January 30, 2025 • 36 mins
Am I a safe place for others? with Kashawn Watson In the latest episode of "The Kay Wats Podcast," Kay checks in for the first time in 2025. Kay discusses the ways she learned to be a safe place for others through prayer and keeping Jesus as the model of Grace. Kay offers insight to understanding intercession and how we approach disagreement as believers.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey guys, welcome to the KAS podcast. I'm your host
Kashawn Watson, but you know me as KAWATS. This is
the place where we chat about the questions that we
ask God. We shared testimonials around healing, homeness and forgiveness,
and I'm super excited that you're joining us here today.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome to the k WATS podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey guys, welcome to an all new episode of the
k WATS podcast. I'm your host Kashawn Watson, and you
know this is the place where we chat about the
questions that we ask God.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And guys, it has been a time.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I cannot believe that it's been three months since I
have been chatting with you, and who what a three
months it has been? Okay, okay, So before we move
forward with all of the things, I first want to
say thank you so much for every single person that
reached out to me just to congratulate Brandon and I
on our growing family. We are just so excited and
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thank you so much for all of your prayers. We
just can't wait to honestly see what God is going
to do through our going family, and I'm guessing we're
bringing you along for the journey and the ride, and
I think that we possibly, we possibly may do the
gender reveal on the next episode.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You know, it's a tradition.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I always have my love bug on every single season,
and I can't think of a better way to do
it this season. So definitely make sure that you have
hit that subscribe button so that you can tune in
and don't miss the next episode.
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But okay, so let's dive in. All right.
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So the last interview or conversation or chat that we
had was back in October, and let's just be honest,
a lot of things have transpired since October. But first
and foremost, I want to say that during this time
of just recouping, resting, I always take what I love
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to call now my creative break. I don't know if
other content creators can relate to this, but there's just
something that's so important about not just always being a creator,
but also in consuming content. But there's a time when
you just have to shut off the noise from everyone
else and you just have to be able to decompress
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hear from the Lord yourself and actually spend time listening
to his voice and his word versus listening to a lot.
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Of other people.
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So for me, I usually take that time between starting
around September October on my birthday time, and I'll run
that back the entire year going into the new year,
And specifically this year, I took a little bit longer
because I knew that we were going into election season
and just naturally it gets a little bit, it gets
a little rowdy, right, So if you've been following me
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on social media, then you know that I kind of
say away from a lot of the noise, a lot
of the opinions, a lot of the post and just
really just wanted to sit and just ask the Lord,
not only what he desired of me in this season.
So hey, if you're asking questions that I asked, here's
one what he desired of me in this season, especially
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in the season of becoming a mom, but then also
just in the state of I'm gonna call it a
state of emergency, if I'm going to be honest, that's
what I felt like. I felt like there was a
state of emergency not just for our country, but honestly
for the body of Christ as a whole. You know,
like I think there was just a level of Okay, Lord,
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what are you asking of us? What are you specifically
asking of me? I want to make sure that I
do my part. I want to make sure that I
am showing up in the places with the people that
you are assigning me to. And I don't want to
just regurgitate the rhetoric. I don't want to jump to
my own conclusions opinions. I don't want to be led
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by emotions, and I don't want to fall prety to
the sound bites that's out there. So during this time,
there were a lot of things that transpire culturally globally
for our nation and just as us as an entire
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body of Christ. So for me, there were a couple
of things that the Lord already asked of me, and
one was he asked me to do an intentional thirty
days of prayer for specific people in my life.
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Now, I want to be honest with you.
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You may say like, oh, that's that's not something that
should be super surprising, Like yeah, like, as believers, we
should pray, which one thousand percent I do. I believe that,
and it's something that I would like to say that
I do a lot. But I'm gonna be honest with you.
If we're just gonna be completely transparent, there is some
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thing that happens when you posture yourself to intercede on
behalf of someone else without them knowing.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Okay, because this wasn't you know.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You know, we can send out the general tex muss like, hey,
thinking of you, you know you get a lot of those.
I get those thinking of you you cross my mind.
You've been on my heart this week. And while all
that is great, thank you, thank you for letting me
know that there was a thought of me, right, it's
different when the Lord says, it's not just your thought.
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I need you to understand and to intercede for these people,
for this person. And he really challenged me with that
for thirty days straight, and it is my first time
actually praying for someone privately for that long, that consistently,
and that intentionally. And can I just say it changed
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my I think that's so funny to say. I think
it's so funny to say that interceding on behalf of
someone else ends up changing your life. And I'm going
to tell you why. Because there is something to pray
for something in a moment, and that moment has passed.
You've prayed, you believe God to just move and to do.
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What you've prayed.
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There's something different when you go back to the father
contending on behalf of someone else. And I was so
grateful because during this time, it showed me that that's
the type of discipline and that's the type of woman
that I want to be moving forward as a wife,
as a mom, as a friend, as a sister. If
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the Lord tells me to get on my face, to
close the apps, and just to seek him.
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For thirty days, sixty days.
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Like whatever the requirement and the ask is that I'm
I am able to do so without hesitation.
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I am able to do so without.
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Letting the people know, like and asking them like, hey, like,
what is something going on?
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Like, because that's another thing that we can do.
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We can get the alert from the Lord, like hey,
this person needs prayer. So we then become nosy pants,
right like I'm we get real nosy, and then we
decide to reach out to this person. We decide like, hey,
everything okay, Like you know, maybe you've experienced that. I
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feel like I've done that to people, like when the
Lord keeps putting someone on my heart. The next thing,
you know, like I'm reaching out to the person, trying
to get some level of information from this person because
I'm trying to figure out why is the Lord prompting
you on my mind for four days, for weeks, for months.
And I'm now learning that I don't need to get
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information from the person to know what the Lord is
asking of me. I can just go and contend on
behalf of them to my Father and ask that his
will be done right. And I think that sometimes us
as believers, we feel like that we need to know
all the ins and outs of a person's life. We
feel like we need to know have to be extremely
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close to these people to know exactly what they're struggling with,
to know exactly what their heart's desires are. But can
I just tell you something when it tells you how
to pray, and it says that your will be done
on earth as it is in Heaven that encompasses and
embodies everything, So that means that there isn't anything underneath
the sun that we can contend for that the Lord
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is not gonna do. He already knows, he already knows,
So there was just this level and point of Lord,
I trust you enough I believe you enough that if
you tell me I need you to pray right here,
right now, and I need you to do it again
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and again and again and again, then that's what you do.
And you don't need a dissertation from the person to
give you all of the insight and all the things.
Matter of fact, what a testimony it will be for
those that he highlighted for me to pray for, for
them to then come back months later, years later, and
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talk about what the Lord did in their life, and
me just knowing that, even though I didn't know all
the ins and outs at the time, I knew that
I was assigned to them and that I covered them
as a sister in Christ and more so as a
daughter of a king.
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And I did my part.
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So that's one place I've been. If you feel like, sis,
what have you been doing? What have you been doing
this entire holiday season? Crop and praying, I've been praying.
There was that, and I think that I'm really leaning
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into doing more praying in specific conversations with the Lord
that I think I am with other people. And let
me be clear, that doesn't mean that I'm in isolation.
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It just means that I'm a talker if you can't tell.
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And a lot of times it's easy for me to
go in and jump into a conversation and encourage my
brother and sister in Christ and just you know, just
give words of encouragement, which I still do. But there
is something completely different, and there is something there's a
level of maturity that happens when it's like, listen, I
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don't just not only want you to trust me as
a safe place, but I want you to know that
I'm going to seek His Holy face on behalf of you,
because that's how much I love you. That is just
not safe here at the car coffee table. But if
I can't get in my house and really just seek
the Lord on behalf of you, then I ain't safe.
I ain't as safe as you think I am. And
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I think that's just where I've been. And I'm praying
that as we continue to move throughout this this year,
throughout honestly just the next decade, you know, the next
five to ten years, that we'll just see an increase
of men and women And I really, really this is
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going to go into the next thing I think that
I learned, But men and women, and specifically definitely women
that we can just get better at praying for one another.
We do a lot of talking. I've seen that we've
done a lot of gathering. We've come out of isolation
since the pandemic. But can I just say that I
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think that we just have to get better for truly
and honestly praying for each other and contending for each other.
And I had this thought, I had this question, and
I was I like to call it work shopping. I
was workshopping it with my husband after like, really, you know,
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talking to the Lord about this, And this is a
question that I posed, And I'm very curious what your
thoughts are is are we just really really uneducated and
not I shouldn't say uneducated. Maybe that's not that's not
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the right word. Let's change that up. I'm gonna say
as a body of Christ as a whole, and especially
as I can say sisters in Christ, but.
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Daughters of a king. Yes, let's go here.
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I don't know if we've learned the importance and the
wisdom around rebuking each other. And I really want you
to hear me on this.
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I really want you to hear me on.
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This because I had this revelation one morning as I
just was in my word as I was talking to
the Lord, as I was just running through a couple
of scenarios that I've experienced that I've heard other people experience,
and then I just had this thought like, Man, if
we weren't sensitive, or if we weren't.
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So completely removed.
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Just not having real experiences with women that love us
to know how to rebuke us, well, I think that
we would see a lot more relationships with women healed,
less gossiping, less competition, less comparison. Just a thought, just
a thought. I truly think that there is a fine line,
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and I have been I'm just going to be honest,
I've been very guilty of this and is something that
I am learning as I mature and just really ask
God questions and just really kind of like assess my relationships.
But I think that I've seen that we do so
well when we come together as women and we can
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unite for something specific, and maybe that is a season,
maybe that is a mission, maybe that is an assignment.
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And then when there.
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Is any level of misunderstanding, if there's any level of
I don't agree, or if we're just gonna go ahead
and call it, maybe it's something a little bit more serious,
like maybe there is a real grievance, like maybe there
is something that has occurred within that friendship, within that relationship,
and instead of work shopping it, instead of talking it through,
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walking it out, we distance ourselves. We distance that person
from maybe our community, our group. There's less invitations, there's
less invites, so it just creates a wedge, right, And
I've seen this time and time again, and and surprisingly,
and I really it really kind of breaks my heart
to say this because you would think that I or
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we wouldn't see this in the in a body of
believers like sisters in Christ. But unfortunately I have seen
it just as prevalent in women of faith then with
people that aren't women of faith, that there seems to
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be a clear disconnect between us being able to walk
arm in arm even when we don't agree, even when
we don't.
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Have those levels of conversations.
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I'm gonna tell you, if you run the back and
really think about every single time when people talk about
you're the Jonathan to my David.
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And I love that. I love that we have that example.
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I love that we have that biblical example in the
Bible of what it looks like for someone to humble themselves,
serve their friends, support their friend, and even lay down
their life for their friend.
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I love that we have that example.
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I think that it's very interesting that we don't see
a lot of those examples for women in the Bible,
and especially women right now. And if I really summed
it up, okay, in a bigger scheme, and we can
talk about comparison, we can talk about competition, we can
throw out all these things. But when I really thought
about it, I was like, I just don't think we
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know how to rebuke. Well, I don't think that we
know how to test spirits gracefully.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, let's because people love to use that line.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, my Bible tells me to test all spirits, and
that is a fact. But the Bible never tells you
to test something without grace. The Bible never tells you
to test something without the Holy Spirit inside of you navigating.
It says that we're supposed to walk in step with
His spirit.
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So that means that.
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If you're not testing spirits graciously, then that's not even
the spirit of God moving out of you. And I
think that we haven't had enough conversations, we haven't had
enough equipping as disciples, as women, as believers to know
how to do it properly. And that's why we've seen
so many fractured relationships. That's how we've seen so many,
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so many layers of discord dissension. Like we've seen so
many different pop up groups of different communities here and
different communities there. Not trust in that group, not like
in that group. That person don't trust that. It's insane,
It makes no sense, it makes no sense. And when
I really just kind of like step back and really
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just ask the Lord, I realize that part of it
is is that sometimes we just don't want to challenge,
We don't feel equipped enough to correct our sister in Christ.
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Sometimes we can idolize.
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That person so much here we go, we can idolize
the person so much that the idol that we've created
in regards to that friendship, in regards to that community,
we don't even feel comfortable enough to bring a word
of correction to the group, out of fear of being ostracized,
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out of fear of being looked at different. And I'm
gonna tell you something, if that is a thought in
your mind, if that is a feeling that you have
when you feel something stirring up, and you know, like
the Holy Spirit is telling you, like, hey, that's not me,
that's not of me, this isn't this isn't what I
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desire for my daughters. And you don't challenge it, then
you've now come in agreement with it. And I think
that we've seen a lot of communities, a lot of circles,
and dare I just call it clicks? And I say
this because I've been in some, I've created some like
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I have done those things. And if you have met
me anywhere in the last probably five to seven years,
I may even go back a decade if you want
to know something, I tell people like straight up, like,
I don't do clicks. I don't like them. I don't
do them. I listen. If your attraction to being my
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friend is in relation to my season of life I'm in.
I've lived enough life to know that seasons change, and
if that that is the foundation of any friendship, then
that means that that friendship is temporal, and that means
that this friendship is fickle. And I just can't trust
that you have the heart of the Lord in regards
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to me. So I don't align myself and clicks I'm
also very honest that I was a part of a
sorority when I was in college, and it was something
that I knew the Lord was telling me not to
be in, and yet I did it anyway and convinced
myself that it was for the greater good. I don't
know what the greater good was, but it definitely wasn't
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the goodness of God. And I told myself that I
would never ever put myself back in a situation where
I chose to be a part of a group more
than just being still and standing on the foundation of
His truth. And that is something that has just stayed
with me for a very long time. And now being
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years later down the road, you know, over a decad
kate later, I'm able to see how just because you
weren't in a sorority or you didn't pledge your allegiance
at that time during college, does not make you immune
from pledging your allegiance to a community in a.
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Group right now.
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And certain things happen when you do stuff like that.
And number one, you shouldn't be pledging your allegiance to
anyone other than the Lord, that is who we are
connected to for the rest of our lives like that
is our Lord and Savior. And I think soon as
we create these groups, soon as we start pledging our
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allegiance in certain capacities, in certain forms, we've already put
ourselves in something that is not.
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Centered on God's word.
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And if we go back and we look at Galatians five,
and if you read that full chapter, you know it
kicks off with finding freedom and Christ. But then you know,
go down to like Galatians five, I'm gonna say verse sixteen,
I'm just gonna read this, so I say, walk by
the spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of
the flesh.
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For the flesh desires what.
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Is contrary to the spirit, and the spirit what is
contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other,
so that you are not to do whatever you want.
But if you are led by the spirit, you are
not under the law. The acts of the flesh are obvious.
It's sexual immorality, impurity and bauchery, idolatry and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy,
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fits of rage. And I love these last three. We
don't talk about them a lot in church, but here
we go selfish, ambition, dissensions, factions and envy. And I'm
gonna tell you, as I was reading this passage, I
was like, Lord, why don't we talk enough about factions
and dissensions and selfish ambition. So that's where I really
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started doing a little bit more digging, right, because as
we keep going down, you know, drunkenness, orgies and the like,
I warn you, as I did before, that those who
live like this will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
And then we go into the verse that everybody really
knows a lot, which is verse twenty two. But the
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fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, for Baran's kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
and self control. Against such things, there is no law.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus. Jesus have crucified the
flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by
the spirit, let us keep in step with the spirit.
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Let us not become conceited provoking and envying each other. Guys,
this passage is so good that we love to talk about.
In the Bible tells us you will know them by
their fruit, and we know what the fruit of the
spirit is. But then sometimes we aren't able to identify
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and rebuke when we see the flesh what is contrary
to the spirit. So when you hear the passage of
Scripture that we do not fight against flesh and blood,
but against you know, principalities and darkness like those things
and spirits. Right, sometimes we forget and we can get
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confused like flesh and blood. Like, I'm not fighting against you, sis,
but I am fighting against the spirit that is in
contrary to the Holy Spirit.
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And I think that we need to.
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Start just calling that out and we have to do
it in love. So one of the things before I
go into like the last point, I went over and
I looked up the definition which hey, of fact now,
and I also looked up the definition of dissension. And
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I want you guys to you can go back. You
don't have to take my word for it. You can
just go and look it up yourself so that you know.
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Okay.
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So when I looked up what a faction is, it
is a small organized group within a larger one, especially
which is funny in politics.
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I think that's so funny.
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And then the synonyms, okay that are similar are click, caucus,
pressure group, fringe, movement, division, branch, lobby, and minority group.
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This is wild to me. I literally sat processing this.
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For hours, talking to the Lord like, oh, my goodness,
how have I How have I completely not done my
research in due diligence on what.
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Are acts of the flesh.
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And sometimes we can get so excited about creating our
own groups, our own communities, our own cliques, and we
will love to say that we're doing it in the
name of Jesus. But can I just tell you the
Bible tells us that that is an act of the flesh.
That the Lord does not desire anything devices divisive. He
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does not desire things that bring discord, and he does
not desire any things that create dissension. And maybe I
have heard this that people say, well, you know, the
Lord is separating the wheat from the cheft. Yeah, the
Lord is, We're not. That's not our job. He told
us what our job is. Our job is to love
Him with all of our heart, all of our mind,
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and all of our soul, and to love our neighbors
as ourselves.
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Oh, that's our job.
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And then he tells us that when we when we
accept Christ, then our own desires and ways they die.
We no longer can say, well, that's my preference. That's
what I desire. I desire to have my own group.
I desire to have my own clique. I desire to
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have these kind of friends that go through these seasons
with me in this. Can I just tell you something.
I think that support is great. I think that encouraging
each other is great. I think that when Mary showed
up to see Elizabeth and stay there for three days,
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can I just tell you something, and she started speaking
and that baby started leaping in Elizabeth's belly, I thought
that that was some things so powerful that occurred between
them two.
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To the extent where Mary stayed.
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It says in the Bible that Mary stayed there for
a couple of days, and then after she left, she
did not stay there for the baby to become a toddler.
She did not stay there so that they could have
play dates with her kids. That was not the assignment.
And sometimes we desire, we desire community so bad. And
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I have just really just given that to the Lord
because I just said, listen, I don't want us to make.
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Idols.
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I don't want myself to make an idol out of
this season and stage of my life becoming a mom.
The same way I didn't want it to be that
when I became a wife. I understand there are differences,
there are things that change, but that doesn't mean that
the signment and his word changes.
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His word is the same.
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And I just think that as we grow in this season,
in this year, we have to truly know God's work
for ourselves or we will start taking on customs, traditions,
cultures and just putting on all these layers of things
that are not living by His spirit. We have to repent,
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we have to read our word, and we have to
allow the Lord to heal the parts of us that
desire anything else outside of his will.
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And that is where I have been the last.
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Three months, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm just praying as
we just go through this season and we really just
start unpacking these types of topics and these types of questions,
I'm just really challenging, you know, us as believers, as
the body to really seek the Lord and really ask
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him his heart behind things. And can I say, not
just not just asking him his heart behind your own thought,
but just asking his heart in general. Sometimes we can
be so quick, Lord, what do you think.
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About that person?
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Let me tell you, probably the same thing he thinks
about you. That's your love, that you're chosen, that you're called.
I remember telling the Lord during this time of unpacking this,
I said, well, God, I don't know how to test
a spirit graciously because I've never seen it done graciously.
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I remember saying this to the Lord and he responded
to me and said, that's because you've looked at other
people to be the example and not my son. My
son is the model of being able to test a
spirit graciously. And can I tell you it almost took
me out because I never isn't it so wild when
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it says sekh first the kingdom. I never even considered
Jesus as the only model. There's been so many different
people that have done it, and I personally have never
seen someone.
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Just do it graciously. But the Lord is like, yes,
you have my son.
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When I sent him, he embodied grace, he embodied my glory.
And every time he encountered someone that had impure spirits,
that were possessed, or if they were just out here
speaking out of the side of their neck, goodness, Peter,
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he did not hesitate to rebuke Peter.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But then even with.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
That, even rebuking him, he still loved him the exact
same way.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
The assignment didn't change.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So my prayer for you this week, as you go
forward and you start asking the Lord like, how do
I develop here?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
How do I grow here?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Is that he just show you his heart and allows
you to see how he modeled grace through his son Jesus,
and that he is the model, not your mama or
your aunt or your sister. That you feel like is
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so bold and can test a spirit so quick. And
let me tell you there's a difference between a read
and a rebuke. Our goal is not to embarrass our
brothers and sisters in Christ. Our goal is not to
make them feel less than. Our goal is not to
isolate them. Our goal is not that's not the goal.
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And if that's what is happening, then that is not
a rebuke. That is caught up in hatred and envy
and fear, and those things are not of the Lord.
So we just have to be better as we move forward.
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And I'm praying that for myself as well. And I
truly believe that the result of this and the fruit
of this, as we seek the Lord on this, is
that we will see more unity in the body of Christ.
We would see so many relationships healed. We would see
so many men and women coming together willing to just say,
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I apologize, I'm sorry. That was not my intention, or
even if it was my intention, Hey, that was my intention,
But you know what, my intention was not right, That
was incorrection because it allows other people to repent and
ask for forgiveness, and we don't want to take that
opportunity away from anyone else. So that is my prayer
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that Lord, as we just move forward in this week,
that you would just show us the air of our ways, Lord,
which just give us eyes to see how your son
saw us, how you see us. Give us eyes to
see our brothers and sisters, and our children, and our
husbands and our spouses, like, give us eyes to see
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them how.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
You see them.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Lord, Remove any scales that may be on our eyes.
Remove any areas of insecurity, because we know that your
sovereignty is greater than insecurity.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
That we will have.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That your grace and your love covers a multitude of
since that's what the Bible says, that love covers a
multitude of Since why would you say that if you
did not believe that your love covers it all. So Lord,
allow us to walk as graciously as your son did.
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Allow us to have a heart for your people, as
you have called and commanded us to, Father God, and
just remove any areas that will create dissension, remove any
areas of discord, remove any envy and selfish ambition, remove
any of that covetous that could be in our hearts
towards our brothers and our sister's Lord, and heal that.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Father God.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I pray that there will be unity and families, that
there will be unity and friends, that there will be
reconciliation that people have never seen before in their relationships
in twenty twenty five, Father God, and I thank you
right now for doing it. I thank you right now
for the healing power of Jesus. Thank you Lord and
Jesus naying we pray.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Well, guys, and we're back, all right, So episode one,
Welcome to that season. Welcome to the latest season of
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Speaker 2 (35:55):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I'm just so excited just to continue having these shots
and conversations with you. I'm just so excited to just
continue to be as vulnerable as I can be on
this podcast about the questions.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
And I'm truly asking God and that we.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
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is going to be a good one. Until next time,
be blessed.
Hey guys, welcome to the KAS podcast. I'm your host
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the place where we chat about the questions that we
ask God. We shared testimonials around healing, homeness and forgiveness,
and I'm super excited that you're joining us here today.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome to the k WATS podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey guys, welcome to an all new episode of the
k WATS podcast. I'm your host Kashawn Watson, and you
know this is the place where we chat about the
questions that we ask God.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And guys, it has been a time.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I cannot believe that it's been three months since I
have been chatting with you, and who what a three
months it has been? Okay, okay, So before we move
forward with all of the things, I first want to
say thank you so much for every single person that
reached out to me just to congratulate Brandon and I
on our growing family. We are just so excited and
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thank you so much for all of your prayers. We
just can't wait to honestly see what God is going
to do through our going family, and I'm guessing we're
bringing you along for the journey and the ride, and
I think that we possibly, we possibly may do the
gender reveal on the next episode.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You know, it's a tradition.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I always have my love bug on every single season,
and I can't think of a better way to do
it this season. So definitely make sure that you have
hit that subscribe button so that you can tune in
and don't miss the next episode.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
But okay, so let's dive in. All right.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So the last interview or conversation or chat that we
had was back in October, and let's just be honest,
a lot of things have transpired since October. But first
and foremost, I want to say that during this time
of just recouping, resting, I always take what I love
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to call now my creative break. I don't know if
other content creators can relate to this, but there's just
something that's so important about not just always being a creator,
but also in consuming content. But there's a time when
you just have to shut off the noise from everyone
else and you just have to be able to decompress
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hear from the Lord yourself and actually spend time listening
to his voice and his word versus listening to a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Of other people.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So for me, I usually take that time between starting
around September October on my birthday time, and I'll run
that back the entire year going into the new year,
And specifically this year, I took a little bit longer
because I knew that we were going into election season
and just naturally it gets a little bit, it gets
a little rowdy, right, So if you've been following me
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on social media, then you know that I kind of
say away from a lot of the noise, a lot
of the opinions, a lot of the post and just
really just wanted to sit and just ask the Lord,
not only what he desired of me in this season.
So hey, if you're asking questions that I asked, here's
one what he desired of me in this season, especially
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in the season of becoming a mom, but then also
just in the state of I'm gonna call it a
state of emergency, if I'm going to be honest, that's
what I felt like. I felt like there was a
state of emergency not just for our country, but honestly
for the body of Christ as a whole. You know,
like I think there was just a level of Okay, Lord,
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what are you asking of us? What are you specifically
asking of me? I want to make sure that I
do my part. I want to make sure that I
am showing up in the places with the people that
you are assigning me to. And I don't want to
just regurgitate the rhetoric. I don't want to jump to
my own conclusions opinions. I don't want to be led
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by emotions, and I don't want to fall prety to
the sound bites that's out there. So during this time,
there were a lot of things that transpire culturally globally
for our nation and just as us as an entire
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body of Christ. So for me, there were a couple
of things that the Lord already asked of me, and
one was he asked me to do an intentional thirty
days of prayer for specific people in my life.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Now, I want to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
You may say like, oh, that's that's not something that
should be super surprising, Like yeah, like, as believers, we
should pray, which one thousand percent I do. I believe that,
and it's something that I would like to say that
I do a lot. But I'm gonna be honest with you.
If we're just gonna be completely transparent, there is some
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thing that happens when you posture yourself to intercede on
behalf of someone else without them knowing.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Okay, because this wasn't you know.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You know, we can send out the general tex muss like, hey,
thinking of you, you know you get a lot of those.
I get those thinking of you you cross my mind.
You've been on my heart this week. And while all
that is great, thank you, thank you for letting me
know that there was a thought of me, right, it's
different when the Lord says, it's not just your thought.
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I need you to understand and to intercede for these people,
for this person. And he really challenged me with that
for thirty days straight, and it is my first time
actually praying for someone privately for that long, that consistently,
and that intentionally. And can I just say it changed
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my I think that's so funny to say. I think
it's so funny to say that interceding on behalf of
someone else ends up changing your life. And I'm going
to tell you why. Because there is something to pray
for something in a moment, and that moment has passed.
You've prayed, you believe God to just move and to do.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What you've prayed.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
There's something different when you go back to the father
contending on behalf of someone else. And I was so
grateful because during this time, it showed me that that's
the type of discipline and that's the type of woman
that I want to be moving forward as a wife,
as a mom, as a friend, as a sister. If
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the Lord tells me to get on my face, to
close the apps, and just to seek him.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
For thirty days, sixty days.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Like whatever the requirement and the ask is that I'm
I am able to do so without hesitation.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I am able to do so without.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Letting the people know, like and asking them like, hey, like,
what is something going on?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Like, because that's another thing that we can do.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
We can get the alert from the Lord, like hey,
this person needs prayer. So we then become nosy pants,
right like I'm we get real nosy, and then we
decide to reach out to this person. We decide like, hey,
everything okay, Like you know, maybe you've experienced that. I
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feel like I've done that to people, like when the
Lord keeps putting someone on my heart. The next thing,
you know, like I'm reaching out to the person, trying
to get some level of information from this person because
I'm trying to figure out why is the Lord prompting
you on my mind for four days, for weeks, for months.
And I'm now learning that I don't need to get
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information from the person to know what the Lord is
asking of me. I can just go and contend on
behalf of them to my Father and ask that his
will be done right. And I think that sometimes us
as believers, we feel like that we need to know
all the ins and outs of a person's life. We
feel like we need to know have to be extremely
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close to these people to know exactly what they're struggling with,
to know exactly what their heart's desires are. But can
I just tell you something when it tells you how
to pray, and it says that your will be done
on earth as it is in Heaven that encompasses and
embodies everything, So that means that there isn't anything underneath
the sun that we can contend for that the Lord
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is not gonna do. He already knows, he already knows,
So there was just this level and point of Lord,
I trust you enough I believe you enough that if
you tell me I need you to pray right here,
right now, and I need you to do it again
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and again and again and again, then that's what you do.
And you don't need a dissertation from the person to
give you all of the insight and all the things.
Matter of fact, what a testimony it will be for
those that he highlighted for me to pray for, for
them to then come back months later, years later, and
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talk about what the Lord did in their life, and
me just knowing that, even though I didn't know all
the ins and outs at the time, I knew that
I was assigned to them and that I covered them
as a sister in Christ and more so as a
daughter of a king.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And I did my part.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So that's one place I've been. If you feel like, sis,
what have you been doing? What have you been doing
this entire holiday season? Crop and praying, I've been praying.
There was that, and I think that I'm really leaning
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into doing more praying in specific conversations with the Lord
that I think I am with other people. And let
me be clear, that doesn't mean that I'm in isolation.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It just means that I'm a talker if you can't tell.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And a lot of times it's easy for me to
go in and jump into a conversation and encourage my
brother and sister in Christ and just you know, just
give words of encouragement, which I still do. But there
is something completely different, and there is something there's a
level of maturity that happens when it's like, listen, I
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don't just not only want you to trust me as
a safe place, but I want you to know that
I'm going to seek His Holy face on behalf of you,
because that's how much I love you. That is just
not safe here at the car coffee table. But if
I can't get in my house and really just seek
the Lord on behalf of you, then I ain't safe.
I ain't as safe as you think I am. And
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I think that's just where I've been. And I'm praying
that as we continue to move throughout this this year,
throughout honestly just the next decade, you know, the next
five to ten years, that we'll just see an increase
of men and women And I really, really this is
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going to go into the next thing I think that
I learned, But men and women, and specifically definitely women
that we can just get better at praying for one another.
We do a lot of talking. I've seen that we've
done a lot of gathering. We've come out of isolation
since the pandemic. But can I just say that I
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think that we just have to get better for truly
and honestly praying for each other and contending for each other.
And I had this thought, I had this question, and
I was I like to call it work shopping. I
was workshopping it with my husband after like, really, you know,
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talking to the Lord about this, And this is a
question that I posed, And I'm very curious what your
thoughts are is are we just really really uneducated and
not I shouldn't say uneducated. Maybe that's not that's not
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the right word. Let's change that up. I'm gonna say
as a body of Christ as a whole, and especially
as I can say sisters in Christ, but.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Daughters of a king. Yes, let's go here.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I don't know if we've learned the importance and the
wisdom around rebuking each other. And I really want you
to hear me on this.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I really want you to hear me on.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
This because I had this revelation one morning as I
just was in my word as I was talking to
the Lord, as I was just running through a couple
of scenarios that I've experienced that I've heard other people experience,
and then I just had this thought like, Man, if
we weren't sensitive, or if we weren't.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
So completely removed.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Just not having real experiences with women that love us
to know how to rebuke us, well, I think that
we would see a lot more relationships with women healed,
less gossiping, less competition, less comparison. Just a thought, just
a thought. I truly think that there is a fine line,
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and I have been I'm just going to be honest,
I've been very guilty of this and is something that
I am learning as I mature and just really ask
God questions and just really kind of like assess my relationships.
But I think that I've seen that we do so
well when we come together as women and we can
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unite for something specific, and maybe that is a season,
maybe that is a mission, maybe that is an assignment.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
And then when there.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Is any level of misunderstanding, if there's any level of
I don't agree, or if we're just gonna go ahead
and call it, maybe it's something a little bit more serious,
like maybe there is a real grievance, like maybe there
is something that has occurred within that friendship, within that relationship,
and instead of work shopping it, instead of talking it through,
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walking it out, we distance ourselves. We distance that person
from maybe our community, our group. There's less invitations, there's
less invites, so it just creates a wedge, right, And
I've seen this time and time again, and and surprisingly,
and I really it really kind of breaks my heart
to say this because you would think that I or
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we wouldn't see this in the in a body of
believers like sisters in Christ. But unfortunately I have seen
it just as prevalent in women of faith then with
people that aren't women of faith, that there seems to
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be a clear disconnect between us being able to walk
arm in arm even when we don't agree, even when
we don't.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Have those levels of conversations.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I'm gonna tell you, if you run the back and
really think about every single time when people talk about
you're the Jonathan to my David.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And I love that. I love that we have that example.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I love that we have that biblical example in the
Bible of what it looks like for someone to humble themselves,
serve their friends, support their friend, and even lay down
their life for their friend.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I love that we have that example.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I think that it's very interesting that we don't see
a lot of those examples for women in the Bible,
and especially women right now. And if I really summed
it up, okay, in a bigger scheme, and we can
talk about comparison, we can talk about competition, we can
throw out all these things. But when I really thought
about it, I was like, I just don't think we
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know how to rebuke. Well, I don't think that we
know how to test spirits gracefully.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, let's because people love to use that line.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, my Bible tells me to test all spirits, and
that is a fact. But the Bible never tells you
to test something without grace. The Bible never tells you
to test something without the Holy Spirit inside of you navigating.
It says that we're supposed to walk in step with
His spirit.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
So that means that.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
If you're not testing spirits graciously, then that's not even
the spirit of God moving out of you. And I
think that we haven't had enough conversations, we haven't had
enough equipping as disciples, as women, as believers to know
how to do it properly. And that's why we've seen
so many fractured relationships. That's how we've seen so many,
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so many layers of discord dissension. Like we've seen so
many different pop up groups of different communities here and
different communities there. Not trust in that group, not like
in that group. That person don't trust that. It's insane,
It makes no sense, it makes no sense. And when
I really just kind of like step back and really
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just ask the Lord, I realize that part of it
is is that sometimes we just don't want to challenge,
We don't feel equipped enough to correct our sister in Christ.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Sometimes we can idolize.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
That person so much here we go, we can idolize
the person so much that the idol that we've created
in regards to that friendship, in regards to that community,
we don't even feel comfortable enough to bring a word
of correction to the group, out of fear of being ostracized,
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out of fear of being looked at different. And I'm
gonna tell you something, if that is a thought in
your mind, if that is a feeling that you have
when you feel something stirring up, and you know, like
the Holy Spirit is telling you, like, hey, that's not me,
that's not of me, this isn't this isn't what I
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desire for my daughters. And you don't challenge it, then
you've now come in agreement with it. And I think
that we've seen a lot of communities, a lot of circles,
and dare I just call it clicks? And I say
this because I've been in some, I've created some like
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I have done those things. And if you have met
me anywhere in the last probably five to seven years,
I may even go back a decade if you want
to know something, I tell people like straight up, like,
I don't do clicks. I don't like them. I don't
do them. I listen. If your attraction to being my
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friend is in relation to my season of life I'm in.
I've lived enough life to know that seasons change, and
if that that is the foundation of any friendship, then
that means that that friendship is temporal, and that means
that this friendship is fickle. And I just can't trust
that you have the heart of the Lord in regards
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to me. So I don't align myself and clicks I'm
also very honest that I was a part of a
sorority when I was in college, and it was something
that I knew the Lord was telling me not to
be in, and yet I did it anyway and convinced
myself that it was for the greater good. I don't
know what the greater good was, but it definitely wasn't
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the goodness of God. And I told myself that I
would never ever put myself back in a situation where
I chose to be a part of a group more
than just being still and standing on the foundation of
His truth. And that is something that has just stayed
with me for a very long time. And now being
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years later down the road, you know, over a decad
kate later, I'm able to see how just because you
weren't in a sorority or you didn't pledge your allegiance
at that time during college, does not make you immune
from pledging your allegiance to a community in a.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Group right now.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
And certain things happen when you do stuff like that.
And number one, you shouldn't be pledging your allegiance to
anyone other than the Lord, that is who we are
connected to for the rest of our lives like that
is our Lord and Savior. And I think soon as
we create these groups, soon as we start pledging our
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allegiance in certain capacities, in certain forms, we've already put
ourselves in something that is not.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Centered on God's word.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
And if we go back and we look at Galatians five,
and if you read that full chapter, you know it
kicks off with finding freedom and Christ. But then you know,
go down to like Galatians five, I'm gonna say verse sixteen,
I'm just gonna read this, so I say, walk by
the spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of
the flesh.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
For the flesh desires what.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Is contrary to the spirit, and the spirit what is
contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other,
so that you are not to do whatever you want.
But if you are led by the spirit, you are
not under the law. The acts of the flesh are obvious.
It's sexual immorality, impurity and bauchery, idolatry and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy,
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fits of rage. And I love these last three. We
don't talk about them a lot in church, but here
we go selfish, ambition, dissensions, factions and envy. And I'm
gonna tell you, as I was reading this passage, I
was like, Lord, why don't we talk enough about factions
and dissensions and selfish ambition. So that's where I really
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started doing a little bit more digging, right, because as
we keep going down, you know, drunkenness, orgies and the like,
I warn you, as I did before, that those who
live like this will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
And then we go into the verse that everybody really
knows a lot, which is verse twenty two. But the
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fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, for Baran's kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
and self control. Against such things, there is no law.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus. Jesus have crucified the
flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by
the spirit, let us keep in step with the spirit.
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Let us not become conceited provoking and envying each other. Guys,
this passage is so good that we love to talk about.
In the Bible tells us you will know them by
their fruit, and we know what the fruit of the
spirit is. But then sometimes we aren't able to identify
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and rebuke when we see the flesh what is contrary
to the spirit. So when you hear the passage of
Scripture that we do not fight against flesh and blood,
but against you know, principalities and darkness like those things
and spirits. Right, sometimes we forget and we can get
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confused like flesh and blood. Like, I'm not fighting against you, sis,
but I am fighting against the spirit that is in
contrary to the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
And I think that we need to.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Start just calling that out and we have to do
it in love. So one of the things before I
go into like the last point, I went over and
I looked up the definition which hey, of fact now,
and I also looked up the definition of dissension. And
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I want you guys to you can go back. You
don't have to take my word for it. You can
just go and look it up yourself so that you know.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
So when I looked up what a faction is, it
is a small organized group within a larger one, especially
which is funny in politics.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I think that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
And then the synonyms, okay that are similar are click, caucus,
pressure group, fringe, movement, division, branch, lobby, and minority group.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
This is wild to me. I literally sat processing this.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
For hours, talking to the Lord like, oh, my goodness,
how have I How have I completely not done my
research in due diligence on what.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Are acts of the flesh.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And sometimes we can get so excited about creating our
own groups, our own communities, our own cliques, and we
will love to say that we're doing it in the
name of Jesus. But can I just tell you the
Bible tells us that that is an act of the flesh.
That the Lord does not desire anything devices divisive. He
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does not desire things that bring discord, and he does
not desire any things that create dissension. And maybe I
have heard this that people say, well, you know, the
Lord is separating the wheat from the cheft. Yeah, the
Lord is, We're not. That's not our job. He told
us what our job is. Our job is to love
Him with all of our heart, all of our mind,
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and all of our soul, and to love our neighbors
as ourselves.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Oh, that's our job.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And then he tells us that when we when we
accept Christ, then our own desires and ways they die.
We no longer can say, well, that's my preference. That's
what I desire. I desire to have my own group.
I desire to have my own clique. I desire to
(27:27):
have these kind of friends that go through these seasons
with me in this. Can I just tell you something.
I think that support is great. I think that encouraging
each other is great. I think that when Mary showed
up to see Elizabeth and stay there for three days,
(27:49):
can I just tell you something, and she started speaking
and that baby started leaping in Elizabeth's belly, I thought
that that was some things so powerful that occurred between
them two.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
To the extent where Mary stayed.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
It says in the Bible that Mary stayed there for
a couple of days, and then after she left, she
did not stay there for the baby to become a toddler.
She did not stay there so that they could have
play dates with her kids. That was not the assignment.
And sometimes we desire, we desire community so bad. And
(28:28):
I have just really just given that to the Lord
because I just said, listen, I don't want us to make.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Idols.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I don't want myself to make an idol out of
this season and stage of my life becoming a mom.
The same way I didn't want it to be that
when I became a wife. I understand there are differences,
there are things that change, but that doesn't mean that
the signment and his word changes.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
His word is the same.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
And I just think that as we grow in this season,
in this year, we have to truly know God's work
for ourselves or we will start taking on customs, traditions,
cultures and just putting on all these layers of things
that are not living by His spirit. We have to repent,
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we have to read our word, and we have to
allow the Lord to heal the parts of us that
desire anything else outside of his will.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And that is where I have been the last.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Three months, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm just praying as
we just go through this season and we really just
start unpacking these types of topics and these types of questions,
I'm just really challenging, you know, us as believers, as
the body to really seek the Lord and really ask
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him his heart behind things. And can I say, not
just not just asking him his heart behind your own thought,
but just asking his heart in general. Sometimes we can
be so quick, Lord, what do you think.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
About that person?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Let me tell you, probably the same thing he thinks
about you. That's your love, that you're chosen, that you're called.
I remember telling the Lord during this time of unpacking this,
I said, well, God, I don't know how to test
a spirit graciously because I've never seen it done graciously.
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I remember saying this to the Lord and he responded
to me and said, that's because you've looked at other
people to be the example and not my son. My
son is the model of being able to test a
spirit graciously. And can I tell you it almost took
me out because I never isn't it so wild when
(31:03):
it says sekh first the kingdom. I never even considered
Jesus as the only model. There's been so many different
people that have done it, and I personally have never
seen someone.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Just do it graciously. But the Lord is like, yes,
you have my son.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
When I sent him, he embodied grace, he embodied my glory.
And every time he encountered someone that had impure spirits,
that were possessed, or if they were just out here
speaking out of the side of their neck, goodness, Peter,
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he did not hesitate to rebuke Peter.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But then even with.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
That, even rebuking him, he still loved him the exact
same way.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
The assignment didn't change.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So my prayer for you this week, as you go
forward and you start asking the Lord like, how do
I develop here?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
How do I grow here?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Is that he just show you his heart and allows
you to see how he modeled grace through his son Jesus,
and that he is the model, not your mama or
your aunt or your sister. That you feel like is
(32:35):
so bold and can test a spirit so quick. And
let me tell you there's a difference between a read
and a rebuke. Our goal is not to embarrass our
brothers and sisters in Christ. Our goal is not to
make them feel less than. Our goal is not to
isolate them. Our goal is not that's not the goal.
(32:58):
And if that's what is happening, then that is not
a rebuke. That is caught up in hatred and envy
and fear, and those things are not of the Lord.
So we just have to be better as we move forward.
(33:19):
And I'm praying that for myself as well. And I
truly believe that the result of this and the fruit
of this, as we seek the Lord on this, is
that we will see more unity in the body of Christ.
We would see so many relationships healed. We would see
so many men and women coming together willing to just say,
(33:40):
I apologize, I'm sorry. That was not my intention, or
even if it was my intention, Hey, that was my intention,
But you know what, my intention was not right, That
was incorrection because it allows other people to repent and
ask for forgiveness, and we don't want to take that
opportunity away from anyone else. So that is my prayer
(34:01):
that Lord, as we just move forward in this week,
that you would just show us the air of our ways, Lord,
which just give us eyes to see how your son
saw us, how you see us. Give us eyes to
see our brothers and sisters, and our children, and our
husbands and our spouses, like, give us eyes to see
(34:24):
them how.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
You see them.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Lord, Remove any scales that may be on our eyes.
Remove any areas of insecurity, because we know that your
sovereignty is greater than insecurity.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
That we will have.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That your grace and your love covers a multitude of
since that's what the Bible says, that love covers a
multitude of Since why would you say that if you
did not believe that your love covers it all. So Lord,
allow us to walk as graciously as your son did.
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Allow us to have a heart for your people, as
you have called and commanded us to, Father God, and
just remove any areas that will create dissension, remove any
areas of discord, remove any envy and selfish ambition, remove
any of that covetous that could be in our hearts
towards our brothers and our sister's Lord, and heal that.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Father God.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I pray that there will be unity and families, that
there will be unity and friends, that there will be
reconciliation that people have never seen before in their relationships
in twenty twenty five, Father God, and I thank you
right now for doing it. I thank you right now
for the healing power of Jesus. Thank you Lord and
Jesus naying we pray.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Well, guys, and we're back, all right, So episode one,
Welcome to that season. Welcome to the latest season of
the k WOTS podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I'm just so excited just to continue having these shots
and conversations with you. I'm just so excited to just
continue to be as vulnerable as I can be on
this podcast about the questions.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
And I'm truly asking God and that we.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
May continue to talk about it and I would love
to hear from you, so definitely. If you're not already
head over to Instagram. You can follow me at imk
watts or k wots podcast. You could also connect with
me on TikTok because ooh, the TikTok is still up,
so you can find me at imkwats on TikTok as well.
Don't forget to hit that subscribe button. I am so excited.
You do not want to miss next week's episode. It
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is going to be a good one. Until next time,
be blessed.
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