Just muting while I get a slide.
Okay.
All right, we are live in sweet secrets.
Sweet secrets.
And I will tag. Let me just because our
sweet Carrie
is not here.
Okay. Oh, what's the zoom link again. Oh that's you Ingrid, nevermind.
Yeah, I got it.
I put it in my calendar so and then I forgot that.
Oh, it says Jenny, it says Carrie's not a group member.
Okay.
All right, well maybe I know I invited her I wonder if it's me so good.
So Jenny, I sent you an invite to sweet secrets.
Let me
number request.
Oh, okay.
All right, so I sent her another. Okay.
Hey everyone. Okay waiting for Devin.
And as I said, Carrie.
She will miss tonight, but she will watch, she might watch it after she gets home.
So,
okay.
And I want.
I just really feel like we're starting in Daniel God just keeps bringing me to Daniel every time I want to go, like sit in the beatitudes which I have done a little bit but he keeps saying Daniel and I think I understand why.
Okay.
All right, here comes Jill wolf.
Wolfie.
Anybody see Amadeus.
Why is my video not.
Can you hear me. Yeah, I can hear you Joe.
I don't know why cameras not working so I might sign out and sign back in. That's weird.
Yeah, for sure. You're definitely in the dark.
Metaphorically, and literally right.
Okay.
I'm driving actually so I'm in the dark too.
Yeah, I did notice, I mean we can sort of see your figure coming go and I'm in the car I should be home in 20 minutes or so.
Okay.
I'm so excited guys.
Jenny pants.
Like now I know what it's like because I am like so often. Oh yeah I haven't done that yet and then just right in the wire.
Yes, she is.
Gosh, looking so gorgeous I'm gonna have to go put on makeup or something.
I just have challenge so I was on.
How's that.
It's going great. It's going great. So, I'm awesome. All right, let me see if Miss Devon's on her way.
What's your challenge, Jill.
This one is called ready to do the right thing, or it.
And it's for bringing your storybook to life in 2023.
So, yeah, so I'm working with people who want to write a storybook, and we're looking at what does it mean to do that and how do you get it from concept to concept to print and then to the hands of your consumer.
The sales and marketing piece too. So,
okay, oh that was my message to Devon I could just hear show, you know, like, guys, I never have my notifications on.
So many times it's like the middle of the night and I'm trying to catch up with like you can see like all black messages like streams, I have to get caught up on so sometimes.
or emails or texts.
I'll try and like get caught up on some.
It's the middle of the night and I always hope
that people are like me and their notifications are off.
But my mother-in-law the other day was like,
yeah, Hillary texted me in the middle of the night
and it woke me up and got me all worried.
I don't think there's many people that don't have it blocked
at nights, off the younger people, especially.
Don't you think?
Yeah, I agree.
I don't worry if people hear my texts at 2 a.m.
It's totally silence.
They can hear my texts or they won't hear my texts.
Yeah, but it's not everyone.
And then there are some people that like,
I would think for some reason they need,
like if they're pastoral,
they need to have their notifications on or, you know,
like, anyway.
So just if I'm sending something and it wakes y'all up,
just be like, hey, go to bed.
Well, I think there's also the person
who doesn't necessarily know how to turn
the notifications off.
So my computer goes to sleep at night, right?
Goes to sleep when I'm off of it, but it still notifies me.
So all last night I was hearing this ding
and I'm telling my husband, I'm like, it's asleep.
It's off.
Why is it still ringing?
And he's like, well, what'd you do with notifications?
I'm like, I don't know.
When we set it up, I said, I don't know.
Then you got these wonky things, right?
You just got a new computer, right?
That's what it is?
It's reasonably new.
I mean, a year.
Oh, okay.
No, somebody, somebody,
I can't remember who I was on with now then.
Like something just went down and they're like, okay,
I gotta get a new computer.
Oh yeah, no, that wasn't me.
Okay.
All right.
Here she is.
Devin choking.
Okay.
All right.
Here we are.
So, all right.
I don't know if it's,
I know that it's not possible for Ingrid right now,
but we could just like, you know,
be ready to take some communion
if that's okay with everyone.
I sort of am excited about this meal, most of all,
and we might do it a lot.
I don't know, but I feel like tonight,
definitely to, you know, engage in that covenant.
And so I won't start with it
cause we'll let Ingrid get home.
But.
That's not, that's not, don't worry about me.
So.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, me too.
I'll be right back.
Okay.
All right.
I should've mentioned it earlier.
I thought of putting it on the, well, here it is.
I'm talking to my chairs.
Ingrid.
You're my only, you're my only window.
You're my only occupied window right now.
And that's halfway done.
You're my captive audience right now.
I'm stuck in the seatbelt.
Yeah, yeah, you're stuck.
I need to get those little ones that you have handy.
That's a good idea.
That's what I've got.
Cause I, it's so much easier than to, you know,
prepare something to buy.
So yeah, I need to do that.
Yeah, I went ahead and ordered a whole case
on because I found myself doing it a lot
and increasingly desiring to, you know how like,
it's almost like, like those words were in my mouth.
I have earnestly desired to celebrate this Passover
with you.
And so I felt that longing of the Lord
and it's just keeps becoming increasingly
more and more precious.
Like today, just talking to someone about
that covenant meal.
We are taking a covenant meal,
bringing to our remembrance
that the sacrifice has been paid,
which means we're entering into a covenant.
All of my.
for all that you paid for, all of your righteousness,
all of my sickness and dis-ease,
for all of your wholeness and shalom,
all of my heaviness and problems and punishment
for all of your exoneration and justification.
I mean, we are partaking in a covenant meal
and it's just like beyond, beyond amazing.
So very, very, very excited.
So cool.
Okay, so what I'm gonna do is first we'll,
we'll just welcome the Lord.
We'll open up in prayer.
We're gonna go through some scriptures
and then we'll,
well, we'll see when the Lord wants us to take communion,
but we will also take into encounter.
I, well, I just better get started
because I feel like it's so much.
Okay.
Look, ah, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
You're the most important,
wonderful member of this gathering.
We are here in your presence by your invitation.
Jesus, we're so excited to hear words from your lips,
to encounter your face, the expression on your face,
the nearness of your feet and your legs
and your joy and that we get to learn this together.
Wise virgins at your feet, so grateful,
so infinitely great.
Thank you, Abba.
Thank you for your son, Jesus.
Thank you for this day that you have made
and this time and this,
this holy ground we sit upon.
Thank you for teaching us how to approach.
Thank you again for your sweet secrets of success.
Which means your plan for us is success.
Like that's, that's your plan.
We can't fail.
We can't fall short.
There's so much that you want to do.
And so we just come with anticipation.
Holy spirit, the spirit of the bride, we say, come,
come, come, come.
We need you.
We need you to teach us how to sit still.
We need you to open our ears to hear and our eyes to see
and our hearts to, to seek, to receive,
to understand, to lay hold of, to be laid hold of.
Teach us how like Mary at your feet
to listen to and follow one voice,
the voice of the good shepherd
and that no other voice even distracts us.
We know your voice.
So the voice of another, we will not follow.
Thank you for this time and for inviting us
into transformation.
We are the ultimate trans population, Lord. We're just so ready for what you're going to do, making us brides, making us wise virgins.
And we thank you. Bless this time. Bless the meal of your food, the meal of your body and your blood and the meal of the fellowship in Jesus name. Amen.
Okay, so at my first.
Does anyone have anything you want to just quickly share anything you want to quickly just say or save it till the end or just anything that's like, if you feel like you're chomping at the bit I, I definitely want to welcome you.
No obligation, just.
Okay.
All right, everybody's positioned. Okay.
Very well.
All right, so I'm going to start with Daniel chapter nine. So, several chapters, as Devin was so beautifully highlighting for us several chapters in Daniel reveal that this incredible, incredible man of God, like,
he's unlike him he's not to be compared with Jesus but of all the people.
It's just so hard to find fault with Daniel.
His level of humility and meekness.
And yes, I mean, brought into brought into exile selected as chosen among men castrated a eunuch.
And, you know, he was castrated.
And what's the way you know that is because the chief of the eunuchs was placed over.
Daniel, and Chad wreck me shack, and I've been to go, and, you know, over these young men and it was to him, who was in charge of them, that they made their petition to,
to avoid the meats and delicacies and all the foods that were offered from the king, they wanted to keep themselves entirely pure.
And so here is this remarkable like, you know, he just didn't make it about why me right and and also to live in, in such close proximity in the palace, and, you know, there's just.
Yeah, he was, he was under the, the chief of eunuchs I remember coming across that and just seeing like, Whoa, I've read that so many times I don't remember ever seeing that before.
The chief of the eunuchs was over Daniel which means he was a unit. And I remember telling my sister and she was like oh I don't like that at all I don't think so that's not God and I'm like
it's not God. It's an advocate Nazar, but it's in the Bible.
So, anyway, here he is still all his life just so completely devoted to seeking God with such humility.
And so I'm, I'm in. I'm in chapter nine, because here we are we're given a passage of Scripture in particular whoops we've lost Devin.
We're, we're given a passage of Scripture in particular, which is the Sermon on the Mount.
And so here's how Daniel approaches a passes a passage of Scripture.
In the first year of Darius son of us whereas of the offspring of the medias, who was made king over the realm of the cold the ends.
In the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood from the books. The number of years, which according to the Word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet must pass by before the desolations, which had been pronounced on Jerusalem should end.
70 years.
So, just to explain that.
Quickly, God in the Pentateuch, in the law,
he had told the Israelites,
here's how you live for blessing, right?
I am the Lord, your God, I'm bringing you into a land
rich and flowing with milk and honey.
Here's if you're obedient,
if you hearken unto my voice, my words to do them,
here's all of the blessings that will overtake you
and chase you down.
Mama.
Hi.
Welcome, this is my mother, everybody.
Thank you, hello everybody.
I can't get rid of this big thing in the middle.
This meeting is being recorded by host or participant.
I'll just hit okay.
There's no okay, oh, there it got it at the bottom.
I had to scroll to get it because it's my phone, sorry.
It's okay, okay.
Right ahead, I'm listening.
Okay, awesome, so glad you're here, mom.
Okay, so, all right.
So he had told them like, you'll live in the land
and here's how you live in the land.
And then in, but he said, if you do not obey,
here are the curses that will come upon you
and you will be driven from the land.
And so, this was the constant word of God throughout.
When it came time for the prophet Jeremiah,
he was really crying out to the people and to the king
and called of God, I have made you a prophet to the nations
from your mother's womb.
And so, he said that,
that he put his word in Jeremiah's mouth
and Jeremiah had words that were not popular to the people,
not popular to the rulers.
He was totally persecuted, but he was constantly crying out
with the word of the Lord to say,
hearken, return unto the Lord that you may be cleansed,
that you may be blessed, that you may return unto him.
And he kept telling them where they were headed
and what would befall them, but that it didn't have to,
they could come.
And so, Jeremiah, when it was certain
that these things were going to happen,
that they were going to be taken into exile,
the Lord revealed how long it would be, okay?
So, Daniel now, he's about maybe 90, I guess, at this time,
he is reading the book of Jeremiah,
the scriptures from Jeremiah and seeing
that the 70 years is upon them, right?
That he's seeing like, oh, we're supposed to be returned
to Israel to rebuild Jerusalem after 70 years.
So, he reads this and watch how he partners with this.
This is really stunning because so many times we read,
okay, in the word, this is the promise of God,
this is what God said, or we hear a prophetic word
and we say, okay, God said this,
but just like I love how Karen,
the Lord just highlighted to you just recently,
I think we were talking about,
Karen, it's just a word, right?
It's just a word unless you partner with that word.
Yeah.
What does that mean?
And so, here, this is what Daniel does.
So, in the first year of the reign of Darius,
son of Ahasuerus, I, Daniel, understood from the books
of the number of years, which according to the word
of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet must pass by
before the desolations, which had been pronounced
on Jerusalem should end, it was 70 years.
And I set my face to the Lord, God,
to seek him by prayer and supplication with fasting
and sackcloth and ashes.
And I prayed to the Lord, my God, and made confession
and said, oh Lord, the great and dreadful God
who keeps covenant, mercy, unloving kindness,
and those who love him and keep his commandments.
So, so far, he's not.
How he's like, oh, God said this.
I need to come connect with God
so he can actually make this happen.
Daniel understands this and he cries out
and he begins exalting the Lord.
And then he says, we have sinned and dealt perversely
and done wickedly and have rebelled
turning aside from your commandments and ordinances.
Neither have we listened to and heeded your servants,
the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings,
our princes, our fathers and to all the people of the land.
Oh Lord, righteousness belongs to you.
But to us, confusion and shame of face
and as at this day to the men of Judah,
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel,
to those who are near and those who are far off
through all the countries to which you have driven them
because of the treacherous trespass
which they have committed against you.
This is so important to understand Daniel's posture here.
Here, Daniel has not lived a life of perversion
but here he understands like we're all human.
We all fall short and this is what it looks like.
We've agreed with a nature that's sin, an opposer,
thoughts that don't come from God,
ways that aren't authored by him.
And so he cries out in confession
and you'll see this in the beginning of the Beatitudes,
how vital it is this position that Daniel takes.
And so he goes on, I'm in verse nine of Daniel nine.
To the Lord our God belong mercy and loving kindness
and forgiveness for we have rebelled against him.
We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God
by walking in his laws which he set before us
through his servants, the prophets.
Yes, all Israel has transgressed your law
even turning aside that they might not obey your voice.
Therefore, the curse has been poured out on us
and the oath that is written in the law of Moses,
the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
And he carried out intact his words
which he threatened against us and against our judges,
the kings, the princes and the rulers who ruled us
and he has brought upon us a great evil
for under the whole heavens there has not been done
anything so dreadful as has been done against us.
Jerusalem, just as it is written in the law of Moses
as to all this evil that would surely
come upon transgressors.
So I just want you to see like Daniel is being real
with himself before the word.
He is not picking and choosing what he wants to hear or say.
You know, it's like, you know, I just picture like,
you know, Jeremiah would say those things
and often into exile they went,
but it's like, you know, the enemy.
Did God really, really say like you would be taken
from your homes, your children would be sold into slavery,
your sons would become Enoch's, Enoch's?
If only, yes, let our sons become Enoch's.
Your sons would become eunuchs
and subjects to foreign kings.
And did God really say that?
For God knows like you're doing your best.
You, you know, he knows you're sincere.
He knows your heart rate, same stuff as in the garden.
Every time we hear, oh, for God knows, right?
I just, I think about the, you know,
when Jesus would say something like that,
your heavenly father knows.
He's saying, why are you chasing after what's important
in the world?
Why are you chasing after food and clothing and money?
Your heavenly father knows you need these things.
Turn, come back to him, seek firm the source,
the kingdom, his righteousness.
He will add that to you and all other things besides.
So here, Daniel doesn't even say, as we would say,
well, Daniel, Daniel just didn't even say,
he didn't even complain that he was castrated.
He didn't even complain that he was constantly.
He didn't complain. People were constantly tricking him and perverting his faith and
trying to undermine him. He didn't have one word to say about his self-righteousness.
Right? He didn't say one word about how faithful he'd been, how three times a day he prays
toward Jerusalem, how he has never defiled himself, how he has stood through king after
king, ruler after ruler, despite all the persecution that has come against him. He had not one
word to say about that. Only, we have sinned in your sight and you are perfectly righteous.
This is just so awesome. Like here, we sit at his feet by invitation, not by entitlement.
We live by his breath, by his design, not by entitlement. And I just like, God kept
telling me every time I'd go to read Matthew, it'd be like, Daniel, Daniel, Daniel. Yet
we have not earnestly begged for forgiveness. He says, we, just like Isaiah said, we, just
like Moses, just like every time that a man of God would humble himself, he just had such
access, such access to God. So this is the first positioning. We have not earnestly begged
for forgiveness and entreated the favor of the Lord, our God, that we might turn from
our iniquities and have understanding and become wise in your truth. We so desperately
need you for that. Therefore, the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it
upon us for the Lord, our God is uncompromisingly righteous, rigidly just in all his works,
which he does keeping his word. And we have not obeyed his voice. It's just like, you
know, how God really is highlighted to me. Psalm 23, in 2023. And I know I shared with
you guys that I was thinking, oh, that's just me, because that's so cliche. But no, he was
like, no, you need a good shepherd. And my sheep know my voice and the voice of another
they will not follow. And I thought, wow, that's that Psalm is actually the mature Christian.
Like it's high time we follow only the voice of the Lord, and not the voice of self and
not the voice of condemnation and not any other accusing, disgusting voice. Okay. And
now, oh, Lord God, who brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty
hand and secured yourself renowned and the name as at this day, we have sinned and we
have done wickedly, Lord, according to all your righteousness and justice, I beseech
you, let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city, Jerusalem, your holy
mountain, because of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and your people
have become a reproach and a byword to all who are around us. Now, therefore, our God,
listen to and heed the prayer of your servant, Daniel, and his supplication. And for your
own sake, for your own sake, that's also part of Psalm 23. He leads us in the path of righteousness
for his name sake. So Daniel is like, not because I deserve it. Not because it's been
long enough, Lord. But for your, for your righteousness sake, and for your justice,
for your great mercy, and your loving kindness. He knows that the heart of the Lord wants
to restore his people, never wanted to see anyone punished, removed, separated from their
families, from their land, from their lineage and legacy. That wasn't his plan, right?
Lord, hear.
Oh, Lord, forgive. Oh, Lord, give heed and act. He's coming into agreement with that
word that he's reading in Jeremiah, all that God longs to do, right? But when you turn
Jeremiah 29, but when you turn back to the Lord, he will receive you. Do not delay for
your own sake. Oh my God, because your city and your people are called by your name. Lord,
for your sake, restore your people because you need to be exalted in the earth because
your glory is worthy because you established us and we went astray. Restore us for your
namesake. While, while I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin
of my people, Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord, my God, for the holy hill
of my God. Yes. While I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in a former
vision being caused to fly swiftly came near to me and touched me about the time of the
evening sacrifice. And he instructed me and he made me to understand. And he talked to
me and said, Oh, Daniel, I am now come forth to give you skill and wisdom and understanding.
And it goes on at the beginning of your prayers, the words giving an answer went forth and
I come to tell you for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter and understand
the vision. And he explains, he explains the, the, the, the vision, what Jeremiah saw. And
he, he goes on in great detail and you'll see the same thing in Jeremiah 10. I mean,
sorry, Daniel 10, the very next chapter, again, he is crying out under the reign of, of Cyrus,
king of Persia. And this is where, you know, as I was approaching this time with you all,
I kept hearing Daniel fast, Daniel fast, Daniel fast. And it was coming from people. Yeah.
You know, if you hear it from a person, it's like, Oh, you go. But I kept like, every time
they said it, it would echo in me. And I was like, ah, do I want to hear that? Not because
I don't want to fast, but because I don't want to fail. You know, it's just been a long
time. I used to fast so much, but it's been a long time. And, and, um, and so anyway,
here he says in Daniel 10, three, I ate no, I, I ate no and here, Oh, this is, this is
important here. He said, um, and I understood the word had understanding of the vision,
which of course was given to him in those days. I, Daniel was mourning. Another key
word is we had into the beatitudes was mourning for three whole weeks. So he's crying out
to the Lord. He's crying out to him. You know, we have sinned. We are in this position. We
should be the people of your pasture. We should be the people that belong to you and you belong
to us. I ate no pleasant or desirable food, nor did any meat or wine come into my mouth.
And I did not anoint myself for three full weeks. And then he talks about, you know,
what, what he did. Um, but so I know that God wanted us to go there because, because
he just was showing me what it looks like to turn on, to, to say yes to this time you're
saying no to other things, whatever we say yes to is an automatic no to everything else.
And how God honors that turning aside as, as a, a deeply grateful, like you're inviting
me to draw near. And as we've talked about in different times, like those, you know,
those, those scriptures that have haunted us this there's the five wise and the five foolish,
and how do I become that five wise? Right. And, and how do I hear well done? And how,
how do I become, um, that good and faithful?
servant? How do I do that? So, so here, in, let me check on the
time. Oh, look at that. Look at the time. Well, we got a little
bit of a late start. Okay. So, as we just begin this, this,
these words that Jesus spoke, after he learned to live them,
and we might highlight some of that, you know, as we go some
years, you'll even catch, you can catch in the stream, you
know, certain, like the welcome where I was talking about what
Jesus went through before he even could open his mouth with
these words on, on that mount, and, and that interaction with
his parents and learning obedience and, and, and being
announced by God Almighty, not, not in the synagogue, as he
supposed, but, but in the place where John was baptizing in the
wilderness, and, and then into the wilderness led, now
baptized also in the Holy Spirit, and had that, you know,
encounter with Satan himself, all on our behalf, 40 days, 40
nights and, and came victoriously preaching the
kingdom and people began getting healed, and people began
following him. And so, and so here seeing the crowds, we're in
Matthew five, seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain. And
when he was seated, his disciples came to him. So those
who identify as followers of him, as, as disciples, those
who want to become the image of their master to live in his
disciplines, to learn of his ways to be transformed into his
image. Well, they did what he did. He walked from the crowds
to the mountain, and they followed him. And again, I, I
don't know if it's so that everyone could hear from his
position. I don't know if he, you know, walked away so that
he's not casting pearl before swine, and those who identified
as wanting to follow him would come and they would hear these
words, I'm not sure. But he opened up his mouth, and he
taught them. And here we are. And so, so I don't know if I
should show you the words, because this is the amplified
version. So there are a lot of words, but I love this
description of understanding the Makarios blessedness of, of the
Beatitudes. But look at this first one, blessed, happy, to be
envied, and spiritually prosperous with life, by and,
and, and, whoops, sorry, joy and satisfaction. So happiness, joy,
satisfaction, prosperous, enviable, in God's favor and
salvation, regardless of their outward conditions, are the poor
in spirit, the humble, who rate themselves insignificant, for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven. The thing that God says to seek
first, in one of his success principles, he gives to those
who are postured properly, like Daniel understood. Of all the
exalting that Daniel had experienced, it all came as a
result of his posture of utter humility, and contriteness of
heart before God. And I'll just read a couple more, because
we're going to then just allow God to bring us into encounter
in that position here. Blessed and enviably happy, this is who
our God is, with a happiness produced by the experience of
God's favor, and especially
conditioned by the revelation of his matchless grace
are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.
We see this all throughout scripture.
And again, we see it in what we just read in Daniel.
He mourned how the people of God
would be so easily led to choose to stray
from his mercy and his goodness,
to develop attitudes and habits and worships and praise
and traditions and cultures and feasts
that were so opposed to his invitation into holiness.
And Daniel mourned and he deprived himself in that mourning
of the things he enjoyed.
Blessed, happy, blithesome, joyous, spiritually prosperous
with life, joy, and satisfaction in God's favor
and salvation, regardless of their outward condition
are the meek, the mild, the patient, the long suffering
for they shall inherit the earth.
Again, we see Daniel's positioning.
We see Jesus's positioning.
We see that there is no self-righteousness.
There's not even a petitioning for self
except to acknowledge his holiness and to press in.
This is so beautiful that God would say,
Daniel fast, Daniel fast, and then Daniel, Daniel.
And then just today, show me how Daniel lived the, whoops.
I'm just gonna mute you, Ingrid,
because we're on mute.
I did.
Oh, okay.
I turned it off.
I switched my phone to my, I'm sorry, to the computer.
Okay.
Okay, sorry.
No, it's okay.
It's fine.
I am patient and long suffering with you, my friend.
I'm exercising the beatitudes.
Okay, so I want you to see that Daniel understood his life
on the outside was a result of his life on the inside,
but that his life on the inside had to align with God
and that he was dependent upon God to do that,
to give that to him.
And that's even before the Holy Spirit, right?
So here, the kingdom is inside out.
So all that we need, all that joy and peace can never come.
It was one of my, in one of my heart healing clients today,
I wrote this because I just saw it happening.
Everything can change when nothing outside has changed.
Everything can change.
And it's all the gift of being invited here to Jesus.
He suddenly, he gave Mary new eyes about who she was
and who he was.
And therefore she could see her sister
from a whole different perspective.
She didn't have the same relationship with her sister.
She didn't despise, she just wasn't going to be moved
by any other voice.
And by any of the other people there,
she followed one voice.
And therefore it didn't matter what was going on
on the outside, she had this victory on the inside
and then she became significant in terms of her service
to the outside.
She became an incredible testimony.
To this day, we talk about her, right?
So, you know, we will go into these more deeply
but just understanding, you know, the merciful
for they shall obtain mercy.
The, whoop, did I skip one?
Yes, hunger and thirst for righteousness, uprightness
and right standing with God
for they shall be completely satisfied.
slide. We see this in Daniel's hunger. We see this in Daniel's complete surrender and turning.
And here he was a great man of state. There was none that carried the authority that he carried
except for those who were rulers, who were the actually named king. He had that much authority.
And then the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. The pure in heart, for they shall see
God. Again, like, you know, the pure in heart. When we don't have a pure heart,
when I have a selfish heart, for example, an angry heart, a bitter heart, an unforgiving heart,
an entitled heart, an ungrateful heart, which I've personally gotten the privilege
of experiencing to great, regrettable, intimate degrees. I don't see God in the situation.
I don't see God in myself. I don't see God in the people making me angry,
or the situations making me angry. I can hardly see God in himself
for who he is. And so how much we need him to even just cleanse our hearts
so that it becomes him we see, just as Daniel. I mean, Daniel could have come with so much
complaining. He could have come with so much entitlement. He could have come with so much
boasting. But he came with such purity of heart, such meekness, such desiring for what was right
before God, such mourning for all the prayer, such humility of self.
When we have purity of heart, even an angry person standing in front of us
is opportunity for us to see God, to see his perspective, to see him in them,
to see his desire for them, to stand as intercessors. These are the principles of success.
Last, and of course we'll go through all those as we proceed. I'm hastening because of the time, but
are the makers and maintainers of peace, for they shall be called the sons of God.
God doesn't come with his hands on his hips. He doesn't come with his hand on his head. He doesn't
come with a finger extended. He doesn't come with gnashing of teeth. He comes with invitation.
He's honest about the way things are, but that's so that we have the opportunity with honesty to
turn entirely, to give ourselves no excuses for compromise, for blame, for shame,
for holding fast to anything that just isn't his nature. And that's him. He is
Yahweh Shalom. He is the Tsar Shalom, the Prince of Peace. He is entirely peace. And so when we come
with that message of wholeness, that message of good news, that message of there's so much more
than is seen here, let's have a look from Shalom's perspective. It is well with my soul.
I mean, I think about that song, my goodness. Wife and, no, not wife, but children
perished in the sea. You have taught me to say Shalom. It is well with my soul.
Because of who he is.
And there was more. That man suffered the loss of his son prior, the burning down
in Chicago of his businesses. It goes on. So peace, that's the offspring of God, because
that's who he brings. That's what Jesus taught. My peace I give you, my peace I leave you.
Not like the world gives you, give I unto thee. Let not your hearts be troubled,
neither be afraid. Trust you, trust in God, trust in me. And what did he do when he sent
the laborers in? Declare peace.
They receive it, let them have it and you all enjoy peace.
If they reject it, let that peace come back on you,
shake the dust off your feet and move on.
This is an inward kingdom.
The kingdom of heaven is within you, even in your mouth.
This is the great invitation.
Okay.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake.
So the very thing he says,
we need to hunger and thirst for and be filled with.
Then blessed are we when people persecute us.
Why?
Because they don't know to hunger and thirst
for righteousness.
They're in the darkness.
They don't recognize the light.
They're under the law of sin and death.
They don't know the law of the spirit of life
in Christ Jesus.
They're under the dominion of darkness.
They know sin and death.
They don't know the kingdom of the son of God's love.
So persecution doesn't affect us
because we're just making a deposit of goodness and mercy
that God can do the rest.
Those who are blessed are you when people revile you,
persecute you and say all kinds of evil
against you falsely on my account.
Be glad, always.
Blessed, happy, be glad, be supremely joyful
for your reward in heaven is great, strong and intense
for in the same way people persecuted the prophets
who were before you.
You are salt.
You are light.
You are the difference maker.
You bring the flavor.
You bring the light.
So you're not trying to be anyone else.
So I don't know if you have something to write with,
but I should have been prepared with that myself.
But let's just take a moment to allow the Lord
to bring this before we take communion,
to just take this word from Daniel.
And if you have anything,
if you need to jump in with questions or comments, feel free
and, oh yeah, thank you.
Thank you.
I mean, thank you, Jill.
Yeah, and a little bit of 10, a little bit of Daniel 10.
And there are so many, oh my gosh, the number of verses
I could tell you about in cross-referencing,
just what God means by coming in poverty of spirit
and accessing the kingdom or coming in mourning
and finding comfort and who he is as the comforter.
He's the comforter because we need a comforter.
And so, okay.
So let's just go into his presence.
Let's invite in the Lord.
And here we are at your feet, Jesus,
having listened to these most marvelous
and miraculous words.
They're so wonderful.
They're beyond anything we've ever heard in a school.
They're beyond anything.
So perfect are these words.
This purity of good news and blessedness
and that nobody can take it away from us.
It doesn't depend on what's going on around us.
It's all about receiving your salvation to now come
and give you glory and honor and praise
to be delivered out from under self.
And be brought nigh to behold the creator
of the heavens and the earth and his bridegroom,
the worthy lamb that was slain for us.
Lord, I ask you to bring your word, Holy Spirit,
to life in us like you impregnated Mary.
Be it done unto us according to your word
to come in spirit, to come humbly, to come really.
ourselves insignificant. Our significance comes from you. It's more than we could ever
earn or be amazed by. You have declared our significance by birth and by cross. And by
invitation here today, we don't even need to work ourselves up into that. You have spoken.
Now we want to ascribe to you your worth. Lord, whatever would keep us from coming to
you humbly, to be able to mourn from all that which is separated from you and your creation
and with meekness. Would you teach us what this means to us, Lord? Show us what you're
inviting us into and what we can confess and give over to you in exchange for your
everlasting forgiveness and righteousness.
Lord, whatever would keep us from coming to you humbly, to be able to mourn from all
that is separated from you and your creation and with meekness. Would you teach us what
this means to us, Lord? Show us what you're inviting us into and with meekness. Lord,
whatever would keep us from coming to you humbly, to be able to mourn from all that
is separated from you and your creation and with meekness. Would you teach us what this
means to us, Lord? Show us what you're inviting us into and with meekness. Lord, whatever
would keep us from coming to you humbly, to be able to mourn from all that is separated
from you and your creation and with meekness.
Lord, whatever would keep us from coming to you humbly, to be able to mourn from all
that is separated from you and your creation and with meekness. Would you teach us what
this means to us, Lord? Show us what this means to us, Lord.
Lord, whatever would keep us from coming to you humbly, to be able to mourn from all
that is separated from you and your creation and with meekness. Would you teach us what
this means to us, Lord? Show us what this means to us, Lord.
Lord, thank you for showing us what it is that weighs down and distracts our hearts
and minds from allowing you to celebrate us and us to celebrate you and each other and
who you are in us in this world around us. Lord, we ask you to lift off the pain and
the suffering that is in your heart and we ask you to lift off the joy that is in your
and the traumas attached to these distractions,
these wounds, these areas,
to remove from our hearts the vulnerabilities
heart and we ask you to lift off the pain and the suffering that is in your heart.
to such mindsets or attitudes or beliefs or transgressions.
And that, Lord, you would encourage us now,
you would give us courage and strength
by the power of your love and your own faith
and your grace to give you what you've brought
to the surface once and for all.
It all belongs to you,
and we're going to seal it in covenant.
But I ask you too, Lord,
help us to connect with your face and your voice
according to your word.
And would you show our hearts, our eyes, our ears,
Lord, what is it you'd like to give us
instead of what we've been carrying?
Lord, what is it you'd like to give us instead of what we've been carrying?
Lord, what does that mean,
and how would you like us to receive that?
Lord, what does that mean, and how would you like us to receive that?
Holy Spirit,
you are the great gift from the storehouse of the Father.
You know all things,
all things on the heart of the Father, you are God.
I ask that you would now fill every place,
every heart, every cell,
every breath, every memory,
every one of these words, just fill with life,
fill our bodies and our beings and our sisterhood
and everything that you've cleansed us from,
everything that would keep your word
from being the seed of Christ in us,
the hope of glory in these words.
And that you would root us in all those places deeply into your love. Deeply into your love.
By faith, it's your idea. We believe it. I ask you to seal all this in your blood that
cancels every other entitlement or plan. And Lord, I ask you to help us. Give us revelation
of this as we partake. Mama, we have communion. Oh, you have it? Perfect. And that all this
that we've read and received as a finished work, that this is who we are. Not cheaply.
You're not blind like Daniel wasn't blind. He didn't kid himself. He knew there was a
process to connect with the word that had been released. And Lord, we are being transformed
into your image. We are being transformed into the image of this good news, the word
of God, Jesus. The power of God unto salvation to them that believe that you first and then
everybody else. And so we thank you that all the sins that we have brought to you and
everything else, we don't remember every ailment, every concern. We partake of this covenant
meal with you that you partook of with the Father and with your disciples in the body
you said is broken for us. You were broken for all our brokenness. So we could be made
whole with all your righteousness. And we, we agree and we partake as a sign to us and
to all. We are in this covenant with you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you for
giving thanks for the ability to be broken bread for us and poured out wine for us. The
blood of the new covenant, which you said shed for the forgiveness of sins and you declared
it is finished. In all the places we have cried out, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why have you forsaken my family? Why have you forsaken my body? Why have you forsaken my,
my, my being married or my marriage or, or my prosperity or my Lord, you cried out with that
same, that same cry and you identified all through that beautiful Psalm 22, Isaiah 53,
taking on everything. God bless you, Jill. Taking on everything that would separate us from you
so we could be not guilty, not because we've done anything right, but because you accomplished
all righteousness for us. God bless you. So we thank you, Lord. We receive the forgiveness of sin
for us and for everyone else. It's all in your hands. We thank you for this beginning
of this word made flesh in us of this time as wise virgins gathered to you in Jesus name. Amen.
And then they sang a hymn. Does anybody have a hymn?
How is everybody? Where is everybody?
Any revelations?
I'm so glad you're here, my mother. I'm so glad you're here, my mother. Mother, oh mine.
You amazing woman. All of you amazing, remarkable women. I'm going to start crying. And Carrie,
we bless you. We bless you, Carrie. We bless you, Carrie. We know you're listening later.
We include you here now. Well, go ahead, Ingrid.
I can share something that the Lord, something cool that the Lord just showed me.
First, you asked, what could we give up? So I charted those three things down. And then you
asked, what would we want to receive from God? And then later on, I charted down three things
for each. And then later on, I realized that I could map one to the other. So
I felt like God is saying, you know, I need to watch my words for sure. But then God,
I had put down in what he's going to receive. And without looking at the prior words,
I felt like God's going to give me courage. And then the courage is like the desire to be heard,
which I don't really like to, you know, do all the Facebook lives and all of that stuff and
the content writing. So if he says, if I watch my words, then I will have more of a desire to be
heard. And then, and then, and then he's, I have to watch to not be judgmental. And then I feel
like he's giving me favor if I'm not judgmental. And if I let go of control, then I will have more
faith and trust in him. So it's kind of cool that he showed me that there's maybe a direct
link in my case, or that what he's going to give me when I give certain things up. So I'm going to
stand on that what he showed me. Oh, my goodness. Okay, what was the last one? So it's my words
for the first one was watch for watch your words. And then that he will give me a desire to be heard
more courage, in other words, and stop being judgmental. And then he will give me favor,
because I know that's got to slow me down. Right? And let go of control. And he'll give me more
faith and trust in him. So he can control my life.
Wow. So I'll hang on to that. Oh, I'm gonna hang on to it, too. This is what you guys,
you gals, you ladies, you beauties, amazing beauties.
Faith and trust in him. You know, when we want control, we're actually being controlled.
And we are not trusting him, because we don't trust that he can handle it, that he can do it,
that he will, that he wants to. There's something in it in us that says, if I don't,
no one will. And it's up to me, which is laughable when we say it out loud, right?
But there are parts of us like, oh, yeah, well, where was he? When? Right? But that's what heart
healing does. It connects us with where he was when. And that's the power of these exchanges.
You know, Lord, I see that. Thank you. I give that to you. And you said, if we confess,
you'll just give us what's in your hand, which is forgiveness. He can't give you anything but
forgiveness. And he can only give you righteousness, which cleanses you of all unrighteousness.
And so I love that correlation. Judgmentalism is not allowing other people favor in your own eyes,
right? They don't measure up. And in Matthew 7, or in Luke, actually, like,
judge not, lest ye be judged. For the same measure you use, those are verses attached to judgment,
shall be measured back to you, pressed down, shaken together and overflowing,
till men pour into your bosom. So that's like judgment for judgment, or favor for favor,
faith and trust for the promises, or
are control for controlled. Then I love that part about like,
yeah, if I'm not pleased with my work, I don't want some to hear
me, right, that this is so rich. Okay, who else? This is so
good. Thank you, Ingrid. I love this.
So God gave me Second Chronicles 714, which is really good,
because that's such a powerful scripture. But then last night,
he woke me up at 2am and talked to me about, because I've been
praying to him about a relationship, it just feels like
I should shut the door and I have been shutting the door, but
that person keeps knocking to come in. And so what he showed
And so what he showed me is no compromise, and to be very
decisive, and no compromise, when you know what the right way
to go is, even though it's the hard way. And that, you know,
those old neural pathways in our brain, like, years ago, I smoked
and I craved smoking when I quit smoking, but it finally left,
and, you know, other things and, you know, whatever. And so he
was just answering my prayer and saying, leave it behind. Put
your hand to the plow and don't look back. Luke 962. But it's
been a battle, because I'm a compassionate person. And the
way the enemy wants back in is to play on my compassion.
Right, we want to be savior, right?
Yeah. Enabler.
Yeah. You know, God gave me also that was one of the scriptures
for for today for this attachment to Daniel and what
God's showing us in posturing is Second Chronicles 714. God
spoke that through that for years. So I love that. He
brought it up anyway. Yeah. He's so good. He's so good. And that,
you know, the other thing. I love the knocking at the door,
because we know who knocks at the door.
Exactly. But every time we're moving, I don't know about your
experience life. But every time I'm moving ahead in Christ, the
enemy sends a very alluring lure on the surface. It's like, it's
like sugar or chocolate. Yeah, momentarily, it tastes really
good. But the outcome sucks.
Yeah, totally. Yeah. I know the thing we think we can't live
without boy, if we would just live without it, we would have
life. Like, do you really want that? Yeah, I want it. I want it.
Well. But then you say, I don't want this Lord. But yeah, he's
so pure. I just love this. I love this idea of this
transforming into his image be transformed by the renewing of
your minds that you might prove that goodwill of God that
acceptable will of God that perfect will of God. Do not
succumb, do not yield to the ways of the world, do not be
conformed, formed negatively, right? By the ways of the world,
no compromise in him.
But that would be the enemy's way of trapping us, whether it
be debt, bad relationship, not eating well, social media, it
becomes a habit, too big a habit that takes time from God. All
that is like the trap, you know, not to say that we can't have
fun and stuff. That's not it. It's just to be very dead.
Second, Peter came to mind your be be alert for the enemy.
Prowls like a roaring lion.
Yeah, I love this. I heard from someone, an idol is something
that you sin to get. Or you will sin if you don't get. Yeah,
anger reveals an idol. Not good. So it came to me was this issue
of like, like, you know, taxes, I hate to use the word cheating
on taxes, because I think taxes are cheating me, right? That's
that's like, there's my anger, right? I'm like, it wouldn't be
a big deal if they were doing something righteous with it. But
they're stealing and they're a bunch of thieves. And they're
bunch of like, I get all like my blood.
starts to boil. And so I find ways, whatever ways I can, to
not release money in taxes. Okay. Oh, you know what I'm
saying? Like, so now, what I need to do is just like, humble
myself, not not just, you know, give it away. But Lord, if this
is a righteous tax, my faith needs to be in you because
what's happening is, I'm not trusting God, my focus is on
these people. So yeah, coming into agreement, even with my
taxes, that can be a seed for righteousness in my land, right?
So anyway, that's one of the things when I heard that an idol
is something you send to get or you will send if you don't get
anger reveals an idol and I was just like, you know, that one's
been like one of those needling ones at the back of my mind.
Like, I never I'll get mad at my husband if he's not listing
things properly and listing everything that could possibly
be listed. Okay, all right. I hear you. Okay. So anyway.
Alright, alright. Who else?
Just just to mention, with the roaring lion, I heard Creflo
Creflo dollars say either this morning or yesterday, he said
quoted, Satan, like a roaring line, he said, that lion roars,
but you just have to remember that the line of Judah pulls his
teeth out. And at the mention of the name of Jesus, he is in his
powerless. I love that. Yes. The lion of Judah has pulled the
teeth out of that nuisance. Yes. And he is just like a roaring
lion. Yes, he's not one. He's not a realist. Yes. He has to
have permission. And he's just like we are learning through
what we read in Daniel how to partner with this word, and not
partner with the roaring lion. Or he's not a roaring lion. The
one who prowls like, you know, who masquerades seeking whom he
may devour. That's good, mom. Thank you. Love this. Okay,
anyone else? What did what did God? What? What do you want to
share that can bless us?
Jill Wolf.
And then I'm gonna have to jump. But um, yeah, he said, he said,
give me your disappointment. Most of which as I started
listing out what I was disappointed about are things
that he doesn't even care about. I mean, he cares because I care
about them, but they're not even things that he has any measure
he has any measure of
your hesitancy to trust me.
Your need to plan and your desire to make things happen
yourself instead of in partnership with me. And I've
been going through this stage of this season. And I will speak
that it's a season is not forever. That I'm a good
planner, I plan things out, I see things organized. And he
says, but you're relying on that and not me. So I want you to
just do what I tell you to do next. And that's so hard.
Because there's no, the only assurance is that he's got this.
And that's a tough step for me. So I've always lived by the
saying, if it is to be, it's up to me, like the world has
pounded that business wise in my head. And I'm like, I know
that's not you. So what do you want me to replace it with? So
he said, if it is to be, it's so I'm saying if it is to be, it's
up to he and he will lead me. And so that's what I'm going to
sit in. He, what he gave me instead are things that I still
want to explore with him. But rest, peace, affirmation, joy,
stories, and people who will trust you at the rate at which
you will trust me. I'm like, ooh, that's
Yes, sir.
That's an issue of capacity.
That's important.
Well, at first I was like, are you sure you said that right?
Because that feels funny.
But you just affirmed that it, what it's,
the capacity piece that I didn't necessarily understand that.
Totally, totally.
You think of Moses, you think of David, you think of Joseph,
you think of Jesus.
It's all those journeys in developing capacity
for the incredible call to potential,
determined what was able to be done
when they met opportunity, when they met destiny.
Well, I'm one of these people,
at the end of a challenge or something to trust me.
And he's saying, you want them to trust you,
do you trust me?
Like, this has to.
One time, you might've heard this from me, Jill.
But one time, all I could see for like,
just like two, three weeks or something.
All I could see, you know, when there's a photograph,
there's a photograph and then it just fades to white.
The edges just fade.
So I could see the back of Jesus's sandal,
a little piece of his hem.
He was stepping on a rock and then it just fades to white.
And that's all I could see.
And I kept like, trying to look around.
Like, finally, I was like, Lord,
all I can see is the back of your sandal
on a piece of your hem.
Where are you going?
I can't see.
And he said, Hillary, can you handle that?
Can you just follow?
How can that be enough?
So, yeah, like that's, you know, here we're writing,
we're working on our bylaws
for Taste and See Freedom Ministries.
And my son Jeremiah is on the board.
And I'm saying, son, here's how you become a board member.
Here's what it means here we're going through.
And he's like, mother.
And he was like, debating with me.
He is a law major, but he's debating with me.
And he said, I said, Jeremiah, like, listen,
it's one thing for you to dishonor your parents.
It's one thing for you to get all prideful toward us
and we still serve you.
But on this, you don't come first
and I will not compromise.
You are learning.
And we asked you in advance,
is this something to which you can commit?
Here's what it means.
And you said, yes.
And now you will show up.
You have a year commitment.
You will learn what it means.
And so then he said, well, mom, I was just saying,
I need a roadmap.
I need to understand.
And I said, well, son, Jesus doesn't give us a roadmap.
He says, follow me.
So yeah, there are just times.
I mean, I was just raised up.
I mean, the fear of the Lord, because this is not my deal.
This is Jesus's deal.
So it will be above board in every way, you know?
And so the fact that, you know, I just,
my husband says I'm too easy on my kids,
but in this, I would not.
And it helped him to come under
because he saw I would only follow him when it came to this.
So imagine if I would only follow him
when it came to everything else.
I wouldn't have these kids that debate me all the time.
So that's where we're heading.
So Jill, that is pure gold.
I totally appreciate that you just shared that.
That's rich.
Thank you.
Any last, anyone else?
Jill or Jenny or mama?
No, okay.
All right.
Well, who would like to pray us out and bless this time?
Jill, come on.
And this is not what I normally do, but he was nudging me.
So, okay, here we go.
Lord Jesus, thank you for this time that we can spend sitting at your feet and listening
and asking questions and not just learning from you, but learning your voice, learning
how it sounds, learning what you say, learning what compassion sounds like and what justice
sounds like and what grace sounds like.
So not just the principles, but just everything about how we love others here on earth.
We thank you for the space that Hillary's created.
Thank you for Hillary and the wisdom you've given her to lead us and to set up these opportunities
to talk to you this way.
Pray for each of us in the next 24 hours, since we'll be back in 24 hours, that you
will, as you promised, we give you this hour that you will teach us what we need to know
and that in the next 24 hours, we'll start to see that, start to feel the impact of sitting
at your feet for this last hour in your name, amen, amen.
So what we can do too, like, you know, rather than come on at the time and, you know, laugh
and, you know, wait for everybody, you know, just come on early if you want.
So if you want, just pop in early, have it on while you're getting ready or doing something.
And then that way we can connect live.
And then at the top of the hour, we can be in go time and we can all be present.
How's that?
Does that sound good?
So I mean, you all have the password, so you don't even need me, but I'll, if I'm available,
I'll even just pop it on a half hour early just because I love you all.
So that's no obligation, you know, just come in and if something, or you can just put it
on if nobody's there, you just wait while you do what you do.
But that way we can all be fully present and ready at the top of the hour.
So that's what came to me when you just prayed, Jill, see, already he is giving me wisdom.
I love you all.
Thank you so much.
So excited.
Hasta mañana.