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Give me one sec.
I just need to find some of my team members here.
We'll get people pinned and get ready.
Sorry, y'all.
I was just running a few minutes behind.
Welcome.
This will give people a little bit of time to join us.
Say hello and tell everyone where you're joining from in the chat.
You know, one of the things that I hear a lot in the community, you know, I can't think
and find my people at the same time and talk to you.
It's kind of funny that I'm trying to do all three.
But one of the things I see a lot is that people mention that they don't, you know,
they want to make friends and they're looking for people and, y'all, there's always opportunity
just to say hi to somebody and cheer them on in our groups, in the chats.
I know it's not that easy, but, you know, be a friend and then you can make a friend.
So I want to encourage everybody to do that and lean into that.
I might have to pin people here in a little bit because I'm having a hard time finding
everyone.
All right.
Well, team, we're going to go ahead and do this.
I'm going to launch us out and then when I open up to other people to share, as you
start to talk, team members, I'll just pin you then.
So everybody that's on, welcome to all of my team members.
So glad to have you guys joining us tonight.
Those of you from the community, hello, welcome.
People are waving and gifts are coming.
That's pretty awesome.
I didn't know we could do that in this chat.
So tonight's going to be a really amazing night.
I have a great word to kind of kick us off.
And I know the team has been praying as well.
So let me go ahead and pray and get this night, get this night started.
Father, thank you so much for everything that you're doing in our lives.
God, I thank you.
Yeah, Lord, just even hearing you right now in the in-between, God, that you're there.
God, you're there in the beginning, you're there at the end.
Every time we walk into the fullness of your promise in an area of our lives, God, that
we remember the in-between, that we don't forget, God, that we would give a testimony,
God, that we witness, God, your grace, your love, God, in our lives on a daily basis.
But so often, Lord, the enemy tries to get us to look down, to look at what isn't working
and what isn't happening.
And God, I thank you that you're helping us to remember.
Even tonight, I pray that you would help us to hear what your spirit is saying louder
than any voice of the enemy, that we would remember the in-between, that we would remember
how you met us every step of the way on the journey, God, that you never forsook us.
God, you walked with us, you were going before us, you gave us courage to go in and take
the land.
So God, I pray that you would help people tonight to be able to shift supernaturally
in their hearts and understanding that, yes, God, you are a supernatural God and you're
doing things in the heavenly realms right now.
But God, it's about us daily partnering with you in the process.
It's about us surrendering to you, God, at all times.
But God, even when we don't know what to do, God, let our eyes be lifted upon you.
I pray tonight that you would just meet your sons and your daughters right where they're
at and help them to take one step forward.
God, I know that overwhelm can so often set in when we try to look at the big scheme,
the big picture of everything we believe you have for us, and that can feel far off sometimes.
But God, I thank you that you would help us just to kind of hone in tonight on what you're
doing right now.
And God, I thank you that you would open our hearts to receive the full measure of your
grace and love in a fresh way.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Two words just to kick us off initially tonight, and I want to apologize in advance.
I might have to stop from time to time.
I've been really sick this week.
But praise God, we're both, my husband and I, are both getting better.
So if that does happen to you, I might even kind of bolly to you at that point.
We'll just see how tonight goes.
But one of the first things, I have kind of teetered back and forth between what I want
to launch us with, but I want to start with something.
I was actually watching the Jesus Revolution movie this afternoon, and something in there
stood out to me.
And I've watched this movie several times, but it felt really relevant for tonight.
And it was the wife of the pastor of the church, and she said this,
The truth is often quiet, and the lies are really loud.
And I just feel like there's so many of you that the enemy is lying, and he's really loud.
And that's what you're hearing a lot more than the truth.
And so I want to just encourage us as a community to really slow down and ask the Lord tonight
as you're here, as we're here together.
Lord, show me again.
And in a fresh way, any lies that I'm hearing and partnering with that do not align with your heart for me,
with heaven, that are not true about what other people think about me.
It's really important, you all. I'm seeing a lot of people writing that, you know, I feel rejected.
These are all true things we experience, you all, but on some level, we have to continue to go back to the heart work
and get to the root of what's really going on, what's underneath the surface.
So, if you're hearing lies really loud, and you're very seldomly, you feel like, I can't hear the truth,
or breakthrough isn't happening for me, God, you know, I'm coming and I'm showing up and nothing is working,
these apps aren't working, the people aren't, whatever that is, may it be silenced tonight.
Through the power of the Holy Spirit, that that would be silenced.
Because the reality is, God is working in your life right now.
It's not always a big feeling, you all. Sometimes that's how it is.
But man, when I was sick this week, literally for two and a half days, I couldn't do very much of anything.
And I literally said to the Lord, God, I don't feel super spiritual right now, and I don't feel super close to you,
but I know that's not true. Because you're with me, and I know what our relationship is.
And that's the thing, I think so many of us don't partner with that.
And so wherever you find yourself tonight, I want to encourage you that the Father is close.
And I feel like there's going to be a tangibility to tonight.
And if you don't feel it, it's okay, that doesn't make it not true. Okay?
So the next thing the Lord showed me when I was praying, and I said, Lord, what do you want to say tonight?
I saw a broom sweeping, literally this simple image, a broom sweeping,
and I saw a cloud of dust, kind of like a poof ball, kind of came up, and then it flew away.
And as I was praying into this, you know, those are the kind of things you can just, we can all just dismiss this stuff.
But that's what I saw. And I'm willing to bring a simple thing like that and unpack it.
And this is the stuff that God was saying to me.
God is clearing out what no longer belongs.
Interesting that I felt led to share the quote about the truth versus the lies.
I feel like that partners really well.
Dust, you know, kind of flying up, accumulating, and then disparting, like leaving,
is representing accumulated weights of old seasons, specifically.
Dead things, stagnant things, unresolved grief.
And the flying away is God signaling that He is removing it completely.
He is going to remove these things completely from your life.
This isn't just about displacement, about a temporary fix.
God wants to literally help us allow these things to be removed for good.
It also signals this amazing wind involved in that removal process.
And when I was meditating on that, I just kept hearing fresh wind, fresh fire.
There's a book that was written years ago by that title.
It's really an incredible book.
But I believe God wants to bring a fresh wind and a fresh fire into your life tonight.
Here's the scripture I want to read to you.
It's from Luke 15.
And I'm going to start in verse 8, and it's through verse 10.
It says,
And it goes,
And so the reason I felt led to share that story tonight from the Bible
is because I don't think it's like an ironic thing that she was sweeping the house.
We know that there's other scriptures where it talks about, you know,
asking God to come in and clean our house out, you know,
and that the enemy will come back and try to figure out if he can come back in and take over.
And so that isn't to scare you, but we do have to posture our minds in a place of,
You know, Lord, I'm not going to keep falling for this.
Thank you, Lord, that you're helping me to overcome the lies of the enemy.
Do you see what I'm saying, everyone?
We have to choose to put up a door and not allow the enemy to keep coming back in the house.
And you know that your heart is often the symbol of the house.
So this is where I believe God is leading us tonight.
I believe that the dust is being removed.
The dead things from the old seasons, you know, maybe some of you, like I said,
that have these dead things, stagnant patterns, you're stuck in a certain cycle
that you haven't been able to get over, it doesn't mean you haven't been doing
the work. It just means you have to have more revelation to break free. And then
the unresolved grief. And so I just want to pray and I'm going to open it up. I'm
going to pray again over this word. And then I'm going to open up for the team
to share. And then we'll do popcorn shares from there. So Father, I just
thank you for the truth of your word. And God that even as this woman in the
Bible was sweeping her house looking for a coin. God, there is treasure in our
hearts. There's treasure in our lives. There's treasure in the promises that
you've spoken and declared of our lives, God. That you're in there. You're sweeping
the house tonight. Yes, Lord. Thank you that you're sweeping our house. You're
cleaning out our hearts. God, I pray that you would reveal lies, limiting belief
systems, the stagnant patterns, the dead areas and seasons. Yes, Lord. Oh, God is
so funny. I just saw like skin kind of bubbling up on someone's arm and just
kind of flaking off. And then I saw like a snake losing its skin. And so Lord, we
just we just thank you, God, that again, this shedding, the shedding of these
things that do not serve us. God, I thank you that you are doing a supernatural
work in our hearts. Lord, I pray that you would help us to partner with the
truth, God, that you are for us. You're not against us. And that you don't leave
us alone, even on the dating apps, God, or in the situations with our families or
in the grief that's unresolved. God, I thank you that you would go to the depths
of their souls and their spirits and bring breakthrough and revelation. God,
that you are the chain breaker. God, I thank you that we we partner with you in
the truth and we say, yes, Lord, I'm yours. I'm open. I'm available. And I'm
ready for everything that you have for me. Help me, Lord, to receive it in Jesus
name. Amen. Okay, I'm going to launch it out to the team. Is there anyone else
that feels like to share a word at this time?
I just have a quick one. So I've been getting this image lately, of like a
banquet table. And a lot of people are sitting under the table. And so crumbs
are kind of coming through. And so people are just looking at the crumbs and trying
to make the crumbs like more than they're supposed to. And I feel like the
Lord's like, just walk away and crawl out and go sit at the table. Like that God
wants you to sit at the table, you have a seat at the table. And when you sit at
the table, you're going to see this huge banquet of people that He wants you to
meet and enjoy. And they're going to all look different. Because on a banquet
table, it's like, don't just go to the chocolate cake that you would normally
go to. Look at the fruit and vegetables, like, explore the banquet and see the
abundance there. And not look at that abundance, like, it's a chore to plow
through a lot of people and meet a lot of people. But every person that's at that
banquet, any person that you're going to come in contact with, whether it's on the
apps or in person, is an image bearer. Like everybody's an image bearer. And so
we can make every inner counter intentional, we can always leave people
better than we found them. And I know there's ick out there too. But for the
most part, I just I want I'm just feeling like the Lord is just like, get out from
underneath the table to stop eating the crumbs, get to the get to the table and
sit at the table, you have a seat at the table, enjoy the banquet, there's so much
out there and try new things at the banquet.
All happening from there. I had an image earlier when I was asking the Lord and it
made no sense and I didn't get clarity until we started the call. But I saw the
image of the back of a basket and I was like, Lord, what like, give me more and I
got nothing. And it's interesting that Bethany saw a broom and then Renee's
talking about a table because as the Lord was showing me a couple things, I kept
seeing Miriam with the basket where it says in Exodus two that that Moses's
mother wove the basket together from papyrus and then Miriam watched over her
brother. And I felt and then the Lord also showed me the picture of when the little
boy brought his five loaves and two fish, there was about 12 baskets that were
overflowing. And I just felt like the other thing the Lord was reminding me was
baskets are they've been here throughout culture the entire time. This is not this
is actually something really simple. And it's not new. And I felt like the Lord had
an invitation that he's taking these parts in our lives that are very simple,
and they're really not new. And he's weaving things together into two things.
One is safety and the
others provision. What Moses was encapsulated in was a basket that brought safety, which
then ended up being a foreshadowing of freedom for his people. It was foreshadowing of Jesus,
but bringing freedom to his people. But then in the story in the New Testament, the basket
was there to hold provision because there was more than enough. So for those of you
who are needing either security, safety, or provision, I mean, I think we all do. Those
are like two of the basic human needs, right? The Lord is reminding us that he can take
really simple things. And even I had this impression that there's even old things, even
things yeah, Lord, even things in maybe your ancestry or in your history or in like the
prayers of the saints that have gone before you that he's even weaving those things together
into your story to bring about both protection and provision. So I just bless whoever that's
for. He can take even simple things, even things that you don't, you don't realize
how he's basket weaving them and he's putting them together for your good. In Jesus name.
Amen. So beautiful. Thank you, Elizabeth. I just want to start by saying thank you.
Thank you to each person here today. Thank you for showing up for yourself, for yourselves.
Thank you for being diligent. I want to connect this to the parable that Bethany talked about,
that this woman was diligently sweeping. And so I'm thinking, what can I, what can we learn
from this? And so I imagined that here is this woman sweeping. She's looking for something,
a treasure. And she feels, I imagine, tired, tired of sweeping, but she kept going. She
was diligent, the Bible says. But she got a light to shine around that area so she could
see. And so I see this community and the resources provided by Jackie and her team has that light
because we're sweeping and perhaps we feel tired and overwhelmed and we feel frustrated.
Those are feelings. It's not who we are, but it's the feelings we're experiencing. And
then with the resources, the light shining in that area. Wow. She sees, she finds, she
finds the treasure and we're all looking for something. And by God's grace has the resources
have been provided and our hearts have been mended and healed. We find a treasure. And
what the woman did was she called others. She was overjoyed. I also imagine that she
forgot about her tiredness and frustration and she focused on the joy, the treasure that
she found. And so again, I thank you for showing up for yourselves today. And I thank me also
for showing up for myself today that we are diligent, showing up day in, day out, knowing
that in due time, we shall find the treasure. So let us not grow weary in doing what is
good, but in due time, in due time, it will happen. So Father, I thank you for the process
and even the act of sweeping. My imagination also takes me to, to, to movement. It takes
me to, to the strengthening of the muscles. So I thank you for what you're doing in this,
in this process. We're grateful. We're grateful. Thank you. Amen.
I was reminded of a time in my life where I was asking God, believing God to restore
something that was very much dying in front of me. And as I was walking, the Lord told
me to look up and see the harvest. And so I began to rejoice. And I said to the Lord,
are you going to restore it? He said, for every tear you've sown, I will give you a
harvest. I said, okay, so you're going to restore this thing. And I named it to him.
He said, Ebony, I am Lord of the harvest. And I bring the harvest where I see fit. You
know, the Bible says in the book of Jeremiah 5 and 24, the Lord, our God, who gives rain
in his season, the autumn rain and the spring rain and keeps for us the weeks appointed
for the harvest. I'm sharing this with you to encourage you because a lot of times we
can believe that the place that we've sown is a place that we will receive the harvest,
but because the Lord is Lord of the harvest, he gets to determine.
where and when the harvest comes and where it comes from.
And so you may find that you're being disciplined
and trained in one area,
but it's producing a harvest in another area.
You know, Psalm 75 says,
promotion comes neither from the East nor from the West
nor from the South, but it comes by the hand of God.
And God is the one who brings promotion.
So I wanna encourage you that no matter where the tears
are sown at, no matter where the work is put in it,
God will take what you do in one place of your life
and he will cause it to bring forth a harvest for you
in another area of your life.
So don't get weary in well-doing
because if you continue on and thank not,
you will reap a harvest.
And this is what the Lord says,
and that's why he's such a genius.
And that's why he gets to be called Lord of the harvest
because he'll take something in one area
and he'll make it happen for you in another area.
So don't give up.
And I just, I could hear this.
You know, I sometimes will say,
I'm tired of doing this thing.
I'm tired of doing this like this,
or, you know, all these different complaints.
Be ever mindful of the complaints that come forth
out of your mouth about processes that you're in
because God is Lord of the harvest.
And the process that you're in now
is preparing you for the harvest that is to come.
That may not look like it's even attached
to the process you're in,
but the thing that you're dreading
and the thing that you want to be released from
is the thing that is producing the harvest in your life.
And the Lord has called this thing fit for the time.
He's decided that this is the thing
that he is going to use to sharpen you,
to shape in you, to give you capacity
and to expand you for the thing
that is the harvest that's to come.
Amen.
Man, this is so powerful.
God, thank you so much for where you're leading us tonight.
As Elizabeth was sharing,
what came to mind was Romans 12, two,
and this is what it says,
do not conform to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you'll be able to test and approve what God's will is,
his good, pleasing, and perfect will.
And as I think it was in between
when Kemi and Ebony started talking,
you know, I just continue to pray
and ask God to show me stuff for us tonight.
And y'all haven't thought of this movie
in a really long time.
Some of you that are a lot younger on here
may not even know this movie,
but it's called The Never Ending Story.
I don't know if y'all have ever seen that,
but I mean, literally, I don't think of this movie.
And so I asked the Lord to kind of start showing me stuff,
and I just started looking some things up.
I want to draw a couple things out of this movie
that I feel like are so relevant
to what God is saying tonight.
And I feel like there's so much, man, prophetically,
if you watch that movie,
I probably will try to see if I can even find it,
but there's a thing in there called the nothing.
And when I looked up kind of like,
okay, what does that represent in the movie?
Well, it represents the spirit
of hopelessness and unbelief.
You know, that's kind of what was happening,
and there was this war between good and evil.
And, you know, again, you'll have to watch the movie,
but there's just this dynamic that's happening,
and there's this boy that's central to this movie, Bastion.
And, you know, and I can even remember as a kid,
I think the reason I connected so much with the story
is that, you know, he was going through
whatever dynamics in his life,
and he ends up in this library reading this book.
And again, I'm very, very small memory of this movie
until I started looking it up again tonight.
But he goes on this great adventure, right?
But y'all, here at the core,
I want you to see something
that I think is really important,
is basically he had power inside of himself the entire time
to save, in the movie, what was called Fantasia.
He didn't know it, and he didn't believe it.
And I think this is really important part
of what I was even saying earlier,
is that each one of us has the spirit of the living God
on the inside of us.
Some of us don't fully comprehend
what that means for our story.
Your story's unfolding.
It's a great adventure.
God is writing our story more every single day,
but we have to partner with him.
But oftentimes, we struggle to partner with him
because we fall into the hopelessness or the unbelief,
or we just haven't perceived.
We haven't gotten the revelation yet
of the fullness of what God is saying over us
enough to partner and grab onto that.
Because I don't know about you all,
but sometimes you start walking towards a promise,
and then the enemy disrupts with things like sickness
or distraction.
or discouragement, name it, whatever it is.
For you, it happens to all of us,
but are we willing to get kind of like
what I hear the Lord saying,
is get the train back on the tracks here.
The Lord's gonna do the heavy lifting.
He'll put it on the track for you,
but it starts in our heart.
We believe what we, or we become what we believe, right?
So what is your heart?
What is the story?
Your heart is telling you right now.
We know the Bible says
that our heart is deceitfully wicked above all things.
So if our heart isn't healed,
if our heart isn't telling us a good story,
if every time we turn around,
we believe we're rejected and we're not loved,
or somebody's out against us,
or whatever, again, that looks like and sounds like for you,
man, let's lean in tonight,
because I feel like God is like,
he's writing this never-ending story,
and I won't spoil it for those of you
that have never watched this movie,
but there's some really other powerful symbolism
in this movie.
You know, God is on the throne,
and he can speak a word into your life tonight
in the days ahead, and in one moment, things can change.
And he's doing that every day.
His word is alive and it's living.
And it's available for all of us to read it
and glean from it.
This isn't just an old archaic thing
that doesn't work anymore.
So God is inviting us to open the adventure of his story
so that he can write our story.
So it's about us partnering with him in the process.
And so again, check out that movie,
and let's just see where God wants to continue
to take this.
But there's this amazing kind of thread tonight
of us partnering with the truth,
us partnering and like letting go of the lies,
partnering with the truth,
seeing, getting a glimpse of what God has already put
on the inside of us,
what God has already predestined for us,
and overcoming all the things
that try to hinder us from getting there.
Okay, I'm gonna open it back up.
Bethany, I got actually two words today for tonight.
I'm gonna start with the first one,
and it's all about a partnering with Holy Spirit.
And so as I was praying earlier,
I saw a dirt road and there was a cart sitting.
It's like in the old movies,
a dirt road and there was a cart sitting there
with a white horse behind the cart.
And the cart had people sitting inside of it,
but it wasn't going anywhere.
It was just sitting there with the people in there.
And it was at a standstill waiting to be pulled.
The problem was that the horse was behind the cart
instead of in front of it.
And I felt, I sensed that the Lord was saying,
we often want to move forward
without first asking God or Holy Spirit to guide us.
And then I heard him say,
just like the cart cannot move without the horse,
we cannot move without God's guidance.
Moving without the guidance of the Holy Spirit
is like putting the cart before the horse.
So good.
Anyone else on the team?
I know Shelly's here too.
I don't know if Candy's on tonight.
I just want to-
Yep, I'll jump in here.
Let me put up my window.
So I also have been seeing a large banqueting table.
I actually shared this at church part of this
this morning too.
But something the Lord showed me for tonight
was I saw a large erected wall.
And you know how when you take an ax,
I don't know,
but when someone takes an ax and splits a log in two,
I mean, it splits in two
and the two parts of the log shoot in opposite directions.
They are no longer a part of each other.
And we were singing a song in church today
and had the chorus spirit break through
and break our walls down.
And as we were singing that,
I saw the hand of the Lord come down
and begin breaking walls.
But the walls were splitting in two
and the two sides falling down dead.
You know how that would look if it came down,
split them in two and the two pieces,
one fell to the left and one fell to the right.
I saw it happen three times.
The first time I saw it happen with the hand of the Lord,
which showed me that God,
it's not just right now,
but He's always here to break our walls down.
It's just a matter of like what Bethany was saying,
partnering with Him.
It's okay.
to let Him do that, you know?
And then I saw it happen again, and this time it came with the sword of truth.
You know, it came with what's true in the Word for us.
It came with what's true to dispel walls that are lies.
And then it came again with a large nail that I knew was representing a nail that had held
Jesus on the cross.
And I just thought if that song came to mind, the chorus said, it was nailed to the cross
and I bear it no more.
So praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
And I felt like the Lord said that there's some fear for walls to come down because we're
used to them.
And so that's a fact.
You might feel like that.
I felt like that.
And so I felt like the Lord said to just ask Him to minister truth to you, to bring that
sword of truth down, to minister truth to you so that you can release the wall and so
that you can come to the banqueting table, He said.
And I saw this huge banqueting table, and I felt like He said, you know, come take and
eat.
And you know, the Bible says the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take
it by force.
And I had done a study on that before, and it means that the people were so hungry for
the Word.
They were so hungry for what was true that they just descended upon it and devoured it
like ferocious animals.
So I feel like the Lord was saying, yes, it's like Renee said, don't sit under the table
and accept crumbs or think that you have enough.
When Jesus is inviting you to come and feast, feast at the banqueting table, feast on His
truth, the walls, the illusion of protection, it's only an illusion.
It's not really real.
So it's okay to let the walls come down.
It's okay.
I mean, it's hard to say, I understand I'm there, but it's hard to say, but honestly,
to just say to the Lord, it's okay for these walls to come down.
It's okay.
I release them so that I can come to the banqueting table because you have more, you have better,
you have tomorrows, you have another season, you have another chance, you have another
love story, you have another thing.
And so it's okay to release the walls and just to say to Him, Lord, minister truth to
me so that I can release these walls and come to the banqueting table and feast because
I am a son or a daughter of the Most High.
And these things I've struggled with, they have already been nailed to the cross.
I bear them no more.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, oh my soul.
I'm going to piggyback off of that one because the other word that the Lord gave me, it actually
started yesterday morning.
I woke up with a song in my heart and all I could hear was the bridge.
I didn't even know what song it was.
Like that's how little I knew it.
And all I could hear was all praise King Jesus.
So I had to like type it in Spotify to find the song and I was like listening on repeat
and the Lord is ministering to me.
And I went, I bet they're going to sing this at church tomorrow.
I bet the Holy Spirit's on this song and sure enough, I sang it at church this morning
and it's, I'm going to put the part of it in the chat, but I felt like the Lord, exactly
what Shelly was just saying, that there's some of us that we're sitting in our pain.
And I actually felt this was an invitation for healing, specifically physical healing.
But some of us were sitting in our pain and in our sorrow and the Lord wanted to come
tonight to say He is acquainted, remind us that He is acquainted with grief.
So this is the lyrics of this song.
It says, man of sorrows.
It's called son of suffering, man of sorrows, son of suffering, the blood and tears.
How can it be?
There's a God who weeps.
There's a God who bleeds.
Oh, praise the one who would reach for me.
Hallelujah to the son of suffering.
But then the bridge, it says your cross, my freedom, your stripes, my healing, all praise
King Jesus.
And this is the part that I woke up with in my spirit, that your cross, my freedom, your
stripes, my healing, all praise King Jesus.
Glory to God in heaven.
And I just felt there's an invitation for those that feel like you've been sitting under
the table, for those that feel like you have the walls up, for those of you who are actively
in health battles or actively in mental health battles or actively, you feel like you are
sitting in the pit and the Lord is saying, there's a God who weeps.
There's a God who bleeds, but he's also King Jesus and glory to God in heaven.
And he sits in both realities, Bethany was talking earlier about his kingship and he's
also fully God and fully man.
And he knows what it's like.
So for those that are feeling also like you're unseen or that you're disconnected or that
you, you.
struggle with, it's come up multiple times tonight, that you struggle with feeling like
unseen and maybe unwelcome. Well, Jesus knows what it's like to be acquainted with grief,
a man of sorrows, a man of suffering, one who was despised and rejected out of Isaiah 53.
And he knows exactly where you sit. He's the God who weeps, the God who bleeds,
but praise the one who would reach for you, for reach for me. Hallelujah to the son of suffering.
And I just, as I felt from the Lord today, an invitation into healing and receiving healing,
especially physical healing, and an invitation to remembering that he is with you in your humanity,
no matter what trial you're facing. Just like what Ebony said, it may not be direct restoration in
that particular area. It may be that he brings, he may bring the revelation or the breakthrough in
a different area, but he's with you in the waiting. So I bless whoever that's for.
All right, I'm going to go ahead. I'm looking for one other thing real quick.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So good. So Shelly was declaring some of her stuff. Man, Elizabeth,
that was so good. I love the way that God just brings all of their team together. None of us
ever talk, y'all. So this is just always so fun to see what God does. But as Shelly was sharing,
I started, like, I just saw a flash of a big, tall, okay, this is significant, a big, tall
clock tower. And when I asked the Lord what it was, I heard in my spirit, Big Ben.
And so a couple things I just want to release to you is that I believe that, and I even said this
a little bit earlier, so I feel like this is God's confirmation on this word, is that God is
elevating our perspective tonight. He wants to help us elevate in the natural as well as the spiritual
to see into what God is doing. You know, again, we, you know, we talk a lot about capacity. I think
tonight, one of the things that I want to really encourage us to continue to lean into is that God
would increase our capacity to perceive a thing. You know, God can help us to have eyes to see what
His Spirit is doing. That is part of what enables us to resist the lies, to turn away from that
stuff, and continue to partner with the truth. The clock tower itself, I believe, is linking to
God's appointed time. There's an appointed time and season for everything under, you know, heaven.
And God's appointed time is unfolding in your life, in my life, in all of our lives. And again,
it's about trusting Him in the process. If we struggle to believe that God is actually doing
what He said He would do, y'all, that goes back to a trust issue with probably people
that we are projecting onto God. And some of us, you know, years ago got hurt and believed
that God wasn't trustworthy. Well, we know that His character in the Bible says that He is.
He's not a man that He should lie, right? So if we are struggling to trust, again, that goes back to
a heart condition in us. What is God trying to do in you tonight to help you shift to be able
to have the capacity to receive the vision He wants to give you for where He's taking you?
Here's the other part. So interesting, literally you guys, I'm not a history person.
I know Big Ben, I knew it was a big tower, but I actually had to look it up to remember where
it was at and all the things. So interestingly enough, you know, Big Ben is in, what does it say
say here? The Windsor Castle. And you know, it chimes all the time. It says this,
Big Ben's bell, when struck each hour has an unmistakable sound. And something is I kept
reading that stood out to me is there were some other people that gave prophetic words about this
Big Ben. And it said this, when Big Ben strikes 12, there will be a shift in the nation. And so
I just want to declare that tonight there's, again, I believe there's this shift happening
in our community. There's this shift happening in the spirit realm, and God is doing something
supernatural in us in this time, in this season. And it says that there's a plaque in the clock
room of Big Ben with the verse based on Psalm 37, 23 through 24. So I'm going to read that over us,
and this is what it says. The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him,
though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.
I'm going to read it again.
The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him.
Though he may stumble, he will not fall,
for the Lord upholds him with his hand.
And I'm gonna activate us tonight,
even though it's not Sunday night activation,
I just feel led to do this.
And so I wanna encourage everyone that's able or willing,
and if you don't feel comfortable, that's fine.
But I wanna encourage you to put your hand on your,
oh, do we wanna do heart, Lord, or we wanna do our eyes?
Hmm, all right, we're gonna do up on our head.
We're gonna go up by our head because our perceiver,
we gotta activate our perceiver.
So as I pray, I just wanna encourage you to partner with me,
that God is gonna help you to be able
to perceive things differently in the days to come.
Father, I thank you right now that you're here with us, God,
that you are shifting things in the midnight hour,
even right now as we draw close to that timeframe,
God, you're shifting things in the supernatural.
God, I thank you that you would help every one of us
to be able to perceive, God, what your spirit is doing,
what your spirit is saying more than ever before.
God, I thank you that people that have had struggles
with insight revelation, struggles with hearing you,
God, struggle with discerning what is the right thing to do,
the wrong thing to do, God, I thank you
that you just remove all of that.
Even those are old dead seasons, God,
I thank you that we can partner with the new.
God, I know that you are doing a new thing
as Isaiah 43, 19 declares, can you not perceive it?
So God, I thank you that you would just increase
our capacity tonight to perceive it,
that you are bringing rivers where there's been a wasteland
and streams in the desert.
Yes, Lord, where it's felt dry in seasons past
and even maybe this morning,
God, I thank you for rivers flowing,
rivers of living water flowing up and out of our bellies.
Yes, Lord, there will be a new song.
There would be a new song that we would sing.
God, I thank you that you would, Lord, just again,
Lord, open eyes, open minds, open hearts.
God, we ask you to heal areas that are broken,
that have caused people to struggle
to connect with you, God, on a relational way.
We thank you for intimacy with you
that's gonna be fresh, fresh wind, fresh fire.
Come Holy Spirit and have your way in Jesus name.
Amen, amen, amen.
Anyone else on the team have anything
that you feel led to share?
I was gonna share my last word that I heard, Bethany, today.
It was in reference to Holy Spirit as well.
So I saw, I was praying and I saw a red stop sign
and then I saw a green go sign
and then I saw a yellow yield sign.
And I heard we're either not moving forward,
parked at the red stop sign,
or we're zooming by on the green go sign, full speed ahead.
But there's a yellow sign and that's a yield sign.
And I sensed the Lord say, yield yourselves to God.
Surrender your plans and let Holy Spirit lead you.
In all that you do, in all your decisions,
before you move, check with God, check with Holy Spirit.
See what he says about it.
Perceive, like Bethany was just talking,
perceive what he's telling you.
And then it brought me to Proverbs 3, 5, 6,
in the message translation, it said it very clearly.
It said, trust God from the bottom of your heart.
Don't try to figure out everything on your own.
Listen for God's voice in everything you do,
everywhere you go.
He's the one who will keep you on track.
This word ties into what you were saying,
Yamina and Bethany.
I think everybody tonight,
but Deuteronomy chapter two is very interesting.
And what happens at the beginning,
they're kind of wandering through the wilderness.
And this is what the Lord says.
And then we turn back and set out toward,
well, this is what the scripture says.
Then we turn back and set out toward the wilderness
along the route to the Red Sea.
As the Lord had directed me,
for a long time we made our way
around the hill country of Seir.
Then the Lord said to me,
you have made your way around this hill country long enough.
Now turn north.
And so I want to declare that you made your way
around this hill country long enough.
Now it's time for some of us,
if this word resonates with you, to shift north.
Now, as they began to shift north,
they began to go and he would tell them like,
look, don't try to take the land from them.
I promise this land is Esau.
You can't have that land.
They looked over at another land.
Don't try to come take that land from them.
them. You're gonna lose if you go to war against them. That's not your land. But God gave them
specific land that was for them. He told them you can't have this, you can't have that. And what I
want to say to you, sometimes in the places of our life we have not rightly perceived or identified
the land in which we are in or the times or the season that we're in. And so a lot of times we
believe we're right here and we're saying you're not coming through God because I want the land
of this. And he says that's not this, this ain't that. You need to, you've went around this hill
country long, I want you to turn north and I have a land for you. And it's so good when we can
perceive the land that the Lord has given us because then that land becomes a treasure on
the inside of us that we get to use, we get to have, we get to take ownership. But when we don't
rightly identify the land that the Lord has given to us, then we miss, we miss what God is doing.
And he has given you a land, whatever season, whatever time you in, there is a land to be
conquered. The Lord wastes nothing. So how will I know if it's my land? How would I know to turn
north? The Bible says in the book of James, if any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God and he will
give it to him liberally and without reproach. He will not scorn you for asking him for wisdom
because I am telling you, wherever your feet are planted right now, there's a land that the Lord
God has given to you because he wastes nothing. The Bible says that God makes all things beautiful
in his time. He literally wastes absolutely nothing. Everything that is in front of you,
the Lord is using it as an avenue to get to you because you are the treasure of his heart.
You are the delight. Amen. Amen. So powerful. I've been
deliberating whether to say this or not, but I'll just put it out there. I'll just put this out
there. Elizabeth had shared and said, I bet I'm going to hear the song at church. And she heard
that song at church. And so what we speak, what we speak, all those things come alive. And so
this was 2022. 2022, I reached out to this community. I said, pray for me, pray for me.
I have an exam. I have an exam. And you prayed. But I didn't pass the exam. I was disappointed.
I didn't pass the exam. It meant a lot to me. And I thought, I'm not ready to try again.
We're here for a purpose and we keep trying. And we're like, should I quit? I'm not ready to try
again. It's been since 2022, 2021, 2020. It's not happening. Am I ready? But this year I said,
let me try again. Let me try again. And so I did, but I wrestled. The past, the past was coming up,
the lies of the past. What if, and as Bethany said, it was, the lies were ringing so loud,
but God was giving me all kinds of messages, soft, quiet messages and saying, I prepare a table
before you in the presence of your enemies, where your computer would be. That is the table I'm
preparing before your enemies and your head is anointed with oil. And so I thank God for wisdom.
I said, Lord, I thank you for anointed my head with oil. And he said, Psalm 23, he was downloading
that in me. He said, my rod and my staff would comfort you. In other words, one question at a
time, I will guide you. One question at a time. So day by day, God is guiding us. So what we put
out there is so important. He said, Lord, why am I, why? I believe you're great. You can do this,
but I don't like the way I'm feeling within. I wrestled, I stumbled, but God helped me that I
didn't fall. And so that morning I sent text messages. Actually, I typed text messages that I
was going to send in advance. I passed, I passed, I passed, but I hadn't passed yet in the physical.
And so Bethany, you're one of those who were, you were praying for me and I thank you for that.
But I had typed what I was going to send in advance. I passed, thank you for praying,
glory be to God. And so I saw the score. I passed. It was 91, the score. And 91, Psalm 91 is my walk
ankle. The exam is walk related. It's my walk ankle. And God was still speaking to me.
What am I saying? The words we speak, even in advance, when I hadn't seen the score,
when I hadn't even taken the exam. For those who had been praying for me, I had pretexted,
pretext as a word. I said, Lord,
by faith, because you said you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
And so when I saw the score, the first thing was glory to God, hallelujah.
And then I started sending the messages, send, send, send, send all the things that's typed
in advance. And so the words we speak matter. Elizabeth said, I bet I'm going to hear the song
at church. She did. On Thursday, when I led prayer, I said, guess what? Guess what?
Don't you think we could write our love, our love vision, our wedding vows? Let's do that
as an activation. Within seven days, let us write it, write your love vision,
write your vows, look at them and say, hmm, I bet I'm going to meet my spirit mate today.
I'm better. Speak it. What do you have to lose? You're partnering with God.
Even though 2022, I prayed, help me, Lord. But God said, this is the year it would happen.
This is the year it would happen. And nothing will take that away.
And so I want to speak that into each and every person here. When God says yes,
nobody can say no. Your time is your time and nothing can take that away. Glory be to God.
Hold them. Hold them. Hold those words. You never know. Tomorrow, next week, seven days, three days
might be the moment for you. Praise be to God. Amen.
Kemi, that's so powerful. I just want to say one thing. If someone's like, well,
that just sounds like manifestation. When our spirits are connected, it says in Romans 8 and
Bethany mentioned Romans 8 earlier that I love it in the message translation where it says,
our spirits bear witness with his spirit that we are children of God. And when we are crying out,
all the creation is groaning, waiting for the sons of God to be revealed.
And because we are spirit first, when we're connected to the Holy Spirit,
he lives outside of time, which is why we can know things in advance or sense things in advance.
And so that's still small knowing. That's as we lean in to the Lord, that's him bearing
witness with our spirit and he's forming us to look like Jesus. So that's why Kemi can know
things in advance, just like you can know things in advance. And it's not kooky. It's not weird.
It's part of us being formed in the likeness of Jesus as we're connected to the Holy Spirit.
And he bears witness with our spirit that as we're children of God
and shows us things in advance because he's a good father.
Amen.
Man, this is so rich. I want to make sure before I hop back in, because we're already at seven
minutes and I have something that could maybe carry us over the eight. So I just want to,
or the nine. Anyone else on the team have anything else you feel led,
kind of burning in your spirit to share?
I just keep hearing the time is now and that could,
everybody has a different life and different things going on,
but I really hear that in the spirit that the time is now.
Okay. I'm going to take us. I think that's a good cue. If no one else on the team,
I was trying to hesitate long enough to see if everyone was kind of sound mind. Okay.
Okay. So interestingly enough, Chrissy, thank you. De Oliveri putting in the chat there. I loved,
I don't know if you all saw it, but she said Benjamin means son of the right hand.
And even as Ebony is saying, the time is now, the time is now. And Elizabeth sharing, you know,
the spirit of God is bearing witness with our spirit tonight. He's coming in. And again,
I just think all these things are kind of coming around the, can we perceive it?
And he's not disappointed in us. You all, when we struggle to perceive it,
can I just, let me just call that out too. Y'all think I didn't struggle to perceive it.
And even now, you know, struggle in my own ways with other things to perceive those things.
There are times where God lays something on our hearts and he's calling us into something. And it's,
and you're just kind of like, how, how's that going to happen? You know, I don't fully see
that right now, but even in some of these prophetic words, as I've even been looking
further into some of these for myself tonight, as other people have been releasing words,
I'm like, man, I got to spend some time with this. God is saying something to me personally
through this too. And here's what I want to give you. I looked up what Chrissy said there,
the, you know, Benjamin means son of the right hand going back to the big Ben.
Again, I think there's something really pivotal in this word for us tonight,
that the clock is ringing. The time is now God is shifting things,
but this is something that I thought was really cool. You know,
Benjamin was the youngest son of Jacob and his name carries a very prophetic weight to it, you all.
Rachel originally named him Ben-O-Ni, son of Mysaro, but Jacob renamed his son
Benjamin, son of the right hand. Woo! Yes, Lord. Some of y'all are going to get a new name in the
spirit. Yeah, and some of this is way beyond even the name. It's just inherited trauma. Yes, Lord.
Some of you are releasing inherited trauma tonight. You're going to come out from under the
cloak of the son of the sorrow, so to speak. You can put with it whatever that is for you. Again,
this, you know, the son of the financial debt constantly, son of the shame, son of the
displacement, whatever that means for you. I'm not trying to add to scripture. I'm just trying
to make it relatable to where you're at in your life, in your situation, but Jacob renamed his
son and God comes and he says to us, I'm renaming you. I'm declaring a word over you. I'm declaring
who you are and all that you're destined to step into and all that you're destined to become and,
you know, just like they stood outside of the land that was flowing with milk and honey and
Joshua and Caleb could see what was possible, but everybody else saw the giants in the land.
You all, we are those people. Again, there's no shame. There's no shame in the fact that
we look at the land and we're like, man, those giants are way too big.
Some of us, that's our lives. The lies are so loud. They're so big that we are struggling to
see that God is working and he's aligning and he's weaving a masterpiece and he's saying,
this land is yours. I'm giving it to you, but we have to learn how to go in and take it
to receive it and you all sometimes fight for it. Here's the thing I want to kind of
start to hone in on regarding Benjamin. Even in the meaning of the son of the right hand,
it was a prophetic act of redemption. That name change shifted him from what began in grief.
It was reframed through the father into honor and position. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
The father is here and he's repositioning us and he's saying,
hey, I'm reframing this story for you tonight.
I really want to encourage you all, like Kemi was talking about writing some things down.
I think some of y'all need to literally take a photo screenshot of your brain if you can
when you're having some of these thoughts and write them out, even if they're negative,
and go back to what we've taught in the heart work, in the whole silhouette activation. The
guys may not have this in theirs, but we walk everybody through how to like, when you hear
something negative that you write it down on paper and you say, okay, that isn't from the Lord,
and you cross that sucker out and you say, okay, Lord, what is the truth to replace the lie?
If I hear that I'm rejected, well, if I just like, yep, they're rejecting me. Y'all, yes,
things like this happen in the physical realm and I could walk around. I mean, shoot, y'all,
let me just be honest. Leading a church is freaking hard.
Everybody isn't on board with what God leads us to do. We have people that reject us all the time,
but we can't allow that to hinder us from following God
and to partner with, oh, I'm just rejected. They're never gonna, they're just gonna dislike
us and, you know, that people pleasing kicks in and you feel like you got to make everybody happy.
No, we got our eyes on the prize. Lord, where are you leading? And that wherever you go,
Lord, I'm gonna go. My husband just preached for weeks on Ruth. Y'all check that book out.
If you haven't read that book in the Bible for a long time, Ruth, Ruth surrendered
her idea, you know, I mean, so much more, but she chose to follow what she came to learn to be true
through Naomi. She saw something different in Naomi, a God that was love, a God that was a
lot of amazing things. And because of that display, Ruth followed her and y'all know the story. Most
of you probably do, but God not only
provided for them, led them to Boaz, y'all and you know we, Boaz broke as you know
the whole thing that Jackie talks about, we're not getting stuck on Boaz so don't
go there, but the point of why I'm bringing this up is you all, Ruth and
Boaz led to the lineage that led to Jesus. Ruth had to obey and walk in the
moment and I'm so thankful my husband, he preached such a great series and this
morning that's one of the things he said, you know we think, we have such a vision
down there and that's good that but sometimes we forget how important right
now is, so where is your heart right now leading you? What's one thing you can do
tonight, tomorrow to step into the story God is writing in the positive direction
and understand that God is so good at writing amazing stories including your
love story, he's not forgotten you, but again you got a partner, Ruth had to
partner the whole way, Ruth went out in the fields y'all day after day after day
to glean, you know and if you read that story, a foreigner they go on the edges,
they typically have to take what's left over, there's so many aspects to what was
hard for her, but y'all she didn't just give in to the hard, she allowed God to
use her to be a vessel to bring provision for Naomi and the whole family
and again that legacy that then led to Jesus, so who's in your legacy? Think
about it, we don't even know right now what is to come from our generations
behind us because of what we're doing right now, some of you the fight that
you're fighting right now, it's gonna help pave the way for your grandkids and
their grandkids and their grandkids, this is so much more than just about us,
praise the Lord for that, that we get to do this, so when you feel weary, trust the
Lord, lean to the Lord, that was one of the things I had to really cling to and
as I start to close tonight, it helped me focus on what was true, as I kept
thinking about this isn't just about me, it was about what God wanted to unfold
in my life, but I wanted it for my kids too, so who are you fighting for
beyond yourself? Who are you gonna resist the lies for beyond yourself? You know, I
know Renee led a really amazing prayer time yesterday, we prayed regarding
midwives, you know, y'all I was a midwife in our community, prayed in to someone
else's story long before Brian came into my life and I got to walk into my story,
so let's lean into what God is saying, things are changing, things are shifting,
remember, even if you're struggling to hear what the Spirit is saying or you're
struggling to perceive, just like we did tonight, you can go back and partner with
that again, y'all, can you all understand like years ago, I used to drive all the
time and put my hands on my ears and say, God, I thank you that I hear what your
Spirit is saying, that your sheep hear your voice and they obey all that you
tell them to do, I would do it all the time and I don't think for one second
that that was wasted because I'm not saying I always hear him all the time,
every single moment, but man, I'm so grateful that I hear him and have the
relationship I do and I think back to those days and I still do that from time
to time because I don't ever want to think for a second, this is about me.
So as we start to log off tonight, who's somebody that you can bless this week?
Because you know, when we feel hopeless and sad and down, when we look to the
need of someone else, sometimes it can help us shift out of that, this isn't
about shaming you if you feel sad or down, I just want to tell you some things
that helped me get out of that stuff, God has something new for you, are you
going to let him rewrite your story and write a new chapter that is full of
goodness and mercy and the blessing and the fullness and the favor of the Lord
over you and your family? You are a kinsman redeemer. Yes, Lord, do you
believe it? We can believe it for you all the time, but it's whether or not
individually we choose to say, I am God.
Thank you that I get to be a kinsman redeemer in my family.
Yes, Lord. I feel the Holy Spirit. That's why I'm lingering a little bit.
I love the Lord. He loves you all so much.
Yes, Lord. When it feels heavy this week, Lord, I pray that you would just
remind every son and daughter that you're the lifter of our heads, God.
Nothing is too hard for you. Even as Elizabeth was referencing to earlier,
he feels the sorrow, but he is a mighty God. He's with us in it all.
Kinsman redeemer is a symbolic statement. In the Bible, yes, Rebecca, it was a male.
It was Boaz, but God calls us to be kinsman redeemers. Jesus was a kinsman redeemer,
was he not? And we're called to live and be like Jesus. And so if Jesus was a kinsman redeemer,
he enables us to redeem our family lines. And I don't think it always has to come only through
men. There were women and men that did amazing works greater than even Jesus did when he was
here and he continues to do so today. Great question. So let me pray us out. Father, thank
you so much for the power of your presence, the sweetness of your presence. God, even when we
don't feel it, God, you're there. Lord, when we feel puny and small, when we're sick or we're
struggling or any of those moments, God, where we're just restless, all the in-between, God,
I pray that you would just meet us there. Meet us on the mountaintop, meet us in the valley below.
God, I thank you that you would give us the foresight and the vision and the perception
to see what you're doing, to not partner with the lies and the discouragement of the devil.
Where we feel hopeless, God, I ask you to just breathe fresh hope. Where there's unbelief, God,
I thank you that you'll help us to have belief, increase our faith, give us a gift of faith,
and impart to us the heart and the mind of heaven. Yes, Lord, I pray for healing of our
hearts, minds, bodies, spirits, and souls. God, that you would align us completely to your good
and perfect and pleasing will for our lives, that you would help us to walk into the fullness
of your plans and your promises for us long before trauma or wounds ever entered our lives.
God, I thank you that you will continue to seal this word in our hearts and that it will ring true
just like the Big Ben, the ring of the clock, God, that we would continue to hear the sound of
heaven ringing over us just like Zephaniah 317, that you rejoice over us with singing, Lord,
and you're declaring that you are doing a new thing. You're writing our story and there's a
new chapter that is being written. God, we partner with you and we partner with heaven. Help us to
allow you to sweep away every distraction, sweep away every weight that so easily ensnares us and
hinders us so that we can press on toward the high calling of God for our lives in Christ Jesus.
We just say thank you in Jesus' name. Amen, amen, amen. God bless you all. I hope you have an amazing
night. It's been great to be here with you. Team, thank you. You're amazing. I love all of you so
much. We'll see you all in the groups this week. Have a great week, everyone. Bye-bye.
Thank you, Bethany. Thank you, everyone. God bless. Bethany and Elizabeth, thank you.