"2024 Prophetic Forecast: Surprises Coming" S5 Ep1

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Welcome to keep it 100 podcast with Sean and Christa Smith. Join us in this space where we take on real issues with real insight,

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their real inspiration. This podcast is for those not looking for temporary relief to change circumstance,

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but revelation to forever change lives.

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Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of Keep it 100 with Christa and Sean Smith.

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It's your boy Sean.

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We love being with our keep 100 tribe and as we enter 2024, we really want to dive into this conversation about what we believe God is saying for 2024.

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But before we do that, let's talk about what's coming up this week. Only days away. We are so expectant for what God's going to do.

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Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

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That was drum roll y'all.

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Hey, we are days away from momentum 2024. Our annual conference is really not a conference.

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If you've listened to us enough, you know, we're we're we're just as I think a lot of people are.

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We have had enough conferences.

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Yes, in the Western world, particularly in North America, that it may not be the fact that people need another conference.

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We need an encounter. We need a flashpoint. Right.

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We need a visitation of God.

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We need something out of the ordinary, out of the norm.

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We can't settle. I was thinking about this, Christa.

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It says a lot in the Bible and him and Abram went different directions.

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He settled in a place called Zor. Zor means little.

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And I just feel like right now is not the time to settle for little services, little devotionals, little worship, little prayer life, little.

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It is not the time to settle in the Zor. It's time to go for the more.

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And so this is what this conference is really all about.

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We brought in some great guests.

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We really have. I'm really excited about our guests for this year.

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We have Tomi coming back as many of you know, and what he brought last year and really what he brings every time is so profound.

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But we're also bringing some new guests to our Keep 100 Tribe, Sherman Dumas.

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And to date, he probably gave me one of the most profound personal prophetic words I've ever received.

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His ministry has really impacted Sean and I. We love him as a dear friend.

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And then we have Jody and Ben Hughes, again, super profound people.

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We've known them for years. They've led Moves of God.

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They've led revival in other nations.

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They've seen massive moves of God, extended meetings here in America, even in 2022.

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Really significantly.

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And then we got Matt Gilman coming back with us again.

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He really walks in the glory realm with worship.

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Love, love, love. What he brings love is heart.

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Him and his wife, Kelly are just incredible.

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And then we have Chris Alderjus day and our momentum worship team.

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And they're just to me, some of my favorites.

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I mean, they walk in the anointing, they walk in a break anointing.

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And I just love that Chris and the team really know what it is to get people into the presence.

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They can do it like nobody's business.

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I'm really excited for people to experience that.

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And the Sean and I, of course, are going to minister as well.

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And I just believe that lineup is one that is radical.

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It's one that is just absolutely at God. What are you saying?

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I'm releasing the word of the Lord.

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And there isn't man pleasing with that group, which is a good thing.

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So I really think you're going to get an authentic word and an authentic encounter.

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And we're really going to emphasize, Chris has already mentioned worship,

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and we're going to really emphasize the altar.

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Just take throwing their egg timer, the clocks off the pulpit.

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We're going to have times where you can encounter the Lord come.

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And last year, we just had just the absolute visitation of God.

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We believe this year would be no less.

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And so right now you might want to go to our website,

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www Seanandchristasmith.com and you can still register.

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There's even place for you to walk up.

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We'll make space for you.

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Also, if you're not aware, this event will be live stream.

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We get so many people questioning and and inquiring as to whether or not

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we're going to have a live stream and the answer is yes,

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it will be live streamed every single session.

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And if I'm not mistaken, you you'll be able to access it over several days.

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So if you're working, let's say Friday, because the conference is this week,

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Thursday or day, Friday, Thursday night, Friday, Saturday,

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you'll still be able to access it.

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So it's worth it.

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We reduce the price on the live stream because we want as many people

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to view this thing and be a part as they can if you're not able to make it in person.

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You know, get your seat today.

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And I know many people, you know, there's always a reason not to come to something,

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right? You have this, I have that.

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But you know what, friends, when you make room for that fresh thing God's doing,

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there is something about the impartation.

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Sean and I have both been benefits of being in the room,

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being in proxy to the spirit of God, to the now word of the Lord.

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And it's brought transformation to our life.

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And so we're not trying to, you know, overhype this thing.

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We just know what God has done.

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We we feel the promise of God over this gathering.

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So friends, if you're hearing this, get in the room, get your seat,

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whether it's in person or virtual seat, both are going to be powerful.

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And we just want to invite you just come and gather because God's going

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to do something in momentum 2024, January 18th of the 20th.

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You can get your seat today at Seanandchristasmith.com.

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Hey, that leads us to the day, you guys.

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And if you remember our last episode, we had Tommy or Rhymey,

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who's also obviously going to be at the conference.

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And we had the theme of 2024, a season of momentum and really feel like again,

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we named this event that we're putting on momentum,

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but we really feel like it's more than just a catchphrase.

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We really feel like it's a prophetic word for the season.

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So we're going to do part two, 2024, a season of momentum.

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And Christian, I just going to both share what we feel the Lord is saying.

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One of the things I felt like the Lord is saying, and I just found myself

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in this place where my thoughts just began to center so profoundly

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on a scripture passage.

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And that's kind of the way God begins to speak to me.

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And I'm sure a lot of those who are listening, you feel the same way.

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But first of all, I just want to begin with in 2024, I think it's so important

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that we just don't think of ourselves as Christians alone,

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but specifically as overcomers.

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Now, there's nothing wrong with the term Christian.

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I'm not advocating.

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Don't use the term Christian.

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I'm a Christian.

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You love the Lord Jesus and you're like Christ, you're a Christian.

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But I feel like there's a mentality shift that has to happen.

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In this season, we have to think of ourselves as overcomers.

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Now, remember the book of Revelation is about where the church, the church age

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will culminate where it's going and just do a quick little word study,

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a word search.

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How many times the words overcomer comes in Revelation as Jesus is

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prophesied to the church?

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Do you know, overcomes?

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I will grant them a lampstand.

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I'll grant them this.

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I'll grant them that.

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And I think the mentality of overcomers is important for a couple of reasons.

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Number one, I think that overcomers are not just familiar with the promises

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of God, they contend to possess them.

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So this is a year of momentum of not just being familiar with the promises

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of God, but that we begin to possess the promises of God.

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And I'm going to share with you a little bit later, a passage that I feel

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like this thing of where we've never been for out of Joshua three is time

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to possess.

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But here is the scripture that God put on my heart.

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Revelation 12 11 says they overcame him by the blood of the lamb,

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the word of their testimony, and they left not their lives unto death.

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Now, why is this important?

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They overcame.

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Obviously, that would be the Antichrist.

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That would be the powers of darkness.

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We are locked in a battle right now.

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I don't know if you've noticed this.

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I was just reading the news of how many different nations are just kind of pushing

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some boundaries or some things going along, going on in the Atlantic Ocean.

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There's some things going on in the Far East, obviously, there's stuff going on

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in the in the Middle East, Gaza Strip, things still going on, Ukraine, Russia.

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It would seem as if, and we just recently did a strike on some ships.

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It would seem as if in the natural, we're moving more and more towards war.

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Like we shifted into a war mode.

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And I think the natural is mirroring the spirit is I just talked to people

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and I've since they're people that are facing some mental battles

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that are to their core, that it's uncharacteristic mental and spiritual warfare

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that people are undergoing.

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And it's an interesting thing.

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I mean, haven't you noticed that too?

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Absolutely.

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I mean, you're kind of watching all the pieces be put into place.

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As we kind of observe on a global level, we are entering brand new times

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and they're not necessarily stable times.

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And yet we can have the assurance that Christ has us, right?

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And our authority in Christ and our position in Christ.

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But I just I love what you're saying that we really are in unusual times,

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unusual times and times of war, times of battle. So true.

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Yeah. Now, remember, the verse said they overcame

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by the word of their testimony.

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I looked at the word testimony in the original, the word testimony there means

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in the Greek, witness, report and account.

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And then I looked up the entomology.

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I'm like this entomology do.

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That's the origin of words.

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I love origin of words and a word that we are very common with today is

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the word narrative, like we talk about the narrative, the meta narrative

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or the narrative that's being spoken today on the news or the narrative

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that comes out of Hollywood and the narrative that's coming out of the far

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left or the far right or, you know, hold a political spectrum.

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The word narrative means a spoken or written account of connected events story.

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So when it says they overcame it by the word of their testimony,

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it could almost be the way we use the words they overcame them by their narrative.

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And so what I'm saying is it is a battle of narratives today,

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because think about it, the main intent of a narrative is to establish a reality

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when the early patriarchs, when the stories of what God did with Joseph,

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when the stories of how God led the children of Israel out of Israel,

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when the stories were forgotten, it says over and over again in Genesis

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or the book of Judges and the people did what was right in their own eyes.

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And so what that what that tells me is the battle of narratives is either

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about establishing a testimony or normalizing the abnormal.

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So I feel like in this day, pay attention to the thoughts that you are meditating on.

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The understand right now, it is the moment to take thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ.

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Some of you are fighting battles right now,

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and not all the mental battles will be answered by a prescription.

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Right now, it's going to be answered by you being able to establish biblical narrative,

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the biblical narrative of truth in your life.

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And for that matter, we're fighting right now to change a narrative over our nations,

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our regions, our cities and families.

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And Christ and I, we even talked about this conference and really what we feel our mandate

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in the season is to see the narrative of California changed.

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Absolutely. I mean, I believe, you know, we're in the decade of pay and the pay is mouth.

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And so what we declare, what we decree, especially in this decade, it's always important,

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but it really is imperative in this hour.

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If you want to change the narrative, you got to speak differently.

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If you want to change the narrative of something, you got to speak life over it.

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You've got to declare the word of God over it.

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You got to declare what God's saying over it.

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So it's really important and critical in this hour to really partner in your with your mouth

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about what God's saying.

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Now, I'm going to dive into something that's really connected with that.

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Is that OK? Sure. OK, perfect.

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Because it really in sync with that is I heard the Lord say for 2024, you got to guard your gates.

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It came, we were actually meeting with the altar team at Momentum.

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We were on a Zoom meeting and I was just like praying in the spirit and I heard the Lord like an inward audible voice.

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It like boomed in me and he said, guard your gates.

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And I was reminded of Nehemiah.

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And now we all know the story about Nehemiah when they're rebuilding what had been torn down,

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what had been devastated by the enemy.

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As they're rebuilding, the enemy kept coming, kept coming, kept coming to the point where as they built,

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they could build with one hand, but with the other hand, they were holding a weapon tree.

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Or if they were building with both hands, they would have a sword on their on their hips, so to speak.

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So they had their weapon tree at all times.

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And I really believe that's the moment that's the hour that we're in and guarding your gates.

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And what is guard your gate look like?

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You have an eye gate, you have an ear gate, you have a mouth gate, your body is a gate, right?

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And so what Sean's talking about, about what you declare, what you decree, that's that I'm going to go and say,

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that's your mouth gate. OK, so what you're speaking is so key because you want to be speaking

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life and not death.

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What you listen to in this hour is essential.

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Whose narrative are you listening to?

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Who's who's whispering into your ear?

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Who's actually speaking counsel into your life?

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That's really imperative in this season.

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You have to have people that are going to point you to Jesus.

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You have to be able to point yourself to Jesus.

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There has to be enough tools and depth and in your root system with your walk with God

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that when you get rattled, you can come back to that place and go, but God said, but God said, but God said.

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And then I'm going to say your your eye gate, right?

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What you're watching, what you're putting your gaze on, right?

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So that's spiritual, but it's also physical.

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And what you put your eye on, right, is what you're allowing into your life.

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And I really think we have to be reminded that the eye is the window to the soul.

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So your eyes are actually allowing to the health of your soul.

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Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions.

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And so you've got to guard your gates.

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So what does that mean?

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That means you got to walk unaffended.

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You got to be quick to forgive.

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You got to watch what's coming out of your out of your mouth because the word of God says, no corrupt word shall come out of your mouth.

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We're supposed to be ones that have the light of light of Jesus in our eyes.

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Our soul is to be healed.

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And that doesn't mean we don't walk through hard things, but it does mean we don't let the hard things cause division, disunity or offense or hatred within us.

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Because those are the things that can actually change the trajectory of our spiritual walk.

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So guard your gates.

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You're going to have a lot to be able to be offended at this season.

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If I can just say that in 2024, you're going to have a lot of reasons you can be offended.

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I'm just going to say that I'm going to put that on the table.

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But you have the choice of how you respond and the Lord saying, guard your gates, son, guard your gates, daughter, understand.

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You got to literally root yourself in the word of God and the spirit of God.

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If you want to stay sweet in the spirit and keep your keep your head on the chest of Jesus, listening to what's on his heart.

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I love that because I feel like if you lose the battle of your imagination, you're not going to be able to fight for the battle over a nation.

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Let me say that better.

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If you do not understand your ability to control the narrative in your imagination, you won't be able to control or change the narrative over the nation.

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And so I think that's just so important.

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The other thing I really felt like God was saying was really a scripture passage.

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He gave me Joshua 3 1 through 5 and I just want to read it to you.

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Normally we don't do that.

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It's not necessarily a bite with steady, but we do want to know what scripture and truth is saying.

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It says in Joshua 3 verse 1, early in the morning, Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shedem and went to the Jordan where they camp before crossing over.

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After three days, the officers went through the camp giving orders to the people.

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When you see the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, your God and the Levitical priest carrying it, you are to move out from your position.

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And follow it.

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Then you will know which way to go.

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Since here's the phrase, you have never been this way before, but keep a distance about 2000 cubits between you and the Ark and do not go near it.

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The Lord would do amazing things before you.

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So this whole passage, the context is the nation of Israel had 40 years been wandering in the desert.

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They're now on the brink of occupying the promised land.

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This is their promise land.

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This is their revival.

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This is them coming into a massive breakthrough that would be seen and experienced for generation to generation to generation.

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It was the prophetic promise of coming in.

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And it's funny because they sat there after three days.

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They had to sit in a place for three days.

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I kind of feel like, and this is in verse one, that they had to set out from Shedem and went to Jordan where they camp before crossing over three days.

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I feel like the three days they sat represent a year.

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I feel like since 2020 and the whole pandemic, I feel like we have been in somewhat a stationary position that part of it was understood and understandable because you're in a place of survival.

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We've always talked about this phrase of we exhausted our adaptive abilities.

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We're kind of wondering what's next.

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But I feel like right now it is a time when the verse said to the people, when you see the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, your God, move out from your position.

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So I feel like the first thing is number one, it's a year.

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It's a season to break camp, break the camp mentality.

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You've been camping out in the comfortable.

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I've been camping out in the predictable.

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I've been looking for this, looking for that camp and out in our routines.

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And God is saying it really defies our emotional space if left to our own.

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But we need to take risks.

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We need to launch out.

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We need to break camp.

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And that's what I feel like the Lord is saying.

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And it really is so self-explanatory.

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But just do some simple things out of the ordinary in this season, just to break camp, to understand that God wants to stretch you.

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God wants to take you beyond.

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There's something more than just doing the same thing over and over and over again.

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And then the next thing they were told is when you see the Ark of the Covenant, the Ark represents the presence.

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And so the whole thing is get an eye in the season for the presence of God.

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Go after God's presence.

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Sense what God's presence is on.

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Sense what God's presence is not on.

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God's presence may be shifting.

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Now notice this, that Ark of the Covenant normally was in the middle of their camp, but now it was going to take the lead.

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The presence is shifting.

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And I feel like there may be this fact that there was the presence of God on your former friend group that now God is saying, you need to shift some people out of that inner circle.

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You need to now begin to move into some spaces and places with some people that are going to challenge you in a different way.

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And maybe there's some relationships, not anybody's marriage.

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That's not what I'm talking about.

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But there may be you're connected in a relationship and you might need to begin love them, keep them in a place, but they're not your inner circle anymore.

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Jesus had an inner circle.

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Peter, James and John didn't ever say that Judas was in the inner circle.

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He was part of the 12.

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And then there were people part of the 70.

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But Jesus, the Bible says understood what was in people's hearts.

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And so part of this thing of following the Ark, what is the presence of God on?

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What alliances?

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What even as simple as maybe how you spend your time, what is God on?

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Find out.

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And the third and final thing I want to share is this whole thing as it says, consecrate yourself for tomorrow.

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The Lord would do amazing things.

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This is such a season of exposure.

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Almost every prophetic voice.

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Christ and I get a chance to sit at a prophetic round table and we were all talking about such a season of exposure.

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We talked about that earlier.

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What do you do when you're when leaders fall?

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But the whole point of consecration is this.

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Understand, consecrate yourself for tomorrow.

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The Lord would do wonders when God is doing an in-depth move of consecration.

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In your life and inviting you to yield errors of your life.

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It's because he sees your tomorrow and he wants to release the miraculous, the wonders and even this passage, a place you've never been before.

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This is going to be here where God's going to do some things you've never seen before.

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You've never experienced before.

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He wants to take you beyond what has been your high watermark.

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You and I have not arrived.

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Paul says, I press on that.

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I mean, they hold up things that Christ laid old in me.

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And so understand this is a Joshua three moment.

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That's what I kind of feel like the Lord's been sharing with my heart.

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Chris, what about you?

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What do you kind of sense the Lord's sharing?

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You know, I love what you're saying because it really is an invitation, right?

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It's an invitation to move from where we've been to a place we've never been.

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And that sounds like that sounds cool, but it's going to require some tough choices from people.

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It's going to require some greater discipline in some areas, some surrender and laying down in other areas.

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It's going to require some fresh disciplines.

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You know, that you just have to like, OK, I've got to make space for what God's going to do.

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So I've got to change up my schedule and my time.

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And so I hear what you're saying.

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And like, in a good way, there's like this, there's a somberness to your word because I'm like,

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woo, there's an invitation and I don't want to stay in the predictable.

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I don't want to stay in what I've known.

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And that's a safe place and it doesn't mean God won't meet me there.

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He will, but there's so much more that's available.

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So, man, I keep wanting to try, but I don't know about you.

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I hear that and I'm like, oh, man, Lord, I want to walk in in the more and in the new.

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You know, what I've been feeling is a few a few things.

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The Lord just really dropped to my spirit.

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I'm going to go according to kind of how I heard it, if that's OK.

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The thing that dropped like the clearest initially and kind of in order, if that makes sense.

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And they're not order of importance, but they're order in which I heard.

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I heard the Lord say that in 2024, he's going to release a whole wave of creativity

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over his people and I want to break this down.

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I actually love this word because I'm a creative.

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And so the Lord speak in my language and I felt like the Lord said people that have

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not moved in certain gifts, like they wouldn't even identify.

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They wouldn't say I'm an artist or I'm a singer or a musician.

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Like they literally don't even think they have that gift.

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And these are like older people.

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These aren't like teens, although this might apply to teens.

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I'm talking about people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and so forth, where they

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haven't even accessed that gift to be for.

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And all of a sudden they're literally going to have an encounter with God.

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There's going to be a creative download and where they couldn't sing before the

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encounter. Maybe they couldn't carry a note very well or it was just very average

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singing voice. All of a sudden I saw voices coming on people and it was the

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and it was the Lord.

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It was the anointing of God coming upon people and ordaining them.

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If that's the best word saying we need your voice now for the Kingdom of God.

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And what I felt like the purpose of this was because God said, I'm taking back the

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creative realm. There's a creative realm that has been hijacked by the enemy.

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It's been hijacked by darkness.

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And God says, I'm actually, I'm taking back what's mine.

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The Lord is creative, right?

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God created creativity.

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He's the most creative, you know, he's the most creative.

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He's the artist. He's the creator.

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He's the creator.

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And so it's been an area that's been really robbed from the church.

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It's been robbed from the Kingdom of God. And the Lord says, I'm actually

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positioning my kids to take back creativity.

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And I think it's so cool.

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So there's some of you that are listening that you would not even say I've had a

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voice by singing voice.

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I haven't been able to sing well or carry a note.

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And actually I really believe you're going to receive an impartation to sing.

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And I felt like people that are artists or write songs or graphics or play an

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instrument. I just feel like there is an anointing and an outpouring of

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impartation for creativity. And it's funny because I feel like some of you even

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hearing this, it's already been kind of stirring in you.

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This is actually a confirming word.

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You're not surprised by this word.

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You're like, I've actually been feeling this is so weird.

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And you've not really known what to do with it because it hasn't been an area

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that's been activating your life.

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And yet you feel this desire to pursue it.

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But you're like, is it too late?

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I'm in my forties. I'm in my fifties.

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Is it too late to even pick up an instrument at this point?

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And I felt like God goes, no, this is actually the hour because we're

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taking back land.

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So if you're creative and you're hearing this or you're saying, I'm not

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creative, but I want to be and I feel the desire within me.

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I want you to hear this word because I believe God says I'm putting paint

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brushes in your hands.

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Those are some of you are going to be leading worship.

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And there's just blueprints for creativity that's being released right now.

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And I just think that's super cool.

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The second thing that came to me that felt like it really had weight on it was

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twenty twenty four is a year of spiritual authority. There is a revelation

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that God is releasing over the church in America.

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Now this can go bigger than America.

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And I know we have other nations that are listening beyond America.

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So I want you to receive this for your nation.

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But I'm specifically going to speak to America just because that's where we

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call home.

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But I do believe it's bigger than America.

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So there's a revelation that God's releasing over the church of who we are

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in Christ.

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And this has been something that the church has really forgotten.

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And the church has been riddled with so much warfare and dysfunction.

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And God says this is a year of identity resulting in a greater revelation of my

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child's authority in which I've given them.

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And I felt like the Lord said there's an area where you're going to begin to see.

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This is in addition to what I heard the Lord say connected to the twenty twenty

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four years spiritual authority.

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This is a year of making the weak things formidable.

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So what does that mean?

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It means making what's weak be great.

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Be strong.

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OK.

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And so I felt like the Lord says some of you feel weak.

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But it's because you have not had a revelation of your spiritual authority.

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Now anytime you're harassed by the enemy quick teaching.

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Anytime you're harassed or tormented by the enemy when Jesus Christ is your Lord

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and Savior and your bloodbought it is actually illegal for the enemy to

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harass or torment you because you're covered by the blood of Jesus.

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The enemy cannot harass or torment.

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But we do not understand our often our spiritual authority and we allow

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ourselves to be harassed and tormented and we don't shut them out of the enemy

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through the blood of Jesus.

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And we often don't close doors of access.

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We're in areas where we've been forgiven where we've walked away where we've

451
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:40,920
asked for forgiveness.

452
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,160
We're repented because we haven't broken that agreement that soul tie or

453
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:45,920
whatever it is.

454
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,960
We allow that door of access.

455
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,960
We allow that lane for the enemy to continue to come at you.

456
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,520
But you're going to rise up this year.

457
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:54,240
I want you to hear this.

458
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,120
You're going to rise up this year and you're going to have a revelation.

459
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:56,920
Hold on.

460
00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:00,360
The blood of Jesus shuts them out of the enemy.

461
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,640
The blood of Jesus breaks the back of the enemy.

462
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:09,040
The blood of Jesus breaks and exposes every lie of the enemy coming at me.

463
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,320
And all of a sudden what used to come at you kind of like a machine gun.

464
00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:15,800
Some of you have been so harassed, tormented and riddled with fear and

465
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:16,680
anxiety.

466
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:17,560
You're actually going to.

467
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:18,120
I love it.

468
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,400
I heard the Lord says people are getting sick of the dysfunction.

469
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,120
People are sick of their brokenness.

470
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,800
And what's going to rise up in you is you saying, uh-uh, I'm actually going to

471
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,600
enforce the victory of what Jesus did on the cross.

472
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,840
See, we don't have to win anything.

473
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,240
The battle's already been defeated.

474
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,080
The enemy's already been defeated by Jesus.

475
00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:44,200
All you're doing is enforcing the victory that was done on the cross at Calvary.

476
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,640
So there's a revelation of spiritual authority that's going to rise up in the

477
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,120
church of going, why are we calving?

478
00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:52,360
To this, that or the other.

479
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,760
Why are we coming underneath this narrative?

480
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,560
The society or the news or, or darkness is throwing at us.

481
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,560
Why are we riddled with fear?

482
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:05,200
Why are there just as many people that are having sleep issues or anxiety

483
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:10,040
issues or depression issues or addiction issues or, you know, in the church,

484
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,680
there should be a difference.

485
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,960
And the Lord says there will be a contrast this year.

486
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,920
Uh, the church is rising up in victory and authority.

487
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,320
So I want you to understand you, you have an authority you're about to access

488
00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:24,600
because all of a sudden the light's going to go on.

489
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:29,160
You've heard about the blood covenant of Jesus, but it has not yet become a revelation.

490
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,720
It's about to become a revelation.

491
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,120
And the Lord says, mark this prophetic word, y'all, because there's going to be

492
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,360
many pastors and leaders that are going to begin to teach about the blood covenant

493
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,080
that are going to teach about the covenant that you and I are in.

494
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:46,920
And that is going to spark a revelation in the church at large in America.

495
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,120
You know, that is so key because I was just thinking what you're sharing,

496
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:54,520
booze, John G. Lake, you know, sickness had so attacked his siblings and even his

497
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,640
wife. And then I just was recently reading.

498
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:57,720
She even got shot.

499
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,160
I don't know if it was her four year old, but a four year old, it was accidentally

500
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:01,280
discharged a gun.

501
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,880
So she was paralyzed and he just was dealing, bearing his brothers and sisters.

502
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,200
I mean, sickness decimated his family.

503
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:13,640
And out of that desperation, he just happened to stumble upon a scripture that

504
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:18,520
just really rocked him and he began to realize, wait a second, Jesus has given

505
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,800
me authority over sickness.

506
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,840
And so that's what launched his healing ministry.

507
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,280
So I almost wondered as you're sharing that, that discovery of authority is going

508
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,480
to launch more ministry.

509
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,560
And we're going to begin to step into the stuff that the Bible talks about and

510
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:34,880
look more book of acts.

511
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:35,720
I love that.

512
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,160
I totally agree.

513
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,960
We're going to begin to see that that's going to become acts is going to be our

514
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:41,520
normal.

515
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,320
I just, the book of acts is our normal.

516
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:47,840
I mean, that's what we're called to walk in in connection with that.

517
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,520
This is the next thing I heard the Lord say, 20, 24 as a year of nevertheless,

518
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:53,440
nevertheless.

519
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,960
And we see this in scripture specifically.

520
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,960
I'm going to pull out Luke five.

521
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And this is a story where Jesus is on the shore and he's teaching all the people

522
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,000
come to here and he steps on, there's two boats.

523
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,560
He steps on one boat and it's Simon's boat.

524
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,400
And this is where they have been toiling and they've been trying to catch fish

525
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:10,960
all night.

526
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:11,960
It's morning now.

527
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,200
They have not been successful.

528
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:14,520
They have not caught anything.

529
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,560
And then Jesus says, after he's completed teaching, he says to Simon, he says,

530
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:25,200
now throw your net over and Simon's and he's instructing him once again to do

531
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,600
what he just been doing all night.

532
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,360
And Simon's response to Jesus was, we've done that.

533
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:30,400
I've toiled all night.

534
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,440
We fished all night.

535
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,880
I've put the nets over, but we have not caught fish.

536
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,240
He said, but nevertheless, and he's basically saying, because you've said it's

537
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,240
my savior, right?

538
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,640
Because you've said it, Jesus, because you've said it, I'm going to do it again.

539
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,960
And I heard the Lord say, you know, nevertheless means in spite of.

540
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,920
So I want you to know 2024 is a year of in spite of.

541
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:56,120
So in spite of what the news is saying, intercessors can shift things in spite of

542
00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:01,280
what has even been released by the enemy, it can be changed.

543
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:05,560
Whatever the doctors have spoken over your health, over your loved one, over your

544
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:06,840
body, it can be shifted.

545
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:07,160
Why?

546
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:12,240
Why? Because we serve God who is our healer, what has been spoken over your

547
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,440
children, over their health, maybe in what they've spoken over themselves in the

548
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:21,040
area of their identity and who they think they are and what society has fed them.

549
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,680
And they've come into agreement with that spirit of confusion.

550
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,000
I want you to know God says this is the year of nevertheless.

551
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,680
It doesn't matter what the enemy is saying.

552
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,800
It doesn't matter what the world is saying.

553
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:37,040
God says his report and we're in the hour where God said, I'm looking

554
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:41,200
for the Simons, I'm looking for the James and John, right?

555
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,280
That are in the, in the ocean.

556
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:47,080
And even if you don't understand it, you're saying in spite of nevertheless,

557
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:47,720
it doesn't matter.

558
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:48,560
God, you said it.

559
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:49,840
And if you said it, then I'm going to do it.

560
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,480
And if you do it, I know it's going to have a good ending because you are

561
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,240
faithful and you, if it doesn't have a good ending, that means you're not done

562
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:57,480
writing the story yet.

563
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:03,720
And so I just believe some of you, um, where, uh, almost like a disappointment,

564
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,760
kind of like a Simon, like he, he, the, he was a

565
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,840
fisherman, he wasn't out there because he wanted to be out there all night.

566
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,680
He was out there because he needed to be out there all night because he needed

567
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,840
those fish, he needed to pay bills, he needed to provide.

568
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,120
He, he needed the food, he needed the income.

569
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,600
Some of you have been doing this things not because you have to, and you have

570
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:22,640
not seen the fruit of it.

571
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:27,800
God says this is the year where you have, you will see fruit over what you

572
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,600
have toiled over all night.

573
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,160
And I want you to hear this for yourself.

574
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,600
I want you to hear that this is a year of breakthrough.

575
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:39,080
This is a year of abundance and this is a year of more than enough because when

576
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:43,400
you keep reading that story in Luke five, when they do what Jesus told them to do,

577
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,280
there are so much fish that Simon actually calls over the other boat, which is

578
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:48,080
James and John.

579
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,640
They come over and there's so much fish.

580
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:55,400
It says it fills the two, the two boats full of fish and they begin to sink.

581
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,040
There's so much abundance.

582
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:03,680
There's so much provision from Jesus in one word and in one act of obedience, in

583
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,600
one act of surrender, there is so much abundance.

584
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,880
They actually can't even contain it.

585
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,920
And I just believe we're in that hour.

586
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,840
What looks impossible.

587
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:19,920
God goes, it is possible because if you stand on my word and I cannot tell you,

588
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,800
this is the hour where we, as Sean mentioned this, you have to take your

589
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:24,960
thoughts captive right now.

590
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,480
You have to stand on the word of the Lord.

591
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,920
You know, I was thinking about, we've got a lot of listeners, Gen Z, millennials,

592
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,800
teenagers, you're in your high school.

593
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,480
There's some Gen Zs, you're at your college.

594
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,920
And I think part of this word, the thought I got was you can't let your

595
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,360
head get in the way of you getting ahead.

596
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,600
And I think sometimes for us to want to figure everything out and we're not

597
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,120
understanding, maybe God's asking us to start a Bible study at our high school.

598
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,560
Maybe God's asking us to call some students to pray at our university.

599
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,240
Maybe God is saying, Hey, I'm a young professional that there are some people

600
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,200
that maybe I should invite over for dinner and just begin to share Christ with.

601
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:08,080
And it seems to fly in the face of logic, of conventional wisdom, but don't

602
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,160
let your head get in the way of you getting ahead.

603
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,680
Step out, have a never the less moment.

604
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:14,280
I love that.

605
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:15,120
That is so good.

606
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:16,920
I love, I love what you're adding.

607
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:17,800
That's so good, baby.

608
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,760
You know, I'll end with this one last thing and it kind of ties in with what we're

609
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:22,080
talking about.

610
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,160
I have a lot more that the Lord has given me.

611
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,200
I'm actually going to share some of it when I preach a momentum.

612
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,640
So if you're able to listen or get in the room, we get your virtual seat or

613
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:35,840
in person seat, you'll get more of what I for heard for 2024, but I just wanted

614
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,840
to share a few more things and we might come back later with some podcasts and

615
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,200
talk about, um, in addition, you know, some more things, what we feel like God's

616
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:42,360
saying.

617
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,120
But lastly, let me just say this.

618
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,240
The Lord says, uh, your courage and your bravery will be called upon this year.

619
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:53,360
And the Lord is releasing a spirit of courage and bravery for God.

620
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,320
And some of you are going to get that man pleasing ripped right out of you in

621
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:57,920
the best way.

622
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:02,920
And what has kind of limited your voice or sometimes you haven't posted something

623
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:08,080
or maybe haven't had a conversation or made this stand or shared Jesus with

624
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:12,800
someone or just been bold or open or transparent about your faith or your

625
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:13,520
convictions.

626
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:17,480
I just heard the Lord say, um, he's going to just release this courage and this

627
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:22,040
bravery over the body of Christ, where there is just this, uh, tenacity and

628
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,000
grit of like, I'm not afraid.

629
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,080
Like we're not moving from a place of fear.

630
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:27,880
We're moving from a place of courage.

631
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,160
We're moving from, we're living from a place of bravery.

632
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:31,000
We're brave.

633
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:31,640
We're courageous.

634
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,080
We pray brave prayers.

635
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:34,520
We pray courageous prayers.

636
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,160
We do courageous things.

637
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:37,960
We live bravely.

638
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,400
Um, you know, it's like we speak with courage and it, and we call courage out

639
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,520
of people, we call bravery out of people.

640
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,000
And I just feel like the Lord is saying, this is the hour where I'm calling

641
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,880
forth the William Wilbur forces, you know, the people that I love.

642
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:57,080
I love, I felt like, uh, you know, will William Wilbur force, he went after

643
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,680
abolishing slavery in England.

644
00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:03,760
I mean, this is like the land of those that really created slavery.

645
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:10,120
And he's this like lone abolitionist that is literally releasing a narrative.

646
00:34:10,240 --> 00:34:16,160
And he had to call people into a place of standing for truth and righteousness

647
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:17,680
when it was unpopular.

648
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,080
And it actually could cost you significantly.

649
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,440
It could cost you socially, financially for some people, it costs them their

650
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:30,720
lives and he literally rallied a nation to overturn something that people deemed profitable.

651
00:34:30,720 --> 00:34:35,160
He was going after people's pocketbooks because slavery was a big moneymaker.

652
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:35,600
Right.

653
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,520
And so he, through his conviction overturned things.

654
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:45,040
I feel like that William Wilbur force, it's going to slap, um, slap current

655
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,560
culture in the face where it defies biblical truth and holiness and righteousness.

656
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,760
In areas where people are walking in bondage, um, in areas where people are

657
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,760
walking in sin and it's being called right righteous.

658
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,040
It's being called, well, I don't know if it's being called righteous, but it's

659
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,240
being called right by the world.

660
00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:03,560
Maybe that's a better way to communicate it.

661
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,480
But I felt like the Lord says, I'm calling the abolitionists up.

662
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:10,160
I'm calling forth the people that are going to release people out of captivity.

663
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,000
And it's going to require your courage.

664
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,760
It's going to require your bravery.

665
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:18,280
But when you walk in the conviction of God, man, pleasing is nowhere to be seen.

666
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,720
You know, I think it's almost like we've come full circle.

667
00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:24,600
It is the battle of narratives and whoever wins the battle of narratives

668
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,560
will carry the greatest influence.

669
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,880
But if you understand to be the person that begins to push the unpopular

670
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,640
narrative, which obviously, uh, Jesus said, you'll be hated on economy.

671
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:35,880
So you got to get ready for that.

672
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,920
You have to have bravery and spiritual.

673
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:44,760
I think courage is I am going to step out knowing I'm going to face some

674
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,880
sort of repercussion that I may not like, but brother,

675
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,680
but bravery, I think says, I know exactly what will happen to me.

676
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,240
If I step out, I'm going to do it anyway.

677
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,600
And I'm going to do it with a little bit of fire and gusto.

678
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,360
And I felt like the bravery, spiritual bravery is so important.

679
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,920
It takes bravery.

680
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,760
You know, even that Joshua, they were, they're going to break out of

681
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,480
something and break into something.

682
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,480
It was almost like they were saying, you know what?

683
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,640
I'm coming out of my desert of spiritual dryness.

684
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,920
I'm coming out of my desert of small things.

685
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:19,880
I'm kind of coming out of my desert of being in confident of spiritual

686
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:20,480
bareness.

687
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I'm coming out of the desert of emptiness because there's a promised land

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of spiritual victory.

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There's a promised land of divine power.

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There's a promised land of influence and shifting the narrative over a generation.

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And I think especially as this year will be an election year and there's

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going to be a lot of people that are going to be saying stuff and trying

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to sway and pull people.

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But you have to understand the ultimate narrative that will win.

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The Bible says heaven and earth will pass away, but not one jot or

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tittle will, for all intents and purposes, take away from the power of

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God's word that we have to stand with what is eternal.

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So I love what you're saying.

699
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That is just gospel right there.

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Come on.

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I love that.

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You know, as we just close out this episode of keep 100 and we're just

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sharing just these things that we feel like God's speaking to us right now.

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We really want to encourage you.

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What's God saying to you?

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Really taking time in 2024.

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Don't just enter another year.

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I know a lot of people have their word and their resolutions and hey,

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that's great.

710
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You know, whatever, whatever that is, that's wonderful.

711
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But there's nothing that replaces what the word of the Lord is for you.

712
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There's nothing that replaces what's your scripture for this year.

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What's the promise of God over this year?

714
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You know, and as you're hearing what God's releasing, grab it for yourself

715
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because I believe there's invitations to go where we've never been before.

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I love that.

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I love that.

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There are two Greek words that are used in the Bible that are so important

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and it's a word that I think is so important.

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The first word is Naka, which means to set out.

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It means like the Israelites, they set out, but of course they wandered

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40 years in the wilderness.

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So although they set out, it wasn't a word that demonstrated that they

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tapped into the momentum of completely surrendering to God.

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And the other word is a bar.

726
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It translates.

727
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It means to cross over and is used frequently in this book of Joshua.

728
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So the whole issue is, are you a Naka, just a person that sets out to do

729
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something but never taps into momentum?

730
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Or are you an a bar person that crosses over?

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And I think right now we need crossover catalytic Christians that are prophetic

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pioneers that will occupy, that will step into 2024 and say, hey,

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2024 is not happening to me as a believer, as a child of God.

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I'm happening to the year 2024.

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Look for our next episode and remember,

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