The Holy Spirit Encounter That Shattered Fear and Unlocked a Radical New Calling with Devonna Reyes

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SPEAKER_01 (00:16):
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(00:38):
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Get ready to dive in as weuncover empowering keys and
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So tune in and let's unlock hopetogether.
Welcome to the Hope Unlockedpodcast.
I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host.
I pray this episode is like aholy IV of hope for your soul.
Please help me welcome DanaeReyes to the show.
I am so excited to have her heretoday.

(01:00):
Um, we are a new connection andkind of a fun connection on the
back end, but I won't get intoall the details there.
We had a chance to chat a littlebit beforehand, and I cannot
wait for her to share more aboutthe ways that the Lord is just
moving in her life, and I knowthat she's gonna bless you guys.
So, with all of that to say,would you share a little bit
about yourself before we getstarted?

SPEAKER_02 (01:22):
Absolutely.
My name is Devana Dine Reyes.
Um, I go by Dine, my middlename, it's just easier, and it's
what I've been called most of mylife.
So, anyway, um, there's that.
I'm a mother of four.
I homeschool my kiddos out ofobedience to the Lord, not
always by choice, but I've lovedit.

(01:43):
We have to go there a littlebit.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's that's been oh, I mean,that's something.
Yeah.
And uh I've been married for 18years by the grace of God, and
uh that's a whole that's anotherwhole journey, sanctification so
much.
Just Lord's done such a mightywork in my marriage.

(02:06):
By all means, it doesn't meansecular terms, or I guess in the
secular world, we would not, weshould not still be married.
It's literally by the grace ofGod.
Um, and through, you know, thesevarious things, like the Lord
has allowed me to birth severalbooks um and just different
things.
Besides that, I mean, my heartis my heart is to seek first his

(02:30):
kingdom and his righteousnessand let him do the rest because
anytime I've tried to put forththe effort um in my own
strength, it fails miserably.
Yes.
Um, and so I'm still, you know,still learning, still, you know,
walking with him and just reallylearning who he is more every

(02:53):
day.
And the more that I learn abouthim, the more accurately I can
share him with others.
Um, and I have found thatputting in the time to know who
he is and developingrelationship and intimacy with
him truly is really the only wayto actually share.

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Um, and that's the only way I'veseen.
Well, he's faithful.
He's so faithful.
He's used every stage, everyseason, my the little that I
know or whatever.
Um, but just lately, he's beenblowing my mind with how he's
been grabbing the hearts of thepeople that we've encountered um
in a deeper way than I've everseen before.

(03:34):
And maybe it part of it could beI just didn't have eyes to see
before, or maybe he's allowed meto see a little bit more of what
he's doing.
Um, it's just it's remarkable.
It's a remarkable journey.
I wouldn't change anything, nomatter how hard it's been or the
challenges that have come myway.
Um and yeah, I'm just verygrateful, very, very grateful

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for him.

SPEAKER_01 (03:59):
Yeah, so you're you're on a wild journey too.
I I think you we were talking alittle bit beforehand.
And um what did your journeystart like, even just growing
up?
Did you grow up in the church?
Um, what did that look like withyour own faith journey in stages
of your life?

SPEAKER_02 (04:17):
Growing up, my dad was a pastor.
He was um initially involvedwith assemblies of God, the like
a Spanish church.
Um, well, it was both, it wasbilingual.
And so I have a total of um,there's eight children and from
the same parents.
We're a big old family, and wewere the worshippers, the

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worship team.
And um, it just really aremarkable story.
My oldest brother never tookpiano lessons or anything like
that.
The Holy Spirit literally taughthim how to play the piano, and
to this day, he is one of themost gifted pianists I've ever
known.
Um in how old was he?
Oh my goodness, he had beenplaying since maybe eight years

(05:01):
old, maybe, maybe younger.
Um, there's a big span betweenhe and I.
So he was doing it, I believe,before, if not when I was born.
Um goodness.
And so uh in in I mean, in thesame manner, my next brother
learned how to play the drums.
Um, very gifted drummer.

(05:22):
Then the next brother, I wouldconsider him more like the the
tech guy that he was just very,very smart, very wise with
technology, and he didn't needto be taught, he could figure it
out.
It was pretty amazing.
He's still the same, it'sreally, really amazing.
Isn't that fascinating?
And then then the rest of us, wewe sing, we would play

(05:42):
tambourines, you know, we werelittle, so of all ages, we were
just the worship team.
Oh my god.
And um, so we grew up with that,but we also grew up with uh the
most intense warfare that I Iwould never wish on anybody.
Um just there was just a lot ofstuff.

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I would say how the best way todescribe it would probably be a
mix between, I mean, actualwarfare, spiritual warfare from
us being the light in darkplaces, but then we also had our
own internal things going on.
There was a lot of stuff in umin my family, like generational

(06:23):
curses.
That's what I would call them.
I'd call them generationalcurses or familiar spirits or
bondage from religious spirits.
Um, oh, I mean it just a slew.
There was just a slew of stuffthat did not belong.
And so um my dad suffered fromPTSD.
He was a war, he's a warveteran.
And I I wish, I'm like, Lord,now that we know about

(06:47):
deliverance, you know, I do wishthat was a part of his story.
And I believe in his latteryears it has been.
But at I mean, I don'tunderstand.
I don't understand howeverything works out, but I know
that there've been things thatthe Lord has used me in my
journey to break out of fromthings that I saw or experienced

(07:10):
in raising my children and how Iview ministry and how I do
ministry and how, you know, justin in everyday life and making
sure, because I feel like I grewup with a bit of a facade
between not like I know myparents did the very best that
they could, and I honor them,love them so much, and I respect

(07:32):
them with everything, but therewas a way we were at church and
there was a way we were at home.
And the two did not make sense,they did not um they it wasn't,
I can't, how do I word it?
Um it just wasn't adding up,yeah.
And so I think um I just figuredmaybe that that's how things

(07:58):
were, and it wasn't until well,I I'll share a the a brief part
of my story.
It used to be a major part, bythe grace of God, it's only a
brief part.
So the Lord moved us fromnorthern New Mexico to central
New Mexico.
We moved to Santa Fe, which iswhere I was born, where I'm
from, where our family is.
But um, in that, in the midst ofthat, we were a part of a church

(08:22):
that, you know, was growing sofast.
It was probably the biggestchurch in Santa Fe at the time.
Um, I went to high school in,you know, in their in their
school.
And um, it was in that timewhere we found out my oldest
sister had been sexually abusedby the pastor for years.
And um, there was just so many,so much.

(08:44):
When when Ovelick came out, Idon't think any of us had the
mental capacity or spiritualcapacity to actually handle
that, you know, the news.
So we all went through justmaybe the worst of transitions.
Um, it the whole situation gotvery, very, very, very ugly.

(09:05):
Um, my family was actuallybooted from the church and asked
not to return.
Um, it just got so weird.
And so from that point, I waslike, okay, well, I I just told
the Lord, I know that you'rereal.
And I know that what I've seenin the church was not you.
And so that being said, I walkedaway for a good season.

(09:29):
I mean, well, maybe a good fiveyears, maybe five to seven
years.
I walked away from the church.
I walked away from even tryingto live like what I was told.
I was like, well, if the personwho is teaching me how to live
according to God, you know, inthe Bible, was doing what he was
doing for so long, then whyshould I?

(09:51):
I got a very bitter, very ugly,very broken attitude.
Um, and it really did, I mean,it took root, unfortunately, but
that's the truth.
And so um, the Lord walked methrough this process.
He's so gracious because henever left me, even though I was
not filled with the Spirit ofGod.

(10:12):
I, you know, I was all over theplace.
Um, I met my husband and we didnot have a godly relationship.
You know, I had two very brokenrelationships.
Um and how old were you at thistime then?
Uh at this time I was about, Iwould say 17.
Okay.
17 years old.
And so I was in college um anddating my husband long distance,

(10:37):
and like I said, we were notliving godly whatsoever.
Um, we dated for about four anda half years, and then I ended
up um pregnant and I had amiscarriage, and it shook me to
my core because I I neverstopped praying, but I I really
wasn't, you know, wasn'tintentional.

(10:58):
And I I don't know, I was just amess.
I was living in sin.
And so when I had themiscarriage, my core, I was
like, this child died because ofmy disobedience.
And you and you know, there wasjust this level of guilt, shame,
condemnation, burden.
Oh, it was too heavy for me tocarry.

(11:18):
And so um, I would say thatactually played a pretty big
part in me returning to theLord.
Um because I I I was just sosorry.
I was like, Lord, I your way isbetter and I know it is, but I
also knew my heart was not readyto obey or follow you.

(12:20):
And I wanted what I wanted.
And unfortunately, that was, youknow, that's the fruit of it.
You know, the fruit of sin isdeath.
And so I mean, I see it a littlebit differently now.
I just I see his grace and hismercy all over my family, all
over my husband, all overmyself.
You know, it's not anything thatI well, I feel like he's

(12:41):
delivered me from a lot of that,um, from carrying that.
Um because I know I did for agood while.
But um that's so much to carry,right?
It is.
It's like, oh goodness, wow.

SPEAKER_00 (12:53):
We know that like guilt, shame, and condemnation
are from who?

SPEAKER_02 (12:57):
From the devil.
Absolutely.
Um and so at the same time, I'mlike, well, there was there was
still a level of conviction init.
Um yeah.
And it did, it did drive me backto the cross.
Like I found my heart wanting tobe more obedient, wanting to do

(13:18):
the right thing, you know,wanting to be, wanting to be
righteous, you know, whereas Iknew I had already been
following my flesh, I hadalready been following my own
whims or whatever.
And um it just stirred upsomething within me that was
like, I am I'm made for more.
And while I understand thesethings happen all the time, I

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thought it didn't need tohappen, you know.
It really was an unnecessarypain, but but the Lord still
carried me through it, you know,that's the beauty of it.
He still never left me.
So um it was shortly after thatthat um my husband proposed to
me, and uh we got married withinthree months, which was just

(14:02):
yeah, I'm like, oh my goodness.
And we were got put on anaccelerated path, I suppose.
Um and then he wasn't walking,he didn't know the Lord.
He he didn't.
Um not at all, like no, he camefrom a well, he came from a
Catholic background, but theyweren't practicing Catholics.

(14:22):
He lost his dad at a very earlyage, so he was carrying a world
of hurt and pain, loneliness,and orphan spirit, just so much
stuff.
He was carrying so much stuff.
So, in a way, we kind of madeeach other our saviors, um,
which turned out to be falsesalvation.

SPEAKER_04 (14:42):
Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 (14:44):
Um yeah, go we went through so much.
I mean, so, so, so much, which Ido, I write about it, I would
say more in depth than in mybook, Kingdom Marriage, because
there's just a lot of stuff thatwe went through over our first
years of marriage.
We, I mean, talk about toxicrelationships and healthy habits

(15:07):
and just sinful patterns.
Oh my goodness.
I mean, we were living justnothing, it was not good.
It was very hard.
Um and I think at one point Ijust I just broke.
I was like, what has my lifebecome?
And is and I, you know, I alwayswould point my finger at myself.

(15:29):
Well, this is the result ofdisobedience, you know, you
didn't pursue a man of God.
Why?
Because in your heart that youwere bitter towards people of
God because of what happened toyour sister, you know, just
different things, um, different,uh, very unhealthy thought
patterns, and um a lot ofself-condemnation, a lot of um,

(15:53):
just a lot of stuff that theLord by his grace, I even today,
I feel like he still continuesto remind me of his goodness and
his grace and his mercy and justwashes over, like even speaking
about it now, like I feel himwashing over all of the all of
just all of it.
It was turmoil, you know, invarious ways.

(16:16):
Just oh, this did not turn outthe way we thought.
And um, you know, what ishappening in my life, and oh my
goodness, I had hoped for somuch more.
Um, this isn't the way it wassupposed to be, just so many
things.
And so, anyhow, um we well, Ibelieve we got married at 24 and

(16:38):
25, and then we had our firstbaby at 27.
And uh, and we have four now.
So, I mean, it's just been awild journey.
I received the baptism of theHoly Spirit in 2013.
That's after I had my secondson, and that's what changed my

(17:00):
life.
Like so, I had grown up inchurch and all of this, I had
lots of Bible verses memorized.
We'd done summer camps, youknow, the whole Christian spiel.
And and I did love Jesus.
I really did, I loved him to thedegree that I was able, but I
was also a walking woundedperson.
Um, and so I when I met, oh man,this it was such a crazy, crazy

(17:26):
thing.
So after having my firstborn,um, she just changed my life.
She absolutely changed my life.
I had never experienced like theintensity of love, this pure
love for another individual,ever, more than my parents, way
more than my husband.

(17:47):
Um, I know how that sounds, butit was this love and a different
term.
Yes, like this was flesh of myflesh, you know, she came from
my body.
And I I believe also having lostone before, um, you know, I held
to her in in many ways, maybetoo tightly, which the Lord has
also addressed.

(18:07):
But um, she was just this like,oh my goodness, she gave me a
purpose.
She gave me um, yeah, she justkindled something within me that
I did not know was possible toexist.
So it was when we were drivingto my parents one day, she
started.
I listened to Mariah Carey allthe time.
She used to be my most favoritesinger in the world, had all of

(18:30):
her songs, and I was justjamming out to one of her new
songs.
And the the lyrics were I can'twait to hate you.
I hear my almost one-year-oldprecious baby girl sing those
words, and I mean convictionlike I've never experienced
before.

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She is so pure, and those wordsshould not have exited, you
know, they've never should haveentered her mind or her ears,
and they should have neverexited her mouth.
And I was like, What are youteaching your daughter?
So I turned off my music and Inever turned it on.
Like from that moment, I waslike, I am not listening to

(19:12):
secular music, I'm not gonna doit because that was it like it
grieved my spirit.
I had never felt a grief likethat before.
It's like, goodness, what isthis?
What am I feeling?
And so anyway, um, it reallypushed me again further into
Jesus, further into living areally separate life, like a

(19:35):
life that I would I personally Iwould never tell people like, do
this, do this, do this.
I just say, whatever the HolySpirit tells you to do, he knows
what you need, he knows what youdon't need, do whatever he tells
you to do.

SPEAKER_00 (19:46):
Um that bears repeating.

SPEAKER_02 (19:49):
Yeah, absolutely.
So, whatever Holy Spirit tellsyou to do, he knows what you
need, he knows what you don'tneed.
Do whatever he says.
And it's not a cookie cutterthing, you know.
Your life is different from mylife.
We have very different um, Iwould whatever triggers, we have
different responses, we havedifferent calls, different

(20:09):
purposes, though they may besimilar in some ways.
We all have to listen to theHoly Spirit because he is the
one who's leading us in alltruth.
So he's, I mean, we've livedthis pretty crazy life where
there are things that he'llremove for seasons, such as like
people would think, oh, well,that's whatever, that's crazy.

(20:30):
There's been times of no secularmusic, which and even now in
this season we don't, butthere's been things that he's
given back.
Umce our mind was transformed,if that makes sense, he was
like, You weren't ready forhandle this now, now you're able
to receive this in the way thatI want, like, I want you to
understand me more.

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So wild, very, very wild.
Even something as simple ascoffee, like he removed things
from for seasons.
And because anything, even ifit's good, including family,
including a spouse, can it canenter, you know, idolatry if
we're not if we're not careful.

SPEAKER_01 (21:10):
And even kind of like, you know, I hear people
say, like, oh, I haven't had mycoffee yet.
Like, wait, you know, what whatwould you say to somebody like
that?
You know, maybe they're justreliant.
I I hear the words almost likethis reliance on something.
It's literally um, how was itfor you?
Let's let's just go to coffeefor a moment.
Okay, how was it for you?

(21:30):
Because I feel like somebody'slike, I can't give up my coffee.
How was it for you?
Like when he showed you to like,did you did you say, Oh no, I
can't do that?
Sorry.
Exactly.
Yeah, I was not doing it.
Nope.

SPEAKER_02 (21:42):
Absolutely for you.
I so I thought, I struggled.
Um, when I first heard him, Iwas like, that couldn't be the
Holy Spirit.
Like, go get away from me,Satan.
You know, like I don't knowabout that because because then
I would go to the Bible script.
Paul's talks about, you know,um, like all things are lawful,
but not all things arebeneficial, you know, and and

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then I started to find myselflike justifying my actions.
And then I was like, why are youfighting for this?
Actually, like, why are youfighting for this?
If so, even if it wasn't theLord, but if it was the Lord,
why wouldn't I say yes?
Like, what is that strugglewithin me that's fighting so

(22:25):
hard for a substance?
What the Lord showed me was thatbeyond addiction, because it
actually is a very addictive,you know, it is very addictive,
it's delicious.
Come on, like it is.
I loved the flavor, I loved thesmell, it was just part of the
routine.
It was it was the morning thing,like that was my ritual.

(22:47):
And but that's what it is.
It's actually a ritual thatyou're doing, you're performing
for yourself, really, um, to getyou ready for the day, instead
of well, well, I replaced it.
I replaced it with prayer.
That's what I did.
Um, was it easy?
No, I was a monster when I gotoff of caffeine, like the way
absolutely.

(23:08):
And that's what showed me,Danae.
You actually had a problem thatyou didn't even know about.
Like thing had a hold on youthat you were not aware of.
And I was leaning so much on itthat I it just was preventing me
from leaning on the Lord in adeeper way.
Um and I would say I actually Isee the same thing with a lot of

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the people like that are holdingso tightly to it.
Like, if there's anything inyour life that you can't open
your hand to the Lord and say,if if you do, if you did ask me
for this, I do give it to youfreely.
And if there's anything, thenit's an idol and it has a place
in your heart and a hold on yourheart that is preventing

(23:54):
intimacy from digging, you know,from going deeper, from just
being developed deeper.
Um, that being said, I can drinkcoffee with the Lord.
It's not a daily thing.
I don't, I still don't drink itevery day.
Um, I actually found that mybody feels a million times
better when I'm not drinkingcoffee.
Who would have thought?
Well, Holy Spirit, you know, ofcourse.

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And that's what he was showingme.
He was saying, Danae, it's notabout what you do and what you
don't do.
It's about do you trust me thatI know what is better for you?

SPEAKER_04 (24:27):
And I mean, we've been through question mark.

SPEAKER_02 (24:31):
Right, right.
And I I thought, whoa, well, Ididn't try.
I thought I did try.
I always think I trust him, butit's like when the rubber meets
the road.
Yes, like, well, you're showingme where I don't trust you.
You're showing me where Iactually trust in my own
strength or my own physical, youknow, my own physical world

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instead of you and your word.
And he's still growing in thisthing.
Like I'm still growing intrusting that, you know, that he
knows what's best.
Like he's taken me on a dietaryjourney.
Um, it's been wild and it's notbeen, it's been so hard.
Like that one's been so hard.
What what does that look like?
Is that a recent thing thatyou're walking on?

(25:14):
So it is a recent thing that I'mwalking out for um for this
year, it like he's donedifferent things at different
times, right?
Like now I don't struggle withcoffee, so that's not been a
highlight.
Um, there's freedom, and that'sthe beauty of it.
Because there was discipline andobedience, even though there was
struggle in it.
Uh, when I finally thought,well, I'm just gonna at least

(25:37):
I'm gonna obey.
Like I made the choice withcoffee.
I'm gonna obey.
And then I felt better.
And I was like, oh my goodness,like I felt anxiety loosen and
go.
And once anxiety goes away, thendepression goes away, then the
stress starts to decreasebecause you just your body
regulates and you don't havethis surge of you know, of I

(26:01):
must perform at a hundred milesper hour every single minute of
every single day.
And you just learn, I learnedhow to rest.
That was what I did not know howto do.
Yes.
So he brought me this beautifulseason of rest.
Now for the the dietary things,it's looked different at
different times, and we've donedifferent fastings and all Holy

(26:23):
Spirit led.
Um, there have been times wherehe he very specifically told me
during COVID cut out sugar.
And I didn't know why, but I wassaid, okay, well, I heard you,
so okay, we're just we're gonnareduce and cut out our sugar,
we're gonna produce honey.
And then within a couple ofmonths, all of these scientific
papers start coming out abouthow sugar decreases the immune

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system, sugar creates all kindsof sickness, sugar is addictive,
all of these things.
And I was like, Lord, soinflammatory, right?
Yes, yes, and so I he I'm like,you surely do know best for your
people.
Yeah, it was such a setup,wasn't it?
Absolutely, it was mind-blowing,mind blowing.
Yeah, um, and so but I have tosay, like, even during the COVID

(27:11):
time, I like I really had todeepen my trust with the Lord
and what Holy Spirit was sayingbecause there was half of my
husband, well, my my husband'sfamily was demanding the
vaccine.
We didn't get to see the newbornbaby because none of us were
vaccinated, different thingslike that.
There was so much chatter, somuch vision, and so much fear.

(27:33):
And but my husband and I werelike, no, we heard from the Lord
not like he actually gave mydaughter a dream when she was
five years old, and she waslike, by the time COVID hit, she
was nine or so.
And so I wrote down her dreamwhen she was five years old
about people standing in linefor food, and they could not get
food unless they had receivedthis poisonous shot.

(27:56):
And she told me this dream, andI mean, she's like five years
old, and I could not believe it.
But I wrote it down, I was like,this was from the Lord, so then
COVID hit.
I remembered, like brought toremembrance, oh my gosh, this is
this is it.
Like, don't take anything thatthey're offering you.
Um because there whatever is inthat is not good for the body.

(28:20):
Exactly.
Um yeah, just things like this.
But anyway, so in 2013, goingback to that, um, I I had this
encounter with the Holy Spirit.
This beautiful woman, sheactually um she uh opened the
door for me and my sister to bea part of the worship team again
because as I mentioned earlier,we're worshippers.

(28:42):
Um this stuff happened with mysister, we walked away from the
church.

SPEAKER_01 (28:46):
So um this can I stop you for a second, even like
to go into that just for asecond.
Did it did it like stop you evensinging?
Like, did your voice getabsolutely suppressed?

SPEAKER_02 (28:58):
Oh, I never, I never, I didn't, I just stopped
worshiping.
I just stopped worshiping.
I was like, I have no reason toworship.
I don't think I sang a Christiansong or a worship song um for a
very long time.
It was long after, long after Iwas married.
Um and I mean, like I said, Iwould like secular music, I

(29:22):
would listen to it and all that,but I didn't like I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 (29:27):
Um but you're like singing, like, do you feel like
that definitely was stopped uptoo?

SPEAKER_02 (29:33):
Absolutely.
I I was totally shut down.
Well, and I I at that point intime too, um, that was in my
first relationship, and Iactually made a decision because
I thought I cannot live in sinand then go before a church and
a platform and worship God.
Like I can't live in duplicityin high school.

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And I thought, like, I I have Ihad a fear of the Lord by the
grace of God.
And unfortunately, my fear ofthe Lord should have, it should
have done more in my privatelife than what it did in my
public life.
But I basically stepped downfrom the worship team because I
was I was guilty and I did notwant to present myself as, you

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know, as uh a fake, you know,like if I'm living in sin and I
know I'm living in sin with thefirst boyfriend, then I I can't
I can't go up there and worshipthe Lord like at the same time.
I can't lead other people intoworship because you know so true
though, right?
Right.
Well, and I'm thinking, like,well, thank you, Lord.

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And I think think in that he hein the strangest of ways has
honored as he's honored that umand he's provided opportunities
now for me to lead worship inpurity and I'm so grateful
because I'm like I did not Inever chose the stage for the
Lord never um even though I havethe opportunity I or for myself

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I never chose the stage for myown self for my name um you know
I I respected the Lord at leastthat much even though like I
said in private like myrelationship with the first
boyfriend was not godly it justit was sexual sin oh what it was
and so anyhow um this beautifulwoman fast forward uh before we

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got married but um no it was I'msorry it was after we got
married and after I had my firstbaby my Sophia um I started to
have a desire to sing to worshipagain like I I really wanted to
get right with God and it's sofunny because I thought it was
going to be my own efforts thatwould get me right with God.

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So it's like I really want tosing again I really want to you
know whatever I just I want to Iwant to live for Jesus and even
though my home was a mess likemy relationship with my husband
was so rocky so toxic so a messI wanted to serve Jesus and um

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and that caused more issuesbecause I started to crave
holiness and my husband was justcontent you know living in the
world and in sin.
And so um it was very rough veryvery rough but anyhow this
beautiful woman opens the doorfor my sister and I to lead
worship.
She had already um she was theworship leader my brother my

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younger brother had been servingunder her and um she didn't ask
me like any questions it blew mymind she did an interview we
just sat down at at a tablewhich is so perfect we sat down
at a table and she asked me youknow oh well you want to serve
when when do you want to startand I just looked at her like

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you're not gonna ask me anythingelse like you're not gonna ask
me about my sinful past or my myyou know all of my junk you
don't want to know any of thatand like the love that poured
out from this woman wrecked meand changed me in a way that I
had not I really hadn'tencountered somebody like that.

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Like I felt like I hadencountered so much judgment and
criticism and fear and so muchnegative that just having this
woman oh let me sing to Jesus.
Well I was she like an olderwoman too yes she was an older
woman I'm so grateful for her.

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Her name is Oli Oli Hodges andso that started something so big
and it was it was an answer toprayer because my sister also
had never sung since what hadhappened to her.
Wow so it was this beautifulopen door for us to begin to
serve together again.
And um it I it was so the Lord.

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So anyhow through this womanthrough this relationship we
began serving and my hunger forthe Lord just kept it just kept
growing I just wanted morebecause I could feel it was like
I feel like there is somethingmore to this Christian life than
just going to a Sunday serviceor a Wednesday service or being

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on the worship team like thereis something more and my spirit
is craving it and I don't knowhow else to put it so Oli
started opening up her homeafter Sunday services.
She would feed us spaghetti andgarlic bread.
Just she's amazing.
She opened her home and then umher and her husband Steve

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started teaching us about theHoly Spirit and I was all ears
but I was also like ooh is thisgonna get weird you know like oh
man I had never heard thesekinds of teachings before but I
also knew from my childhood Ihad dealt with the darkest
spiritual warfare.
I could see demons I could hearI could feel um but I never felt

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the angelic if that makes senseand so I was caught in between
this world where I was like Iknow the darkness exists beyond
a shadow of a doubt.
And so therefore I know Godexists but I have not
experienced him in the same wayor I didn't realize I did.
I was blinded literally to howmuch the Lord was with me as a

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child because I was so caught upin fear from what I had already
encountered.
And so anyway this woman startsspeaking about the Holy Spirit
and the spiritual world and Iwas like oh my gosh why is it
that I know like why dideverything she says resounds and
I understand what she's saying.
And so then they talked aboutthe baptism of the Holy Spirit

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and I was like okay Acts 1.8 Iknow scripture and I know what
Acts 1.8 says you shall receivepower when the Holy Spirit comes
upon you.
And I was like I don't havepower right now.
I throw up my prayers and Ithink they hit the ceiling you
know I don't think that they areheard by God.
I certainly don't see his youknow I didn't see his hand in my

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life but also I was very blind Iwould say um and so her and her
husband prayed for me and umnothing happened and I was like
that sucks so I went home and Iwas not satisfied was like okay
Lord I believe that what youwrote in Acts 1.8 is the truth

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like I believe that and so I amnot gonna stop praying until you
answer me like until I receivethis like whatever this power
the Holy Spirit whatever thisbaptism of the Holy Spirit is
that is what I need and that iswhat I want and I'm not gonna
stop asking until you give it tome.
And so um I prayed ferventlyevery single day and then I want

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to say it was maybe one or twoweeks later I am back at Oli's
house and she says Danae I had adream about you and I was like
oh okay and um and I was sad Iwas sad that I that nothing
happened you know from theprayer before I'm like yeah I
don't know so she tells me thedream and she says I saw you
standing in a house and um and Isaw two windows and the windows

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were open but there were screenson the windows and there was a
dove on the outside of the housetrying to fly in and as soon as
she told me that I was like Iknow what the dream means and so
I went home and I just startedto I just started to pray like
Lord oh what are those screenswhat are those screens so one it

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was I don't know if it was thenext day or within the next week
for sure within the next week Iam folding laundry um my oldest
Sophia and my uh my son Royceare toddling around they're very
very little and I'm foldingtowels in my laundry room and I
just got so fed up I was likeokay Lord I know you know what
those screens are and I don'tknow but I need you to tell me

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and of course as soon as Iopened that invitation to him of
course he's like right there andhe said fear and pride and I was
like whoa I heard I heard thatso I said then I rebuke and I
renounce fear and pride and Ihad never done any deliverance
in my life this was all Ibelieve Holy Spirit like I

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rebuke and I renounce fear andpride I want the Holy Spirit
like a dove to come into myhouse and when I said those
words oh like a portal like fireand water just opened up over my
head and it got so hot in theroom and it was like just
rushing like this crazy intenseum I just I don't even know

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that's the best way I could wordit is like a whirlwind of fire
but water and I was both beingburned and refreshed at the same
time it was so insane and it wasso real that I just I just cried
like oh maybe the deepest weepI've ever released um and then I

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heard like a I heard a differentlanguage in my mind and I was
like is that tongues and I Isaid it and I was not expecting
a response Jesus responded andhe's called me by name he said
Danae voice it by faith and so Istart babbling and bumbling you

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know and I received the gift oftongues right there in my
laundry room and I just startcrying I just want to highlight
you're in your laundry room soum my laundry room that's yeah
like the Lord every the Lordwants him people to know it's
not about the church buildingit's about the heart of the
person and it's about the crylike and how are we open to him

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really you know and so all ofthis is happening I drop my
towel and I'm crying I'm likeyou I heard your voice and I'm
just like I'm at this point I'min a whole other place now I'm
like freaking out I heard yourvoice God is real Jesus is real
and I just start saying likeJesus is real he's so real he's
so he he knew my name all ofthese sudden truth realizations

(40:25):
just breaking down so many liesthat I had believed that I was
alone that I he didn't care thatyou know oh how could he let me
go through so many things anddidn't he see my marriage didn't
he see my life my career all themys you know all the the world
self just breaking through allof that stuff with the reality

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that he has been with me thewhole time and somehow it I I
heard it said the other day he'sthat familiar stranger like you
know his voice but you you youknow there's something about
that well this was where theveil was removed and suddenly I
got to meet the one who's beenwith me the whole time and um it

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wrecked me it changed the wholetrajectory of my life suddenly
nothing mattered my careerdidn't matter my the condition
of my marriage didn't matternothing mattered I was like you
know what all that matters isJesus and so um he took me into
the word like he started toteach me he took me to the book
of Daniel I started studying andpouring over the book of Daniel

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and the Holy Spirit was givingunderstanding I was like oh my
gosh it feels like I've neverread the Bible before like I
feel like I this is the firsttime I'm actually something's
happening in my spirit where I'mnot just reading black and white
words off of a page you know umI it just everything changed and

(41:55):
then from that point he startedleading me to do different
things um like these assignmentsand the first assignment was to
put together uh a an event aworship and prayer event and I
had three months which was funnyI was like oh I did the wedding
three months I heard him say yesthere will be which is my

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favorite number too one of themum he said there will be an
event in three months and I waslike Lord but he gave me a
vision like I had my firstvision of um of like the
September leaves in Santa Bayit's so gorgeous all the leaves
are starting to turn yellow onthe aspen trees and um and and I
saw this and I was like okay andhe gave me the names of the

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churches to go to he gave me aletter to give to the pastors um
with a vision and things likethat and I was like Lord they
are gonna think I'm crazy soimmediately I started struggling
with fear of man and at the sametime I was like but I heard you
so I have to obey so I went tothese churches and I talked with

(43:00):
as many pastors as would meetwith me.
And many of them did think I waslike off my rocker or I don't
even know.
You know they think a millionthings and I was like no I'm
just here because the Lord theLord said so and um I was able
to gather well Holy Spiritpulled together the people who
are willing to meet and we did aday of worship and it was the

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most beautiful thing one of themost beautiful things I've ever
been a part of just to see ithappen.
And I was like Lord you said andyou provided and you made the
way and here we are standing inthe answer of your word like
this was all you and it's allfor you and um just that zeal
like oh I hope I never I hope Inever lose it because there have

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been seasons it's been it's beena while of walking with Lord and
there are seasons you know whenI don't know if it's I maybe a
weariness of the soul or do youdo we just get tired because
we're like wow we've done somuch and then I don't know or
discouragement something youknow the devil loves to derail

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and distract this nonsense andit's usually in that where it's
like Lord help me remember helpme not lose the zeal because it
was always ever about your voiceand so um and how long ago was
this event that you put on ohman when was it it was probably

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20 either 2013 or 2014 becauseit was very soon after me
receiving the baptism of theHoly Spirit I believe it was
2013 September uh eitherSeptember or October definitely
the fall and so um he didn'twait that was what blew me away
he was like okay we're you knowwe are in the word you're

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reading and you're obeying meand uh it was amazing it was
crazy and then came anassignment and it blew my mind I
was like you're you know like Idon't need to sit in this
discipleship course for fiveyears before you're gonna send
that again right and I don'tneed to take what you know for

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real I don't need to take theseother courses or I don't need to
do any of that before you'regonna use me.

SPEAKER_01 (45:22):
Girl we need to stop on that for a little bit yeah
it's I do I I mean in the workthat I do with ladies um you
know I I the Lord will call usto do things and it's like well
the the lie would be well Idon't have a degree I don't have
this I don't have that I'm notgood enough I'm da da da um can
you go a little deeper on thatlike for the listeners as far as

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um I don't know I just alwayslook at the disciples I just you
know Esther and I mean just keepreading pretty much everybody in
the Bible but all that to sayand then just share with us your
your favorite Bible person ifyou wouldn't mind in relation to
that.
Sure.

SPEAKER_02 (46:04):
I um so I I appreciate I do have a genuine
appreciation for discipleship.
I appreciate that people arewanting to help people mature in
Christ and I don't think there'sanything necessarily wrong with
that until or unless it becomesa form of control or

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disqualification to do whateverthe Lord has called a person to
do.
I think that just so the Lordhas healed as I've shared my my
deep wounds from the church.
That being said there is still amajor reformation that is upon
the church even today.
We're a lot of things the Lordis cleansing the temple um he's

(46:51):
given a long time to repent anda lot of people thought that
they could get away with a lotof things and he's like not in
my house not in my house if itis my house then it's gonna be
holy because a holy God lives ina holy house so um that being
said there's I I think thatthere is something that a lot of

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people who don't know theiridentity in Christ fall into and
they start looking at man andwhat they can give.
They start looking at the breadthat people make instead of
looking to Jesus as their dailybread and it's like okay well it
comes from a similar source Lordwilling these people who are
providing their courses andproviding their things um and

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their discipleship classes theydo mean well and I believe that
good can come of it but like Isaid if ever it turns into um
control or uh or a an obstacleto doing what the Holy Spirit
says then it's a problem.
And I think people need to knowthat like the sheep have direct

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access to the living God to theFather to Jesus Christ.
You do not go through a man.
The only man is Jesus Christ.
So and that's that's been amessage that the Lord has placed
within me that oftentimesruffles a lot of feathers within
the church because the churchstructure it has been it served

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a season but the Lord truly isdoing a new thing.
And he's doing the same newthing though that Jesus
literally came and told this theJewish people about their
temple.
Like he was so offensive becausehis words about the temple
seemed so disrespectful.
And but it was like no I'm hereto connect you to the father to
your to the living God the onewhom you say you worship you

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know and so in in a similar waythe Lord has placed that burning
message within me that is likehey you guys you've been given
direct access the veil was tornand if the Lord can meet me in
my laundry room he can meet youanywhere you just have to ask
you know you and but that's itis like I sincerely genuinely

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asked like that widow that didnot give up you know I was
knocking on heaven's door and Iwas like Lord you have to answer
me you have to and there was adesperation that my whole life
had culminated unto it's like Ican't do this without you Jesus
and you need to be more real tome than a Sunday sermon.

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Like I actually need the realJesus to demonstrate your power
in my life and I will settle fornothing less than the power of
the living God because there aremany who have a form of
godliness but they deny thepower thereof.
And I'm like there's notransformation without the power
of God.
So um that's been my life'sthat's been a pursuit like I and

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I don't want to ever getcomfortable I don't ever and
it's so hard now that my kids somy oldest is now almost 15 years
old my youngest is nine um we'vebeen doing this homeschool life
this ministry thing for the Lordum and like I said earlier
ministry to me is just life likeI don't have anything I don't
have an organization I have awebsite which had which has my

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books and music and stuff butit's my the the site is to tell
people will you go obey thevoice of the Lord because he is
speaking like are we availableto say yes when he says go to
that homeless person right therebecause I have a message for
them and I love them and I wantto dine with them.
It's literally living it out ina way that most other people

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it's not on a platform it's noton a stage it's not with a
microphone it's not on Facebookit's not you know it's not that
it's very hidden because thefather who sees in secret will
reward and it's about that it'slike my relationship with the
father is so much more importantto me than anything else that I
I just want to obey.

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And it's that passionate lovefor him and for that
relationship that desiresconnection above anything else
like there's no sin there's notemptation that is worth
disconnecting from the fatherlike that's how beautiful the
relationship is and it justdrives you you're you it just

(51:26):
drives you into these beautifulmiraculous moments where you are
a vessel that the Lord pours hisspirit out and his love his
mercy his loving kindness intothe lost and it's so easy.
It's like wow I didn't have torebuke anything I didn't have to
fight for this person's soul.

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I didn't have to condemn them Ididn't have to I didn't even
this is crazy sometimes I didn'teven preach the gospel I lived
the gospel and I I preached withmy actions and my words like and
the way that the Lord has gottenthe hearts of people has blown
my mind.

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But it's that it's like whilethey're encountering the living
God through a conversation youknow and um and it's for
everything you say we like justcomp like the world tries to
complicate it.

SPEAKER_01 (52:23):
I mean the church complicates and I'm not putting
anybody down by any means but Ithink it's just it's the natural
bend.

SPEAKER_02 (52:30):
I would say I would agree I do feel like um I mean
it's so interesting because I'veseen a lot of people I've seen a
lot of people like wild ones isthe best way to work right you
have there's something that somepeople carry that is so wild
within them they just don't fitin the curve and that I think

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that's the thing is tounderstand it is it's nice and
it's good to be a part of acommunity um good to have
encouragement and it's it is notgood to isolate that's for sure
but when ah there's nothing moreimportant than obeying the voice
of the Lord.
When you oh you hear him youhave to obey now you should
always take it to scripture I dobelieve in heavily in knowing

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the word of God because the moreyou know the word of God you're
gonna know the heart of God HolySpirit will reveal his character
through the word of God whetherOld Testament or new testament
he is the same yesterday todayand forever this is the truth
but like you're not gonna findDanae go to Walmart written in
scripture you know what I'msaying exactly so you need to

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know you develop the voice ofthe Lord and you do it or not
develop the voice of the Lordbut you develop the knowing of
the voice of the Lord yourfamiliarity with his voice
through obedience now I wouldsay don't ever discount yourself
like it's like Gideon and Mosesthey both had a million reasons
why they should not do anythingfor the Lord but the Lord said

(53:57):
no like you're the one I choseand I'm with you.
I am with you so for women andmen but went from women who
there's such a burden on myheart for the women who have
been told you can't or this isnot your place or you're out of
line or you're saying too muchyou talk too much I would say

(54:21):
submit yourself to the Lordfully and and allow the Lord to
just examine your heart and towash away things that whether it
be true of what people said orwhether it not be true just put
yourself on the table and sayLord here I am I need you to
show me what what are you doingin my life what do you want me

(54:43):
to do and I want to listen toyour voice.
Yeah so and then just run withit.
Like we have lived so it's beenhard right because not a single
church that we have served umhas financially supported us in
missions.
We've received gifts by thegrace of God from individual
people that the Lord has allowedus to minister to over the years

(55:05):
and through friendships.
And so I've because I've prayedI tried I reached out to I mean
we serve churches faithfullychildren's ministry worship
ministry women's ministry foryears and I thought surely by
now there is some sort of arelationship built where there
would be help you know that theywould they would understand our

(55:25):
hearts and the Lord sends us outno it didn't work like that.
And I was so discouraged I waslike then what the heck you know
um but the Lord he has providedin miraculous ways for our
family and um and he tell meabout one of the most wild
miracle stories.

(55:46):
I think somebody needs to hearit today okay there's oh my
goodness there is so many Lordwhich one do you want me to
share I'll share um maybe two sothe very first um journey by
faith like full on and I was soscared and that's why I want to

(56:06):
share it because I was so scaredum the Lord had given me a dream
and it was a remarkable dreamthat I encountered Bob Jones in
Prayer Mountain.
I didn't know who Bob Jones wasI saw his face I later learned
who he was a year after my dreamand I freaked out and the Lord
was calling me to Moravian Fallsin um North Carolina and I was

(56:31):
like that is the craziest thingyou have ever asked me to do.
Like I've already you know didthe event and all that stuff it
pulled together and um you knowand I was practicing his voice
at home and coffee and thingslike that even makeup for a
season um different things likethat.
But then when he asked me to goto North Carolina I was like

(56:53):
okay this goes against so manythings.
First of all you're calling meout alone um I had babies so I'm
like okay I have to get myhusband on board I don't have to
get but my husband needs to beon board you know what I'm
saying wasn't gonna do it if hewas not on board with it.
And so I was and I was testingit out too because as the voice

(57:16):
of the Lord has he's challengedme a lot and with his ask well
will you go here go here go hereand I'm like oh my gosh Lord
you're stretching me and so Ihad booked a hotel and um and I
had booked or I had I waslooking around I knew nothing
about this place.
I'm like Lord you're sending meinto a forest in a cabin there's

(57:42):
nothing it's so it's prettyisolated.
Um and anything could happen andyou know how many scary movies
I've seen where bad thingshappen to people who go to a
cabin by themselves right offorest yes like you just don't
do that as a young woman um anda mom and a wife you don't go
out to the wilderness byyourself you just don't do it.

(58:02):
So I oh my goodness I had myflight booked and I had reached
out to people in this cabin umthat I felt I don't know I just
felt led that's the best way Icould say I can't say Holy
Spirit said Danae book this roomor book this he did not do that
he gives a lot of freedom whichI appreciate but he's also in
all the details and he shows methat like hey you don't have to

(58:25):
stress I'm in all the details Igot this anyway um so I did that
and then I had spoken to um aman who was in charge of a
shuttle from the airport to mycabin.
It was going to be about an hourand a half drive or so and I the
only flight I could afford I gotin late which meant I would

(58:46):
arrive at the cabin before likearound 10 o'clock.
So I'm really thinking Lord thisis the stupidest thing I will
have ever done in my life to goto fly, you know, fly to a whole
new city I've never been therebefore and get on a shuttle with
a man only one and I'm the onlyperson he's picking up to take
to this secluded cabin in themiddle of nowhere and all of

(59:09):
this is really bad.
Like all the everything in Ijust freaking out my mind like
if I had alarms everything wasjust sounding off like you're
really dumb do not do this andyet there was something in my
spirit that knew but the Lordsaid and so actually the night

(59:30):
before I canceled everything.
I canceled my flight I I waslike I this is the craziest
thing I can't do it Lord I can'tdo it I canceled everything I
got a phone call from a man hisname was Mark and when he spoke
my spirit trembled it's neverhappened to me before he I I

(59:55):
literally got on my knees in thefloor as he's talking to me he
said Danae why are you cancelingeverything why did you cancel
the shuttle he said you don'tneed to be afraid what if what
if the Lord just wanted to bewith you in that cabin like what
if that was the purpose yeah andI was freaking out I'm like you
don't know me you know you don'tknow me and oh my goodness he

(01:00:20):
said oh everyone on the mountainknows each other it's safe we're
all believers we love the Lordand he said you're not the only
one the Lord has sent out herelike this before he said I just
want to reassure you he saideven if you did cancel the
Lord's not mad at you um heknows It's hard.
He knows it's hard to do thesethings, the dear leaps of faith.

(01:00:42):
So he just walks me through,like, oh my goodness, just
brought so much peace.
And like I said, I could notstop trembling.
I was trembling the whole timeas he's speaking.
And he's like, Can I just prayfor you?
And I was like, please, please.
And I start crying.
And I said, I'm so I'm scared.
That was just, I had so muchfear.

(01:01:03):
And um, he prays and he waslike, Don't worry, everything's
gonna be okay.
He's like, I hope you changeyour mind, but even if you
don't, just remember, God's notmad at you.
Like, oh my gosh.
He hangs up, we hang up, and I Idid not sleep very good that
night because I was like, Ithink I'm supposed to go.

(01:01:25):
I think I'm supposed to go.
And my husband had alreadyarranged to get the time off of
work, which is a mirror, it wasa miracle for him at that point
in time.
So the net that next morning, Iwake up early, my bags are
already packed and all of that,and I I felt the Holy Spirit
telling me, Danae, look again.
Like if it was the shuttle, lookagain.
I'll provide a rental for you.

(01:01:47):
And I had looked every they hadnothing, every rental company,
major company, and I looked indifferent cities.
Nobody had anything becausethere were major events going on
in Charlotte and in thesurrounding areas.
So there had been nothingavailable because I told the
Lord, Lord, if I can drivemyself, I'll go.
I just don't want to be in ashuttle alone with a man and him
take me to this cabin, you know.

(01:02:07):
Like, I don't feel like that'svery good.
So um, anyway, I look and therewas one single car that appeared
available.
Wow, it was a gray minivan.
And I was like, that'shilarious.
So, and it gets even funnierbecause if I share my last, my
last dream or not dream, lastthing that happened, it's gonna,

(01:02:28):
it's kind of funny because Inever thought of it before.
So I was like, Okay, well, I'mgonna drive a minivan all by
myself then.
And and he said, Well, then bookit.
So I booked it, I rebooked myflight by the grace of God.
My flight was less expensivethan the one I ri originally
booked.
Doesn't make any sense.
I love it.

(01:02:48):
I go and my husband was like, Iknew you were gonna go.
And I was like, How did you knowI was gonna go?
I didn't even know I was gonnago.
And of course, that was alljudgmental still, really.
I had a lot of healing that Ineeded to do towards my husband,
but the Lord had, I mean, hereally, really met my husband in
a crazy way a few years prior.
Um, transformed my marriage, hascontinued to transform my

(01:03:10):
marriage anyway.
So my husband's like, Oh yeah, Iknew you were gonna go.
And I was like, Okay, well, Ididn't, so let's get in the car
because we gotta go, we gottacatch a flight.
So I go, and the Lord, um, thatwas when the Lord told me, you
need to treat the thousands ofpeople like one, and you need to
treat the one person like thethousands of people.

(01:03:31):
Um, I need to redefine whatministry actually is.
And so I met one young man onthe airplane that night.
He was carrying his guitar onhis backpack, and I was carrying
my guitar.
He ended up being a worshipleader from Gateway Church here
in Texas, and he was not in agood place.

(01:03:51):
He was trying to escape from hislife as a worship leader.
And um, so he started talkingand very in very similar ways,
like the Lord, you know, somepeople just become this open
book, and it's like, oh mygoodness.
He starts sharing his his lifeand his struggles.
And I was like, Oh my gosh, Ithink I'm here for you, is what

(01:04:11):
I told him.
I can I pray for you.
I pray, we pray, and he startscrying, and he's just like, Wow,
I really, really needed that.
Thank you so much.
And I was like, Yeah, well, theLord sees you, He wants you to
know it's not what you do in thebuilding, you know, He He loves
you.
And I just I was blown away,blown away by the love of God.

(01:04:35):
Um, I get in my rental car, myminivan, and I drive, you know,
through the fog throughCharlotte and into Wilkesboro
and um into Prayer Mountain.
And um, I'm in this huge cabin,huge cabin, um, all by myself.
So so I thought.
And another man named Mark showsup, and he's he's the owner of

(01:04:57):
the the places, and so he openedthe door and I was like, Mark,
did you call me?
You had to have called, like ithad to have been you.
I thought it was gonna be youshuttling me, right?
And he's like, No, I'm the onlyMark on the mountain.
And I was like, No, yeah, I'mthe only Mark who lives on the
mountain.
I was like, uh, that's notpossible because this Mark
called me and and he was like,Oh, it's probably an angel, it
happens all the time.

(01:05:18):
And I was like, What?
Like, what world are you peopleliving in?
This is crazy.
And so anyway, he tells me,Well, there's a young woman
who's actually gonna be stayingwith you as well, so you won't
be alone in the cabin.
And I was like, Oh, thank God,you know, like and anyway, um,
she was she was Muslim and shefound Jesus, and we just had the

(01:05:42):
most fantastic time because wegot to take communion together,
and the Lord had given me a wordabout Ishmael and Isaac being
brought together by the blood ofJesus, and so we literally got
to live that out.
It was crazy.
And um, anyway, great, greattime.
I mean, the Lord gave me analbum, he gave me the Secret

(01:06:02):
Place album that he told me, Ijust want your voice, I don't
want it produced.
Like I had already produced analbum uh two years prior, I
think, or maybe a year prior.
And this one he said, I justwant it raw.
And so I was like, Okay, Lord,like yikes, but okay.
And so he gave me all the songswhile I was there on Prayer

(01:06:23):
Mountain, which is miraculousbecause anyone who writes songs
understands one song to thatcomes out is sitting on
countless and like countlesshours of reworking and
re-whatever, all the things thatpeople do to the things to make
it presentable, you know.
Um the Lord just gave mescripture and he gave me all of

(01:06:47):
these the melodies and thelyrics and stuff, and it was
just this huge devotional album,like my own prayer set, you
know, with the scripture, withthe prayer, and with the songs
to go with it.
And so um I did that out ofobedience, created that, and so
that was like the first story.
There was so much that happenedthat trip, I have to say, the

(01:07:09):
Lord blew my mind, and sothere's this cute little quote
that's like the a journey of athousand steps begins with one.
You have to take the first step,and the greater the act of
faith, the greater the Lord isgoing to meet you in your faith.
Like he loves faith.

(01:07:29):
Oh, he loves it so much.
Eve, I would say I don't know ifit more than obedience.
I think you only obey in faith,but it's like the more we cast
off fear and just take thosesteps.
Oh my goodness, what he will dowith it.
And it's for us.
That's what blew me, that's whatblew me away.

(01:07:49):
I was like, oh, well, I was likeso mission-minded.
Oh, I came for that one man, andGod's like, yeah, but I came for
you, yes, and I wanted to show Ijust wanted to be with you, and
I wanted you to understand thatI want to be with you.
Um catalyst, though, for likewhere you're at now, yeah, for

(01:08:11):
real, and yet, okay, so it'seasy for me to trust the Lord
with myself.
It's a whole it has been a wholeother thing to trust him with a
family of six travelingfinancially.
So we've you know tell us moreabout like where you're at now
and like what you're doing.
Yeah, so fast forward, that was,I mean, that was only that was
like 2020.

(01:08:32):
We're not very, very long ago.
It was during, was it duringCOVID or before?
I don't remember.
Anyway, now okay, we just gotback from Washington, DC and
from New York.
Um, the Lord had given me dreamsregarding New York, very
specific ones, and a man told meand my family, like, you need to
go worship.
He told me three times, and heshowed me this weird, weird um

(01:08:57):
instrument hanging on his garagewall.
And he said, This distortedsound has been playing in the
atmosphere.
You need to go worship, which iswhat the Lord sends me to go do.
I've been many places, LosAngeles, whatever, wherever the
Lord has sent me to go worshipand just break things off in the
atmosphere and bring his spirit,invite his spirit, invite
freedom, and um and holy angels,you know.

(01:09:19):
And so we, I was like, babe, Ithink we're going to New York.
We did not like our financialsituation.
I'm praying.
I'm like, Lord, you know oursituation, you realize how much
of what we've done has had to goon a card.
Now, I don't know if it had to,but that's what we've done.
The Lord is teaching meotherwise right now.

(01:09:40):
But and I'm grateful for that.
It's like, no, I need greaterfaith to just trust him for the
finances.
And um anyway, so we are, youknow, well, we we got our
flight.
It was a gift from the Lord.
My husband had just received abonus this summer, and we were
gonna drive.
And people just kept telling me,Oh, I thought you were flying.

(01:10:02):
Oh, I thought you were flying.
And I was like, We're driving,it's cheaper.
And the Lord, as he has tellingme so many times, Danae, look
again.
He's done.
There's so many things with thatphrase.
Look again.
Yeah, look again.
Yes, it's say it again.
Look again.
But it's right when I've alreadylooked at everything and I've

(01:10:23):
already exhausted all theoptions.
It's what P told Peter, heyPeter, throw your nets over on
this side.
And Peter's like, Lord, I'vebeen fishing all night and
there's been nothing.
And he's like, try again, youknow, one more time.
And so that's how we've gottenhomes and vehicles by his look
again.
I'm like, oh my gosh, Lord.

(01:10:45):
Okay.
So when he told me that, I lookup flights.
We were able, by the grace ofGod, to get our entire family of
six to Washington, DC and backon less less than$400.
That is a miracle, yes.
In October of this year, this iscurrent.

SPEAKER_01 (01:11:02):
Was that during the the recent um event that they
had out there too?
When everybody was out there,that's what we went for.

SPEAKER_02 (01:11:09):
Communion, yes, communion America.
So um, at the beginning of thisyear, before we knew about
communion America, I was in mymy closet, I was praying, and I
heard Lou Ingle.
As I'm praying to the Lord, Ihear Lou Ingle audibly.
This was crazy, this does nothappen normally.
Um, I hear him tell me, come sitat the table.
And I was like, Oh my gosh, thatwas Lou Ingle.

(01:11:31):
What the heck is he doing in mycloset?
Why did I hear that?
That was insane.
And then we go to church andthey roll out all of these
videos about communion America.
It's like, oh my gosh, we gottago sit at the table.
Like, we gotta go, we gotta gothere.
And um, so usually I I'vetraveled with my kids in the

(01:11:52):
past.
Last year, we went to the theMillion Esters, you know, event
with my children.
My husband, he didn't want togo, and he well, he didn't, he
couldn't get off of work.
So this one, he um I didn't, Ididn't, I don't even know if I
asked him.
I think I just assumed, oh, he'sgonna have to work.
He's like, I'm going with youthis time.
And I thought, praise God, like,thank you, Lord.

(01:12:15):
That's a huge answer to prayer.
Um, and so we flew, which hasbeen a this is the first time
we've ever been able to fly as afamily because we just could not
afford it before, not forvacation, not for anything.
And so we got to fly out toWashington, DC as a family of
six, and oh, the Lord is sogood.

(01:12:37):
Um, He just gave us so muchfavor.
Like we were on a crazy budget,we ate a lot of sandwiches from
our hotel room.
Um, you know, we kept things sosimple, but the Lord, you know,
he like people would just belike, Hey, I feel led to sew
into you.
I'm gonna send you, you know,dollars.
I'm sending you this.
And my husband and I just lookat each other like, praise God,

(01:13:00):
because our credit cards cannotliterally handle anymore.
We're so that's so not okay.
So, um, I mean, we're like we'rereally pushing, even now that
we're home, like Lord, you haveto help us because yeah, but
anyway, I just want to say,like, even as you're speaking
this right now, like you are notalone.

(01:13:20):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (01:13:21):
There are so many people, like, I talk to a lot of
people, and um, you know,there's just a lot of us, and
I'm including myself in thistoo, where we've taken huge
steps of obedience, and like thefinances are like it's it's like
we're at the we're at the we'reat the precipite pre can't say

(01:13:42):
precipice of like breakthrough.
Yeah.
Divulging my story, because thisis not about me right now,
you're not alone.

SPEAKER_02 (01:13:57):
Yeah, amen.
Oh, wait, I told my mom, it'slike mom, we're maxed out for
Jesus.

unknown (01:14:01):
I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 (01:14:02):
Yeah, amen.
Hey, I don't know what else tosay.
Like, I know it defies secularwisdom.
I I'm well aware because I havemy finance degree and I have a
master's in business.
I know I did accounting.
There we go.
So I'm like, by all means, weare living as foolishly as
possible for the sake of thegospel, but we have obeyed.

(01:14:24):
We're called to two, though,we're called to prove it's
right.

SPEAKER_01 (01:14:27):
Oh, true.
So that's what I hear at least.

SPEAKER_02 (01:14:30):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (01:14:31):
Anyways, keep going.
I just wanted to stop.

SPEAKER_02 (01:14:33):
I had to share that.
I so appreciate that.
And amen.
And I received that, Lord.
Like, come on, breakthrough.
We're ready for it.
So, um, we after uh DC, the Lordmade a way for us to get
discounted train tickets.
Oh, it was the greatest tripever.
I was like, this is so great.
We're taking a train from DC toNew York, and um, it was intense

(01:14:54):
though.
Like the Lord carried us.
We did 72 hours of 24-7 worship.
Like we participated, right?
We didn't do the full 72 hoursor we die.
But um, we were in uh the NewMexico tent.
We got to help out with Alabama,we were in New York, we were
doing um the Hawaii tent, justpraying and worshiping um
wherever we could.

(01:15:15):
My oldest daughter got toworship in the Gen Z tent and um
in the Israel tent.
It was just amazing.
It was so amazing.
The presence of the Lord wastangible, like, oh my goodness,
so powerful throughout theentire national mall.
And so that was an honor.
DC was a whole other level ofglory that the Lord has been

(01:15:37):
just moving.
But it's that, it's the wildones, the obedient ones who
truly did let go of the systemof man, control of man and the
control of religion, and it's ummonopoly over what ministry is,
what it looks like.
And it was the people who theywill obey no matter what the

(01:15:59):
cost.
And so, and I know there's many.
I'm like, Lord, this is just afragment, this is just a tiny
fragment of what you are doingacross the world and of your
obedient ones.
And so um we we took a train toNew York, and uh one of the
dreams that I had had about NewYork as well was the whole
entire city on fire.

(01:16:20):
And I thought um, as I waswalking down the streets, um, I
saw military vehicles pulling upto apartment complexes fully
ablaze, and they were pullingout only the people, men, women,
children, wrapped in wool.
And I was like, Lord, these areyour people.
They're wrapped with the wool ofthe lamb and they're being
protected.
That being said, they were alsobeing displaced.

(01:16:42):
So they were being put in thesemilitary vehicles because their
apartment complexes were onfire, and they were being put
into these homeless shelters inthe corners of um, I guess, uh
abandoned New York restaurantsand things like that.
Those were like gutted and theyjust they were full of cots now,
full of beds.
And um anyway, the dream getspretty intense where uh I became

(01:17:06):
like a homeless woman and um andI felt like I had lived in the
streets of New York for years,years, years, years.
I was so dirty, I was so stinky,and like I was living it in my
dream.
It was so bizarre.
Like my feet hurt everything.
It was so weird.
Uh, and it was cold and um andwet and rainy and stuff.

(01:17:26):
Anyway, so I meet this young manin a coffee shop, still in the
dream, and um there wassomething so different about the
young man.
And he was typing away on hislaptop and he had stickers on
his laptop and he had a like aguitar on his back.
He closes his laptop and hestarts to leave, and I was like,
Wait, what is different aboutyou?
And I look at him like moreintently, and I was like, You

(01:17:49):
have joy.
You have joy.
And I was like, Where where doyou have where like where are
you getting this from?
And something inside me likeawakened, it lit up, and it was
like it was crazy.
It was so amazing.
And he's like, Oh, well, I'm onmy way to the prayer room.
And I, I don't know, as soon ashe said prayer room was like, I
need to go, can I go with you tothe prayer room?

(01:18:10):
And he's like, Yeah, you canfollow me.
I'm on my way there now.
So that's how my dream ended.
I it ended as that homelesswoman being like awakened to joy
from this man's face.
He didn't even tell me aboutJesus, like he was just so
markedly different fromeverything else.
And um anyway, so there was thatdream as well.

(01:18:33):
Well, we were literally led to aprayer room, actually in real
life in New York, and that youngman, I believe was the man who
greeted us, like in the church.
He was a young black man, sosweet, so overflowing with joy,
blew my mind.
And I was like, Lord, this iscrazy.

(01:18:53):
So just so many differentthings, like the the Holy Spirit
is in every single detail.
Now, when we first arrived toNew York, we literally had like
maybe two to three hundreddollars.
Um, we had to cancel one of ourhotel rooms the first night
because we could only afford oneof them.
What I didn't know was how ittybitty this room was gonna be.

(01:19:16):
There it'd be physicallyimpossible to fit six people in
one room.
Um and so I didn't know this,but I was like, Lord, I'm tired.
You know that like I wasn'tstressed, but I was just
praying, like, Lord, you have toprovide because we're we are we
can't even reach out on ourcredit cards anymore.
Like it's not there.

(01:19:37):
Yeah.
So um, as I'm sitting downpreparing to check in, we had to
wait a little while.
I get a text from a randomperson that I haven't talked to
in a little while.
And he was like, Danae, are youguys there in DC?
I said, No, the Lord sent us toNew York.
And he's like, Well, what do youneed?
And I said, Well, we needprayer.
And he's like, No, butfinancially, what do you need?

(01:19:58):
And I was like, Uh, I have noidea.
He said, New York is soexpensive.
This is crazy.
And I was like, Lord, if I wason my own, I'd be like, I could
just fast, no big deal.
Like, you know, and I'll findsomething, you know, little
something to eat.
But I have four children andthey don't do that, you know.
Like, and so um, I look at myhusband, I was like, babe, what

(01:20:22):
do we need?
I don't know.
And he and so I I felt like 600.
I that's that should be enoughto cover, you know, the food for
the day.
That's like a hundred dollarswhatever per person um for four
days in New York.
It's like that should should beenough.
Anyway, so um he he had toldanother friend, and that other

(01:20:46):
friend who is also a friend ofmine sent it to me like right
then and there, and I justcried.
So I was like, Lord, thank you,just thank you, because I no
longer I reached the end of myrope, and you knew that we had
nothing else, like you had thishad to be you, and so I was

(01:21:07):
already overwhelmed, and then Igo to check in, and the lady
tells me, Oh, well, we sold outof the room that you asked for.
You asked for two beds, and wedon't have any of those rooms,
so I have to give you an extraroom for free.
And I was like, What?
In New York City, you're givingme free room, so more tears.

(01:21:28):
I was like, Thank you, justthank you so much.
Oh my gosh.
Because my husband said he waslike, Oh, well, I'll sleep on
the floor, no big deal.
But like my heart sunk.
It's like, babe, I don't thinkyou should have to sleep on the
floor.
Like, but I mean, I'm glad thatyou're willing, and obviously,
we have no choice, we got to dowhat we're gonna do.
But you know, it just I waslike, Oh, that's not how I had

(01:21:51):
hoped it would be.
And then the Lord provides tworoom, and I just I couldn't even
believe it.
It's like this is and then hegave us so much favor with the
people.
Uh when we were buying food,they would give us extra
portions.
Does not happen, it just doesn'thappen.
Um, even in Dallas, like we livein a very, you know, very, very

(01:22:13):
wealthy place and you know, moreaffordable than New York.
People don't typically just giveyou free food, you know.
He's like multiplying loads ofit was that.
I was like, Lord, we bought asmall and you gave us a large,
like just things like that.
Um and and there was one woman,he told me to go worship on Wall

(01:22:35):
Street, so that was like thefirst big, big place that I knew
we had to go.
And so we were on Wall Streetthe following morning, and I
worshiped, it was rainy, but I Ididn't care.
Like we worshiped for I don'tknow, an hour, an hour and a
half, maybe maybe two hours.
I'm not sure how long I was outthere.
And one woman, like people wouldcome and go, there were droves,

(01:22:57):
they would come and they go.
Sometimes it'd be pretty quiet.
And then there was uh a coupleof people who lingered, they
would just linger there, which Iwas grateful for.
But then there was one woman whojust came up to me in tears and
she just starts confessing hersins.
I was like, oh my goodness, wow.
So I had been recording, Iturned off my Facebook.
So I was like, this is holy, andI want her, I want her to

(01:23:19):
encounter Jesus, and I don'twant any hindrances, you know,
and whatever.
So I turned off my camera andshe just starts sharing her life
and and repents of her sins andall that and gets right with the
Lord and shares her story.
Like, oh, I met my husband hereon Wall Street, like I don't

(01:23:39):
think she said maybe four orfive years earlier.
And I laughed, and I was like,Well, how beautiful is it that
you get to meet Jesus as yourhusband on Wall Street today?
And it was just so crazy becauseshe was like, Well, I wasn't
even supposed to be here, I wassupposed to be on this other
side of New York, but somethingled me right here to you, and I

(01:23:59):
was like, That's the HolySpirit, and he wants you to know
he's leading you, like he's notdistant from you, he's not far
from you, anyway.
It was so beautiful, so um,yeah, stuff like that, and then
uh just coming everything.
The Lord, so as I had mentionedin my dream that I was in a gray
vehicle, um, we had to rent acar because the Lord was sending

(01:24:22):
us through all the all theboroughs, and there was no way
we could walk.
My my kids' feet, especiallyfrom DC and walking all New
York, we were toast, like ourfeet done.
And so I rented a vehicle and itwas the same vehicle that I had
dreamt about.
Like I did not use this car,this car was chosen for me, and
like, well, there's your car.

(01:24:43):
Just couldn't even believe it.
It was the same, same car.
I was like, Lord, you'reliterally in every detail.
Yes.
So, where I was in a mini-band,you know, the first time I took
an adventure by myself with theLord.
Now I had my whole family in agraveyard, and we got to just go
through all the burrows.

(01:25:04):
The Lord took us to the veryfirst Planned Parenthood, which
uh the Lord wrecked my heartmany years ago for you know,
against abortion.
He showed I had just asked him,Lord, what's your heart towards
it?
Because I didn't have anopinion, I didn't know.
I was like, I hear the rhetoric,I don't know what to believe.
I don't, I really don't, I don'tknow where where your heart is
on it.
Now I do because when I askedhim, I cried for two hours,

(01:25:27):
could not stop crying.
I was like, oh my god, if that'swhat you feel for for one baby,
like oh, then this is not okay.
And so it, you know, that thatturned into a whole thing too.
But so for us to go to the veryfirst Planned Parenthood in the
heart of Brooklyn and pray andtake communion as a family over

(01:25:48):
that space, and just the Lordgave me a beautiful um word
because it's called theBrownsville um like Brownsville
district or something like that.
And I was like, well, when Ihear Brownsville, I hear
revival.
Revival, yeah.
Yeah.
So I'm like, we're gonna declareand decree that a Brownsville
revival and a major shift oflife come from the Brooklyn

(01:26:11):
borough and just hit all ofAmerica in the same way Planned
Parenthood has affected all ofAmerica.
We decree that that culture ofdeath be flipped and become a
culture of life.
Yes.
So it was it was crazy like tobe able to do these things with
the Lord, like not anything Icould possibly come up with or

(01:26:33):
plan or strategize.
Yes, him exactly the best, likehe is the king of logistics, he
knows where he wants his people,he knows the words that need to
be released, he knows.
I've been a part of a lot ofdifferent groups that they
strategize and they plan, well,we're gonna follow this and
we're gonna do this, but a lotof it has been in their own

(01:26:53):
strength, and they have gottensuch intense warfare and
backlash never seen.
And I'm like, oh my gosh, Lord,like please don't lead us into
something like that.
If we have to, we have to,right?
Like our lives are yours, youcan do whatever you want, but I
want to be in your will.
I want to make sure I'mlistening to you because there
was a time where I felt like itbecame more flesh than it became

(01:27:15):
spirit, and and that's why Isaid, like when we first started
talking, I want to make surethat I live my life in a manner
that I don't ever assume I knowwhat the Lord is saying, that I
don't ever want to assume I knowwhat to do because I've done it
in the past.
The Lord does things differentall the time.
He's I don't think I've seen himdo something the same thing,

(01:27:37):
actually, uh like multipletimes.
I don't I don't think he has acopy machine.

SPEAKER_01 (01:27:42):
No, like it's like you know what I'm saying?
It's like yeah, like even whenpeople talk about blueprints,
like here's my blueprint, youget to use my blueprints like,
well, that doesn't really work,right?

SPEAKER_02 (01:27:56):
Like you have to lean into the voice separate
one, right?
Well, and I mean he's a creator,it's not like he stopped
creating, you know, he's stillhe because here's the thing if
ever we we know, then we nolonger trust, right?
And so that's what he's beentelling me.
And I've I think I've gotten,I've read a few words like Lana

(01:28:18):
Vassar, everyone I follow, butum, she had she did, she
released a word just the otherday about leaning into the voice
of the Lord, like leaning intothe Lord more to hear him more
clearly.
And I really, I really felt thatbecause I was like, Lord, I um I
want to make sure I am gettingmy daily bread from you.
I want to make sure that I'monly going where you tell me to

(01:28:40):
go, that I'm only being a partof what you tell me to be a part
of, because there's so many,there's movements which I'm
grateful for.
Might be for stuff for thosepeople, right?
It does not mean it's for everysingle person.
God has a very specific call andpurpose.
Like not everybody was meant togo to DC, not everybody is meant
to go to Chicago.
The ones that he called forthose specific assignments have

(01:29:04):
a very specific thing that he'sasking to be released and
received in that moment.
And our God is so big and sogreat that he can master plan
something that just flips theenemy on his head because he
can't possibly keep up.
Exactly.
It's so funny.

SPEAKER_01 (01:29:22):
That's like such a great way to put it.
I love it.
Like, he can't keep up becausehe has no idea what our playbook
is.

SPEAKER_02 (01:29:28):
Well, and because we don't know sometimes we don't
know.
I'm like, we have no, I have noidea where I'm going next month
or next year, or I have no ideawhat his plan is.
But when he gives the order, hewants those who have been
surrendered.
Like, hey Lord, yes, sir, I'mready for my marching orders.
You've given it.
Here we go.
You're gonna provide and I'mgonna trust you.

(01:29:50):
And it's the craziest life offaith that I I never I never
thought it existed.
That's the crazy thing.
Starting back from my childhood,I did not know that it was
possible to live like this.
What a privilege, right?

SPEAKER_01 (01:30:06):
Yeah, but it's crazy.
I know, I know, girl.
I'm telling you.
I I I know I know more than youknow, than you know.
Right.
I'm like, anyways, oh mygoodness.
Well, this has been so fun, andlike I feel like I almost need
to have you on again.
Um, if you'd like to come back,but would you share with us, you

(01:30:30):
know, what you know, in yourministry too, like that question
that your friend asked, like ifsomebody's listening today and
they want to.
Pour into your family and sointo what you're doing.
How can they get a hold of you?

SPEAKER_02 (01:30:42):
Oh wow.
Yeah.
So um I'm on Facebook.
I um, but my my website isprobably the best place to find
me.
It's awakenliberty.com.
So www.awakenliberty.com.
And on that website, it has myemails.

(01:31:02):
Um, emails probably the best wayto get a hold of me.
Um and it also has links that II think it does.
I think it has like Venmo orPayPal or something to that
effect.
Like if but I the people, youknow, like I don't ever just
send out my links and say, hey,just give me money.
It's a love relationship.
And I think that's the way thatis the kingdom of heaven is

(01:31:24):
through relationships.
So yes.
Okay.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (01:31:27):
And I will be sure to link your website in the show
notes as well.
And then are your book you haveall your books and music and
everything there as well.
Yes.
So they can find.
Do you want to just share likethe titles of your books as
well?
Are they like available onAmazon and all the places?

SPEAKER_02 (01:31:42):
They are.
They're available on Amazon.
Um, the first is a trilogy, it'sa sci-fi trilogy that is about
the bride, the bride of Christ.
And it's just so fun.
The Lord gave this through aseries of dreams that I
stewarded.
Um, and it turned out to be atrilogy.
I had no idea what I was doing.
And if I did, I probablywouldn't have finished it.

(01:32:03):
So God is so good in that way.
Um, anyway, the name is TheLegend of the Last Luminary.
So the first one is the spark,the second one is onwards and
upwards, the third one is umendings and beginnings.
And so those are available onAmazon.
Those are that's a fun read.
And I I had to put just a fewlike bits of my story in there

(01:32:26):
and words that the Lord hasgiven me.
It was so it's Holy Spiritinspired.
So I pray that draw people intoa deeper level of intimacy with
him.
And then um, my most recent bookis called Kingdom Marriage.
This goes through a lot ofdeliverance, um, a lot of
deliverance through marriages,especially for people who've
grown up like in the church.

(01:32:47):
There's a lot of things thathappen inside the church that
are not okay.
And so the Lord, I believe, isusing this book to help cleanse
his his temples.
And you know, we are histemples, so it's it's that.
But it shares my story, itshares um, you know, my husband,
it shares mine and my husband'stestimony, and is I pray is an

(01:33:08):
encouragement for for that.
But it's more like when weunderstand our covenant with the
Lord as his bride, it literallychanges every relationship in
our life.
And so through covenant withhim, then we learn how to have
covenant with people, whether itbe spouse and children and the
body of Christ, because we areone.

(01:33:30):
So that's the book, you know,that's the book.
It's to help us betterunderstand our covenant with
Christ and the Father, and thenlet every other relationship,
especially with spouses, firstlike that's pri prior, that's a
priority in this book, but tolet everything else um be
shifted from understandingcovenant.

(01:33:51):
So those are the books.
Um, I have another one that Iwas a co-author with 40 other
women, I think it was 40.
Uh, it's called Daughters ofDestiny.
That one's also on Amazon.

SPEAKER_01 (01:34:02):
But beautiful, yeah.
And your your album is availableon all the places too.

SPEAKER_02 (01:34:09):
So one of them is The Secret Place, the the raw
one that the Lord gave me onPrayer Mountain.
That one is available um oniTunes, on uh just I think
everywhere, Spotify.
Um, and then I have another onethat I have not re re-released,
like it had been out for a longtime.
And um I just I don't know, Ididn't I didn't release it or I

(01:34:34):
didn't it like expired, that'swhat I'm trying to say.
So I have to I have to releasethat one in God's timing.
So you'll refire it at somepoint, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 (01:34:43):
Yes, beautiful that being so out of the song on the
song or the album The SecretPlace, which song like would you
say somebody needs to heartoday?

SPEAKER_02 (01:34:58):
I would say I feel like if they were to listen to
maybe eight, nine, or ten.
Um so eight is the satisfied,it's called satisfied, it's a
devotional that gives thescripture.
Number nine is the actual songsatisfied, and then um, well,

(01:35:20):
ten is the the it's Abba'sheart, is what the title is, and
that gives the devotional, and11 is the actual song, Abba's
heart.
And I feel like understandingwhat Jesus did, that the
Father's heart is fullysatisfied in the sacrifice of
Jesus Christ, that it literallystrips away all of the stress

(01:35:42):
and guilt that religion tries tomake us accomplish in our own
efforts.
Like Jesus was, he is the tithe.
Jesus is the first fruits, Jesusis the fulfillment of everything
that the body of Christ isresponsible for giving to the
Father, if that makes sense.
So Jesus has fulfilled all ofthat.

(01:36:02):
Now we get to live in it andoverflow from his life and from
his sacrifice.
Like this is where ourrighteousness comes from.
This is where just everything,you know, everything happens,
life happens, forgiveness,redemption, sanctification, all
the things, purification.
Um, so I would hope that that'swhat they would receive from
things.

SPEAKER_01 (01:36:22):
Beautiful.
Well, you are amazing.
I am so thankful to haveconnected with you and have you
on today.
Um, I would just love for you toshare, like, you know, as I I do
this for the one, and I know youdo so much for the one as well.
If you could just kind of get inyour mind this one that's
listening in today, is there anyother words of encouragement or
um any words of knowledge thatyou'd want to speak over them?

(01:36:44):
And would you pray us out today?
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 (01:36:48):
So I I feel the necessity to tell you, whoever
is listening, take the firststep.
And every time you think thateven because you may maybe have
finished an assignment orsomething like that, take

(01:37:08):
another step.
Don't ever stop because there'sso much more that God wants to
reveal about Himself in yourvery walk with Him.
So, but it starts with the veryfirst step.
So I know it feels like a giantleap of faith, and very much how
I felt all of the fear of thisis crazy, absolutely crazy in

(01:37:33):
this world.
I want to tell you to just jump,just go and let the Lord catch
you.
He will catch you, he will notleave you, he will not abandon
you, he will not let you fall.
You will not be ashamed whenyour trust is in the Lord.
So, with that, Father God, Icome before your throne of

(01:37:55):
grace, Lord, to thank you, topraise you, and to worship you,
Lord God.
You're so good, so holy.
Your loving kindness, Lord God,lasts for generations.
And I just thank you.
Thank you.
I thank you for the intimacy,thank you for the oneness.
I thank you for the one personwho's gonna listen.

(01:38:15):
And I thank you that right nowyou're encouraging their heart.
You're just, oh, your hands arewide open, your arms are wide
open to say, let's go on anadventure together.
Don't worry, I will work out allthe details.
I just want your yes.
I pray, Lord God, that theywould say yes, even if it's a

(01:38:37):
whisper in their heart.
And I thank you for that.
Thank you for you, you listen,you listen, you love the
whispers of our heart, Lord God.
Um, thank you so much forKristen.
Thank you for her obedience,Lord God.
And I just speak so manyblessings and breakthrough over
her life and what she does, LordGod.
This holy digital scribing, LordGod, recording important

(01:39:01):
stories.
Your story, Lord God, so muchmore than our lives.
It's your story and your handthat you are living and you are
active, and you aredemonstrating your glory through
our simple clay vessels, LordGod.
But this is what you calltreasure, and this is the gold
that you're bringing forth.
These acts of obedience, theseacts of faith and this zeal and

(01:39:26):
this passion for you, Lord God.
I pray that all that she doesignite a fire that is
unstoppable, Lord Jesus, in theears and the hearts, and the
souls and the minds of those wholisten, Lord God.
In the mighty name of Jesus, Ithank you for all this time.
I thank you that your name isglorified.
Thank you for all that you'vedone and all that you're doing

(01:39:48):
and all that you will do.
I thank you for you being themaster of logistics, the king of
all things.
We glorify you, we worship you.
And it's such an honor and aprivilege to serve you and to
love you and to know you andyour people in Jesus' mighty
name.
Amen.

SPEAKER_01 (01:40:08):
Amen.
Well, thank you for being on.
Thank you for being a bravevoice who is setting so many
free.
I am going to close with thehope unlocked anchoring verse,
which is May the God of hopefill you with all joy and peace
and believing, so that by thepower of the Holy Spirit you may
abound in hope.
That's Romans 15, 13.

(01:40:28):
So I'll be back with anotherepisode next week.
Thank you, listeners, and thankyou, Danae.
Bye bye.

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