March 27, 2025
Freedom Friday: God Didn’t Bless You for YOU!
God is moving us from transactional mindsets to transformational encounters that prepare us not just to receive blessings but to become capable of holding and sharing them. The real test of faith comes not in waiting but in the moment God starts giving us what we've been asking for.
• Distinguishing between transactional relationships with God versus transformational encounters
• Recognizing that the true test happens when God begins giving us what we've been waiting for
• Understanding that blessings aren't just additions to our lives but increases in our capacity
• Viewing victories as seeds meant to be spread to others in similar situations
• Embracing 2025 as a year of victory, reset, and hearing God's voice
• Taking personal blessings and using them to impact our communities
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Chapters
00:09 - Welcome to Freedom Friday
00:56 - Transactional vs Transformational Mindset
03:35 - Preparing for Your Blessing
06:29 - Spreading Your Victory to Others
09:21 - Episode Closing and Community Invitation
Transcript
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Well, hello everybody, welcome to the Unlearned Podcast.
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This is Freedom Friday, where we come together to talk about something that we have unlearned recently.
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I'm your girl, jaquita.
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Listen.
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It has been such a pleasure just doing these Freedom Fridays with you guys and just thinking through the goodness of the Lord All right In the land of the living.
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He has me unlearning a lot right now, so I'm happy to share some of that with you guys.
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If you are new to the podcast, welcome to the community.
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Okay, listen.
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So today, the first thing I want to talk to you guys about is God has really been moving me through a season where I am learning the difference between being transactional and being transformational.
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Okay, let me break it down.
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Okay, a lot of times in life, right, we have kind of like a list of things that we've been waiting on God to do.
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We've been waiting for something in our life to change, to shift, for something to be added to our lives, right, okay, some of you are waiting on some in our life to change, to shift, for something to be added to our lives Right, ok, some of you are waiting on some more money in the paycheck OK, some of us have been waiting on a spouse OK, we've been waiting.
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Some of us are waiting for some kids to be added to the family.
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We've been waiting on some weight to drop off the body OK, there are just things that we've been waiting on some weight to drop off the body Okay, right, they're just things that we've been waiting on, and a lot of times, we can begin to center our lives on the things that we're hoping will get added or, in the case of some of us who are trying to get healthy, we'll be detracted right, we've been centering our lives on the things that we're waiting for God to do for us right, and a lot of times, I feel like we get lost in that, and so something that I have recently had to unlearn is to be able to separate myself from what God is doing and allow myself to just re-encounter who God is right, and the interesting thing about it is is that these moments often don't come in the waiting, the real test and the real moment of transformation happens, the moment God begins to give you the things that you've been waiting for right.
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I was thinking that in the moment when I was in the waiting period that I was going to be like all right, you know, I got to, I got to change, I got to shift, I got to become.
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But it was in the moment when God started moving me into, inching me into the new season of my life that I realized I have to get out of this transactional mindset and I have to allow God to build up this transformational mindset where it's not just about what he's adding into my life, but it's about what he is transforming me in so that I can be able to hold the things that he's doing right.
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So it's not about what he's adding, what I'm now able to hold in my hands.
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It's about what my mind, the capacity of my mind, what it can handle.
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It's about the capacity of my heart, how she is interacting and engaging with what God is doing.
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Those are the points of growth.
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My life didn't grow because God added the things.
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My life began to grow because God increased my capacity to engage him in a different way, in a new season right and just like we have to learn how we're going to engage with God when we begin to get those things immediately, I had to learn how to engage every area of my life.
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I had to engage in a different fashion because the thing I had been waiting on came, and when it came, I said this isn't just something that got added, this is something that has increased me.
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It didn't just increase my life or increase something in my life.
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It shifted me right, and so I had to start thinking about how am I going to use this thing to engage with the kingdom?
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How am I going to use this thing to engage with purpose?
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How am I going to use this thing to engage with ministry?
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How am I going to use this thing to mentor and to counsel and to give back Immediately?
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I want you guys to get prepared to be blessed, but I don't want you to get stuck on the blessing.
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I want you to remember that we are not just going to center ourselves on what God is doing.
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We're going to thank God for who we are becoming, because what God is doing in your life is so much bigger than the thing you've been waiting on.
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Let me tell you something.
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He would not have made you wait for it if it was not going to be good.
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He will not withhold any good thing from you.
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There's nothing that's been held back from you that wasn't going to make your life better in the moment.
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It was at the right time at the right place, when you were at the right position that God was able to bring that thing into your life.
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Because it's not just about the thing, it's not just about the transaction, it's the transformation, and the biggest thing that I had to unlearn was that God was just trying to do something in my life.
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God is using you as kind of the catalyst for what he's going to do in the lives of people around you.
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So you have to take whatever victory you get in the season, because I want to emphasize to you today that 2025 is a year of victory.
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It's a year of reset, it's a year of the voice of God.
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It's the is that the thing that he's putting in your life will not just be good for you, but that that goodness is going to spread like a seed, like a forest, like a garden.
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It's going to spread out from you.
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God is planning something into your life that he is intending to spread out from you.
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So, whatever victory he's giving you, go give that victory back to the people.
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If he gave you the victory to buy a house, I want you to go and talk to three other people that you know need to be at a house and I want you to counsel them through the moment.
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I want your victory to be a seed inside of a fruit that's going to produce more seed.
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Right, if he gave you a victory and he put something back in you?
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Right, I want you to spread that out.
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Right.
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If you got a new car, go talk to three people that you know need a new car.
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Right?
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Unlearn the idea that this victory, that this thing that God is giving you, was just a transaction between you and him.
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This victory that God is planning on the inside of you and planning in your life, it's a victory for the people.
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When God gives you your spouse, don't just sit up in the house all happy.
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I mean, I'm going to sit up in the house and be happy, but I want you to take that victory and I want you to find three people that you can begin to counsel through the waiting period and the blessing of when you find your God match and not just a match, when you found somebody that God destined for you to be with and not just somebody that you just landed with for you to be with and not just somebody that you just landed with right.
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It is time for the victory of God to spread beyond just one individual.
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God is giving communal blessings, but it's starting with you.
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Okay, it's not a transaction, it's a transformation.
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So, whatever God does in your life, say God, how can I use this to transform the lives of people around me?
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And I guarantee you we will see a difference in our communities.
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We will see a difference in our families.
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We will see a difference in our friend groups.
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We will see a difference in our workplaces, because victory will become a shared experience and not just an individual pursuit.
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We have to unlearn this idea that we're chasing after a dream that's only going to benefit us.
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The dream we're chasing after for those of us who are chasing after the purpose and plan of God the dream we're chasing after is something that will be communal.
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It's something that will impact neighborhoods and communities and cities and states and nations.
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You have a nationwide, an international, a community blessing that God is getting ready to hand you.
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Make sure you govern it wisely, all right.
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So I want to thank you all for tuning in to Freedom Friday.
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Let's keep unlearning together so that we can experience more freedom.
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All right, peace y'all.
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Thank you once again for listening to the Unlearned Podcast.
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We would love to hear your comments and your feedback about the episode.
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We're looking forward to the next time when we are able to unlearn together to move forward towards freedom.
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See you then.
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