From Tears to Triumph: Unlocking the Prophetic Harvest in the Year Ahead | Chris Garcia #2025

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The Lord is releasing the sound of freedom,

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a sound of answered prayer for 2025.

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There's gonna be a transition where you're gonna have

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a mindset of plowing to a mindset of reaping.

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Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.

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Chris Garcia, thank you so much for joining us today

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to share what God has put on your heart

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for this new year of 2025.

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And I know you and I talked just a moment ago

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before we hit a record that whenever I first asked you

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or reached out to you and asked you,

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what is God saying about 2025?

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You had an interesting story about that.

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So let's start with that.

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Yeah, first of all, thank you so much, John,

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for having me on.

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It's been a pleasure.

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It's awesome just to connect again.

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Yeah, you were asking me like, hey, you know,

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would you like to be on the podcast interview?

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I said, sure, yeah.

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And you're like, we're just seeing what the Lord would say

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for the year 2025.

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And the knee-jerk reaction that I got was like,

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I don't have anything.

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So I just told the Lord, I was like,

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I don't really have anything today, Lord.

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But this morning in prayer, I was just in my shed

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and I was just sitting back there and I was just like,

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Lord, if you have something for the people,

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I would like to share that.

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And I wish I can tell you that a booming voice

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came from above or I was elevated out of the rooftop

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of my shed, but I got nothing.

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And when I started my live stream this morning,

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we were worshiping and suddenly Psalm 126 came to me.

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And I was reading it just by myself, just to myself,

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but I felt led in my heart to share it like on the stream.

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And when I did, it's like,

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it's amazing how the Holy Spirit does things

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because He leads us in scales.

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Or you ever seen that old Indiana Jones movie

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where it's like, He has to walk across nothing.

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He takes a step, then another step shows up,

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then another step.

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That's kind of like how it was with me.

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It was like, I really genuinely, legitimately

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got nothing at all.

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So then I started worshiping

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and just doing my fresh oil stream like I normally do.

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And then this verse came to me and I said,

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let me read it to myself.

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But then I felt, read it out loud.

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And then when I read it out loud,

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that's when it came to me.

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So I'll read it to you.

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Yeah, please.

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And it's Psalm 126.

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And it says as follows, it says,

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it's thanksgiving for the return from captivity.

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When the Lord brought back the captive ones of Zion,

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we were like those who dream.

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Then our mouth was filled with laughter

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and our tongue with joyful shouting.

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Then they said among the nations,

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the Lord has done great things for them.

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The Lord has done great things for us.

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We are glad.

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Restore our captivity, O Lord,

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as the streams in the south.

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This is the part that really got to me right here.

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Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.

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He who goes to and fro weeping,

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carrying his bag of seed,

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shall indeed come again with a shout of joy,

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bringing sheaves with him.

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And as I released that word,

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I kept feeling in my spirit that there's a transition,

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obviously, from one year to another.

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We go from glory to glory or faith to faith.

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And what I felt was as this year is shifting

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and we're moving into 2025,

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the word that I got was that we were going to enter

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into many people,

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we're going to enter into a time of harvest,

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a harvest time.

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There was a season of tears.

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There was a season of weeping.

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But the scripture says,

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though morning comes at night, joy comes in the morning.

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And it felt like the Holy Spirit was telling me to share

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that there is a season that we've been in of tears,

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sowing in tears.

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But not to be discouraged because every tear that was shed

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was a reaping of a harvest for later.

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And transitioning from this year into a time of Jubilee,

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is what I would refer to it as Jubilee.

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Now, what is Jubilee?

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Jubilee is the time during Israel's history

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where I think it was like every 49, every 50th year,

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the land would go into a season of blessing,

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a season of great harvest.

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Those who were in captivity were released.

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Those who owed debts were forgiven.

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Those who were hungry were nourished

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by the produce of the increase of the land.

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It was a year of Jubilee, a year of great expectancy.

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As I was 12 years old,

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one of the first Christian songs I've ever heard

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was Behold He Comes, Writing on the Clouds,

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with the trumpet sound, Lift Your Voice,

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it's the year of Jubilee and out of Zion's Hill,

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salvation comes.

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And I believe that's what the Lord is saying,

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that this is going to be a year of Jubilee for many of you,

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that you've been sowing in tears,

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that 2024 has been a time of grieving,

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of mourning for many, a time of, does God see me?

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Does God see what I'm going through?

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And there's been many tears that have been shed,

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but the response from the Lord

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is that those tears are not in vain.

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They're seeds that are being sown to the ground

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that will reap a harvest of blessing.

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And I think about harvest time, seed time and harvest time.

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There are moments where the seed needs to drop

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to the ground and that seed dies.

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There's a unfolding of events that unfold,

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that take time to unfold.

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But when that death comes, that seed breaks open,

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it breaks through and releases new life.

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And many people are like someone who sow a seed

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on the ground and they're yelling and screaming

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and shaking their fist to God and they're saying,

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there's no tree here, there's no tree here,

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there's no tree here, I just planted it.

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But the reality is there's a timing,

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there's an unfolding that there's a progression of time.

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And I believe that there is an appointed time

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that God is wanting to release harvest.

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Now that I believe can be a lot of things,

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but I believe it's like a time of harvest

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and a time of fulfillment.

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Some people have been really praying for fulfillment

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in their lives, fulfillment in their ministries,

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fulfillment in their jobs.

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They're believing God for things that haven't happened yet.

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They know God has spoken to them,

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but there's been a season of silence.

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And I believe prophetically that the Lord is releasing

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the sound of freedom, a sound of answered prayer for 2025.

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Every time I see them, I'm kind of weird.

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So with me, when I see things, when I hear things

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or think about things, I see them very vividly.

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So every time I see 2025, I just see fruit.

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I see a lot of fruit.

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I see abundance.

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And that sounds so cliche, right?

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It's like, oh yeah, this is the year of favor and abundance.

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But I really do, I really do believe that though.

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Like, I'm not just saying that.

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There's something that God is wanting to do.

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This is what I shared this morning

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on the stream as well, is this.

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There've been many people that are so used to plowing

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and sowing, plowing and sowing, weeping tears,

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plowing, pressing through.

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But now there's gonna be a transition

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where you're gonna have a mindset of plowing

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to a mindset of reaping.

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And so when God does something new,

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it's often funny that he asks a question.

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Or when he's rebuking the children of Israel,

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he'll say something.

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And like, for example, I've been reading Malachi

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and like God is saying something

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and then the response is, well, how have we done this?

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How have we done that?

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And then God gives the holy response.

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Well, in Isaiah 43, he says,

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behold, I shall do a new thing.

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Now it will spring forth.

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Then he asks the question, shall you not perceive it?

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Shall you not hear it?

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Shall you not see it?

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And there are moments that God wants

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to release something to us,

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but our minds are not believing that.

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It's like God wants to give you a new wine,

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but you got an old wine skin thinking.

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And that's what I believe he's doing.

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This is a time of fulfillment.

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It's a time where the plowing is going to transition

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from plowing to sowing to reaping and blessing.

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Blessing for many people who have been praying for things.

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And I'm not saying that it's gonna be a bed of roses.

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I have no idea what the year is gonna unfold.

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And there've been some really weird stuff

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that's been happening.

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Oh yeah.

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Yes, you know, like really weird stuff.

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It's a time of like, what's going on?

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This is strange, uncertain times.

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Yes, there's uncertain times.

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Yes, there's strange things.

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Yes, there are what appears to be moments of crisis,

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but even when God transitioned the Israelites

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out of Egypt, the favor and the glory of God

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was resting on them even in the middle

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of all the crazy stuff.

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So I'm not saying this because I'm discerning

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the circumstances around me.

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Like if I really would want to, I would say,

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yeah, there's weird things, uncertainty,

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and we're gonna enter into, that's easy to predict that.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Just look outside and see what's going on.

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But many times when God is doing something,

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it's counter intuitive of what's around you.

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You know, like in Jeremiah, they say all the prophets

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were prophesying blessing and Jeremiah was saying,

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no, it's another thing.

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Or in elsewhere, all the other prophets were saying doom

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and other portions of the major and minor prophets,

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but the God was saying something else.

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Yes, I think there's a lot going on.

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There's a lot of weird things happening,

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but in the middle of that, there's gonna be Jubilee

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for many people spiritually, personally.

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And so that's what I got in my spirit.

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Psalm 126.

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And when I said that, John, I was like, well,

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I'm just gonna say this in faith

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because I felt the presence of the Lord on it.

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And I can't tell you how many times I got in comment

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after comment after comment after comment on the stream.

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I just read that.

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Or this bears witness with my spirit.

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Or God just said that to me a few days ago.

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So I believe God is speaking collectively to people.

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And I'll also say this, you know,

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spiritual things are a lot like natural things.

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There are natural seasons where things affect everything.

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You know, you have a season of fall, all the leaves fall.

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It affects everyone.

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I believe that there are also spiritual seasons

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where God is trying to do something

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in the church as a collective.

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And I believe that we're going to see many testimonies

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of fulfillment and blessing.

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Amen. That's a good word.

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Many testimonies of fulfillment and blessing

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in this year of Jubilee.

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I mean, I love the fact that you were saying

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every time that you see the year 2025 written out in numbers,

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you just see mentally or spiritually in your spiritual vision,

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fruit, much fruit.

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Yeah.

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And, you know, as you started that story,

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I want to kind of go back to that moment there.

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There was something that you said

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that really stuck out to me.

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And you said, I've got nothing.

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But first thing you did was you went into worship.

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Yes.

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Can you talk briefly about when you have nothing

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going into worship?

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Yeah. So like for me, what I do is I never try to get a word

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just to get a word, you know?

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I did ask the Holy Spirit because, you know,

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this was brought up.

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So I just said, Holy Spirit, I've got nothing.

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If there's anything that you'd like to share with my heart,

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then I'll release that.

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So I literally just kind of left it alone.

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I just put it on a shelf and I just laid it

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at the feet of the Lord and I began to exalt

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the presence of God.

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And when I was worshiping, I went from nothing to something.

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You know, I went from no word to a word, you know?

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And there is something so powerful,

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even prophetically, about worship.

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I'm reminded of the scripture in 1 Samuel 10,

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where Samuel prophesies to Saul.

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And he says, when you turn your back on me,

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the Lord's gonna give you a new heart,

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but you're gonna go to the garrison of the Philistines

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and you're gonna see the prophets coming down

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the mountaintop worshiping.

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And they're worshiping from the high place

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with the salter and the lyre and the lute.

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And as they come down from the high place,

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the Spirit of God will come upon you suddenly

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and you'll prophesy among them.

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And that's exactly what happened during the time of Saul.

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And in 2 Kings, you have the story of Elisha,

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the son of Shaphat, and the troops of Jehoshaphat

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wanting a word.

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And Elisha was like, I'm not gonna give you any word.

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And I don't got anything, you know, just go with her.

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So then, but they're like, no, we know Jehoshaphat.

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And he says, as the Lord lives,

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I would not even look at you,

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but because Jehoshaphat is a friend, he says something.

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Look what he says, John, he says,

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he doesn't say, thus saith the Lord.

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He says, bring me the musician,

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bring me the minstrel player.

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And the Bible says that as the minstrel player

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was playing unto the Lord and worshiping,

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the Bible says that the hand of the Lord fell on Elisha

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and the word of the Lord came to Elisha.

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And for me, worship opens up the spiritual eyes

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and the ears to hear words, you know, from the Lord.

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And, but how it's so funny is like,

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I don't look for a word, I worship the word of God.

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You know, I worship Jesus.

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Jesus is the word made flesh, right?

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And so if we worship the word made flesh

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and we adore the presence of almighty God,

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because we're in the presence of the word,

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we receive a word, we receive the word

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because he is speaking, you know?

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And, you know, how does God sound like?

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Well, you know, it could be anything from peace

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to an injection of joy, to an inward vision,

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to a certainty, you know?

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But I find it so fascinating that I completely forgot

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about your request, John.

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I just laid it in my shed and I just forgot about it.

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And then I just started worshiping

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and then it was like, boom, you know, here it is.

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So how do we receive a word?

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I would say, I would say for me, I'm just saying for me,

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I would stop looking for the word

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and just worship the word of God, worship Christ,

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exalt him, let him lead you to the rock

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that's higher than I.

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And when we exalt the Lord, when we exalt his presence,

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there's something that happens where,

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as we're lifting him up, he lifts us to himself

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and we begin to hear from him.

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We begin to discern from him.

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It's a very powerful reality that God is inviting us to.

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It's a life of worship.

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One of the words for prophecy in the Hebrew,

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there's many, there's like at least seven words,

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but one of them that strikes a chord in my own heart

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is the Hebrew word nataf, nataf.

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And in the Strong Son coordinates,

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when you study that word nataf,

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it's literally translated as a drip or a drop

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or a distillation.

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So I like tea, for example, before I go to bed,

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I'll take some water and I'll boil it.

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That boiling process, the water starts to become active

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and then it rises, it becomes distilled,

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it rises, it evaporates, and then you see,

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it kind of touches the ceiling.

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If you have one of those things that are close to the pot

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and it starts to drop back,

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that's that word for prophecy there

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where it's like worship goes up, the word comes down.

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Praise goes high, praise is exalted, you praise the Lord.

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And then there's this heavenly condensation

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where the atmosphere of worship goes to God

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and it returns back as a word from heaven.

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And so that's what I would say,

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that worship and the word

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and how to receive a word in worship, how that works.

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I can't tell you how many times

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the Lord has given me words for people

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in moments like that, and it's unrehearsed.

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It's not like I'm looking, it's not like I'm like,

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all right, God, what do you got for me today?

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It's not like that, it's just like,

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Jesus, you're beautiful, you're absolutely lovely.

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There's none like you in all this earth

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and you just fall in love with the King

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and it's like, he can't help but to share.

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Beautiful, he shares space with us.

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Amen, amen, that is so good, Chris.

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That's very practical too.

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I know there's so many times

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where it feels that God isn't speaking.

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There's so many times that it feels

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that you're just out in the wilderness,

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but turning your attention to worship,

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turning your attention to worship the word

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and the word of God, Jesus,

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as opposed to searching for a word,

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looking for the word by worshiping Jesus.

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And you will see amazing things come from that

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and just get yourself in a place

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where you can have some of that fresh oil

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that God wants to pour out on you.

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Yeah.

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So Chris, I can't end this without asking you to pray

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for everybody that is about to go into 2025,

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that they would receive this word,

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that this Jubilee, that this time for reaping,

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turning into time of sowing,

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that they would really walk into this,

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that those that sow in tears will reap in joy.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Heavenly Father, I just pray for everyone right now

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that's listening to the sound of my voice.

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Lord, I just pray, Holy Spirit, first and foremost,

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you strengthen your saints.

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You strengthen those who are seeking after you

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and those who are not seeking after you.

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I pray that you woo them into your presence, Lord.

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I pray for strength in their spirit,

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a discernment to come into their hearts,

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into their eyes, into their ears,

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that they see, that they hear, that they know.

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Lord, I thank you for those who are listening.

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I pray for a season to come over them

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as you have shared this with me,

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that you would fill their mouths with laughter,

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that they would be like those who would dream,

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that they would be reminded that the tears

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that they have sown will in turn reap joy,

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that what they're praying for,

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what they're believing you for,

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what they've sown in anguish and in tears

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would be reaped upon them and heap over into greater harvest.

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Holy Spirit, I pray that you would remove

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old patterns of thinking,

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that when it's time for harvest time,

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that we're not in plowing time,

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that we would discern the time.

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And I just pray, Holy Spirit,

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that you would not just affirm this word,

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but you would confirm this word.

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You would confirm it by the inward witness of the Spirit

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within your people, but you would also confirm it

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with fulfillment and with promises of blessing.

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And I thank you for that in Jesus' name,

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even in the time of uncertainty,

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even when things go south and weird and uncertain,

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I pray for your Spirit to reign supreme in their hearts.

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And I thank you, Holy Spirit,

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that they would walk in a harvest of jubilation

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jubilant, that they would be set free.

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They would no longer have the captive's mindset,

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but they would be free to relish in the promised land

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that you have for your people.

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And I thank you this, for all of this,

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in Jesus' name I pray, amen.

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Amen and amen.

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Chris Garcia, thank you so much for taking the time

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to share what God has been sharing with you for 2025.

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Thank you so much, John.