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Good morning, everyone. Let's try this again. I thought I did this before and stopped recording.

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I am recording this a day early. We're going to be traveling tomorrow, as I assume a lot

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of people will be for this holiday. I just pray safe travels for you all and grace, grace

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to everyone. I'd like, ideally, for you to be able to start your mornings with ease.

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So I am hoping that this is Monday, the 21st. And this is day two of our journey. Day two,

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knowing your purpose. Restful one, I call your spirit to attention in the name of Jesus

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of Nazareth. Listen with your spirit to God's promise and his word. We are God's workmanship,

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created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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Ephesians 2.10. Your father has a purpose for you. I bless you with knowing your purpose

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as God has seen it in his heart. I bless you with being everything that God has designed

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you to be, because as you experience the joy of fulfilling your purpose, you will benefit.

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Others will benefit and the world will be blessed. Restful one, I bless you with fulfilling

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the call of God on your life and living out the fulfillment of his will. I bless you with

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being in your father's time, not running ahead and not lagging behind, but knowing his will

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and doing his will in the right time, the right place, and the right way with the right people

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alongside you. I bless you with knowing the things your father has called you to do, to know,

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and do the things he has called you to do. I bless you with being able to carry out God's

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work with honor, with peace, with joy, doing God's work God's way. He has uniquely designed

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you as an instrument of a particular set of good deeds. You can do them better than anybody

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else can do them, because your father has uniquely positioned you. I come into agreement

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with God and with his word, and I bless his design of you. I bless the good works that

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have your name on them for you to do, and I bless the way your father has designed you

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to do them. I invest in you. I care for you. I love you. I nurture you, for you are a treasure

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and a blessing to the world. I bless you with a life-giving community to fit into. You have

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a piece to put into a mosaic, and I bless you with fitting together with other people,

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because you can't do what God has called you to do alone. I bless you with finding

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like-hearted, like-visioned, like-spirited others. I bless you with being a part of a

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family of ministry where you can enjoy your greatest fulfillment as you fit with other

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people who are finding their fulfillment in God's purpose, and each of you is doing what

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God has designed you to do. Your father will bless you, restful one, with the right closed

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doors, because your enemy will try to get you to do things that God has not designed

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you to do. Good things, legitimate things, profitable things, honorable things, but your

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father has not designed you to do them. I bless you with not wasting time or effort

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and doing things that God has not called you to do, but being able to invest fully

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where God has positioned you and be fully present to today's grace and today's assignment.

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Your father will bless you with open doors to walk forward in his time and his calling

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for you to experience the joy of fulfillment of being everything he has called you to be

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at the right time and in the right place. Your father intends for you to have beauty

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of spirit. I bless you with fulfillment, grace, elegance, and the wisdom and beauty of heaven.

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I celebrate the beauty that God has nurtured in you. You are God's craftsmanship, his masterpiece,

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his poem. You are not just a piece of a puzzle or a tool designed to function to do good

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works just because the world needs them done and the kingdom of God will advance.

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I bless you with obeying him one day at a time with beauty of spirit.

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an ease of effort, and the favor of His making a way.

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Your Father intends for you to carry the fragrance of Heaven,

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for people to be attracted to you.

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It will not happen because you are effective, or competent, or secure,

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or have a holy boldness about you, but because you have the perfume of Heaven.

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I bless you, I bless you, restful one, with being a fragrant offering

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as you do the work God wants you to do.

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I bless you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

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Father, as I pray this prayer for the second time, so to speak,

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we may know in part all that you have.

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I have a sense about some people here, I have a sense about where people are,

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maybe where they may be going, but from the grand sense of things, I know nothing.

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Lord, I pray that there be a confidence to be instilled upon each and every person here,

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that you know the plans you have, and that you know their purpose,

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and those things will be revealed at the right time,

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and that, Lord, your desire for them is so much greater than their ability,

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than our ability, than Ed's ability to blow it, to miss it.

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That, Lord, that we can really come into a place of resting,

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that our purpose is hidden in you, our identity is hidden in you,

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as you and the mystery of your life in us is a mystery,

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just as a marriage in the union, one of the two great mysteries in the Jewish mysticism,

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number two is marriage, the mystery of the union where two become one.

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There's a mystery in that with you, Lord.

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I pray, Lord, that you would really guard, by opening and closing doors,

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Lord, I pray that you would put a tone and a resonance on all of the invitations that are from you,

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and a different one on all the things that are not, to help us to discern your voice, Lord.

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Something that really stuck out to me, Lord, was the passage here about

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doing all of these good things that are coming our way,

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the good, in quote, things that will exhaust and burn us out.

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Lord, I was reminded, reading that, of a former director of a school that I was a pastor at,

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and I was breaking all of the rules that I had been taught,

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and I had been raised up in a ministry, and people, Lord, they would, well,

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Lord, you know this already, but would come, and they didn't know me, and I didn't know them,

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and they would come and get ministry, and I would leave, and they would leave,

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and never, ever the two should meet.

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And now I was living in the same single-floor community

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with the very young people that I was ministering to, and boundaries, I was boundaries.

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And I was talking to the former director, and he was like, you know, Ed,

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I used to have, my definition of boundaries has changed.

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My boundaries used to be, look like, here's a line, don't cross it.

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And now my boundaries are a little more like,

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this is what I'm willing to do, and this is what I'm not willing to do.

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I could do them, but I'm not going to do them.

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And he said, and what is my model for this? He goes, well, it's Jesus.

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Jesus had one guiding principle.

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He said he only did what he saw his Father do.

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Now he could have done those things, but he did not.

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He only healed one person at the pool.

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He went away regularly, so there are all kinds of things that the Lord could have done,

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but he only did what he saw his Father do.

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So Lord, I pray today that you would cut off...

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way all of the extraneous things that we're doing that you haven't called us to do.

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It's like a former pastor used to he said the only thing he remembered

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from seminary from this one professor was him saying son if the devil can't make you bad

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he'll make you busy. Lord that today that lord all of the things every yoke that we have taken

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your yoke is easy and your burden is light. Every yoke that we've taken on lord that today you

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would break them under the sound of my voice. Lord you would throw them and burn them in a fire as

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Elijah had done with the yokes of the oxen that he slaughtered. The lord every weight that we've

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taken on that you haven't given us anything lord that we are carrying that was only for a season

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or a day a burden you gave us to do or just a weight that you never asked us to take.

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Weights that are really yours to carry any outcomes that we are holding ourselves beholden to

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that really are none of our business but really yours. I ask that you would wipe them away this

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very day lord god and the lord that you would really help us to recognize when the offer is

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your offer versus a distraction. Lord you're endless in your resources but we are not.

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Yes in theory when we're operating in alignment with you we're sourced from another place we are

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operating 100% through the spirit etc. etc. Yes that's true we are supposed to be a conduit of

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heaven but in general we only have so much time so much energy so much focus they say that we

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can only make a certain number of really good decisions every day. There is something called

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decision fatigue. So lord everything that we are doing that we're not supposed to be doing lord

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let it cease. Help us lord to really come into a restful place of doing more isn't doing more.

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You don't really want our effort you want our attention.

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I should probably write that down. You don't want our effort lord you want our attention.

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It's not perspiration but inspiration.

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I pray lord that you would make everyone here that we are carried the aroma of heaven.

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That lord that you would as Bob Jones used to say that you would make all of our senses golden.

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So that we can see hear smell taste and experience the realm of the spirit to experience heaven to

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experience you lord through all of our senses. These are just other gateways and ways to be able

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to experience you and that this very day lord that people would smell the perfume the aroma

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and that we'd be so imbued with you. That lord you said that you know if people have seen me

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they've seen the father. That lord there be such a fullness of you in us that people would see you

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that they seen you they see the father that they would see the father through us.

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They would experience it lord and I again I'm thinking of the funny story of Bill Johnson where

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he was he was shopping in a department store and a woman walked up next to him and just fell out in

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the atmosphere and he said oops I leaked. That lord that we would leak heaven that we would leak you

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and that there be an incidental way of us disrupting this society of us imbuing environments

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and shifting things when when there's no way that we could have done it on our own volitional accord

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and that you get all the credit.

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Lord I I bless those under the sound of my voice with rest and knowing that they're exactly what

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they're supposed to be. Lord I pray that you minister to any one of us that has ever struggled

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with feeling that there's somewhere else that they're called to be. That they'll they'll rest

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they'll rest or they'll like themselves if they can only get to this place if they can only

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do this thing. If there's a place where there is like this plaguing feeling that has chased

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them through their life, that they are not where they're supposed to be, that they're behind,

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that they have to catch up, or that they've blown it. I used to say that I didn't feel like I was

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on God's plan Z, where we're going to have to go to some numerical scale, but I was like Q.

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That, Lord, that we are, we are, there is no plan B or C or D or Q. There is plan A from the

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beginning. And I pray, Lord, that you would, you would imbue people today with your love

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in a tangible way for them to be able to encounter you, Lord,

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to be immersed and marinated in you this day. We bless you and love you in Jesus name.