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SPEAKER_00 (00:01):
Life is full of
turning points.
Would you agree?
Life is full of turning points.
It's full of choices,crossroads, chapters.
A single life, a singleindividual lives, and there are
chapters to or in that person'slife.
There's choices that we have tomake, that we are called to
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make.
We're faced with decisions.
We come to a crossroad in life.
And it really is called a pivot.
We reach a pivot, a point, animportant point of life that
will drive a person that willdrive us in a direction.
In one direction or the other.
A pivot will drive us in onedirection or the other.
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A pivot.
It's that moment in life whenone must decide: will I say yes
or will I say no?
Will I stay or will I go?
Pivots are very, very important.
They're crucial.
They're critical because thereare other things that depend on
a pivot.
A person being a pivot, thereare other people who depend on
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you as a pivot.
Intercessor, if I can use you asan example.
You're a pivot, you're a leader,you're an intercessor.
There's a lot that you've uhbeen given in being, how do I
want to say this?
That you've been uh delegate,that's been delegated to you by
the Holy Spirit, uh, things thatthe assignment on your life,
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your responsibilities, yourduties, your due diligence, uh,
those things that you are to bea steward over.
Um, and so based on yourdecision, based on the choices
that you make, uh others' liveswill be greatly affected because
you being a pivot, others dependon you.
Does that make sense?
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All right, so you being a pivot,you're the central part, you're
the main uh individual oringredient, you're very
important because uh a person'slife could evolve or revolve
around you and the choices youmake as a leader.
Uh, I am your host, Dr.
Lydia Michelle Young.
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I'm here with my co-host,intercessor Janine Nicole.
Today is Wednesday, it's themiddle of the week.
This is midweek refreshing fire.
We appreciate you for tuning into Sweet Fire, the podcast,
where the move of the Lord isgoing on.
And we're just gonna dive intothis session talking about
pivoting or a pivot.
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Come on, intercessor, jump in.
Good evening, uh, everyone.
Uh, yes, thank you for tuningin.
Um, I'm definitely lookingforward to this broadcast, to
this episode, because you know,many of us we don't look at
ourselves as being a pivot.
We don't look at ourselves asbeing a pivot, and you know, you
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breaking down the word pivot.
It just it broadens, it furtherenlightens, right?
It causes one's you know,perspective uh to be opened up
even greater because we don't,we've heard that word pivot, you
know, over uh uh the course oftime throughout the years, but
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never hearing pivot, referringto uh referencing rather, excuse
me, an individual as being apivot, as an individual being a
pivotal point in one's life.
So definitely looking forward tothis uh episode here.
And again, thank you for tuningin to Sweet Fire the podcast.
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All right, yes, so being apivot, um, a pivot, a parent, a
grandparent, a caregiver, uh,those who watch over others'
souls, leaders uh in ministry,leaders uh in business, leaders
in the home, uh pivot, somebodywho has influence, um, they're
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persuasive, and so what they do,how they demonstrate life or how
they function, how they speak,how their conduct, how they
carry themselves, the choicesthey make when they come to the
crossroad, right?
Uh is going to greatly impactthat person who is watching
them.
You do you realize that folkpeople are watching you?
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Yes.
Are watching you.
So, you know, with that beingsaid, and what comes to mind is
because we are being watched,observed, our behaviors are
being observed by others, ourconsistency is being observed by
others, our perseverance, ourability to withstand, our
ability uh to not fall apart,our ability to keep going, our
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ability to be trustworthy, ourability to be reliable, to be
diligent, to be faithful, to behonest, to be, you know, to
operate in uh those things thatwe think of that are above.
If there be any praise, think onthese things.
If when we operate withcharacter, when we operate uh in
truth, when we uh when we makehelpful, healthy decisions, my
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lord, what it does for that onewho's gleaning, who's gleaning
on you, who's gleaning on yourbehavior, who's gleaning on your
gifts, who's gleaning on uh yourcapability, who's gleaning from
you what you have to offer.
Come on.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, you know, a person's growthdepends on you.
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Rather than a person's gonnamature in life depends on how
you are responding right now.
You know, you're the pivotalpoint in somebody's life.
Somebody we hold people'sdestinies in our hands, right?
We hold people's destinies inour hand.
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Parents, you know, you hold yourchild's destiny in your hand.
How you are responding to life,how you are going about your
living is gonna determinewhether or not your child is
gonna grow up, whether or notyour child is gonna mature,
whether you're not, whether ornot your child is gonna tap into
the gifts and talents that havebeen entrusted to them and
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pursue those gifts and talents,nurture those gifts and talents.
You know, you your life dependson the direction your child is
going to go.
Yes.
We hold people's destinies inour hands.
It goes back to our living, it'snot all about us.
I'm not living my life solelyall about me, right?
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In our actuality, our livingreally doesn't have a whole lot
to do about us.
I'm gonna say that again.
Our living doesn't have a wholelot to do about us.
We are out here living life forothers.
We are holding others' people'sdestinies in our hands.
Leaders, you are holdingpeople's healing in your hands,
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you're holding people'sdeliverance in your hands.
There are people that are havebeen entrusted and assigned to
you, and it is yourresponsibility to help them
recognize their potential, toawaken them to the gifts and the
talents that they have housed onthe inside of them.
Because unfortunately, you know,maybe their upbringing, their
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their uh environment that wasset in place to nurture them,
you know, did not awaken them towho they are, but now they've
been they're assigned to you,they're watching you, and it's
your responsibility to help themtap in to who they truly are.
Right.
Will you be that example?
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Right.
Are you the role model?
Right, right.
Yeah, are are you are you theforerunner?
Are you making way for me sothat I could succeed, so that I
gain salvation, so that I amsecure?
Um, are you making a way forothers, those that God is
bringing behind you?
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Right?
Those that you cross paths with.
My decisions, my goodness, mydecisions uh will bring a
person, can either break aperson or build a person up.
Right.
You know, and then we come tothe turning point.
So how we live, the examplesthat we set really present, uh
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will get bring a person to apoint where you know, which way
will I turn?
Will I continue forward?
Will I go, will I backslide?
You know what I'm saying?
Am I on my way to destiny?
As you said, destinies are inour hands.
Um, you know, so we have we havedirection.
We can provide direction, uh, wecan provide the security needed
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to secure a person's steps,right?
Uh the steps of a good personare ordered, right?
So just understanding that theway that we live, the way we
live, um has great influence onhow that's what makes this world
turn, right?
That's what makes this worldturn.
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And so it's important to be thatrole model, to be the example uh
that your children need, to bethe example that your siblings
need.
To some of us, you know,examples for our parents, right?
As they continue to grow,because we do have people who
are seasoned in age, in number,but underdeveloped.
Right.
And so it's it's so importantfor us to tap into who we are,
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know who we are by grace, sothat we can live accordingly and
help those uh who are in ourpathway.
I like how uh you opened it up,even, you know, um talking about
um oh lord, it just succeeded mejust that quick.
But yeah, the um, you know, justoh thank you, Holy Spirit.
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People watching us.
People watching.
We have people watching us.
You have people watching you,and it's really at the moments
in life that are so critical forus, you know, those
uncomfortable circumstances,those uncomfortable uh uh
situations, right?
Those those real trying times,those times of trials, those
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times of tribulations, thosepainful times that we really,
you know, have more eyes on usbecause people are wanting to
know, okay, you've been you'vebeen preaching it, you've been
teaching it, right?
But are you gonna live out whatyou've been saying?
Are you gonna respond, you know,uh to those uncomfortable
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moments in life, like you'veinstructed me, right, you know,
on how to respond.
People are truly watching you,people are watching you, and
they want to see are you reallygoing to live what you've been
saying?
And and unfortunately, that'swhy a lot of people have even
left the church.
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Uh, that's why a lot of peoplehave walked away from the church
because the leaders did not liveup to you know uh the words that
they were speaking to another.
So they were that pivotal pointin that person's life.
Many people have walked awayfrom their walk with God, from
their relationship with God, andbecause that person, that
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leader, served as a pivotal uhuh example in that one's life,
unbeknownst to that leader, butthat leader really should have
known.
And that individual, you know,made a decision to go another
direction.
The change of direction,unfortunately, was to walk away
from the Lord, to not trustGod's people, right?
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So it is a matter of life anddeath, yeah.
Right, it's a matter, it'scritical, it's a matter of life
and death.
You know what decision will youmake today?
Um what's your choice?
What do you what will youdecide?
And and another uh aspect tothis is that people are un so
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many people are unsure of theirpurpose, what they're called to
do, what they're created to do,you know, what they've been
chosen to do in this life.
They don't really know who theyare.
There's so many people that arethere they're unsure, they're
uncertain about who they are,they don't really identify.
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There's a lack of connectionthere.
Why?
Because the pivots haven't beenoh my god, the pivots haven't
haven't, when they got to thecrossroads, they didn't make the
right decision, right?
Instead of saying, oh mygoodness, instead of saying yes
to a yes, they say no.
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Instead of saying no, when theyshould say no, they say yes.
It's really in our choices, it'sreally about making a choice, a
turning point.
Which way will you go?
Come on.
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
And it's important, you know, tokeep in mind again that we all
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are serving as pivots, right?
We are all serving as pivots.
We, you know, every last one ofus has some type of
relationship.
There's there's nobody livingout here, you know, uh uh on one
man island.
You know, there's some type ofencounters that each and every
one of us will have in life.
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You know, the this life is asocial sphere, if you will.
Right.
Right?
We're gonna we're gonnaencounter, we're gonna have,
even if those encounters, thoserelationships formed are just,
you know, uh uh seasonal.
Many relationships are seasonal.
Not all relationships are gonnabe lifetime connections, okay?
But you know, for for thatmoment of time, everybody in
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that relationship is serves as apivot.
You know, the choices that eachand every one of us make on a
day, on a daily day in and dayout, right?
They're serving as a type ofpivot.
They're serving as a type ofpivot.
And and and that pivot is notnecessarily about us, but it's
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about those ones that we willencounter.
We can lead somebody to life, wecan lead somebody to success, we
can lead somebody to healing, wecan lead somebody to
deliverance, we can leadsomebody to their breakthrough,
we can lead somebody, you know,to uh to that divine connection
that's going to lead to a doorbeing opened favorably on their
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behalf.
I mean, we just have no idea theuh uh the weight that our
connections are with one anotherreally play in life.
But if we walk away from thisbroadcast, understanding that
each and every one of us is apivot.
Each and every one of us is apivot.
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Our living that we are doing, itis not all about us.
That's where we gotta get inlife.
We gotta stop thinking that mylife is all about me, that the
choices that I make in life isall about me.
No, it's not.
The choices that we make inlife, they are for another.
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We are pivots, and that's how weneed to really look at our
relationships.
Right, right, right.
And as we close, um, you know,we as just in general, as
people, we we know when we'reheaded in the right direction.
And we know when we're uh makingchoices that that uh can hurt
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us, affect us in a negative way.
And so as we close, I just wantto say this.
If you are that the individual,if you are one who is headed uh
in a direction that uh isuncomfortable, that's headed in
a direction uh where you'refeeling um insecure, that you're
not you don't have the security,you don't have the confidence,
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you don't have uh the certaintyabout where you're going.
All I want to say is wake up.
Wake up.
Uh you just might be headed inthe wrong direction.
Wake up and be the pivot thatyou were created to be.
Peace be to you, peace be toyour house, and peace be to all
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you have.