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Reclaiming Your Voice Amidst Life's Shifts: Theresa Croft's Tapestry of Encouragement · Stuck No More Voices

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  Speaker 1: So it's Tea on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad you could join us for Unleashing Kingdom Voices.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: My name's Theresa Croft and I've dubbed Tea on Thursday because I've been interviewing so many people.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: I was wondering if I was losing my voice here.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: I am calling myself a voice revivalist and I love having guests, but I was challenged to have a little time with you on Thursday on my Unleashing Kingdom Voices podcast, and so what I'm coming to you today was with a prophetic word that is kind of carrying itself out.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Can I share the word?
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: This was from my friend, alana van de Venter.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: If you check back, you see I interviewed her powerfully and she shared this to me a couple weeks ago and she said Tea.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: I put something on Instagram, but I was really thinking of you when I wrote it.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: So this is two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: And she said, just like Ruth, never expect she would find a boaz while gathering leftovers behind all the other reapers in the fields for Naomi, you are not forgotten, just like Ruth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just fantasizing that you are not forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: The dream you dare to whisper in private, god hears.
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  Speaker 1: You are not overlooked.
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  Speaker 1: Think of Jeremiah 31, verse 3.
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  Speaker 1: Even if it seems all you have are leftovers, because, you see, god sees leftovers differently.
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  Speaker 1: God sees you.
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  Speaker 1: So Alana wrote that a couple weeks ago and in the course of let's look up Jeremiah 31, 3, in the course of just my work, being faithful, working Girl Power Alliance and a couple other ventures mainly Girl Power Alliance I was added to a team of my team leader just a short amount of people in there and she decided that she was getting so many leads leads of potential contacts, if you don't know that and she was getting so many leads and that's what we go for is I think of them as connections where we get to love on people and talk to them and see if we can meet their needs and then lead them into Girl Power Alliance or something they need like lead them into an AI course or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So, all of a sudden, let me read Jeremiah 31, verse 3.
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  Speaker 1: Long ago, the Lord said to Israel I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love, with unfailing love.
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  Speaker 1: I have drawn you to myself.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Jeremiah 33, actually that was good, though.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go Jeremiah 33.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still looking.
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  Speaker 1: Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 1: It is Ask me.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Ask me and I will tell you how remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.
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  Speaker 1: This is tea on Thursday casual If you saw them, see me on camera.
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  Speaker 1: I got my little t-shirt on so leftovers.
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  Speaker 1: So the realization of the truth of that word came to me two weeks later.
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  Speaker 1: Put on this team and all of a sudden, my team later, who co-hosts Faith and Business on podcast check that on Spotify.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden she said tea, I'm going to start giving you leads.
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  Speaker 1: So it's only been two weeks and she's given me 33 leads.
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  Speaker 1: I look at it as 33 wonderful people I get to connect with and see how we can serve them.
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  Speaker 1: God looks at leftovers differently.
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  Speaker 1: These aren't leftovers, these are beautiful people and I love it that my leader, michelle, is so busy.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like she's done her time in the trenches and now she gets to let us be the foot soldiers of work.
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  Speaker 1: So I ask you, where do you feel like you are right now?
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  Speaker 1: Do you need a prophetic word to pull you out of a stuck place?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just listening to the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Tea on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: This is very casual.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like I have a word written out for you, but I do have my heart lifting up for you Because I feel like in this day that we walk, today, that there are so many struggles, so many things that want to pull our attention away, so many distractions.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the place that you can find dwelling, a peaceful place, I think, is only comes from one place, and that's the secret place.
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  Speaker 1: I call it listening to the Vine Dresser of John 15.
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  Speaker 1: I like to think of myself sitting in a vineyard and just enjoying God's presence.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when I went through my worst times in my life, that's where these words came from.
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  Speaker 1: I was writing them before I got this one job.
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  Speaker 1: It was my dream job and then, after about three years, I got dropped from that dream job.
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  Speaker 1: So I continued writing these words Because, really, the dream job I was too busy trying to be their voice and I forgot my voice.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: So I'd write these listening to the Vine Dresser, and I wrote three devotionals.
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  Speaker 1: I started sharing them on Facebook and everybody wanted a copy.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought, well, I can leave these in my computer or I can share these.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I want to read one to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's about curve balls that come to your heart when you go over a speed bump and it might be total rejection, that might be more than a speed bump.
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  Speaker 1: I used to journal and I would write stuff with my hand and I got to the point where I couldn't write so I had to use the Evernote and that's how I would work out things.
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  Speaker 1: So I encourage you to journal.
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  Speaker 1: There's something scientific that I can't explain scientific when you get your words out when you can.
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  Speaker 1: If you rejected where you can just get it out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, feeling is healing.
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  Speaker 1: So I remember, before I wrote this word, that my heart felt like it was so hurt and the wound was so open that I felt like, as I put my wound in the presence of God, that the often that's when my fingers would start moving on the keyboard and I would hear Something that the vine dresser was saying to me.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I was open a row of vines in the vineyard of my heart, some with grapes, some with branches that recently have been pruned.
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  Speaker 1: As I would share these words and often before I shared them, I wanted to share a declaration, something that you could say out loud before you listen to the vine dresser.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna end this podcast with yet another.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to the vine dresser and the declaration.
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  Speaker 1: You can say it.
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  Speaker 1: You can say it, okay, no one's watching.
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  Speaker 1: Declaration I can take my pain with offenses to my father.
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  Speaker 1: He can heal the hurt and put me back on my feet.
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  Speaker 1: Now listen to the vine dresser, dear precious child of mine.
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  Speaker 1: Let my love nourish your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Bring your raging emotions to me.
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  Speaker 1: The pit you feel in your stomach is not from my garden.
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  Speaker 1: The rejection you can't experience is only a speed bump in the pathway I have said before you.
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  Speaker 1: The vine dresser goes on to say I call you my intimate friend.
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  Speaker 1: My overflowing love will never disappoint.
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  Speaker 1: My tender love handles your fragile heart as a priceless tea cup.
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  Speaker 1: Even if the cup is carelessly handled or dropped and scattered into countless pieces, I'm here to gently clean each fragmented piece and mold it, with mercy and compassion, back together.
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  Speaker 1: I am near.
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  Speaker 1: Lean into me when you come into my garden.
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  Speaker 1: The anointing of my presence will satisfy you and Heal your crushed heart.
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  Speaker 1: I Also have other vines with connections around you who speak my kingdom revelation to aid you in your journey of love.
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  Speaker 1: You are never deserted or alone, dear one.
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  Speaker 1: I have a grip on your life and my presence is always here in the garden.
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  Speaker 1: Abide, soak, be strengthened in my love.
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  Speaker 1: Say no to striving and yes to abiding.
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  Speaker 1: Love the vine dresser.
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  Speaker 1: I Love that where he says I have other vines, other connections around you who can speak kingdom revelation to you.
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  Speaker 1: Every Thursday night, 8 pm, eastern Standard Time, you can find Access to a group like that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll leave a, I'll leave a link how you can get in touch with me and I'll share that link with you, a zoom call, because my heart is for you.
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  Speaker 1: I Believe that as I've gone through the crashes of the hearts, the curve balls to the heart, and as I sit in that chair over there and just soak every morning listening to him down my prairie quest Growing out, I've cried a lot lately.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny, it's good.
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  Speaker 1: Healing feeling is here, like prayer.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, but you know these were years ago that I wrote these and I'm finding that when the Lord speaks to you, they're timeless, they're like prophetic words, just like, as I said in the beginning of this podcast episode, how I received a word.
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  Speaker 1: They make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's a great word.
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  Speaker 1: And then, two weeks later, so I'm speaking a prophetic word to you in that Vine dresser word, as I want to continue on as a voice for a Vivaless, helping you who feel voiceless from trauma, maybe voiceless from success in the corporate world or just voiceless at home.
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  Speaker 1: I want to speak to you, help you find your voice, create impact and be able to earn an income while growing in community.
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  Speaker 1: We need those other vines, those other connections I pray that you find them that will bring that Kingdom revelation to aid you in your journey of love.
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  Speaker 1: Check the show notes and I'll show you a connection place.
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  Speaker 1: How about this?
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you access to 24 hours inside this connection.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: I think I need to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, thank you so much for listening.
• 11:33
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for letting me be tea on Thursday.