July 11, 2024 • 51 mins
Lord how do I pray for them? Featuring Kashawn Watson
In this episode of "The Kay Wats Podcast", Kay shares her takeaways from spring break and her time at Say Grace & Company. She shares how to embrace stewarding the simple and the small and offers insight on how to pray for areas in our lives that seem hindered.
In this episode of "The Kay Wats Podcast", Kay shares her takeaways from spring break and her time at Say Grace & Company. She shares how to embrace stewarding the simple and the small and offers insight on how to pray for areas in our lives that seem hindered.
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Hey guys, Welcome to the kWatts Podcast. I'm your host Kashawn Watson,
but you know me as Kawatts andI'm super excited that you decided to
join me today. This is thepodcast where we chat about the questions we
ask God, we share testimonials abouthealing, wholeness, and forgiveness. It
doesn't matter what season of life youmay be in or the journey you may
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be currently walking through. I knowthat this podcast will bless you. At
the end of the episode, ifyou feel like that this has done exactly
what I said, definitely hit thatlike button, comment share, don't forget
to subscribe again. Welcome to theKWATS Podcast. Hey guys, we welcome
back to an all new episode ofthe KOs podcast. I'm your host Kashawn
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Watson, but you know me asKawats and I'm super excited y'all because this
is the place where we chat aboutthe questions we ask God and the conversations
we have all about it right here. Well, guys, spring break has
coming gone and we are back thissummer and all I can think is is
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it just me? Or how didwe get halfway through twenty twenty four?
Like we are literally halfway through theyear, and I have absolutely no idea,
no idea, but we're here andI'm grateful. And it's been a
couple of months since I have recordedan episode and I feel so refreshed,
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so focused, so renewed, andI want to catch you guys up on
all the things that have been goingon over the last three months. So
if you've been following along on thesocial media outlets on the journey socially,
if you haven't, it's totally fine, but you should go and follow at
IMK Watts for my personal and atkots Podcast for the podcast Instagram. But
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okay, so your girl. Ijust finished out with say Grayson Coe And
for those of you that don't know, that is a company that I actually
founded and created back in twenty twentyone. It was during the pandemic and
basically we gather faith based content creatorsand influencers yearly and we come together and
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we edify one another, we testify, we sharpen, we all the things
right. And we just wrapped upthis year's that was done in Nashville,
Tennessee, and I just want tosay wowsers, Okay, all of the
wowsers happened. And there's a coupleof things that I learned in preparing for
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this year's pop, like this year'sevent, right, And I want to
kind of like just run them downbecause I think, like myself, there
are a lot of people either alaunching new things, preparing for the new
thing, processing the new thing.And I say the new thing because what
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I've learned is that new things canlook different in people's lives. So while
mine could have been an event oran organization or gathering, maybe yours is
a new job, new position.Maybe it's you redefining your platform. Maybe
it's you actually inviting a new relationshipinto your life. But it's new.
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And when you have this new thingthat God is giving you, there's just
this level of stewardship, right,There's this level of responsibility that you feel.
And that's what I felt in leadingup to this. I really felt
a responsibility to stewart not just theevent, but stewarting the seed of what
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say Grayson co is. And whenI really got down to the root,
no puns here, you know,seed, root, harvest, but go
with me, follow here. WhenI really got down to the root of
the thing, the root of say, Grayson Coe is all about encouraging women
and their daily witness and their relationshipwith the Lord. And I just love
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that. I love that there isso many different ways that God will show
you and use you to encourage youas you witness to others what your daily
life looks like with Him. It'spowerful. And I just really felt that
there was just this sensitivity around whatthis year was going to be, but
also just an intentionality around the womenthat were coming in the room. And
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it exceeded my expectation, which isa god thing, because you know a
lot of times you can put pressureon yourself in the new thing and something
that you're over and stewarding, andyou could be like, oh, well,
this didn't go how I thought itwas going to go, and then
there was this last minute thing thatchanged and all of the things. But
when I sat back and I justreally replayed the weekend, when I sat
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back and really replayed what happened andin the rooms that these women gathered in,
I was just in awe of God. I was in awe of his
intentionality. I was in awe ofthe prayers that not only I was having,
but these women have been having fora while and to get in this
room and then say like, wow, this was actually an answer prayer that
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I had. It just really reallyencouraged me in the importance of stewarting the
sea that God gives us and neverdiscounting a season of watering when you don't
see any sprouts popping up. Itreally encouraged me when other people may not
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even understand, like what are youactually doing? What seed did you actually
plant in the ground. Maybe theydidn't see the seat that God placed in
your hand, but you know whatHe gave you. They just see you
out there watering the thing. Okay, there's this level of them just seeing
you every single day, walk outthere with your little watering potlight. Here
we go, and sometimes you canfeel as though, like, is this
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watering season in vain? But letme tell you, it's never in vain.
God doesn't waste anything, and he'sseen the seeds you've sown in secret.
He's seen the seeds you sowed inseasons that others didn't understand, or
when you just didn't feel like youhave the capacity to show up and you
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didn't feel like you had enough.He saw those seeds, and that's what
I was reminded of. So whileI was on a break from podcasting,
I was walking out just watching Godshow me the fruit from the seeds that
I sowed in secret. And I'mpraying and hoping that encourages somebody because it
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definitely encouraged me. Okay, soI also happened, of course, first
do my due diligence to follow alongwith my community and all the things that
they had coming on. And Ijust want to say, guys, you
are man seeing this mature twenty twentyfour walk down in your lives is also
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blessing me because I know that wehave really been telling ourselves like we are
going to mature in twenty twenty four, and what I've been seeing in the
last six months is just this levelof deepening our relationships with the Lord and
what that looks like. And Ijust want to unpack a little bit of
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what I've been seeing, what I'vewitnessed, and that's kind of like the
thing for this episode. So oneof the things that I think I've really
been taking note of is that therehas been a sensitivity around what we come
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in agreement with and exposing anything thatwe've come in agreement with in our past
that we just haven't really just laidat the feet of the Father. And
I've seen a lot of people justreally just verbally coming out and saying,
hey, I pledge my allegiance tosomething. Rather it was an organization or
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a relationship or a thought or anidea, something that was not pleasing and
honoring to the Lord. And Ineed to confess, you know that I
did this, and then I alsoneed to repent for it, and I
also need to now witness to hisgoodness on another level. That is something
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I've seen across the board over thelast six months. There has been just
an overflow of confession and repentance.And your girl is here for it.
Your girl is here for it.And I'm going to tell you why Because
when I really look at the thenuts and bolts of like what being a
disciple looks like, like what separatesright, what separates us from the rest
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of the world. And when Ireally look at the nuts and bolts of
a disciple, the two things thatreally stand out to me that separate us
is repentance and forgiveness. Repentance andforgiveness, those are the two things that
really stand out to me that reallyseparate us from the rest of the world.
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Like it's the accountability, but it'salso the surrendering and submitting that even
though I'm taking accountability, I'm noteven supposed to carry the weight of this
thing. This is the whole reasonwhy Jesus came and so that I didn't
have to carry the weight like hebore the weight on my behalf. And
what I'm doing is acknowledging that Ihave come an agreement with something that literally
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goes against what my father has toldme to do. Okay, and now
I am asking him to forgive me, and I am surrendering the thing and
I'm confessing it to me. That'swhat separates us. That's what that separates
a disciple from from just being Hey, I'm a daughter. Right there,
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there is a level of when youpick up your cross and you walk that
that requires the movement that that's anaction word, right, Disciples had to
follow Jesus. Like, let thatmarinate for a second. As a daughter
of a king, I can literallyjust sit and receive the fact that hey,
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I'm a daughter, But as adisciple, disciples have to go and
follow Jesus. Disciple is an actionword. It requires you to leave everything
that you've known. It requires youto, like in the blink of an
eye, when when Jesus says,follow me, come, you're not even
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taken second to look around and beinglike, but wait a minute, there's
this, and then there's this,and then there's this. Uh uh,
there's none of that. There iscome, follow me. Disciple is an
action word. Daughter is an inheritancethat we received because of what Jesus did
on the cross. So I nowrecognize that being a daughter that's just by
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the grace of God, by thegrace period. Being a disciple requires my
action, It requires obedience. Sothat is what I've been seeing is a
lot of sons and daughters recognizing thatI truly in order for me to truly
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be a disciple, I must move, I must follow, I must leave
behind my old ways. I mustcling to what my Lord and Savior says.
That's that's the difference. And nowseeing that and knowing that, that
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just gets me excited because I seethe body of Christ matrn in a different
way. I see us making movesto follow Jesus in a different kind of
way. The things that we've helpeddear, the things that have seen so
important to us, the things thatwe have found, identity and community,
and like all of those things.When the nuts and bolts get down to
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it, when the Lord says,come follow me, He's not asking you
to check in with your community.He's not asking you to check in with
your friends. He's not asking youto really sit back and no, no,
no, no no. This isbetween you and the Father. This
is between you and your Lord's Savior. And what I've been seeing is a
lot of sons and daughters saying betweenme and the Lord, like, nothing
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is gonna get in the way ofthat. Not a friend group, not
a job, not a platform,not a position. There's nothing getting away
of that. And that has beenlike wow, So y'all, I am
praying for us. I am prayingin agreement with that, and I'm excited
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just to see like because of becauseof that obedience, because of us being
willing to say anything that even thinksto stand in the way of me following
the Lord fully with my whole heart, leaving everything behind. I will not
and cannot let it stand. Ifyou guys have been following me, then
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you know that at the beginning ofthe year, I said one of the
things that I wanted to do wasto read the Bible from cover to cover,
because I never did that, andI have been doing that. I
am still an Old Testament because letme tell you, your girl, I
sometimes I okay, so I'm justgonna be real transparent. Sometimes I have
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to go back and reread because I'mlike, no, that can't that,
that can't be what I just read. So I'm like going back to reread
it. And then I sit therefor a second quiet with the Lord.
And then sometimes depending on what partI'm reading, I gotta take a I
gotta take a moment. I gottatake a moment because it's like you said,
what with who with when. Oneof the common themes that I kept
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finding when I was reading the OldTestament is that every single like new king
or generation that was happening with theisrael lites is that in the in the
scripture, it made it a pointto say, but then they kept the
high places, and I kept takingnote. I kept taking note off of
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how many kings had stepped in tolead, how many times the Israelites cried
out, And then I really keptnote on the fact that the scripture would
then say and when they would teardown certain things, right, but they
would keep what was in the highplaces. And that just sat with me
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in a way, if I'm gonnabe honest, because I think about well,
I asked the question why why didthey keep the high places? Then
I asked the question too, didthey ever think that maybe not tearing down
what was in the high places actuallyplayed a role in them seeing oppression for
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as long as they did? Three? Is it that they thought that,
Well, I tore down all ofthese things. And I cried out to
the Lord, and he answered,I don't need to completely tear down everything
the high place. Maybe they don'tmatter as much because the Lord is still
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willing to hear our cry and stillwilling to give us another king. And
still, you know, and Idon't know. It really just had me
examine, like, is is thereany area in my life or in my
family to where I can tear downall the other things? Right? Sometimes
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you know this is in no shadebecause because I've done this, and a
lot of us do this to wherethe first thing that we tweak in our
lives when we really feel like,hey, I want to really get closer
to the Lord. Sometimes the firstthings that we tweak in our lives is
our daily habits, like our morningroutines. That's a better way to put
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it, our morning routine. Sowe then start creating a habit of what
time we're gonna wake up, whatworships that we're going to put on throughout
the day. We're going to makeour bed, We're going to go for
a run or do a quick workout. We're going to sit in our corner.
We're going to read our scripture.We're going to make our smoothie.
We're going to fill up our waterbottle. We're going to do all of
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these things. We start creating ahabit of these things, and then we
start seeing that we've seen results fromthis routine that we put into place.
But then all and yet, we'llkeep all the other things. We'll keep
all the other things that in ourlives that could potentially be areas of disobedience
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or rebellion, other forms of idolatry, other areas that we just aren't touching.
And we think because we've seen someform of fruit or transition in our
morning routine changes that that means,oh well, may I may not need
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to even touch that like that maynot even be a factor, like as
long as I keep this, youknow, five am, you know,
workout in place like I am honoringmy body. You know, that's a
temple. And I was just Ijust kind of sat with that and have
been sitting with that for a whilebecause that form of oppression elasted so long
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with the Israelites. But then alsothe blatant yet hidden disobedience was there for
so long. And I say blatantbecause the command of the Lord was very
clear, like do not worship anygod other than me, right like period,
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like do not do it. Sothat was a blatant command, which
means if you did that, thenthat was like a blatant violation on the
command. Like that was disobedience,that was rebellion. And yet because what
was happening at eye level in theirday to day was very much like no,
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no, no, no, no, like this is what we're doing.
We see our moonnial routine, yousee how but it was the high
places that were not removed. Sothat just made me really sit and think,
and it really made me sit andkind of like pray, you know,
for us as a nation as thebody of Christ, like where we
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are and Yeah, I've been askingGod why did they keep them? Why
did they keep the high places?So that's one question that I've been pondering
to where I'm really probably going topass it over to you guys to join
in on the chat somewhere on Instagramand on threads. So definitely if you're
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not you should head because I'm prettysure that I've posted it today and I
would love for you guys to joinin on this conversation or even just respond
directly on the podcast episode. Theother thing, other question that was really
liked, came up a lot,and I wrote it down and I also
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talked a lot about it during theSay Grace event but also with friends,
and it's just kind of like beensitting with me, is this thought about
witnessing and our weakness. Now Iwant to be honest with you, like
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when things like this come to mymind, like I know that this is
like Holy Spirit led, Like thisis a conversation or a question that the
Lord himself is proposing to me becausehe wants me really to seek him on
this, Like there is a levelof this is not about me, This
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isn't even directly just for me,Like this is a bigger thought, and
this thought did not come for me, but there was something that was really
on being a witness in our weakness, and it was something that I've been
sitting with for a couple of monthsand I've been praying on this, and
I had a friend bring it tome maybe a couple of months ago,
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that the Lord was really I'm bringingit to her mind. And when she
said it, I was like,oh, yeah, like that that's pretty
powerful, but not really thinking toomuch in it, Like I didn't really
feel like it was relevant to mein this season I was in or that
it was relevant to say grace orany level of connection that I had going
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into it. And I think that'sfunny. Sometimes we can be quick to
dismiss what someone else is bringing tous because we just naturally like have this
thought like, oh, well,that makes sense for you, but I
don't really think that that word isfor me, and maybe it's not for
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you in that season. But I'mvery mindful and dismissing something when my sister
in Christ says, the Lord ishighlighted this in my life. I don't
think every time when someone says thatthat that means that we need to then
go into a oh really, like, let me ask the Lord is it
for me too? But I dothink that there is something when we share
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what the Lord has been highlighting orsaying, or maybe there's a scripture or
a passage, so to fast forward, there was something on weakness and witness.
And if I'm honest, it isvery very hard for me to testify
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about healing, wholeness, forgiveness forlike all of the things, it's very
hard for me to testify to thegoodness of God when I feel as though
I am not qualified because I amstruggling just to praise Him and accept his
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goodness for myself. And I wasreminded about two things happen when we witness
in our weakness. There are twothings that we get to experience when we
witness in our weakness, and thatis His power and that is His glory.
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These are two things that we cannottake credit for. And to be
honest, when we sometimes are walkingand witnessing and we're and we're talking about
our story and the thing that Godhas done, and if I'm honest,
sometimes we can flex a little bitlike, oh, my goodness, because
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I worked so hard, because Iprayed so much because I did all these
things. But the truth is thewitness hits different in our weakness. We
can't get credit when we are standingthere and the only thing that can show
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is His power in his glory.And I was reminded, I was reminded
over these last couple of months thatnot only is there nothing wrong, nothing
wrong at all about Witnes and isseen in our weakness. We love to
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quote the scripture that when we areweak, he is strong. We love
to quote the scripture, the scriptureright, But sometimes we don't love to
then go out and then be awitness in our weakness. There is something
so powerful that happens when we canshow up literally having nothing but His goodness,
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his glory and his power that iswith us and only by his grace.
Well we have it. Something happenswhen we are will and the other
thing it takes humility, oh child, it takes humility to stand there when
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we are weak. And when Isay when we are weak, when we
are in waiting, maybe that's abetter word for you. Well, I
don't really feel weak. Are youin wait? Are you weary? Are
you worrying? Are you doubting?That is, when you're that is when
your soul feels weak. Are areyou mourning? Are you grieving? Like
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all of these count as weakness.So something happens when we sit there and
we can talk about the joy ofthe Lord in the midst of our grieving.
Something happens when we can sit there, in the middle of our waiting
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season and still stand on his promiseand desire his presence more than anything else.
Something happens when we witness in ourweakness, and I am confident more
than anything, confident that grace isn'tjust something that we say. It isn't
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this little simple act that we dobefore we eat. It isn't just this
tradition that we learned from our parentsbefore we sit down for a meal.
Grace isn't just something that we say. It's something that He showed us and
continues to show us that we maybe an example to show others that His
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grace is sufficient. And when webelieve in the sufficiency of His grace and
the sovereignty of our Lord, itbecomes easier to stuart seasons of weariness.
It becomes easier to Stuart's seasons aredoubting. It becomes easier to testify to
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his goodness when we are grieving,when we believe in the sufficiency of His
grace. So maybe you have askedyourself, maybe you have sat and wondered,
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am I too weak to testify?Lord? Am I too Am I
too insecure to share the Gospel?The answer is no, because His sovereignty
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is bigger than any insecurity that youmay be feeling in that moment. And
I trust that the Lord goes beforeme and behind me. So even in
my security, his sovereignty is bigger. And because of that, I am
able to witness in my weakness.Because of that, I am able to
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testify to His goodness when I amgrieving. Because of that, I am
able to say, you know what, I will not be the person that
in the middle of the storm,all the way through, I am doubting,
or I have little faith. Andif that is my testimony, he
still reached out his hand and grabbedme, because that's just how good he
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is. That is the answer thatI have received, that No, you
are never too weak to witness.Never, never, And that has been
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one of the areas that I havematured in so much, because there has
been times and seasons where I havejust been too embarrassed. I felt useless,
I felt fruitless, and because ofthat, it has kept me quiet.
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Because of that, it has mademe want to stay home instead of
show up because of answering the Becauseof that, I chose not to answer
the phone, but ignore the call. Because you know, when you answer
and someone asked the question how areyou, you can either a give a
fluff answer or you can be lookat it as a time to be like,
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you know what, it's a hardseason. But the Lord Jesus is
my help. And I'm not sayingbeing over religious about it, Like I'm
not saying it because you've heard otherpeople saying it. I'm saying it because
you believe it with your whole heart. That He is that good in his
grace, is that sufficient, andthat he cares for you. That is
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what I mean. And I amat a place and a point in my
life to where I believe it nomatter what I see, no matter what
season that I am, that iswhat I believe. That's where we're at
here, y'all, That's where weat. That's where we've been. So
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now as we kind of like moveforward in the second half of twenty twenty
four, and we're asking the Lordto do what he gonna do, because
that's that's the other thing too.It's kind of like, well, I'm
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praying for healing, I'm praying forexpansion in my finances, I'm praying for
clarity, I'm paying, I'm prayingfor confidence, I'm praying for community.
I'm praying for all these things.You know. Recently, one of the
questions of the topics that came upthe summer was how so many of us
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struggle with having poverty mindset when itcomes to being okay with receiving a financial
increase. And I always think it'sinteresting when we have, you know,
teachers and minister of the Gospel thatfeel very uncomfortable with seeing any type of
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monetary gain, or they feel veryuncomfortable with asking for anything financial, like
they feel as though that it isnot of the Lord to to have things.
And I found myself like really wantingto intercede on behalf of us,
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those that are really feeling called andto in this season with the assignment of
stewarding something small, but then alsoour believing for a financial return and feeling
uncomfortable about charging, being uncomfortable aboutsetting prices being uncomfortable about selling products,
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you know, just anything that comesin relation to money. I really felt
like I was supposed to pray forthat, so I asked the Lord.
I started bringing my petitions to theLord, right, And I think this
is good, I think for peoplethat have been asking, like, you
know, if I don't have theanswer, but I really feel like I
need to pray for my brother andsister in Christ. What can I do?
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Well, it's very very easy.The Bible says to bring your petitions
in requests to the Lord, andsometimes your petition in request can be something
as simple as, Lord, howdo I pray for them? Because I
never want to assume that I know, I never want to pray my own
will, So even how I praynow, I when I am unsure on
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what the prayer is, I'm askingthe Lord to show me how to do
it because I never want to assumelike, yeah, like I know how
to m hm, sure I gotthis, Like let me just pray for
this. Maybe maybe I then assumethat I know the words that I should
say. Well, I don't wantto assume that, especially when I'm truly
bringing a petition in request to theLord. On behalf of someone else.
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I want to intercede in a waythat the Lord not only feels pleasing,
but that he's going to respond becausehe's like my daughter. My daughter sought
me first. But for even senningthe request, that's how intentional and how
serious I am about the Lord.I want only your response on this,
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Like I don't want my way onthis. I don't I need you to
do it. So I asked him, like, Lord, how do you
want me to pray? How doyou want us to pray when it comes
to our finances? And the Lordjust gave me something so simple, but
it's something that I think that weforget as believers, that we just kind
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of like overlook sometimes. And hesaid, you pray to have a mind
like Christ, because there's nothing scarceabout Jesus. If you want to know
how you pray for finances or evenany any way that you need to change
your perspective on something and you areunsure on what that is. Well,
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we're supposed to be like Christ.You're supposed to live like Christ. Like
the goal is to live like Christ, which means that we our goal is
to think like Christ, which meansthat we should be praying to have a
mind like Christ and all of thethings. Sometimes we can just do that
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when it comes to singles, prayingfor a spouse, sometimes we can just
do that. When it comes towives, praying for a child. Sometimes
we can do that when it comesto you know what, I'm having a
really really tough time, and familyor whatever, and finances. It covers
everything. The sovereignty of the Lord. He is sovereignty. It covers everything,
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like all of the things. SoI've been praying that we have a
mind like Christ when it comes tofinances. And I'm now even entering into
the aspect of family, future family, current family, how we view ourselves,
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our bodies, our businesses, ourassignments. Lord, give me a
mind like your son. I wantto see this how you see this.
I want to see them how yousee them. So I want you to
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renew my mind in a way toimpart your wisdom in this area, so
that I may make the best decisions, the decisions that you see fit to
live life the way you intended meto. That's the prayer, ladies and
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gentlemen, that is the prayer.Lord, give me a mind like Christ.
And I truly believe that when wego before the Lord anytime and we
ask him to make us more likeChrist, it really gives us revelation because
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he made us in the image ofChrist. So part of me feels like
the Lord is kind of like,yeah, already did that. You just
need to believe that, and youcan find it in my word. You
just gotta crack open the words sothat you can see it. You just
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need to be in step with theHoly Spirit. I ordered your steps.
That's where we are, and themature twenty twenty four. That's where we
are as we witness in our weakness. That's where we are when we are
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having a tough time accepting the financialbenefits of our businesses. That's where we
are when it comes to seeking Himfirst. These are the questions I've been
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having. These are the conversations I'vebeen having with the Lord and with others.
This is kind of like where I'vebeen, and I'm truly looking forward
just to conntinue to bring these conversationsto this platform. But more importantly,
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I'm really believing that the conversations thatI'm having with the Lord very possibly could
be similar conversations that you're having withthe Lord and This is how we're able
to really just be like, wow, Sis, I've literally been asking the
Lord the same thing, or well, this is a revelation that I've received
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on it, and I'm excited tohear back from you. I'm excited to
hear what the Lord has been sharingwith you, because now more than ever,
there is something very powerful about ussharing and testifying to what God is
saying and what he's doing. Itcan radically, radically encourage your brother and
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sister in Christ. I never dismissor doubt the impact of what your vulnerability
and your transparency can do with yourneighbor. I was sharing a store about
feeling like super and it was itwas very vulnerable, but it was random.
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Have you ever had those? Haveyou ever had like random conversations with
people and you don't even remember whatyou're saying, why you're saying it,
to the extent sometimes like as I'mspeaking, I'm like, why am I
sharing this? Like this doesn't makeany sense? Well, I had those
moments multiple times, and it reallywas around the mindset of getting merry older
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and the lies that the enemy triedto whisper and when I'm sharing this,
this wasn't like that there was likea situation or a conversation that had already
started, and I was responding.I just really just started talking about like
where I was when I met myhusband, what I was struggling with with,
you know, not feeling as thoughthe lie the enemy it gave me
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is that it's not going to bea celebratory because you didn't get married ten
years prior, like all of thethings. And I'm sharing this not understanding
why I was sharing it, butyou want to know what it was because
the enemy was whispering those same liesto other women that were in the room.
So while I felt like this don'tmake no sense, like I there's
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no reason for me to be havingthis conversation. I just sometimes you just
have to trust that in your vulnerabilityand the transparency of what you know,
the lies that enemy tried to whisperto you. Like sometimes we think that
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it is it's just been us,never never, the serpent has been trying
that same tactic since even Eden.Let's be honest, he ain't. He's
been doing the same thing, okay, but proposing lies try to put doubt,
making us feel as though that Godhas forgotten us, that God is
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withholding from us all of the thingslike he's been doing the same tactic and
repeatedly has done this tactic. Solet me just tell you, you're not
the only one that is experiencing thatlie. And that's the reason why we
have to expose the lie. Thisis the reason why we have to take
those thoughts captive. You have toquickly be like, uh uh not today,
that ain't true, and then youhave to very quickly speak truth and
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then don't be embarrassed that the enemytried to plan a lie. That's what
he does to everybody. That's hisjob is to try to plant lies.
And want to know what our jobis is to tell the truth. Okay,
it's to tell the truth. Andwe're gonna tell it all. Twenty
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twenty four. This is where weare. We're gonna tell it. We're
gonna tell the truth to ourselves.We're gonna tell the truth to our loved
ones. We're gonna tell the truthto our friends. We're gonna tell the
truth to strangers. We're gonna tellthe truth to neighbors. We're gonna tell
the truth to those that claim tobe our enemies. Do you understand we're
gonna tell the truth because we knowthat the truth sets them and us free.
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Okay, we also know that's howwe get to worship the Lord.
The Bible says to worship him inspirit and in truth. That is the
way that you worship the Lord.So that means that any time that I
get to witness to someone, Iget to tell the truth to them.
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It is my way to worship theLord. So why would I not do
it more? Not just a littleone off occurrence. No, I'm talking
about every single random encounter to wherethere's an opportunity to where the li Lord
says speak, I'm gonna speak,he says, stay, I'm gonna stay.
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I did this exercise at Say Graceand it was so funny because I
thought I already knew the response.I basically proposed a question to the room,
what has been the hardest instruction orresponse that you ever got from the
Lord? And the options were wait, forgive, go no. These were
the four wait forgive, go no. And when I opposed this question on
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social media, the most common responsewas wait, and I was like,
mmm, I could totally see thatbecause I said that was the hardest one.
I had was like, wait,waiting on the Lord for me has
been the hardest instruction and response Ihave ever received, because going I like
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to go no. At least I'mgetting a straight up response like I'm not.
I'm not wondering what the answer.He just said no, So the
answer is no, Okay, forgive. I think now in this season is
not as tough for me because nowI recognize, like it's probably one of
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the most tangible evidences that I'm gonnahave as a disciple is being able to
quickly forgive somebody we love to talkabout. I want to be spiritually mature.
In my opinion, the most spirituallymature act that you can do is
to forgive somebody quick m hm.When we want to talk about well so
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and so. It's most spiritually maturedme. Okay for me, That's where
I'm at. You can you canforgive quickly. There we go, fruit
fruit of your maturity, the fruitof being able to say that I've been
convicted. I've been convicted of theHoly Spirit. I can't even wait a
month, two months, like Ihave to say this now. I have
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to give now. I can't not. I can't even let this faster too
long like that part to me,that's by far. But to get back
to the question in the room,the responses all varied. Some said that
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the hardest instruction was no, somesaid it was go, some said it
was weight, and some said itwas forgived. And as all of these
different responses across the board came upin the room, I'm reminded, it's
because everybody's walking out in a differentseason of their life. So in this
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season, no could be the hardestresponse someone's gotten, and this season,
forgive could be the hardest response thatsomeone has gotten. And this season it
could be go, going somewhere,It could be the hardest response that you've
ever been in it, and toweight could be the hardest response. But
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the point of the matter was isthat everybody's in different seasons, and that's
why you just never know what seasonssomeone is in. And that's why telling
the truth and witnessing to his goodnesstrances all seasons, all seasons. He's
good in the no, he's goodin the go, he's good in the
weight, he's good in the forgiveall seasons. His goodness transcends all seasons.
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Cue the song and his graves andnever runs out and never runs out
all seasons cue the blessing from generationa generation won't know why because the seasons
could be different, But His goodnessisn't all of them, period period.
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So what I'm saying is it doesn'tmatter the season, the situation that you're
in. You can share about thegoodness of the Lord. You can share
about the hard parts of the season. It don't make you less holy because
it's hard. Forgiveness requires the Lord, it requires the Holy Spirit. When
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it's hard, it requires humility tosay, God, I want to love
them like you love them. Thatrequires humility, That requires His spirit.
We can't do that in our flesh. It's hard. It don't make you
less holy because it's hard. ButI am believing that as you continue to
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bring your petitions and your request tothe Lord, as you continue to seek
his face, as you continue toask him for his grace, I believe
that he will give it as youseek it. And I am so excited
to continue to share these conversations andthese questions with you this season. It's
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going to be a really, reallygreat season. I'm so excited for you
guys to hear more. But thenI'm also so excited for you guys to
hear the guests that I have comingup on this season, so definitely make
sure that you head over and youlike and subscribe and share if this episode
has blessed you at all, anddon't feel bad about hesitating to respond.
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Watson, but you know me asKawats and I'm super excited y'all because this
is the place where we chat aboutthe questions we ask God and the conversations
we have all about it right here. Well, guys, spring break has
coming gone and we are back thissummer and all I can think is is
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it just me? Or how didwe get halfway through twenty twenty four?
Like we are literally halfway through theyear, and I have absolutely no idea,
no idea, but we're here andI'm grateful. And it's been a
couple of months since I have recordedan episode and I feel so refreshed,
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so focused, so renewed, andI want to catch you guys up on
all the things that have been goingon over the last three months. So
if you've been following along on thesocial media outlets on the journey socially,
if you haven't, it's totally fine, but you should go and follow at
IMK Watts for my personal and atkots Podcast for the podcast Instagram. But
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okay, so your girl. Ijust finished out with say Grayson Coe And
for those of you that don't know, that is a company that I actually
founded and created back in twenty twentyone. It was during the pandemic and
basically we gather faith based content creatorsand influencers yearly and we come together and
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we edify one another, we testify, we sharpen, we all the things
right. And we just wrapped upthis year's that was done in Nashville,
Tennessee, and I just want tosay wowsers, Okay, all of the
wowsers happened. And there's a coupleof things that I learned in preparing for
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this year's pop, like this year'sevent, right, And I want to
kind of like just run them downbecause I think, like myself, there
are a lot of people either alaunching new things, preparing for the new
thing, processing the new thing.And I say the new thing because what
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I've learned is that new things canlook different in people's lives. So while
mine could have been an event oran organization or gathering, maybe yours is
a new job, new position.Maybe it's you redefining your platform. Maybe
it's you actually inviting a new relationshipinto your life. But it's new.
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And when you have this new thingthat God is giving you, there's just
this level of stewardship, right,There's this level of responsibility that you feel.
And that's what I felt in leadingup to this. I really felt
a responsibility to stewart not just theevent, but stewarting the seed of what
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say Grayson co is. And whenI really got down to the root,
no puns here, you know,seed, root, harvest, but go
with me, follow here. WhenI really got down to the root of
the thing, the root of say, Grayson Coe is all about encouraging women
and their daily witness and their relationshipwith the Lord. And I just love
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that. I love that there isso many different ways that God will show
you and use you to encourage youas you witness to others what your daily
life looks like with Him. It'spowerful. And I just really felt that
there was just this sensitivity around whatthis year was going to be, but
also just an intentionality around the womenthat were coming in the room. And
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it exceeded my expectation, which isa god thing, because you know a
lot of times you can put pressureon yourself in the new thing and something
that you're over and stewarding, andyou could be like, oh, well,
this didn't go how I thought itwas going to go, and then
there was this last minute thing thatchanged and all of the things. But
when I sat back and I justreally replayed the weekend, when I sat
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back and really replayed what happened andin the rooms that these women gathered in,
I was just in awe of God. I was in awe of his
intentionality. I was in awe ofthe prayers that not only I was having,
but these women have been having fora while and to get in this
room and then say like, wow, this was actually an answer prayer that
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I had. It just really reallyencouraged me in the importance of stewarting the
sea that God gives us and neverdiscounting a season of watering when you don't
see any sprouts popping up. Itreally encouraged me when other people may not
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even understand, like what are youactually doing? What seed did you actually
plant in the ground. Maybe theydidn't see the seat that God placed in
your hand, but you know whatHe gave you. They just see you
out there watering the thing. Okay, there's this level of them just seeing
you every single day, walk outthere with your little watering potlight. Here
we go, and sometimes you canfeel as though, like, is this
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watering season in vain? But letme tell you, it's never in vain.
God doesn't waste anything, and he'sseen the seeds you've sown in secret.
He's seen the seeds you sowed inseasons that others didn't understand, or
when you just didn't feel like youhave the capacity to show up and you
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didn't feel like you had enough.He saw those seeds, and that's what
I was reminded of. So whileI was on a break from podcasting,
I was walking out just watching Godshow me the fruit from the seeds that
I sowed in secret. And I'mpraying and hoping that encourages somebody because it
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definitely encouraged me. Okay, soI also happened, of course, first
do my due diligence to follow alongwith my community and all the things that
they had coming on. And Ijust want to say, guys, you
are man seeing this mature twenty twentyfour walk down in your lives is also
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blessing me because I know that wehave really been telling ourselves like we are
going to mature in twenty twenty four, and what I've been seeing in the
last six months is just this levelof deepening our relationships with the Lord and
what that looks like. And Ijust want to unpack a little bit of
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what I've been seeing, what I'vewitnessed, and that's kind of like the
thing for this episode. So oneof the things that I think I've really
been taking note of is that therehas been a sensitivity around what we come
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in agreement with and exposing anything thatwe've come in agreement with in our past
that we just haven't really just laidat the feet of the Father. And
I've seen a lot of people justreally just verbally coming out and saying,
hey, I pledge my allegiance tosomething. Rather it was an organization or
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a relationship or a thought or anidea, something that was not pleasing and
honoring to the Lord. And Ineed to confess, you know that I
did this, and then I alsoneed to repent for it, and I
also need to now witness to hisgoodness on another level. That is something
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I've seen across the board over thelast six months. There has been just
an overflow of confession and repentance.And your girl is here for it.
Your girl is here for it.And I'm going to tell you why Because
when I really look at the thenuts and bolts of like what being a
disciple looks like, like what separatesright, what separates us from the rest
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of the world. And when Ireally look at the nuts and bolts of
a disciple, the two things thatreally stand out to me that separate us
is repentance and forgiveness. Repentance andforgiveness, those are the two things that
really stand out to me that reallyseparate us from the rest of the world.
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Like it's the accountability, but it'salso the surrendering and submitting that even
though I'm taking accountability, I'm noteven supposed to carry the weight of this
thing. This is the whole reasonwhy Jesus came and so that I didn't
have to carry the weight like hebore the weight on my behalf. And
what I'm doing is acknowledging that Ihave come an agreement with something that literally
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goes against what my father has toldme to do. Okay, and now
I am asking him to forgive me, and I am surrendering the thing and
I'm confessing it to me. That'swhat separates us. That's what that separates
a disciple from from just being Hey, I'm a daughter. Right there,
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there is a level of when youpick up your cross and you walk that
that requires the movement that that's anaction word, right, Disciples had to
follow Jesus. Like, let thatmarinate for a second. As a daughter
of a king, I can literallyjust sit and receive the fact that hey,
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I'm a daughter, But as adisciple, disciples have to go and
follow Jesus. Disciple is an actionword. It requires you to leave everything
that you've known. It requires youto, like in the blink of an
eye, when when Jesus says,follow me, come, you're not even
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taken second to look around and beinglike, but wait a minute, there's
this, and then there's this,and then there's this. Uh uh,
there's none of that. There iscome, follow me. Disciple is an
action word. Daughter is an inheritancethat we received because of what Jesus did
on the cross. So I nowrecognize that being a daughter that's just by
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the grace of God, by thegrace period. Being a disciple requires my
action, It requires obedience. Sothat is what I've been seeing is a
lot of sons and daughters recognizing thatI truly in order for me to truly
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be a disciple, I must move, I must follow, I must leave
behind my old ways. I mustcling to what my Lord and Savior says.
That's that's the difference. And nowseeing that and knowing that, that
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just gets me excited because I seethe body of Christ matrn in a different
way. I see us making movesto follow Jesus in a different kind of
way. The things that we've helpeddear, the things that have seen so
important to us, the things thatwe have found, identity and community,
and like all of those things.When the nuts and bolts get down to
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it, when the Lord says,come follow me, He's not asking you
to check in with your community.He's not asking you to check in with
your friends. He's not asking youto really sit back and no, no,
no, no no. This isbetween you and the Father. This
is between you and your Lord's Savior. And what I've been seeing is a
lot of sons and daughters saying betweenme and the Lord, like, nothing
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is gonna get in the way ofthat. Not a friend group, not
a job, not a platform,not a position. There's nothing getting away
of that. And that has beenlike wow, So y'all, I am
praying for us. I am prayingin agreement with that, and I'm excited
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just to see like because of becauseof that obedience, because of us being
willing to say anything that even thinksto stand in the way of me following
the Lord fully with my whole heart, leaving everything behind. I will not
and cannot let it stand. Ifyou guys have been following me, then
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you know that at the beginning ofthe year, I said one of the
things that I wanted to do wasto read the Bible from cover to cover,
because I never did that, andI have been doing that. I
am still an Old Testament because letme tell you, your girl, I
sometimes I okay, so I'm justgonna be real transparent. Sometimes I have
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to go back and reread because I'mlike, no, that can't that,
that can't be what I just read. So I'm like going back to reread
it. And then I sit therefor a second quiet with the Lord.
And then sometimes depending on what partI'm reading, I gotta take a I
gotta take a moment. I gottatake a moment because it's like you said,
what with who with when. Oneof the common themes that I kept
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finding when I was reading the OldTestament is that every single like new king
or generation that was happening with theisrael lites is that in the in the
scripture, it made it a pointto say, but then they kept the
high places, and I kept takingnote. I kept taking note off of
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how many kings had stepped in tolead, how many times the Israelites cried
out, And then I really keptnote on the fact that the scripture would
then say and when they would teardown certain things, right, but they
would keep what was in the highplaces. And that just sat with me
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in a way, if I'm gonnabe honest, because I think about well,
I asked the question why why didthey keep the high places? Then
I asked the question too, didthey ever think that maybe not tearing down
what was in the high places actuallyplayed a role in them seeing oppression for
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as long as they did? Three? Is it that they thought that,
Well, I tore down all ofthese things. And I cried out to
the Lord, and he answered,I don't need to completely tear down everything
the high place. Maybe they don'tmatter as much because the Lord is still
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willing to hear our cry and stillwilling to give us another king. And
still, you know, and Idon't know. It really just had me
examine, like, is is thereany area in my life or in my
family to where I can tear downall the other things? Right? Sometimes
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you know this is in no shadebecause because I've done this, and a
lot of us do this to wherethe first thing that we tweak in our
lives when we really feel like,hey, I want to really get closer
to the Lord. Sometimes the firstthings that we tweak in our lives is
our daily habits, like our morningroutines. That's a better way to put
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it, our morning routine. Sowe then start creating a habit of what
time we're gonna wake up, whatworships that we're going to put on throughout
the day. We're going to makeour bed, We're going to go for
a run or do a quick workout. We're going to sit in our corner.
We're going to read our scripture.We're going to make our smoothie.
We're going to fill up our waterbottle. We're going to do all of
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these things. We start creating ahabit of these things, and then we
start seeing that we've seen results fromthis routine that we put into place.
But then all and yet, we'llkeep all the other things. We'll keep
all the other things that in ourlives that could potentially be areas of disobedience
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or rebellion, other forms of idolatry, other areas that we just aren't touching.
And we think because we've seen someform of fruit or transition in our
morning routine changes that that means,oh well, may I may not need
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to even touch that like that maynot even be a factor, like as
long as I keep this, youknow, five am, you know,
workout in place like I am honoringmy body. You know, that's a
temple. And I was just Ijust kind of sat with that and have
been sitting with that for a whilebecause that form of oppression elasted so long
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with the Israelites. But then alsothe blatant yet hidden disobedience was there for
so long. And I say blatantbecause the command of the Lord was very
clear, like do not worship anygod other than me, right like period,
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like do not do it. Sothat was a blatant command, which
means if you did that, thenthat was like a blatant violation on the
command. Like that was disobedience,that was rebellion. And yet because what
was happening at eye level in theirday to day was very much like no,
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no, no, no, no, like this is what we're doing.
We see our moonnial routine, yousee how but it was the high
places that were not removed. Sothat just made me really sit and think,
and it really made me sit andkind of like pray, you know,
for us as a nation as thebody of Christ, like where we
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are and Yeah, I've been askingGod why did they keep them? Why
did they keep the high places?So that's one question that I've been pondering
to where I'm really probably going topass it over to you guys to join
in on the chat somewhere on Instagramand on threads. So definitely if you're
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not you should head because I'm prettysure that I've posted it today and I
would love for you guys to joinin on this conversation or even just respond
directly on the podcast episode. Theother thing, other question that was really
liked, came up a lot,and I wrote it down and I also
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talked a lot about it during theSay Grace event but also with friends,
and it's just kind of like beensitting with me, is this thought about
witnessing and our weakness. Now Iwant to be honest with you, like
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when things like this come to mymind, like I know that this is
like Holy Spirit led, Like thisis a conversation or a question that the
Lord himself is proposing to me becausehe wants me really to seek him on
this, Like there is a levelof this is not about me, This
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isn't even directly just for me,Like this is a bigger thought, and
this thought did not come for me, but there was something that was really
on being a witness in our weakness, and it was something that I've been
sitting with for a couple of monthsand I've been praying on this, and
I had a friend bring it tome maybe a couple of months ago,
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that the Lord was really I'm bringingit to her mind. And when she
said it, I was like,oh, yeah, like that that's pretty
powerful, but not really thinking toomuch in it, Like I didn't really
feel like it was relevant to mein this season I was in or that
it was relevant to say grace orany level of connection that I had going
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into it. And I think that'sfunny. Sometimes we can be quick to
dismiss what someone else is bringing tous because we just naturally like have this
thought like, oh, well,that makes sense for you, but I
don't really think that that word isfor me, and maybe it's not for
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you in that season. But I'mvery mindful and dismissing something when my sister
in Christ says, the Lord ishighlighted this in my life. I don't
think every time when someone says thatthat that means that we need to then
go into a oh really, like, let me ask the Lord is it
for me too? But I dothink that there is something when we share
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what the Lord has been highlighting orsaying, or maybe there's a scripture or
a passage, so to fast forward, there was something on weakness and witness.
And if I'm honest, it isvery very hard for me to testify
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about healing, wholeness, forgiveness forlike all of the things, it's very
hard for me to testify to thegoodness of God when I feel as though
I am not qualified because I amstruggling just to praise Him and accept his
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goodness for myself. And I wasreminded about two things happen when we witness
in our weakness. There are twothings that we get to experience when we
witness in our weakness, and thatis His power and that is His glory.
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These are two things that we cannottake credit for. And to be
honest, when we sometimes are walkingand witnessing and we're and we're talking about
our story and the thing that Godhas done, and if I'm honest,
sometimes we can flex a little bitlike, oh, my goodness, because
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I worked so hard, because Iprayed so much because I did all these
things. But the truth is thewitness hits different in our weakness. We
can't get credit when we are standingthere and the only thing that can show
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is His power in his glory.And I was reminded, I was reminded
over these last couple of months thatnot only is there nothing wrong, nothing
wrong at all about Witnes and isseen in our weakness. We love to
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quote the scripture that when we areweak, he is strong. We love
to quote the scripture, the scriptureright, But sometimes we don't love to
then go out and then be awitness in our weakness. There is something
so powerful that happens when we canshow up literally having nothing but His goodness,
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his glory and his power that iswith us and only by his grace.
Well we have it. Something happenswhen we are will and the other
thing it takes humility, oh child, it takes humility to stand there when
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we are weak. And when Isay when we are weak, when we
are in waiting, maybe that's abetter word for you. Well, I
don't really feel weak. Are youin wait? Are you weary? Are
you worrying? Are you doubting?That is, when you're that is when
your soul feels weak. Are areyou mourning? Are you grieving? Like
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all of these count as weakness.So something happens when we sit there and
we can talk about the joy ofthe Lord in the midst of our grieving.
Something happens when we can sit there, in the middle of our waiting
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season and still stand on his promiseand desire his presence more than anything else.
Something happens when we witness in ourweakness, and I am confident more
than anything, confident that grace isn'tjust something that we say. It isn't
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this little simple act that we dobefore we eat. It isn't just this
tradition that we learned from our parentsbefore we sit down for a meal.
Grace isn't just something that we say. It's something that He showed us and
continues to show us that we maybe an example to show others that His
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grace is sufficient. And when webelieve in the sufficiency of His grace and
the sovereignty of our Lord, itbecomes easier to stuart seasons of weariness.
It becomes easier to Stuart's seasons aredoubting. It becomes easier to testify to
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his goodness when we are grieving,when we believe in the sufficiency of His
grace. So maybe you have askedyourself, maybe you have sat and wondered,
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am I too weak to testify?Lord? Am I too Am I
too insecure to share the Gospel?The answer is no, because His sovereignty
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is bigger than any insecurity that youmay be feeling in that moment. And
I trust that the Lord goes beforeme and behind me. So even in
my security, his sovereignty is bigger. And because of that, I am
able to witness in my weakness.Because of that, I am able to
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testify to His goodness when I amgrieving. Because of that, I am
able to say, you know what, I will not be the person that
in the middle of the storm,all the way through, I am doubting,
or I have little faith. Andif that is my testimony, he
still reached out his hand and grabbedme, because that's just how good he
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is. That is the answer thatI have received, that No, you
are never too weak to witness.Never, never, And that has been
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one of the areas that I havematured in so much, because there has
been times and seasons where I havejust been too embarrassed. I felt useless,
I felt fruitless, and because ofthat, it has kept me quiet.
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Because of that, it has mademe want to stay home instead of
show up because of answering the Becauseof that, I chose not to answer
the phone, but ignore the call. Because you know, when you answer
and someone asked the question how areyou, you can either a give a
fluff answer or you can be lookat it as a time to be like,
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you know what, it's a hardseason. But the Lord Jesus is
my help. And I'm not sayingbeing over religious about it, Like I'm
not saying it because you've heard otherpeople saying it. I'm saying it because
you believe it with your whole heart. That He is that good in his
grace, is that sufficient, andthat he cares for you. That is
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what I mean. And I amat a place and a point in my
life to where I believe it nomatter what I see, no matter what
season that I am, that iswhat I believe. That's where we're at
here, y'all, That's where weat. That's where we've been. So
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now as we kind of like moveforward in the second half of twenty twenty
four, and we're asking the Lordto do what he gonna do, because
that's that's the other thing too.It's kind of like, well, I'm
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praying for healing, I'm praying forexpansion in my finances, I'm praying for
clarity, I'm paying, I'm prayingfor confidence, I'm praying for community.
I'm praying for all these things.You know. Recently, one of the
questions of the topics that came upthe summer was how so many of us
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struggle with having poverty mindset when itcomes to being okay with receiving a financial
increase. And I always think it'sinteresting when we have, you know,
teachers and minister of the Gospel thatfeel very uncomfortable with seeing any type of
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monetary gain, or they feel veryuncomfortable with asking for anything financial, like
they feel as though that it isnot of the Lord to to have things.
And I found myself like really wantingto intercede on behalf of us,
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those that are really feeling called andto in this season with the assignment of
stewarding something small, but then alsoour believing for a financial return and feeling
uncomfortable about charging, being uncomfortable aboutsetting prices being uncomfortable about selling products,
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you know, just anything that comesin relation to money. I really felt
like I was supposed to pray forthat, so I asked the Lord.
I started bringing my petitions to theLord, right, And I think this
is good, I think for peoplethat have been asking, like, you
know, if I don't have theanswer, but I really feel like I
need to pray for my brother andsister in Christ. What can I do?
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Well, it's very very easy.The Bible says to bring your petitions
in requests to the Lord, andsometimes your petition in request can be something
as simple as, Lord, howdo I pray for them? Because I
never want to assume that I know, I never want to pray my own
will, So even how I praynow, I when I am unsure on
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what the prayer is, I'm askingthe Lord to show me how to do
it because I never want to assumelike, yeah, like I know how
to m hm, sure I gotthis, Like let me just pray for
this. Maybe maybe I then assumethat I know the words that I should
say. Well, I don't wantto assume that, especially when I'm truly
bringing a petition in request to theLord. On behalf of someone else.
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I want to intercede in a waythat the Lord not only feels pleasing,
but that he's going to respond becausehe's like my daughter. My daughter sought
me first. But for even senningthe request, that's how intentional and how
serious I am about the Lord.I want only your response on this,
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Like I don't want my way onthis. I don't I need you to
do it. So I asked him, like, Lord, how do you
want me to pray? How doyou want us to pray when it comes
to our finances? And the Lordjust gave me something so simple, but
it's something that I think that weforget as believers, that we just kind
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of like overlook sometimes. And hesaid, you pray to have a mind
like Christ, because there's nothing scarceabout Jesus. If you want to know
how you pray for finances or evenany any way that you need to change
your perspective on something and you areunsure on what that is. Well,
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we're supposed to be like Christ.You're supposed to live like Christ. Like
the goal is to live like Christ, which means that we our goal is
to think like Christ, which meansthat we should be praying to have a
mind like Christ and all of thethings. Sometimes we can just do that
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when it comes to singles, prayingfor a spouse, sometimes we can just
do that. When it comes towives, praying for a child. Sometimes
we can do that when it comesto you know what, I'm having a
really really tough time, and familyor whatever, and finances. It covers
everything. The sovereignty of the Lord. He is sovereignty. It covers everything,
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like all of the things. SoI've been praying that we have a
mind like Christ when it comes tofinances. And I'm now even entering into
the aspect of family, future family, current family, how we view ourselves,
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our bodies, our businesses, ourassignments. Lord, give me a
mind like your son. I wantto see this how you see this.
I want to see them how yousee them. So I want you to
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renew my mind in a way toimpart your wisdom in this area, so
that I may make the best decisions, the decisions that you see fit to
live life the way you intended meto. That's the prayer, ladies and
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gentlemen, that is the prayer.Lord, give me a mind like Christ.
And I truly believe that when wego before the Lord anytime and we
ask him to make us more likeChrist, it really gives us revelation because
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he made us in the image ofChrist. So part of me feels like
the Lord is kind of like,yeah, already did that. You just
need to believe that, and youcan find it in my word. You
just gotta crack open the words sothat you can see it. You just
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need to be in step with theHoly Spirit. I ordered your steps.
That's where we are, and themature twenty twenty four. That's where we
are as we witness in our weakness. That's where we are when we are
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having a tough time accepting the financialbenefits of our businesses. That's where we
are when it comes to seeking Himfirst. These are the questions I've been
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having. These are the conversations I'vebeen having with the Lord and with others.
This is kind of like where I'vebeen, and I'm truly looking forward
just to conntinue to bring these conversationsto this platform. But more importantly,
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I'm really believing that the conversations thatI'm having with the Lord very possibly could
be similar conversations that you're having withthe Lord and This is how we're able
to really just be like, wow, Sis, I've literally been asking the
Lord the same thing, or well, this is a revelation that I've received
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on it, and I'm excited tohear back from you. I'm excited to
hear what the Lord has been sharingwith you, because now more than ever,
there is something very powerful about ussharing and testifying to what God is
saying and what he's doing. Itcan radically, radically encourage your brother and
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sister in Christ. I never dismissor doubt the impact of what your vulnerability
and your transparency can do with yourneighbor. I was sharing a store about
feeling like super and it was itwas very vulnerable, but it was random.
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Have you ever had those? Haveyou ever had like random conversations with
people and you don't even remember whatyou're saying, why you're saying it,
to the extent sometimes like as I'mspeaking, I'm like, why am I
sharing this? Like this doesn't makeany sense? Well, I had those
moments multiple times, and it reallywas around the mindset of getting merry older
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and the lies that the enemy triedto whisper and when I'm sharing this,
this wasn't like that there was likea situation or a conversation that had already
started, and I was responding.I just really just started talking about like
where I was when I met myhusband, what I was struggling with with,
you know, not feeling as thoughthe lie the enemy it gave me
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is that it's not going to bea celebratory because you didn't get married ten
years prior, like all of thethings. And I'm sharing this not understanding
why I was sharing it, butyou want to know what it was because
the enemy was whispering those same liesto other women that were in the room.
So while I felt like this don'tmake no sense, like I there's
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no reason for me to be havingthis conversation. I just sometimes you just
have to trust that in your vulnerabilityand the transparency of what you know,
the lies that enemy tried to whisperto you. Like sometimes we think that
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it is it's just been us,never never, the serpent has been trying
that same tactic since even Eden.Let's be honest, he ain't. He's
been doing the same thing, okay, but proposing lies try to put doubt,
making us feel as though that Godhas forgotten us, that God is
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withholding from us all of the thingslike he's been doing the same tactic and
repeatedly has done this tactic. Solet me just tell you, you're not
the only one that is experiencing thatlie. And that's the reason why we
have to expose the lie. Thisis the reason why we have to take
those thoughts captive. You have toquickly be like, uh uh not today,
that ain't true, and then youhave to very quickly speak truth and
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then don't be embarrassed that the enemytried to plan a lie. That's what
he does to everybody. That's hisjob is to try to plant lies.
And want to know what our jobis is to tell the truth. Okay,
it's to tell the truth. Andwe're gonna tell it all. Twenty
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twenty four. This is where weare. We're gonna tell it. We're
gonna tell the truth to ourselves.We're gonna tell the truth to our loved
ones. We're gonna tell the truthto our friends. We're gonna tell the
truth to strangers. We're gonna tellthe truth to neighbors. We're gonna tell
the truth to those that claim tobe our enemies. Do you understand we're
gonna tell the truth because we knowthat the truth sets them and us free.
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Okay, we also know that's howwe get to worship the Lord.
The Bible says to worship him inspirit and in truth. That is the
way that you worship the Lord.So that means that any time that I
get to witness to someone, Iget to tell the truth to them.
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It is my way to worship theLord. So why would I not do
it more? Not just a littleone off occurrence. No, I'm talking
about every single random encounter to wherethere's an opportunity to where the li Lord
says speak, I'm gonna speak,he says, stay, I'm gonna stay.
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I did this exercise at Say Graceand it was so funny because I
thought I already knew the response.I basically proposed a question to the room,
what has been the hardest instruction orresponse that you ever got from the
Lord? And the options were wait, forgive, go no. These were
the four wait forgive, go no. And when I opposed this question on
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social media, the most common responsewas wait, and I was like,
mmm, I could totally see thatbecause I said that was the hardest one.
I had was like, wait,waiting on the Lord for me has
been the hardest instruction and response Ihave ever received, because going I like
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to go no. At least I'mgetting a straight up response like I'm not.
I'm not wondering what the answer.He just said no, So the
answer is no, Okay, forgive. I think now in this season is
not as tough for me because nowI recognize, like it's probably one of
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the most tangible evidences that I'm gonnahave as a disciple is being able to
quickly forgive somebody we love to talkabout. I want to be spiritually mature.
In my opinion, the most spirituallymature act that you can do is
to forgive somebody quick m hm.When we want to talk about well so
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and so. It's most spiritually maturedme. Okay for me, That's where
I'm at. You can you canforgive quickly. There we go, fruit
fruit of your maturity, the fruitof being able to say that I've been
convicted. I've been convicted of theHoly Spirit. I can't even wait a
month, two months, like Ihave to say this now. I have
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to give now. I can't not. I can't even let this faster too
long like that part to me,that's by far. But to get back
to the question in the room,the responses all varied. Some said that
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the hardest instruction was no, somesaid it was go, some said it
was weight, and some said itwas forgived. And as all of these
different responses across the board came upin the room, I'm reminded, it's
because everybody's walking out in a differentseason of their life. So in this
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season, no could be the hardestresponse someone's gotten, and this season,
forgive could be the hardest response thatsomeone has gotten. And this season it
could be go, going somewhere,It could be the hardest response that you've
ever been in it, and toweight could be the hardest response. But
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the point of the matter was isthat everybody's in different seasons, and that's
why you just never know what seasonssomeone is in. And that's why telling
the truth and witnessing to his goodnesstrances all seasons, all seasons. He's
good in the no, he's goodin the go, he's good in the
weight, he's good in the forgiveall seasons. His goodness transcends all seasons.
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Cue the song and his graves andnever runs out and never runs out
all seasons cue the blessing from generationa generation won't know why because the seasons
could be different, But His goodnessisn't all of them, period period.
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So what I'm saying is it doesn'tmatter the season, the situation that you're
in. You can share about thegoodness of the Lord. You can share
about the hard parts of the season. It don't make you less holy because
it's hard. Forgiveness requires the Lord, it requires the Holy Spirit. When
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it's hard, it requires humility tosay, God, I want to love
them like you love them. Thatrequires humility, That requires His spirit.
We can't do that in our flesh. It's hard. It don't make you
less holy because it's hard. ButI am believing that as you continue to
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bring your petitions and your request tothe Lord, as you continue to seek
his face, as you continue toask him for his grace, I believe
that he will give it as youseek it. And I am so excited
to continue to share these conversations andthese questions with you this season. It's
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going to be a really, reallygreat season. I'm so excited for you
guys to hear more. But thenI'm also so excited for you guys to
hear the guests that I have comingup on this season, so definitely make
sure that you head over and youlike and subscribe and share if this episode
has blessed you at all, anddon't feel bad about hesitating to respond.
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I totally get it, but justknow if you want to comment or DM
me, I do respond, Sodefinitely feel free to head over to Instagram
at I m k at k WATSpodcast and I hope to meet you very
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