September 9, 2024 • 43 mins
The Lord gave the command, and many women carried the news. Psalm (68:11) Join Christina Perera on this compelling Revealing Jesus episode as she sits down with Chauvonna Taylor, founder of Chauvonna Taylor Ministries, and the WOW Women of Worship conference. Dedicating her life to empowering women through faith, Chauvonna shares her journey of coming to Christ and how she transitioned from a life affected by depression and anxiety to one filled with strength and purpose in Jesus. The two discuss the significance of women arising in their faith and the crucial role support and unity play in fostering spiritual growth.
In this episode, the conversation delves into how women can step into their God-given identities and proclaim the word of God with power. Both Christina and Chauvonna emphasize the importance of connecting with the Holy Spirit and each other to withstand life's challenges. They share inspiring anecdotes and biblical examples, aiming to ignite a passion for spiritual revival among women. They invite listeners to the upcoming Arise Conference, an event designed to equip and empower women to embrace their destinies fully. "This arise is for all women, whether she's a Deborah, JL, Esther, Ruth... maybe this woman hasn't even received that much support in other places." - Chauvonna Taylor Listen to the end for prayer!
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Welcome to Revealing Jesus. Are you hungry to learn more about our beautiful Savior Jesus?
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I am your host, Christina Perera, lover of Jesus, apostolic leader, licensed and ordained
minister, author, podcaster, and Kingdom Party planner. Did you know that the Bible declares
that grace and peace are multiplied to us in the knowledge of Jesus? And that simply
means the more we learn about our beautiful Savior, the more we will experience all He
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teaching, interviews with Bible ministers, media leaders, authors, and more. Come discover
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Hey everybody, thanks so much for tuning into this week's episode of Revealing Jesus with
Christina Perera. I am your host Christina, and I'm so excited to have you with me here
today. I hope and I pray that you are doing well right where you are and enjoying the
continuously flowing favor of grace pouring from our beautiful Savior and Father in heaven.
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I've got a great show for you today. I have an amazing leader in the body of Christ with
me today, and she is a dear friend of mine. She carries such a spirit of faith, and I
absolutely love that about her. She is the founder of Chavonna Taylor Ministries and
the founder of WOW Women of Worship Conference. Chauvonna, welcome to the podcast.
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Thank you so very much, Christina. It's an honor to be here.
Oh, it's such an honor to have you with me, and you've got your WOW shirt on, which I
absolutely love. Show me that crown.
Yes, come on, right here. Yep, we've got the crown on. Amen. Even have a bracelet here
that says Arise. Amen. That's the theme of our conference this year.
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Amen. I love that so much. Well, I've introduced you and let our listeners know so many things
about you. Can you share with them, since this is Revealing Jesus, how you met our beautiful
Savior Jesus?
Well, I met our beautiful Savior Jesus in 1995. The Lord sent an evangelist on my job,
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so she evangelized while we were at work, and he put her desk right next to my desk.
She was a very zilliest woman, and she loved Jesus so much that he just oozed out of her
all day long. We were all being dripped on in the office all day long, and you just couldn't
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help it just to have such a desire for more knowledge of Jesus. However, with me, the
Lord actually had to provoke me. Maybe I wasn't moving fast enough for him, so he actually
provoked me because Tasha was... My friend Tasha was actually ministering to a couple
of us ladies on the job, and we all lived in the same neighborhood as well. One Sunday,
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I looked out my window and I saw that they had been to church. I was like, oh my goodness,
they went to church without me. My friend said, guess what? She said, Tamar got saved
today. I went, oh my gosh. The following Sunday, guess who was in church? I gave my wife to
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the Lord in Ayer, Massachusetts in 1995. The Lord initially brought me into a relationship
with him. Amen.
Amen. That's so amazing. I love how all of our stories are so different. For you, it
was a relentless coworker who just loved Jesus. They're all so different, but they're all
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so different because we're different people, and he knows what each and every one of us
need. There's always a story of his relentless love weaved throughout each and every one
of them.
Absolutely. I think that even if the person's not dealing with a background of alcoholism
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or drugs, that wasn't mine, but I think just the simple fact that he loves us and the fact
that I just didn't have any awareness of him and that he wants that relationship with each
one of us. I am so happy to this day that he pursued me in such a way and that he is
still pursuing everyone else that doesn't have a relationship with him yet. Amen.
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Amen. It's so funny to me when I hear people say, oh, the love of God is just a small subject,
but it's not. It's the subject.
The God of love is always love, and he always pursues us, whether we've been walking with
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him five minutes or 50 years. It's still love. He's still with us for the sake of love.
Amen. Amen. That's absolutely true. He's always pursuing us. If I could share, I shared with
a lot of people that even though I did get saved in 1995, and all honestly, I thought
that was it. You get saved, you run to a relationship with Jesus, and you feel like you've secured
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your spot in heaven. Afterwards, I backslid for four years because I really thought that
that's all I needed. For four years, I was in the wilderness until in 2000 when I was
having some issues with anxiety and depression, and I cried to the Lord again. This time,
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I knew that I could not walk with Jesus, and that it was up to me to continue this relationship,
this unrelentless pursuit of Jesus. Now, almost 25 years later from that, for me being reconnected
back to the Lord, it's been nonstop. Amen.
Amen. I know her today as a mighty woman of faith. She's one of the people that I call
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when I need a faith-filled encouragement. That means a lot to me, having faith-filled
friends across the body of Christ. To me, in my mind, we're such easy pickings when
we're alone, but having that connection with one another is so powerful, and it's so needed.
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God is birthing something right now among women who are connected and who are partnering
together to see what the Lord wants to birth in the earth through women right now.
Shavonna, you're one of the women I think of with the wow women of worship with that.
Amen. Yeah, it's really an honor. I moved here to Chester, Virginia over 20 years ago,
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and I was in full-blown anxiety and depression. I was walking with the Lord, but still, I
needed a lot of deliverance. I still needed a lot of grace in my life. I still needed
to learn how to walk on the strength of God. It's really amazing now that 20-some years
later that I am hosting this wow women of worship conference right here in Chester.
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It's just, I never could have imagined 20 years ago that God had this assignment to
call all women into this one location to declare his victory.
Yeah, I think that's amazing. It's so interesting to look back over our lives. I'm doing things
now that I never thought, I never had any desire for. It's just so interesting that
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he takes our pain and he transforms it into a purpose and into a mission. If we allow
him to break our hearts for what breaks his, we can begin helping to call others out of
those situations. I know you've named this conference Arise, and you feel like that's
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the theme of it from the Lord, because you really want women to arise with their strength
and destiny, the words that God has spoken over them. Can you tell our listeners a little
bit about that?
Yes, absolutely. I just personally heard the Lord of my spirit where he said arise. This
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rise is, I take it for myself personally, but also that he says to declare this, to
gather the women into one place and that we would arise and that we would emerge together,
that we would come to the next level in him, a place of maturity, a place of strength,
a place of victory, and that we make a decision. In 1 Peter 5, it says that the enemy is roaming
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around like a devil seeking whom he may to devour, but in the passion translation, it
also says make a decision to stand against the wiles of the enemy. It's our decision
in that we're choosing to arise in his strength, in his wisdom, in his grace, but it's an opportunity
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for all of us to come together and to arise. We're going to arise together and this is
going to make a profound impact even in our communities and in our neighborhoods and in
the places where we work.
Yeah, I love that so much. I love, for those of you out there who know me, who follow my
ministry, you know that together is my heart. When Shavana said arise together, I said,
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yeah, I'm on board with that. It's so important. I feel like as women, so many people want
to define our lives. They want to define what we're capable of, what we should do, what
we should not do, who we are, who we are not. And the enemy fights really hard to try to
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define us. Many, many years ago, the Lord told me, he said, don't let anybody paint
you. I'm a painter. I love to paint with, you know, it's just that heart of creativity,
but don't let anybody paint you but me. And it comes to identity. And so those words that
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the Lord has spoken over each of us, you had to break that identity with depression and
anxiety and become a woman of worship, right?
That's right. That's right. That's right. Behind closed doors, we're making that decision.
And I chose behind closed doors that I will, you know, as the word says, that I will look
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upon the heels from which cometh my help and that finding my identity through him based
on his word, for instance, in Ephesians 2 and 10, I believe, where it says that we're
his handiwork, you know, we're his craftsmanship and just understanding that we're all in a
process in that. And I just remember many years ago with women like Joyce Myers and
Beth Moore, and I used to watch them on TV. And I was so inspired by these women. I've
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been to countless women's conferences and I was so inspired even by all of those women.
And I would just sit back and go, I want to be like her and I want to be like her. I want
to be like her. And it's like God saying, yes, you can be, you can be the fullness of
who I've created and called you to be. And so he puts that desire in our heart. And as
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we're going after him, we are constantly developing and emerging and coming into this real true
version of really who we are, our true identities of who we are in Christ. Amen.
Amen. Amen. Absolutely. It's so funny that you said that about watching Joyce Meyer.
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I used to watch Joyce Meyer a very long time ago. I was a partner with her for a very long
time. And I would look at what God did in her life and I would literally weep at the
goodness of God and what God did in her life. And I would thank God for that, what he did
in her life. And it's so amazing. But the truth is, is that God's no respecter of persons
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and what he does for one, he can do for another. And let me tell you, if you get a hold of
that scripture, that's not that's right. He wants to put all of us, he wants to put all
of us on display, you know, the victory in his joy. It's not now we're all attacked in
secret to a degree. We're attacked in secret. We're isolated. But when it comes to the things
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of God, you know, he says that if we will pray in secret, but that he will reward us
openly. And so he has, he wants to bring us all out into that open place so that they
can see the work of the Lord, that they can know that the hand of the Lord has done this
thing. So we're his trophies, you know, and I thank God for the testimony that he's given
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to each one of us that we can declare and boast the good things that God has done and
how gracious and kind and merciful he is. Amen. I love the scripture that says, let
him who boasts, boast in the knowledge of the Lord that he knows the Lord intimately
and the things that he's done. And it's such an amazing thing because it's no longer a
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religion, but a living, breathing relationship. I mean, Shavonna, can you imagine somebody
coming up to you and trying to convince you not to follow Jesus?
No, I, yeah, they be wasting their breath. I've, you know, any song, you know, I have
decided to follow Jesus. You know, I have decided no turning back, no turning back.
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Amen. No turning back. Yes. I love that so much. So, you know, what do you, what do you
hope women coming to this conference take away from it?
Well, you know, it is an empowerment conference and I do, I pray that, you know, there is
an inspiration that they're ignited. So we're actually taking the word arise and we kind
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of broke it down to some acronyms and, and that a is that we are women that we will announce
and proclaim the word of God, that that is the, like the number one thing that we will
always do that we will not, you know, there's this worldly term that's out there. That's
kind of like it is what it is and that we will not say that because we all have to personally
choose, we always say that the, you know, that, that God is on our side, but we have
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to choose, are we on his side too? Are we still with word no matter what? So we are
women that announce and proclaim, you know, God's word of power. Amen. And, and that's
what the women in Psalm 68 and 11, 12 did. He says, it says that the Lord declared that
he gave the word of power, but it's the women that announced and proclaimed this word. So
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it's kind of like saying, that's all we got to say is what the Lord says. Amen. And so
that they're rising together and that for the eye that we are ignited and inspired by
Holy spirit, but also from one another. Amen. And, and shining and standing together and
to the E is for equip that we're equipped by him, by his spirit and empower in his presence.
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There is an empowering presence. So as we come in, we have to be saturated. We need
to be united. We need to be one, you know, we're one head, one body. We need to be one.
And just like I said, we're standing together because you know, we know that God has revealed
what his will is and that is victory. That is, you know, that he desires that we prosper
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being good health as our soul process. So we're making a stand. Amen. We're just coming
together to make a stand of his victory. Amen. I love that so much. You know, it's so interesting
to me, um, you know, that when the enemy gets us alone, it's easier to convince us that
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we are not for his glory, that we are somehow less than somehow not capable, somehow not
who God says we are. But when we come together and we unite our faith and we form a shield
around each other, a shield of faith that says, no, we are who we are. And we link arms
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and say, Shavana, I'm not letting you go. And you say, Christina, I'm not letting you
go. Right. That's right. Putting our shields up together. That's right. The shields that
can quench the fiery darts of the enemy. And that's right. It's a place of protection.
This conference is a place of protection. It's a place that, you know, not a single
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woman will feel isolated. She won't feel invisible. She won't feel unnoticed. Um, it's a, this
is going to be a cozy, intimate gathering where every woman is literally accounted for.
The Lord says, I'm coming for the local woman. He wants this to be a face to face encounter.
No one will feel like a dot per se, you know, just someone out there, but we're all, um,
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participating and engaging in this move of Holy Spirit as the father releases a father's
help and gives us a fresh impartation from heaven. Amen. Amen. Amen. You know, I think
it's so important right now. Uh, the Lord really wants his women to know who they are
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and to step out with him in faith and be who he's created them to be. Um, I've had some
really powerful conversations on the show of the last four years about how, unless we
see the full image of God, which God has created us in his image, both male and female, unless
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we see both represented, um, it's hard to see the full image of God. And that's, that's
just the truth. And so we, we as his women must stand up. You know, I know your heart
is so much like, uh, Deborah and my heart is so much like Esther. Yeah. We stand up.
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Deborah arises and she says, uh, I will go to the battlefield and Esther stands up and
says, if I perish, I perish, but I will not be silent. You know, it's, it's, it's those
women that you're calling, right? Amen. This arise is for all women. Um, rather she's a
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Deborah JL, you know, Esther Ruth and many other women, the Bible, this is a call to
arise into that. Maybe this woman hasn't even received that much support. Um, in other places,
she has these urges and these, um, instincts that, you know, that she wants to move into,
uh, to partner with Holy Spirit to help other women. And so, you know, this is an encouragement
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and empowerment to say that, Hey, it starts with one, even if it's one woman at a time,
one person at a time to just move by faith with God, move with him. We're not thinking
about, well, how am I going to do it with a thousand women start with the one, you know?
And so what has really empowered me is knowing how much I suffered and how much I felt so
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isolated and how I felt some days like, I just felt like this is never going to be over.
I'm never going to see the end of the tunnel. And what has really empowered me and really
kept me going is that I literally look at every single woman as if she's myself. And
I know that the number one thing that she needs, just like I need it, is that she needs
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encouragement, that she needs love, that she needs nurturing, you know, she needs just
someone to be there. And, um, and so we just want to provide that, um, in our community.
And I've dedicated the rest of my life that I will keep pouring out to every single woman
that no woman within, you know, three feet of, of, of me, you know, that she would never
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feel isolated or alone, but that she would know and, and just come to the deeper knowledge
of God's love. You know, Shivani, you mentioned the Holy Spirit for those women out there
who've never encountered the Holy Spirit. Yes. Yes. Amen. You know, he's our friend,
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you know, uh, you know, Jesus said in John 14 that I'm going away and that he, the spirit
of truth is coming and that he will live on the inside of us. And he was saying that the
world cannot receive him because they can't, because they can't see him. But we know that
like the word says, the spirit of him who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead now dwells
in us. So Holy Spirit is the Lord. Second Corinthians 3 and 18 reveals that Holy Spirit
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is the Lord. So we are co-laboring with Holy Spirit and every move that we do, I was reading
the book of Acts recently, like in the little preface that was written by Luke and then
the passion translation, it was explaining that, that Luke was saying, you know, um,
he was basically saying that even though it's a church, but everything actually through
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the book of Acts, which we're all still walking out of was actually a move of Holy Spirit.
So Holy Spirit is still moving through each one of us. And so this particular meeting
that we're doing, it's a move of Holy Spirit that we're joining, that we have perceived,
that we've caught out the spirit and we're jumping in with Holy Spirit, but he is our
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friend and he's the leader and we're the follower. So, um, it's definitely a God movement. Amen.
Amen. Amen. It should always be a God movement. You know, it's too much work when it's not
a God movement. Very much. Need Holy Spirit help. You know, um, second Corinthians 6 and
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one, I love it. It says that we are co-labors with, we're co-workers. I mean, that is so
fun, you know, that we are co-workers with Holy Spirit. So we get an inspiration in our
heart and, and then we can partner with him to, to do these exploits. You know, Daniel
11, 32 says that they didn't know their God shall be strong and they shall do exploits,
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but I like to call them adventures with God that we get to do fun things like, you know,
Hey, you want to go and help set some other women free? Hey, you want to go with me and
help bring more women into the light? Hey, you want to be with me to gather more women?
Yes, Lord. Yes. You know, so that's my heart. Like, yes, let's do this thing. No more women
in the dark that they would come deeper into the knowledge of your love, but walk in the
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truth and reality because what God has kept hidden is his wisdom, but he means to reveal
it to his lovers, to his devoted. So his, he reveals in his work, his work, God's will
is not to keep us in the dark because we've been delivered from the domain of darkness,
but to bring us into the kingdom of light. God is light and we're children of the light.
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So I am so happy to partner with him. And of course with you Christina, cause you're
one of the speakers on the panel this year. So I'm so excited that, that you'll be sharing
as well. And we're just collaborating as we've been saying, we're collaborating and
partnering with Holy Spirit with this move of God.
I'm so excited, Shavana. He has been giving me some crazy good stuff about being a daughter
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of glory. So I'm so excited. I'm so thrilled. Thank you for asking me. It's an honor to
be there and an honor to arise with you and lift up our shields of faith together. So
thank you. This is I'm, I'm, I'm like smelling from ear to ear and just, I got a smell on
my face. It can't be wiped off. I'm so, I think, you know, when you've hit the target
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with Holy Spirit that, you know, we've just hit the vein of what he wants to do at such
a time as this. So a rise conference is also a such a time as this, that adds a such a
time as this, that, you know, there's movements of Holy Spirit all over this entire world,
but I'm so honored that he said Chester, Virginia, like little Chester, Virginia. I'm like, yay,
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this is so amazing because he's moving all over the world. Amen. Yeah. Yeah. We're partnering
with him.
Yes. I feel like the prophetic timing is so accurate right now. He is birthing something
so powerful through his daughters right now. And I'm thrilled to be a woman. I'm thrilled
to be a woman minister right now. I'm excited for what he wants to do. I know that we are
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not forgotten. We are not discarded. We are not kept down in his eyes, but we are empowered
by the Spirit of the living God who promises in Joel and in Acts that he will pour out
his flesh on all his servants, both male and female in the last days. So that's why I think
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he will.
He will. You know, like I said again, when I read Psalm 68 and 11 and 12, it's really
based on the days of Deborah when all the men would go out to war and the women would
stay back and the women were the professional, you know, they were the ones that handled
the tents when they would move from here to here. And so when you really go into the background
of the scripture, it describes that when they would go out to war, it was just the women
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that were left and how they would gather. It says that they were a large host of women
and they would come from different cities and they would come together and dwell in
one place because Psalm 16 and 11 says that God Almighty, he declares the word of power.
It's God himself that declares the word and the woman caught like what the Spirit of the
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Lord is saying and he was saying victory. And so these women came together to declare
and to sing songs of his victory. And then when you go into verse 12, it says that when
the men came back, that they would lay the spoils at their feet. They would put the plunder,
they would divide the plunder among the women. Now, of course, you know, it's 2024 now and
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so we don't have those kinds of wars anymore. Jesus is the Lord of victory and he is the
King of Kings and he's won, you know, he's won all the battles. So now our adoration
and our gaze is on him. And so now we are gazing at him because he has won the victory
for us. And so we are singing songs and worshiping the Lord who has won these victories. And
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as we're gazing and worshiping, we're not worrying, we're not at home trying to figure
things out. We're not getting to strive, you know, we're not getting more depressed. But
instead we have this opportunity like on the 21st of September to gather together to set
our gaze on him intentionally and purposely to worship him. And then, you know, who knows,
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in hours or days following that breakthroughs and, you know, just this ripple effect is
happening among all of us where we know that the Lord has moved and we're like, huh, you
know, I'm just going to keep my eyes on him. It's just going to keep him.
I love that so much. You know, some of the most amazing breakthroughs I've had in my
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life, they always come from gazing at Jesus. It never comes from looking at our situations,
our circumstances. It never comes from us trying to figure it out. You know, in fact,
he'll intentionally let us go around those mountains a few times until we turn our gaze
to him and say, I can't, but you can, you know.
That's right. We can, we can do, we can do if I can, I want to share, there's a word,
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you know, one of the things that I was thinking about even for this conference, but really
even in our day to day living. And there's a word that Holy Spirit just kept bubbling
up in me and that's the word proximity, proximity. And the question is, is to examine each one
of our own hearts and to know what is your proximity to the Lord? Are you close? And,
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you know, we can all say yes. And I say yes, but now I'm asking the Lord, Lord, but am
I close enough? And Lord, if I can get even closer, will you bring me in even closer?
Because you know, the word says resist the devil and he will flee, draw close to God
and he'll draw close to you. And so I just keep hearing the Lord saying, you know, like
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check your proximity, you know, what are the things that are in between in the way with
our relationship to him and that by his spirit, he will reveal these things to us so that
we can move them out because if our desire is for closer proximity, you know, and so
another word is apart, you know, apart from him, we can do nothing. And I looked up that
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word apart and it means to be far away, to be distant, you know, to, to be on other sides,
you know, so that's why he said a far away from me. He says, you can't do nothing, but
we take the antonym of that word and say together with me, together with me, therefore we can
do all things. And so he says to each one of us, if you are together with me, if you
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are in union with me, if you are linked with me, if you are, you know, indeed in close
fellowship with me, if you are near to me, if you are in close proximity to me, you can
do everything because all in and through him. So we're partnering with him to do these exploits
and I have a vision. Yes, I do. I have a vision that's been important for the Lord to see
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women liberated because the word reveals that Jesus says he hates oppression. He does not
like any form of depression, oppression or suppression, but where the spirit of Lord
is there's liberty. And so to arise, it's going to start with each one of us individually.
It's kind of like put the, you know, put the, what's that thing that may ask on your, you
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know, they say you're in an airplane. Yeah. Your oxygen mask. Yeah. We go. Let the Lord
resuscitate you first. Be resuscitated, be revived by his spirit. It comes to each one
of us individually. And then we can partner with him so that others can be saved and liberated,
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but it starts with each one of us individually. Amen. Living a life where we're being daily
resuscitated and revived by his spirit. Then we can partner with him to say, okay, what
else do you want me to do? Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, I always tell people revival starts
here with us personally with him. You know, I love studying revival history. I've read
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so many books, Amy simple, McPherson and the Azusa street revivals and just all of that.
Um, but they all started with a heart that believed that God was with them. That's right.
And, uh, that's, that's all that it comes down to is he's with us. He's for us. He will
never leave us. He will never forsake us. But sometimes in this world that we live in,
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we get distracted. You know, that's one of the enemy's biggest tactics is to distract
us from that reality, from that glorious presence that's always pressing in every believer and
an, and I'll pawn his anointed leaders and things like that and ministers and things.
So it's the enemy's ploy to distract us from that reality. But the truth is there is no
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separation between us and God anymore for the new covenant believer. There's no separation.
God has closed the gap. He has come so close that he is dwelling within us, which is just
mind boggling. If you sit there and think about that, you know, I go back to the, the,
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the garden with Adam and Eve where God would walk with them in the cool of the day. I don't
ever had the benefit of God in him, but thanks be to God, we have Jesus Christ who's now
put God in us, which is just incredible. And so, um, I love that God not only restored,
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but he gave us more than we had before. He said, you failed this one I gave you before,
but let me give you more.
That's right. I love it. You know, he says, call upon me and I will show you greater and
mightier things. And I, that, that scripture just really excites me like, wow, that's all
I have to do is call upon and that you will show us greater and mightier things. And so
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every person listening here today, you know, you can look back five, 10, 15, 20 years ago
when you called upon the Lord in some dire situation or whatever, but now you go fast
forward and you're just like, wow, because I've been crying out to him about a particular
situation, whatever you had no idea that it was actually being used to a degree as a catalyst
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to bring to these greater and mightier things that he has in store for us, which is the
book.
Amen. Amen. I've been going through this period where I've been looking back at my testimonies
and I've been sharing it more. And my prayer has been God weave it together for my good
and your glory. And you know, although God does not author those things in our past that,
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that held us down, he will certainly use it to bring you into the place that he's always
intended for you. So I'm so thankful for that. Well, this has been so much fun. Is there
anything burning on your heart you'd like to say directly to our listeners today? Those
who are going to listen in the future?
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You know, I, you know, I would just love to say that, you know, that God is good, you
know, and just continue to taste and see that he is good, you know, that he does give us
beauty for our ashes. He is so good and he is so wonderful. He's so loving. And I just
love how he really desires for us to live in this close proximity to him, not in a religious
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way, but just in a beautiful companionship, just a beautiful walk with him each and every
day, you know, in his word, you know, in his presence, singing and worship songs. And I
just want to share that, you know, for someone that if you're going through something really
hard today, it's just today, just kind of pause for a second. And you know how we would
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say like, where's my keys? Where's my keys? I can't find my keys. And you can just say,
pause. I'm going to find God in this. I'm going to seek God in this. I'm going to seek
him and reconnect with him and stick with him and stay with him and flow with him and
just keep gazing at him and just keep trusting him and knowing that his desire is for you
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to be free. Cause the word says that he and whom the sun set free is free indeed. And
the freedom really is the freedom from the darkness, the freedom from the freedom from
the disillusions and the pretenses that the enemy is constantly trying to get us to come
in agreement with. So stay connected to other people that are burning with the fire of God
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and, you know, just stay in love with him. And, and, and there's so much more that he
has for each one of us in, you know, and just embrace the now stand in a place of victory
because victory belongs to each one of us. It was blood bought. It was bought.
Amen. And because that victory was blood bought by him, it cannot be lost by us. Right?
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Oh, whoa. Yes. I'm happy. You know, like the word says, you know, rejoice, you know, this
is the day that the Lord has made, you know, I will, you know, we have to declare and say
that I will rejoice and be glad in it. Just say it. Absolutely. So good. Well, Savannah,
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will you pray for our listeners today before we go? Absolutely. I would love to bother.
Just thank you so very much. Thank you, Lord. We want to thank you for the outpouring to
your spirit. We want to thank you for your goodness and mercy that follows all the days
for our life. I want to thank you for the listeners and those that will listen to it
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today or in the future or whenever it may be. But Father, we want to thank you that
you are just constantly entwining us with yourself, that we are one with you. And we
want to thank you that our lives are so infused with truth. We want to thank you for truth.
We want to thank you for giving us insight and wisdom and knowledge, revelational knowledge.
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And we thank you, Holy Spirit, for helping us to stand today. Thank you for giving us
supernatural strength to stand against all the wiles and the tactics of the enemy. But
we thank you then as we stand today that we stand in a place of victory. And we thank
you like your word says that the key of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy
Ghost. So we choose to stand on your side today. We agree with you. We just thank you,
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Lord, for continuing to align us with you. And we just thank you, Lord, for your marvelous
grace in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, thank you so much for being here with
me today. This was so fun. And I will have links to the conference where people can get
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tickets on September 21st. Please come. Please come. That'd be awesome. Yes. Thank you so
much, friend. I really appreciate you being here with me today. Oh, very much, my friend.
Thank you for the invite. It's been great. Absolutely. Well, I hope and I pray today's
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episode has blessed you. I will have links, like we said, to the Arise conference in the
show notes under Revealing Jesus with Christina Perera wherever you get your podcasts. There
you'll find additional resources to connect with us and our special guest, Chavonna Taylor.
Until next week, may grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of Jesus. God bless.
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Amen.
Beloved, let me introduce you to my King. He is altogether lovely. No matter which way
you turn him, he is perfection personified. He is velvet and steel. He is meekness and
majesty. He is glory and humility. He is kindness and strength. He is altogether lovely. And
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he is my King. And he can be yours as well. All day long, he holds his hand that you might
take, that you might turn, one step, one grasp, one yes, one breath away from the arms of
your loving Savior. Beloved, if you hear him, do not harden your heart. The Bible declares
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that not one of us is guaranteed another moment upon this earth. So pray this prayer with
me today and run into the arms of the one who loves you, who knows you best.
Father, I ask you to forgive me for all of my sin, for all of the places that I have
fallen short, God, of your glorious standard. I ask you now to send your Son into my heart
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to be the forgiveness of my sin, to be my redemption, to be my righteousness, to be
my holiness, to be my sanctification. I ask you to forgive me, to cleanse me, to fill
me with your Spirit, your power, your glory, that I might bring glory to your name, Father.
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I thank you that I receive all of this by faith and the Son of God who loved me and
who gave himself up for me. I thank you that I am now a child of God, fully forgiven, fully
righteous, fully holy in your eyes. And I ask you to help me walk out this life in a
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way that pleases and honors you, Father. I thank you, Jesus, for all that you've done.
I thank you for your love, for your kindness, for your great joy in saving me. And I thank
you, Father, and I thank you, Holy Spirit. And I pray all of these things in your beautiful
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Son's name. Amen. If you've just prayed that prayer for the first time, I want to congratulate
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Hey everybody, thanks so much for tuning into this week's episode of Revealing Jesus with
Christina Perera. I am your host Christina, and I'm so excited to have you with me here
today. I hope and I pray that you are doing well right where you are and enjoying the
continuously flowing favor of grace pouring from our beautiful Savior and Father in heaven.
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I've got a great show for you today. I have an amazing leader in the body of Christ with
me today, and she is a dear friend of mine. She carries such a spirit of faith, and I
absolutely love that about her. She is the founder of Chavonna Taylor Ministries and
the founder of WOW Women of Worship Conference. Chauvonna, welcome to the podcast.
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Thank you so very much, Christina. It's an honor to be here.
Oh, it's such an honor to have you with me, and you've got your WOW shirt on, which I
absolutely love. Show me that crown.
Yes, come on, right here. Yep, we've got the crown on. Amen. Even have a bracelet here
that says Arise. Amen. That's the theme of our conference this year.
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Amen. I love that so much. Well, I've introduced you and let our listeners know so many things
about you. Can you share with them, since this is Revealing Jesus, how you met our beautiful
Savior Jesus?
Well, I met our beautiful Savior Jesus in 1995. The Lord sent an evangelist on my job,
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so she evangelized while we were at work, and he put her desk right next to my desk.
She was a very zilliest woman, and she loved Jesus so much that he just oozed out of her
all day long. We were all being dripped on in the office all day long, and you just couldn't
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help it just to have such a desire for more knowledge of Jesus. However, with me, the
Lord actually had to provoke me. Maybe I wasn't moving fast enough for him, so he actually
provoked me because Tasha was... My friend Tasha was actually ministering to a couple
of us ladies on the job, and we all lived in the same neighborhood as well. One Sunday,
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I looked out my window and I saw that they had been to church. I was like, oh my goodness,
they went to church without me. My friend said, guess what? She said, Tamar got saved
today. I went, oh my gosh. The following Sunday, guess who was in church? I gave my wife to
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the Lord in Ayer, Massachusetts in 1995. The Lord initially brought me into a relationship
with him. Amen.
Amen. That's so amazing. I love how all of our stories are so different. For you, it
was a relentless coworker who just loved Jesus. They're all so different, but they're all
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so different because we're different people, and he knows what each and every one of us
need. There's always a story of his relentless love weaved throughout each and every one
of them.
Absolutely. I think that even if the person's not dealing with a background of alcoholism
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or drugs, that wasn't mine, but I think just the simple fact that he loves us and the fact
that I just didn't have any awareness of him and that he wants that relationship with each
one of us. I am so happy to this day that he pursued me in such a way and that he is
still pursuing everyone else that doesn't have a relationship with him yet. Amen.
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Amen. It's so funny to me when I hear people say, oh, the love of God is just a small subject,
but it's not. It's the subject.
The God of love is always love, and he always pursues us, whether we've been walking with
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him five minutes or 50 years. It's still love. He's still with us for the sake of love.
Amen. Amen. That's absolutely true. He's always pursuing us. If I could share, I shared with
a lot of people that even though I did get saved in 1995, and all honestly, I thought
that was it. You get saved, you run to a relationship with Jesus, and you feel like you've secured
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your spot in heaven. Afterwards, I backslid for four years because I really thought that
that's all I needed. For four years, I was in the wilderness until in 2000 when I was
having some issues with anxiety and depression, and I cried to the Lord again. This time,
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I knew that I could not walk with Jesus, and that it was up to me to continue this relationship,
this unrelentless pursuit of Jesus. Now, almost 25 years later from that, for me being reconnected
back to the Lord, it's been nonstop. Amen.
Amen. I know her today as a mighty woman of faith. She's one of the people that I call
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when I need a faith-filled encouragement. That means a lot to me, having faith-filled
friends across the body of Christ. To me, in my mind, we're such easy pickings when
we're alone, but having that connection with one another is so powerful, and it's so needed.
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God is birthing something right now among women who are connected and who are partnering
together to see what the Lord wants to birth in the earth through women right now.
Shavonna, you're one of the women I think of with the wow women of worship with that.
Amen. Yeah, it's really an honor. I moved here to Chester, Virginia over 20 years ago,
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and I was in full-blown anxiety and depression. I was walking with the Lord, but still, I
needed a lot of deliverance. I still needed a lot of grace in my life. I still needed
to learn how to walk on the strength of God. It's really amazing now that 20-some years
later that I am hosting this wow women of worship conference right here in Chester.
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It's just, I never could have imagined 20 years ago that God had this assignment to
call all women into this one location to declare his victory.
Yeah, I think that's amazing. It's so interesting to look back over our lives. I'm doing things
now that I never thought, I never had any desire for. It's just so interesting that
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he takes our pain and he transforms it into a purpose and into a mission. If we allow
him to break our hearts for what breaks his, we can begin helping to call others out of
those situations. I know you've named this conference Arise, and you feel like that's
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the theme of it from the Lord, because you really want women to arise with their strength
and destiny, the words that God has spoken over them. Can you tell our listeners a little
bit about that?
Yes, absolutely. I just personally heard the Lord of my spirit where he said arise. This
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rise is, I take it for myself personally, but also that he says to declare this, to
gather the women into one place and that we would arise and that we would emerge together,
that we would come to the next level in him, a place of maturity, a place of strength,
a place of victory, and that we make a decision. In 1 Peter 5, it says that the enemy is roaming
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around like a devil seeking whom he may to devour, but in the passion translation, it
also says make a decision to stand against the wiles of the enemy. It's our decision
in that we're choosing to arise in his strength, in his wisdom, in his grace, but it's an opportunity
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for all of us to come together and to arise. We're going to arise together and this is
going to make a profound impact even in our communities and in our neighborhoods and in
the places where we work.
Yeah, I love that so much. I love, for those of you out there who know me, who follow my
ministry, you know that together is my heart. When Shavana said arise together, I said,
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yeah, I'm on board with that. It's so important. I feel like as women, so many people want
to define our lives. They want to define what we're capable of, what we should do, what
we should not do, who we are, who we are not. And the enemy fights really hard to try to
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define us. Many, many years ago, the Lord told me, he said, don't let anybody paint
you. I'm a painter. I love to paint with, you know, it's just that heart of creativity,
but don't let anybody paint you but me. And it comes to identity. And so those words that
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the Lord has spoken over each of us, you had to break that identity with depression and
anxiety and become a woman of worship, right?
That's right. That's right. That's right. Behind closed doors, we're making that decision.
And I chose behind closed doors that I will, you know, as the word says, that I will look
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upon the heels from which cometh my help and that finding my identity through him based
on his word, for instance, in Ephesians 2 and 10, I believe, where it says that we're
his handiwork, you know, we're his craftsmanship and just understanding that we're all in a
process in that. And I just remember many years ago with women like Joyce Myers and
Beth Moore, and I used to watch them on TV. And I was so inspired by these women. I've
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been to countless women's conferences and I was so inspired even by all of those women.
And I would just sit back and go, I want to be like her and I want to be like her. I want
to be like her. And it's like God saying, yes, you can be, you can be the fullness of
who I've created and called you to be. And so he puts that desire in our heart. And as
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we're going after him, we are constantly developing and emerging and coming into this real true
version of really who we are, our true identities of who we are in Christ. Amen.
Amen. Amen. Absolutely. It's so funny that you said that about watching Joyce Meyer.
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I used to watch Joyce Meyer a very long time ago. I was a partner with her for a very long
time. And I would look at what God did in her life and I would literally weep at the
goodness of God and what God did in her life. And I would thank God for that, what he did
in her life. And it's so amazing. But the truth is, is that God's no respecter of persons
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and what he does for one, he can do for another. And let me tell you, if you get a hold of
that scripture, that's not that's right. He wants to put all of us, he wants to put all
of us on display, you know, the victory in his joy. It's not now we're all attacked in
secret to a degree. We're attacked in secret. We're isolated. But when it comes to the things
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of God, you know, he says that if we will pray in secret, but that he will reward us
openly. And so he has, he wants to bring us all out into that open place so that they
can see the work of the Lord, that they can know that the hand of the Lord has done this
thing. So we're his trophies, you know, and I thank God for the testimony that he's given
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to each one of us that we can declare and boast the good things that God has done and
how gracious and kind and merciful he is. Amen. I love the scripture that says, let
him who boasts, boast in the knowledge of the Lord that he knows the Lord intimately
and the things that he's done. And it's such an amazing thing because it's no longer a
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religion, but a living, breathing relationship. I mean, Shavonna, can you imagine somebody
coming up to you and trying to convince you not to follow Jesus?
No, I, yeah, they be wasting their breath. I've, you know, any song, you know, I have
decided to follow Jesus. You know, I have decided no turning back, no turning back.
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Amen. No turning back. Yes. I love that so much. So, you know, what do you, what do you
hope women coming to this conference take away from it?
Well, you know, it is an empowerment conference and I do, I pray that, you know, there is
an inspiration that they're ignited. So we're actually taking the word arise and we kind
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of broke it down to some acronyms and, and that a is that we are women that we will announce
and proclaim the word of God, that that is the, like the number one thing that we will
always do that we will not, you know, there's this worldly term that's out there. That's
kind of like it is what it is and that we will not say that because we all have to personally
choose, we always say that the, you know, that, that God is on our side, but we have
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to choose, are we on his side too? Are we still with word no matter what? So we are
women that announce and proclaim, you know, God's word of power. Amen. And, and that's
what the women in Psalm 68 and 11, 12 did. He says, it says that the Lord declared that
he gave the word of power, but it's the women that announced and proclaimed this word. So
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it's kind of like saying, that's all we got to say is what the Lord says. Amen. And so
that they're rising together and that for the eye that we are ignited and inspired by
Holy spirit, but also from one another. Amen. And, and shining and standing together and
to the E is for equip that we're equipped by him, by his spirit and empower in his presence.
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There is an empowering presence. So as we come in, we have to be saturated. We need
to be united. We need to be one, you know, we're one head, one body. We need to be one.
And just like I said, we're standing together because you know, we know that God has revealed
what his will is and that is victory. That is, you know, that he desires that we prosper
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being good health as our soul process. So we're making a stand. Amen. We're just coming
together to make a stand of his victory. Amen. I love that so much. You know, it's so interesting
to me, um, you know, that when the enemy gets us alone, it's easier to convince us that
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we are not for his glory, that we are somehow less than somehow not capable, somehow not
who God says we are. But when we come together and we unite our faith and we form a shield
around each other, a shield of faith that says, no, we are who we are. And we link arms
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and say, Shavana, I'm not letting you go. And you say, Christina, I'm not letting you
go. Right. That's right. Putting our shields up together. That's right. The shields that
can quench the fiery darts of the enemy. And that's right. It's a place of protection.
This conference is a place of protection. It's a place that, you know, not a single
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woman will feel isolated. She won't feel invisible. She won't feel unnoticed. Um, it's a, this
is going to be a cozy, intimate gathering where every woman is literally accounted for.
The Lord says, I'm coming for the local woman. He wants this to be a face to face encounter.
No one will feel like a dot per se, you know, just someone out there, but we're all, um,
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participating and engaging in this move of Holy Spirit as the father releases a father's
help and gives us a fresh impartation from heaven. Amen. Amen. Amen. You know, I think
it's so important right now. Uh, the Lord really wants his women to know who they are
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and to step out with him in faith and be who he's created them to be. Um, I've had some
really powerful conversations on the show of the last four years about how, unless we
see the full image of God, which God has created us in his image, both male and female, unless
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we see both represented, um, it's hard to see the full image of God. And that's, that's
just the truth. And so we, we as his women must stand up. You know, I know your heart
is so much like, uh, Deborah and my heart is so much like Esther. Yeah. We stand up.
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Deborah arises and she says, uh, I will go to the battlefield and Esther stands up and
says, if I perish, I perish, but I will not be silent. You know, it's, it's, it's those
women that you're calling, right? Amen. This arise is for all women. Um, rather she's a
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Deborah JL, you know, Esther Ruth and many other women, the Bible, this is a call to
arise into that. Maybe this woman hasn't even received that much support. Um, in other places,
she has these urges and these, um, instincts that, you know, that she wants to move into,
uh, to partner with Holy Spirit to help other women. And so, you know, this is an encouragement
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and empowerment to say that, Hey, it starts with one, even if it's one woman at a time,
one person at a time to just move by faith with God, move with him. We're not thinking
about, well, how am I going to do it with a thousand women start with the one, you know?
And so what has really empowered me is knowing how much I suffered and how much I felt so
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isolated and how I felt some days like, I just felt like this is never going to be over.
I'm never going to see the end of the tunnel. And what has really empowered me and really
kept me going is that I literally look at every single woman as if she's myself. And
I know that the number one thing that she needs, just like I need it, is that she needs
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encouragement, that she needs love, that she needs nurturing, you know, she needs just
someone to be there. And, um, and so we just want to provide that, um, in our community.
And I've dedicated the rest of my life that I will keep pouring out to every single woman
that no woman within, you know, three feet of, of, of me, you know, that she would never
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feel isolated or alone, but that she would know and, and just come to the deeper knowledge
of God's love. You know, Shivani, you mentioned the Holy Spirit for those women out there
who've never encountered the Holy Spirit. Yes. Yes. Amen. You know, he's our friend,
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you know, uh, you know, Jesus said in John 14 that I'm going away and that he, the spirit
of truth is coming and that he will live on the inside of us. And he was saying that the
world cannot receive him because they can't, because they can't see him. But we know that
like the word says, the spirit of him who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead now dwells
in us. So Holy Spirit is the Lord. Second Corinthians 3 and 18 reveals that Holy Spirit
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is the Lord. So we are co-laboring with Holy Spirit and every move that we do, I was reading
the book of Acts recently, like in the little preface that was written by Luke and then
the passion translation, it was explaining that, that Luke was saying, you know, um,
he was basically saying that even though it's a church, but everything actually through
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the book of Acts, which we're all still walking out of was actually a move of Holy Spirit.
So Holy Spirit is still moving through each one of us. And so this particular meeting
that we're doing, it's a move of Holy Spirit that we're joining, that we have perceived,
that we've caught out the spirit and we're jumping in with Holy Spirit, but he is our
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friend and he's the leader and we're the follower. So, um, it's definitely a God movement. Amen.
Amen. Amen. It should always be a God movement. You know, it's too much work when it's not
a God movement. Very much. Need Holy Spirit help. You know, um, second Corinthians 6 and
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one, I love it. It says that we are co-labors with, we're co-workers. I mean, that is so
fun, you know, that we are co-workers with Holy Spirit. So we get an inspiration in our
heart and, and then we can partner with him to, to do these exploits. You know, Daniel
11, 32 says that they didn't know their God shall be strong and they shall do exploits,
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but I like to call them adventures with God that we get to do fun things like, you know,
Hey, you want to go and help set some other women free? Hey, you want to go with me and
help bring more women into the light? Hey, you want to be with me to gather more women?
Yes, Lord. Yes. You know, so that's my heart. Like, yes, let's do this thing. No more women
in the dark that they would come deeper into the knowledge of your love, but walk in the
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truth and reality because what God has kept hidden is his wisdom, but he means to reveal
it to his lovers, to his devoted. So his, he reveals in his work, his work, God's will
is not to keep us in the dark because we've been delivered from the domain of darkness,
but to bring us into the kingdom of light. God is light and we're children of the light.
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So I am so happy to partner with him. And of course with you Christina, cause you're
one of the speakers on the panel this year. So I'm so excited that, that you'll be sharing
as well. And we're just collaborating as we've been saying, we're collaborating and
partnering with Holy Spirit with this move of God.
I'm so excited, Shavana. He has been giving me some crazy good stuff about being a daughter
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of glory. So I'm so excited. I'm so thrilled. Thank you for asking me. It's an honor to
be there and an honor to arise with you and lift up our shields of faith together. So
thank you. This is I'm, I'm, I'm like smelling from ear to ear and just, I got a smell on
my face. It can't be wiped off. I'm so, I think, you know, when you've hit the target
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with Holy Spirit that, you know, we've just hit the vein of what he wants to do at such
a time as this. So a rise conference is also a such a time as this, that adds a such a
time as this, that, you know, there's movements of Holy Spirit all over this entire world,
but I'm so honored that he said Chester, Virginia, like little Chester, Virginia. I'm like, yay,
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this is so amazing because he's moving all over the world. Amen. Yeah. Yeah. We're partnering
with him.
Yes. I feel like the prophetic timing is so accurate right now. He is birthing something
so powerful through his daughters right now. And I'm thrilled to be a woman. I'm thrilled
to be a woman minister right now. I'm excited for what he wants to do. I know that we are
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not forgotten. We are not discarded. We are not kept down in his eyes, but we are empowered
by the Spirit of the living God who promises in Joel and in Acts that he will pour out
his flesh on all his servants, both male and female in the last days. So that's why I think
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he will.
He will. You know, like I said again, when I read Psalm 68 and 11 and 12, it's really
based on the days of Deborah when all the men would go out to war and the women would
stay back and the women were the professional, you know, they were the ones that handled
the tents when they would move from here to here. And so when you really go into the background
of the scripture, it describes that when they would go out to war, it was just the women
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that were left and how they would gather. It says that they were a large host of women
and they would come from different cities and they would come together and dwell in
one place because Psalm 16 and 11 says that God Almighty, he declares the word of power.
It's God himself that declares the word and the woman caught like what the Spirit of the
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Lord is saying and he was saying victory. And so these women came together to declare
and to sing songs of his victory. And then when you go into verse 12, it says that when
the men came back, that they would lay the spoils at their feet. They would put the plunder,
they would divide the plunder among the women. Now, of course, you know, it's 2024 now and
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so we don't have those kinds of wars anymore. Jesus is the Lord of victory and he is the
King of Kings and he's won, you know, he's won all the battles. So now our adoration
and our gaze is on him. And so now we are gazing at him because he has won the victory
for us. And so we are singing songs and worshiping the Lord who has won these victories. And
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as we're gazing and worshiping, we're not worrying, we're not at home trying to figure
things out. We're not getting to strive, you know, we're not getting more depressed. But
instead we have this opportunity like on the 21st of September to gather together to set
our gaze on him intentionally and purposely to worship him. And then, you know, who knows,
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in hours or days following that breakthroughs and, you know, just this ripple effect is
happening among all of us where we know that the Lord has moved and we're like, huh, you
know, I'm just going to keep my eyes on him. It's just going to keep him.
I love that so much. You know, some of the most amazing breakthroughs I've had in my
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life, they always come from gazing at Jesus. It never comes from looking at our situations,
our circumstances. It never comes from us trying to figure it out. You know, in fact,
he'll intentionally let us go around those mountains a few times until we turn our gaze
to him and say, I can't, but you can, you know.
That's right. We can, we can do, we can do if I can, I want to share, there's a word,
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you know, one of the things that I was thinking about even for this conference, but really
even in our day to day living. And there's a word that Holy Spirit just kept bubbling
up in me and that's the word proximity, proximity. And the question is, is to examine each one
of our own hearts and to know what is your proximity to the Lord? Are you close? And,
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you know, we can all say yes. And I say yes, but now I'm asking the Lord, Lord, but am
I close enough? And Lord, if I can get even closer, will you bring me in even closer?
Because you know, the word says resist the devil and he will flee, draw close to God
and he'll draw close to you. And so I just keep hearing the Lord saying, you know, like
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check your proximity, you know, what are the things that are in between in the way with
our relationship to him and that by his spirit, he will reveal these things to us so that
we can move them out because if our desire is for closer proximity, you know, and so
another word is apart, you know, apart from him, we can do nothing. And I looked up that
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word apart and it means to be far away, to be distant, you know, to, to be on other sides,
you know, so that's why he said a far away from me. He says, you can't do nothing, but
we take the antonym of that word and say together with me, together with me, therefore we can
do all things. And so he says to each one of us, if you are together with me, if you
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are in union with me, if you are linked with me, if you are, you know, indeed in close
fellowship with me, if you are near to me, if you are in close proximity to me, you can
do everything because all in and through him. So we're partnering with him to do these exploits
and I have a vision. Yes, I do. I have a vision that's been important for the Lord to see
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women liberated because the word reveals that Jesus says he hates oppression. He does not
like any form of depression, oppression or suppression, but where the spirit of Lord
is there's liberty. And so to arise, it's going to start with each one of us individually.
It's kind of like put the, you know, put the, what's that thing that may ask on your, you
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know, they say you're in an airplane. Yeah. Your oxygen mask. Yeah. We go. Let the Lord
resuscitate you first. Be resuscitated, be revived by his spirit. It comes to each one
of us individually. And then we can partner with him so that others can be saved and liberated,
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but it starts with each one of us individually. Amen. Living a life where we're being daily
resuscitated and revived by his spirit. Then we can partner with him to say, okay, what
else do you want me to do? Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, I always tell people revival starts
here with us personally with him. You know, I love studying revival history. I've read
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so many books, Amy simple, McPherson and the Azusa street revivals and just all of that.
Um, but they all started with a heart that believed that God was with them. That's right.
And, uh, that's, that's all that it comes down to is he's with us. He's for us. He will
never leave us. He will never forsake us. But sometimes in this world that we live in,
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we get distracted. You know, that's one of the enemy's biggest tactics is to distract
us from that reality, from that glorious presence that's always pressing in every believer and
an, and I'll pawn his anointed leaders and things like that and ministers and things.
So it's the enemy's ploy to distract us from that reality. But the truth is there is no
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separation between us and God anymore for the new covenant believer. There's no separation.
God has closed the gap. He has come so close that he is dwelling within us, which is just
mind boggling. If you sit there and think about that, you know, I go back to the, the,
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the garden with Adam and Eve where God would walk with them in the cool of the day. I don't
ever had the benefit of God in him, but thanks be to God, we have Jesus Christ who's now
put God in us, which is just incredible. And so, um, I love that God not only restored,
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but he gave us more than we had before. He said, you failed this one I gave you before,
but let me give you more.
That's right. I love it. You know, he says, call upon me and I will show you greater and
mightier things. And I, that, that scripture just really excites me like, wow, that's all
I have to do is call upon and that you will show us greater and mightier things. And so
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every person listening here today, you know, you can look back five, 10, 15, 20 years ago
when you called upon the Lord in some dire situation or whatever, but now you go fast
forward and you're just like, wow, because I've been crying out to him about a particular
situation, whatever you had no idea that it was actually being used to a degree as a catalyst
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to bring to these greater and mightier things that he has in store for us, which is the
book.
Amen. Amen. I've been going through this period where I've been looking back at my testimonies
and I've been sharing it more. And my prayer has been God weave it together for my good
and your glory. And you know, although God does not author those things in our past that,
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that held us down, he will certainly use it to bring you into the place that he's always
intended for you. So I'm so thankful for that. Well, this has been so much fun. Is there
anything burning on your heart you'd like to say directly to our listeners today? Those
who are going to listen in the future?
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You know, I, you know, I would just love to say that, you know, that God is good, you
know, and just continue to taste and see that he is good, you know, that he does give us
beauty for our ashes. He is so good and he is so wonderful. He's so loving. And I just
love how he really desires for us to live in this close proximity to him, not in a religious
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way, but just in a beautiful companionship, just a beautiful walk with him each and every
day, you know, in his word, you know, in his presence, singing and worship songs. And I
just want to share that, you know, for someone that if you're going through something really
hard today, it's just today, just kind of pause for a second. And you know how we would
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say like, where's my keys? Where's my keys? I can't find my keys. And you can just say,
pause. I'm going to find God in this. I'm going to seek God in this. I'm going to seek
him and reconnect with him and stick with him and stay with him and flow with him and
just keep gazing at him and just keep trusting him and knowing that his desire is for you
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to be free. Cause the word says that he and whom the sun set free is free indeed. And
the freedom really is the freedom from the darkness, the freedom from the freedom from
the disillusions and the pretenses that the enemy is constantly trying to get us to come
in agreement with. So stay connected to other people that are burning with the fire of God
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and, you know, just stay in love with him. And, and, and there's so much more that he
has for each one of us in, you know, and just embrace the now stand in a place of victory
because victory belongs to each one of us. It was blood bought. It was bought.
Amen. And because that victory was blood bought by him, it cannot be lost by us. Right?
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Oh, whoa. Yes. I'm happy. You know, like the word says, you know, rejoice, you know, this
is the day that the Lord has made, you know, I will, you know, we have to declare and say
that I will rejoice and be glad in it. Just say it. Absolutely. So good. Well, Savannah,
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will you pray for our listeners today before we go? Absolutely. I would love to bother.
Just thank you so very much. Thank you, Lord. We want to thank you for the outpouring to
your spirit. We want to thank you for your goodness and mercy that follows all the days
for our life. I want to thank you for the listeners and those that will listen to it
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today or in the future or whenever it may be. But Father, we want to thank you that
you are just constantly entwining us with yourself, that we are one with you. And we
want to thank you that our lives are so infused with truth. We want to thank you for truth.
We want to thank you for giving us insight and wisdom and knowledge, revelational knowledge.
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And we thank you, Holy Spirit, for helping us to stand today. Thank you for giving us
supernatural strength to stand against all the wiles and the tactics of the enemy. But
we thank you then as we stand today that we stand in a place of victory. And we thank
you like your word says that the key of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy
Ghost. So we choose to stand on your side today. We agree with you. We just thank you,
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Lord, for continuing to align us with you. And we just thank you, Lord, for your marvelous
grace in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, thank you so much for being here with
me today. This was so fun. And I will have links to the conference where people can get
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tickets on September 21st. Please come. Please come. That'd be awesome. Yes. Thank you so
much, friend. I really appreciate you being here with me today. Oh, very much, my friend.
Thank you for the invite. It's been great. Absolutely. Well, I hope and I pray today's
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episode has blessed you. I will have links, like we said, to the Arise conference in the
show notes under Revealing Jesus with Christina Perera wherever you get your podcasts. There
you'll find additional resources to connect with us and our special guest, Chavonna Taylor.
Until next week, may grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of Jesus. God bless.
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Amen.
Beloved, let me introduce you to my King. He is altogether lovely. No matter which way
you turn him, he is perfection personified. He is velvet and steel. He is meekness and
majesty. He is glory and humility. He is kindness and strength. He is altogether lovely. And
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he is my King. And he can be yours as well. All day long, he holds his hand that you might
take, that you might turn, one step, one grasp, one yes, one breath away from the arms of
your loving Savior. Beloved, if you hear him, do not harden your heart. The Bible declares
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that not one of us is guaranteed another moment upon this earth. So pray this prayer with
me today and run into the arms of the one who loves you, who knows you best.
Father, I ask you to forgive me for all of my sin, for all of the places that I have
fallen short, God, of your glorious standard. I ask you now to send your Son into my heart
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to be the forgiveness of my sin, to be my redemption, to be my righteousness, to be
my holiness, to be my sanctification. I ask you to forgive me, to cleanse me, to fill
me with your Spirit, your power, your glory, that I might bring glory to your name, Father.
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I thank you that I receive all of this by faith and the Son of God who loved me and
who gave himself up for me. I thank you that I am now a child of God, fully forgiven, fully
righteous, fully holy in your eyes. And I ask you to help me walk out this life in a
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way that pleases and honors you, Father. I thank you, Jesus, for all that you've done.
I thank you for your love, for your kindness, for your great joy in saving me. And I thank
you, Father, and I thank you, Holy Spirit. And I pray all of these things in your beautiful
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Son's name. Amen. If you've just prayed that prayer for the first time, I want to congratulate
you. You are now a child of God and all things are now yours. Keep listening to Revealing
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our beautiful Savior Jesus. Please let us know. We want to continue to pray for you.
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