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2.2 | Safe Space · The Leah Effect

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  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful people, hello, hello, hello, hello.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are tuned in to another episode of the Leah Effect.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: Allow me to introduce myself or reintroduce myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am Sharnelle, and I am so glad to be with you yet another time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you happy to be here?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, are you are you listening and driving?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you are you walking?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you working out?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you shopping?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, whatever you're doing, I'm just glad you're here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we are here at the Leah Effect today, talking about the stories of biblical figures and how their narratives relate to us today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this season, we're diving into the names of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: One God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: So last week we started with Yahweh and learned about his origins, focusing on the story of Moses and the burning bush.
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  SPEAKER_00: But today, new episode, new name.
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  SPEAKER_00: But before we dissect, let's reflect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's take a beat and think on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It being the things in life that are lovely, pure, true, and right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Things that Paul urges us to think on in Philippians 4 8.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if there's anything you've been thinking on, anything you want to share, write to us at the Leah Effectpod at gmail.com so we can think on these things together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but let me share what I've been thinking on.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what's something I've been thinking on this week?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I I can say I've been thinking on the transience of seasons.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am thinking on how grateful I am that every season serves its distinct purpose in its distinct way in its proper time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just as we welcome the changing of a season with open arms, we can honor and acknowledge the ending of a season with grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because not all seasons are meant to last forever, and just because a season ends doesn't mean that it failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um the beginning of fall doesn't mean that summer did not accomplish anything it was called to do in the time it was called to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the contrary, it did what it did, and then it had to move on.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, the the beauty of seasons is that they change.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if there's anything that you want to share that is good, that is right, that is true, that is just, that is admirable, please write in to the Leah Effectpod at gmail.com so we can think on these things together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, but now we have to set the scene and you know, really set up what's happening in this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is in a name?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a descriptor, it's a title, it's a label, a moniker, if you will.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the name we are focusing on today is Jehovah Shamma.
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  SPEAKER_00: That name comes from the final verse of the book of Ezekiel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the book of Ezekiel is extremely dense, and I feel like I say this for every episode of like, oh yeah, the book that we're taking this from is like extremely dense.
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  SPEAKER_00: We gotta like really break it down because there's so much to unpack.
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  SPEAKER_00: But like, no, like this book is like very dense, and there is a lot to unpack.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um, I will do my best to stick to the theme of where the name of God comes full circle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I'm giving more of an overview than a detailed chapter by chapter by chapter because there are 48 well-written dense chapters in this good book of Ezekiel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I'll give an overview and we'll move on from there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's set the scene.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 597 BC, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon besieged Jerusalem and carried off its king along with thousands of its leading citizens, including a young man named Ezekiel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Ezekiel is the son of a priest, so he was born into this priesthood, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But in exile, hundreds of miles away from the temple, so there's no temple to serve in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in the fifth year of this exile, around the age of 30, 30 is the age when a priest would usually begin his acts of service towards priesthood, the Lord called Ezekiel instead to be a prophet, a mouthpiece to his fellow exiles.
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  SPEAKER_00: And unlike our boy Moses from the first episode, Ezekiel does not make excuses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, scripture does say that he is sitting stunned for seven days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: But nevertheless, he he goes and he does what he's called to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's message to the people is a very hard pill to swallow.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed because of the people's unfaithfulness to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And eventually they were in 586 BC after a second Babylonian siege.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Ezekiel premiered these messages in a very elaborate and dare I say theatrical way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I mean he drew a model of Jerusalem under attack on a brick.
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  SPEAKER_00: He laid on his side for days and uh shaved his head.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like anything like this in present day would either capture the attention of several people, or people would just go on with their lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the point of Ezekiel doing these elaborate theatrical demonstrations is to get the attention of the people so that they would heed the warning of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the book of Ezekiel breaks down into three parts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, part one are the oracles of judgment against Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Part two, the oracles against the surrounding nations who have tried to overtake Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And part three, it's the promises of Israel's restoration.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, along with these demonstrations that Ezekiel has been giving, these prophetic demonstrations that Ezekiel has been giving, he also has visions.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, in the very first vision that Ezekiel has, he sees the glory of the Lord, not in Jerusalem, but in Babylon, where the Israelites are exiled to, showing that God is not confined to a specific building or a location.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then in chapters 8 through 11, he sees something very troubling because of the people's idolatry and wrongdoing.
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  SPEAKER_00: The glory of the Lord departs from the temple of Jerusalem.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in part two, where the oracles of the nations or the oracles of the surrounding nations are revealed, God addresses the neighbors of Israel in the exile, such as Ammon and Moab and Edom and Tyre and Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, and all of these nations either tried to take advantage of Israel while in exile, or they just boasted over the fall of a people in a nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the message, the oracle rather, that these nations received is that okay, even though Israel was unfaithful, and yes, they are being disciplined by God's hand right now, God has not abandoned his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is sovereign over that nation, and he's sovereign over all these other nations.
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  SPEAKER_00: So don't get it twisted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright?
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  SPEAKER_00: And now comes part three where it speaks about the promises of Israel's restoration.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll just touch on a few of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: God promises to give his people a new heart and a new spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ezekiel has a vision where he sees a valley of dry bones.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this valley, the Lord asks, Shall these dry bones live?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Ezekiel is like, Lord, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord does know.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a wind that comes from the north, the south, the east, the west.
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  SPEAKER_00: Y'all know the scripture.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh these bones are coming together, they're building ligaments and muscles and skin, and it forms a vast army of soldiers, signifying the promise that God makes to bring a dead nation back to life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And lastly, Ezekiel sees a new temple with a river flowing out of it that brings life wherever it goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And actually, in chapter 43, that's not the final thing, in chapter 43, the glory of the Lord that had departed from the temple of Jerusalem returns.
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  SPEAKER_00: The book then closes with this line: after Israel is restored back by God's promises coming to fruition, the city will have a new name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jehovah Shamma.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what exactly is the Shamma effect?
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  SPEAKER_00: The name Jehovah Shamma means the Lord is there.
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  SPEAKER_00: The name Jehovah Shamma signifies the power of the active presence of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Ezekiel's vision, the glory of the Lord, known as the Kavad, appears as a storm cloud with fire and light.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Hebrew word Kavad literally carries the idea of like a weight or a heaviness.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's like a seriousness, there is a sustenance, there is something substantial about the glory of the Lord, about God's presence manifesting through glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see a similar picture of this with Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, Moses on Mount Sinai, where a cloud covered the mountain, and the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses spent 40 days in that said presence, communing and speaking with God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when he came down with the Ten Commandments in his hand, the man was glowing.
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  SPEAKER_00: His face was bright.
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  SPEAKER_00: And later, that same cloud filled the tabernacle, and that same cloud of glory filled Solomon's temple, so much so to the point where the people who are called, the priests and the ministers and the Levites couldn't even come into the space because of how thick the glory was in the place.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is also the same presence that David writes about in the song.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or Psalms, however, you want to, you know, it's tomato, tomato.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I've heard all my life, but you know, we're moving forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Psalm 139, he asks, Where can I go from your spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where can I run from your presence?
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  SPEAKER_00: In in Psalm 46, it's written that God is a very present help in the time of trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why does any of this matter?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so glad you asked.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because presence is the entire point.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about where the exiles are, where Ezekiel spoke to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're hundreds of miles away from the temple in a foreign land that they do not know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it probably feels like they're alone, that they're abandoned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Biblical term coming up, forsaken.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But what's the first thing that Ezekiel sees?
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  SPEAKER_00: The first vision that Ezekiel gets is the glory of the Lord in Babylon, in the foreign land.
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  SPEAKER_00: In chapter 11, God speaks and says that he tells the exiles that he has been a sanctuary to them in the countries where they have been displaced and scattered.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even though the edifice, even though the physical temple was gone and destroyed, his presence didn't go anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: He didn't abandon them, he didn't forsake them, he didn't leave them to their own devices as much as they would like to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see that same heart, that same compassion, that same consistency back on Mount Sinai after the golden calf, when Moses comes down revealing the Ten Commandments, comes down for 40 days after speaking to the Lord because the same Israelites were scared to speak to the Lord personally.
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  SPEAKER_00: God was having a personal relationship with the Israelites, and they got scared.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they were like, Moses, you go and talk to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you talk to him, then you talk to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Moses goes up to the mountain for 40 days because they are talking and they are communing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he comes down and sees that they're worshiping a golden calf and said, Because we waited so long, why were you up there for so long?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because he was talking, because y'all asked him to speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: So then after this whole ordeal happens with the golden calf, God tells Moses, Okay, y'all can go to the promised land, but I'm actually not gonna go with y'all because you're too stubborn and you're stiff-necked.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Moses is like, hey, um, if your presence doesn't go with us, don't send us.
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  SPEAKER_00: The promised land, any victory, any blessing means nothing if your presence isn't there.
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  SPEAKER_00: The presence of the Lord is faithful and it's consistent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Time and time again in this good book, we see scripture.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will never leave you, I will never forsake you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses says it to Israel in Deuteronomy.
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  SPEAKER_00: God says it to Joshua, and the writer of Hebrews says it again to the church in Isaiah 43.
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  SPEAKER_00: God doesn't promise that his people will never pass through waters or walk through fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: The scripture specifically says, NIV version, I know usually speaking King James, but like walk with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you pass through the waters, I will be with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you walk through the fire, no shakaan, you will not be burned.
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  SPEAKER_00: The flames will not set you ablaze.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalms 23 says that even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, now I gotta go KJV in this yay! Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what we see in these examples of scripture is people in different seasons of their lives expressing the knowledge and confidence of the guaranteed presence of God in times where it seems as if they are alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in all these different seasons, Ecclesiastes 3, my favorite verse, speaks of these very seasons.
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  SPEAKER_00: To everything, there is a time and a season for every purpose under heaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going KJV again, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give a few examples: a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Life moves in seasons.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some seasons are much harder than others.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are seasons of exile, there are seasons of waiting, there are seasons where it feels like heaven is silent.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God's presence is not seasonal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's actually everlasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Malachi 3, verse 6 says, I the Lord do not change.
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  SPEAKER_00: The seasons change, the circumstances change.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's presence doesn't change.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the book of Ezekiel, we see the glory depart in judgment and return in restoration.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people moved from temple to exile and finally to promise, and through all of it, God was working.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even when they couldn't see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even in the ashes, even in the uncertainty, even in the pain, even in the fear, even in the stress, even in the anxiety.
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  SPEAKER_00: His presence was there.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was always power in his presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is the shama effect.
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  SPEAKER_00: It isn't just knowing that God exists, it's it's living with the understanding and awareness that the Lord is there.
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  SPEAKER_00: In every season, his presence is not circumstantial.
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  SPEAKER_00: It rests on his faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't just present itself in only one way.
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  SPEAKER_00: He shows up differently, depending on the moment, depending on the person, depending on the need.
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  SPEAKER_00: His presence is through a burning bush that isn't consumed.
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  SPEAKER_00: A cloud by day and a fire by night, which led Israel through the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: A rainbow after the flood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tongues of heaping fire and the sound of a rushing mighty wind on the day of Pentecost.
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  SPEAKER_00: The small still voice sounding like, Oh, did you call for me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Eli, did you call for me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Eli, did you call for me?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Eli is like, No, Samuel, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the next time you hear someone calling you, just say, Here am I, Lord, speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your servant heareth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And look at the book of Ezekiel when you have the time to dive into it for real.
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  SPEAKER_00: But like, there's the storm cloud, and there's the fire, there's the glory seen in the vision, there's wonders and signs acted out in front of the people, and the word of the Lord performing and doing exactly what it said would do over and over and over again.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of these things, different ways in which the presence of the Lord showed up.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's the same Lord, it's the same God, it's the same Jehovah, it's the same Yahweh.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: I was I was I was talking to a close friend, and I was sharing a bit of Charnel lore, if you will.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really not that deep, but let's talk about it anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, um, when I was seven years old, I had my first personal encounter with the Spirit of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And up until that time, until like the age of seven, I could say I've been in church all my life, watching my dad play in the band, and I would be sitting with my mom in her lap.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was Loki crying and begging her for me to eat some of her communion wafers and drink some of the grape juice, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I was hungry and I was in church all day.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I really didn't take into account the scripture that was like, if any man hungers, let him eat at home.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't, it didn't register for me then.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a safe space, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Right, okay, great, moving on.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: But week in and week out, I would see my parents worship, or I would see.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um parishioners worship, and I would just be like, What are they crying about?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or you know, what's what what's happening?
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  SPEAKER_00: I would like I would just be so confused with like I would see my mom crying, but she wasn't sad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or I would I would see the raising of hands and the clapping of hands and the swimming of feet and they shouting and and they and they moving and band is going crazy, you know, all these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I'm I'm a young girl and I didn't have any understanding or any perception of that.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, I was like, you know, I want to I want to understand, I want to see what this is about, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and one day I was in youth service, and after our youth pastor had like an exhortation, I wouldn't even call it a sermon, it was more so of an exhortation, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because attention spans are a little um short.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we were wrapping up the exhortation, and the praise team sang Agnes Day, which to this day is my all-time favorite worship song.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as you're singing, Holy, Holy Are You Lord God Almighty.
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  SPEAKER_00: I raise my hands and I begin to walk down the aisle towards the altar like O Girl from Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I know you see it, and I felt something I can only describe as comfort, like a full embrace covering me, tears rolling down my eyes, and as I'm telling my friend this, I began to get emotional.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, just thinking back on, you know, who seven-year-old Charnell was encountering the presence of the Lord for the first time, and now I'm 31 here and now, no Luther.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I got emotional and I began to cry because it hit me like a ton of bricks that his presence was always there from as far as I can remember, in ways that I can explain, and ways I can't.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was there the whole time in my mom's womb, he was there the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Being born there the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_00: First words there the whole time, first steps, there the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sitting in the pews begging my mom to take one nickel bite of her dried-up flat communion wafer and a sip of grape juice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Body and blood I'm consuming, but you know, I was hungry in the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was there before I had the words for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That and that's the shama effect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like he didn't go anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: His presence is not dependent on the perception that we hold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just because you don't feel him doesn't mean he isn't there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just because you don't understand the season that you're in right now does not mean that he is absent from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just because you can't see what he's doing doesn't mean he's not doing anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jehovah's Shamma, the Lord is there, and there is power in the presence of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the sham effect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, here we are ruminating on the shaman effect and what the presence of the Lord feels like for you in this season of your life, and possibly you need a song in the soundtrack of your life to emphasize the power of God's presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're in the right place at the right time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the song of songs.
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  SPEAKER_00: So our song of songs this week is not just one selection.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, it's actually three.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have three songs that can relate to the theme and concept of Jehovah Shamma.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I struggled because I really couldn't narrow it down to just one, so I'm giving you three Father, Son, Holy Ghost.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here it goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have Oh the Glory of Your Presence by Ron Kennelly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have God is Here by Karen Clark Sheard, and last but certainly not least, Your Presence is Heaven by Israel Houghton.
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  SPEAKER_00: These songs, or I feel these songs, really take you to a place that you can reflect on the presence of the Lord and really hone in on what his presence is.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as we journey through the rest of this week, may God open the eyes of our hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's another one, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Four songs.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: But may our hearts and eyes be open to recognize his presence in all things.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: And may we remember the glory of his presence in every season, knowing that Jehovah Shamma is present, powerful, and perfect.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: And y'all, that is it for us here at the Leah Effect today.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for spending part of your day with me, and do me a favor, don't keep good news to yourself.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: Follow us on Instagram at underscore the Leah Effect, subscribe to our YouTube channel, the Leah Effect, and write into us at the Leah Effectpod at gmail.com.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: I want to hear from you, and I mean it.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: We are coming up upon the holiday season.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: We're coming on Thanksgiving, we're coming on Christmas, we're coming on New Year's.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: I want to hear your good news.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: I want to hear the lovely things that you were looking forward to, I want to hear the pure things that you are celebrating in this season and the things that you have been thinking on.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: And also, I know y'all listen to music.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: So if you have a song that you want to add to the name of God playlist, I guess we're creating a name of God playlist.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: But as we are creating this playlist, if you have a song that you feel would fit perfectly into the playlist, share it with us.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: Once again, I am your host, Charnel.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: This is the Leah Effect, and always remember there is more to the story, and the effects are truly endless.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_00: Catch you next time.