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* Carly Speaks* - Be the Broom · Millennial Mustard Seed

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  I used to have this therapist that talked about gifts in a
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  ditch, and she said there's some things in life that are really
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  good, right? But they come with a ditch, they
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  come with a slippery slope that takes that something from being
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  good to being a problem that you can't even see as a problem.
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  And sometimes when we understand our identity in Christ and we
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  hear the things he says that we are, it can be easy to take that
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  gift and slide into a ditch because we we live in a culture
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  that really values productivity. What are you producing?
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  How is what you are and what you have and what you know, creating
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  something other people can consume.
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  And I had found myself running into this performance
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  relationship with the Lord on a level that I couldn't really see
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  my deepest identity of few months ago would have been I am
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  the daughter of the King. If somebody were to ask me and
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  whoever asked this question, but you know, if somebody were to
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  ask me, who are you, my truest honest to God answer would have
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  been I'm the daughter of the King of glory.
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  And I didn't really realize that with that identity for me came a
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  performance to always know, to always do, to always have
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  something to show other people that they would value and and to
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  use the authority in him to make the changes I felt I needed.
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  And I always had this kind of deep feeling of pressure, like I
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  have to show that I'm the daughter of the King of glory.
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  And I and as I went through a season of breaking, he changed
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  my identity. And now I would say my truest
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  identity is I'm the object of his love.
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  And it doesn't matter if he's using me in great ways or I'm in
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  the valley of the shadow of death with the Lord and, and
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  nothing makes sense and everything is horrible.
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  I'm still the object of his love and the circumstances in life
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  are really only to my benefit, whether they feel like it or
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  not. And the Lord said to me one
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  time, and I was mad when he said it now.
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  So don't think that the truth doesn't first make you mad
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  'cause it often does. He said, Carly, just be the
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  broom. And I was like, Lord, but you
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  said that this is my inheritance and that's what I'm supposed to
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  do. And I don't know how to do any
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  of those things. I don't know how to make any of
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  that real in this realm. I don't know how to.
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  You said you sent me to nations, to prophecy, but what nations?
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  Listen to me over here in the corner of cold, frozen
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  Minnesota. How is that like?
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  I understand and I believe you, Jesus, but I don't see how that
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  has feet on the ground. It's all just this pie in the
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  sky thing. And his answer to me was be the
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  broom. And I remember wrestling with my
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  husband about this because he got the revelation and I didn't.
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  I was mad about it. And he was like, look, you have
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  to just rest. You have to surrender.
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  You have to lay down all the things you think you need to be
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  doing from moment to moment and just be.
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  Just be in surrender, be in Sabbath, be in rest with the
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  Lord. And I was like, fine, I'll just
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  be the broom. And I was mad about it.
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  But after my my pride took a back seat and I leaned into that
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  surrender of being the broom, I realized how how much richness
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  there is in being willing to be something that it doesn't have
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  any glory of its own. The broom doesn't have any glory
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  of its own. Nobody's like comes in someone
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  else's house and goes, wow, that is a nice broom.
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  Like the broom is in the closet until you have to sweep
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  something up. But when you have to sweep
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  something up, you don't want nothing but that broom.
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  But that's how the Lord teaches us humility.
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  That's how our identity ends up having feet.
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  It's always the foolish things to confound the wise.
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  It's always the dark places in life where you find His
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  goodness. It's always that brokenness in
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  which you find His richness. And it's always in being that
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  honorless vessel where you find the most honor.
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  So if you're looking at your life and you've heard the Lord
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  say all these wonderful, awesome, amazing, super true,
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  absolutely wonderful things that you're supposed to do and you're
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  supposed to be and you're supposed to possess and exhibit
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  and bless the world with and da da, da.
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  And, and, and you're like pushing and striving and trying
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  to do the things. Honey, just be the broom.
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  When the Lord needs you to act in a place, he'll take you out
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  the prayer closet, the crying closet, the place where you meet
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  Him, and He'll use you for that mess.
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  He'll use you for that spot and then go back in the closet with
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  Jesus. Be the broom.
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  There's no pressure on being the broom.
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  The broom is not the vase holding the flowers.
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  The, the broom is in the closet with Jesus until there's a mess
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  that He needs you to clean up and then He calls you out and
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  you do the thing and you go back into the place with Him.
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  But you're always just the broom and that's OK.
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  That is actually wonderful because you know who gets the
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  glory when he uses the broom? He does.
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  He does. And there is such richness in
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  humility. The only thing the Lord can
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  clothe with His glory is humility.
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  It is the humbleness of your soul, the brokenness of your
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  heart. It's not in the accolades, it's
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  not in the titles, it's not in the identities that other people
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  are astonished by. It's in being willing to be the
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  broom. Those who want to be the
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  greatest have to become the last.
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  Jesus came and was a servant to everybody.
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  Even though he was the king who made everything, He was a
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  servant to everyone. And it's such a broken place.
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  It is a broken place to realize you have to be the broom, honey.
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  You have to be the servant. You don't have to be the
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  doormat. He never said come over here now
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  and be the doormat. He said.
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  Come into my rest. It's not about striving.
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  It's about resting. It's about humility.
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  It's about service. It's about feeling the honor
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  bestowed upon you when the Lord calls you to be in a place and
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  do a thing and say a word, even if nobody else sees it but Him
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  and that other person in you. It's an honor to be used by the
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  Lord, even if you are just the broom.
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  I tell you the the broom, the broom is a vessel of honor.
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  Be the broom. Music.
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  Music. Music.
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