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How to Kill the Disappointment That's Been Delaying Your Business · Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast | Faith-Led Strategies for Christian Entrepreneurs

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  SPEAKER_00: This is the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast, where faith finally meets real strategy to launch your online business.
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  SPEAKER_00: This morning I want to talk to our Kingdom Builders for this episode of the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast on Get Ready with God live.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like a crossover episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every Thursday morning, you get Get Ready with God, and we're recording an episode of the Kingdom Business Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's like it's so cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: But today I wanted to talk to you about something that's really important.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do you kill disappointment?
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is one of the main things that I address inside of our mentorship, inside of my Jesus Scroll Gang community for entrepreneurial kingdom builders.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when people come in to my mentorship, the number one thing that I hear is I've been trying to build this for years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it could be really easy, you guys, to get disappointed when you've you've put that much effort into something, you've put that much time and prayer and effort into something like completely pivoting your onboarding mechanism, your on-ramping mechanism for an offer that you truly believe in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for me, that's I I want to serve the Jesus Girl entrepreneur who truly wants to launch her business online because she wants to make impact and income.
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  SPEAKER_00: She wants to be a Luke 8 lady.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you've ever read Luke 8, verses 1 to 3, you know what I'm talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Luke 8 ladies are these women who traveled with Jesus as he went from city to city, village to village, ministering, and the disciples were with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it also says in verse 2 that there were these women that traveled with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what's shocking is look at the women who were traveling with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the women was the wife of the steward who served in Herod's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: So someone who was a mortal enemy, okay, the dynasty that was a mortal enemy of the Christ, of Jesus, their steward, his steward, his wife, was traveling with Jesus in his ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's what's crazy: it says, and they were providing for Jesus' ministry out of their own substance.
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  SPEAKER_00: This means that these women had money to throw at the ministry of Jesus, had had money to sew into the ministry of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their own substance, their own, their own.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's the girl that I want to serve.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the girl that I want to mentor and coach, is the girl who goes, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: I reckon, I reckon that I could serve my God like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I reckon that I could run a business like a boss and I could make, you know, wealth, that he would give me the ability to make wealth, and that I could then sew into kingdom expansion.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe that.
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  SPEAKER_00: If that's you, then you're my girl.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because that's what we do inside of the Jesus Girl Gang.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we do inside the Build with Faith mentorship, is we build the thing that God showed you so that you can make wealth, so that you can invest in kingdom projects.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for some of you, that kingdom project is just to expand your family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of you, that kingdom project is God is saying, look, I want you to enrich your family experiences.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because as a mom, you know, you're like, I want us to have more experiences as a family.
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  SPEAKER_00: That that's one of my things is, you know, I just I love when we travel together.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love when we experience something together in rest where we're not, because Doug and I, we we run a church and we lead a church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so our kids are in ministry with us all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so they see a lot of times we're serving and we are, you know, prioritizing our church and relationships in church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so they've learned over time that they just come along with.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't ever exclude them from it, and we just do it together as a family.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're in ministry together, but that requires then and necessitates that at some point we need to step away and we need to have that time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for me, doing this business means that I can bring this kind of wealth and revenue into our home, and it makes possible for us to do these other things.
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  SPEAKER_00: My husband runs a business that provides for our family.
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  SPEAKER_00: My business is to minister to the heart of the Lord, to serve God's people that He's called me to, and to enrich our experience of sowing into the kingdom and expanding the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those are the kinds of women that I serve.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when this happens and you're called into a place where God's saying, I want you to stretch, I want you to, I want you to believe this thing that I've told you, and I want you to stretch out with me, I want you to trust me and come on this journey with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is very common for the woman that I serve to it for for her to take years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, on my on my page, I've got these testimonials of women that are like, I was in the I was stuck for years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Lord, do you really want me putting that out on my sales page?
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  SPEAKER_00: And he was like, Absolutely, because this is the main problem that the girl that you serve that she struggles with is quiet disappointment, and maybe not so quiet after a while.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because in the beginning it's quiet because it's all internal.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're thinking to yourself, I'm failing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're thinking to yourself, I'm not cut out for this.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're thinking I'm making a mistake somewhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I heard God wrong, maybe I'm doing it wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's all this disappointment that's internal and you're struggling with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even if you're not building a business online, even if this does not apply to you as you know, an entrepreneurial kingdom builder, anything that you're building with and for God, that is a word from God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we this is the punchline, if we put our hope in the wrong thing, and this is gonna be the spoiler alert, so get ready.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we put our hope in the wrong thing, we will generate disappointment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hear me what I just said.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna want to write that down.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I put my hope in the wrong thing, I will generate disappointment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Write it down.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I put my hope in the wrong thing, I will generate disappointment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And where you put your hope is a choice, where you put your hope as a choice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so primarily when these women come in and they're saying, I've been stuck for four, five, six years, they come in with some pretty distinct disappointment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's not the only reason why they're stuck, but the stuckness has produced in them a certain amount of disappointment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they come in after it's been going on for that long, here's what I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know that a sound that I made in the invitation has piqued their hope again.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if disappointment comes, when you put your hope in the wrong thing, then we want to know what is the wrong thing to put our hope in, and then what is the right thing, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we want to know, well, where am I putting my hope that's wrong?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, let me share this with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me share this scripture with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 20, verse 7 says, Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of our Lord, of the Lord our God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some trust in chariots, some trust in horses.
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  SPEAKER_00: So some trust in their authority, and some trust in their strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we put our trust in the name of the Lord our God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that right there summarizes what the problem is.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we put our hope in our own authority, in our own strength, in our own what we think we should be able to accomplish, what we think we're able to accomplish, and what our strength is saying we can do, we are going to become disappointed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at Psalm 33, verse 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, the king is not saved by his great army.
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  SPEAKER_00: A warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might, it cannot rescue.
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  SPEAKER_00: So these are telling us that when we put our hope in our own ability and in our own strength, we will become disappointed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And quite frankly, if we're trying to do something that we've never done before, something that no one before us has ever done before, when we're trying to do a new thing, and God says to you in Isaiah 43, Behold, I do a new thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you not perceive it?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna do these massively new things.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna run streams in the desert, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's like these massively new things we've never ever seen before.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet we roll up into it and we think to ourselves, yeah, I can rip that out of the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep, yep, I should be able to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we put this weight on ourselves because of our own ability and our own strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: We think we should be able to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then when we go for it like that and it's not happening, and we're in good company.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, look at Abraham.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at Abraham.
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  SPEAKER_00: God says to him, I'm gonna make you the father of many nations, I'm gonna make you the father of many nations, and I'm gonna do it through your own seed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, Negative ghostwriter, this body is not capable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Negative ghostwriter, that body over there, barren.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not gonna work.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God's like, I'm telling you that this is what I'm gonna do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if it takes a while, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And for Abraham it took a while, what did Abraham do?
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  SPEAKER_00: He started operating in his own ability and strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Well, I can't do it by myself, and my wife is barren, so how are we gonna do this?
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  SPEAKER_00: So when Sarah, his wife, goes, Oh, just just do that with with my servant woman, Hagar, he's very quick to say yes because the disappointment, the disappointment of it's not happened yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we get thirstier for the ways of the world as we go on.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we don't realize that our hope is actually in the wrong place.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you've placed your hope on your own ability and your own strength, you're going to become disappointed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's the trick, here's the punchline.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many people will then go, Erica, no, no, no, no, that's not, that's not what I'm doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not how it started.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, it's not how it started, but that's where you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: But talk to me about where it started.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the other mistake.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hear me in this because this is so pivotal when you get this.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is so pivotal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because in my ministry, I'm always telling you, if God said it, that settles it, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: If God said it, that settles it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that a lot of times we think to ourselves, well, it's the word of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna put my hope in the promise, because if God said it, that settles it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we think that what we're relying on is the word alone, the promise alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that's a mistake.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a mistake.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you read scripture, he never says to rely on his word alone, he never says to rely on his promise alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like in the book of Hebrews, the writer goes through an entire chapter of explaining covenant, explaining covenant, because in the issue with Abraham, when God made a covenant with Abraham, he could, there was no one else to swear by.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he agreed with Abraham himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this actually goes against like the law, because there needed to be another witness.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what the law and tradition showed.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what did God do?
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, No, no, no, you're you're gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna swear by myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna come into this covenant with you alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he had to prove that he was he was good for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this instance, what he was saying, and what he's saying throughout all of scripture is, I am good for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is good for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, what does this mean for us?
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  SPEAKER_00: It means that his promises are good because he is good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so in scripture, what we see, and what I just read to you, is we're not gonna trust in chariots or in horses.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even if God promised you that he was gonna send you chariots and horses so that thereby you could win the war, we don't trust and hope in the promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: We trust and hope in the Lord, our God, who sent the word, who sent the promise, who sent the manifestation of that promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you with me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you with me?
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's our mistake.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's our mistake ultimately is that when God spoke to us, somehow we moved our trust and our hope off of the one who sent the promise and into the promise and into the word.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the and the the risk there is that you start painting a picture of what you thought you heard God say or what you think the promise should look like, what you think it should mean, and then you get disappointed when it doesn't work out like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the only antidote for this is to go back to putting your hope and your trust in the one, in the one who can do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your trust and hope in the one who spoke the word, who spoke the promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And many times when women come in and they are at this level of disappointment because they're like, I've tried it all, I've done it all.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, what if it's not a doing it problem?
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  SPEAKER_00: What if it's going back to remembering that God said that you would do this?
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  SPEAKER_00: And we've got to put our trust and our faith back on him.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got to put our hope back on him that if he said it, if he said it, stop putting the stress on said it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stop putting the stress on the word, stop it.
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  SPEAKER_00: If he, if he said it, the one who does not lie, if he said it, that settles it.
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  SPEAKER_00: If he said it, that's what's gonna settle the word in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: If he said it, that's what's gonna bring it to pass.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you with me?
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  SPEAKER_00: So look at this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isaiah 49, 23 in the NLT says, those who trust in me will never be put to shame.
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  SPEAKER_00: God says if you will trust in him, you will never be put to shame.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, well, Erica, I did trust in him and I was put to shame.
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  SPEAKER_00: Check that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Check that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Check that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you just feel disappointed?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or were you really put to shame?
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  SPEAKER_00: Were you disappointed that it didn't play out the way that you wanted it to?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or did he still sustain you through it?
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  SPEAKER_00: You you need to check that because shame is a state where we take something that we did wrong, a mistake that we made, and we attribute it to our identity.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is still saying you're the girl for the job, even though you made a mistake, even though you went the wrong way.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is still saying that the word that he spoke over you is true.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's a choice right there.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you've decided to allow a mistake to become who you are and to define who you are, that's the only way that shame can get a hold of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So those who trust in God will never be put to shame.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that means believing him at his word about who you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: That I know these are deep, but it this is what makes the difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what makes disappointment not able to come to your tent.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what makes disappointment a whole lot easier to get out of, even if it gets its tentacles around you, is you've got to realize that putting your hope and your trust in the Lord your God is the antidote for disappointment, not resolved circumstances, not the breakthrough.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is so vital.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is vital for everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know that this is a kingdom builder session, but the reality is this is true for anyone who is a believer, anyone who's doing anything great with and for God who is struggling with disappointment.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at what Psalms 25, 3 in the NLT says.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced, will ever be disgraced.
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  SPEAKER_00: As long as we trust in him, he is going to empower us with a power, with a grace that only he can give so that we can win, so that we can produce, so that the word can come to pass through us.
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  SPEAKER_00: As long as we trust in him, as long as we hope in him, because that's what hope is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's what are you putting your expectation on?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are you putting your trust in?
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is crazy, but it's like you have to even trust past the word that he spoke, because our minds, the human mind is tricky and our hearts are fickle.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we hear something from the Lord, we just start to go off to the races, making it look like what we want it to in our minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, No, I could change it in the middle.
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  SPEAKER_00: I could do something that you couldn't even comprehend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: My ways are higher, my thoughts are are higher.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, they're different.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're different and they're gonna surprise you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when it came to Abraham and Sarah, what did he do?
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  SPEAKER_00: He made Sarah able to conceive, even past she was barren, and then she was past her time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, we got we got double problems here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got so many problems in the natural, and yet God's like, if you trust in me, I'll just make those problems go away.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is where we're missing it because it's like, okay, well, this has been going on for years, so prove to me, Erica, that you know, those facts and that data aren't the determining factor.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, that's what's keeping you disappointed.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have to put your hope and your trust back in God, who said it, who said that this would come to pass, and divorce your self-contrived notions of what it's gonna look like.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is what is gonna bring you hope back.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is what is gonna actually cause the disappointment to flee.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at Romans 5, verses 3 to 5.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, we can rejoice too when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance, and endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this hope will not lead to disappointment.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we can rejoice when we feel like we're hitting roadblocks, when we're hitting the things that seem like we're never going to be able to get through.
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  SPEAKER_00: For we know that this is helping us to develop endurance.
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  SPEAKER_00: And endurance, our ability to stand even in the midst of what seem like really sucky circumstances that aren't going our way, that kind of endurance develops strength of character.
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  SPEAKER_00: Character, which is so important to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And character strengthens our confident hope, our confident hope of salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is salvation?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is saving.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is saying, I know that even though I'm in the midst of these situations and circumstances that seem like it's not going to pan out and like what God said can never come to pass.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe that the God of my salvation is going to come and save me out of these circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Paul says right there, and this hope, the hope that we've placed in our Savior, the hope that we've placed on salvation through Christ, because we have victory through Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is not something that makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is miraculous, it is a mystery.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is the hope that we need to grab a hold of because that is the hope that will not lead to disappointment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you get this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Disappointment is contrived by ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are we are literally choosing disappointment because we've moved our hope off of the promiser and put it onto the promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then when the promise doesn't seem like it's happening in the time frame or in the way that we need it to, we then move our hope and our expectation onto, well, I have to make this work.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that right there is what's extending and delaying timelines.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, you can get a whole new like butt bushel, I guess, of disappointed if you then start to go, well, see, it's my fault, and I'm never gonna be good at no, no, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, just read the scripture and realign your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Realign your hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put your hope back on the one.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does this sound like?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what it sounds like.
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  SPEAKER_00: No matter how long this takes, I know that God called me to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if he brought me to it, he'll bring me through it in Jesus' mighty name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's taking the pressure off of the timeline.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might be like, Erica, you don't understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need this to produce right now.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Girl, I've been in that place so many times in my life, like really between a rock and a hard place.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: And that's when God started talking to me about the God of the 13th hour and 13th hour faith.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: 13th hour faith.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Because until you understand that our God is a quantum God who operates outside of our timeline, and his 13th hour can actually affect our 12th hour so that it's perfectly timed what we need, you're gonna forever be disappointed.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: Because you're operating from this natural perspective, this carnal perspective that says, well, no, I needed it by 11 p.m.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: and it didn't come through.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: Girl, you're forgetting about the 13th hour in the spirit.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: You're forgetting about the 13th hour in the kingdom.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: You're forgetting about it.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: And until you remember that our God is a God of the 13th hour, and you start to engage in 13th hour faith, then you cannot remain in hope and in confidence through your 12th hour.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: Through your it is truly your 12th hour.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: I know that the saying is the 11th hour, but we're like when we start after 11, it is the 12th hour.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: And that's when we start to we definitely drop hope if we've got it in the wrong place.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: But if your hope remains in the one who spoke it and the one who promised, then you know that he's a 13th hour God.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: And he's working things out in your future and he's seeding them back into your 12th hour.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_00: So even if the deadline is passed in the natural, that doesn't mean that it's that you still can't have it.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't, you know, he's a resurrecting God.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: There are things that he resurrects, there are things and people, circumstances, situations.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: There are things that he resurrects, but that's the 13th hour God coming into your world.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: And if you will not keep your hope on the 13th hour God, you will not be able to operate in 13th hour faith, and you will not see these things flee.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: You will not see these circumstances and these situations turn around in your favor.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: Because our God is a 13th hour God.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: And he just keeps on reminding us of that.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just trying to make sure that there isn't anything else that I want to share with you about this because I've got a couple of different scriptures in here that um pertain.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Proverbs 13, 12 say says, um, hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: And so I don't think that the Lord is trying to say to us, like, you're not gonna get anything that you want and you're gonna like it.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think that that is who our God is.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: And so I think sometimes that's why we don't want to put our full trust in God and our full hope in God, is because we're like, well, if I do that, then maybe what I want isn't right, and so it's not gonna come to pass.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I want this thing so badly that I want to hold on to it.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_00: I want to keep holding on to it because I really believe that this is about how it's supposed to happen.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: But I need you to understand that you're deferring your hope because of that, because the hope needs to be in the one who can bring it to pass.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: Your hope needs to be in God.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: And when we insist on putting our hope on the promise the way that we want it, or when we insist on putting our hope in our strength and our abilities, that's when we're taking hope off of God, and that's what's creating hope deferred, and that makes your heart sick.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: But a desire fulfilled is like a tree of life, and the only way that we get our desires fulfilled is if we keep our hope on the one who fulfills our desires.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: When we start to move our eyes and our heart off of that, we will have deferred hope.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: The listen to me, deferred hope isn't because the circumstance or the situation is taking too long.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: Hope deferred is because our heart is picking up disappointment because it's not happening the way we thought it would, the way we wanted it to, in the time frame that we wanted it to.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: And you can you can accelerate your timelines if every time you catch yourself putting hope in the wrong place, you just put it back on God.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: Just renew your hope and your trust in God at that moment, and disappointment will have to flee.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: Because if you put your hope in him, those who put our trust in him, we are never disappointed.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's what the word says.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: We will never be disappointed, we'll never be put to shame.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: And so I just want to encourage you with that today.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: Lord, help us.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: Help us in these weak spots, in these places where we get scared, where we just start to freak out that it's not happening, it's not happening the way that we that we need it to.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: Lord, help us.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: Help us to see that right there.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: We've taken our hope off of you and we've put it on carnal things, we've put it on things that are natural.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: And Lord, help us to put our hope and our trust back in you so that your word can come to pass in our life.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: Please do that, Lord, because I know that that's the answer, because your word says that that's the answer to just absolutely killing disappointment off of our life so that hope can be renewed and we can see, we can see the thing that you have spoken come to pass in Jesus' mighty name.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: I love you so much.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: Bye for now.