are.

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We're crowning that year of breakthrough.

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And of course, what's so cool about breakthrough is that the breakthrough itself is not the

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end of the story.

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Because then we advance past that breakthrough.

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So I feel like the Lord has really set us up.

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I mean, even that word advancement, I feel is like so pregnant with possibility for us

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as a group and us as individuals as we go into 2023.

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And so I'm so excited for that.

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So I just thought, you know, we needed to start this call with that reminder and that

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marker of this has been our year of breakthrough.

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And sometimes, you know, when we think about breakthrough, we think about this like forced

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impact, but I would be curious and I'm planning on talking to the Lord about this as we kind

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of wrap what Bruce and I like to do at the end of our year, which we've learned from

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Bruce's parents, Bridget and Dionne, is to take some time to really capture the testimonies

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of the year and review those those testimonies of the year, because it's amazing how much

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you forget.

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And because, you know, we're looking for that, we're looking for that big.

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big impact. And of course, there's that in our year. But I

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think that there's also been, for lack of a better term, of a

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better term, these like mini breakthroughs. And so I would

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encourage you guys to even have that conversation with the Lord

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about, hey, Lord, like, bring back to my remembrance, all the

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breakthrough from this year, because that's the treasure that

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I'm going to be advancing in. And again, it's external

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territory. It's also, I think, more importantly, internal

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territory, like what are what have I become this year? What is

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the deeper awareness that I've grown? And what have I

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discovered about you that I'm now beginning, I have territory

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to explore, because discovery is like the starting point, right?

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And then we get to explore all of that means. So I'm pretty

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excited about that. I've been reading. And of course, you

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know, it's that time of year, right. But I've been reading

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Luke chapter one. And I'm always reminded, every December, I find

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myself in Luke one, like most of us do. And we're like reading

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through the Christmas story and stuff. And it is such a

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powerful chapter, because you've got the birth of john the

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baptist, and all that the angel speaking to his father, and just

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the things that are said about that. And then obviously, the

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angel speaking to Mary, and so a very familiar script, verse that

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I'm sure you're familiar with, but I just was so taken by it

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again, was Luke one verses 37 and 38. And this is when the

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angels talking to Mary, and he's telling her what's about to

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happen to her, he's saying, you know, earlier in the verse in

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that the chapter is saying the Holy Spirit is going to come on

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you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you so that the

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Holy One will be to be born will be called the Son of God. And

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then he says, even Elizabeth, your relative, who's old in age

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was going to have a child. And she's been unable to conceive,

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she's in her sixth month. And so he's telling her this, and he

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says in verse 37. It's many, there's different translations

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of this. So some translations say, you know, nothing is

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impossible for God, the NIV says it this way, it says for no word

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from God will ever fail. No word from God will ever fail. And the

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word to us as a community at the beginning of the year was this

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will be a year of breakthrough. And maybe we're here at the

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final chapter of this year. And we're like, I don't know if that

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was true. Like maybe I maybe I can't pinpoint what the exact

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breakthrough was, or I don't feel like I've broken through

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or I still feel like I'm in a place of resistance. I want to

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encourage you to embrace what the angel said to Mary, no word

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from God will ever fail. If he said it, it's as good as done.

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And I was reading this in the mirror translation, you guys

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know, I like to, you know, cross reference that translation. And

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the author of that translation said something interesting that

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I had never made the connection for it. Maybe this is common

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knowledge, but I just never made the connection that the angel

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was quoting to Mary, or reminding Mary of what was said

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to Sarah in Genesis 1814. When the angel says is nothing is, I

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think it's poses a question I should probably go there and I

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don't want to, we have time, I don't want to mess it up. But

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in 18, let me find it, I should have highlighted it. It says

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because she's, he's saying to Abraham, the Lord, the Lord's

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visiting with Abraham. And he says, Why did Sarah laugh? And

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why does she say, Well, I really have a child now that I'm too

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old. And then the Lord asked this question of Abraham, is

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anything too hard for the Lord? Is anything too hard for the

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Lord? And so the author of the mirror translation was saying

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that the angel was quoting to Mary when you're saying no word

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from God will ever fail. He was actually quoting and reminding

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Mary of a story she was probably familiar with. And then I love

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what Francois says. He says, this is reminding Mary of God's

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conversation with Abraham when Sarah laughed in unbelief, and

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her laughter of unbelief was turned into laughter of delight.

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And, you know, we know from Scripture, that joy is our

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strength, that laughter is medicine. And when we are in a

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place of resistance, or we're in a place of unbelief, when we're

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feeling that there's shame, right, that feeling of shame,

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laughter is mockery. Laughter is embarrassment, laughter is a

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coping mechanism. But actually, as people of the kingdom, we are

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called to the laughter of delight. And so I believe,

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because the Word says that the Lord crowns our year with

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goodness.

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that December will be filled with laughter of delight for us

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as we advance into 2023.

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And anything that the enemy tried to use with us this year

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to mock us, to embarrass us, to shame us,

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it's those areas that the Lord is turning

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into a place of laughter of delight.

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Because it's not about avoiding those hard places,

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it's about breaking through them.

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And we've had a challenging week,

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just we came back from Thanksgiving week and we were sick.

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Hannah got sick, then Bruce got sick,

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and I was, my immune system,

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my mighty immune system was fighting it off

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for all of it, all it was worth.

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But you know, when you have like a household

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full of sickness, you get into this routine

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where it's like kind of every day just is the same

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because you can't really go anywhere

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and you're just kind of surviving and you're resting

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and you're taking your meds, right?

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And you get to this place like day six or seven

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where you're like, will I ever be,

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will anything ever be normal again?

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And you know, it's crazy talk, right?

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Because you're like, sure, we have been through this before.

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It's just a cold, right?

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It's just the flu.

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But you just get to this place

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because there's been this monotony

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of the same thing day in, day out,

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where you just begin to like think,

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will it ever be the same again?

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And the Lord in his kindness used that small illustration

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from our, you know, from not a horrible,

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you know, just, it was just a cold, right?

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It wasn't like life or death or anything like that,

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but he used it in his kindness to speak a big truth to me.

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And he says, you know, when we have these seasons

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of, it seems like we're just trying to survive

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and we find ourselves in this place

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of will it ever be normal again

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or we'll ever get out of this,

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we see ourselves in this pit of stuckness.

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And the Lord's like, it's not reality.

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Remember, we prayed since the summer,

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the prayer with us was, Lord, make what is real, realized.

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That has been my continual prayer for me and for us,

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make what is real, realized.

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And so the Lord was utilizing this space and time for us,

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this last seven days of just total will.

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And he said, you're never stuck.

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You might be going through a valley, but there's movement.

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Not because you said, but because I said.

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We're going places, we're going somewhere.

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Transformation is happening, exchange is taking place.

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There's always an instead, Romans 8, 28,

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everything can be turned for our benefit.

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So there's no stuckness, there's always breakthrough.

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There's always a breaking through that's taking place

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and there's an advancement that's taking place

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out of that breakthrough, big, small.

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And so I just wanna remind us,

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that's the word of the Lord to us.

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This is a year of breakthrough

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and he's gonna crown this year with goodness.

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I think that for us, joy is our strength.

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We know that, right?

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Like it's not just for us, but for this group,

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I just felt very strongly,

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like there's something connected to our ability

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to embrace joy, look for that, expect that laughter

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of delight that's going to break

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through the final resistance.

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Yeah, so I see you guys nodding your heads.

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You're welcome to unmute if there's anything

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that's resonating or anything you wanna add

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or share to that.

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You guys know this is open.

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This isn't me just talking to you guys,

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but so I wanna start praying into that tonight

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and kind of use our time together tonight

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to call that forth.

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Our spirits know the truth by default.

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operates in the truth

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because our spirit is connected to Christ, right?

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as we walk into this final chapter of the year

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and we walk into the new year,

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we're gonna lead them into the truth.

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in the truth, engage our thoughts and our emotions

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and our bodies in the joy and the laughter

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and the delight, right?

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like I gotta teach, I've gotta break

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through some seriousness, you know?

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with what my spirit's already operating in,

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which is this joy and this laughter.

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We thank you for your word.

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We thank you that you declared over us

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and over our year, over the season together

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that this would be a year of breakthrough.

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in the big and the small breakthroughs, Lord,

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we say yes and amen.

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haven't fully experienced yet, because we know the truth and we know that no word from you

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will ever fail. Nothing is impossible for you. I thought this was really interesting.

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The Lord just brought this to my remembrance. So we were watching over the Thanksgiving week,

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we were watching a little bit of the World Cup, the soccer or football, depending on where you're

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from, World Cup, and Adidas as a major sponsor, and they had this huge banner across like the

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different advertisements on the field, and it said, impossible is nothing. I just love that.

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Creation speaks, guys, the rocks cry out. Impossible is nothing. So yeah, Lord, thank

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you for that remembrance, bringing that to my remembrance. Impossible is nothing.

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Nothing is impossible for you.

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Jesus, we thank you that we are one with you, that our spirits know, intimately know the truth

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and are operating in that truth because of you, because you made us one with you.

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And Jesus, I thank you for that you came. This is such an interesting, you know,

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there's no coincidence, you know, we are celebrating a season. We're celebrating the

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beginning, the new beginning of you coming to earth at the ending of our year. You crown our

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year with goodness, with the remembrance that you came and that you didn't leave us and you're

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never forsaking us, that we are now hidden in you and that you are living in us and there's no

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separation. And Holy Spirit, we thank you that you are leading us and guiding us in this truth.

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We continue to ask for liberal amounts of wisdom.

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We thank you that knowledge and understanding are ours,

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but it's okay if we don't know everything because we know you.

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We can release ourselves from the pressure of having to have it all figured out, of having to

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have everything, know everything, being able to articulate everything perfectly. We just have to

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know you. You're the gift, you're the helper, you're the advocate, you're our comforter and that's enough.

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Our futures are not unknown, they're just unseen. And in the unseenness, in that gap of what we

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can't see right now, we've been given the gift, the faith of God to fill that gap.

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So there are no gaps, there's only fullness. Thank you, Lord.

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So I don't know who this like word is for specifically, maybe it's for many people that

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are on this call or might be watching the replay. But it was something that came to

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our conversation I was having with the Lord today. So I'm just going to speak it out and you can

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receive it if you want. And I'm not, I know better, so I'm not going to like point out age, but I do

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feel like it was for people in, I think it could be for any of us, but it's for people who are feeling

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aged out. You could be 35 like me and feel aged out of things. I'm starting to feel more and more

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of that gap between me and the next generation, if that makes sense. Like the relevance is

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dwindling, it feels to me in many ways. And so anyway, what the word was, what the conversation

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was with the Lord is that some of us are feeling the weight of, I should have known better sooner.

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We're discovering things now in our walk with God. Again, you could be 65 or you could be 25

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listening to this, but it's the feeling, it's not really age specific. It's just the feeling of

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there has been longevity with the Lord. And there's things that you're only discovering

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now for the first time. And there's a temptation to feel upset or bitter or resentful or shameful

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because of that. Because you're like, I should have known this sooner. And the temptation is to

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focus on quote unquote, time wasted. But what was really interesting with the Lord when I was

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talking to me about is like, he was reminding me of the way that he looks at time is not the way

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that we sometimes relate with time because we relate with time very linear, very chronologically

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here on earth, because that's the way that the world does it. But that's not how he,

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he's not bound by time. So he views time very differently. He takes his time.

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it was an internal conversation, but that there's things for each generation to overcome

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and then hand over to the next generation.

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our ceiling to be the next generation's floor, right?

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So it's that picture, right?

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But there was, there's a need for the, that, for the, for, you know, whatever generation

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you're in, it takes time to discover things so that it doesn't take time for the next

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So we accelerate things for the next generation, but the tension is the next generation can

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operate quicker in certain truths that have taken us decades to realize.

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So I think about things like, I'm trying to think of examples, like that have happened

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globally in the church, like the grace message, right?

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Like when the grace message arose, there was an older generation that had lived decades

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under a different revelation, and then all of a sudden it was like, boom.

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And then you had, you know, like millennials like me being like, kind of growing up in

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it like, well, duh, of course, like it's, of course it's grace.

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How could you believe something different?

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And, and sometimes that, that exchange isn't always mature, right?

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Cause you're dealing with a younger generation who lacks, sometimes they have the energy,

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but maybe not the wisdom of being able to receive fully that gift of thank, thank God

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it took you decades to discover and then mature in this.

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And then, and that generation will have their thing, right?

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That they'll hand on to the next generation.

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be, it could be big truths.

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communities, even family, right?

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Like there's this temptation to think, man, if I had known this sooner than, you know,

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fill in the blank, whatever you think that would have fixed, whatever problems you think

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that would have solved, whatever pain you think that would have helped you avoid or

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others avoid.

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not behind, you're right where you need to be because as much as there's things that

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you're contributing globally to the body of Christ and the communities that you're a part

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of the faith communities of families, a part of everything comes back to your individual

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journey with the Lord.

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That's what he's most occupied by.

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It's that internal territory, like the whole reason we're here.

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develop a relationship with our Lord, for us to real, to make what, for him to make what is

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real realized to us and for us to remember what we've always known to be true, even before

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we were in our mother's womb.

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this way, or I should have done it this way, because even, even if that's true, he covers

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us, we're covered.

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He covers us, and so you can release all the shoulds.

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I just felt like, I mean, I might even share that with the greater group later in a

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different call, but I just felt like that was for this advancement group because we have so

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many different generations and age groups represented.

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because we've all, even, even those of us who are younger, I say younger because that's

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relative, but we all, we all bring this longevity with the Lord.

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it. Like no one is resistant to that in our group, like, oh my gosh, like I'm just

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discovering for the first time and we come with this delight, like don't ever use, lose

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that childlike wonder.

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Don't ever lose that childlike wonder.

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many, but that's the word I kind of wanted to bring to this call.

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I felt like the Lord said, like, it's OK that it took time, that it's taking time.

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This is about you and me and the journey that we're on.

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and the fruit of that other generations peers even some of our spiritual

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fathers and mothers will eat of because that's how good God is the fruit kind of

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goes all around right but don't worry about the time it takes or the time it

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took the sweetness is that you took him at his word you pursued him you're

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continuing to do that continuing to steward that relationship and that's

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that's that's his delight that's his delight so father we thank you for that

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word we thank you for just a reminder that you're not bound by time and

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neither are we time is a gift it's not a bad thing it's not a negative thing it's

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a gift that you've given us here on earth it's a boundary that falls in

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pleasant places for your your people and we're thankful that you allow us to take

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our time that we're not up against time we're not running out of time there's

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nothing to fear because you are with us we have everything we need including the

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time that we need for what it is that you would like for us to accomplish what

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you like for us to experience you would like for us to discover and explore here

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on earth and I thank you for the fruit of this group and everyone that's on

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this call right now Amy and Bridget and Susie and Tamara and I don't know who

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iPhone is again but iPhone and anyone who's listening on Facebook and we

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watching the replay Lord what we are your people and we delight in you and

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you delight in us and I thank you for the fruit that is represented the fruit

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that we have yet to bear the fruit that we have bore the fruit that we are

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bearing now in our relationship and are abiding with you it's not a bitter fruit

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it's a ripe sweet fruit that people eat of and they taste and know your goodness

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from it Lord I thank you for the year that is ahead I thank you that we can

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walk boldly into the year full of confidence full of expectation full of

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anticipation that we can leave any fear any anxiety any trepidation behind that

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we don't have to bring any of that negativity into the new year that we

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stand strong in you that even in our weakness your power is made perfect

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there's literally no gaps there's no gaps there's only you we have everything

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we need I Lord I know that represented here tonight are probably needs and

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there's prayer requests and there's desires of our hearts that we are

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desperate to see there's there's things that we there's longings and there's

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prayers and Lord you know you know what they are you know you know the details

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of those requests and those needs even even better than we do Lord give us eyes

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to see what it is that you're doing give us ears to hear what it is that you're

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saying remove resistance from us remove any make known to us what you what is

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make known to us Lord what is important to you lead us and guide us in that

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truth Bill Johnson said something you guys I

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think you know that Bruce 910 Bethel writing online it's our church home and

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Bill saying yesterday Sunday he was sharing and something he said so stuck

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with me he said surrender will take you everywhere you need to go surrender will

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take you everywhere you need to go and it's a letting go you know we have we

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all have probably our definition of what surrender is our stories of surrender

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but just it's this release that I feel like the Lord is wanting us to like a

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like a like a deeper level of release that requires that you know delight of

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belief just like a letting go like if we find ourselves like feeling stuck if

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we find ourselves feeling burdened by again the shoulds the could have all

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those things like just to release just a letting go and and it coming from a

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place of not defeat we're not defeated it's coming from a place of trust new

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levels of trust I know Amy has been on this journey of rest me to Amy and it's

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it's you know it's it's let it's a letting go it's not necessarily in an

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activity you have something to add Amy I really do because you know I'm

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navigating rest and I'm

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walking into breakthrough.

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you know, I was going to get lots of wonderful practice.

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on my pod, I mean, like on my daily reels.

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I mean, like not as much grace as, you know,

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to flow in that, but there's a whole lot of other things,

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you know, that are filling my time too.

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I woke up and in the night,

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I was aware that I was having this dialogue,

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but it wasn't with the Lord, it was with my audience.

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in my spirit that he was saying,

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I really, really, really mean this

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about rest and delight.

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And there are things that I need you to hear from me

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and I want that dialogue to be us.

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putting it out there for him.

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but he basically gave me a key to get out

470
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between the rock and the hard place,

471
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because he said, I'm in there.

472
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And I know he's the rock.

473
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And it was like, I could identify that the hard place

474
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was my own resistance.

475
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And what he spoke to me, you know, as I was like here,

476
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you know, just surrendering that

477
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and what goes along with that, you know,

478
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like, who's going to take care of my people?

479
00:31:56.760 --> 00:32:00.080
Not that, but you know, but you know,

480
00:32:00.080 --> 00:32:02.120
those kinds of thoughts, you know, fear of man,

481
00:32:02.120 --> 00:32:05.960
just several things that would try to peck at your mind

482
00:32:08.080 --> 00:32:09.960
in the surrender.

483
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And he's never shown me this before,

484
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but he said, when the hard place goes,

485
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you'll find yourself in the cleft of the rock

486
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where you'll get to see my glory and my goodness.

487
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And where there really is,

488
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where there is just that sweetest place of delight and joy.

489
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So.

490
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It's a beautiful promise.

491
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I know it is.

492
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So I'm like, okay, you know, and you know,

493
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I know I'll see many more rocks and hard places,

494
00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:46.000
but to know that there's a better place in the cleft,

495
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:50.320
you know, that it really is about surrendering

496
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:51.880
when I'm bumping up again.

497
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:53.920
What a shift for you, because, you know,

498
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:55.520
you've shared a lot of what you've walked through,

499
00:32:55.520 --> 00:32:56.520
what you're walking out of

500
00:32:56.520 --> 00:32:58.920
when it comes to perfectionism and performance,

501
00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:03.920
like to have that picture of like a new way

502
00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:08.920
of moving forward, where maybe before you just stayed,

503
00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:11.760
you know, you stayed stuck, quote unquote,

504
00:33:11.760 --> 00:33:16.080
with that resistance, trying to keep it all together.

505
00:33:17.080 --> 00:33:17.920
Yeah.

506
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And it's like,

507
00:33:19.040 --> 00:33:21.440
and it's like, there's a new way.

508
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Yeah.

509
00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:25.400
That's very cool.

510
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:26.760
That's very powerful.

511
00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:28.560
I love that.

512
00:33:28.560 --> 00:33:29.400
Thank you for sharing.

513
00:33:31.320 --> 00:33:32.400
Could you pray?

514
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Cause I feel like there's probably other people.

515
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:38.360
I mean, myself included that, that spoke to,

516
00:33:39.360 --> 00:33:42.440
and we're like, you know, just pray that

517
00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:46.040
however you feel led, but that we could all walk in that,

518
00:33:46.040 --> 00:33:48.320
in the fullness of that promise.

519
00:33:48.840 --> 00:33:49.680
Yes, I will.

520
00:33:50.520 --> 00:33:53.360
Father, I thank you.

521
00:33:54.800 --> 00:33:58.280
I thank you for your goodness and your glory.

522
00:33:58.280 --> 00:34:02.000
And Lord, truly, truly, everything,

523
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:07.000
everything that comes to us is you.

524
00:34:08.520 --> 00:34:13.520
And you so want to share yourself with us.

525
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:18.199
And I thank you, Lord, as Lindsay said,

526
00:34:19.080 --> 00:34:24.080
that we're covered, even in what we might be experiencing

527
00:34:25.560 --> 00:34:30.560
as friction or resistance or a tight space,

528
00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:38.040
that you are the rock and you fill the space, Lord.

529
00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:43.440
And you show us what the other side is.

530
00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:48.480
And so, Lord, I pray for an opening of all of our eyes

531
00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:52.760
to see when we come into those spots,

532
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:57.760
that we know that there is that beautiful divine exchange.

533
00:34:58.520 --> 00:35:00.000
We're like literally on the.

534
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:08.040
threshold of it. And it looks like yielding to you. It looks

535
00:35:08.040 --> 00:35:14.040
like surrender. And I thank you, God, for your grace, the grace

536
00:35:14.040 --> 00:35:17.760
that covers us when we're pushing up against the hard

537
00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:25.440
place, and the grace that you give us Lord to release. And I

538
00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:32.120
pray God, just for a, just a release from your hand of the

539
00:35:32.120 --> 00:35:39.200
ability to release that grace, the power to release Lord so we

540
00:35:39.200 --> 00:35:46.280
can hide in the cleft of the rock where you were you hid

541
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:54.040
Moses and, and, and let him behold your glory and your

542
00:35:54.040 --> 00:36:01.000
goodness. And Lord, we get to behold from within the

543
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:07.240
revelation of your Holy Spirit. We live, we live in a better

544
00:36:07.240 --> 00:36:14.920
day. We get to host your glory in us. And so Lord, open our

545
00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:22.240
eyes. And as we draw near to the end of the year, Lord, I pray

546
00:36:22.240 --> 00:36:26.720
that you would open our eyes to see what you have been doing.

547
00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:31.080
All the things that you've done in each of our lives, Lord, that

548
00:36:31.080 --> 00:36:34.880
we would, that we would connect with you on those things and

549
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:40.440
offer up thanksgiving, and praise to you, and anticipation,

550
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:45.120
expectation of how you're going to develop those things, Lord,

551
00:36:45.120 --> 00:36:50.000
and how those things are going to bear more fruit and richer

552
00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.520
fruit in our lives. So I just thank you Lord for pouring out

553
00:36:54.520 --> 00:36:57.760
on us tonight in Jesus name.

554
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:14.280
So I was going to read you guys a so going back to Luke one, I

555
00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:18.640
made a note in my Bible. This is why journaling is important

556
00:37:18.680 --> 00:37:20.920
because if I had made this on my phone, I might not have ever

557
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:24.080
revisited it again. But I actually hand wrote in my Bible,

558
00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:33.840
December 17 2019. And I was jotting down when the angel

559
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:39.240
speaking to to Zachariah about John's birth got kind of

560
00:37:39.240 --> 00:37:43.520
prophesying it. And he talks about how you will have joy and

561
00:37:43.520 --> 00:37:48.120
gladness and many will rejoice at his birth. And this was

562
00:37:48.120 --> 00:37:52.840
December 2019. And what I didn't know at the time was that

563
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:58.600
this was going to be my final Christmas without a baby in it.

564
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:04.120
Because we found out we were pregnant with Hannah in

565
00:38:04.120 --> 00:38:09.200
January. So I mean, in July, I'm sorry. And so we were expecting

566
00:38:09.200 --> 00:38:12.640
her she was very much in our lives by December 2020, even

567
00:38:12.640 --> 00:38:18.040
though she hadn't been born yet. So I didn't know. So again,

568
00:38:18.040 --> 00:38:23.280
guys, your future's not unknown. It's just unseen. I had I what I

569
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:26.640
did not see yet was that this was gonna be my final Christmas

570
00:38:26.640 --> 00:38:32.760
when I you know, circled Luke 114, you will have joy and

571
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:36.560
gladness and many will rejoice at his birth. And it was cool. I

572
00:38:36.560 --> 00:38:38.640
just found that I saw that note. And I was like, wow, I did not

573
00:38:38.640 --> 00:38:41.920
realize that when that promise just kind of spoke to me. I

574
00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:43.680
don't even know if I was thinking about a baby. I just

575
00:38:43.680 --> 00:38:46.080
you know, that's just what this what the verse was about. But

576
00:38:46.080 --> 00:38:49.960
joy and gladness, joy and gladness. And so this is where

577
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:53.680
we get to dream where we get to just allow ourselves to

578
00:38:53.720 --> 00:39:00.920
prophetically flow internally. What what would December 2023

579
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:06.680
look like? If the deepest desire of your heart was birthed next

580
00:39:06.680 --> 00:39:15.920
year? This time next year, if you're, you know, checking out

581
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:18.440
Luke one, and you've got a little notation in your Bible,

582
00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:22.960
what would it look like? Do we even know what that desire is?

583
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:26.040
You know, sometimes we don't even give ourselves the grace

584
00:39:26.040 --> 00:39:29.840
and the space to just allow ourselves to desire. So I just

585
00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:32.280
want to take I just want to take a few minutes, it might be a

586
00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:34.280
little awkward and take some silence, you can close your

587
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:36.200
eyes, you can turn off your camera, even if you need to

588
00:39:36.200 --> 00:39:41.000
focus. Just allow Monica's joining, I'll let her join.

589
00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:44.200
Maybe she's been listening on Facebook. Just allow yourself to

590
00:39:44.200 --> 00:39:47.400
prophetically dream a little bit of what would it look like?

591
00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:50.960
What would it feel like? What would it be like? What would it

592
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:56.120
what would it look like if this time next year, my deepest

593
00:39:56.120 --> 00:39:57.440
desire had been birthed?

594
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You

595
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:02.000
You

596
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You

597
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You

598
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You

599
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You

600
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You

601
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You

602
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You

603
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You

604
00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:55.000
You

605
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:57.000
You

606
00:43:57.000 --> 00:43:59.000
You

607
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:02.000
You

608
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:04.000
You

609
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:06.000
You

610
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.000
You

611
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:10.000
You

612
00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:12.000
You

613
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:14.000
You

614
00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.000
You

615
00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:18.000
You

616
00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.000
You

617
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.000
You

618
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You

619
00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.000
You

620
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.000
You

621
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:34.000
You

622
00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:36.000
You

623
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:38.000
You

624
00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:40.000
You

625
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:42.000
You

626
00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:52.000
You

627
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:54.000
You

628
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:56.000
You

629
00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:58.000
You

630
00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:00.000
You

631
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.000
have the space and the grace to say, okay, what would those,

632
00:45:03.040 --> 00:45:07.000
what would it look like? What are those deep desires? Um,

633
00:45:07.040 --> 00:45:09.960
maybe for some of you, there was an external focus,

634
00:45:10.120 --> 00:45:12.360
which is totally fine. Like there was for me, I'm like, oh,

635
00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:15.040
I would love this to be happening financially in our business.

636
00:45:15.040 --> 00:45:18.520
And I would love to be working on this project. That's great.

637
00:45:19.600 --> 00:45:23.040
But the Lord was also like, okay, now what, what, what internally,

638
00:45:24.200 --> 00:45:27.480
who do you want to be this time next year?

639
00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:30.520
Um, like if the deepest,

640
00:45:30.560 --> 00:45:34.360
what is the deepest desires of your heart for who, who Lindsay is,

641
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:36.640
how Lindsay shows up in this world?

642
00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:40.640
What does it look like in your inner world?

643
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:44.160
What is the deepest desires there? What does that internal territory look like?

644
00:45:44.240 --> 00:45:47.680
It's a great conversation to have. What is the internal territory?

645
00:45:47.680 --> 00:45:51.280
What is the external territory? Going back to Luke,

646
00:45:51.560 --> 00:45:54.160
going back to the Christmas story

647
00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:57.800
in Luke two, first 19.

648
00:45:57.880 --> 00:45:59.920
Um, you know, all the things are happening,

649
00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:04.200
all the logistics of the birth and people coming and people going.

650
00:46:04.720 --> 00:46:07.120
And there's just this like beautiful, like

651
00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:12.480
little pause of a scene in the midst of all the things happening, you know,

652
00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.040
the angels and the shepherds and everything. And it says,

653
00:46:15.560 --> 00:46:19.600
Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.

654
00:46:19.600 --> 00:46:24.560
And so what I would love to encourage us to do is do that.

655
00:46:26.360 --> 00:46:29.480
Like take some time this month after, you know,

656
00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:32.920
this is just the start of a, of a conversation with the Lord.

657
00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:37.120
What would it look like if this time, if this time next year,

658
00:46:38.120 --> 00:46:40.680
the deepest desires of my heart were birthed?

659
00:46:42.160 --> 00:46:44.720
What would it look like? What it would feel, what would it feel like?

660
00:46:44.720 --> 00:46:47.680
What would it feel like to be a part of a conversation with the Lord?

661
00:46:47.680 --> 00:46:50.560
What would it look like? What it would feel, what would it feel like?

662
00:46:51.200 --> 00:46:54.000
Who would I be? How would I show up?

663
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:57.880
What would my inner world look like? What my external world look like?

664
00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:03.760
Allowing ourselves to even be open to that possibility

665
00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:09.520
attracts heaven's dialogue about that possibility.

666
00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:13.440
Meaning when we become, when we, when we choose, like,

667
00:47:14.600 --> 00:47:17.400
I'm going to dream about this. I'm going to pray about this.

668
00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:21.160
I'm going to prophesy about this. I'm going to have conversations with the Lord.

669
00:47:21.520 --> 00:47:26.240
It's amazing to me what begins to open up the things I start to take notice of,

670
00:47:26.280 --> 00:47:28.280
right? Perhaps this has happened to you.

671
00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:31.320
The universe gets a lot of credit for it, but it's the wrong,

672
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:34.400
you're giving the universe a lot of credit for something that the Lord,

673
00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:40.320
the Lord is right. It's just that you have, you have made a choice.

674
00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:44.840
Your will has opened up the possibility of conversation. So now heaven's like,

675
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:49.280
Oh, and this and this, and let's talk about this and let me show you this.

676
00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:52.000
And here's a scripture verse. And here's a promise that confirms that.

677
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.920
And here's a conversation with a friend that confirms that.

678
00:47:55.160 --> 00:47:58.760
And here's some dialogue in this TV show that you're watching that confirms that,

679
00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:00.400
right? Like, it's amazing

680
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:06.600
how the Lord will use kind of all of creation to confirm his word.

681
00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:10.640
When you have, instead of kind of going from passive mode,

682
00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:13.720
we just start to go into receiving mode. Of course, like, Lord,

683
00:48:13.720 --> 00:48:17.560
I'm going to be open to this. I mean, open to this conversation.

684
00:48:17.560 --> 00:48:18.920
I'm going to be open to this pot,

685
00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:23.760
to this possibility and I'm going to be open to the promise that with you,

686
00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:27.680
nothing is impossible. I'm going to be opened up to that. I'm not,

687
00:48:27.680 --> 00:48:30.640
I'm going to release. I'm like, Amy said, I'm going to let go.

688
00:48:30.680 --> 00:48:35.360
I'm going to release the resistance in my own head and heart. That's going to say,

689
00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:36.960
but what about this? What about that?

690
00:48:38.600 --> 00:48:40.840
I'm going to recognize that I don't,

691
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:45.680
it's not my sole responsibility to look out for all the loopholes and all the

692
00:48:45.680 --> 00:48:48.720
what ifs and protect myself from worst case scenarios,

693
00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:52.320
because I have a Holy spirit who's my helper and my advocate who's leading me

694
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:53.520
and guiding me into all truth.

695
00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:57.200
And it's Holy spirit's responsibility to lead me and guide me in that.

696
00:48:57.200 --> 00:49:01.440
It's not my responsibility to protect myself in the midst of walking out the

697
00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:05.960
promises of God and allowing myself to explore possibility

698
00:49:06.400 --> 00:49:09.360
and push my boundaries into pleasant places.

699
00:49:11.720 --> 00:49:16.640
Right. So just ponder them in your heart and,

700
00:49:16.640 --> 00:49:20.440
and maybe, and this is not like a mandatory thing, but for me,

701
00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:24.760
this is helpful because I have a tendency to, you know,

702
00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:29.200
like need to articulate it immediately. Just ponder it.

703
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:31.800
Just let it be between you and the Lord for a little bit.

704
00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:33.640
It doesn't have to be secretive.

705
00:49:33.680 --> 00:49:36.720
It doesn't have to be mean you can't talk to the people you love and trust,

706
00:49:36.720 --> 00:49:40.080
but just take some time. Cause you have the time.

707
00:49:40.080 --> 00:49:43.280
As we talked about earlier on this call, you have the time.

708
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:45.360
You don't have to rush it. You don't have to be like, Oh my gosh,

709
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:49.800
this is what it is. Now let's make it happen. Just ponder it.

710
00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:53.920
Allow the Lord to speak to you. However he wants to speak to you.

711
00:49:55.520 --> 00:49:59.080
I mean, you can be bold like Gideon and throw out a fleece if you want, but,

712
00:49:59.160 --> 00:50:00.000
but maybe we can just.

713
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.600
trust the Lord enough to say, Lord, I know you well enough to know that you're always

714
00:50:06.600 --> 00:50:12.440
speaking and that you're more invested in me hearing what you have to say than I am

715
00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:15.960
sometimes.

716
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:22.000
And I trust you to cover me in what may have been blind spots in the past or resistance

717
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:26.880
in the past or ways that I haven't been open to hearing you before.

718
00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:31.040
Just know that I'm choosing you, Lord, and I'm trusting that you're going to speak to

719
00:50:31.040 --> 00:50:34.800
me however you want to speak to me and that I will have eyes to see it and I will have

720
00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:39.200
ears to hear it.

721
00:50:39.200 --> 00:50:42.320
Because I'm choosing to be open to it.

722
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:47.240
I'm open to possibilities and I'm open to it looking maybe different than I thought

723
00:50:47.240 --> 00:50:50.680
it needed to look and I'm open to it looking different than other people think it needs

724
00:50:50.680 --> 00:50:54.920
to look because everyone gets really excited for you sometimes.

725
00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:56.360
And it can be this and it can be that.

726
00:50:56.360 --> 00:50:58.680
And sometimes that's helpful.

727
00:50:58.680 --> 00:51:00.240
Sometimes it's just overwhelming and distracting.

728
00:51:00.240 --> 00:51:04.760
It's like, no, no, no, I just need to take a second.

729
00:51:04.760 --> 00:51:06.040
I'm going to treasure this up in my heart.

730
00:51:06.040 --> 00:51:09.320
I'm going to ponder it.

731
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:11.440
The Lord's crowning this year with goodness.

732
00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:12.440
This is not a heavy thing.

733
00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:13.440
It doesn't have to be a heavy thing.

734
00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:14.440
It doesn't have to be a heavy thing.

735
00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:15.440
It can be a delightful thing.

736
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:22.960
It can be a lot of laughter, a lot of joy, because the expectation and the responsibility

737
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:27.000
is placed in the one who can actually carry it.

738
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:29.520
It's not on us.

739
00:51:29.520 --> 00:51:33.040
It's on him.

740
00:51:33.040 --> 00:51:38.080
We are joyfully participating and partnering, but we do not have to carry the responsibility

741
00:51:38.080 --> 00:51:39.120
of making it happen.

742
00:51:39.120 --> 00:51:40.840
We can release control to him.

743
00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:43.280
We can release the outcome to him.

744
00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:44.280
That's scary.

745
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:51.640
You know, when you're reading, when you're reading the Christmas story, there are so

746
00:51:51.640 --> 00:51:54.400
many moments where heaven shows up, right?

747
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:58.160
Like tangible heaven, angels show up.

748
00:51:58.160 --> 00:51:59.760
And what do they say?

749
00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:01.880
Do not fear.

750
00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:03.040
Do not fear.

751
00:52:03.040 --> 00:52:04.840
Do not fear.

752
00:52:04.840 --> 00:52:10.920
This is, this is good news, joy and gladness.

753
00:52:10.920 --> 00:52:11.920
This is good stuff.

754
00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:12.920
Joy.

755
00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:13.920
And they say it to John.

756
00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:14.920
I mean, not John.

757
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:18.680
They say it to Zachariah, John's father, joy and gladness.

758
00:52:18.680 --> 00:52:21.480
People are going to be rejoicing.

759
00:52:21.480 --> 00:52:22.840
They say it to Mary.

760
00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:23.840
Do not fear.

761
00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:25.960
To the shepherds, do not fear.

762
00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:28.760
To Joseph, do not fear.

763
00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:30.320
This is good stuff.

764
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:40.920
This is, this is good stuff, weighty, weighty stuff, not heavy, not crushing.

765
00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:43.600
Only crushing to the enemy.

766
00:52:43.600 --> 00:52:48.920
Only a crushing blow to the enemy, not to us, not to us.

767
00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:54.360
So father, we thank you.

768
00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:57.320
We thank you for your word that never fails.

769
00:52:57.320 --> 00:53:02.920
We thank you that you are a good father who is intricately involved with the desires of

770
00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:05.720
our heart.

771
00:53:05.720 --> 00:53:13.600
Like that blows me away, that the creator of the universe, God himself, the beginning

772
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:22.880
and the end, the great I am, is intricately involved in the desires of my heart, how valuable

773
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:30.400
I must be.

774
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:36.160
And so Lord, with that, I'm opening myself up to possibilities and I'll allow you guys

775
00:53:36.160 --> 00:53:37.600
to do the same for yourself.

776
00:53:37.600 --> 00:53:42.080
If you want to say yes to this, I'm opening myself up to the possibilities of experiencing

777
00:53:42.080 --> 00:53:46.560
the birthing of the deepest desires of my heart.

778
00:53:46.560 --> 00:53:52.480
Knowing Lord that you cover me fully, that I am in the fullness of Christ, that I have

779
00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:55.440
been brought to fullness in Christ.

780
00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:56.840
There's no gaps.

781
00:53:56.840 --> 00:53:58.640
There's nothing lacking.

782
00:53:58.640 --> 00:54:01.920
There's no soul scraping that needs to take place.

783
00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:07.120
There's no fear of me, you know, missing the mark, not getting it right.

784
00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:11.720
The desires of my heart being evil, that is old.

785
00:54:11.720 --> 00:54:14.000
I'm a new creation in Christ.

786
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:16.480
His desires are my desires.

787
00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:18.920
My desires are his desires.

788
00:54:18.920 --> 00:54:20.520
That's what I choose to believe.

789
00:54:20.520 --> 00:54:23.160
That is what I'm opening myself up to.

790
00:54:23.160 --> 00:54:35.080
I'm opening myself up to all the possibilities that can be placed within that existence.

791
00:54:35.080 --> 00:54:42.760
So Lord, I thank you that that is possible and because that is possible, nothing is impossible.

792
00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:45.720
Nothing is impossible.

793
00:54:45.720 --> 00:54:54.600
That is what we are walking out of 2022 fully embracing and what we are walking into 2023

794
00:54:54.600 --> 00:54:56.280
fully experiencing.

795
00:55:00.640 --> 00:55:07.040
Thank you, Lord. Does anybody else have anything that is resonating that they want to share?

796
00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:11.440
Hey, Bridget, I see that hand, you can unmute yourself.

797
00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:15.760
Thank you. Yeah, this was very encouraging. Thanks, Lindsay. This morning, Dion and I were

798
00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:21.520
listening to one of Graham's talks, and I don't know what the title was, but it was good. But

799
00:55:21.520 --> 00:55:26.000
the thing that really got to me, which I'm sure if you've listened to Graham, you've heard it,

800
00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:31.040
and that is that anytime you go into a situation, good or bad, you ask the Lord,

801
00:55:31.040 --> 00:55:37.040
who is he going to be to you in this situation? And, you know, he gave so many wonderful examples

802
00:55:37.040 --> 00:55:42.320
of just going into tough situations and how the Lord wants to get excited with us as we get into

803
00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:47.040
those new situations that are good and positive. But then in the difficult situations, you know,

804
00:55:47.040 --> 00:55:52.640
who is he going to be in that difficult situation that he couldn't be in another one. So if you're

805
00:55:52.640 --> 00:55:57.440
living in peace, you don't understand how he can be a peace to you in your times of trouble,

806
00:55:57.440 --> 00:56:02.560
because you have to be in trouble to have the peace. And so just this morning, we were, you

807
00:56:02.560 --> 00:56:06.960
know, Dion and I were talking about that, what would it look like if we truly did believe that

808
00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:12.400
every situation we enter into, we are going hand in hand with the Lord. And it reminded me of my

809
00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:18.320
friend, one of my best friends was divorced and single for 21 years. And then she got married to

810
00:56:18.320 --> 00:56:24.000
an amazing man. And but for the first few months, she just was so used to being so independent and

811
00:56:24.560 --> 00:56:28.720
taking care of the house and taking care of her car. And he kept on her new husband kept on saying,

812
00:56:28.720 --> 00:56:33.520
you know, I want to help you. And that's what the picture I got that the Lord is standing there

813
00:56:33.520 --> 00:56:40.560
wanting to step in and enjoy things with us, but also to, you know, get in and be something that we

814
00:56:40.560 --> 00:56:45.600
can't experience in another situation. So, you know, as we think of the next year and things that

815
00:56:45.600 --> 00:56:52.160
we, you know, we, things that we want to become and see, we must remember, and I just want to

816
00:56:52.160 --> 00:56:57.280
encourage us, I think you said this in a different way, Lindsay, but we're not going into this alone,

817
00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:02.160
we're going into it with him living inside us. And he's like standing there saying, I'm so excited

818
00:57:02.160 --> 00:57:06.880
for this year with you. And, you know, just to enter it like my friend with her new husband,

819
00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:12.400
you know, he's waiting to be there to help us in every situation. It's just a matter of, you know,

820
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:16.320
it's not like he's just sitting on our shoulder and, you know, ignoring him. He wants to be part

821
00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:22.800
of it for the difficult times and the celebration times as well. That's really good. That's a great

822
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:32.640
reminder. Yeah. I just have to chime in. And I first just have to thank you, Lord. This is

823
00:57:33.440 --> 00:57:41.840
so timely. Thank you for your goodness. Oh, you're so good to us. You're so good to me.

824
00:57:42.560 --> 00:57:51.760
And I just thank you that, like, when I get stuck, or when I feel like I'm stuck, here you come.

825
00:57:52.640 --> 00:57:56.560
And you just come just sit next to me as I'm just wallowing.

826
00:57:58.560 --> 00:58:03.920
And as I'm just stuck in my thoughts, and you just come just plop down next to me,

827
00:58:04.640 --> 00:58:11.200
and just listen and sit with me. And you're there. And then you help me up.

828
00:58:12.640 --> 00:58:18.720
Off that step. And so I just thank you. And on this night, I receive,

829
00:58:19.680 --> 00:58:28.240
Lord, I just receive the ability to receive, to not have to figure it out, work it out,

830
00:58:29.120 --> 00:58:36.720
figure it out again. I have to say that again. Because of all you know me, God, you know that

831
00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:43.360
I'm always the one in my family, Lord, trying to figure it out, trying to make it happen,

832
00:58:43.360 --> 00:58:54.000
trying to work it out. And I just get to be your daughter. And I get to have you hold my hand

833
00:58:54.960 --> 00:59:03.520
through each door, through each new possibility, through the words that you've spoken over my life.

834
00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:09.360
And all of my sisters that are on this line. And for those that are watching,

835
00:59:10.240 --> 00:59:16.640
Lord, I thank you that we get to hold your hand, that you are a part of this.

836
00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:23.520
And you're not separated from us. And that yeah, even if we're just sitting on the step,

837
00:59:23.520 --> 00:59:30.320
like we lost our best friend, here you come just to sit down beside us and just be with us.

838
00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:39.920
And you help us up off the step. You don't leave us there. So I just want to thank you. I just

839
00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:47.120
thank you for coming alongside me, for coming alongside us, wherever we are in our journeys

840
00:59:47.120 --> 00:59:54.800
of seeing the dreams that you've placed in our hearts and the visions and the sure words that

841
00:59:54.800 --> 00:59:59.920
have been spoken to us, either directly from you or through another.

842
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:03.760
the man or woman of God, or even a child, Lord,

843
01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:07.960
that no matter where we are in that process,

844
01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:12.560
you are so close and you come by.

845
01:00:12.560 --> 01:00:15.760
Each time we might trip up and get stuck,

846
01:00:17.340 --> 01:00:20.880
you come by just in the nick of time.

847
01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:27.120
So yes, I do complain about your timing from time to time,

848
01:00:27.120 --> 01:00:31.400
but you are so perfectly on time every single time.

849
01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:35.160
So I'm just gonna publicly say that and say, thank you.

850
01:00:35.160 --> 01:00:36.360
Amen and amen.

851
01:00:39.540 --> 01:00:41.000
I love how you modeled for us

852
01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:43.240
that laughter of delight, Tamera.

853
01:00:43.240 --> 01:00:47.000
Like, oh yeah, sometimes I, ha, ha, ha.

854
01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:49.440
Sometimes I get caught up in the time.

855
01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:50.360
That's kind of funny.

856
01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:53.760
Like that is the posture, guys.

857
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:56.520
That is the, that's what it looks like.

858
01:00:56.520 --> 01:00:58.240
I love that.

859
01:00:58.240 --> 01:00:59.300
Hey, Susie.

860
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:04.040
I'm excited because it's like,

861
01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:08.740
I have spent decades not really trusting God

862
01:01:08.740 --> 01:01:10.160
and trying to make things happen

863
01:01:10.160 --> 01:01:11.600
because I didn't really trust him.

864
01:01:11.600 --> 01:01:14.380
And then, okay, coming back again, okay.

865
01:01:16.080 --> 01:01:19.880
With just not getting postings done

866
01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:24.560
and not really believing that the Holy Spirit does care

867
01:01:24.560 --> 01:01:27.440
and he is gonna tell me what he wants to me say,

868
01:01:27.440 --> 01:01:29.360
just all of that.

869
01:01:29.360 --> 01:01:33.560
And saying, Lord, who are you gonna be for me in this?

870
01:01:33.560 --> 01:01:36.320
And him just saying, I'm gonna be your faith.

871
01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:37.160
I'm gonna be your faith.

872
01:01:37.160 --> 01:01:38.640
We're gonna do this.

873
01:01:38.640 --> 01:01:42.080
And my dream at the end of the year

874
01:01:42.080 --> 01:01:44.120
is there will be no doubt.

875
01:01:44.120 --> 01:01:45.800
I know, I know now.

876
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:47.700
God's got a postcard that he's handing me

877
01:01:47.700 --> 01:01:49.100
to hand to other people.

878
01:01:49.100 --> 01:01:54.000
Let's just do it and not worry about it.

879
01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:56.680
And I was talking to somebody,

880
01:01:56.680 --> 01:02:00.000
wise old man who's not necessarily a Christian kind of,

881
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:05.000
and I said something about my inability or something.

882
01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:08.640
He said, but that's not true.

883
01:02:08.640 --> 01:02:10.280
It was like, what?

884
01:02:10.280 --> 01:02:11.560
That's not true.

885
01:02:11.560 --> 01:02:14.680
And it just really gave me that awareness.

886
01:02:14.680 --> 01:02:16.200
I'm gonna be doing that

887
01:02:16.200 --> 01:02:17.920
when these different thoughts come up.

888
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:19.240
I don't need to talk about them.

889
01:02:19.240 --> 01:02:21.000
You're talking about figuring it out.

890
01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:22.200
I don't need to talk about it.

891
01:02:23.040 --> 01:02:24.000
That's not true.

892
01:02:25.120 --> 01:02:27.600
And I don't know if anybody else is going through this.

893
01:02:27.600 --> 01:02:29.200
I am making a shift,

894
01:02:30.160 --> 01:02:33.120
working with this man, helping me to see who I am

895
01:02:33.120 --> 01:02:38.120
and that I am a pursuer of truth, wanting what's right.

896
01:02:38.720 --> 01:02:41.120
The other side of that is really uncomfortable

897
01:02:41.120 --> 01:02:42.880
when things are wrong.

898
01:02:42.880 --> 01:02:47.600
And how do you have that peace?

899
01:02:47.600 --> 01:02:50.280
And the word he gave,

900
01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:53.120
anyway, it's about God's varied,

901
01:02:59.640 --> 01:03:04.640
a rich longing for his divine order.

902
01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:10.960
And it was a new thought for me of not my order,

903
01:03:11.560 --> 01:03:15.200
not my idea of anything that it's like,

904
01:03:15.200 --> 01:03:20.200
that's all I thought and to realize, oh no, divine order.

905
01:03:20.680 --> 01:03:23.720
And I get to say, yes, thank you to divine order

906
01:03:23.720 --> 01:03:27.520
when I don't know what it is, but I know he's doing it.

907
01:03:27.520 --> 01:03:32.520
And there's no wrong in divine order.

908
01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:35.520
And I think what you were saying too,

909
01:03:35.520 --> 01:03:38.680
and I had a couple instances of being able to see,

910
01:03:38.680 --> 01:03:42.040
oh yeah, this really, really bad situation

911
01:03:42.040 --> 01:03:43.280
wasn't really bad.

912
01:03:44.200 --> 01:03:46.480
God did something with it and it was good.

913
01:03:46.520 --> 01:03:51.520
And to be free from even thinking about wrong,

914
01:03:51.520 --> 01:03:54.160
I mean, that blows my mind.

915
01:03:54.160 --> 01:03:56.160
But like you were saying, Bridget,

916
01:03:56.160 --> 01:03:59.440
how about if we just believe that God is there with us

917
01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:01.920
every single moment?

918
01:04:01.920 --> 01:04:06.160
I mean, what he says, all it is is what he says.

919
01:04:07.720 --> 01:04:10.680
What he said, we can take it to the bank

920
01:04:10.680 --> 01:04:12.400
because he said it.

921
01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:14.720
We're not making it up, he said it.

922
01:04:17.480 --> 01:04:19.560
Oh, so good, it's powerful.

923
01:04:19.560 --> 01:04:21.560
Thank you for sharing that, Susie.

924
01:04:21.560 --> 01:04:25.120
I love that, that you have that deep desire

925
01:04:25.120 --> 01:04:29.080
for justice, for goodness.

926
01:04:29.080 --> 01:04:33.200
That's a God idea, not a Susie idea.

927
01:04:33.200 --> 01:04:37.640
But what's so cool is that that desire for you,

928
01:04:37.640 --> 01:04:39.800
that need, he can fill it.

929
01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:44.360
I love that.

930
01:04:44.360 --> 01:04:47.000
Just one little thing, a situation

931
01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:50.280
that would have distressed me, I'm getting peace in.

932
01:04:50.280 --> 01:04:53.320
And so, ongoing thing, getting peace in it.

933
01:04:53.320 --> 01:04:56.400
And I just felt God saying, okay, this is nice.

934
01:04:56.400 --> 01:04:59.400
How about if we start changing the atmosphere here?

935
01:04:59.400 --> 01:05:00.240
Oh, yeah.

936
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:02.440
I like that.

937
01:05:02.440 --> 01:05:04.440
You're going to shift some atmospheres, Susie.

938
01:05:06.320 --> 01:05:07.040
Peace is good.

939
01:05:07.040 --> 01:05:08.840
And I, you know, you know, hear me right.

940
01:05:09.120 --> 01:05:15.000
Peace is good, but let's go on the offensive spiritually and fill this

941
01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:18.760
place with glory and God's divine order.

942
01:05:18.760 --> 01:05:23.640
I am so excited about finding out what God's divine order means.

943
01:05:24.560 --> 01:05:24.800
Yeah.

944
01:05:24.800 --> 01:05:25.960
Bring us back a report.

945
01:05:27.160 --> 01:05:29.320
I'm sure he's showing everybody, but

946
01:05:29.840 --> 01:05:35.720
in his own way, you're going from, from feeling that pressure to keep the

947
01:05:35.720 --> 01:05:39.720
peace and you're coming up powerfully and boldly, and you're starting to make

948
01:05:39.720 --> 01:05:41.680
peace, that's the difference.

949
01:05:42.760 --> 01:05:44.920
You're not a peacekeeper, you're a peacemaker.

950
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:48.960
And that requires some drive and some shifting.

951
01:05:49.080 --> 01:05:50.200
Peace is a driver.

952
01:05:51.400 --> 01:05:52.360
Peace is a driver.

953
01:05:54.280 --> 01:05:57.280
Drives things out, drives things in.

954
01:05:59.360 --> 01:06:04.240
Can come across, can be, can be, is extremely aggressive to the enemy's camp,

955
01:06:05.720 --> 01:06:08.120
but extremely gentle to the people of God.

956
01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:11.080
That's peace.

957
01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:12.360
That's very cool.

958
01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:13.280
That's very cool.

959
01:06:14.560 --> 01:06:16.280
Well, I know we're coming in for a landing.

960
01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:18.160
We might end it a little bit early tonight.

961
01:06:18.640 --> 01:06:22.760
Um, but does anyone else have anything they want to share before I close this out?

962
01:06:25.280 --> 01:06:26.960
I think everyone has shared except for mine.

963
01:06:26.960 --> 01:06:28.600
And I know Monica's on the, on the clock.

964
01:06:28.600 --> 01:06:33.520
So it's cool that she could join us for a little bit, but, um, I want to bless you

965
01:06:33.520 --> 01:06:39.160
guys as we go into this final month, this final chapter of 2022, I mean, can you

966
01:06:39.160 --> 01:06:39.840
even believe it?

967
01:06:39.880 --> 01:06:44.480
I mean, in many ways, I feel like I was, we were getting on here with you guys,

968
01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:49.440
with the members in April saying like April is going to be a powerful month.

969
01:06:50.280 --> 01:06:54.880
And it was, I think it, I think it launched us into many things personally,

970
01:06:55.360 --> 01:07:00.200
corporately, but here we are in December ready to take on a new year, but we don't

971
01:07:00.200 --> 01:07:00.760
have to rush it.

972
01:07:00.760 --> 01:07:06.520
We can take our time in December, take our time, soak it up, enjoy it, ponder in your

973
01:07:06.520 --> 01:07:10.120
heart, the things that God's going to be speaking to you about that deep desire.

974
01:07:10.640 --> 01:07:13.640
Um, you guys know, Ashley Perez, who's in our group.

975
01:07:13.680 --> 01:07:16.520
She is in a, she leads a group that I'm a part of.

976
01:07:16.520 --> 01:07:19.280
And she said something that was so brilliant.

977
01:07:19.520 --> 01:07:20.600
I love the way she put it.

978
01:07:21.200 --> 01:07:24.440
She was talking about need and desire.

979
01:07:24.440 --> 01:07:26.240
Cause the question came up in the group about that.

980
01:07:26.240 --> 01:07:30.760
And she was saying, if you're, if you're feeling like I don't quite know, like if

981
01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:33.640
you're, if you leave tonight and you're like, I'm not really quite sure if I've

982
01:07:33.680 --> 01:07:37.400
like pinpointed, like what it is for me and you're wanting some clarity on that.

983
01:07:37.960 --> 01:07:43.200
There was two questions that she said, she said, um, and I'm paraphrasing because I

984
01:07:43.200 --> 01:07:47.280
was, you know, in that mode where I was listening, but also trying to take notes.

985
01:07:47.280 --> 01:07:49.720
But so I'm going back and I'm going to watch the replay of it.

986
01:07:49.720 --> 01:07:54.680
She says, you know, what do you have a deep desire for others to know or

987
01:07:54.680 --> 01:07:56.000
for, to teach other people?

988
01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:59.240
Like what, like for Susie, you're like, I want people to know the truth, right?

989
01:07:59.240 --> 01:08:02.360
Like I have a deep passion to like, bring that to other people.

990
01:08:03.240 --> 01:08:05.440
And what do you long for others to know?

991
01:08:05.480 --> 01:08:10.040
Like, how do you long, long for others to know you by like, I know for me, I mean,

992
01:08:10.040 --> 01:08:12.960
and this looks different cause there's deep desires in my heart that don't

993
01:08:12.960 --> 01:08:14.280
necessarily fit into this mold.

994
01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:14.520
Right.

995
01:08:14.520 --> 01:08:16.720
But for me, like, that was what peace was.

996
01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:21.840
That was like, for me, I was like, I want others to know me as a peaceful person

997
01:08:21.840 --> 01:08:23.800
and I want to bring peace to other people.

998
01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:26.479
And what she's, what she said was so interesting.

999
01:08:26.479 --> 01:08:32.640
What she said often it's that deep passion in us that is, that sometimes

1000
01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:37.399
comes from a place of, of, we did not have that from others.

1001
01:08:38.399 --> 01:08:42.760
Like it was, it was a, it was a gap, so to speak within our own story or

1002
01:08:42.760 --> 01:08:44.319
perceived gap within our own story.

1003
01:08:44.319 --> 01:08:46.760
Others weren't that for us, or we weren't, we don't feel like we've

1004
01:08:46.760 --> 01:08:48.520
got that from earthly means.

1005
01:08:49.319 --> 01:08:54.160
And so that is so that people who are very justice driven, for example,

1006
01:08:54.160 --> 01:08:58.960
sometimes it's because they did not have a voice speaking for their justice.

1007
01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:00.600
They did not have someone defending them.

1008
01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:02.080
So they have a deep desire.

1009
01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:08.720
Um, all that to say, to wrap this up, God fills that need.

1010
01:09:09.720 --> 01:09:16.120
Some of us walk our whole entire lives with that need, not

1011
01:09:16.120 --> 01:09:18.920
realizing that he fills that need.

1012
01:09:20.399 --> 01:09:24.319
Like really like not in theory, not because we have a scripture verse

1013
01:09:24.319 --> 01:09:29.840
to like place in that gap, but like we can actually walk out of a wounding,

1014
01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:33.760
a generational wounding for some of us that goes generations back.

1015
01:09:34.240 --> 01:09:37.680
We can walk out of that wounding simply by knowing the need is

1016
01:09:38.680 --> 01:09:39.200
filled.

1017
01:09:41.880 --> 01:09:43.160
It's already, it's already filled.

1018
01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:46.359
My emotions might be catching up to that.

1019
01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:47.920
My thoughts might be catching up to that.

1020
01:09:47.920 --> 01:09:52.279
My physical body and some of the symptoms that it might have been

1021
01:09:52.319 --> 01:09:57.480
manifesting because of that feeling of need might be catching up to that, but

1022
01:09:57.480 --> 01:09:59.040
it's, it's a need that's already filled.

1023
01:09:59.720 --> 01:09:59.920
And.

1024
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.560
When we recognize that, that so what I love what Susie was talking about,

1025
01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:07.360
cause Susie, I feel like you've walked, I'm using you as an example.

1026
01:10:07.600 --> 01:10:09.320
You've walked that out with the Lord.

1027
01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:12.000
You've walked that realization with the Lord, Lee is filling.

1028
01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:16.800
And now you're coming to a place where from that, from that knowing of him,

1029
01:10:18.080 --> 01:10:19.440
sorry, guys, I'm sort of covering.

1030
01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:32.760
Now others will be blessed.

1031
01:10:36.240 --> 01:10:36.760
Sorry.

1032
01:10:41.640 --> 01:10:46.560
I almost made it through the entire call, but you hear what I'm saying?

1033
01:10:46.920 --> 01:10:49.120
Now there's external territory to take place.

1034
01:10:49.160 --> 01:10:54.000
Now there's an external expression of that internal truth, but we're not,

1035
01:10:54.320 --> 01:10:58.960
we're not walking wounded, trying to fill other people's wounds or

1036
01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:02.440
heal other people's wounds while we're still bleeding out.

1037
01:11:03.800 --> 01:11:07.440
We're recognizing the Lord is the Lord has filled the need.

1038
01:11:08.200 --> 01:11:09.960
Whatever that need is, whatever that desire is.

1039
01:11:09.960 --> 01:11:13.960
And now an manifestation of that, and that doesn't just manifest

1040
01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:16.040
and necessarily a ministry movement.

1041
01:11:16.240 --> 01:11:18.960
Sometimes that manifest manifest in home life.

1042
01:11:19.160 --> 01:11:24.320
Sometimes that manifest in just financial provision and, and blessing

1043
01:11:24.320 --> 01:11:30.400
in favor and conversations with people in, um, connections and networks.

1044
01:11:31.040 --> 01:11:31.880
It's pretty cool.

1045
01:11:31.960 --> 01:11:35.880
So anyway, the Lord brought that to my remembrance that

1046
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:37.040
Ashley was talking about that.

1047
01:11:37.600 --> 01:11:38.720
All right, let's pray.

1048
01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:39.960
I'd love to close this out.

1049
01:11:39.960 --> 01:11:41.240
So father, thank you.

1050
01:11:41.240 --> 01:11:41.640
Thank you.

1051
01:11:41.640 --> 01:11:42.360
Thank you.

1052
01:11:42.840 --> 01:11:43.480
Thank you.

1053
01:11:44.880 --> 01:11:45.480
Thank you.

1054
01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:51.720
We bask in the goodness of who you are, Lord.

1055
01:11:52.400 --> 01:11:54.200
It's not about the stuff.

1056
01:11:54.600 --> 01:11:56.520
It's not about the outcomes.

1057
01:11:56.960 --> 01:12:00.400
It's not about the positive circumstances, overcoming

1058
01:12:00.400 --> 01:12:01.880
the negative circumstances.

1059
01:12:01.920 --> 01:12:04.800
It's you, you're the gift.

1060
01:12:07.480 --> 01:12:11.200
Our knowing you are experiencing you.

1061
01:12:11.600 --> 01:12:12.640
That's enough.

1062
01:12:13.440 --> 01:12:15.240
And it's not a constellation prize.

1063
01:12:15.280 --> 01:12:18.040
It is a grand trophy.

1064
01:12:18.800 --> 01:12:22.080
It is our prize, our pleasure and our portion.

1065
01:12:22.080 --> 01:12:23.520
It's our inheritance.

1066
01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:27.040
And we bask in it, Lord.

1067
01:12:27.040 --> 01:12:29.320
We love you, Lord.

1068
01:12:29.320 --> 01:12:31.720
We love how you love us.

1069
01:12:33.600 --> 01:12:35.760
We love how you delight in us.

1070
01:12:36.960 --> 01:12:40.720
We thank you for your favor upon us, your smile upon us.

1071
01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:45.520
We thank you that we start every day fresh in you, that your mercies and

1072
01:12:45.520 --> 01:12:52.440
compassion is new every morning, limitless, never running out, never running dry.

1073
01:12:54.520 --> 01:12:56.640
We thank you that we have your joy.

1074
01:12:57.080 --> 01:12:58.600
We have your fullness.

1075
01:13:00.600 --> 01:13:05.040
We thank you that we have your likeness, that we're being made into your image,

1076
01:13:05.080 --> 01:13:12.120
that, that there is, there is literally a dream in your heart, Lord, that there

1077
01:13:12.120 --> 01:13:19.760
would not be a recognizable difference in us and you, between us and you, that

1078
01:13:19.920 --> 01:13:26.040
we would, we would become so like you that there would be no recognizable difference.

1079
01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:31.280
Say la.

1080
01:13:37.160 --> 01:13:38.600
Lord, thank you for this year.

1081
01:13:39.800 --> 01:13:45.200
Thank you for everything that you have poured out for us in this year.

1082
01:13:46.200 --> 01:13:50.440
Thank you for even the things that we don't yet recognize or see in the natural,

1083
01:13:50.440 --> 01:13:52.000
that our spirit knows to be true.

1084
01:13:52.360 --> 01:13:55.320
Lord, we thank you for all the protection and the provision that

1085
01:13:55.320 --> 01:13:57.280
we might not have even perceived.

1086
01:13:58.440 --> 01:14:03.000
But we know that there was so much goodness saturating every part of our

1087
01:14:03.000 --> 01:14:09.040
lives that we just, our, our natural brains didn't even comprehend the amount

1088
01:14:09.360 --> 01:14:12.840
of goodness that we were saturated in, that we are saturated in, that we

1089
01:14:12.840 --> 01:14:14.560
will continue to be saturated in.

1090
01:14:14.680 --> 01:14:15.680
And that's okay.

1091
01:14:16.320 --> 01:14:20.560
Our spirits know the truth and our spirits are making known the truth,

1092
01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:25.080
partnering with the Holy Spirit and making known the truth to every part of our being.

1093
01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:32.640
Lord, we thank you that you have placed us in this point in time for such a time as

1094
01:14:32.640 --> 01:14:34.040
this, there's no coincidence.

1095
01:14:34.040 --> 01:14:38.720
We are, our feet are on the ground that it, that you meant for it to be.

1096
01:14:38.960 --> 01:14:43.520
We are touching the people that you meant for us to touch, that you planned for us

1097
01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:47.480
to touch, we are connected to the people you want us to be connected with.

1098
01:14:50.040 --> 01:14:52.800
We are open to the possibilities, Lord.

1099
01:14:53.920 --> 01:14:55.960
We are open to that conversation with you.

1100
01:14:56.320 --> 01:14:59.200
Show us, give us eyes to see, give us ears to hear.

1101
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:03.120
I pray for each and everyone on this call

1102
01:15:03.120 --> 01:15:04.520
and in our advancement group

1103
01:15:04.520 --> 01:15:06.120
and in our larger community, Lord,

1104
01:15:06.120 --> 01:15:09.560
as we celebrate this beautiful time of year,

1105
01:15:09.560 --> 01:15:12.740
these precious, precious holy days.

1106
01:15:13.620 --> 01:15:17.320
Lord, I pray that you would just saturate it with your joy,

1107
01:15:17.320 --> 01:15:21.240
that no matter what the family dynamics may be,

1108
01:15:21.240 --> 01:15:23.680
or maybe there's people that are missing this year,

1109
01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:27.040
maybe there's people that are experiencing grief,

1110
01:15:27.040 --> 01:15:30.720
Lord, I just pray that you would meet them in that place

1111
01:15:30.720 --> 01:15:34.480
and show yourself to them and open their eyes

1112
01:15:34.480 --> 01:15:36.760
and open their ears so they can experience you

1113
01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:38.320
like never before.

1114
01:15:38.320 --> 01:15:40.960
You know what it is that they need,

1115
01:15:40.960 --> 01:15:43.140
you've already filled that need.

1116
01:15:43.140 --> 01:15:46.060
Make what is real, realize to them.

1117
01:15:47.240 --> 01:15:51.680
May this Christmas be filled with a tangible sense

1118
01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:53.940
of your goodness and your presence

1119
01:15:53.940 --> 01:15:56.400
and your favor like never before.

1120
01:15:56.400 --> 01:15:59.120
I know the circumstances will look different for everyone

1121
01:15:59.120 --> 01:16:03.280
and it may not be what we want,

1122
01:16:03.280 --> 01:16:05.440
but Lord, you are what we need,

1123
01:16:05.440 --> 01:16:08.680
and you're enough, you're enough.

1124
01:16:08.680 --> 01:16:12.600
Teach us to let go, teach us how to surrender,

1125
01:16:12.600 --> 01:16:14.440
teach us how to trust.

1126
01:16:14.440 --> 01:16:17.960
Lord, help us remove any unbelief

1127
01:16:17.960 --> 01:16:20.140
so that just like Susie declared,

1128
01:16:20.140 --> 01:16:23.320
there is no more doubt.

1129
01:16:23.320 --> 01:16:27.600
And we pray all these things in the precious name

1130
01:16:27.600 --> 01:16:32.600
and nature of Jesus, amen, amen.

1131
01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:35.360
Lindsay, one thing I wanted to,

1132
01:16:35.360 --> 01:16:38.480
I love that when you said no recognizable difference

1133
01:16:38.480 --> 01:16:40.480
between us and Jesus, you know,

1134
01:16:40.480 --> 01:16:43.040
because we wonder, okay, how does that all work?

1135
01:16:43.040 --> 01:16:46.840
I had a friend who talked about Jesus is ice cream

1136
01:16:46.840 --> 01:16:49.640
and I'm the Susie flavor of Jesus.

1137
01:16:51.160 --> 01:16:52.000
I like that.

1138
01:16:54.160 --> 01:16:56.440
Jesus is ice cream.

1139
01:16:56.440 --> 01:16:58.520
Susie, I will never forget that.

1140
01:16:58.520 --> 01:17:02.120
Yeah, so we're all a different flavor of Jesus.

1141
01:17:02.120 --> 01:17:04.360
I love that, I love that.

1142
01:17:04.360 --> 01:17:05.600
It's true.

1143
01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:06.440
It's true.

1144
01:17:06.440 --> 01:17:11.440
It's all, we're all unique expressions of one beloved son.

1145
01:17:13.040 --> 01:17:14.960
It's pretty powerful.

1146
01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:18.080
He's the head, we're the body, it makes sense.

1147
01:17:19.840 --> 01:17:21.640
I love you guys so much.

1148
01:17:21.640 --> 01:17:23.460
We'll be on the call tomorrow.

1149
01:17:24.920 --> 01:17:27.800
Thank you so much for joining, bringing your strength

1150
01:17:27.800 --> 01:17:32.560
and I will see you guys later this week, tomorrow, okay.

1151
01:17:32.560 --> 01:17:33.400
Bye.