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Planting Seeds of Faith: Surrendering, Witnessing, and Real Impact · Mrs. PIE

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  Speaker 1: Good morning y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to my.
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  Speaker 1: Shelly's got some things to share and I hope that this is gonna bless you.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that everything is going well for you.
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  Speaker 1: God is so good, he's so amazing and there's a couple of things that I wanted to share that he placed on my heart this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes, when I'm in prayer and the Lord reveals some things, sometimes I want to tell y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm like, can I keep this to myself Because people will not understand.
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  Speaker 1: But, lord, I pray that you will give us all the spirit of wisdom and understanding and hearts that will receive and surrender to your will.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, right now, in the name of Jesus, so that y'all you're not hearing me, but you're hearing what he says for your life.
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  Speaker 1: In particular, yesterday I did this podcast for a gentleman I know.
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  Speaker 1: I shared it on on the social media streets.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Joe Dalton and he's a businessman who's very successful.
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  Speaker 1: But the Lord has been leaning on him in different ways.
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  Speaker 1: Joe and I are from very different backgrounds.
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  Speaker 1: He's again successful businessman and Dublin.
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  Speaker 1: He's had a podcast there on their channel.
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  Speaker 1: That's the longest running one for in Dublin for years.
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  Speaker 1: He's quite popular in the business world but the Lord has been really working on him.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Catholic and he's been studying the word, not the word, not the Bible, but he's been studying books written by other saints, right because he's Catholic.
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  Speaker 1: So it was such a powerful conversation in a few ways, and as I was thinking more about that conversation, I just wanted to share with you some of the things that I learned.
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  Speaker 1: I think is going to help all of us, and the first is around witnessing.
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  Speaker 1: So how I came to meet Joe actually how Joe came to know about me is just doing the live prayers online and I've been, like you know, most of you know been doing live prayers for more than a year.
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  Speaker 1: But I have always been connected to the Lord my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you when I found the Lord, or the Lord found me, or how people say.
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  Speaker 1: You know my salvation day, like.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you that because since I was a child, I knew that, that he had his hand on me in a different way.
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  Speaker 1: I always knew that I didn't ask for it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm special in any way, but I do know that the Lord has had his hand on my life and has saved me some for some incredible things that have happened to me for many, many years.
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  Speaker 1: He's kept me for real and I found myself in the conversation with Joe, and not just with Joe, but that with many people.
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  Speaker 1: That Lord will send you people.
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  Speaker 1: He'll send you one or two and then he'll increase the more that he trusts that you're gonna say what he says and not what you want to say.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just flipping up.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a lot of the notifications coming, and so as the Lord starts to, as you start to build a relationship with Jesus, he starts to trust you more and then he'll start to send people so that you can witness, not about yourself, but about him.
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  Speaker 1: And so just purely a lesson about witnessing.
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  Speaker 1: And here was a gentleman that successful, but he was yearning for Jesus and all it was is the Lord sent me there in that capacity to witness, not to brag about what the Lord then got me this and how he blessed me, and I've known Jesus for 20 years and none of that.
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  Speaker 1: It is a heart posture and in order for you to witness, you need to come from a place of surrendering in yourself.
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  Speaker 1: So this morning I'm just grateful that the Lord is giving all of us an opportunity to witness and again, you don't have to witness Some of you, all I know are church leaders and evangelists and pastors and bishops and all I get that.
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  Speaker 1: But you still have to witness.
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  Speaker 1: The way you show up as a mom, the way you show up as a spouse, the way you show up as a friend, all of those are opportune.
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  Speaker 1: The way you show up in your community, what you say, what you say about others is so important, the way that you witness.
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  Speaker 1: And so I pray that the Lord is going to reveal some new opportunities for you to witness him and draw again.
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  Speaker 1: The whole point is to draw people back towards that kingdom right, the kingdom of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the first thing I wanted to share.
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  Speaker 1: Something else that came out of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's first, second Thessalonians, verse 11 and 12, and it says to this end, we always pray for you that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And so again, I pray for you.
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  Speaker 1: I pray that you're gonna fulfill every good thing by the work and the faith of the power of the Holy Spirit, by God's power, not yours, not ours, right, why?
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  Speaker 1: Because the name of the Lord, jesus Christ, that's you know when I say glorify yourself through me so that they can see you and not me.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Is that his glory is all about the glory of the Lord, it's not the glory of Shelley.
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  Speaker 1: So that is something that I wanna share about witnessing and as you surrender your heart and there's more of a heart, posture and less judgment, then you will bring more people to Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's not about judging what people are doing.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is neither liberal nor conservative.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's our construct, that's what we do.
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  Speaker 1: We have, we're using language.
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  Speaker 1: You know being careful of what we say, because what you say you can actually isolate people, right?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm very mindful of what I say.
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  Speaker 1: If I were to say to this gentleman or anyone I come in contact with about the liberal news and conservative news, if I play those games, I'm not telling anybody about Jesus, because he could care less about that.
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  Speaker 1: He wants our hearts, he wants our soul.
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  Speaker 1: None of us are perfect.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care which side of the aisle you're on, the message of salvation is for everybody and as he tells us in Romans this is Romans 11, romans 11, verse 25,.
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  Speaker 1: Lest you be wise in your own sight, right, it's not you know, it's not your wisdom, right, it is the wisdom of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: What is he showing you?
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  Speaker 1: So, lest you become wise in your own sight, what you see you don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: Let God do what he's gotta do.
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  Speaker 1: He's just, you know, putting us in position to witness to other people.
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  Speaker 1: And again, it doesn't matter which side of the aisle you're on, don't fall into politics.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is what happened the first time the Lord came.
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  Speaker 1: People started pulling him into a political sphere, of which side, you know, fighting for us.
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  Speaker 1: Right, that was the mistake.
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  Speaker 1: But he's not here, for it's not about that.
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  Speaker 1: It's the heart.
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  Speaker 1: It's the heart and the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Right, the Lord's been spirit and truth.
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  Speaker 1: The second thing I wanted to share with y'all is something happened to me this morning in my house, and I was.
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  Speaker 1: We have a little room.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically set up as a library.
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  Speaker 1: I keep a very clean house.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, if you know me, you know that to be true.
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  Speaker 1: I looked out on the floor this morning and there were two seeds and they were pretty big and I thought where did this come from?
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  Speaker 1: Cause I literally cleaned yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: They were huge.
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  Speaker 1: It looked to me like a plum seed.
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  Speaker 1: Two, two really big seeds.
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  Speaker 1: One was like right at the edge of my, at the opening of our library it's like a seed on the floor, and another one was under a chair and it was so crazy and I was laughing and I was like Lord, what does this mean?
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  Speaker 1: And it was so funny that the Holy spirit was like you've got seeds of different sizes in different places.
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  Speaker 1: I've got seeds of different sizes in different places.
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  Speaker 1: So many of us are planting seeds of different sizes in different places.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so some of your seeds that you're planting might be planting seeds into your family, the way that you're investing your time, the way that you're investing your money, the way that you're investing into your community, and maybe it's you know, you've, you've you spoke to again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to call out my friend, mckisha.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord connected her to a lady at a nail salon and built a relationship of witnessing through that.
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  Speaker 1: That was one.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like a small seed, but that's a seed that you don't know where it's going to go.
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  Speaker 1: Right, maybe it's the largest seed.
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  Speaker 1: What we're doing here, where we're literally planting seeds of bringing you God's word and worshiping alongside of you and praying with you and growing the prayer group and you know, trying to provide these places where you can feel safe, talking about Lord coming in here to get equipped and then you go on and you equip somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: This is a.
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  Speaker 1: This is just a station where you're coming in to recharge and then you go out and do the work.
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  Speaker 1: But for a long, long time I've been planting seeds in many, many different places of different sizes, and we're shifting now as we're coming into a place where he's harvesting some of those.
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  Speaker 1: So I planted the seeds, then I went into a season where I had water the seeds, which is where I am now, and then there's a harvest that come and the harvest is for his kingdom, not mine, his kingdom, not mine.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to encourage you those of you all who are planting seeds of different sizes and they're in different places to just keep doing what you're doing as long as you are letting the Holy Spirit guide you and lead you and telling you where to go, and you know he's going to give you opportunities to witness and witnessing as a seed and y'all you're witnessing, whether you're saying nothing or something.
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  Speaker 1: So you know something.
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  Speaker 1: I tell people because I'm in the brand industry okay is that your brand is in the room long before you get there.
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  Speaker 1: People know about me before they even meet me because my brand and my reputation is it supersedes me.
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  Speaker 1: It's in that room long before you get there.
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  Speaker 1: So if he's giving you now, if he's calling, if you feel a tug on your heart where you want to see, you're saying I feel like I just want to serve God differently.
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  Speaker 1: I want to serve him more Right, and I want to plant those seeds.
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  Speaker 1: Just know that you know those seeds, that you're going to plant different seeds in different locations and it's all going to come together right, because all things right come together for the good of those who love the Lord, who are called by the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So I just want to encourage you, even if it feels like, hey, you know I've been doing this over here and doing this over here and Lord, what's happening, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: Seeds in different sizes and different locations and he will pull it all together in the right time.
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  Speaker 1: Your harvest is coming.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, right now, you just plant the seeds.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep planting the seeds, keep doing what he's telling you to do.
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  Speaker 1: Show up where he's telling you to show up, surrender to the Holy Spirit and let him lead and guide you.
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  Speaker 1: So, witnessing from a place of where again, full surrender, and you're not judging people, you're not, you know, using the words of the world because you will condemn people like opening your heart right, witnessing in a way, and then just being encouraged that, yeah, we're all planting seeds, but they're in different sizes, in different locations and it's all to God's glory at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: So, father, we just thank you for this opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for this message, lord, thank you for your encouragement and your grace and your goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, as we all go out into our day now, wherever we are, whether we're watching this live or we're watching this on a replay, we're watching this around the world I pray that you will give us a freshness of day and draws, as you continue to draw, as closer to you.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, I just thank you for your mercy, thank you for your goodness and thank you for your Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, all right, that's all I had.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all have a wonderful, wonderful day.
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  Speaker 1: Tell somebody you love them.
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  Speaker 1: Be kind to each other, amen, bye.