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Visualize your ministry · The Bible Gal

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Baba Gow podcast, and I'm Miguel Amber.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm just a Proverbs 31 woman, empowering women to step into their on-the-fire for the Lord mentality.
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SPEAKER_00: I encourage us to live out our faith, to grow, and to believe in the calling that God has for us.
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SPEAKER_00: My vision is to help women break the chains of their past of inner struggles and fears to create new chapters that only our Father can write for us.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm on a mission and passion to empower you and all the women out there.
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SPEAKER_00: This is going to be your new favorite podcast for daily devotionals and Bible study chats.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey guys, welcome back to another episode in the podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, to any of my returning listeners, I just have to apologize because I'm so so sorry that it's been a couple times.
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SPEAKER_00: It's been like a week and a half since I posted an episode.
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SPEAKER_00: Um I just have to say I'm really sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: My baby was sick, um, and we were battling a lot of issues with that, um, which actually the Lord is just absolutely so, so good, so amazing, um, so wonderful.
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SPEAKER_00: And I actually have a testimony um from that that I am going to share today before we get into the message.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but before we do anything, um, I always like to start us off in prayer.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so let's get into it.
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SPEAKER_00: Dear Heavenly Father, I lift up every single listener to you.
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SPEAKER_00: I pray that you open their hearts, open their minds, open their ears so that they can hear, listen, and receive your word today, Father.
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SPEAKER_00: I just pray that you flood them with your Holy Spirit, that they feel your presence today.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, I pray that this message speaks to them.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, that you speak to them, Father, that your living word speaks to them today, Father.
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SPEAKER_00: And I just pray that they walk away changed, walk away um with your word on their heart, walk away with your w voice and your words on their heart, Father.
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SPEAKER_00: And I just pray um protection over them wherever they are.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, right now, Father, I just intercede on their behalf and I pray your protection over them.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, that they are safe and healthy.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Alright.
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SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, my baby.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, long story short, I don't I I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't remember the a timeline because the past like week, week and a half has just been like crazy.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but so I don't exactly remember the way like the last episode dropped and like the way that it felt.
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SPEAKER_00: But I had gone to a church women's conference, which is absolutely beautiful.
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SPEAKER_00: There was over 700 women there.
2:29
SPEAKER_00: It was such a good, good conference, so jam packed full of good word.
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SPEAKER_00: Um life-changing, love it was just so good.
2:36
SPEAKER_00: Um but then right after that is when my daughter got sick.
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SPEAKER_00: Um and so yeah, I she was getting sick for the next, I don't know, couple days or so.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh she is in daycare.
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SPEAKER_00: She's nine months old, so you know, I was like, alright, it's probably a mixture between daycare and teething and you know, all the things, because she's active and sticking everything in her mouth and crawling and you know.
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SPEAKER_00: So I was like, you know, active baby.
3:07
SPEAKER_00: Um she was getting worse.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, long story short, I took her to the doctors and she was diagnosed with a double ear infection.
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SPEAKER_00: This is her third double ear infection she was diagnosed with.
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SPEAKER_00: The doctor expressed some concern saying that maybe um they want me to see a consultation to set up an appointment to get tubes in her ears because she is only nine months old and this was her third double ear infection, which is concerning.
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SPEAKER_00: Um and a murmur in her heart, which is extra blood flow, uh, making an extra sound and you know, extra blood and fluid in her heart.
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SPEAKER_00: Um they said it was probably because she was just sick, but um they wanted to have a follow-up appointment in a month and thirty days to look at that because if it's still here, then that can be some serious um heart issues that they wanted to look at and do testing on.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so this had gotten like taken a turn scary real quick.
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SPEAKER_00: Like I could do not, she was, you know, congested, stuffy nose, all the normal cold things, and I honestly did not think that she had a double ear infection.
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SPEAKER_00: Like she doesn't really pull on her ears like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Except for when she's tired, so I was like, okay, this is weird.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and then like I just thought they were gonna be like, oh, an upper respiratory infection, or oh, a viral.
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SPEAKER_00: Like I genuinely just thought like they were just going to tell me that, you know, she just had a viral and you know, keep doing what I was doing, kind of thing, you know, saline spray, nebulizer, blah, blah, blah.
4:38
SPEAKER_00: I thought that it was gonna be that, but I just wanted to take her to be safe, and I'm so glad I did.
4:43
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but it got it took a turn for the worst, real quick.
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SPEAKER_00: It got really scary.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and so uh this is the timeline I do remember.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, Monday was it was a Monday when she was diagnosed with the double ear infection and the murmur in her heart.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I had literally given her one antibiotic dose that they had given me.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, like Monday, right when I got it.
5:07
SPEAKER_00: I got it like right after the doctor's appointment.
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SPEAKER_00: I went and got it, and I gave her that one dose.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, Tuesday I gave it to her in the morning, she threw it up, so she actually never kept it in her system, and I was too afraid to give it to her again because she was super nauseous and having all the nausea, no appetite, diarrhea, um, symptoms on top of her double ear infection, and I just didn't want to um obviously do anything at that point to make her feel worse.
5:36
SPEAKER_00: So she was already feeling terrible.
5:38
SPEAKER_00: And she wasn't drinking, like she had no appetite from not feeling good and probably pressure on her ears and her mouth, and so she didn't really want to eat.
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SPEAKER_00: She was picking at food like all day Tuesday.
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SPEAKER_00: She really didn't drink anything.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I try to feed her bottles all day.
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SPEAKER_00: She, I kid you not, like, didn't want any milk, any bottles at all.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and that was super scary.
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SPEAKER_00: I think she had like four to six ounces of water and maybe t an ounce or two of PDL because at like three o'clock in the afternoon she peed in the morning, she got super dehydrated, and then didn't pee all day.
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SPEAKER_00: I called the doctor and was like, hey, like I'm getting really nervous, like she hasn't peed all day, like she won't drink her bottle, what do I do?
6:23
SPEAKER_00: And they were like, Well, when's the last time she peed?
6:26
SPEAKER_00: And basically she was right at her eight-hour mark, the doctor had said, like, anything over eight hours, you have to bring your baby into the ER right away, because it kind of poses a different conversation, a scarier conversation of the severe dehydration.
6:40
SPEAKER_00: So she peed, and I was like, Thank the Lord.
6:42
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Alright, you know, like super scared, trying to like literally do anything to get her to drink just even juice, like flavored PD light.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I put it in a sippy cup, I put it in a straw, I put it in a syringe.
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SPEAKER_00: Like I literally did all the things that I could do to fantasize her wanting to drink.
7:01
SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't getting very far, and it was getting super scary.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and so the doctor had said, okay, you need to like literally watch the hour by hour go by, and her second eight-hour mark was gonna be like at two o'clock in the morning, and they were like, If she doesn't pee, you're gonna have to wake her up at two o'clock in the morning, check her diaper, and like go from there.
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SPEAKER_00: So I did.
7:22
SPEAKER_00: I woke up in the middle of the night, uh, checked her diaper.
7:24
SPEAKER_00: I was super anxious.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't actually wake up in the middle of the night, I just was awake because I was like super nervous.
7:30
SPEAKER_00: I was like watching her owl at sock, watching her sleep.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and I definitely knew that I should have been praying over her, and I did I did pray over her, but I was just like so anxious, and I couldn't shake this super scary, unshakable anxiety.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so I checked her diaper at 2 o'clock in the morning.
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SPEAKER_00: It was dry.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, crap.
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SPEAKER_00: I have to take her to the ER.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm so scared.
7:52
SPEAKER_00: I woke my husband up.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, he's scared.
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SPEAKER_00: We're both terrified.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, alright, guess we have to go to the ER.
7:58
SPEAKER_00: We're like putting on our clothes, getting ready to leave.
8:00
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, let me check it like one more time.
8:02
SPEAKER_00: Like, okay, I woke her up.
8:03
SPEAKER_00: Maybe she just needed a minute to wake up to go pee.
8:06
SPEAKER_00: No, still dry.
8:08
SPEAKER_00: So at this point, we're in the car.
8:10
SPEAKER_00: We get in the car.
8:10
SPEAKER_00: It's like literally 2 30 in the morning.
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SPEAKER_00: We're driving to the ER.
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SPEAKER_00: Me and my husband are like holding hands, like, literally just driving in like silence, like zombies staring off into space, because like we're so anxious, so scared.
8:22
SPEAKER_00: We didn't even know what to say to each other.
8:24
SPEAKER_00: Um, and so we're just driving there.
8:26
SPEAKER_00: We get to the parking lot, and I was like, you know what?
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SPEAKER_00: We need to pray before we go in because we're like at this all-time high anxiety, like we're super nervous, you know, we're super scared about everything, and we need to be able to be there for Aubrey, and that's the baby's name.
8:42
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, so we gotta be there for her.
8:45
SPEAKER_00: So we did, and we prayed right there in the parking lot, and I basically was just like, Lord, please, like, I'm begging you.
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SPEAKER_00: I need you here with us, I need your peace, I need like your presence so much right now.
8:56
SPEAKER_00: Like, I need your strength because we can't do it right now in our own strength, and it's just super scary, and we really need you right now.
9:02
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Lord, please, like your will be done, but please, please, please.
9:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm begging you for like a super full large PP diaper, so that when we walk in, this doctor's like they think we're crazy, and she ends up not being dehydrated.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, please, Lord, like asking for a miracle.
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SPEAKER_00: So we get to the ER, we get checked in, they you know, they call us back, we're in a chair, you know, they check our vitals, you know, all like the beginning things, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Like they check us in or whatever, whatnot.
9:30
SPEAKER_00: And so we're waiting for the doctor to come in, and I said to my husband, I I think she peed.
9:35
SPEAKER_00: And he's like, Why?
9:36
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, I I smell it.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, her diaper feels like squishy.
9:40
SPEAKER_00: And so the doctor come in, wanted to look at her, and I told the doctor, I was like, I think she peed.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and he was like, Alright, well, let's check it.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Okay, at this point, up to this point, it had probably been like nine, nine and a half hours-ish, um, and with like dry.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: And so I checked her diaper and she was wet.
10:03
SPEAKER_00: Um, and just like I prayed for her, it still gives me like goosebumps when I tell the story.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I also told it on my church morning Zoom because I was just like, this is such a miracle of God that like I just had to tell everybody about his amazing miracle and just how good God is and just giving all the glory to him, all the praise to him.
10:24
SPEAKER_00: Um, she had a full pee-pee diaper, nice and soggy, just like we asked for.
10:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, couldn't tell you where it came from because literally, like I said, she had six ounces of fluid all day long.
10:34
SPEAKER_00: And um, but it was a very full PP diaper.
10:39
SPEAKER_00: Um, and he was like, That's really good.
10:41
SPEAKER_00: You know, he gave her like a the doctor gave her like a PDLA popsicle, was like basically trying to give us some tips and tricks on like how to keep her hydrated, how to like keep giving her fluids.
10:52
SPEAKER_00: Um, and so then he was like, you know, like I want to check her ears, like see how her ear infection's doing as well.
11:01
SPEAKER_00: Um, so he checked her ears and he's like, Hold on, I think the scope is broken.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go get another one.
11:07
SPEAKER_00: And we were like, okay.
11:08
SPEAKER_00: So we wait, he comes back, he uses the second scope, he looks in there, he's like, I don't see like anything in there, like I don't even really see any redness or irritation in her ears.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: He's like, I see like the slightest of pink in her one ear, but she does not have an ear infection, like she's totally fine.
11:24
SPEAKER_00: Um, and so he's like, Yeah, she does not have a double ear infection.
11:27
SPEAKER_00: So, like, me and my husband are sitting there like trying not to cry, because like, praise the Lord, that not only did he fix her dehydration issue and literally allowed her somehow, some way, God's way, right, to to pee a very full diaper off of nothing.
11:46
SPEAKER_00: Um, but her double ear infection was gone.
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SPEAKER_00: Not like she was on days of antibiotics or anything like that, like literally only the touch of the Lord's hand um was she healed.
12:00
SPEAKER_00: And um, he's like, I don't know, like of course the doctor was like baffled, like he couldn't even understand this answer.
12:08
SPEAKER_00: Like, he was genuinely uh, you know, trying to come up with an answer on like how she didn't have a double ear infection.
12:15
SPEAKER_00: You know, he was trying to come with a pediatrician, he was trying to say, like, oh, maybe the antibiotics worked earlier, like, whatever.
12:21
SPEAKER_00: He had probably come up with all the excuses and all the reasons of why this could happen.
12:26
SPEAKER_00: And I was we were just like, It's the Lord.
12:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, and so I had asked him to check her heart because you know, there was a murmur on her heart, and we were like asking him to check that at two.
12:34
SPEAKER_00: We really wanted to like see where that was because obviously that was still really nerve-wracking as well.
12:39
SPEAKER_00: Um, and so he had listened, and you know, you could tell you couldn't tell like if he was hearing anything, and so he kind of like starts listening deeper and like you know, gets all serious, closing his eyes, he chooses a different thing, a scope, and um after a good minute of him listening to her heart, he's like, Yeah, I don't hear anything.
12:58
SPEAKER_00: Like, if she does have a murmur, it's like so small I can't hear it, so I'm gonna say she doesn't have one.
13:03
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't I don't hear anything.
13:05
SPEAKER_00: Um, and he was like, Her heart sounds completely fine.
13:08
SPEAKER_00: And so I was just like, Oh my goodness, like literally praise the Lord, here it is.
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SPEAKER_00: At this point, mind you, by the time we got to the hospital, and we're at this point, it's like 3 30, 4 o'clock in the morning.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, we had been there for a couple hours, and yeah, here we are in the ER in the middle of the night, you know, and the my poor baby in literally in the span of two, three days, gone from you know, nothing but a runny nose to a double ear infection, a murmur in her heart, and severely dehydrated.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and we bring her into the ER, we pray over her before we go in, and she is completely healed, absolutely nothing wrong with her.
13:45
SPEAKER_00: And I mean nothing, like completely healed.
13:47
SPEAKER_00: She's literally like giggling, you know, full-on active baby at 3:30 in the morning, trying to climb off the bed, giggling, all the things.
13:56
SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, that's just my testimony of what happened while I was gone.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so praise the Lord for that.
14:04
SPEAKER_00: He is absolutely so good and so amazing, and just been praising him um for all of his wonderful good works um and encouraging you to pray over your children.
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SPEAKER_00: Um because it is, yeah, it is so powerful.
14:18
SPEAKER_00: Um, but now that I've been talking for like literally like I don't even know, 13 minutes, let's get into the word.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so today we're talking about visualizing, um, visualizing our ministry, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So before I get into the message, I want to start in a word.
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SPEAKER_00: And so the word is Genesis chapter 15, verses 5 and 6.
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SPEAKER_00: And he says, He took him outside and said, Look up at the heavens and count the stars.
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SPEAKER_00: If indeed you can count them, he said to him, So shall your offspring be.
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SPEAKER_00: Abram believed the Lord and he credited it to him as righteousness.
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SPEAKER_00: So the Lord said to Abraham, look in the stars in the sky, for as many stars in the sky, that's how many descendants you're gonna have.
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SPEAKER_00: Right?
15:08
SPEAKER_00: And he says, That's um, you know, that's how many people I'm gonna give you.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and so it goes on and and it talks about how Abraham was not, um he wasn't hesitant, he wasn't like, um like unsure about this.
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SPEAKER_00: Like he every night would look at the stars, like wondering, visualizing, imaging the descendants and what they would look like and how how many they would be, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And and and think about this, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So, you know, put your feet in in his shoes and think about you right now in your faith and where you're at in your faith, and think about if the Lord had come down to you and said, You are gonna have as many descendants as the stars in the sky.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, think about your first thought, you know, like would you be honest with yourself?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, would you be like, oh my gosh, like absolutely, I totally believe this.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, would you be questioning, like, are you sure, Lord, like that's really a stretch?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, that's a lie, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And be thinking, think think, be honest, like, think about that.
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SPEAKER_00: Because Abraham had such this beautiful, amazing faith.
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SPEAKER_00: He had this obedient faith that he he didn't question it, he was a hundred percent full belief that the Lord was gonna do this, and he visualized that every night when the stars came out, he was looking at them stars thinking, I can't wait to have these descendants, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And so his obedience and his faith and his hope in that, um, and and by doing this and by him exercising this, this really fed his faith to grow and fed his faith to believe, and fed his faith um, you know, to believe and to and to really have hope in this vision.
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SPEAKER_00: And so God fulfilled his promise.
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SPEAKER_00: And it became easier to confess with his mouth that he was gonna have these, you know, descendants as many stars in the sky, because he believed it, he practiced it, he fed it in his mind, he fed it, you know, he spoke it, he declared it, he looked at it, he visioned it, he, you know, believed in it, he had hope in it.
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SPEAKER_00: Um and so, as we have seen, as God has fulfilled his promise, he has that many descendants, right?
17:22
SPEAKER_00: And so I want this to be uh a story that we use to remember when we are visioning our ministry.
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SPEAKER_00: Because so often, if I'm being completely honest, like let's be real honest right now and say, how many times do you vision your ministry?
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SPEAKER_00: Or maybe it's a pastor, or maybe you know, maybe it's just something that you've thought of, maybe it's just been a thought in your mind, maybe it's the Lord laid something on your heart, maybe you were laying in bed when I just had this like poof of a thought, and you can see your ministry, and you're like, Oh, well, like what if I was a a pastor?
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SPEAKER_00: What if, you know, whatever.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's like this big ministry thing you think of.
18:00
SPEAKER_00: Um, but we dismiss it.
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SPEAKER_00: How often do we dismiss it and be like, well, I don't know, that's a stretch.
18:06
SPEAKER_00: Not for me.
18:07
SPEAKER_00: I don't think I could do that.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I've heard that out of so many people's mouths, and if I'm being honest, I'll be guilty and I'm saying that I have said things like that to myself um in the past where I'm like, I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, we'll see.
18:23
SPEAKER_00: Um, but think about that.
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SPEAKER_00: You're like, oh, like I don't know, like I don't have the confidence for that, right?
18:29
SPEAKER_00: I don't, I don't know if I could do that.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't, I don't, I don't know how I would do that.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't have the knowledge like that.
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SPEAKER_00: I I didn't go to pastor school, I don't know what I'm doing, right?
18:38
SPEAKER_00: And you start to you literally start to dismiss the vision.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: You literally start to negatively think about how you can't do it.
18:46
SPEAKER_00: You literally let the devil speak to you, and you're like, oh no, like I can't do that.
18:50
SPEAKER_00: Um and literally, as we all know, that's what the devil does is to steal, kill, and destroy.
18:56
SPEAKER_00: And what he does is he gives us those thoughts to steal, kill, and destroy our vision and our ministry and the growth that we can have in our ministry.
19:06
SPEAKER_00: Um and it's it's proven, okay?
19:10
SPEAKER_00: It's it's real real life science that what a person manages to see in their mind is literally perceived into a reality, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: It might not be clear, but it it's it's it's going to be a reality.
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SPEAKER_00: Think about people who are like extremely anxious and hypercontractless, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Like what they fill themselves with is going to end up being their result.
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SPEAKER_00: People who um, you know, manifest and use manifestation, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Like the what you think in your mind is going to is is scientifically going to see through.
19:45
SPEAKER_00: Um, and so this is why it's so important when we're visioning our ministry, because we need to vision it in our brain.
19:52
SPEAKER_00: We need to think about it and believe that it's going to happen, even if it's as crazy of a thought as the stars of the sky.
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SPEAKER_00: Right?
20:02
SPEAKER_00: Because if our vision is not clear, something's not right in your faith.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: You've got doubt, you've got fear, you've got disbelief.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: What is it in your life that you need to say, I need to cut that out.
20:28
SPEAKER_00: I need to cut that off.
20:30
SPEAKER_00: You know what?
20:31
SPEAKER_00: Yes, you're right.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: I have that disbelief.
20:35
SPEAKER_00: I have that fear, I have that, you know, self-consciousness, I'm not confident in myself, whatever it is.
20:42
SPEAKER_00: You know what?
20:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna cancel that.
20:43
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna rebuke it and I'm gonna repent for that.
20:46
SPEAKER_00: Right now, I'm gonna be made clean.
20:47
SPEAKER_00: Right now, I'm gonna say, I repent, Lord, for having that disbelief that I don't believe that you will fulfill your promise, that you will fulfill my ministry, and you're gonna restore your vision.
20:57
SPEAKER_00: And whatever that vision is, whatever that dream is, whatever it is that you have in your mind and where you can go, believe it, have hope in it, don't lose hope in it.
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SPEAKER_00: Because we are in real life spiritual warfare where the devil is gonna come at us all day long, and we have to stay firm and say, you know what?
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SPEAKER_00: No, I got this dream, I've got the vision, and with God on my side, I know we're going to win, I know we're going to make it, I know we're gonna get there.
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SPEAKER_00: And what you've seen with your eyes of faith, and you say with your lips together, what you see in your mind, and what you say on your you know, on your tongue, it will happen.
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SPEAKER_00: It will come to see reality.
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SPEAKER_00: Your growth will happen first on the inside, because you know, the more that you see it in your mind, the more that you pray over it, the more that you visualize it, the more that it will be easier, just like Abram, to confess it on your mouth.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a confession on your lips, it will be easier.
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SPEAKER_00: To pray it out loud, to declare it, to speak about it to your friends, to speak about it to your disciples.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you know, at first it you start believing it more and more, and the growth starts happening on the inside, and the fire starts growing with you on the inside, and the light starts growing with you on the inside, and the more you believe, the more your heart grows.
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SPEAKER_00: But then after that, you know, your light starts to shine so bright that then it starts to also then show on the outside, and you start to fulfill that dream, you start to fulfill your ministry, you start to fulfill that vision slowly by piece by piece, you start to see it come true.
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SPEAKER_00: But the second you doubt, the second you have fear, the second you give any kind of dedge of the door open to the devil to whisper in your ear and say, You can't do this.
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SPEAKER_00: Who are you to say that you could do this?
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SPEAKER_00: You're not qualified, you're not gifted, you're not skilled, you're not enough, you're not a pastor, you don't know enough about the Bible, you don't like people, you don't you're not good with your words, you can't have good prayer, pretty prayer words.
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SPEAKER_00: Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies.
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SPEAKER_00: And he does that because he's hindering your vision.
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SPEAKER_00: Why?
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SPEAKER_00: Because he knows that hindering your vision will hinder your growth, will hinder your ministry, because he knows that all he has to do is distort the vision that you have over your faith and ministry.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: Your ministry, fun fact, does not just have to mean that you're a pastor over a church.
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SPEAKER_00: Your ministry is the people you're bringing to Christ.
23:54
SPEAKER_00: Your ministry is the people that you're being a light to at work.
23:57
SPEAKER_00: Your ministry is your children that you're discipling.
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SPEAKER_00: Your ministering is your spouse that you're discipling.
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SPEAKER_00: Your ministry is that your mother that you're trying to bring back to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe she maybe she was and she strayed away and now she's coming back.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a friend that you've been trying to get to because they have church hurt and you're really trying to get them to overcome that.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe that, maybe that's your ministry.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's the one person at work.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, maybe it's the lady at the checkout line at the grocery store down the road that you always go to the same grocery store every single Sunday for grocery shopping, and you see her there, and you've been praying over her there, and you've been planting those seeds there, and you've been trying to get her number and invite her.
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SPEAKER_00: That is all your ministry.
24:35
SPEAKER_00: Every single one of those things is still your ministry.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: It's just our ministry looks different depending on who we are, right?
24:42
SPEAKER_00: Like everybody's ministry looks different.
24:45
SPEAKER_00: But the second the devil whispers in our ear and makes us doubt our vision, we stop believing in our growth to get there.
24:58
SPEAKER_00: Because if our vision is off, so is our faith.
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SPEAKER_00: Now in Hebrews 11, verse 1 says, Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
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SPEAKER_00: So God says here that He will bring life to the pictures that we paint in our minds, and we will receive that assurance that the miracle has already been written.
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SPEAKER_00: Right?
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SPEAKER_00: And 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 18 says, So we fix our eyes on not what is seen, but what is unseen.
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SPEAKER_00: For what is seen is temporary, but for what is unseen is eternal.
25:40
SPEAKER_00: And I really want to touch on that um uh here because it's about what's unseen.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: You know, I really I I I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna expose myself here because there's somebody that I'm discipling right now, and I get frustrated with them in my own flesh, where I feel like I don't see that they are where I thought they would be in their faith, or that they um aren't where I wanted them to be in their faith.
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SPEAKER_00: And how dare I do that?
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SPEAKER_00: Because it's not about what I see, it's about what I don't see.
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SPEAKER_00: It's about the way they pray in their car in the morning on their way to work.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the way that they pray over their family before they leave for the day.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the way that they pray over their family at dinner when they come home.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the way that they are dedicated week after week to get up early on their only day to sleep in and make it into church.
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SPEAKER_00: It's about their love, it's about their dedication, it's about the things that I can't see because that's not temporary, that is eternal.
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SPEAKER_00: That is them growing their relationship with the Lord, that is them growing their ministry, that is them growing their faith, that is them growing in their relationship with the Lord to become a disciple.
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SPEAKER_00: That's eternal.
27:19
SPEAKER_00: And so often we get caught up in what we see.
27:24
SPEAKER_00: I'll be the I'll be the first one to admit it.
27:27
SPEAKER_00: You're not alone, you're not the only one, honey.
27:29
SPEAKER_00: I'll say, I do it, I am the queen of doing that, okay?
27:32
SPEAKER_00: I can't tell you how many times the Lord has smacked me in the face.
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SPEAKER_00: Not literally, obviously, he doesn't do that, but I can't tell you how many times I have been smacked in the face with conviction, and I'm like, oh my gosh, Amber, get it together.
27:45
SPEAKER_00: Because it's not about what you see, it's about what you don't see.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: So keep doing your work, keep doing your ministry, keep visioning the growth, keep believing that it will happen, keep declaring the growth, keep praying over the growth.
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SPEAKER_00: Trust the Lord that he will grow their faith.
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SPEAKER_00: Trust the Lord that he will grow their relationship.
28:12
SPEAKER_00: Trust his process, trust his promise, and continue to intercede on their behalf, continue to pray on their behalf, continue to lift them up and say, I believe that there will be a day where you blank, blank, blank, right?
28:24
SPEAKER_00: And you fill in the blanks because you vision the ministry for them.
28:28
SPEAKER_00: I, you know, I vision the day that you will run your own Bible study.
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SPEAKER_00: I vision the day that you bring somebody to Christ.
28:35
SPEAKER_00: I vision the day that you invite somebody to church.
28:38
SPEAKER_00: I envision the day that you're, you know, you bring somebody to salvation.
28:42
SPEAKER_00: I envision the day that you have a revival at your job.
28:45
SPEAKER_00: Whatever it is, let them know that you have a vision for them.
28:50
SPEAKER_00: Like let them know that you are are believing in your mind, that you have a picture in your mind that, hey, one day I believe in my heart that your faith will grow that way.
28:59
SPEAKER_00: Because by you believing that in your heart, let them know that you believe in them.
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SPEAKER_00: And by you believing in it, you know, go back to Abram's story again.
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SPEAKER_00: By you believing in it, you counting the stars every single night, you declaring it on your lips, will it come?
29:21
SPEAKER_00: By your faith it will come.
29:24
SPEAKER_00: By your faith it will come.
29:30
SPEAKER_00: You have to visualize the size of the faith, of the ministry.
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SPEAKER_00: Have very clear pictures in your mind.
29:41
SPEAKER_00: Okay, when I mean clear pictures, I mean clear pictures.
29:45
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'll give an example.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, hey, I've got at my you know, church conference coming up, and I'm going, and I'm going with my sister, and um I am envisioning a group of girls.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm envisioning four girls surrounded by me that I bring to this conference that will come to salvation.
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SPEAKER_00: You envision it, declare it, pray about it, invest in some time with the Lord, pray about it, talk about it with the Lord, ask him to help you bring it to life.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: You pray about those people.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so you prayed about four people that you're bringing to conference, and that's coming up, maybe you've got that coming up in you know a month or two or however long.
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SPEAKER_00: You start praying about it.
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SPEAKER_00: You start saying, Lord, show me the people that I need to bring.
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SPEAKER_00: You start seeking those people, you start planting those seeds, you start figuring out how to get their number, you start figuring out how to build your relationship with them, you start figuring out how to bring them to church, you start figuring out how you're gonna pay for their ticket to go to conference, you start figuring out how they're gonna get to conference, you're gonna start figuring out how you know what they're gonna eat for dinner while they're at conference, and you're gonna believe it, and you're gonna vision it, and you're gonna put together this dream in your mind, and you're gonna believe it, and you're gonna speak it into an existence, you're gonna pray about it, you're gonna declare it through God's word.
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SPEAKER_00: You're gonna you're gonna have scripture, you're gonna pray about your highlighted scripture and your word, and you're gonna declare it, and you're gonna believe it.
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SPEAKER_00: And guess what?
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SPEAKER_00: It's gonna happen because by your faith, it will happen.
31:24
SPEAKER_00: Okay, and like I said earlier, include that person in your vision, include that person that you're visioning for, you know, that maybe whoever is is in your vision of of growth in your ministry, include them.
31:38
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's multiple person people, maybe it's one specific person, include them, let them be included because for one, by like I said earlier, by including them, I'm wrapping up here, I promise.
31:51
SPEAKER_00: I'm literally on my last point.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: Um, by including them, you are letting them know that you believe in them, first of all.
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SPEAKER_00: And you're letting you're also declaring and letting the Lord know that you believe in Him, that you are declaring over your vision.
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SPEAKER_00: You're declaring that you believe in your faith.
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SPEAKER_00: But also by doing that, you help that person or those people become visionaries.
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SPEAKER_00: You're modeling as a leader how to vision.
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SPEAKER_00: What it's like to ha to vision, what it's like to have pictures in your mind and dream big, and what it's like to dream in your ministry, and what it's like to vision in your ministry.
32:31
SPEAKER_00: And don't let that dream go.
32:33
SPEAKER_00: I encourage you, one of the smartest things that anybody has ever told me, to write it down.
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SPEAKER_00: Write it down.
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SPEAKER_00: Write it down when you think about it.
32:47
SPEAKER_00: I can't believe I just sung on my episode.
32:49
SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
32:50
SPEAKER_00: I've never done that before.
32:51
SPEAKER_00: I don't know, something just came right through me and I was really feeling it.
32:54
SPEAKER_00: I'm so sorry.
32:55
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna stick to my day job.
32:56
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, seriously, write it down.
32:59
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a legit vision that the Lord has given you, you know, but or maybe it's your own just dream and your own vision that you're you know that you are just getting super excited in your faith um and that you're dreaming, you know, that's that's totally fine too, but but picture it.
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SPEAKER_00: And when you picture it, write it down, write down the details, write down what you see, write down that write down the day that you've seen it.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: Hey, fun fact, notes on your phone, super helpful.
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SPEAKER_00: Write it down.
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SPEAKER_00: Write it down because your phone will keep track of the day you wrote it down.
33:28
SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you what, when you start to doubt and when you start to have fear in the devil, because he's gonna do it, especially on the day that you didn't do devotion in the morning and you didn't have your coffee, and then your boss texted you and asked you to do something that you didn't want to do, and now you're super frustrated and you have no patience, and now you're praying to the Lord just to have patience for the day, and now you let the devil come in.
33:47
SPEAKER_00: And guess what?
33:48
SPEAKER_00: Halfway through the day, you're trying to, you know, you're trying to attack, not attack, wrong word, you're trying to um, you know, push another seed in in your in your vision, right?
33:59
SPEAKER_00: And maybe you you text that person and you check in on them, or um, you know, you you you text them and say, hey, let me call you later.
34:06
SPEAKER_00: I gotta, you know, I want to talk to you about some things, right?
34:08
SPEAKER_00: And you start thinking about what you're gonna do um, you know, to to to further that that vision, right?
34:14
SPEAKER_00: And when you do that, the devil starts being like, oh, they're not gonna come, oh, they're not gonna text you back, oh, you're not enough, you don't know what to say, you don't know how to answer them, you're not skilled enough, you don't have a Bible verse for that.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's not gonna happen.
34:30
SPEAKER_00: Boom, boom, boom, boom, and he just starts shooting just flame thrower after flamethrower at you.
34:37
SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you what, I'm gonna be honest because we're all human, okay, honey, and we are all sinners, honey, and I'll say I'm the first one to say yeah, me too, okay.
34:50
SPEAKER_00: There have been days where that's happened to me.
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SPEAKER_00: There have been multiple days.
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SPEAKER_00: There have been a season where there was a few days in a row, it's been a week where it'd been a rough week, and I'm like, I don't know.
35:01
SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm really not I'm really self-conscious, I'm not feeling good about it anymore.
35:07
SPEAKER_00: I don't know, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: I know the vision will come eventually, but I don't know right now.
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SPEAKER_00: I just really don't feel like right now is a season of growing.
35:16
SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you what, going back to that that note in your phone or in your journal and and literally rereading the vision and rereading the details of the pictures that you have in your mind refreshes you.
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SPEAKER_00: Refreshes, oh you know what?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm revisualizing my ministry.
35:35
SPEAKER_00: I'm re-looking at those stars at night, I'm re-counting them stars.
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SPEAKER_00: Because you know what, Lord, you are right.
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SPEAKER_00: By faith, it will happen.
35:44
SPEAKER_00: That's how I'm ending my note.
35:47
SPEAKER_00: By faith, it will happen.
35:51
SPEAKER_00: Alright, I'm gonna close this out in prayer, of course.
35:57
SPEAKER_00: Dear Heavenly Father, I just lift up every single listener to you, Father, and I just pray and I intercede on their behalf.
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SPEAKER_00: I pray a protection over every single one of them, Lord.
36:06
SPEAKER_00: I just pray that wherever they go and they speak the ministry, they speak the gospel, they whether they're being the light to somebody, being the love, whether they are um just modeling uh God, godly character and fruits of the Spirit, Father, and they're modeling what it's like to be a Proverbs 31 woman, Father.
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SPEAKER_00: I just pray a protection over them, that they continue to shine their light, and that nobody turns their light out, nobody dims their light.
36:30
SPEAKER_00: Father, that you keep their light protected, that you keep their love um that they have for other people protected, that you keep them protected wherever they go, Father, that you keep their bodies protected, keep their minds and their souls protected wherever they go, that they continue to be bold in their faith.
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SPEAKER_00: And I encourage every single one of them today, and I just I pray that this word encouraged them, Father, and I pray that if they're driving, they get where they go safely, and if they're not home, that they get home safely.
36:55
SPEAKER_00: And if they're home, Father, I just continue to pray that you keep the lights on and the heat or the air or whatever that they need right now on, whatever one they have on.
37:02
SPEAKER_00: I know for me, yeah.
37:04
SPEAKER_00: It's a little bit of both.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, I just pray that you just keep them protected and safe, Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyways, that's Amen.
37:15
SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
37:16
SPEAKER_00: I just freaked out because, like, as I literally got done praying, I looked down at my computer and the whole screen was black, and I was like, oh my gosh, did my computer just down on me and I literally just lost that entire recording of a message?
37:27
SPEAKER_00: Nope, just kidding.
37:29
SPEAKER_00: It just went to sleep on me.
37:30
SPEAKER_00: We're still here.
37:31
SPEAKER_00: Um, anyways, I'm gonna wrap this up and I will um oh wait, one more thing.
37:37
SPEAKER_00: If you guys have any prayer requests, I feel like I haven't said that lately.
37:41
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I have.
37:42
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
37:43
SPEAKER_00: Please, please, please.
37:44
SPEAKER_00: I I I encourage you.
37:47
SPEAKER_00: I hope this lays on your heart heavy.
37:49
SPEAKER_00: Please reach out to me whether you there's a form that I have in my show notes below.
37:53
SPEAKER_00: It's like a little form you can fill out.
37:55
SPEAKER_00: You just put your name in your prayer request.
37:57
SPEAKER_00: Please do that.
37:58
SPEAKER_00: I would love to get connected with you.
37:59
SPEAKER_00: I would love to pray with you because as you have heard in the beginning of this message, that the power of prayer is so real, and God and his miracles and his presence and his glory is so real.
38:11
SPEAKER_00: If you need any prayer requests, please fill out that form.
38:14
SPEAKER_00: Please shoot me a message on Instagram, Facebook, wherever you found me, um, whether it's an email, literally, however you can get up with me, um, please do.
38:25
SPEAKER_00: Please send me a prayer request, and I would love to get connected with you.
38:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, and on that note, I'm gonna sign off for now, and I will see you guys next time.
38:32
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening.
38:36
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SPEAKER_00: And remember, sisters, you are fully in faith this week.
39:05
SPEAKER_00: God is with you every step of the way.