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The Year of the Builder: Trusting God’s Plan When Life Shifts | with Desiree Danielle | EP135 · Jess Ask

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  Speaker 1: Yo, it's your girl, Jessica and Smith, and you already
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  Speaker 1: know that you've entered the safe space for influencers to decompress,
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  Speaker 1: have fun and just ask God for another day? Do
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  Speaker 1: you already know what it is? And then you know
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  Speaker 1: it's about to get real, So be sure to show
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  Speaker 1: your girl the love and like coming subscribe God.
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  Speaker 2: For another day. Hey, hey, I know we could be
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  Speaker 2: another way.
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  Speaker 1: And this Christmas will be a very christmile for me. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know where you've led it, you've led
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  Speaker 1: in a safe space where we decompressed, have fun and
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  Speaker 1: it just yes, oh my goodness, exciting that y'all. Today
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  Speaker 1: it's cruel and I little Christmas. Christmas my favorite holiday,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm here not only on my favorite holiday, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm here with my favorite person. Desert rate doesn't rate
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  Speaker 1: does A rate doesn't rain doesn't rate A rate does
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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas? Christmas, Chris. We haven't had an episode on Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: so it's kind of dope. This is kind of dope
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  Speaker 1: all the way. I love the the So I'll say
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  Speaker 1: I love that Today's Christmas and we get to get
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  Speaker 1: to hang out together. I love the spirit of Christmas. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like just the joy, the fellowship. I'm not a super
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  Speaker 1: huge fan of like the commercialization of the thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I do love in this time just being able to
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  Speaker 1: just about the only day that I will listen to
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  Speaker 1: Christmas music for real and watch Christmas movies on the TV. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not a big Christmas movie person. I
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  Speaker 1: will watch them, like I don't have Like when they
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  Speaker 1: ask favorite Christmas movie, I just throw one out whether
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  Speaker 1: I can think about. Like the other day, I said,
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  Speaker 1: Friday afternix. Ok, yeah, I told the people Friday afternoons. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well you said, well, I will watch them on the
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  Speaker 1: day that's not Christmas because ice Cube just did his
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  Speaker 1: thing with the Friday Collection or whatever. Home Alone is good.
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  Speaker 1: It's because that's I grew up on there. But I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I rather watch like the Lifetime movies on stuff like
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  Speaker 1: because they're corny es. Like, it's just I don't know
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  Speaker 1: romantic I can. I'm not a homeless romantic homeless hopeless,
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  Speaker 1: Oh hopeless, You're right. I didn't hopeless homeless. I did.
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  Speaker 1: It's like homeless, I'm not homeless. I did. What is
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  Speaker 1: a homeless And that's what maybe some homeless romantic is
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  Speaker 1: someone that has not found love. Okay, it is without love. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you're not I'm not well, I haven't found love.
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  Speaker 1: So technically, well, you have found the love of Jesus. Hey, Hi, Hey, God,
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  Speaker 1: share tie Jesus. Can somebody come and get heard of Jesus?
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  Speaker 1: Des al ray? We were talking about Christmas, Christmas, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and today being Christmas. You know that we don't make
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  Speaker 1: you take that test. We don't make that test that
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  Speaker 1: I took, y'all. I took this test on wisely dot
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  Speaker 1: called I think it's called wisely. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: think it is. Don't quote me, but it's ten out
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  Speaker 1: of ten the girl. The girl got it. Okay. And
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  Speaker 1: guess what, I am not ashamed of the gospel. It's
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  Speaker 1: the truth. I knew I had it and I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was funny. But Christmas. I love Christmas songs. I can.
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  Speaker 1: I can probably be a whole Christmas album for people.
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  Speaker 1: I sing Christmas music throughout the year. I just feel like,
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  Speaker 1: like what you said, I love the spirit of Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not the commercialization or whatever, because to make people
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  Speaker 1: feel like they have to give, But I will say
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  Speaker 1: Christmas is the giver's holiday. And if you are truly
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  Speaker 1: a giver. And I think being a healthy giver is
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  Speaker 1: more important because at one point I was giving out
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  Speaker 1: of a space of connection and connection in the way
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  Speaker 1: to feel value and poortant to be relevent, to be
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  Speaker 1: able to say, oh, you know, justa gave me this
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of the conversation. But the thing
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  Speaker 1: about being healed from brokenness is like you realize, like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I came from broken place. I can still do that thing,
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  Speaker 1: but I can't come from the same place. And so
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  Speaker 1: I've I've had one of the best It's Christmas experiences
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  Speaker 1: with Stacy's family. Chapter my girl stays, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: so my, you know, my parents are divorced or whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: They do folks do their own thing. You know. kJ
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  Speaker 1: is younger, so they do stuff with him. Kendall has
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  Speaker 1: her family, her kids. It needed to be me, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And so Stacey found that out like only doing nothing
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  Speaker 1: and like it's been like two years ago and she
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  Speaker 1: invited me just to I thought I was just coming
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  Speaker 1: to eat, you know, I've come to eat with her
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  Speaker 1: family a couple of times before then, and they started
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  Speaker 1: doing this past the gift thing around well, and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I get to watch this girl. They started giving me
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  Speaker 1: gifts and I'm sitting there bawling my eyes out, and
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  Speaker 1: I said, why didn't you tell me? She said, just
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  Speaker 1: got you give so much. I just wanted you to
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  Speaker 1: learn and know how it feels felt to receive and
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  Speaker 1: you need friends like that around you, just like being
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  Speaker 1: able to pour it. So that taught me a valuable lesson.
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  Speaker 1: But this year, we mean tonight and I got my
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  Speaker 1: gifts ready to dispersed out. And the thing is, it's
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  Speaker 1: not expensive gifts. It's just like, oh, I think you
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  Speaker 1: can use these type of gifts, Like I've used every
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  Speaker 1: gift that was given in those in those seasons. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm really I'm really honored that even today, like just
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  Speaker 1: ask can be a gift, Like just ask can be
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  Speaker 1: the episode that you see Shameless plus share you can
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  Speaker 1: send to your friends. You know, you can see that
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  Speaker 1: the elpisode that one of your favorite episodes. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: also for grateful for the gift that that our audience
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  Speaker 1: has been, like we got the safe space Like how
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  Speaker 1: from your en respect they hear from me, but from
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  Speaker 1: your end of respectum, Like how has the safe space
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  Speaker 1: community been for you I think it's been really dope
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  Speaker 1: when you when you really connect in a space of
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  Speaker 1: people with like minded people and and and most of
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  Speaker 1: them are have have have expressed that they are in
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  Speaker 1: other communities, right. I think the Lord will give you
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  Speaker 1: community for the different areas that you that you need,
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  Speaker 1: that that accountability, that space that growing in and we're
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  Speaker 1: all builders and there, yeah, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: Like we're all like the Lord. We all know that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord has called us to something. But what makes
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  Speaker 1: it beautifully is the safe space is some of us
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  Speaker 1: are in just in spaces where we may be stuck
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  Speaker 1: in a space, right, And so this space is we gather,
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  Speaker 1: we encourage each other, like just being a r ripping
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  Speaker 1: off brows and edges in all the things, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Luckily I keep my head blind, cause
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  Speaker 1: if you look black, you be able to see a
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  Speaker 1: little more, you know what I'm saying. But I'm just
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  Speaker 1: so grateful to be in a space where one I know,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of God is there, right, And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's important, especially when you're kingdom minded, when you're when
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  Speaker 1: your kingdom spirit led, you know you're doing things for
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom to be connected to spaces where uh a
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  Speaker 1: body of believers are, so you guys can go forth
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  Speaker 1: and push each other in in the assignments and emissions
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  Speaker 1: that you have, you know. So I've been I've been
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  Speaker 1: enjoying it. Everybody in there is just uh called and gifted,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Uh, leaders in their own right,
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  Speaker 1: and so we just want to thank you guys for
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  Speaker 1: one just trusting uh I be in there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, in the back, she tries, she
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  Speaker 1: tries to, but just thank you guys for just trusting,
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  Speaker 1: just trusting the space and leaning into it. Because I
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  Speaker 1: think it's one thing to be in a space, but
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  Speaker 1: it's another thing to actually lean into the space, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I think I think the safe space
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  Speaker 1: was a surprise for me, Like you know, you know
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  Speaker 1: how I think, all right, Like I have a surprise, Jessica.
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  Speaker 1: I think because I've tried this community thing or try
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  Speaker 1: to do certain things, and I didn't think I could
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  Speaker 1: have it without certain people in or like being accepted
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  Speaker 1: without I'm just gonna say, I didn't think people accept
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  Speaker 1: me without me physically being attached to Coach D Like,
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  Speaker 1: I think that was the biggest thing for the community
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  Speaker 1: for me. And although I know, like because I was
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  Speaker 1: used to like being in push nation and serving and
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  Speaker 1: learning or whatever, but it's like, when I'm doing it,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what that would look like. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't trust that there would be a desire that's
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  Speaker 1: probably what I'm looking for, a desire for that, and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think. So I tried to stay. I tried
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  Speaker 1: to stay. And I just recently talked to her about this.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to stay so close knick in the safety zone.
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  Speaker 1: And it was one day when we were on church
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  Speaker 1: and she was like, I'm about to release you. She said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. She's like, I don't want to say it,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm about to release you. And I'm like, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is not this ain't gonna work. This, this right
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  Speaker 1: here ain't gonna work. What am I gonna do? Like
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  Speaker 1: I literally asked, I said, and you had a conversation
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  Speaker 1: with I'll never forget. And this was this year, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: You had a conversation like you said, just gets time,
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  Speaker 1: It's time. I was like, no, no, no, no. I
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  Speaker 1: think the beauty is just one thing that I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: becoming aware of as I as I just kind of
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  Speaker 1: lean in and journey and walk through this process that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord has had me on. Is there's timing for everything.
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  Speaker 1: And even though because I know that God speaks to you,
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  Speaker 1: gives you vision, gives you ideas and all these things.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing I've learned is just because not all
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  Speaker 1: the time, like sometimes yes, he's like, hey, this is
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  Speaker 1: the thing, you do the thing now, but sometimes he
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  Speaker 1: will show you the things to come, you know, And
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  Speaker 1: I think we get stuck in the space or we
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  Speaker 1: get fearful of it because we feel like it's too
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  Speaker 1: much for us to handle right now, which most of
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  Speaker 1: the time it is true. But as you've walked through
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  Speaker 1: this journey of healing, you've walked through this journey of processing,
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  Speaker 1: like you've gotten to a point now he's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is why I was trying to get you to.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're ready to do this thing right here. And
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  Speaker 1: so there has to be like there was a moment
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  Speaker 1: I believe when you guys first connected, like you're in
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  Speaker 1: a space i'm gonna say, a vulnerable not like not
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  Speaker 1: like a baby space like he was a baby, but
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  Speaker 1: like and you're in the journey that you were in
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  Speaker 1: right there, it was more of like you need it,
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  Speaker 1: more of a close knit like you need her to
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  Speaker 1: hold your hand to a certain spot. And then now
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  Speaker 1: you got to a point where it's like she's like okay,
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  Speaker 1: almost kind of like you're going off to college now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And because you're going off to college, that don't mean
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  Speaker 1: like I'm not who I am. That just means the
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  Speaker 1: nature of our relationship has just shifted into a different space.
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  Speaker 1: But you even with you using that analogy, when I
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  Speaker 1: went off to college, the dynamic of me and my
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  Speaker 1: parental guidance, it changed addrestically and it felt like a
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  Speaker 1: drop you get what I'm saying. I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: I had to trust, like that I wasn't gonna be
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  Speaker 1: dropped again. Like it was a lot of concern. It's
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  Speaker 1: like okay, but if I do it like this and
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  Speaker 1: my you know, Like it was just a lot of
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  Speaker 1: concern just being like where are my identifiers at? Like
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  Speaker 1: how do I show who I am? But the thing is,
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  Speaker 1: when you don't know who you are, like or you
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  Speaker 1: might know who you are, but you don't value who
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  Speaker 1: you are, you don't act on who you are, like
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  Speaker 1: you don't you don't move and who you're supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm grateful that. I'm grateful that I have.
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  Speaker 1: If it didn't feel good at the time, they don't
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  Speaker 1: never feel good. That the fire be bad. I bought
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  Speaker 1: real bad. I was in there like it was bad.
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  Speaker 1: And then I called, and then I called. I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think who's gonna do this, who's gonna be here,
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  Speaker 1: who gonna do that? And all of it worked out?
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  Speaker 1: Was it easy? No, like it was. It was not
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  Speaker 1: an easy transition for me, And I was stressed to
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  Speaker 1: say it was different for her too, because we got
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  Speaker 1: used to each other, you know. But I think also
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  Speaker 1: learning seeing them being able to see the woman that
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  Speaker 1: she and others have always been able to sing, like
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  Speaker 1: you've always told me, Like Jessica, like you had I
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  Speaker 1: wish you could just see yourself how like this was
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  Speaker 1: the year for that, Like this was the year and
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  Speaker 1: the safe space for me was just an act of obedience,
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  Speaker 1: but also me being able to see another another pillar,
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  Speaker 1: to be able to see what God is doing through
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  Speaker 1: me or whatever. And I was just concerned that I
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  Speaker 1: have enough to lead a community like this, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like absolutely, Yeah. So the safe space
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  Speaker 1: has been like a dope gift. Like people think that
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  Speaker 1: they're getting stuff for me, but like I genuinely get
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  Speaker 1: a lot from the safe space. Thank you girl, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: But speaking of the safe space we had, they experienced
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  Speaker 1: for the first time the forty days focus, forty straight
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  Speaker 1: consecutive days. No, what is it? All? Shot? No chasing?
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  Speaker 1: Then what the folk said, chase on this? I was tacked.
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  Speaker 1: What's that? But God, God, God is a miracle worker.
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  Speaker 1: I had never done. It's the weekend week and the
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  Speaker 1: weekends off. We had the weekends off, but no, the
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  Speaker 1: lords like go straightforward. And the hunger that those women
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  Speaker 1: had WI was like they would beat me to the call.
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  Speaker 1: That was way. They was all like Patreon has it
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  Speaker 1: to where I prayers live. It was like they was
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  Speaker 1: just held on their phones like this, like waited and
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  Speaker 1: you see about three or four people just popped up.
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  Speaker 1: It was always Tammy and dor Kiss. I could always
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  Speaker 1: count on them and doctor Cook like they were consistent
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  Speaker 1: and DESI raate you, let me let me stretch you
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  Speaker 1: a little bit during that time. How did how did
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I've asked you this, but how did
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  Speaker 1: that experience? Were you mad? At me. I was not
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  Speaker 1: mad because the truth, if the truth be told, I
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  Speaker 1: know certain some things that I should be doing. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I know that. So when when when certain people lean
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  Speaker 1: on me or ask me to do certain things in
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  Speaker 1: a space that I'm not comfortable in, yeah, I just
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  Speaker 1: do it because I know I'm supposed to be doing it. Right.
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  Speaker 1: It was very uncomfortable, and I was like, Lord, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know. I don't know what I'm supposed to say.
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  Speaker 1: So I showed up and I just opened my mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and then I had to go take a shower because
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: I was wet because I was sweating. My mom pitsl
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  Speaker 1: sweating everything, everything was sweating. You're just praying more than
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  Speaker 1: you thought you volunteered for. Because Jessica lost her voice.
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  Speaker 1: Heard one of them like my voice was gone. It
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  Speaker 1: was shot. You hear me. I'm grateful for you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: grateful for Marianne. I'm grateful for Coach d She was
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  Speaker 1: praying too. But I think also it showed the Lord
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  Speaker 1: was trying to show me too that there is more
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  Speaker 1: like to pray, not only pray for thirty days, but
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  Speaker 1: to provide a script stripe to like, Okay, Lord, what
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  Speaker 1: do you want to talk about now, like the rain
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  Speaker 1: of word that they talk about, like I experienced that.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know if I trust myself
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  Speaker 1: to be like able to do this. He's like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't need you to trust yourself. I don't need you
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  Speaker 1: to trust yourself. So these people, I don't need Moses.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need you to know everything that's about to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I just need you to go to the places I
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  Speaker 1: need you to go to. I need you to say
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  Speaker 1: this things I need you to say. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: he got so frustrated, because he's like, you trusted me
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  Speaker 1: for your willerness and your deliverance, and I'm trusting you
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  Speaker 1: for theirs. I'm trusting you to help me lead these
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  Speaker 1: people and be a physical representation. I think that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we can become selfish when we say God, yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: good enough to do it for me, but not for
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  Speaker 1: other people. But when he want to use you for
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  Speaker 1: other people, you know what I'm saying, you shy away
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  Speaker 1: from that, and we call it this would be obedience,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's it's worse than it. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a spinning God's face, like oh, like even a prideal
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  Speaker 1: thing like you're good enough to do it for me,
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  Speaker 1: but not through me. That's what that says. And so
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  Speaker 1: it was like with a safe space, if they be honest,
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  Speaker 1: if they weren't a part of the Yes three sixty
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  Speaker 1: five initiative, and we didn't read that book together, because
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  Speaker 1: that's all I committed to. Our committed this to six weeks.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I had. I said, I don't have anything right,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a process. When you give God this
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  Speaker 1: is there's another thing I've learned through the safe space.
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  Speaker 1: When you give God like yes, like this big, He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be like, okay, okay, stretch it out. Let me
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  Speaker 1: let me see how much I could get out of
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  Speaker 1: this little thing. And they the Lord knew if they
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  Speaker 1: had not, I just saw, you know, you gotta ketch
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  Speaker 1: a bottle and you get all the ketchup out of it.
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  Speaker 1: So I know some of y'all do this. I see
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  Speaker 1: people do this. She's gonna tell where she's from. That's
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  Speaker 1: what the water. Shake it up, Okay, maybe not ketch up,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe disdeturgent, okayturgent. I've seen you people here to
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  Speaker 1: catch a thing. Though I ain't died that like, but
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  Speaker 1: you you from where now, don't worry about that. So
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  Speaker 1: the dish deturched bottle. So this is what you're like. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you use that d You get that last little bit
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  Speaker 1: in there. You pull the water in there because you
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  Speaker 1: know what you gotta do. You gotta stretch that thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: put it in up. Still get you're still able to do.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's still a little something. You stretch that. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The people. As a leader, I'm learning that they say
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  Speaker 1: they say that people are called to you, people want
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  Speaker 1: to hear your voice or whatever, blah blah blah. But
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  Speaker 1: this year I experienced it on a level to where
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  Speaker 1: it's like, no, I put something out there and we
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  Speaker 1: don't have like hundreds of people right now, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But I know eventually it's so intimate,
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  Speaker 1: and even when it gets to that, it's gonna still
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  Speaker 1: remain intimate because we're structuring it to where it still
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  Speaker 1: feels safe to be a part of. You know, this
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  Speaker 1: is not a popularity club, This is not a social organization,
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  Speaker 1: This is not that. This this is strictly a space
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  Speaker 1: to where I know I'm dealing with other leaders, I'm
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: dealing with business owners, I'm dealing with builders. As you
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: said earlier, I'm dealing with entrepreneurs. I'm I'm dealing with leaders.
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  Speaker 1: I'm called to leaders, I'm called to influence the influencer.
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  Speaker 1: But the new word the Lord has given us for
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  Speaker 1: this year, you know, because this is the last Thursday
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five. Can't you believe that? That's why
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  Speaker 1: last Sunday, I mean not Sunday, last Thursday of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. And the Lord gave us during this forty
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  Speaker 1: days of focus, he gave me the word builder, build
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  Speaker 1: a builder, build. And at first I was like, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you know, okay, cool and knowing I think he gave
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  Speaker 1: us that ahead of time because you know, as a builder,
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  Speaker 1: there's responsibilities to prep for the building. Oh yeah, Like
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  Speaker 1: there's a preparation process for the execution of building what
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  Speaker 1: the Lord wants you to build, all right, And the
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  Speaker 1: forty days of Focus showed us that, Like we went
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  Speaker 1: through the story of Jeremiah and how how Jeremiah had
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  Speaker 1: to go against you know, the people speaking against him,
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  Speaker 1: feeling like you you know, crazy, feeling you know, way
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  Speaker 1: down with what the Lord was saying. And it was
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  Speaker 1: a point where Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. We read that,
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  Speaker 1: and I need you to pull this up from me.
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  Speaker 1: But we read that, and we always did, I say
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine or a living Okay, So we started with
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  Speaker 1: we started with the idea of Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't know that, I'll just read it
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  Speaker 1: from the Christians stand version real quick. For I know
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  Speaker 1: the plans I have for you. This is the Lord's declaration,
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  Speaker 1: plans for your well being, not for disaster, to give
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  Speaker 1: you a future and a hope. Right read And so
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  Speaker 1: she's so churchy, Glora, that's my Baptist coming in. Y'all read.
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  Speaker 1: But what's interesting when when you start, when we start
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  Speaker 1: taking the opportunity to read the word for ourselves, you
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  Speaker 1: get like, oh, that's why you said that. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And so this is in this passage
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah twenty nine. It's entitled Jeremiah's Letter to Exiles, right,
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  Speaker 1: and he is I'm just gonna read it. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna read it until the let's say, until fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: I should get you to read it, because you know
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  Speaker 1: you already know the words of my mouth and the
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  Speaker 1: meditation of my heart beginning to gather on this. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna read it. I don't just go to twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine one through one through fourteen and you you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do Christians standard version. Is that what you want to do?
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, let's start off like that and then
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  Speaker 1: you can see CSBM. What was the verse one through fourteen?
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  Speaker 1: That's oh yeah, glory, that's glory to the We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: watch Jeremiah twenty nine one through fourteen. Jeremiah's Letters to
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  Speaker 1: the Exiles. This is the text of the letter that
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  Speaker 1: the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining exiled elders,
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  Speaker 1: the priests, the prophets, and all the people Nebulknezzar had
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  Speaker 1: departed deported from Jerusalem to Babylon. This was after King
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  Speaker 1: Jaconia Yep, the Queen mother, the court officials, the officials
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  Speaker 1: of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the metalsmith had
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  Speaker 1: left Jerusalem. He sent the letter to el Elsha Elaisia
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  Speaker 1: uh Huh son of sath Woo these words, yes Lord,
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  Speaker 1: these names is holy holy field uh sef An and
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  Speaker 1: Jamariah uh son of Hilkiah, yesdy whom Zedekiah, king of Judah,
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  Speaker 1: sent to Babylon. To King Nebukuonnezzar of Babylon. The letter stated,
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  Speaker 1: this is what the Lord of Armies, the Lord of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: says to all the exiles, I deport it from Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: to Babylon. Build houses and live in them, Plant gardens
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  Speaker 1: and eat their produce. Find wives for yourselves and have
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  Speaker 1: sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons, and give
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  Speaker 1: your daughters to men in marriage, so that they may
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  Speaker 1: bear sons and daughters multiply. There, do not decrease, pursue
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  Speaker 1: and pursue the well being of the city. I have
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  Speaker 1: deported you to pray to the Lord on its behalf,
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  Speaker 1: for when it thrives, you will thrive. For this is
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  Speaker 1: what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says.
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  Speaker 1: Do not let your prophets who are among you and
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  Speaker 1: your diviners, deceive you, and don't listen to the dreams
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  Speaker 1: you elicit from them, For where they are prophesying falsely
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  Speaker 1: to you in my name, I have not sent them.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Lord's declaration. For this is what the
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  Speaker 1: Lord says. When seventy years of Babylon, when seventy years
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  Speaker 1: for Babylon are complete. I will attend to you and
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  Speaker 1: will confirm my promises concerning you, to restore you in
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  Speaker 1: this place. For I have the plans. For I know
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  Speaker 1: the plans I have for you. This is the Lord's declaration,
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  Speaker 1: plans for your well being, not for disaster, to give
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  Speaker 1: you future and a hope. You will call to me
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  Speaker 1: and come and pray to me, and I will listen
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  Speaker 1: to you. You will seek me and find me. When
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  Speaker 1: you search for me with all your heart, I will
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  Speaker 1: be I will be found by you. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's declaration. And I will restore your fortunes and gather
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  Speaker 1: you from all the nations and places where I banished you.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Lord's declaration, store you to the place
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  Speaker 1: from which I deport you, my God. And this is
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord for the hearers and the doors.
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  Speaker 1: And no, when you even reading it and listening to
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  Speaker 1: it again, you see the word. That's why I say
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  Speaker 1: it's a living word, because you get so much out
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  Speaker 1: of it. So these are people the exiles that were
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  Speaker 1: deported from God, deported by God to another location. We're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna We're gonna just just a kafaya real quick.
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  Speaker 1: So they're in one location the Lord says move like
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  Speaker 1: the Lord says move, and they move, they obey, and
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  Speaker 1: so it seems as if there's a there's a hardship
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  Speaker 1: there because you're not in the place of where the
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like you're in the place of where
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  Speaker 1: the promise is right. You're not in the place where
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  Speaker 1: you felt like the Lord was going to rise you up.
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  Speaker 1: You're not they were not in a place where the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said this don't look like what you said, right,
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  Speaker 1: And sore Maya sends this letter to confirm hete ain't
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  Speaker 1: nothing changed but the location. There is nothing that has
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  Speaker 1: changed but the location. Right. Maybe some of you are
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  Speaker 1: in a low ooh. Maybe some of you are in
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  Speaker 1: a location where you're frustrated. Where you said, God, I
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  Speaker 1: obeyed you, and you know who I just thought about
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  Speaker 1: when when I just said that, I've obeyed you, I've
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  Speaker 1: obeyed your will. I've said yes to you, and you
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  Speaker 1: put me in a place where it feels like it's dry.
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  Speaker 1: You put me in a place where I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm a slave. You put me in a place where
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  Speaker 1: I don't have ownership, I don't have I'm renting. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: someboudy I am renting. I used to own my land.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm renting a space from a foreign for a
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  Speaker 1: foreign character. You get what I'm saying. And so when
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the Lord starts talking, this is one of the favorite
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  Speaker 1: parts I saw before eleven. And this is why reading
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  Speaker 1: eleven alone is not justifiable anymore, because it brings more
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  Speaker 1: context to why he said, Hey, I know the plans
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  Speaker 1: I have for you. I know the plans, and I
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  Speaker 1: need you to not only know that I know them,
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  Speaker 1: but I need you to trust the plans, he says,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm telling you like, this is when this is
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  Speaker 1: gonna come up. And when it does, know that it
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  Speaker 1: was thus said the Lord like. That's why, he says,
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  Speaker 1: declares the Lord like, that's the declaration of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and so and for I loved it so good. This
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  Speaker 1: is what the Lord's armies of gods, the God of
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  Speaker 1: Israel says to all the exiles, I deport it from
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem to Babylon. Build houses and live in them, plant
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  Speaker 1: gardens and eat their produce. Find wise for yourselves and
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  Speaker 1: have sons and daughters. Find wise for your sons, and
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  Speaker 1: give your daughters to men and marriage they so that
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  Speaker 1: they may bear sons and daughters multiply. There do not decrease,
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  Speaker 1: seven says, pursue the well being of the city. I
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  Speaker 1: have deported you to pray to the Lord on its
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  Speaker 1: have for when it thrives, you will thrive. So we
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: break that down right, there's three things the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: wanting wanting these people to do in a new location. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the first one is build, built, the second one it's
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  Speaker 1: the plant, and the third thing is multiply, build, plant, multiply.
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  Speaker 1: And these these these people were more than likely I
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  Speaker 1: can just guarantee it. We're doing it in their own land.
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  Speaker 1: But were Freyd's doing another location. Because it's like I
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  Speaker 1: could just imagine, especially being in a place where I'm
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I'm always moving. That's why I have a problem with
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: unpacking and packing. I'm always moving like I'm like God,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I have not been in the same place since I
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: graduated high school. I spent four years until exclusive then
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  Speaker 1: I go come back to Burmingham, spend maybe two or
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  Speaker 1: three years. Then you bring me, take me to Pensylcola.
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  Speaker 1: Then you take me to my government and now I'm
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  Speaker 1: back to Burnmanham Like who keep on packing and packing
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  Speaker 1: and moving? What so now I got an insecurity of
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  Speaker 1: being planted somewhere. You get what I'm saying, Like, how
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: do I establish something when I'm always moving? How do
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  Speaker 1: I build when I'm always on the go? God? You
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  Speaker 1: what does this look like for me?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: And so the Lord, I really feel like the Lord
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  Speaker 1: in this space was trying to give them confidence. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to build houses here. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to to plant I want you to multiply in this
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  Speaker 1: space because I need evidence that this was a location
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  Speaker 1: that you were there. See what I've learned in this
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: journey does a ray that the Lord will always leave
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  Speaker 1: your DNA. I hated Pencacola. I hate what I tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I hated Pensacola with all my heart. Like I was
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: ready to go, mainly because I was in a relationship baby,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just too the long distance was long distancing. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that was the first time I put language to depression,
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  Speaker 1: right what it was I experienced before, But I was
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: just like, what is this? It came a little heavier
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  Speaker 1: this time. I don't know. I don't know why. I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel like I want to give up. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why I feel like this, Like you want me
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  Speaker 1: to wet there. You want me to play, You want
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  Speaker 1: me to build relationships now a more God Mama stayingla,
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  Speaker 1: like I have connections in a place that I resented,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. At one point I resent,
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  Speaker 1: but now I can see the beautification of what God
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  Speaker 1: had done right. And so but if I had not
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  Speaker 1: done anything there, there will be no evidence of men
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  Speaker 1: even being right. And sometimes the Lord is just trying
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  Speaker 1: to the evidence is gonna bless somebody. That evidence of
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  Speaker 1: your being in a space is gonna bless somebody, right.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: And so when he says build houses, right, I feel
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: like the Lord is like built structure. It's not just
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: a might not be a physical house, but like build structure, regiments, routines,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: habits come on, like live there, reside there, have a location,
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  Speaker 1: put an address on the on the dot, you know,
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  Speaker 1: saying like because sometimes it's scary when you know the
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Lord has called you to the nation's the Lord has
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  Speaker 1: called you to move. The easy reversion says settle in
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  Speaker 1: the land. Come on, that's so good. So it's like
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  Speaker 1: like it's a safety to settle. That's so good. Then
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  Speaker 1: he says, plant gardens and eat their produce. This part
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  Speaker 1: really got me because, for one, I've been desiring to
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: plant a garden, and it was like, I don't know
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: what is it came from. I thought. I was like,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: maybe I've been watching too much Misstail because you know,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: she got an old. Maybe I'm thinking too much. But
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: it's just a desire, a strong desire of mine to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: plant a garden. But when I saw this, I said, Lord,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: what's the what's the deal about planting the garden? It's like, Hey,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: you don't have to eat what the people eat because
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I got issues with the folks that I have you
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: in that land, but I need you to plant your
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  Speaker 1: own garden. And then what happens is when these folks
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  Speaker 1: see you, when you think about it, when you get
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  Speaker 1: plants it in a place, when you're put in a place,
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  Speaker 1: folks start seeing you become visible. Your gardens are visible
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  Speaker 1: like produce to for people, right. And what I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to say is when people see that and they it
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  Speaker 1: draws community. You think I think about right now, community
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  Speaker 1: gardens right where people plant and they're trying to nourish
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  Speaker 1: and they're trying to bring different nutrition to the land.
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  Speaker 1: So if I'm feeding myself something and then I have
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  Speaker 1: a neighbor. Now I'm building a house, and now I
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  Speaker 1: have a neighbor. Now my neighbor might want to eat
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  Speaker 1: what I'm eating. You get what I'm saying, Like my
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  Speaker 1: neighbor might want be interested in the nutrition that I'm
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  Speaker 1: providing for my family. Now that's kingdom impact. This is
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  Speaker 1: so good, y'all. This, this is good to me. This
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  Speaker 1: is revelation right now. And I was going a whole
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  Speaker 1: other way. Now now I'm I have tangible evidence that
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  Speaker 1: that God is real, and I can share it with
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  Speaker 1: you withholding nothing, I can have evidence. I got the garden,
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  Speaker 1: but I can still right. And then I love it
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  Speaker 1: when it says, find wise for yourselves and sons and daughters.
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  Speaker 1: Find wise for your sons, and give daughters to men
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  Speaker 1: and marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters.
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  Speaker 1: Multiply there, do not decrease. Multiply there. That's when I
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  Speaker 1: forgot what the scripture is. I don't know the location,
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  Speaker 1: but isn't there be fruitful and multiplier? Is it? Jennifer? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because that he told see the slow moment. See, this
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  Speaker 1: is why you don't have to be perfect. Just get
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: the word in you. It'll come out of you. You
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  Speaker 1: might not know where it came from. Lord, they gotta
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: get in there, got to get in there. And so
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: when he says, hey, build legacy there, that's what family is.
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  Speaker 1: That's what getting married and established your family. And because
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  Speaker 1: he the thing is, he's still the God of Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: He's still the Lord, he's still the creator of that.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: And what if you are the shift that's needed in
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the land. I love how he lands playing it says,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: pursue the well being of the city. I have deported
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  Speaker 1: you to pray to the Lord on its behalf, for
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: when it thrives, you will thrive. He says. I'm putting this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving you this assignment to pray for a city
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  Speaker 1: that you don't even want to be a part of.
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving you this assignment to not only pray, because
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  Speaker 1: this is this. You are the liaison. You are the
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  Speaker 1: ambassador of this of this space. And if you, if you,
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  Speaker 1: if you reject the call, if you reject the assignment,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: what about them? What about being the liaison? What about
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: being the Kingdom's standard? What about being the evidence that
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  Speaker 1: I'm real? I need you to do these things, because
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: watch this, the only way this city is gonna thrive
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: is if you pray. And the only way if you thrive,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: you're gonna thrive in this city is if you pray
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: for the city. What are you praying for? Are you
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: only praying for yourself? Many some of us are really
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  Speaker 1: called to greater prayers that we give ourselves credit for
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  Speaker 1: because you don't get to see it move or that.
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  Speaker 1: I think about Birmingham all the time, and now I
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  Speaker 1: think about it. Birmingham was not the city that it
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  Speaker 1: is now. It was not Birmingham now under this leadership
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  Speaker 1: on this growth like growth and development. I remember Birmingham
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  Speaker 1: is like being the city people just did not want
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  Speaker 1: to stay in. They didn't want to stay here. They
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: didn't want to build families here, they didn't want to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Now this Birmingham is becoming
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  Speaker 1: a space, was like, oh we're growing, do we still
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: have work to do? Yeah? But I believe that somebody
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  Speaker 1: prayed for the city. I believe that somebody did exactly
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  Speaker 1: that came from out out like out of a way,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I believe that this happened
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  Speaker 1: for our city because we didn't have it right. We
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: didn't have a right. If you're if you're seeing that
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: for your city, I dare you to, I dare you
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  Speaker 1: to do this. Build, plant multiply, and some of us
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: are saying, hey, I've planted. Why is nothing happen? Because
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: building and planting are two different things. Planting the planting
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: process the soil, it grows down first, so you're not
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: seeing the development, so you can still hide. But building says, hey,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I'm doing this, I'm alive. You can always see a
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: construction site and you have people wonder, hey, I wonder
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: what's being built? You don't. The reason why you don't
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: want to build is because you don't want to matter
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: to wonder what you're about to do. You don't want
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Toby to see your failure. You don't want nobody to see.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You don't want to about
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: to see the ugly process. But what happens when the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: construction site comes people start looking for the building. Does
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: it about to put up this another Jacks Jackson just
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  Speaker 1: came by my dollar generals. They be putting them up
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: like it's this another Well, let me be the because
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: two five gas stations on one came. You're getting what
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, but is this another or what is it?
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Or what is it? What is it supposed to be?
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Who's the owner of this building? Those are the type
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: of questions people see. But because you want to keep
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: it hidden, nobody can have hope. Buildings give people hope.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: New structures give people hope. And God has calling us
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  Speaker 1: this year. I believe this year is the year of
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the building. Yeah six, we're walking into the year of
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: the builder. And when the Lord gave me this word
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: as a ray, it kind of scared me because building
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: requires structure, it requires another level of discipline, capacity, and
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: it requires trust because the gag is you can't build
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: a loan. That's the gag. That's the truth. And try
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: you may get something. You may get something up, but
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: is it is it gonna sustain? I even think about
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: like tangible construction where people specialize in their thing. You're
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: not finding the plumber putting up the AC. They do
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the plumbing and they walk away, Like the AC folks
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: do the AC and they walk away. Wait, Spectrum is
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: not trying to hang the power line even though they
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: need the power for the Wi Fi and the cables. Good,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying. They do what they're supposed
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: to do, and they lead a building as some of
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: us are trying to put up Wi Fi put up
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: power cords. We think about all we think about all
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the things that we have to do, and we say,
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  Speaker 1: it's not worth building, the process is not worth it.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: While you're raising your head because I think it's so,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: it's so cool, this is so this blessed me. Like
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: reading through Jeremiah blessed me because we hear the verse.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: We hear that verse all the time about you know,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I know the plans are have for you, says the
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Lord plans to prosper you, not give you harm, and
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: hoping to future all these things. But if you hadn't
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: read the context of what was happening and all those things,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: you don't necessarily wouldn't know the power of that right
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  Speaker 1: on one particular part in here that stood out to me,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: not in this particular verse, but in Jeremiah in general.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the part he was he had
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  Speaker 1: been giving the people the word, and I think at
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: this point he had was speaking about the people giving
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  Speaker 1: into the people they were gonna get overtaken by the
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: people that I can't remember the people, the people that
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: was coming to get them. The Lord said, hey, go
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: with them, Okay, go with them, and it's gonna be
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: good if you go with them, Like I'm I'm I
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: still got you. But if you don't, just know that
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: you're gonna pay us pretty much. So they got mad
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: because they was like, why are you Why are you
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: scaring an army? Why are you doing all these things?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: And they captured him and threw him into an empty cistern.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: So what seems like dang lord? So I felt, Jared,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: It's like, dang Lord, I'm doing what you're telling me
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: to do. But these people late deep buddies. He they
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  Speaker 1: done threw me in here. So a cistern is like
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: this big clay thing that they used to to capture water,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: so it's empty. He stuck in mud. But still at
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, the Lord said, I know
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the plans I got for you, right, So even in
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: all that he's he had some foreign random person come
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  Speaker 1: by and get him out of there, like it was
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: already set up for him, you know what I'm saying.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: So I just love that we're building because building takes obedience.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Building also takes trust, not trusting yourself, but trust that
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the Lord has already declared what was spoken over your life,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: and all we have to do is be obedient and
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: lean into that and lean into that thing. Right. I
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: was thinking as you were reading the top of this
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: about my current process last year. Yeah, when I moved
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: in with the Browns, I've been out of the brown
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: this journey. The last stop, I feel like, is with
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: this lovely couple. And I didn't understand why the Lord
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: chose the and for me to go into their space
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: literally until the next day when I got there, sitting
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: sending in the kitchen and me and Vee. She was like, Oh, yeah,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: you know I do this and I cook this, and
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: you know this is gonna be simple to fix and
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: no ord. So I'm sitting there and I'm seeing this
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: moment of like, oh man, this is like a preparation
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: type season, right, And as we talk about having sometimes
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: having a hard time planning in places that's not ours,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: because the truth is, that's not I came from. I
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: had a home, I had a home in the Lord
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: had me to sell the home, and now I'm in
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: this space that's not mine. And in my mind I'm like,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: I know I'm not gonna be here for a long time.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: But as he talked about to plants, He's like, hey,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: like I have I have. There's a reason why I
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: have you here, Like wherever the Lord sends you, there's
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: a reason behind it. We may not understand it or
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: see it at the moment. But I remember last Thanksgiving,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I went to go, I went to my mom's and
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: I came back and mister Rege was like, hey, Dez,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: I had this big ol'd mirror. So I had this
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: mirror in my salon and you can put it on
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: the wall, but I just propped it up against the
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: wall or whatever. So while I was there, I was like,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I need a mirror floor, you know, so you can
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: see yourself. It was a good and all the things
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I had propped the mirror up against the wall. I
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: come back and mister Reggie says, hey, Daz, I put
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: your mirror. I hung your mirror up, okay. And I cried,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: not because and I was like, why am I crying
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: over this mirror? But I realized it was just that thing.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: It was. It was almost like an act of him
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: showing me like, hey, it's okay for you to get
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: planted here, Like I'm putting this mirror on this wall
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: because I want you to know that you're welcome here,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: like like you say, you're safe here, right, And I
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: was like, damn, I'm just crying. I was like, why
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: am I crying over this mirror? But I understand it
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: was deeper than that, and that's what this was reminding
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: me of. The Lord was putting me in a place
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: that wasn't my own right, but he was putting me
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: in a place because there was a purpose there, and
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the purpose was healing. But I had to be okay
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: with planting also now building, you know what I'm saying.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: And as I just leaned into the process, the Lord
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: began to bring other things that was coming that I
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: needed to be in a space in order to receive
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: those things so that I can now begin to build.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Because you said you playing, and it goes down. That
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: going down, that's that hidden that's that guard, that's that
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: that that rough part of the process that we don't
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: want to talk about. That hurts sometimes, you know what
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But once we get to a point, guess
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: what happens. It comes up. So now once it comes up,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: now you're ready to begin to build in And that's
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: the part. I think that we're in now this season
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: we're in. Now, God is like, Okay, you've been processed.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I can trust your character. Now that's so good. I
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: can trust you with people. Now I can trust you
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: with yourself. And come on, you know what I'm saying.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: And so now I'm giving you the plan, so now
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: that we can build this thing that I have given you.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: You know, so this was this was good to me.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: No that the revelation that you just gave was just
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: so powerful. And I believe that people just need to
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: hear that the the upfront uncomfort it's worth the ladder revelation.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Say that again so I can make sure I hurt
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: myself the upfront uncomfort, it's worth the latter revelation. And
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: even in the season where you are in, does it
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: ray Using you as an example, Seal, you still haven't
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: received the full promise of God. You still haven't received
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: the full prophetic word as far as like having it
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: physically here. But you know it's you know the plan.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: You know that it's going to prosper because you got
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: you got through the point of uncomfort just you like
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: thinking about these people. It was uncomfortable to go from
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Jerusalem to battle. I know Jerusalem. I know how to
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: do hell do. I know how to I know how
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: to be a constant tiger. I know how to take pictures.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I know. But you're taking all this from me. And
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: then I know how to make my own money. I
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: know how to gave my own money. I know how
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: to pay my bill. I know how to get my
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: own I know how to make six figures in a year.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I know these things, and you're you're you're telling me
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: to remove myself from that so I can make room
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: for you. That's uncomfortable. That's that's uncomfortable. You can get
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And so now what I hear you
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: saying is the lessons that you and the healing that
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: you've experienced have been so much more valuable than the
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: pride that you could have stayed in that part cause pride,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: when they say pride pride, is that that kill. Look
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: that part the biggest thing, Like, not only was he
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: moving me to a new place, I had to ask
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: to enter into that place, you know what I'm saying.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: So it was just like oh, here you go, and
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: you're here. It's like, no, you have to ask to
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: be here. And if I would have allowed pride to
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: hinder me from doing that, like I wouldn't be here,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it's kind of like
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: you said, like I just take that in what part
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: are you taking in? Obedience? I remember like that was
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: the word that was the word for that year, was obedience.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: And that one was hard because in my mind, I'm like, dang,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: what it's gonna look like like people gonna think I'm
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: like pool like they like you. I've seen you do
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: all these things. Now you asking somebody to like live
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: with them and all these things like and I just
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: had to be like, well, lord, I mean you say,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: you know, you know the plans. So we're just gonna
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: go on in and we're knocking this little dog, yeah
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: you know. And it's been the best door, like the
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: the what's behind the door bru that we need to like.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: The doors that we think that are hard to open
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: end up being the best reward, like me me closing
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: the door this year, Mr my shouting feet ground, oh oh,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: me closing a door that I thought it was gonna
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: be hard to close has been the best decision. And
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: no shame, no harm, no file. But Jessica is not
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: the same. Just no, just Jessica Smith. It's her. I
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: can say, I'm her, you know what I'm saying, Like
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Pastor said, you are that girl. I am that when
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: I was discovering what and the thing is, I'm still
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: discovering her. I'm still discovering her. I'm I'm more open.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: You know. Brital came on the platform just give me
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: all the way to him, Hey, you need to show
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: up better. I'm allowing women, you know what I'm saying
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: to to love me in their unique way and just building,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: like building community and being okay with you know what
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: that looks like, you know. And so as I'm entered
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: this season of Bill their Build, you know, the Year
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: of the Builder, it might be scary, might be too,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: but I know that I don't have to do it
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: by myself. I don't. I was listening to uh, I
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: think it's Vicky Whining's a song. What is it called?
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: It's not they got the word, it's I don't need
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: nobody else. I've been lied on, talked about, mistreated, I've
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: been mused. So I'm starting to think the Woman of
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: God was a little, a little upset. I listened to
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: it from a different end, like literally on the way
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: to record it. And I said, as long as I
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: got Jesus, I don't need nobody, nobody else, I don't,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: but Jesus had disciples. I don't know how true that is.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: So watch what you're listening to, Watch what you said.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. We've been putting stuff on
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: ourselves and be like, oh, yeah, you're not building by yourself,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: You're not living by yourself, You're not doing things by yourself.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: The Lord created community and intentionally all right, it's even
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: a trinity, God, Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Like
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: he don't even do stuff by himself, you know what
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So the three and one like it's like,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: so you expect to be better than God, Like you
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: expect that, you know what I'm saying. So realizing that
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: I don't have to do this by myself. Realize I
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: don't have to build by myself. It's the biggest, the
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: biggest is it God? In the Trinity? They actually like
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: do relationship together. They said created out of the relationship
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: of the Trinity. That when you think about stuff, community
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: is needed for everything, even to do wrong. That's why
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: you go to jail for being accomplished. Yep, bam, you
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: just gotta be in the vicinity. You just like like
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: even the dow role, So like why righteous as long
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: as you you you you now you suspect, you suspect.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: But that's the right. I just this is good man.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: I am looking forward to this season of Building because
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's gonna be things that I saw
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: that's gonna make sense, Like I've seen years ago. Like
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: there's a building that I've never let go. I wrote
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: it down. I would have to show you because it's
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: just it's I see it on my brain. Need it
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: because child is coming. It's coming because packing it in
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: the business. So the building is coming with the building. Amen, glory.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: That's a rate. I know. This is our last, our
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: last episode of we've had. We've had an amazing twenty
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: twenty five. It's been it's been interesting, it's been been challenging,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: it's been developmental. Yeah, what what do you want to
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: lead the people with? I think I would like to
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: just encourage you guys to just be obedient. At the
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: end of the day, God's not going to force anything,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: you know, He's not going to prompt you. He's not
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: going to pry you. He's going to make the offer,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: he's going to give you the invitation, and you still
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: have to say yes. So specifically going into twenty twenty six,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: give him your yes, even even when you don't understand,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: even when you have no idea what he's doing, because
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: he knows, he knows, he knows the plan that he's
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: already set forth for you. And that's the safest place
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: to be in the will of God. So build builder, Bill,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Build builder Bill. I for one, doesn't I want to
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: say thank you for just continuing as a journey with me.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: It's because because from this time, this time last year
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: to now, like you are not the same person at
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: all at all. And I love it. I love it too.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: I'm glad the Lord gave you some if it's at
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: certain time it seemed like you was just reaching for
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: your patients, like like, when is this girl gonna get it?
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: I got it? I got it. I got it too.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I feel like I was in
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: the crind to our our audience, our family, our safe
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: space community. I think the word of the Lord has
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: been what's been said this year, the year that we're
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: walking into. It's not about just creating. It's about showing
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God. It's about believing what you see.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: It's about believing the God in you. It's about leaning
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: on Holy Spirit and trusting the tools that this season
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: has brought you. I even hear that that's a big
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: thing that you might not feel like. You trust yourself
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: to build, but don't trust yourself to build. This is
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: an opportunity for you to trust God and allow God
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: to prove that he is that, that He is the
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: thing that you've always needed to do, the thing that
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: needed to be done, that the community that He surrounds
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: you with is better than a community that you thought
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: you desired. I came to Burningham thinking that things would
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: be different. I was gonna get the the needs met
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: by the people. I thought I was gonna get the
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: needs met by But God just keeps introducing me to
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: different community, different opportunities to build relationships, build, connectwork, build.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: You can build a lot of things right and so
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: now it's the opportunity to ask yourself, you know what
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: is needed to be built. What does that plan we
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: talked about earlier? Write the vision, make it plain so
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: that they can run with it. This version of you
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: is the day, this version of you is the is
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: what is needed. And so this is Christmas. You have
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: seven days. You have seven days to sit with the
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: vision of God. You have seven days to write it down.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: You have seven days to go ahead and say, you
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: know what, Lord, I'm gonna submit my yes to you.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: I might be fearful, I might be nervous, but I
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: trust you more than my emotion. I trust you more
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: than more than more than what I think I've done
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: in my past. And the thing about it, you guys,
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: is I want to share this with you, and I
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: want to make this very clear. The reason why I'm
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: confident about being a builder is because shame is no
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: longer in my life. Shame will continue to disrupt you
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: from what you're supposed to be doing. And so now
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: even hear the Lord say, denounce shame. Leave shame on
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: this like end this year, and pick up your freedom,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: pick up your freedom, pick up the things that God
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: said about you. Shame will keep you from a lot
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: of things. Shame will keep you from progressing. And so
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: my prayer for you is that you break up with
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: shame today, that if you've made it to the end
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: of this podcast, if you made it to this end
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  Speaker 1: of this episode and they're still shame in your heart.
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  Speaker 1: I want to pray with you real quick, so God,
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  Speaker 1: your daughter, your son. I pray right now, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: that you give them the power and you remind them
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  Speaker 1: the power and the authority that has already been invested
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  Speaker 1: in them. Lord. I thank you right now, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: that you are bringing up the things, not to expose
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  Speaker 1: them to them the person that's dealing with the shame,
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  Speaker 1: but to expose them so that they can die. God.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord God, that you're not just they're
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  Speaker 1: bearing the shame to come back to the grave and
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  Speaker 1: continue to memorialize what happened. But God, that they can
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  Speaker 1: put it at your feet and it goes in the
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  Speaker 1: pits of hell, hallelujah, that you consume it with your
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  Speaker 1: holy fire, hallelujah, as even as you did it for me. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for the word and the language that
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  Speaker 1: is provided for them to be free. Because whom the
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  Speaker 1: sun has set free is truly free, is truly free.
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  Speaker 1: That means the freedom is real. And God, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for allowing my life to be a testament that what
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  Speaker 1: I've done, hallelujah, is not my identity. What I've done
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  Speaker 1: has does not dictate my future. But what I've done
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  Speaker 1: supplies a testimony that will allow people to see your grace,
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  Speaker 1: to see your love, to see how amazing Father that
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  Speaker 1: you are. And so God, I thank you that since
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  Speaker 1: shame is no more. And as they provide that you
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  Speaker 1: provide the healing that they need. God, as they go
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  Speaker 1: into building, even halleluj yah, hear the Lord say that
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  Speaker 1: even some of you are going to be building the
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  Speaker 1: new version of you. The Lord told me on while
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  Speaker 1: I was walking. He told me, one of the build
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  Speaker 1: things that I'm building is he's well, he's building and
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  Speaker 1: the new year is a wife. I wouldn't plan on
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  Speaker 1: telling you guys that, but he says, Jessica, I'm building
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  Speaker 1: the wife, something that I've been afraid of. But the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: when you allow the Lord to build properly, we don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about that being demolished. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: to worry about being on sink and saying, because the
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  Speaker 1: Lord knows what he's doing. And so my prayer for
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  Speaker 1: you is that you see yourself as God sees you.
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  Speaker 1: And the only way you're gonna be able to do
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  Speaker 1: that is if you denounce shame today if you say
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  Speaker 1: you know what that happened, But that's not who my
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  Speaker 1: who I identify as Christ, That's what God has not
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  Speaker 1: called me to be. And so I just thank you
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  Speaker 1: God that you're settling people and giving them the result
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  Speaker 1: that they need before they hit twenty twenty six, that
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  Speaker 1: this new year is actually gonna be new and not
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  Speaker 1: a front that they don't have to front. There set
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  Speaker 1: their way into success, that they can be successful and
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  Speaker 1: free in the name of Jesus. Jesus, But we love you,
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  Speaker 1: we adore you, we honor you. Thank you for this year,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for growing and developing us. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: trusting us to build as you have built the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Amen, we love you, guys, we honor you,
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  Speaker 1: and we honor the gift and the annoyson that's in
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  Speaker 1: the calling on your life. If you need a space
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  Speaker 1: We're really growing and there are some amazing opportunities that
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  Speaker 1: we have for next year. So I would love for
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  Speaker 1: you to join us, but until next time, until next year,
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  Speaker 1: remember life could be much more simple if you just
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  Speaker 1: ask me and Chris. Everybody, Christmas. Thank you for tuning
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  Speaker 1: in to this week's episode. Since you've made it this far,
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  Speaker 1: you might as well connect with us on all social
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  Speaker 1: media platforms at the Jessica S. Smith. I know I
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  Speaker 1: won't see you back until next week, but until then,
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  Speaker 1: remember to love always yourself and always stay thank God
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  Speaker 1: for one over day.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, I know we could be another way. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: pray thank God for another day. Hey hey, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: thankful another day. Hey hey, another day? Oh, another day wise,
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  Speaker 2: another day to get it right, another day to rise up,
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  Speaker 2: another day living, Another day we loved ones. I always
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  Speaker 2: remember hold it down for a ball one ye