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Hi there, I'm Gabrielle Friesman and I feel so honored and privileged to be able to come

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on here today and share a word that I feel like the Lord has placed on my heart.

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So we'll just dive right in.

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We're going to start with a verse, 2 Corinthians 4.18.

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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen.

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For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

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There's been a line in my spirit, a theme that God has given me, and it goes along the

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lines, there's more than what meets the eye.

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Our culture today is very quick to show what's on the outside, to show what looks good, whether

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that be home decor, whether that be fashion, whether that be their life in general, the

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highlight reel.

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That's what we hear.

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But how often do we talk about and we share the unseen, the supernatural, what's going

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on in the spirit realm?

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And I want to stir that in you today, all of the things that God is up to in the spirit

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realm.

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I was sitting on a plane a couple weeks ago and I was looking out the window, and I don't

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know if you've sat on a plane before, next to another plane, it is incredible to look

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at the plane.

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It's just ginormous.

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I was sitting next to one and I was just studying it and I'm like, wow, that's a big plane.

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Then I look further down on the plane that I was looking at, and at the nose of the plane,

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I see this little tractor.

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And I don't know if you've seen it before, but it's technically called an aircraft pushback

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tractor, the things you'll learn on Google.

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And I saw this little dot in that tractor and it ended up being a human being.

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And I was like, okay, hold on, does he understand what he is pushing?

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Like from his perspective, all he's seeing is the nose of the plane.

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But what from my perspective, it was ginormous.

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I was asking myself, does he understand the amount of people he is pushing?

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And I don't know if you've seen it before, but the tractor, and it's really small in

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comparison to the big old plane, actually has the ability to move the plane where it

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needs to go on the ground.

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And God really just revealed this to me.

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It's a great analogy of who we are as believers in this earth and what he is up to in our

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everyday life is that sometimes all we see is the nose of the plane, so to speak.

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Maybe you're a mom.

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Maybe you change those diapers all the time, or maybe you are a full-time employee and

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you feel like your tasks are just, oh, just you're going through the motions, or maybe

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you're a spouse and you're just really serving your husband or wife all the time.

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And sometimes all we see is the nose of the plane, like, Lord, why, why am I doing this?

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Why, what, what impact does this really have?

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Oh, but from heaven's perspective, the weight that you are pushing is absolutely incredible.

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The amount of people, the amount of generations you are affecting is incredible.

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And I truly believe we'll get to heaven one day and God will give us that play-by-play

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or at least share with us all the things that we impacted and that we just really made a

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difference in this world.

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Here's another verse that I want to share, Matthew 6, 19, 21.

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Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and where

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thieves break in and steal.

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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

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Again, the Word teaches us we are not laying things up in this superficial, this super

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official, this natural world that we're living in.

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We're not laying up treasures for that.

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We're laying up treasures for heaven, for things that are awaiting us, for the eternity.

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When you look into the Bible, how many characters in the Bible were driven by the unseen?

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So many.

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You got Noah, who was building that ark.

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Did he see the flood?

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No, but he was driven by what the Lord said, what was going to happen.

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There was an unseen obedience.

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There was unseen things that God was warning him about, that he was telling him about,

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and he decided to build that ark.

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Mary, she never met Jesus, but an angel came and said, you will have a son and his name

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will be Jesus.

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She never met Jesus.

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She didn't know all that he was going to accomplish, but once again, she was driven by the unseen.

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So all that to say.

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is I just wanna encourage you and just ask the Lord,

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God, what is the unseen in my life?

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What are the things that you are calling me to do?

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And what I love about what the guy was doing

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in the tractor with the airplane is he was seated,

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he was at rest, he was letting that machine

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move something greater than him.

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And I encourage you with that today.

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There's no striving, God's already won.

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He's given you the grace, his grace is sufficient

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and you can accomplish all that he has called you

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to accomplish by the gift of grace.

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So I just encourage you with that today.

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Ask God, God, what are you up to in the unseen?

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What are you asking me to do that's gonna have

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a bigger impact than I could ever imagine?

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I hope that encouraged you today

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and I hope you have a great rest of your week.

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See you tomorrow.

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Bye-bye.

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Be well.

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Amen.