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Good morning, good day everyone. Today is day 19 and it is called

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Friends During Transition and Change. Restful one in the name of Jesus of

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Nazareth, listen with your spirit to the Word of God for you. Other Benjamites and

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some men of Judah also came to David in his stronghold. David went out to meet

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them and said to them, if you have come to me in peace to help me, I am ready to

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have you unite with me. But if you've come to betray me and my to betray me to

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my enemies when my hands are free from violence, may the God of our fathers see

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it and judge you. Then the Spirit came upon Amassi, chief of the thirty, and he

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said, we are yours, O David. We are with you, O son of Jesse. Success, success to

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you and success to those who help you, for your God will help you. So David

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received them and made them leaders of his raiding bands. First Chronicles 12

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16 through 18. God had established Saul as king over Israel, but God later

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determined to end his reign. David was chosen, appointed, anointed, loved by God,

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but he was not yet king because Saul was still on the throne. Saul knew that God

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had chosen David to be his next king, that the favor of God had departed from

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him and was resting on David, and Saul bitterly resented God's changing the

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structure. One of the most difficult changes is from God's order to God's new

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order. God chose and anointed Saul for that reason. God's order for a time, but

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that time passed. God had a new order, a dynasty headed by King David. For the new

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order to be put in place, the old order had to be removed. In the

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transition, there was a lot of pain and turmoil. Saul was trying to kill the

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appointed king of the new order. Into this time of crisis and human resistance

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to the divine new order, God brought men to David to be at peace with him, support

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him, encourage him, stand alongside him as he moved through the tumultuous passage

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from God's order to God's new order. Some of these men were Benjamites from the

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same tribe as Saul. They should have been loyal to Saul, yet they were men of

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vision and conviction who set aside the human loyalties of tribe and saw the

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benefits of the new order clearly. Men of Judah did not side with David

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initially, but they began to see that God's new order was resting with him.

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They chose to leave their homes, the security of their cities, the favor of

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the king of the old order. They came to the desert to experience privation, need,

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hardship, instability, transition, hatred by the old order. It greatly encouraged

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David to have these men to come to him during the time of transition. Many came

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to him after the new order was established, but men of faith and

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courage came to him during the time of transition from God's older order to

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God's new order. God used these men in later years to be the leaders of Israel.

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David, his mighty men, established authority and dominion over all of Israel

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after he became king. Restful one, you are living in a time when change from God's

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old order to God's new order is happening at a faster pace than ever before. More

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new things are being brought into the stream of world history than at any

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other time. There will be many changes and you will be a part, will be part of

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God's new order. You may be resented by God's older order, renounced and

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criticized. These things are inevitable. God did not protect David from those

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things, but he gave David peace during the transition by bringing to him men to

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walk alongside him. I bless you, restful one, with being in strong, rich, life-giving

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relationship with men and women who believe in God's new order, who

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understand that you are a part of God's new order. I bless you with men and women

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of faith coming alongside you, committed to you personally for those

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days and times when God calls you to lead out in the transition from his old

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order to his new order. I bless you with having God's appointed leaders of his

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new order who walk beside you in unity in that difficult transition. I bless you

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life-giving blessing to those people during the transition,

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mentoring those who have the faith to see that you are part of God's new order.

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When God's new order is established, you will have many standing with you,

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partnering with you. I bless you with a strong personal and

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corporate sense of his presence as his signature on your

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calling. I bless you in the name of Jesus of

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Nazareth, who himself led out in the transition

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between God's old order and God's new order.

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Wow.

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What an amazing, amazing blessing.

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What an amazing, amazing blessing, Lord.

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It's a joke to say,

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I remember somebody saying that there was a joke

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to say, you know, like, oh, I, I foresee

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in prophetic services, like there, there's someone here that has back pain.

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It's like a softball, you know, that doesn't take any prophetic giftings

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per se, but it's a, it's also similar in the same

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way to say, like, I perceive that you're in a time of transition.

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It seems like we're always in some aspect of our life,

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always in change and transition. Now, there are times of greater transition,

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massive transition, or where everything around us seems to be

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in flux, and then there are times when it's just like certain aspects of our

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lives are as multifaceted beings, certain aspects

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are changing. As Graham Cooke used to say, like, you

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know, Lord, you're, you're, you're always the same, but

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you're always doing things differently. Like he, the God himself never changes,

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but he's always changing the way he does things.

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As we transition, even out of one year into a new year, from one season to a new

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season, I foresee that we're in transitional time

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in history, that there is something fundamental

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about God having a timing on this season, on this

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era, on this place in history, like none other, that there are aspects

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of himself and revelations and even things that have

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been held up that are to be released in this time,

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but there's something massive in the transition of what's

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getting ready to be released upon the earth, and we can

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feel it, kind of like what they describe as birth pains. Of course, I have no idea

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what birth pains are like, but it's described in scripture as like

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birth pains, that there are these birth pains before

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the birth actually happens, that discomfort starts

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well before the actual birth, that there's a birthing that is getting

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ready to take place, but in these transitional times,

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especially when people, and I believe that the people here

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as pioneers or forerunners, are going through transition ahead of

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the larger transition that's going to be released upon the earth

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in the body of Christ, that in that aspect,

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that there is a mass transition taking place.

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As a matter of fact, I believe that there are some that they're going to see

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that there's almost a perfect storm of transitional chaos,

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for lack of better term, that has been orchestrated by God to

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take them to the place and the point where they were so desperate that they

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landed themselves, seemingly out of desperation, when it was

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really by God's design, into a place where they had to get a

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hold of this thing called rest.

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I pray, Lord God, as this articulated, that you would bring people,

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even if it's just for the time of transition.

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There are people whose lives I've been in, there was,

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it seemed like, and I have them for my own life, that it seemed like

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I, by their recollection, I seem to always show up

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during a time of transition.

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We could go years without seeing one another, hearing one another,

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but there's something, a word, or whatever, that'll come in a time when

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they're in massive transition. There are some people where it's a

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place. But Lord, I pray that we can be those

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transitional people, that we can come and see the new order

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that is getting ready to come, that is resting upon people, that we

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have the courage, the grace, to be able to not cut

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relationships.

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Relationship and not to get over the new trend and the new fad but to really see the anointing of God that rests upon the

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son of man

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They can see your kingdom come they can see the new order being established and that Lord that there be that same thing

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Where you give eyes to see of those people that are around us and that we haven't even met yet

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They can see God's kingdom the new order resting upon us

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And that Lord even I believe it's really important for some people here that people would see more clearly

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That new order on us on them

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For us to be able to be shaken rattled out of our comfort place of comfort into the place of reality to go back to Gideon

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To have those Gideon moments

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He had no clue that he was going to become the next judge of Israel

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There is nothing in his life, his circumstances, his family of origin or even he is a human being or his belief system

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That had any clue but yet it was God's plan and it came to pass

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I pray Lord for a boldness and a confidence for that to be a recognized and to be given hope into each of us

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That this can be true even if we don't have the foresight to know it much less believe it

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And that Lord that there would be people in our lives that come even strangers

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To speak forth in a word in a time of transition and a time where it's life-giving

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To speak forth something that you're trying to birth in our heart that we are not sure if it's from you or not

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And that Lord in the cutaway all the distracting voices as my dad said would say call it the cutaway the noise

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To really be able to hear you

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I thank you Lord for those people that are in transition and those people that are called to walk with us through the transition

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And I pray Lord for all of us

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It's like the discussion about the term who has your back came from Roman soldiers that learned

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That the back was a very exposed thing that they would often times fight back to back

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And saying who has your back

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Or that we can't see at all ourselves

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That's why we have other people that can see into our blind spots

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That Lord that there be those people and that we can be there for others to see what they cannot see

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Not just in weakness not just in vulnerability but also the aspects of who they are

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That they seem to be missing and that we seem to be missing

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Lord we bless you and we love you in Jesus name