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31. Uncovering the Value of Stewardship: Empowering Change in the Kingdom · Treasured Momma | Time Management Tips, Motherhood, Family Life, Daily Routines, Christianity

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  As a mom, have you ever found yourself
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  saying the phrase, when my kids are older, then I will X, Y, or Z?
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  I hear moms say this all the time. They put their hopes and their dreams on delay.
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  On the surface, it sounds very humble, but often it's false humility rooted in fear.
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  In today's episode, we are unpacking how focusing on the father eradicates space for fear.
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  His love is both genuine and insightful and is the very key to our breakthrough.
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  Speaking of that, I received this incredible five-star review entitled Genuine
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  and Insightful from Brittany T.
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  In Iowa and it says, Kori is wise beyond her years and has so much value to instill.
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  It's clear that her life experiences have equipped her with the ability to find
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  authentic connection with people in all walks of life, not just young moms.
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  And I appreciate her ability to communicate with passion, grace, and humility.
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  I find myself both encouraged and inspired by her podcasts and will be looking
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  forward to listening each week.
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  Brittany, I know personally you are such a creative force in God's kingdom.
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  Your words paint such a beautiful picture, and I thank you for sharing them here.
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  I love giving back and honoring our listeners by featuring them in our weekly
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  newsletter and in a future episode.
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  Head over to iTunes or wherever you're listening and leave your very own review
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  because I personally would love to feature you in a future episode.
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  For now, let's explore God's invitation to you and see if you've already accepted it. Hey, hey, mama.
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  Welcome back to the Treasured Mama podcast.
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  I'm Kori Messer, a Kingdom Life coach and messy mompreneur, and I want to know if you're like me.
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  Have you ever felt like you've lost yourself in all the things,
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  or perhaps you just need some encouragement on this messy journey of authentic motherhood?
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  In this space, we love sharing routines, rhythms, and real stories of of real
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  moms as we declutter our heads, our hearts, and our homes to discover clarity and confidence.
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  If you're ready to gain clarity on who God designed you to be,
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  create simple systems for a more peaceful household, and connect with other
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  mamas doing the same, this podcast is right up your alley.
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  My prayer is this episode will encourage you. So grab a drink,
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  take a mommy moment, and listen in to today's goodness.
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  Earlier this week, I was sharing a bit about stewardship in my online community
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  on Facebook, Christian Moms Creating Generational Impact.
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  And in that group, we were talking
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  about doing what you can with what you have in the palm of your hand.
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  Many, many times, a ton of conversations I have had over the years with different
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  coaching clients, different people I have been mentoring or speaking to,
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  this common theme arises,
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  of, I'll do this when that.
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  And what that does is puts us in a position where we miss out on so much opportunity
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  to do the best we can with what we have now in this season.
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  Maybe you relate to this in terms of, when my kids are older,
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  I'll do that thing I love.
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  When my kids are older, I'll take that time for me. When my kids are older, fill in the blank.
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  Oftentimes we use this as a seemingly humble reason as to why we're going to
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  delay things that we enjoy.
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  However, if we are having an honest conversation about it, a lot of times this
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  is under the veil of false humility.
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  Because really, when we unpack it and we get to the root of the issue,
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  there's a fear associated with it.
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  We fear if we show up and we do the thing now, we won't be as available for our children.
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  Or we fear if we do the thing now, it will be imperfect and we will be judged
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  harshly or even rejected for stepping out and doing the thing.
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  And today, we're going to rip those roots of lies out and replace them with
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  the truth of what God says about us and what is for us.
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  There is a powerful story in the Bible that exemplifies this so well and very
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  high level. it's talking about a widow.
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  Her husband passes away. She's now a widow.
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  And they're basically going to come in and take her sons to go work off the debt that she has.
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  I believe it's the prophet Elisha that she goes to and says, this is my situation.
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  And throughout the conversation, there's a realization that she has some oil.
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  And he tells her, go to all your neighbor's.
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  Get the containers and put the oil in them, then sell the oil.
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  What ends up happening is she has enough oil to fill every single container that she has.
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  She's able to sell that and retire or live off that for the rest of her life
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  and return the jars or containers back to the neighbor she borrowed them from.
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  This is important because oftentimes, beloved, we are discounting the oil we
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  currently have in our hand.
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  Right now, please do me a favor.
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  Place your hand over your heart and feel your heartbeat and take a deep breath in and let it out.
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  You know what that means? That means you have purpose.
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  If you are here breathing, you have a heartbeat.
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  You have purpose. progress God has called you here for a very specific reason
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  and it is time that we stop.
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  Delaying the blessing that is working with what we have in the name of humility
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  our children are our reason to rise up and step out they are not an excuse as
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  to why we have to delay it As a mom,
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  it is so incredibly important that we exemplify and model the behaviors that
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  are in accordance with the Bible and we want to teach our children.
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  Our children watch what we do and do that way more often than what we say.
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  As a mom who is very interested in establishing a legacy of wisdom and wealth for my children,
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  It then becomes my responsibility to show up and step out in the ways God has
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  called me to right now in this season.
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  Let's go on a little bit of a journey and unpack this, what this could look like for you.
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  What I know about the woman who
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  listens to this podcast is that she generally fits in one of two camps.
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  Some of you know that you are meant for something more.
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  You have a general vision of what that could look like.
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  You're aware of many of the desires on your heart, and you simply are unsure
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  sure of how to bring that to fruition.
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  And then on the other side, there are some of you that wake up one day and you
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  realize this can't be all there is.
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  So there's a seed that's planted within you that knows you are meant for something
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  more, but you're not even quite sure how to articulate it.
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  So you go on this quest, this journey, this treasure hunt to discover what is
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  that thing thing that you are called to share with the world.
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  And regardless of which camp you're in, if you know there is to be something
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  different, but you have no idea what it is,
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  or if you have a clear understanding of what it is, but you're just not really
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  sure how to get there and how to make it happen.
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  I encourage you to get around a community of people. Get around a community
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  of women that are driven and focused and walking this out.
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  They are asking the questions about what it could look like.
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  They are showing up in the experiences where you unpack it together as a community.
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  And in the Christian Moms Creating Generational Impact community.
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  These are the exact things that we are doing.
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  Join that group. We would absolutely love to have you there.
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  But today I want to make sure you walk away with something tangible that can
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  help you start showing up in this capacity.
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  Often we need to focus on the next right thing. What is the next step in your journey?
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  Many of you are visionaries. However, many of you tend to partner with overwhelm
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  when When you realize how far out the vision seems from where you're at,
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  focus on the next right thing.
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  One example in my personal life, I recall sitting down and just praying to the
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  Father, calling out to Him, God, Lord Jesus,
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  Heavenly Father, I would like to have just three friends that I felt were kingdom
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  and treated me the way that I treat them.
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  It was a reciprocal relationship as opposed to one that I poured into and felt
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  I didn't get anything in return.
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  I was really quite sad and devastated because I felt as if I was a really good
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  friend, but I continued to show up in these relationships, these friendships,
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  where I felt as if I was somebody's doormat.
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  God in his loving and extravagant generosity and kindness met me where I was
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  at, and through Through a sequence of events,
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  he brought people into my life that were so incredible. They're still in my life today.
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  And he even placed me in communities where I didn't just have three, but he multiplied that.
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  I came to Him. I laid my requests before Him.
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  I was open and receptive to what it is He wanted to share with me,
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  but also I was willing to actually be humbled, repent, and grow.
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  And that would be the first thing. Go to the Father with your request.
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  Go to the Father with with a desire on your heart, and ask Him for clarity on your next step.
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  And if you are unsure of what the vision is, start there.
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  Ask Him what the vision is and surrender it to Him. And then don't take it back.
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  This is kind of like when you have a child that has made a mess and they have
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  dirty washcloth or a dirty towel and they hand it to you as their parent.
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  It. Here, take care of this.
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  But then when you go to reach for it, they take it back and they hold on to it.
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  And then they continue to whine that their hands are wet.
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  This is what we do in the spiritual with the Father. In its time,
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  honestly, we knock it off.
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  God is there. He wants to receive what it is that we have.
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  He wants us to come to him first and then be humble and actually surrender. render.
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  Visualize yourself getting low and laying whatever this burden is at the foot of the cross.
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  Give it to him and then leave it there. The second part of this is be open and
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  receptive to receive what it is he has for you.
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  So many of us have partnered with an upper level limit mindset that that we
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  are unworthy, undeserving, or unqualified to walk the very vision out that God has called us to.
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  It's time we become courageous and we have that conversation with God and say,
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  Father, help me clarify what is my identity?
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  Who do you say that I am? And then listen. and he's probably going to bring
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  a Bible verse to your mind or a sermon or an experience you had and listen to that.
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  Don't discount it because you feel like you have the best way.
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  We know that Heavenly Father's ways are better.
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  They're more abundant, exceedingly more abundant than we could think or imagine
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  pressed down and overflowing.
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  So when you come to him humbly and you lay your request at the foot of the cross,
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  God, please give me vision to bring these desires to fruition.
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  Or God, I have been so buried by all of the mom things and all of the other
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  hats that I wear, I've completely lost sight of what are the desires of my heart.
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  And then be receptive to his next steps.
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  Actually walk those things out. You see, one of the things I had to do was,
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  yes, I went to God first and I laid my request before him and I surrendered to his process.
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  But then when he highlighted to me the very relationships I had been praying
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  for, I already had encountered, I simply didn't pursue.
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  I had to take responsibility and repent for that.
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  And when I did, when I repented, that's when I experienced the breakthrough.
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  I believe the world has sold us a lie that many of us have partnered with and
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  bought into that repentance is this horrible, restrictive thing that has to be so painful.
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  But beloved, when we read the Bible through the perspective of how do we see
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  Jesus and get to know his nature,
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  instead of how do we merely get an instruction for me to be better.
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  You start to show up and look at things in a different way.
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  When you are pursuing the heart of the Father, you show up in a different way.
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  One of those ways as seeing repentance as a gift to draw nearer to the Father
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  versus a challenging, restrictive thing that you have to overcome your flesh with.
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  Because when you are focused on the Father, you
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  are not restricted by your flesh even
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  if you have had no medical training you've never
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  worked in the field of fitness or body chemistry I believe we can all agree
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  that it is highly unlikely for a 130 pound woman to lift a car with her own
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  two hands and yet we have heard a multitude of stories.
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  One specifically comes to mind of a grandmother who saw her grandchild get hit by a car.
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  The child was under the car and she ran over there and she lifted the car up.
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  Why was she able to do that? Her focus was on saving the child,
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  which allowed her to see beyond and not be restricted by her perception of her earthly strength.
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  She was able to tap into something something deeper, something stronger.
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  Because she was focused on the outcome, she left no room for doubt to creep in.
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  Likewise, with the Father, we are not called to do things in our own strength.
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  We are called to partner with Him as a co-heir.
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  And when we do that, we gain the strength of the Father through us,
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  and we don't allow capacity for fear to come in, for condemnation to come in,
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  because we're so focused on Him and we know that He is our provider.
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  When we do that, we realize that what we have in the palm of our hand is everything
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  that we need to do the next right thing.
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  I encourage you, go to the Father.
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  Surrender what it is that you currently have in the palm of your hand.
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  A desire, a vision, a dream. After you humbly place yourself before Him and
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  you surrender it, truly be humble and receive what it is He has for you.
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  And then do the next right thing.
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  You will be absolutely amazed the strength that you uncover,
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  not that you go out and get, but that you uncover that has always been within you.
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  We spend so much time convincing ourselves to partner with lack when God has
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  an open invitation extended to us to pursue abundance with him.
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  It's time we shift from that
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  lack mentality into the loving
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  mentality of the father from the limiting culture mentality into the abundant
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  kingdom prosperity that is ours i invite you in to receive the invitation the
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  father has before you what is it you have in the palm of your hand that you can steward well.
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  What we do with a little is what we will do with a lot.
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  When we steward what we have in the palm of our hand, regardless of quantity,
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  well, God sees that, and that shows him that he can trust us with more.
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  When we steward one relationship well, we can be entrusted with five.
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  When we steward five relationships well, we can be entrusted to to shepherd 10.
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  Do what you can with what you have now. Do it with excellence.
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  Partner with the Lord and be curious and open to receive what else God has in store for you.
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  Heavenly Father, thank you. Thank you so much for everything you have given us, God.
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  I thank you for the miraculous masterpiece that is listening to this right now, God.
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  And Lord, I pray that she goes to you, and she discovers the treasure that has
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  always been within her. We thank you, Father.
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  We thank you for your gifts. We thank you for your generosity.
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  We thank you for your presence.
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  In your mighty name, Jesus, we pray. Amen.
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  Hey, Mama, one quick thing before you go. If this podcast blessed you in some
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