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How to truly get the GLORY we all desire · The Entrepreneur's Wife: Finding Purpose as the Helper of a Small Business Owner in a Feminist Obsessed World

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  SPEAKER_00: How can I be truly effective as an entrepreneur's wife, as a Christian, as a business owner, as a woman of God?
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we're gonna talk about the secret sauce, if you will, to what it means to be truly effective in these areas in life, how to actually have true influence that's inspiring and motivating what I've seen in the church, what I've seen in business, what I've seen in life as a mom, and what I think the secret sauce is that we see in scripture that shows us how we can be true leaders, truly inspiring, truly make a difference, and truly be effective for God's kingdom and for the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're new here, welcome to the Entrepreneur's Wife podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am your host, Carly Rains.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a podcast where we talk all about finding purpose as the helper to our small business owner in this feminist obsessed world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we really take biblical values.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really appreciate the continued listeners.
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  SPEAKER_00: You guys are the backbone of this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I set on a mission this year to uh really record, try to record every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have not been, you know, perfect at it, but I will say that it has been um rewarding.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has been challenging, it's been encouraging.
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  SPEAKER_00: So thank you so much for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, our listening ratings have gone up, and I super, super, super appreciate every one of you listeners.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I hope that this is encouraging.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope that you're growing from this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I hope that this is making a difference in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the point of why I started the Entrepreneur's Wife podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I saw a need as an entrepreneur's wife to pour into other entrepreneur wives who are Christian who really need help finding purpose as they help their business owner, um, has as they help their their spouse either start or grow a business or scale a business or you know, all of that stuff within the Christian context.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I really found, if you will, purpose and meaning with kind of um talking about the feminist movement, you know, whenever I say, hey, we're finding purpose, um, and I end the slogan with uh this feminist obsessed world, I don't mean like, you know, I just mean we are a very self-driven world.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean that it is very selfish, it's all about us, um, me, me, me focused.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you hear a lot of that on this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when you really step into what it means to be an entrepreneur's wife, I hope that you find that it's a very servant role, it's a very giving role, it's a very denying of yourself role.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in order to pick up your cross, which is to help your spouse and the dream that they have and the vision that they have for um the business, and it has been a very humbling role to be an entrepreneur's wife, but it has also been one of the greatest blessings, and I think I would not be where I am today as a Christian, as a woman of God, had I not been an entrepreneur's wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, God has used this title, if you will, to be an entrepreneur's wife to really mold me and shape me like Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I really want to use this platform to help show you hey, you have purpose, you have identity, um, God has a great plan for you, but at the same time, he wants to make you more and more like Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And like we talked about in yesterday's podcast, being more and more like Christ means deny, deny, deny, deny, deny self.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's so contradictory to the world today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today I really want to um hone in and focus on like how to be effective as a person with business, with being a woman of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, what is the secret sauce?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, what makes people, you know, there are so many podcasts out there, there's so many um speakers, there's so many pastors, there's so many motivation speakers and um YouTubers, content creators, there's so many voices that we hear on a daily basis, even apart from online, like just in our you know, everyday world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, what makes a voice stand out?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like what makes someone's voice, someone's character, what someone says, the words that they say have weight?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like what makes it have impact on your life?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to talk about that today because we need that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think everyone who's listening to this podcast, you in some form or fashion, you want to have kingdom impact, you want to do good in the world, you want to make a difference, and you know, I'm an extrovert, so I don't have a problem talking.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can talk all day long, but something that God has been revealing to me is I don't want to just say a bunch of words, I don't want to just spit something out and take up space.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want my words to actually carry weight, to actually make a difference in someone's life, to actually carry authority, and to actually bring God glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I want to make a difference with the words that I say, and you've all probably seen the difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've heard of someone who speaks, and it's just words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, what they're saying is good, but it's just words, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have that weight to it, and then you hear someone speak, and man, it just hits you, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like this weight that hits you, or their their motivation, or just you know, I I just I just go back to weight, their words carry weight, their words carry, if you will, anointing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, how can we have that?
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  SPEAKER_00: The best example that I can give is Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, um, there's a lot of examples in scripture, but the best example I want to give today is when we look at the example of Moses and what he did as a leader to God's people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, as business owners, you are in a very leadership position.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually read a post the other day talking about leadership, talking about the loneliness of leadership.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it really made me think about these big people in the Bible that I think in our heads we all like aspire to be, like Moses and Joshua and David and Peter and you know, all of these like Queen Esther, Ruth, like all of these people in the Bible that did great things for God, they were leaders, and we're all like in our heads, yeah, I want to be that, like I want to be them.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what we don't realize is the lonely road that it took for them to get where they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this post, this leader, this pastor who I really look up to, he was talking about leadership is not this glamorous thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, you have the platform, but he went in and talked about it's lonely, like it is a road less traveled by.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have to be okay with being misunderstood, you have to be okay with remaining focused.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm actually gonna go to it for a minute because I think it's really important for us to understand as entrepreneur wives that our husbands are in this position.
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  SPEAKER_00: I, it's crazy like how much these past couple of years I have seen Briston endure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like seeing what he's endured, the comments online of people who just don't even know us, and they take one glimpse or one post or one comment and they throw it such out of context.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you see this on an everyday basis online.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, someone takes a clip of something that someone says, and um yeah, it's it's it's out of context, and you realize that they're making assumptions not based on truth, and you gotta wrestle with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as an entrepreneur's wife, you really have to ask yourself, um, gosh, I I hope I remember this guy's name.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to remember, uh, I can't remember his name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, can't remember his name, it's horrible, but yeah, he was just he was talking about leadership, the lonely road of leadership, how you have to be okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's not this bliss perfect thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as an entrepreneur's wife, you understand this.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're seeing your husband endure a lot, you're seeing the pressure of what he's facing, and so what carries weight, and I want to use the example of Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Moses is this guy who before God ever calls him into leadership, he was bold and he was courageous.
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  SPEAKER_00: But guys, this is one of my favorite things about the people that God tends to use.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses was not looked at as leadership quality.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Moses, and this is so funny.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hate to like compare Moses to Briston, but I I'm gonna do it because he's my husband, and this is Entrepreneur's Wife podcast, and I get to boast about my husband because uh this is what you should do, you should always talk great about your spouse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, Moses was technically in the human eye, not leadership quality.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, he number one, he was adopted.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you go back and read the story, um, Pharaoh wants to kill all the baby boys at the time that Moses is a baby.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is amazing because Hebrews, the book of Hebrews, parallels Moses with Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what is so fascinating is the same thing happens to Jesus when he's a baby.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the same leader in authority wants to kill all the baby boys because he hears about this king and he wants to make sure the king is dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Moses and Jesus are very parallel, they're very parallel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and if you read the book of Hebrews, it talks about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so Moses is faced at an early, early age with death, and his mother is so bold, and and we we are we are spiritual mothers, and then you might be physical, a physical mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, guys, oh my gosh, please do not shrink down to the authority of man over God's authority because you could be raising up a Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you might not be Moses yourself, but you might might be raising up a Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what's beautiful in this story is Moses' mom actually says, No, I'm not gonna kill my son.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so she takes her daughter, Miriam, and she has her daughter put Moses in the Nile River in a basket, and Miriam watches Moses go down the river, and it's Pharaoh's daughter who is on down the river, and Miriam watches Pharaoh's daughter see the baby, and she takes him, and she's the Pharaoh's daughter, who is the daughter of the guy who said to kill all the Egyptian or to kill all the Hebrew babies, she says, Oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna raise this one as my own.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so she ends up raising Moses in the palace, and he is like raised as like the grandson of Pharaoh.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I am sure ethnicity-wise, it was super hard for him because he's he's really torn between the culture of the Egyptians, he's not an Egyptian, but he's raised in Egyptian culture, and so he really doesn't fit in with Egyptian culture because he's not an Egyptian, but he's raised in it, and at the same time, all the Jews are looking at him as a traitor, like you're this terrible person, and I'm sure they were jealous, I'm sure there were a lot of pushback, and they're saying, You're not a Jew, you're not, you weren't raised as a Jew.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, your skin color might be a Jew, but you're not a Jew, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's this misfit.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't, I'm sure he really dealt with identity crisis because he doesn't know where he fits in, and um he also at the same time struggles with talking, he has a stutter, and you'll read about that whenever whenever God actually calls Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you read, Moses is like, I have a stutter, I can't speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, why are you picking me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Go pick somebody else.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God's pretty much like, Who made man's mouth?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, don't tell me you can't speak, you know, when I'm the one who made it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and before that, right before that, you know, when Moses is older, he is faced with two instances that really determine his character.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, he sees something that is wrong and he ends up murdering an Egyptian because the Egyptian was harassing a Jew.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he didn't, I don't think Moses necessarily meant to murder the Egyptian.
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  SPEAKER_00: He just, if you read, Moses had some anger issues.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he throws down God's tablets and they break.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think I think he had some frustration aggression.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so, anyways, it really determines his character, and I think God sees sees something in Moses that not many people saw.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, Moses actually flees from Pharaoh because he doesn't want to be killed, and he goes and lives in a foreign land, he marries, and he's kind of living this life as a shepherd, and then that's when the Lord calls Moses and says, Hey, I want you to deliver your people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I want you to go back to Pharaoh, go back to where you came from, I want you to deliver them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Moses doesn't feel qualified, and I, you know, I say that with paralleling with Briston, just in the sense of a lot of times God calls us in places that we don't feel qualified for, and this is where we really put our trust in the Lord, and I think this is a part of the secret sauce of being effective, um, because there can be no ounce of pride if you truly, truly, truly want to carry weight, and I'm gonna go back to the word glory, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you study the word glory in scripture, it actually means weight, it has this weight to it, this majesty to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of times um people desire glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you do really good in sports, and then you win, and people cheer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, our high school, the high school I went to, the girls, they just won state basketball, two-way state basketball.
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  SPEAKER_00: They win all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but they have a really phenomenal coach, and they just won.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, there's a lot of glory going around about oh, y'all are state champs and all the stuff, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So we see glory all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: You do something, something successful, glory, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You get glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as Christians, it's like, okay, we want to always refer back to God getting the glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that carries weight, and pride, pride and glory, at least God's glory, cannot coexist.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, whenever I say, hey, like God calls us to places that we don't feel qualified for, I think he does that on purpose because he realizes that if we really are gonna give God the glory, there can be no ounce of pride.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we really want to carry the weight of his glory, the anointing, say words that actually make a difference, there can be no ounce of pride because pride opposes God and God opposes pride, right?
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: Scripture says God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in do in the and I think it's Paul or someone says in the New Testament, humble yourself, and at the right time, God will exalt you, glory, exalt you, um, in due time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I refer back to Briston and Moses for a couple of reasons.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, guys, Briston um works really hard, but just because you work hard doesn't mean you have the skills and the talent to actually like accomplish things.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he was in college athletics and he was in sports his whole life, but he wasn't the best at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will admit that.
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  SPEAKER_00: His athletic genes are not what he wishes that they would be, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but he had hard work, but his genes just were not there, and you know, he sometimes was like this awkward kid, and he was just figuring out himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I look back at, you know, his childhood, and his parents raised him very well, but I look back at his childhood, and it's just so funny seeing where he is today, and I'm like, man, Briston, like not to say you really proved people wrong, but I don't know if people expected you to do what you've done.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't know if based on you know your athletic genes, and guys, we've seen this with kids, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You see a super athletic kid, and you're like, man, they could go in college and you know, maybe be on that, and you you focus in and you hone in on that one kid or those kids who have the talent, have the skills, and you really kind of neglect the ones who don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God is so amazing because his glory usually falls on that kid that you never expected to do what they're gonna do, and that was Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses did something that I don't think anyone, no Jew, no Egyptian, expected him to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he didn't, this is the key thing, he didn't do it out of his own strength because Moses knew his limitations, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, God, I can't speak, I have a stutter.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I I number one to the secret sauce is humility.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have to have humility if you want to be effective, if you want to carry weight in your words, we have to come at it from a humble approach.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think coming at it from a humble approach means I know my weaknesses, I know my limitations, I know where I'm at.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm humble enough to say this is where I'm at.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like humanly wise, these are my limitations.
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  SPEAKER_00: It really uh frustrates me when people try to be better than what they are, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I really value, and I think everyone values, authenticity.
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  SPEAKER_00: We value honesty, we want the real thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's one thing they talk about with the younger generations, Gen X and Gen Alpha.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've seen the fake, we've seen the edited versions, we just want the authenticity.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Moses was authentic, he didn't he didn't shy away when when God calls him to be a leader, he doesn't shy away from his weaknesses, he actually like brings them out and says, but God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is so important with carrying weight with your words because I think sometimes we think in the world, oh, to be truly effective, I have to be this perfect leader and I have to say all the right things right, and I have to be eloquent, I have to do all this stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think Paul, Peter, I think Moses, I think all these greats, David, gosh, they show us that no, that it's actually the least considered that God uses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as long as we approach whatever God is calling us to do with a humble heart, we admit our weaknesses, we admit our struggles, we admit where our limitations are, he's going to exalt that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and literally, scripture says, like where I'm weak, that is an opportunity for him to be strong, and it goes back to his glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to talk about the secret sauce, guys?
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  SPEAKER_00: The secret sauce to truly effectiveness is revealing God's glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the secret sauce, it is not your own wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Paul talks about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, I could have came at you with eloquent speech, but he said, and knowledge, but he said his point is to show the power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of God, the glory of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is what we truly, every day as leaders, business owners, wives, moms, women of God, every day that should be our goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the way that you show God's glory and God's weight and God's majesty and God's power, you first have to humble yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because again, God's not gonna come near to the proud.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But he he draws near to the humble.
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  SPEAKER_00: He gives grace, he gives favor, he gives favor to the humble.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Moses was humble.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was humble.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was like, I'm not I'm not good enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yes, is there a difference between humility and insecurity?
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, there is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm talking about true godly humility.
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  SPEAKER_00: Actually says, like, these are my insecurities.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not afraid of them, and I'm not gonna let them define me, but these are what they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not gonna pretend like they're not there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's number one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, so Moses ends up leading the people, he does all these great miracles, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The ten plagues, he finally gets the people out of Egypt, and he hits this point where it's Mount Sinai, they got to hear from the Lord, and he goes up on this mountain.
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  SPEAKER_00: And guys, this is this is what we're faced with every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every day we have a choice on if we're gonna let small successes build our own glory or build God's glory, build our own pride or God's pride.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Because you have to think 10 plagues, right?
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, the Egyptians are like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, Moses, Moses did this, he rescued these people, and I'm sure it was tempting for Moses to be like in his own flesh, yeah, yeah, I did that.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, yeah, I had help with the Lord, but he used me, and you know, his pride kind of get got him kind of get to him, his success kind of get to him, right?
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: His glory kind of get to him, glory to himself, right?
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: And the whole point in the ten plagues was to show Pharaoh, hey, God's really in control and all-powerful, not Pharaoh.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: But Moses could have used God's glory for his own glory because of what all the Egyptians and and all the Jews saw.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure, I'm sure the Jews, when he rescued them, I'm sure the Jews were like, oh my gosh, Moses, and they were kind of hyping him up, and they were like, Man, like you're really, you're really on it, right?
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm sure he was tempted as a leader to fall under pride even after the ten plagues.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: So he goes up on Mount Sinai, and it's just him, the Lord, and I think, I think actually Joshua was there too, but it's just him and the Lord pretty much, and he's sitting there, and he's sitting in the Lord presence, and again, he humbles himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: He humbles himself in a moment where he could have said, Man, God, we did these great things in a moment where he could have taken the glory and he could have puffed himself up, he humbles himself, and God actually reveals more of his glory to Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he says, Moses, I come at you face to face.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: And this is the next thing that I want to say the secret sauce is the secret place.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to be effective, if you if you're what if you want your words to carry weight, we have to spend time with the Lord.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I it's I was listening to it, it was a clip on a podcast, and they were talking about you know, pastors, but they were talking about prayer, and they were talking about how like really like most pastors only pray for like 10 minutes, and we're wondering why we have all this spiritual warfare, and we're only praying.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, the pastors are probably only praying, and the Christians, we're probably only selfishly praying, praying, right?
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we probably are only praying about our needs and ourselves, and we're not really looking at the world around us and what our community needs and what's going on in our town, and what's going on with other people, what's going on with fellow believers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, we're not really looking outside of ourselves, so we're just praying selfishly, and we're probably only praying for like five minutes a day, if that, if that, and it convicted me, y'all.
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  SPEAKER_00: It convicted me because as someone who greatly desires intercession and and in college, I used to go, we used to have um morning prayer every morning for an hour, Monday through Friday.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: And me and my friends made a commitment to go as much as we could, and that changed my prayer life, y'all.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: And we used to pray for an hour, like an hour Monday through Friday.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: And now, you know, I'm sitting here, I'm a stay-at-home mom.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's not like I have to be to work at a certain time.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I have obligations, I have a child, I help my husband with the business, I'm working on personal pursuits, but I really do have time to pray more than I do, and it convicted the crap out of me.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it convicted me so hard.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh my gosh, what are we doing?
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if we want to be effective, it starts in the secret place, and that's what we see with Moses the second time.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: He's sitting with God face to face, and God's giving him, you know, the law and showing him his ways and giving him the Ten Commandments and just ministering to him.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: And through sitting in the secret place, Moses comes down from the mountain, and scripture says his face was shining like an angel, and the people couldn't even look at it because his face showed God's glory, because he spent, like literally, guys, he spent like 40 days in the presence of the Lord, and and his face was shown so brightly, and I'm just in awe of that.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: And it's like if we want to carry weight, if we want to carry true effectiveness, if we want to be the inspiration that I think a lot of us desire to be, that's what we have to do.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's what we have to do.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: I've been, it's, and I'm gonna confess this, but I've been struggling with I'm about to have a baby.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so there's time where you have to recover.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm having a C-section, so it's a longer recovery.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: So I can't go out and work out.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: I also, y'all, low-key, I don't know if I broke my foot.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, like the top of my foot hurts so bad when I walk on it.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what I did, but I'm probably gonna have to go get it x-rayed after I have the baby.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've had a stress fracture before and it just feels like that.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll see.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: But I say all that to say I'm really put in a position of having to rest, having to recover, not doing too much.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I've been begrudging this recovery process.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: I've been just frustrated at, well, I'm not gonna, you know, get to do as much.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm shooting myself in the foot because I'm like, this idea of weight and glory is like, well, Carly, what if that's the point?
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what if God doesn't want you to do?
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: What if he wants you to sit like Moses did on top of Mount Sinai and uh sit in his glory and sit in the secret place and intercede for people, intercede for your church, intercede for members in your church, intercede for your community, pray, pray for your business, pray for your employees.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like, there's still stuff you can do that doesn't have to be public.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: That is so important.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like before Moses was put out in the public, God saw him in the secret place.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: And it was in the secret place that Moses is Moses got his shining face.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't out in public.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: And so, gosh, y'all, if we want to be truly effective, if we want to be the Christians that carry weight, that carry God's glory, that shine like we're supposed to shine, the light of the world, we have to have a secret place.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: We have to humble ourselves, we have to stop doing all this public stuff, we have to pray, we have to seek the presence of the Lord, we have to get in his word, and we have to rest in it.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what Moses did for 40 straight days.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: And right now, like Easter's coming up, and we're in, if you, you know, if you're Catholic, you celebrate Lent.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_00: So we're in this, we're in this Lent process.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I think that this timing of that is just is just perfect timing because as we approach Easter, you know, Easter is a time I think where a lot of pastors and church leaders and ministries and churches really try to, you know, get people back to God and really try to get people back on fire for God and in relationship with God, and all of that is necessary and all of that is good.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: But what what I want to emphasize in this episode is that if we who are already in the church, if we do not take time, I'm not just talking about pastors, I'm talking about the congregation.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: If we do not take time to sit and actually seek the Lord and seek his face and humble ourselves, we will never be effective like we want to be.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: We will never shine God's light like we want to shine.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_00: We will always cut it short.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't want that to be us.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: I want us to carry the weight.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: I want us when we speak and you're at work and you're talking, I want your weight of your words to spiritually impact those around you.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: How do you do that?
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's not through head knowledge, it's through heart transformation.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: And heart transformation only comes through spending time with the Lord.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: Spending time with the Lord.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: I might, I might do a whole training actually on how to spend time with the Lord, because I don't know if we know how to spend time with the Lord.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like if we if we really get honest, do we know how to read God's word?
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: Where it actually transforms us?
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: Where we're not just reading scripture to read scripture or reading stories to read stories, but we're actually chewing it like it's food, like it's our daily bread.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_00: We're actually chewing it, letting its nutrients come inside of us, come inside of our spirit and you know, enrich us and change us.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like, do we know how to do that?
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: Do we know how to hear God's voice?
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: Do we know when we're praying how to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and say, Lord, what do you want me to pray for today?
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: Not just selfish prayers, but like, what are needs that I need to pray for today?
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: Do we know how to do that?
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: Do we know how to intercede for others?
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: Do we know how to pray for others?
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: I had this mom, right now we're doing this training in righteousness 30-day faith and fitness challenge, and this is during week two.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: And gosh, guys, I need to be praying for them better.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I had this mom reach out and she said, Hey, I don't know how to read my Bible and I don't know how to pray for others.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I thank her and I honor her for her vulnerability because how many of us, gosh, y'all, how many of us, like James says, we're just hearers of the word and we go about our daily lives and like the message sounds good and it's great, but we don't actually apply it, we don't actually do it, we don't actually sit at God's feet, we don't actually let him convict us or challenge us, we don't actually learn from it, we just go back to our normal lives.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_00: And she actually had the humility to say, Hey, I don't know how to do this.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I and I was so thankful.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, okay, yeah, like let's learn how to do this, and I'll show you what works for me, and you know, you take it from there.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_00: But do we know how to pray for others?
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, I just I just want to encourage you as I end this episode to, you know, don't be hard on yourself, you know.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, don't beat yourself up, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: Don't beat yourself up for not knowing.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, the the accuser of the brethren is Satan.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so if you ever feel shame, if you ever feel condemnation, that is not from the Lord.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: True conviction, what it does, it's yeah, it exposes your flesh, it exposes where is their pride, where is their sin?
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: Where are you, you know, a little off?
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_00: Where are you missing the mark?
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, it does expose that, but it exposes it with the hope of, well, guess what?
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get closer to Jesus now.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like, let's take that, let's lay it at the altar, let's surrender it, let's do something with it so we can have eternal fruit.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: And shame and condemnation don't do that, they just make you sit and feel stuck.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want you to feel stuck.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's not my hope in this episode.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: My hope in this episode is that you will take the words that you know I'm saying and apply them to your life.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like, again, if you want to carry weight and you want to be anointed and you want to have true effectiveness, the secret sauce is humility and sitting with the Lord.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_00: And we gotta start there.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_00: And if we don't start there, guys, we're hypocrites.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's like talking about wanting change in the world but not actually doing anything about it.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: And my husband's big thing is well, if you have an idea and you're talking about it, let's do it.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like, let's do it.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Why are you wasting time?
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, let's get on it.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: And that's kind of where I'm at right now is let's do it.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get off this episode, let's go read the word, let's go pray for others.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to pray for an hour, but see the needs.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: Be like Moses, get on the mountain, be bold, sit in God's presence.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: I think the hardest part, y'all, in sitting in God's presence is waiting to hear from Him.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_00: There are times where I sit down and I'm like, okay, I have to humble myself.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: I literally have to humble my flesh and I have to say, okay, God, I'm gonna sit here until I hear from you.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not gonna try to understand everything.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you gotta put your human understanding, your human brain, your human logic, your knowledge.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta put that aside.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: You have to open up your heart, open up your spirit, and you have to say, Lord, I'm available, I'm opening the door.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_00: I want to hear from you.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: Bring your presence in this room, in this atmosphere, and speak to me.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_00: You have to humble yourself, you have to be patient, you have to wait.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_00: And we don't like that.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_00: If we don't hear God in the first five seconds, we're like, yep, well, I guess I'm just gonna read the scripture, pray a little prayer, and move on with my day, right?
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_00: And God's like, no, like Moses climbed that mountain.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_00: And if you read, God was in the cloud, and the cloud came, and we don't get every little scene, we don't get every picture of what happened in the scripture, but I want to paint it for you where Moses climbs this mountain, okay.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: Which, how many days did that take?
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_00: How long did that take to climb the mountain?
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, it wasn't just a little hill that he climbed.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure it was a big old hill and it took time and it was hard.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: He gets to the top of the mountain, okay?
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: He sits down, there's a cloud.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_00: God's presence comes, it's a process, it wasn't immediate, right?
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_00: God's presence comes and they sit and he waits.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure, guys, in those 40 days of Moses sitting in God's presence, I'm sure they weren't talking all the time.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like I'm sure God just wasn't talking to Moses 24-7.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure Moses slept.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure he might have eaten.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure he was just sitting, meditating on God's presence, soaking it in.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: This is a part of what we should be doing.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: Moses was patient with the Lord.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_00: He and then this is the thing, guys.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: He actually delayed his departure.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: He actually delayed his return.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_00: If you read, he delayed his return down the mountain, and the people of Israel got really upset and they built the golden calf and all that stuff.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_00: They started looking for other ways to find glory and to pursue God, if you will, but it was idolatry.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_00: So don't be that.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: Moses departs when God says for him to depart.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't depart on his timing because he told the people, hey, I'm going up for this many days.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like I think he told them, I'm going up for 40 days, and he actually spent like 52 days on there.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: So the people are like, Oh, Moses is not coming back.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm being impatient, right?
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_00: He delayed.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna go and do my own thing.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_00: And again, Moses carried the weight, the glory of the Lord, because he surrendered and he humbled himself and he waited for the Lord and on the Lord's timing.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't do it based on his timing.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_00: So we gotta go back to that, guys.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_00: We gotta go back to that.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_00: When you're reading the word, this is the last thing I want to say because I'm going long.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: When you're reading the word, my biggest encouragement when you read the word is to really be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, read the words, not based on how many verses you have to read or how many chapters.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_00: Read the word based on what stands out, and when something stands out, pause, chew on it, meditate on it.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean, guys?
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_00: I use the internet all the time.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like we have Google.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, there are great, you gotta watch what websites you use, but there are great resources to go into a deeper understanding of what the scripture is saying.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like this morning I was reading when David talks about God being a lifter of his head, he says, You're a lifter of my head, you're my glory.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Glory.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, the word glory is standing out.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what does glory mean?
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what does glory actually mean?
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what does it really mean?
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and I go and look it up and I and I ask, I type in there, you know, what does glory mean in this scripture?
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: What is the biblical context of this phrase?
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_00: What is the original language?
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_00: And you you get a deeper understanding of what's going on.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what I mean by chew on it.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_00: If you read one verse but you chew on the words and the phrases in that verse, guys, oh my gosh, that one verse is gonna be meat to a whole chapter that meet might be milk that you're just reading through and not really getting a true godly understanding of it.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_00: So sit.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_00: Sit on the mountain.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's the secret sauce.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's how we get God's glory.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_00: I love you guys.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_00: Praying for you guys.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_00: Hope you'll have a great day.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_00: See you on the next episode.