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So, Happy New Year!

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What do you think this year is going to hold for you?

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I've got some good news for you today.

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Hi, my name is Leanne Friesman, and this is Restoring Word, and I know there's a tendency

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in the Body of Christ in the month of January to begin to seek the Lord and see what is

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the Holy Spirit saying for the year.

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My family, we have a tradition of generally fasting over a series of days in the month

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of January and kind of journaling and writing down what we're hearing from the Lord.

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But sometimes God in His goodness and grace will give me something ahead of time.

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My pattern of hearing from the Lord is around the 4th of July, not in January.

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I hear around the new year for the school year, which is generally at the end of June,

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school is completely shut down, and we start the new year, the 1st of July.

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So that's kind of my season of hearing.

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But the Lord, the Wednesday night before Christmas, I had a dream, and it was a significant dream.

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I woke up at 4.41 a.m., and I'm laying half-awake, half-asleep, and I see a woman intercessor,

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and she is rocking in a chair back and forth.

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I can't tell if her hair is blonde or white because there's a beautiful warm light behind

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her and she's just like this and praying in the Spirit.

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And I'm watching this, and then I see above her head the number 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5.

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And I didn't know what to do with it.

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Okay, so what do you do when you get something, and you feel it's significant, but you don't

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understand it?

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Have you ever had a dream like that?

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I think most of us have.

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The good news is we can journal, and we can write things down, and we can wait to find

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out where is that in Scripture, or how is that in the Word, or where do we find that.

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And sometimes you'll find out, well, that was just something I ate before I went to

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bed last night.

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Or sometimes you will get something from the Holy Spirit in that I'm half awake, I'm half

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of sleep state, which is where I hear from Him a lot, and I'll find some meaning in it.

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So I've waited almost two weeks to share it because I kind of wanted to study it out.

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I wasn't sure, and I took the step of sharing the dream with a trusted friend and with my

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husband, and I'm saying, okay, this is what I'm getting.

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I'm not sure what it means.

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And then the next thing, after I wrote it down, and I dated it, and I began to put it

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together, I thought, well, this is really good.

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This is really encouraging.

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And maybe somebody out there would just be encouraged by what I'm getting from the dream.

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Okay?

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I want to open up today with a really beautiful Scripture from the book of Psalms.

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This is Psalms 139, and it's from an unusual translation.

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It's from the Passion Translation, and this Scripture was shared Sunday by a pastor here

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in Broken Arrow, but I want to share it with you.

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It's verses 1 through 6 in Psalms 139, God, investigate my life.

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Get all the facts firsthand.

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Now, this is the Passion Translation, okay?

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I am an open book to you.

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Even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.

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You know when I leave and when I get back.

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I'm never out of your sight.

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You know everything I'm going to say, even before I start the first sentence.

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I look behind me, and you're there, and then up ahead, you're there too.

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Your reassuring presence coming and going.

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This is too much and too wonderful.

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I can't take it all in.

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You know, God was in our season in 2019, 20, and 2021.

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He was in our past.

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He's watched us, our family, our communities, our nation go through everything that they've

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been through, and He's been faithful, and He's walked us through it all.

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We're now in a different season.

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It's 2023.

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Things have begun to shift.

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Things have begun to be uncovered.

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We're learning things.

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We didn't know before, we knew by the Spirit,

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but now they're being exposed in our nation especially,

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and this is not a bad thing.

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See, God knows it all.

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Isn't it reassuring to know that he's in your past,

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even those seasons of screwing up,

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even those seasons of flesh and will and sin?

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He knows it all, and he's faithful to forgive.

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He knows your future, he knows where you're going.

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He knows what you're gonna say when you're gonna say it.

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He's already in your thoughts, he's in your heart,

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he's in your spirit, and he wants to lead you

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and guide you in this next season.

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So back to my vision, why do I think I had that?

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Well, number one, I connect to intercession

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and to prayers and to worship.

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Prayer and praise, they are one, they are connected.

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Pray your songs and sing your prayers.

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They're interconnected.

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Worship leaders, it's like when you lead worship,

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you're singing prayers, you're singing scripture,

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you're singing thoughts that come from God.

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And we're gonna need to pray in this next season.

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And what's cool is I love numbers and I love Bible study,

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but I was kinda like, God, why am I seeing five?

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And then why am I seeing five over and over and over

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and over and over again?

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So when you don't know what to do with something,

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you need to just begin the process of studying it out,

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which is what I've done.

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And so here's some meanings that come from the number five.

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Are you ready?

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This means, the number symbolizes God's grace and goodness

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and favor towards humans.

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Isn't that good?

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It's mentioned 118 times in scripture.

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Five is the number of grace and multiplied by itself,

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which is five times five is 25.

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It's grace upon grace.

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Ooh, I like that.

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John 1 16 says, the 10 commandments contain two sets

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of five commandments.

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The first five commandments are related to our treatment

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and our relationship with God.

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And one is concerned with our relationship

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with other human beings, okay?

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The appearances of number five,

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there are different types of offerings that can be given.

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There's the burn offering, there's the sin offering,

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there's a trespass offering, there's the grain offering,

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there's a peace offering.

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Isn't that beautiful?

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The book of Psalms is divided into five sections.

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Wow, I like that.

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What else?

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Well, there's also different seasons in the Bible

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that we go through that are connected to the number five.

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I'm not gonna go through some of those,

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but do you know that there's five books of the law?

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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.

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It's our foundation, is the Pentateuch.

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There were five substances that were in the anointing oil

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that were used in the temple.

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There's myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, cashew,

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and I've missed one, myrrh, okay.

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That's five of those ingredients there,

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and it was given by design.

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If you study out the tabernacle,

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the tabernacle, and you look at the frame

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that goes all the way around the tabernacle,

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there's five pillars and five posts

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that hold up the walls that enable them,

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and the length of that is five cubits.

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God prepares a place for us to worship,

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and he knows that we're going to need his grace

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and his goodness and his mercy to follow us

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in every single season.

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Now, I don't know about you.

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I'm back to the number five in my dream here.

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I have a tendency to listen too much to the news,

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and it can get really depressing,

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and I do think that in many ways,

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this is going to be a year of challenge

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and change and difficulty.

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Challenge, change, difficulty,

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but I've got a promise here,

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and I'm receiving this word from the Lord today

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that if I will be faithful to stand and pray,

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if I will speak the word over my family,

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if I will stand in the gap and intercede,

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and here's another thing you've got to understand

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about prophecy.

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There are prophecies that are conditional.

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That means we have to do our part

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for God to do his part, okay?

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So is it going to happen?

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happen if you don't do your part no but if you will do your part and you will be

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faithful to what he has given you then in this next season he will bless you

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and carry you and there will be multiplied grace upon multiplied grace

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now that isn't that's not a license to go sin and do whatever I want to do no

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what does that mean that means that even if everything around me is a little

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chaotic and crazy even if maybe the economy isn't greater or maybe you know

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I've got overwhelming things I'm being asked to do or if there just seems to be

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an abundance of challenge that in this season if I will seek him first in the

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kingdom of God and his righteousness then all of these things will be added

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unto me why because he's good and he's faithful that means Leanne no matter

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what you're going through you know when you have five five five five it's like

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Leanne I'm trying to drive home a point to you my grace is enough my grace is

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enough my strength is enough my presence is enough you're going to make it you

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can do it in this next season you know we were all born to live in this time in

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human history God knew when you were going to be born you're not an accident

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you're here by divine appointment you were born for such a time as this even

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if you were born into a family with great difficulty and great adversity

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especially like my husband's family it's okay God will take all of that

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difficulty and he will use it for good for the kingdom if you will allow him to

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and that grace and that favor oh honey it flows into your family it flows into

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your children and into your grandchildren intercessors this is going

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to be your finest hour stand strong and speak the word of God stand in the gap

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speak with authority pray I know for me this is a call back to prayer I need to

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go back to what I know to do I have a very high-pressure stressful life but

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I'm telling you when God kicks in and helps me I can do just about anything

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it's like there's an anointing of ease that comes it's like the oil of the Holy

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Spirit just takes out all that friction you know and all of a sudden I'm

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hyperproductive and I can do this and I can do this and I can get that done and

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I have this appointment I see that person I fix this issue when I don't

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have that grace operating in my life it's just friction difficulty pressure

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it's not fun the word for me for 2023 is grace upon grace the number five he is

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good and it and for me it's really a call back for intercession so how does

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this fit with the body of Christ well I think God is calling all of us to a

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season of consecration and intercession I hope you'll join me we're praying this

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year for the direction for restoring word thank you for liking and subscribing

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and have a great year

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you