Latest / DA CREW Podcast / DAILY DEVOTION WITH QUEEN ANGELA Made Beautiful in Its Time Finding Rest in God’s Sovereignty DAY 9 81125
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- 0:08Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, y'all. We
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- 0:30Speaker 1: it is time for our daily devotion, Daily devotion with
- 0:34Speaker 1: the Queen.
- 0:34Speaker 2: Y'all.
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- 1:58Speaker 1: So y'all, I'm gonna share this out really quick. Let
- 2:00Speaker 1: me give me a chance to share this out. Shure
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- 2:24Speaker 2: come on in. Good morning, good.
- 2:55Speaker 4: Morning, good morning, morning, good morn, good.
- 3:07Speaker 3: Morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, y'all.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good.
- 3:17Speaker 3: Morning, good morning, good morning, y'all.
- 3:23Speaker 2: Come on in, come on in, come on in, come
- 3:25Speaker 2: on in, come on.
- 3:26Speaker 3: Here, y'all.
- 3:26Speaker 1: Eat, it's time for our daily devotion, y'all. We are
- 3:31Speaker 1: day number nine inside of one of my devotions.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Y'all.
- 3:35Speaker 1: This is one of my devotions that you can purchase
- 3:38Speaker 1: on my website, which is Www. Angela Thomas Smith books
- 3:44Speaker 1: dot com. Again, you can go over to Www. Angela
- 3:49Speaker 1: Thomas Smith Books dot org not dot org, y'all, excuse me,
- 3:55Speaker 1: Angela Thomas Smith books dot com, and you the opportunity
- 4:00Speaker 1: to scroll down and check.
- 4:02Speaker 3: Out all of the books that I have.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Some of the magazines are also on my website. Also,
- 4:09Speaker 1: you can see current events, things that we have coming up.
- 4:14Speaker 1: How you can connect with me if you are looking
- 4:16Speaker 1: to write a book, or if you just need coaching
- 4:19Speaker 1: on a book, whatever you are looking to do. I'm
- 4:22Speaker 1: also a life coach, So you get the chance to
- 4:25Speaker 1: go over there and explore and find out just a
- 4:28Speaker 1: little bit about who I am and the things that
- 4:31Speaker 1: I do. So y'all take an opportunity to go check
- 4:34Speaker 1: out the website again, that is Www. Angela Thomas Smith
- 4:41Speaker 1: books dot com. So this morning we're going to be
- 4:46Speaker 1: coming out of one of my journals, my devotional journals,
- 4:50Speaker 1: which is a twenty one day devotion. This is a
- 4:52Speaker 1: twenty one day devotion is God is My Refuge and
- 4:56Speaker 1: My Present Help.
- 4:57Speaker 3: It's the name of this book, y'all. I did this.
- 5:00Speaker 3: I'm gonna read what.
- 5:01Speaker 1: I wrote on the back of this book. Angela Thomas Smith,
- 5:04Speaker 1: known as the Queen of Collaboration. Angela enjoys connecting with
- 5:08Speaker 1: others and can be reached online at www. Link Tree
- 5:12Speaker 1: Queen of Collaborations, embark on a twenty one day spiritual
- 5:16Speaker 1: journey with God Is My Refuge and My Present Help.
- 5:19Speaker 1: This devotional God offers daily reflection, scripture, and affirmations to
- 5:24Speaker 1: deepen your connection with God, experience strength, peace and joy
- 5:29Speaker 1: through His presence, and discover love and hope in each day.
- 5:34Speaker 1: Perfect for personal growth and inspiration. So that is what's
- 5:38Speaker 1: on the back of this book, y'all. And it's just
- 5:42Speaker 1: it's not a replacement for the Bible. It's just a
- 5:46Speaker 1: supplement to help you dive a little deeper and to
- 5:49Speaker 1: explore and to think about some things that maybe you
- 5:52Speaker 1: didn't think about as you read these scriptures, because if
- 5:54Speaker 1: you're like me, I have read the Bible through and
- 5:57Speaker 1: through over and over and over. But every time I
- 6:00Speaker 1: pick it up, I get a different revelation about different things.
- 6:03Speaker 1: So I encourage you to dive as deep as you
- 6:07Speaker 1: can to go and use these different resources, these different
- 6:12Speaker 1: little tools that can supplement your study and your time,
- 6:17Speaker 1: because y'all, it is important that we are spending time
- 6:21Speaker 1: with the Word so that it can manifest in our life.
- 6:26Speaker 3: Y'all, we got to know how to apply.
- 6:28Speaker 1: It's not just something that we just want to read,
- 6:31Speaker 1: but we want it to be a living part of
- 6:34Speaker 1: our life. And how do we make it a living
- 6:36Speaker 1: part of our life. We have to apply it and
- 6:39Speaker 1: allow it to manifest. Because his word is true, his
- 6:42Speaker 1: word is not going to return to him. Lord, He's
- 6:45Speaker 1: gonna watch over until his perform and perfected in our lives.
- 6:48Speaker 1: No will we be perfect people. Will we never be
- 6:51Speaker 1: perfect people because there's only one perfect person, and that
- 6:55Speaker 1: is Jesus himself. We will never be perfect people. But
- 7:00Speaker 1: He can perfect things through us according to his word.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Because he is true to his word, his word will
- 7:07Speaker 1: not return to him.
- 7:08Speaker 3: Board he will.
- 7:09Speaker 1: Watch over into his performing perfection. Y'all, he created us
- 7:12Speaker 1: in his image. He fearfully and wonderfully made us. We
- 7:17Speaker 1: didn't get dropped out of the sky. He strategically placed
- 7:20Speaker 1: us here. He knew that this day would be this day.
- 7:23Speaker 1: He knew who he needed to have in place, what
- 7:26Speaker 1: he needed each and every one of us doing so.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Know that what you may have experienced, it was necessary.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Know that it was necessary. It was necessary to get
- 7:38Speaker 1: you where you are today. You may not be where
- 7:41Speaker 1: you want to be, but you are right where you
- 7:44Speaker 1: are supposed to be for this moment, for this season,
- 7:48Speaker 1: for this time, and I don't care what you.
- 7:51Speaker 3: May be going through.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Don't discredit yourself, don't count yourself out, because know that
- 7:57Speaker 1: He is yet working in you. He is yet in
- 8:00Speaker 1: the story. He is yet fulfilling the promises that he's
- 8:04Speaker 1: already made to us. All you have to do is
- 8:07Speaker 1: pick up that word, y'all.
- 8:08Speaker 3: Pick it up.
- 8:09Speaker 1: Go o there, find some scriptures and apply it to
- 8:11Speaker 1: your life. If you got to, get some posted notes
- 8:14Speaker 1: and stick it around so that you can be reminded
- 8:16Speaker 1: of the word, and repeat these words over and over
- 8:18Speaker 1: to it get embedded in your spirit. Now, this is
- 8:21Speaker 1: things that I do. I'm not just coming on here
- 8:24Speaker 1: telling you things, y'all. Before I could even come on
- 8:26Speaker 1: here and share these words with you and share these
- 8:29Speaker 1: things with you. Don't you think that he dealt with
- 8:31Speaker 1: me first? Even as I was preparing some of these books,
- 8:36Speaker 1: y'all got over one hundred and forty literary words, well
- 8:38Speaker 1: over one hundred and fifty, because the last time I checked,
- 8:41Speaker 1: I had one hundred and fifty, and I think I've
- 8:44Speaker 1: done a couple more since then.
- 8:45Speaker 3: But y'all, he.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Didn't just give me. I just didn't have I just
- 8:49Speaker 1: didn't just wake up and just decided that I was
- 8:51Speaker 1: gonna write. Y'all, I experienced some things. Life happened, Life
- 8:56Speaker 1: be happening, Life is still happening. And if I keep living,
- 8:59Speaker 1: life gonna happen more. So guess what I'm gonna have
- 9:02Speaker 1: to learn how to apply this word every day?
- 9:05Speaker 3: Every day.
- 9:06Speaker 1: I gotta spend time with him every day. I got
- 9:09Speaker 1: to reference him every day, and sometimes you got to
- 9:12Speaker 1: do it over and over and over throughout the day.
- 9:15Speaker 1: But see, some of us, we get soul sidetracked. We
- 9:17Speaker 1: get caught up in the things of the world that
- 9:21Speaker 1: we forget to give the one that created us.
- 9:24Speaker 4: Huh.
- 9:24Speaker 1: His time, his time should be priority and everything else
- 9:28Speaker 1: to be second. But he should always have priority, he said,
- 9:34Speaker 1: everything that we do, it should He should be prioritized
- 9:39Speaker 1: in the things that we do, and everything that we
- 9:42Speaker 1: do should point back to him, y'all.
- 9:44Speaker 3: So we're gonna go ahead and get started. Thank you Jesus.
- 9:47Speaker 1: We're gonna go ahead and get started this morning. So
- 9:49Speaker 1: before we go into the lesson for this morning, I'm
- 9:52Speaker 1: gonna say a quick prayer and then we're gonna jump
- 9:53Speaker 1: right on in, and then I'm gonna move right on
- 9:55Speaker 1: out your way so you can go on and get
- 9:57Speaker 1: your day started, so that you can go on and
- 9:59Speaker 1: walk in to your greatness that thing that he's already
- 10:02Speaker 1: purposed for you today. Know that there is something, there's
- 10:04Speaker 1: a promise, there's something that he is already ordained for
- 10:08Speaker 1: you to walk into the day. You gotta find out
- 10:11Speaker 1: what it is, and you gotta go out there on today, y'all.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Don't be idle, don't sit in stillness and not be
- 10:19Speaker 1: about your father's business. And if he's done something for you, y'all,
- 10:23Speaker 1: we got to learn how to pay it forward, how
- 10:25Speaker 1: to share it with somebody, how to share his goodness
- 10:28Speaker 1: and not sit down on the things that he's done
- 10:30Speaker 1: for us. He told us that we're supposed to share
- 10:33Speaker 1: our testimonies because here and sharing the testimonies it help
- 10:37Speaker 1: us overcome.
- 10:39Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm gonna.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Go ahead and pray and then were gonna jump into
- 10:43Speaker 1: the list. So Father got in the name of Jesue. Lord,
- 10:45Speaker 1: I thank you for this hour. I thank you for
- 10:46Speaker 1: this opportunity to come before your people, Lord God, to
- 10:48Speaker 1: share that that you have shared with me, that you
- 10:51Speaker 1: have worked with me on, that that you have dealt
- 10:53Speaker 1: with me. On Lord, I thank you for those nuggets
- 10:56Speaker 1: and I thank you for the opportunity that I can
- 10:58Speaker 1: be able to share with others. Know I'm not a theologian. No,
- 11:02Speaker 1: I don't carry your office. I just know from experience
- 11:05Speaker 1: the things that you have done. And Father, just as
- 11:07Speaker 1: you have done it for me, you have no respect
- 11:09Speaker 1: or a person, you will do it for the next person.
- 11:11Speaker 1: So Father, I thank you on this morning. I thank
- 11:14Speaker 1: you for being who you said you would be in
- 11:16Speaker 1: our life. So Lord, I'm asking that you would clear
- 11:18Speaker 1: our minds and our hearts on today that we will
- 11:21Speaker 1: receive that that you have set forth for us to
- 11:24Speaker 1: receive on today. And Father, I asked that you decrease
- 11:27Speaker 1: me in the flesh, Lord God, but allow your spirit
- 11:30Speaker 1: man to rise up in me, Lord God, and allow
- 11:32Speaker 1: your word to come forth. Your word tells us that
- 11:35Speaker 1: if we are willing vessels, if we open our mouth,
- 11:38Speaker 1: that you will speak for us. If we go, you
- 11:40Speaker 1: will show us where to go. So Father, I yield
- 11:42Speaker 1: to you on today. I yield to you on today
- 11:45Speaker 1: and ask that you will use me for your glory,
- 11:47Speaker 1: Lord God, and Father, I thank you for this hour.
- 11:50Speaker 1: I thank you for this opportunity. I thank you for
- 11:53Speaker 1: this platform that you will allow us to utilize for
- 11:56Speaker 1: the reaching of your people and for the building of
- 11:59Speaker 1: your kingdom. Father asked that you will cover this prayer kevil,
- 12:02Speaker 1: cover this time that we have with you. And Father,
- 12:05Speaker 1: do not allow these things to fall on death ears.
- 12:08Speaker 1: But Lord, may it be a seed to the person
- 12:11Speaker 1: that's receiving it, that they may plan it and it
- 12:14Speaker 1: may produce fruit. So Father, we thank you on this morning.
- 12:18Speaker 1: And Father, I asked that you will have your way
- 12:20Speaker 1: during this hour. And this is what I ask in
- 12:23Speaker 1: your son Jesus' name. A man a man, a man,
- 12:26Speaker 1: a man, a man, I thank him, I thank him,
- 12:28Speaker 1: I thank him.
- 12:29Speaker 3: I thank him again for yet.
- 12:31Speaker 1: Another day, y'all, because we wouldn't promise this day. We
- 12:34Speaker 1: was not promised this day. But he allowed us to
- 12:37Speaker 1: see this day. He extended his grace in his mercy, y'all.
- 12:41Speaker 1: One more time, y'all. Somebody didn't get a chance to
- 12:44Speaker 1: see this day. Somebody didn't wake up this morning. Somebody
- 12:47Speaker 1: didn't get an opportunity to fulfill their dreams, to walk
- 12:51Speaker 1: in their aspirations. They didn't get that opportunity.
- 12:54Speaker 3: But you did.
- 12:56Speaker 1: You got another chance. He spared your life. He breathed
- 13:00Speaker 1: that breath of life into you. If you go back
- 13:03Speaker 1: in Genesis two and seven, he said he breathed a
- 13:05Speaker 1: breath of life in you. Everything that you need is
- 13:07Speaker 1: already deposited in you. So all you got to do
- 13:10Speaker 1: is tap into it, Tap into that that he's already
- 13:13Speaker 1: placed in you. He's given us gifts and talents someone two, three, four, five,
- 13:18Speaker 1: how many he's given you. You gotta utilize it because
- 13:21Speaker 1: he said that he will make room for your gifts.
- 13:24Speaker 1: And not only that, he will make your name great
- 13:26Speaker 1: among God and amongst Him, amongst men. So, y'all, I
- 13:32Speaker 1: tell you. I tell you, allow him, allow him in
- 13:37Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. Allow the Holy Spirit to lead God
- 13:40Speaker 1: and direct you on today so that you can catch
- 13:43Speaker 1: up with that that you've already preordained for. Y'all, we're
- 13:47Speaker 1: going to be coming out of Ecclesiastics Versus Chapter three,
- 13:52Speaker 1: verse number eleven. It's our focused scripture on today, and
- 13:55Speaker 1: I'm gonna read that, y'all. Just give me a second
- 13:57Speaker 1: so I can pull up listen for today. Okay, I
- 14:01Speaker 1: got it. So the scripture is as following, and it's
- 14:05Speaker 1: a short scripture, so one that you can repeat over
- 14:08Speaker 1: and over.
- 14:09Speaker 3: It's an easy scripture.
- 14:10Speaker 1: He has made everything beautiful in its time. Again, I
- 14:15Speaker 1: say he has made everything beautiful in its time, y'all.
- 14:21Speaker 1: There's a reason and a season for everything. And that's
- 14:24Speaker 1: Ecclesiastic three, verse eleven, and that comes out of the
- 14:29Speaker 1: NIV version. Our affirmation for today is I find peace
- 14:34Speaker 1: and rest in God's perfect time. Speak that over your
- 14:38Speaker 1: life today, Keep repeating that over your life. Apply that
- 14:43Speaker 1: in the scripture to your life today. It is easy
- 14:47Speaker 1: to be impatient or anxious while waiting on God to
- 14:52Speaker 1: look at unfinished dreams, unanswered prayers, or unhealed wounds, and
- 14:58Speaker 1: wonder when we'll it finally be your time? Will it?
- 15:02Speaker 3: Will it be my time? That's what we see.
- 15:04Speaker 1: We watching, and we see everybody else may be doing something,
- 15:07Speaker 1: they may be getting blessed, things may be overflowing. But
- 15:10Speaker 1: we asked, when will.
- 15:12Speaker 3: It be our time?
- 15:13Speaker 1: Y'all in a world that's obsessed with instant results, because
- 15:17Speaker 1: we don't got so used to the microwaves, we don't
- 15:19Speaker 1: got so used to the instant rights. We don't got
- 15:21Speaker 1: so used to instant grits and all these things that
- 15:24Speaker 1: are instant that are quick.
- 15:26Speaker 3: Y'all.
- 15:26Speaker 1: We don't want to be patient, We don't want to
- 15:29Speaker 1: wait on God. But God quietly calls us to something better,
- 15:34Speaker 1: the supernatural peace that comes from trusting His timing, not
- 15:39Speaker 1: our own time, but His time. Today, let's learn what
- 15:43Speaker 1: it means to rest and truly rest in the rhythm
- 15:47Speaker 1: and wisdom of God's appointed season, y'all. Is reason in
- 15:51Speaker 1: a season for everything. It's a reason in a season
- 15:54Speaker 1: for everything. You gotta understand that. Any Ecclesiastics it often
- 15:58Speaker 1: considered the book as a book of wisdom aim in life,
- 16:04Speaker 1: mysteries and frustrations. Chapter three reminds us that there is
- 16:08Speaker 1: a season for everything, joy and sorrow, planting and harvesting,
- 16:14Speaker 1: beginning and endings. Verse eleven is powerful because it declares
- 16:18Speaker 1: that He made everything beautiful in its time. This passage
- 16:24Speaker 1: isn't just psychological, but it is an anchor for our soul.
- 16:29Speaker 1: It reminds us that while we may not understand though
- 16:33Speaker 1: why or the when of God's actions, he weaves each
- 16:39Speaker 1: detail together into a masterpiece, sometimes visible only through the
- 16:44Speaker 1: lens of eternity. Because there's no such thing as time.
- 16:49Speaker 1: It's eternity, y'all, because that's what we're destined to, eternal life.
- 16:54Speaker 3: That's what we're this.
- 16:55Speaker 1: Time that we have in this physical win, y'all, it
- 16:58Speaker 1: is to get us to eternity, To get us to
- 17:01Speaker 1: eternal life, y'all. Our word of today is servanty. It's sovereignty.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Sovereignty is not just a theological concept. It is the
- 17:13Speaker 1: unshakable foundation beneath all true, rest and truth trust in
- 17:18Speaker 1: God's time. When we declare that God is sovereign, we
- 17:22Speaker 1: are affirming that He exercised supreme authority and control over
- 17:29Speaker 1: all creation, including the unfolding story of our individual lives.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Sovereignty means that it is nothing outside of his understanding,
- 17:40Speaker 1: notice or ability to redirect us from his purpose in
- 17:45Speaker 1: or good. To believe in God's sovereignty is to realize
- 17:50Speaker 1: that not one second of waiting, not a single day
- 17:55Speaker 1: of delay or random circumstances, is accidents waste it. Because
- 18:01Speaker 1: God is sovereign, his timing is never a mistake. Even
- 18:06Speaker 1: when it feels like life is on Paul's or we
- 18:11Speaker 1: are prayed and nothing has happened, God's wisdom is weaving
- 18:15Speaker 1: together a story that we may not fully understand on
- 18:20Speaker 1: the side on this side of eternity. But when we
- 18:25Speaker 1: truly trust God in his servianty, anxiety and striving loses
- 18:30Speaker 1: their grip. We understand that our lives are not at
- 18:34Speaker 1: the mercy of luck, faith, or human decisions, but are
- 18:39Speaker 1: helped and guided by the hands of the wise and
- 18:43Speaker 1: loving Father. God is never surprised, He's never late, nor
- 18:48Speaker 1: is he powerless. His authority means that he redeems every disappointment,
- 18:54Speaker 1: He rerats every detour, and brings beauty even from ashes
- 19:00Speaker 1: Isaiah sixty one and three. Y'all, this scripture affirms his truth.
- 19:08Speaker 1: It says that the Lord that has established his throne
- 19:12Speaker 1: in heaven and his Kingdom rules over all, that is
- 19:16Speaker 1: Psalms one, O.
- 19:17Speaker 3: Three and nineteen.
- 19:18Speaker 1: He changes times and season, he does not according to
- 19:24Speaker 1: his will among the hosts of heavens and among the
- 19:28Speaker 1: inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay or stay
- 19:33Speaker 1: his hands Daniels two and twenty one. Trust in God's
- 19:39Speaker 1: certainty is what allows us to.
- 19:41Speaker 3: Rest even when we don't understand.
- 19:47Speaker 1: It is what stabilizes our heart when we pray, and
- 19:51Speaker 1: when our prayers aren't answered in a timeframe.
- 19:56Speaker 3: Or the way that we imagine. Take on today, y'all.
- 20:02Speaker 1: Surrender your timelines, your winds, and your wives to God's
- 20:08Speaker 1: sovereign will. Whisper this prayer. Lord, you are sovereign over
- 20:15Speaker 1: all things. I trust that you hold my life, my waiting,
- 20:21Speaker 1: my destiny in your perfect hand. I rest in the
- 20:26Speaker 1: truth that your timing is flawless and your purpose for
- 20:30Speaker 1: me are good, even if I can't yet see the
- 20:34Speaker 1: full picture. Because he is sovereign, we can rest in him.
- 20:41Speaker 1: Because he is sovereign, we can have peace. Let me
- 20:46Speaker 1: share this.
- 20:46Speaker 3: Story with you.
- 20:48Speaker 1: This is a power powerful little talk about Joseph in prison,
- 20:55Speaker 1: and it was over in Genesis forty forty, Chapter forty
- 20:59Speaker 1: and forty one.
- 21:00Speaker 3: If I'm not.
- 21:01Speaker 1: Mistaken, we often celebrate joseph assent from slave to governor,
- 21:09Speaker 1: but we rally dwell in those silent, bitter years in prison,
- 21:15Speaker 1: forgotten and unjustly accused. Joseph interpreted dreams for fellow prisoners
- 21:22Speaker 1: with the pola Remember Me, but was left waiting for
- 21:28Speaker 1: two additional years.
- 21:30Speaker 3: It was only then.
- 21:34Speaker 1: At God's appointed time. Remember God's appointed time, not when
- 21:38Speaker 1: we want things to happen, but God's appointed time. That
- 21:42Speaker 1: Pharaoh called and Joseph rose to power in a day.
- 21:49Speaker 1: Joseph's story amplifies the message. God's delay are not denials.
- 21:55Speaker 1: When the time is right God's plan, It's happened, and
- 22:00Speaker 1: it moves swiftly and perfectly.
- 22:05Speaker 3: Y'all.
- 22:05Speaker 1: I want y'all to take away these three things. Take
- 22:08Speaker 1: away these three things today. Ponder on these three things today.
- 22:12Speaker 1: God's timing is perfect. No, not not problem free, but
- 22:17Speaker 1: his time is perfect. Know that things may happen for
- 22:21Speaker 1: the vision is yet for an appointed time. Though it delay,
- 22:27Speaker 1: wait for it, it would certainly come and not delay. Rebecca,
- 22:34Speaker 1: two and three. Delays does not mean that God has
- 22:37Speaker 1: forgotten you. They often are protecting and preparing you. So
- 22:42Speaker 1: know that if things are not moving the way you
- 22:44Speaker 1: want them to move, slow up and and and and
- 22:48Speaker 1: and and examine and figure out, Hey, what am I
- 22:53Speaker 1: not doing? That are that that is holding me from moving?
- 22:57Speaker 1: Swiftler that is holding me back? What is it that
- 23:00Speaker 1: God is trying to show me that I'm not getting
- 23:03Speaker 1: that I'm not grasping?
- 23:04Speaker 4: Asks him.
- 23:05Speaker 3: He'll show you.
- 23:07Speaker 1: But first we gotta learn how to rest. And where
- 23:11Speaker 1: rest is found. It's not an absence of waiting, but
- 23:15Speaker 1: in trusting the weight. He gotta trust the process. Be
- 23:20Speaker 1: still before the Lord and wait patiently for him. Psalms
- 23:24Speaker 1: thirty seven and seven. Y'all, these are commandments. These are
- 23:26Speaker 1: things that He's told us to do. True rest comes
- 23:31Speaker 1: from believing that God's calendar, not our own.
- 23:35Speaker 3: Holds the key to our breakthrough.
- 23:38Speaker 1: And knowing that God turns waiting into preparation. And when
- 23:43Speaker 1: you know that all things work together for those that serve,
- 23:49Speaker 1: that serve God. And I'm gonna read Romans eight and
- 23:53Speaker 1: twenty eight and that I was paraphrasing that. It's say
- 23:57Speaker 1: in we know that in all things God works for
- 24:01Speaker 1: the good of those who love him. You gotta put
- 24:06Speaker 1: it in your heart. Because guess what he searches the heart.
- 24:11Speaker 1: Your waiting season is God training ground for your next assignment.
- 24:17Speaker 1: Get what it is that you you you're supposed to
- 24:19Speaker 1: be getting.
- 24:20Speaker 3: Don't don't.
- 24:21Speaker 1: Don't take the weight as as a delay or as
- 24:24Speaker 1: a denial, but take that time to focus on what
- 24:29Speaker 1: God is calling you to. What's your next assignment?
- 24:33Speaker 3: What?
- 24:33Speaker 2: What?
- 24:33Speaker 1: What are you supposed to be doing? See, some of
- 24:36Speaker 1: us were supposed to be out here writing books. We're
- 24:39Speaker 1: supposed to be out here hosting podcasts. We're supposed to
- 24:42Speaker 1: be out here speaking at speaking engagements. We're supposed to
- 24:46Speaker 1: be holding workshops. We're supposed to be doing this stuff.
- 24:49Speaker 1: But see, a lot of us we get caught up
- 24:51Speaker 1: in wet, caught up in the world. We get caught
- 24:54Speaker 1: up in the things that everybody else is doing and
- 24:57Speaker 1: forget about what God has called us to. And I
- 25:00Speaker 1: can only talk about me because I know there was
- 25:02Speaker 1: a time when I was so worried about not having degrees,
- 25:05Speaker 1: not having titles, and not feeling like I was qualified
- 25:08Speaker 1: to sit.
- 25:09Speaker 3: On panels and to do different things.
- 25:11Speaker 1: And I was sitting in the background and saying, oh,
- 25:13Speaker 1: I don't want to be in the forefront.
- 25:15Speaker 3: I didn't want to be in the forefront. But everything
- 25:16Speaker 3: that God was.
- 25:17Speaker 1: Doing was pulling me to the forefront, was pulling me
- 25:19Speaker 1: to the front, pulling me to be out in front
- 25:22Speaker 1: of people to do the things that he had called
- 25:24Speaker 1: me to do. Not only that, he was building a
- 25:27Speaker 1: platform for me to be able to be the queen
- 25:30Speaker 1: of collaboration, to be the person that was bringing people
- 25:33Speaker 1: together and helping people to connect. Y'all, we gotta understand
- 25:38Speaker 1: that we're not gonna always be what who Sally is.
- 25:43Speaker 1: We're not gonna be Oprah. We not gonna be Tyler Perry.
- 25:45Speaker 1: I hear people all the time say they gonna be
- 25:47Speaker 1: the next Tiler Perry. You'll never be the next Solar Parry.
- 25:50Speaker 1: You'll never be the next Oprah, because there's only one.
- 25:54Speaker 1: He made one of us. Each one of us have
- 25:57Speaker 1: our own own destiny. We have our own Jeremiah twenty
- 26:00Speaker 1: nine and eleven tells us that he said, he declared
- 26:04Speaker 1: that he had a plan for you, and the plan
- 26:06Speaker 1: was not to harm you, but to prosper you, to
- 26:10Speaker 1: for you to be in good health, for you to
- 26:12Speaker 1: have hope in the future. So understand this. Understand that
- 26:17Speaker 1: you don't have to be nobody else. You strive to
- 26:21Speaker 1: be the best version of yourself. Seek Him to find
- 26:25Speaker 1: out who you are and what you're supposed to be doing,
- 26:28Speaker 1: because you can be the next great Chanet, the next
- 26:31Speaker 1: great trial tray Way, the next great Anthony, the next
- 26:37Speaker 1: great Chill, the next great Charles, whoever He has named
- 26:42Speaker 1: you to be. You can be that next great person
- 26:46Speaker 1: in your own land, in your own gifts, in your
- 26:49Speaker 1: own talent, your next best shareer, your next best whoever,
- 26:54Speaker 1: whatever your name is, today, you can be the next
- 26:57Speaker 1: great thing at that that He is given you a
- 27:00Speaker 1: gift and a talent.
- 27:02Speaker 3: How can you do that?
- 27:05Speaker 1: How can you do that? How can you apply what
- 27:08Speaker 1: you're hearing today to your life right now? You don't
- 27:12Speaker 1: have to wait till tomorrow. You can begin to apply
- 27:15Speaker 1: these things to your life today. How do you do that?
- 27:18Speaker 1: Surrender your timetable to God. Pray honestly, Lord, I release
- 27:24Speaker 1: my scheduled plans and asks.
- 27:26Speaker 3: For your will. Above all, trust him God.
- 27:32Speaker 1: We have heard this scripture over and over Proverbs three,
- 27:36Speaker 1: five and six.
- 27:36Speaker 3: We have been meditating on this scripture.
- 27:38Speaker 1: We hear it so much we should be able to
- 27:41Speaker 1: recite it without a question. But are we doing it?
- 27:45Speaker 1: Are we trusting in the Lord with all our heart
- 27:48Speaker 1: and leading not to our own understanding, but trusting that
- 27:51Speaker 1: He's gonna do what he said he was gonna do.
- 27:54Speaker 1: Are you trusting him today.
- 27:57Speaker 3: With your heart? God, he deals with the man of
- 28:00Speaker 3: the heart.
- 28:01Speaker 1: If you miss the conference Matters of the Heart conference, y'all,
- 28:05Speaker 1: we had part one, Part two, Part three, and in
- 28:09Speaker 1: twenty twenty six it's gonna be a live conference and
- 28:12Speaker 1: we're coming to a city near you. So we are
- 28:14Speaker 1: looking for ambassadors, and I just got to put that
- 28:16Speaker 1: out there. We're looking for ambassador. We'll talk about it
- 28:19Speaker 1: at the end, but y'all, Number two, we gotta cultivate
- 28:23Speaker 1: patience in the process. Y'all learn how to pick up
- 28:28Speaker 1: a pin right journal and declare one area where you
- 28:34Speaker 1: will actively choose patient today. Where's one area that you
- 28:39Speaker 1: need patients in. Let patients have her perfect work, that
- 28:46Speaker 1: ya may be perfect in entire wanting nothing James one
- 28:52Speaker 1: and four that comes out of the King James version. Thirdly, y'all,
- 28:57Speaker 1: we gotta get in a place of worship.
- 29:00Speaker 3: Worship.
- 29:00Speaker 1: While you wait, I keep telling people you got to
- 29:03Speaker 1: learn how to praise Him and worship him through it all,
- 29:06Speaker 1: no matter what it looked like in the natural, no
- 29:09Speaker 1: matter what you're going through, y'all, if you only knew
- 29:16Speaker 1: some of the things that I have dealt with over
- 29:19Speaker 1: the last ten years of my life, and people wonder
- 29:24Speaker 1: how do I keep going? How am I able to
- 29:27Speaker 1: have a smile on my face? How am I able
- 29:28Speaker 1: to encourage people? How am I able to do the
- 29:31Speaker 1: things that I do?
- 29:34Speaker 3: Y'all?
- 29:34Speaker 1: You're looking at a survivor. You're looking at someone that
- 29:39Speaker 1: the enemy wanted to destroy me. The enemy wanted to
- 29:42Speaker 1: take me out. Evidence is right here in my leg,
- 29:45Speaker 1: in my hip. I was at Port ranked range, put
- 29:49Speaker 1: a side off. The enemy wanted to take my whole
- 29:51Speaker 1: right side off.
- 29:53Speaker 3: Hum.
- 29:54Speaker 1: But the God that I served, the God that I serve,
- 29:57Speaker 1: allowed me to walk out that hospital. He allowed me
- 30:00Speaker 1: to walk the same day, six hours after having surgery.
- 30:05Speaker 1: Not only that he allowed me to walk out that hospital,
- 30:10Speaker 1: he allowed me to walk out that hospital three days
- 30:12Speaker 1: later after having surgery and listening to this doctor tell
- 30:15Speaker 1: my dad that if I walked up, it may be months,
- 30:19Speaker 1: it may be years. But the God that I served,
- 30:22Speaker 1: six hours after coming out of surgery, those physical therapy
- 30:25Speaker 1: people came in.
- 30:26Speaker 3: My room, came in the wrong room, but they came
- 30:28Speaker 3: in and they asked me, did I want to get
- 30:29Speaker 3: up and walk? And yes, what I got up and walked.
- 30:32Speaker 3: The nurses was looking at me like I was crazy,
- 30:34Speaker 3: but I walked down that halling.
- 30:35Speaker 1: Three days later I walked out that the hospital never
- 30:38Speaker 1: took physical therapy, never took occupation of therapy. But there
- 30:41Speaker 1: came a time when I had the user walker and
- 30:44Speaker 1: I had the user cane. But I never I never
- 30:47Speaker 1: gave up. I never stopped trusting God, never stopped trusting him.
- 30:51Speaker 1: I trusted him for my healing. I trusted him to
- 30:53Speaker 1: raise me up off my bet of affliction.
- 30:54Speaker 3: And he did just that.
- 30:56Speaker 1: And just as he raised me up, if I'm better
- 30:57Speaker 1: for afliction, I promised him that I would share his goodness.
- 31:03Speaker 1: But I didn't want to stand in a poor pit.
- 31:05Speaker 1: But I know that's coming. But I didn't want to
- 31:08Speaker 1: stand in a poor pick. So he opened doors for me.
- 31:10Speaker 1: He allowed me, y'all. He allowed me to be able
- 31:13Speaker 1: to write books. He allowed me to be able to
- 31:16Speaker 1: have my own podcast network. He allowed me to be
- 31:19Speaker 1: able to be on another network to host a show,
- 31:22Speaker 1: a monthly show on another network that I've been inducted
- 31:25Speaker 1: into the International Radio Hall of Fame for nothing. That
- 31:29Speaker 1: nobody told me something that I have experienced, something that
- 31:33Speaker 1: I went through, something that I had to go through.
- 31:35Speaker 1: It was necessary, It was necessary to make me into
- 31:39Speaker 1: the person that I am today.
- 31:41Speaker 3: See a lot of people.
- 31:42Speaker 1: Say they so glad they don't look like what they
- 31:45Speaker 1: went through. I'm glad I look like this because now
- 31:48Speaker 1: somebody can see that, Hey, you can be beautiful even
- 31:52Speaker 1: after going through because a lot of people, a lot
- 31:57Speaker 1: of people, a lot of people will be like, huh,
- 32:00Speaker 1: she don't look like she been through hollered at no.
- 32:03Speaker 1: But I did, and I praised him through it. I
- 32:05Speaker 1: didn't give up because guess what, when Jesus hung on
- 32:08Speaker 1: that cross, when he hung that when he was when
- 32:12Speaker 1: they nailed his hand in that blood beginning to flow
- 32:15Speaker 1: from his hand, y'all, he didn't give up. He didn't quit.
- 32:18Speaker 1: He didn't he didn't mama, not one word. He didn't
- 32:21Speaker 1: make no excuses, he did none of that.
- 32:26Speaker 3: So that's what.
- 32:26Speaker 1: We're supposed to be doing, y'all, were supposed to praise
- 32:29Speaker 1: him in the midst of going through. I don't care
- 32:33Speaker 1: if all the doors have closed. If they closed, they
- 32:36Speaker 1: closed for a reason. But just as he closed doors,
- 32:41Speaker 1: there's more doors to be open, because He would never
- 32:45Speaker 1: bring you to it without seeing you through it. Know
- 32:49Speaker 1: that the God that we served is an awesome God,
- 32:54Speaker 1: and his word is true, and his word is not
- 32:57Speaker 1: gonna return to him void.
- 32:59Speaker 3: Know that. So again I want y'all to remember.
- 33:04Speaker 1: God's hands are never hearried, His calendar is never late.
- 33:10Speaker 1: He is weaving a beautiful story that only eternity will
- 33:14Speaker 1: fully reveal. When you feel impatient or overlooked, rest rest,
- 33:22Speaker 1: the God who loves you is working all things together
- 33:26Speaker 1: for your ultimate good and for his glory. Y'all, don't
- 33:31Speaker 1: miss Tomorrow day ten assurance in his presence, we're gonna
- 33:36Speaker 1: be coming out of Psalms forty six and ten. Come
- 33:41Speaker 1: willing to be still and listen and know that God
- 33:46Speaker 1: is God, and he's yet on the throne and he's
- 33:49Speaker 1: yet moving. Before I close, y'all, I'm gonna share this
- 33:52Speaker 1: poem with y'all, because if you read each one of
- 33:56Speaker 1: these devotions inside of the book has a poem. I'm
- 34:02Speaker 1: a poet as well, so it's just one stanzap and
- 34:06Speaker 1: it's just something to encourage you because there's also a
- 34:08Speaker 1: section in the back.
- 34:10Speaker 3: I want you to journal. I want you to write
- 34:12Speaker 3: your thoughts.
- 34:13Speaker 1: I want you to discuss with yourself the things that
- 34:16Speaker 1: you have read along in this twenty one day journal.
- 34:20Speaker 1: This devotion applied to your life. Each devotion, each day
- 34:24Speaker 1: it has a scripture, you have an affirmation statement, there's
- 34:28Speaker 1: a lesson that that you can work through, a press starter,
- 34:35Speaker 1: a takeaway, and then there's a poem, and then at
- 34:39Speaker 1: the back once we have went through, once we have
- 34:45Speaker 1: went through it, there's a self reflection section that we're
- 34:49Speaker 1: also going to be going over and once we finished
- 34:51Speaker 1: the twenty one day but there's a self reflection section
- 34:54Speaker 1: where we're going to reflect on each day. We'll go
- 34:57Speaker 1: through and you can reflect on each single day that
- 35:00Speaker 1: you have encountered. You can do it the day that
- 35:05Speaker 1: night after when you get back and prepare to go
- 35:08Speaker 1: to bed, or you can wait until you've completed the
- 35:11Speaker 1: twenty one days and then this can be another section
- 35:14Speaker 1: where you can dive a little deeper and do a
- 35:16Speaker 1: reflection and see what you have learned throughout these twenty
- 35:20Speaker 1: one days, how you have applied it to your life. Okay,
- 35:27Speaker 1: so let me read the poem for the day, and
- 35:29Speaker 1: then I'm gonna let y'all go. So the poem for today,
- 35:33Speaker 1: it says, in the patience of each hour, his purpose
- 35:39Speaker 1: slowly blooms. Time is helped by his power stripped in
- 35:46Speaker 1: life quiet tunes again and patience of each hour, his
- 35:52Speaker 1: purpose slowly blooms. Time is helped by his power stripped
- 35:58Speaker 1: in life's quiet our. And that's that peace, y'all. Again,
- 36:04Speaker 1: I thank y'all for tuning in. I pray that there
- 36:07Speaker 1: is something that you have heard on today that will
- 36:11Speaker 1: bless the spirit and that you.
- 36:13Speaker 3: Will be able to apply as you go forth. Y'all.
- 36:16Speaker 1: It's very important that we spend time with God in
- 36:19Speaker 1: the morning, asking him, asking him the lead God in director.
- 36:24Speaker 1: He's left the Holy Spirit with us, ask him to
- 36:26Speaker 1: allow the Holy Spirit to lead God in directors that
- 36:29Speaker 1: we don't know something. We gotta talk to him. We
- 36:31Speaker 1: gotta ask him just like we just like I'm having
- 36:33Speaker 1: this conversation with you, having this lesson, cheering this lesson with.
- 36:37Speaker 3: You, y'all. You can talk to God like that, go.
- 36:39Speaker 1: To him, tell him say, hey, God, I need to
- 36:44Speaker 1: find peace in rest in you today. Give me peace
- 36:47Speaker 1: and rest in you today, y'all. He is true, and
- 36:51Speaker 1: he would do exactly what he said he would do
- 36:54Speaker 1: concerning you. He said, acts and you shall receive. Knock
- 37:00Speaker 1: and it shall open, seek and you shall find. So
- 37:03Speaker 1: I'm up every morning. We're up every morning, and all
- 37:07Speaker 1: those prayer waters that come on in our part of
- 37:10Speaker 1: the five A m Servant Leader prayer call, we seek
- 37:15Speaker 1: every morning, we knock every morning. We're seeking after his word,
- 37:23Speaker 1: we're seeking after his guidance, and we're standing in the
- 37:25Speaker 1: gap and praying and interceding for all those around the world.
- 37:32Speaker 1: For the last five years we've been standing on the wall,
- 37:34Speaker 1: going on six years. February will be six years that
- 37:38Speaker 1: we've been interceding in a part of that prayer line.
- 37:42Speaker 1: So again, y'all find confidence in God's plan for your life.
- 37:49Speaker 1: If you're not sure, pick up the word, go to
- 37:53Speaker 1: the scripture. Apply to your life. Everything that we.
- 37:58Speaker 3: Do should point back to Him.
- 38:00Speaker 1: And if you're doing things that's not pointing back to Him,
- 38:04Speaker 1: to a self evaluation. Check yourself, evaluate yourself, see where
- 38:09Speaker 1: you're walking in error, see where you are walking out
- 38:12Speaker 1: of the wheel, and ask him to lead God and
- 38:14Speaker 1: direct you back. Y'all don't know the power that you possess.
- 38:22Speaker 1: All right, well, I thank y'all for tuning in this morning.
- 38:25Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and pray us out, and then
- 38:26Speaker 1: I'm gonna get on out of here.
- 38:28Speaker 3: Y'all. Father God, in the name of Jesus ord, I.
- 38:30Speaker 1: Thank you for all that you have done during this
- 38:32Speaker 1: time that we have had to come before you, Lord God,
- 38:34Speaker 1: I thank you for your word. I thank you, I truly,
- 38:37Speaker 1: truly thank you for your word because I know that
- 38:39Speaker 1: your word is true, and I know that it will
- 38:41Speaker 1: not return to your Voard know that we are not
- 38:44Speaker 1: perfect people, but you said that you created us in
- 38:46Speaker 1: your image. So Father, allow us to be the best
- 38:50Speaker 1: version of ourselves that live up to your image on today,
- 38:53Speaker 1: Lord God, Father, allow your Holy Spirit to go before us,
- 38:56Speaker 1: smoothing out every cricket roll, leveling every mountain or heill
- 38:59Speaker 1: that may count. Father, give us pieces of past, all
- 39:03Speaker 1: understanding peace that rests in you. Teach us to trust
- 39:07Speaker 1: you with all our heart, and not to lean on
- 39:11Speaker 1: our physical understanding, our logics, but to trust you and
- 39:16Speaker 1: all the things that we do. Father, we thank you.
- 39:20Speaker 1: We thank you for this new day. We thank you
- 39:22Speaker 1: for opportunities that's being provided for us this new week. Father,
- 39:26Speaker 1: we thank you because you didn't have to allow us
- 39:30Speaker 1: to see this day. But Father, you extended your grace
- 39:33Speaker 1: and your mercy to allow us to see this day. So, Father,
- 39:37Speaker 1: allow us to align with that that you have purpose
- 39:40Speaker 1: for us, allow us to catch up with our destiny.
- 39:43Speaker 1: Your perfect will allow it to be done in our lives.
- 39:47Speaker 1: And Father, I asked that you would search me on
- 39:50Speaker 1: this morning, Father, if it be anything that is not
- 39:53Speaker 1: like you, a contrary to your word. Father, I asked
- 39:56Speaker 1: that you will remove it right now in the name
- 39:57Speaker 1: of Jesus. Father cleans me, why your blood renewing me
- 40:01Speaker 1: a right spirit or right mind in the right heart,
- 40:04Speaker 1: that I will continually seek after youth, that I will
- 40:07Speaker 1: continue to share your word, that I won't be about
- 40:10Speaker 1: my own agendas, but I always will keep you first. Father,
- 40:14Speaker 1: I thank you. I thank you for each and every
- 40:16Speaker 1: person that's under the sound of my voice, and even
- 40:19Speaker 1: those that may hear this as a replay Father, asking
- 40:22Speaker 1: that you will move mindedly in their lives. Father, open
- 40:25Speaker 1: those doors that need to be open, and Father, close
- 40:28Speaker 1: those doors that need to be closed. And this I
- 40:30Speaker 1: asked in your son Jesus' name a man a man,
- 40:34Speaker 1: a man a man. I pray to God bless each
- 40:37Speaker 1: and every person that is tuned in, that is jumped
- 40:41Speaker 1: on and that may hear this as a replay. I
- 40:44Speaker 1: pray that your day is blessed beyond what you can
- 40:46Speaker 1: see in the natural. Understand that no matter what it
- 40:49Speaker 1: looked like, no matter what you're experiencing right now, know
- 40:52Speaker 1: that greater is coming.
- 40:54Speaker 3: Greater is yours.
- 40:55Speaker 1: That is your portion. I love y'all, and I pray
- 40:58Speaker 1: that God bless you on today.
- 41:01Speaker 3: Y'all.
- 41:02Speaker 1: Know that you have purpose, walk in purpose because you
- 41:05Speaker 1: are purpose. I love y'all, and I pray that your
- 41:08Speaker 1: day is blessed. See y'all back here on tomorrow.
- 41:11Speaker 3: Y'all.
- 41:11Speaker 1: We do this every day, and to God tell me different.
- 41:14Speaker 1: I'm here every day. I try to drop on between
- 41:16Speaker 1: seven and nine every single day, rain sleeps, shine of snow.
- 41:22Speaker 1: That's why I say follow me, Follow me so that
- 41:25Speaker 1: when we get ready to go live, you can be
- 41:27Speaker 1: notified that I am going live, so that you don't
- 41:30Speaker 1: miss this because there may be nuggets, It may be
- 41:33Speaker 1: something that you need to grasp for that day. So
- 41:36Speaker 1: I will see y'all on tomorrow again, I hope that
- 41:39Speaker 1: your day is blessed beyond what you can see in
- 41:41Speaker 1: the natural. All right, see y'all lay