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Jan. 15, 2025

Talks With Middle Adults: Unlearning Hope in 2025

Talks With Middle Adults: Unlearning Hope in 2025
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This episode emphasizes the importance of embracing change and consciously preparing for 2025. It encourages listeners to discern where to focus their energy and how to maintain hope amidst challenges, highlighting the necessity of both saying yes to what matters and no to distractions. 

• Preparing your soul for the changes of 2025 
• The significance of community engagement 
• Addressing distractions and gaining focus 
• Understanding the tipping point in our lives 
• The importance of sustaining hope through waiting 
• Embracing simple obedience for true transformation

Chapters

00:05 - Midpoint Reflections

08:16 - Navigating Distractions and Staying Focused

16:25 - Listening to God's Voice

28:48 - Nurturing Hope and Surrendering Trust

37:43 - Preparing for Transformation and Renewal

48:20 - Finding the Tipping Point

56:18 - Embracing Simple Obedience for Abundance

01:03:00 - Friday Freedom Unlearning Together

Transcript
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well, hello everybody, and welcome once again to the unlearned podcast.

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I'm your host, ruth abigail aka ra.

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What's up, friends?

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It's your girl, jaquita, and this is the podcast that is helping you gain the courage to change your mind so that you can experience more freedom.

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And we are live, everybody.

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We are live first time we've ever done this listen.

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This is, this is a good time.

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You know, I feel like this is something that I said I would never do, you know, but you know, when you got those friends that push and push and push, here you are doing the things that you really thought that you would never end up doing.

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But, that's right, man.

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It's an absolute joy man, this is good.

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This is kind of like you know how you you say you do it.

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You know you do a lot of get togethers at your house.

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You're like hey guys, you know, I'm doing a get together, you know, and you know, friday at seven Come and then you sit.

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There's this moment where you're sitting and you're waiting.

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You're like God.

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I hope somebody shows up, Cause otherwise it's going to be really lame.

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Every time I do a get together, I'm like Lord, can I do it again?

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You know, like even you know, I used to do campus events for, like you know, a living and like every you know you've done all the setup and you're just waiting on the students to get there.

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You're like I really hope this is not whack.

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I really hope they don't go in here and be like, hey, yo ain't somebody else doing something.

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Like for real, throwing events is tough, but the cool thing is, on this particular event, you could always rewatch it.

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So you, you know, come in when you come in and we gonna get in where you roll.

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You know what I'm saying it's gonna be good.

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Uh, quita, it's 2025 it is, friend, it really is, and it came quick.

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Yes, it did, it came quick, didn't it like it?

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really did it really zoomed in on us I mean, it's like two weeks into 2025, which is wild, and you know I I had probably top five laziest breaks that I've had ever.

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And it was beautiful.

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Let me tell you something that little snow that came back in and doubled back around and said, hey, your winter break, wasn't it?

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Okay, you just needed just a little bit more time.

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You know, South Carolina, we get a little dust.

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If we can pick it up and do this, it's game over Girl.

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Yes, okay once I had my balcony door open like you, better accumulate.

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Okay, I need to see something.

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I was watching the snow, not watching it, because it was so pretty.

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I was like did it start accumulating?

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Can you see it on the ground?

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Because as long as you can see it on the ground, I'm not going to the workhouse.

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But, yeah, no, but it was beautiful, it was a great time.

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I always look at snow and it's always like a fresh beginning, because we're from the South and we don't see it all the time.

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Sure, so you know, I feel like somebody from the North is like snow is snow.

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You know it's January, it's supposed to snow, but when we get snow it's like, ah, you know, god is doing something new things, wow, god is not just parting us over.

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Okay, it's a cleansing, it's a cleansing.

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Okay, it's a cleansing.

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It's a cleansing.

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What was no longer is because it's snow.

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Wow, you know the south.

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You listen?

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We'll preach about anything.

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That's the truth.

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It's the truth.

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We will preach about anything, and I've heard plenty of preaching about the snow.

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Have you what?

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I will say, I will say I will.

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In church it was one of the actually, and this we ain't gonna stay on this long, but I will say this like at church on Sunday, my father did the preaching and I'll tell you what.

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Now he said something that just took me back.

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He was, he talked about weather, right, he was like he said, and he said this is also doesn't happen often.

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He's like you know, the sermon changed right and he was this is also doesn't happen often.

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He's like you know, the sermon changed Right and he was like I was prepared for one thing and then we got this some weather things that started happening and God told me to change the sermon, which is not regular at all.

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So he was like you know, he talked about weather and one of the things he said is like when snow comes, and he was coming in from out of town, he said, because I know how y'all are, I'm going straight to the grocery store, I'm going straight to Kroger because and he said, lie, I mean, lines were all the way to the back, shells were empty.

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Man, like y'all the snow.

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When it's time y'all raid the stores, we go and we, we really, we really have enough, but we want to make sure you know what I mean.

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But this doesn't matter.

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It doesn't matter how many cases of water I have, sure, you're always.

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Yes, I need two more.

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That's correct.

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I need two more.

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You need two more and you're going to get all that's left and them shelves going to be empty.

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His was crazy what he said.

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This really got me.

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He was like why don't we listen to God the way we listen to the weatherman?

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I said y'all do everything to prepare for this snow, but when the Lord taught.

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But you know, it's so interesting because there's been so many prophetic words.

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Prophetic people, pastoral people, Just the men and women of the clergy, have been out here saying 2025 is going to be different, right, Like this is a season of.

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It's supposed to be a season of revival.

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It's supposed to be a season of.

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Did you put that oil in your lamp right?

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Did you prepare yourself for what God has for this year, and not just for what God has, but for him to actually show up?

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Did you prepare yourself for that, right, and so I think that this is a season where it's going to be.

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You are going to see the fruit of what you prepared, and so I am excited about this year.

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But there's something about this year that's just kind of like making me a little nervous, because it's the midpoint in the year and you're wondering if what I did before this point is enough to get me through the rest of this decade.

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You know it's the midpoint of the decade, and so there's a lot to think about.

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Let us know that you with us and that you're hearing us and all that good jazz.

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Like to race.

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I hope I'm saying that right To race from Atlanta.

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He says same in Atlanta.

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He was talking about the snow, I think.

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Atlanta got more than us.

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I was jealous too, because when I saw it in Atlanta yeah, when I saw the snow in Atlanta I was like, oh, it's about to go down.

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And when I looked outside I was like, ain't no way, atlanta got more than us.

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They must have, because I don't.

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I think Atlanta got it after.

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I think it came after Memphis.

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Memphis got like six, seven inches and so it was.

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It was, it was pretty, it was pretty intense, so I think it went that way.

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What's up?

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What's up?

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Patrick and Shamika Come on plan and prepare to experience the.

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You have a level and alliteration.

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Come on plan and prepare to experience the promise.

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You know the saints don't love an alliteration.

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Come on now, and that's what sticks with us.

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Plan and prepare to experience the promise.

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What's up, felicia?

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I'm writing that one down, hey friend.

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What's up, Felicia?

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The saints are coming on in.

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We got some folks that came.

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That's wonderful, wonderful thanks for coming to our party guys.

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Yeah, I asked me, and ruth abigail would have just been talking to each other, like we always do.

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Okay, we'd have been like, well, nobody came.

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So we're gonna, we're gonna do what we, what we know to do.

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Oh man man, oh man friends.

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So we're talking about the year 2025, okay, and all of the things that God is doing in this year and how we have set ourselves this year.

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You know, we talked a lot at the end of the year in our last season on the podcast about, you know, preparing your soul.

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You know, really starting to dig in and take some things out and really get.

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You know, really get prepared for God to plant some new things.

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And then January came and I was like huh, I was like what happened?

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I had been preparing my soul, I had been pulling it up and it's kind of like when January came, the year just kind of came and swept, swept all of us off of our feet and I think it's a time you know, a lot of times we make January a month of set the goals, set the mark.

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You know, like you know, what are you going to do differently?

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You know everybody's like.

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You know you remember the lady walking up the blocks and she had the bags with the different things, the different sayings on it.

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Yes, I had to catch it.

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I'm sorry, I had to catch it.

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Stay up, ruth.

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Stay up, we're live, we're live.

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Okay, Producer Joy can't edit this out.

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You gotta stay up.

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You gotta stay up, my sister, but she had all those bags that she was carrying and then people were writing different words on them.

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I think that, like, we're at the point where it is like okay, what are you willing to say yes to in this year?

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You know, like, when we start thinking about new year's resolutions which I really don't make anymore and we'll talk about in a minute why but when we start thinking about resolutions, it's what are you willing to say yes to this year?

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You know, are you going to say yes to your health?

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Are you going to say yes to financial management?

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Are you going to say yes to adding more discipline to your life?

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Are you going to say yes to building this life that you say that you want?

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Right, because a lot of the things that we're praying for and we're asking God to do, god is simply waiting on our yes a lot of times.

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And so, ruth, abigail, what are some things that you are preparing to say yes to in the new year?

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That's a good question.

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I'll be honest with you, part of my preparing to say yes was saying no to some things, starting last year.

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So this is I think this is important.

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As you were talking, it's like hey, what are you willing to say yes to and what do you need to say no to so that you can say yes?

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And I think sometimes we have committed so many yeses and we get so excited about things that we have too many yeses on our plate and some of those yeses need to be no's right now.

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And I I had to do that.

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So that was that was like um, last year I say middle, I don't know, middle of last year, I kind of came to this understanding where I was like I'm going to have to say no to some things.

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Um, because there are the things that I need to say yes to this year.

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Uh, surround, I'll be honest that there are three things that it surrounds for the most part, and that is, um, my, my, my work at angel street and that which I absolutely love and I have that, my, my family and this podcast.

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Those are the primary things in my life that I'm saying yes to Now.

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There are a lot of other things that I could have said yes to and have said yes to in the past, and I said yes to a lot of things, while I was also saying yes to those most important things, and I had to change my yes to a no in order to focus on what was important and so that I think some of the the answer like so, so answer both questions, right, don't get, don't get disillusioned to so that you you think I'm saying like, yeah, what do I need to say yes to?

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but some things you've already said yes to, that you need to change your answer.

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Listen, I'm hopping in because I think the thing that I'm starting off this year having to figure out is that, while there are some things that I'm trying to, I can't see my yes because I haven't given my nose yet.

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That's good, right, because I'm so crowded.

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That's right With.

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Oh, I can be good at this and I can be good at that.

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And if I give all my time here and all my time there and I honestly okay.

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So I'm gonna give y'all a snippet of a dream, for all of y'all who are dreamers out there.

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You know we have these crazy dreams and then we're like okay, lord, what does that mean?

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And you trying to figure it out.

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But there was one point that was so clear to me in the dream I was actually about to get married.

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So that's not the point, stay focused, right.

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But in the dream, somebody texts me and said hey, you're getting married, I'm so excited for you, I'll give you $50 if you do my makeup.

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And then somebody else texts me and said oh, jaquita, we're so excited for you and you and everything God is doing for you, I'll give you $50 if you cook for me.

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And I told both of them because I was focused on the $50,.

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I told both of them, yes.

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I was like oh, we're going to need this money.

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Yeah, like, I'm going to take this 50 and that 50.

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And I'm sitting here, it's the day of my wedding, right, and I can't focus on what I'm actually preparing for, because I'm thinking about what I was supposed to be doing for them or what I thought I needed to do for them.

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Come on, and in the dream I literally ran out of time.

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Right, right, emmanuel, come on marriage.

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I know my brother praying for me.

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All, right, right, I literally ran out of time.

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And then the people came to the wedding.

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The one person came to the wedding with her makeup already done, and I was.

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I was telling her I'm so sorry I couldn't do your makeup.

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She was like oh, it's fine, I did it.

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And then I was like well, why you asked me?

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Then the other girl came and I forgot there's food at a reception.

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She came and made a plate and I said I'm so sorry I couldn't cook for you.

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She was like girl, that's fine, I'm going to take a plate to go.

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And I was like Like, we spend so much time focusing and trying to fulfill the requests of the people around us that we're too busy fulfilling requests that were missing purpose.

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Come on, you are actually preparing for something that God has prepared for you, but because these distracting requests came in of stuff that people don't really need, it would just be nice for them to have Right.

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It would just be nice for them to have right.

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It would just be nice if Jaquita did your makeup and I ain't no makeup artist, right, I do what I can for myself and I really get nervous doing anything for anybody else.

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Right, but it would be nice if I did that for this person.

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It would be nice if I cooked, but I'm in preparation for something that God has set me in motion for right, and it's a joining.

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And what I'm in preparation for something that God has set me in motion for Right, and it's a joining.

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And what I'm getting prepared for has a greater purpose than me, your makeup and me cooking that, while it sounds good and while it feels good in that moment, it's not what I'm preparing for.

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And how can we stay focused on what God is sending us to instead of getting distracted by the request?

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And I really came out of that dream saying I know, look, my other brother came through too.

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I see you too.

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The people are here for you, queda.

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I love it.

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I love it, focus right.

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But it was such a clear depiction to me that, while those requests were from people that I love and people that I want to serve, and it's not that any other time I would have done it without even thinking twice, but the moment that I was in necessitated my focus, and we lose hope because we lose focus.

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It's hard to be hopeful for something when your attention, when your energy, when your motivation, when all of your efforts are divided because you got too many people in your ear saying, oh, jaquita, do this, do that, do that.

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Can you do that?

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Oh, you're so good at this, oh you're so good at that.

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And God is saying, but I have you in a moment, I have you in a moment.

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God is saying but I have you in a moment, I have you in a moment.

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Can you stay in the moment I have you in?

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And that, I feel, is the difficult decision of 2025.

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It's are you going to stay in the moment that God has for you or are you going to get pulled by the distraction?

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Okay, so I think so.

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Quinn and I were talking a little earlier and I was telling her we were talking a little bit about this and she was, we were.

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We were using the word pivot, which, and I hope this makes sense so when you, when you pivot, pivot right if you play basketball.

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So our, our son, uh, tyson, he just started playing basketball and um, so you know, we're teaching him some things, and one of the things we were doing the other day was teaching him how to pivot, so, um, and so I was just had this, this idea in my mind.

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It's like the, the, the real power of pivoting, is waiting until it is time to move again.

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But, you can't move too early, because if you do, you'll lose possession of the ball, you'll have a turnover, you'll have a penalty if you move your feet too early.

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And so the question is are we willing to your point, queda?

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Are we willing to to stay put, to not be distracted, to hold on to what God has given?

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And I, I just need to to tag one of the points that you said, because it's it's so the the most of the things that we are distracted by are not bad things.

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Yeah.

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We actually, you know, for those of us you know who are, who are Jesus followers, and for those of us who are trying to, you know, do better our lives, live right, all this stuff, we don't really get distracted by the bad stuff.

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We kind of know, hey, I don't need to be doing that.

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Like that's not the test.

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The test is am I being distracted by that which people would say is good and from people who love me?

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Because that can also be distracting.

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And it's not because they are bad people or they're trying to get you off course, but they're not God and they don't know.

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And so you have to be discerning of, to know how is God speaking to me and what is God?

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How?

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It's gotta be okay that I say no to some things.

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It's gotta be okay that I stop saying yes and fulfilling other people's requests at their time, on their timetable, at the expense of my progression, if that's not okay, if that's not okay with the people then, you have to, then I think that that comes to another critical point in your relational life, where you want to be surrounded by people who are for your growth, even if it seems like it's at the expense of their own convenience right, please, ma'am, listen.

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I feel this strongly.

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First of all, shout out to everybody in the chat we see y'all.

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Yo, what's up y'all?

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Hey, we got some family people in here.

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Hey, laina, all right, we have some people joining.

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I just want to make sure we shout them out, hey.

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Emmanuel, Listen, I want to.

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This is what I want to stick with y'all as we are moving through this year.

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This is the year of God's voice, this is the year of his win.

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God is breathing on things himself and we are so used to getting our direction and our understanding of ourselves and our understanding of what's next in our lives and our understanding of what God would have us to do.

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We're used to getting that from other people, whether it's through other people affirming you or other people who are like trying to push you and say this is the direction you should go and this is who you are and this is what's inside of you.

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And if you notice, and I think and I want y'all to put in a chat, if you can, if you can identify with this a lot of the voices that you've been used to following have gone quiet.

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A lot of the people that you were looking to for your affirmation, for your understanding of who you are, for the pats on the back, for the yes, I love you, I love what you're doing and this is who you are, those voices are dimming because the voice of God has to become greater in your life, the voice and the present, and not, and not just the voice that we hear in the Holy spirit, but you are tuning into this word.

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Yes, I have it right here.

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Come on, I knew it was going to be that kind of night, oh.

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I believe in a hard copy.

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All right, y'all, keep you one around and keep it open, let it breathe into the atmosphere, okay, but but it is a year where you are going to have to go to God and hear the timing and feel the flow and feel the rhythm of what he's doing, because God is, is positioning us.

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It's a moment, y'all, we are in a specific, intentional, really, really, um, um, critical moment of God, where God is like you have to hear me, because the Bible says y'all all know it, jeremiah 29 and 11,.

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Y'all probably got a little bracelet with it, a little bookmark.

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You got it somewhere on a shirt, somewhere.

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You've seen it right.

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I know the plans that I have for you.

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I know the thoughts that I think towards you.

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They're good and not evil to give you an expected end, and while people have been able to see shadows and images of where you're going, god has the plan and this is a year where we are going to have to really submit ourselves.

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So, if you are starting this year off and you're just like, I really feel like I just don't.

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I feel aimless, I feel like I don't know which direction to go in, or I feel like I don't know how to move in the way that God is intending me to move.

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You need to take a moment, and I mean this in all sincerity.

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There needs to be a moment of surrenderance, because this is not a year that we are guiding ourselves or that we're going to be led by the voices of people that we've allowed to influence us in the past.

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And I'm not saying don't listen to wise counsel.

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I'm not saying don't submit yourself to leadership.

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I'm saying you need to be practicing surrendering to God.

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That means going down on your face and praying, and not necessarily going to him with your plan, but saying God, what is the expected in God?

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What are the thoughts God will you show me?

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Will you give me insight and clarity and wisdom?

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Because what we're moving into is new.

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It's never been seen before.

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The next half of this decade is not going to be like the first half, and if you are trying to model something after what has been, you are missing that.

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He is the God who was, who is and who is to come.

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We are moving toward the is to come.

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We are moving toward the God who has things that we've never walked into before, and you're going to have to surrender never walked into before and you're going to have to surrender.

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Yeah, I, I, I can't.

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Um, whenever we bring that verse up uh, man, I went, and this is literally every time I hear it I.

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I think it's so important to just remember the context of that verse.

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These people were not in a place they wanted to be.

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They were not in a place where they were excited about.

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They were in a place they were ready to leave, um, and knew that.

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They were promised that to leave, like God was gonna deliver them from captivity.

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But they were not in, they were not home, they were not comfortable, they were not free.

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But knowing so, I think with that, knowing like there might be a place where you are that you're uncomfortable, that you don't like, but what they didn't do was try to go early, and I thought that is hard and that is a hard thing, but understanding like, hey, there's a process here and I'm pulling you through the process and I do know what the and if you, if you can believe, if you do believe that God knows you're expected in, then you can.

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You can stay put longer than you want to sometimes, but sometimes we need to stay put.

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And the thing about other people so many people in your life have great intentions and a lot of times they're great intentions that might remove you from where God wants you too soon, even if it's uncomfortable.

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And so, because we don't naturally think that way, right His thoughts and our thoughts, ways and our ways.

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He does not.

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Because we don't naturally think that that way right.

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His thoughts and our thoughts ways in our ways.

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He does not.

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We don't think like him.

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We don't think uh to uh uh.

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We don't think to be joyful in discomfort.

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We don't think I want to like this is good.

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Yeah, I want.

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I think you should stay right there and be uncomfortable.

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That's not our natural way of encouraging people.

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Our natural way of encouraging people is you can do it, get out.

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It Get out.

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You know it's time, it's time.

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It's time and maybe it is, but maybe it's not.

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And that's where the discerning piece of understanding okay, who am I going to be listening to?

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Because the people that may have the best intentions for me don't know the plan for me.

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Only God does.

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And so I think that is sometimes, you know, like, especially when you're at the beginning of the year, you know we're constantly, we're envisioning you want to see yourself at a different place and you know, more often than not, getting to that different place is going to require being in some uncomfortable places longer than you want to be.

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And I think that in this um, in this season, in this next year, um, can we just talk about decade.

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I'm just gonna talk about the year, because I, you know I ain't on it, okay, I'm not, I'm not where she am, I'm here, I'm on the year, so we just go.

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So, like I think that it in this, if you, if you were thinking about, okay, how, how can I make the most of what's coming up in the next 12 months?

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Um, I think part of it is managing the expectation that I'm going to be I'll say it like this unlearning that I will be out of discomfort quickly because there's there's a very real chance you might not be.

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There's a very real chance that the thing that you want you're, you're on this journey, but you're not comfortable and you might not be.

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There's a very real chance that the thing that you want you're on this journey, but you're not comfortable and you won't be for a while, you won't be comfortable for a while.

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But it doesn't mean you need to change course.

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It doesn't mean you need to go a different direction.

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Don't mean to move here, move there.

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That does not what that means.

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You need to stay put, you need to keep going, keep going down the path, and I know that.

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You know there are goals that we've set, there are things that we want to do, there are places we want to go in our lives.

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It's just like but man, those things require something of you, like they cost something.

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And anytime something costs something, it's a little uncomfortable.

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I don't like you know getting, I don't like swiping my card when and knowing that cash is coming from my account.

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That's a little uncomfortable sometimes, like it's supposed to be easy, right, you're not, you're not, it's not, it's not a free ride.

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And so just just be encouraged that, yes, god knows the plans he has for you, and he says that to a people who are in an uncomfortable place.

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Man.

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Okay, I got a point and I want to get to it.

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Hi, I saw some of my family join the chat.

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Hey friends, hey, fam, my Lord, oh, we got, let me tell you something.

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We got a lot of preachers in the chat, we do.

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We got a lot of preachers in the chat, we do.

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All right, and if y'all hey, if y'all preaching, y'all gonna talk about something that relate to what we're talking about, send me the link.

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I want to watch, I want to watch.

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Okay, I want to tune in.

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All right, the preachers are in the chat.

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Hey, johnny, hey, naive, I love having a family here, love having my people with me.

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Okay, the point that you were just making, ruth Abigail, right, because the thing that I've been harping on since the year changed over.

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I was like Lord, I need my hope to be renewed.

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Right, because when you're in that place of discomfort and when you're in that place of waiting, a lot of times discomfort comes because I'm waiting and I don't know when the thing that I'm waiting on is going to come, and I've been waiting and waiting, and waiting.

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And that can be different things for different people, right, for some people it's, you know, an expansion of your family.

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For some people it's an expansion of your finances.

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For some people, you're waiting on God to put you in that position for ministry and for really just moving you and bursting you forward and purpose right.

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We're all waiting on something right and it can get uncomfortable.

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There's a scripture that I found last year that really pushed me through a hard moment.

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It's Proverbs, which is one of Ruth Abigail's favorite books, proverbs 13, verse 12, it says hope deferred make if the heart sick, but when the desire comes it is a tree of life, right, and a lot of us started this year and you had to really deal with.

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Are we all really need to deal with what happens when what I have been hoping for has been deferred?

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That's good, right.

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I know it's his promise, I believe in his promise, I know God said it, I know God has it for me and I know that I have been intentionally waiting on the Lord and trying to submit and surrender to the Lord.

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But, lord, my hope is wearing thin.

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My hope is wearing thin.

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My hope is wearing thin and there has to come a moment where there's a scripture in 2 Corinthians 4 that says we believe, so we spoke.

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There has to come a moment where you believe that thing again, or else you need to speak it until you believe, because what you believe has to come out of your mouth so that God can begin to act on the things that we're hoping for.

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But the enemy wants to wear out your hope.

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I know we spend a lot of time thinking about patience, but there came a time where we've been in a thing for so long, and we've been waiting for something for so long, that you start to say things like maybe God doesn't really have that for me and you start imagining a life outside of the promise.

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You start to say, well, if that thing doesn't come for me, how can I reimagine my life without it?

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And that's a trick of the enemy.

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That is a trick of the enemy because he knows that he has worn out your hope.

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And what I really want to again encourage the people who are listening, the people who are tuned in today, the people who are going to listen a little bit later.

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Okay, if your hope is deferred, I need you to know that it's not deferred, it is just in waiting.

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And it's and we've been talking about that seed in the ground.

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If you were to look at that seed in the ground after three days.

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That would feel like hope deferred.

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But if you came back the next year there could be a tree of life there.

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Yeah.

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Right and it says that when it comes, when that thing comes, it is a tree of life.

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The thing that God is going to bring for you in this year is going to bring life.

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The thing that you're hoping for.

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There is life attached to it.

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You cannot allow yourself to neglect hope.

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You have to keep it lit and you got to stay around people who are going to keep your hope built up.

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You're going to have to stay around people who are going to remind you God has that thing for you.

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It may not need to be the thing that you're focused on right now, but do not absolutely do not lose your hope.

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Let's take a little breather.

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This is good, this is good.

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You, you, you, you this is good.

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You know, I think that the this hope, this, this hope, such, I mean this hope, this conversation about hope, hope is so tricky.

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I don't know how you.

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I think hope is such a tricky concept For Ruth.

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Okay, yeah, maybe I'm just playing.

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I'm just playing Go ahead, no, no, no, no, no, no You're not wrong?

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No, no, no, it is.

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It is.

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It is because, um, I'm such a strategic person, I'm such a practical person and it is, um, very easy for me to put hope to the side and, uh and really lean into what I believe is possible for me to do, believe is possible for me to do, right To, to to really uh, that that's that's.

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I don't know if anybody who's listening is like that, but that is me.

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I am a okay Like hope is fine, but I'm going to focus on what I know I can do Right.

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Yeah.

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Right, because it just I'm that, and so I think that, um, when you do that and when I do that, it causes me to, it causes me to be, um, afraid of what happens when I come up against something I don't know what to do with, but you do have a desire for it, right, and so it's like, hey, my strategies and all this, it's not.

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Right and so it's like, hey, my strategies and all of this, it's not.

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I've gotten as far as I can go, and I know that I haven't gotten there yet, but I don't know what else to do.

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And then for, for, for.

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For me there may not be nobody else, but for me, when hope becomes the thing I need to do, I'm uncomfortable with that.

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I prefer to move, I prefer to do the things I know I can do.

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Hope is vulnerable.

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Very Hope is saying I don't have the means to do it myself.

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I don't have it.

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It would be here, it would be here.

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Okay, yes, absolutely I would have it Absolutely Okay.

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Hope is vulnerable because it is literally you saying, god, I'm putting my trust in you that I can keep believing in what you said, even when I don't see it and I don't see a way for that thing to become.

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There's a different, you know like there's.

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Sometimes we see the thing right, like I got a new job, I saw financial increase right.

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Sometimes we see the thing right, like I got a new job, I saw financial increase right.

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Sometimes we see a thing.

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Sometimes we see a way to a thing right.

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This podcast is a way to a thing, right.

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It's a way to a thing that God is propelling us into right.

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Sometimes we.

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But when we don't see the thing and when we don't see a way to the thing, it's okay.

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Lord, you want me to believe in something I can't see?

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That's it, come on.

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You know Hebrews faith is the substance of things hoped for.

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It's the substance your faith is living in, your hope.

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That's absolutely right and it's vulnerable.

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It's vulnerable.

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Yeah, and it's based on the things that we cannot see.

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It's evidence of the things not seen.

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Your hope is the evidence that God's going to bring it.

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Hope is vulnerable.

00:35:10.978 --> 00:35:26.443
Yeah, yeah, it's the evidence, and I think that one of the things that is important for us to unlearn in that is unlearning your.

00:35:26.443 --> 00:35:28.266
Thank you, pat.

00:35:28.266 --> 00:35:28.885
Thank you Pat.

00:35:29.646 --> 00:35:30.367
We appreciate it.

00:35:30.367 --> 00:35:31.329
We appreciate that.

00:35:32.271 --> 00:35:34.318
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's perfect.

00:35:34.318 --> 00:35:35.019
Yeah, appreciate it.

00:35:35.019 --> 00:35:47.652
Yeah, appreciate it.

00:35:47.652 --> 00:35:57.820
Yeah, the thing that the thing I think we have to unlearn about about this is I certainly do is to to not not allow your, your, your own limitations in your own mind Cause you to diminish what you believe is possible.

00:35:57.820 --> 00:35:59.431
You know, I mean.

00:36:00.653 --> 00:36:01.635
Y'all write that down.

00:36:01.635 --> 00:36:02.858
Write that down, friends.

00:36:02.858 --> 00:36:04.061
This is what the young people be doing.

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Clock it.

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Clock it.

00:36:06.351 --> 00:36:07.597
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I always get that wrong.

00:36:08.210 --> 00:36:14.998
I say something else, but it's yeah, but yeah no, don't allow your limitations to diminish what you believe is possible.

00:36:14.998 --> 00:36:17.699
And I think that is what I have struggled with.

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If I'm honest in this hope and like when, to really have hope about something is like I almost don't want to think bigger because I can't do bigger.

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But it's not about you doing it, it's about God doing it.

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But that is a very vulnerable space, especially when you decide to reveal that to other people.

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You know and say like I hope this happens.

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This is my desire.

00:36:45.476 --> 00:36:52.913
I would also say this, because I think this is also a very vulnerable space when you are, when you're depending on God for the thing you're hoping for.

00:36:52.913 --> 00:37:01.014
I think on some level, aquita, this speaks to something that I think we've talked about a couple of other shows before how much are you?

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How much are you surrendering?

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To what extent are you surrendering so much so to where what you hope for might change, because your surrender is so, because you're surrendered, you know I'm saying, and so it's like I'm not ready to think about that yet, but go ahead well, no, I mean, here's the thing, and that's, that's scary, that's to your point.

00:37:22.268 --> 00:37:23.411
It's very vulnerable, right?

00:37:23.411 --> 00:37:34.217
Yeah, because it's like, okay, lord, I, I'm, I'm, I hope for this, I believe for this and in your, in, in the depth of your surrender, your heart changes and hopes for something different.

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Because I also think that in that surrender, I okay, you know, we, we try to be as transparent as possible on this podcast, sometimes, ruth, a little bit more so than me, okay, but I don't know what else to do, man.

00:37:50.331 --> 00:38:13.692
But listen, I think if I'm honest with myself about where I am in this new year is that the thing that I keep coming to is being back on that potter's wheel, and I was really struggling with that because, again in our 20s, we're like make me over, lord, make me who you are, jesus, here I am Lord do it, you know.

00:38:13.992 --> 00:38:23.635
But when we get to our middle adults years, it's like, hey, I've been made All right and we just need to keep bettering the product that we already have.

00:38:23.635 --> 00:38:26.434
But for God to put you on a wheel.

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That's good.

00:38:27.077 --> 00:38:28.932
You know, I'm like hey the iPhone's already good.

00:38:29.025 --> 00:38:33.170
Just keep updating this one, that's really good you know we don't need a whole new you know thing.

00:38:33.170 --> 00:38:35.916
We don't need a whole new you know thing.

00:38:35.916 --> 00:38:42.628
Right, but for God it's.

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He puts you on the potter's wheel and he begins molding you, but only if you surrender to it.

00:38:45.175 --> 00:38:54.137
You have to be, you have to surrender to being made over, and you know I have there's some really really sage, wise advice that I have.

00:38:54.137 --> 00:38:56.092
You know, some of our friends now have been married.

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They've reached that 10 year mark you know, and I have one set of friends.

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I think this year there'll be at like 15.

00:39:02.686 --> 00:39:04.612
Yep, there'll be 15 years.

00:39:04.612 --> 00:39:06.157
Shout out to Andre and Brandy Right.

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And so I remember I was talking to them one time and Andre was telling me how, in their marriage, he was like.

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I had to get to know her all over again, man.

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Right, and so we don't ever anticipate, you know, I think.

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I think we get comfortable in thinking, oh yeah, other people might change and this might change and I need to adjust to their changes, but you never think about you being back in the hands of the creator and God saying your turn, yes.

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You never think about God saying, okay, I need to make you over, because the purpose and the destiny I'm sending you to, and oftentimes the very thing that you've been waiting on and hoping for, is going to require a different version of you.

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Come on, it's not going to look like the way you imagined it.

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Uh-oh, you're not going to get it.

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It's not coming in the way that you have pictured it inside your mind.

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Hope and imagination are two different things.

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Let's be clear, right, what you're imagining, right, especially for all my women who already have their whole, you know, next five years imagined.

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Right, that is not the same thing as hoping for the thing that God has promised you.

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That's good.

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You have to be able to separate out and only the word.

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That is a two edged sword that can cut between the bone and the marrow and the soul and the spirit can tell you, help you to differentiate between what's the thing that you're supposed to be hoping for, that I promised you and that I have for you.

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And where did your imagination go left, you know, where did you branch off Right?

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And so I think a lot of that molding is God, molding you back into the form where your imagination, the Bible, says his thoughts are not like our thoughts, his ways are not our ways, they're higher, right.

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And so God has to bring us into the fold of his plan, his thoughts right, his expected end for you.

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He has to mold you into that thing, and a lot of times it's not going to look like what you imagine, but what you can set your hope on is that God is good and he only has good things for me.

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And what God is going to bring me, the word that God has been putting in my spirit over and, over and over, is the word splendid.

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He said it's going to be splendid.

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That means it's going to be of an excellent manner and it's going to be glorious, right.

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When we talk about the splendor of a king, when you think about everything that God is arraigned in and that he's, that he's clothed with, everything is splendid, right.

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What God is bringing to you is pasture, is beyond your imagination, exceedingly and abundantly, above all that we could ever ask in our thing.

00:41:46.056 --> 00:41:52.541
So it's bigger and so yeah, yeah, yeah, you're going to get, you're going to get molded and shaped to believe.

00:41:53.525 --> 00:41:59.791
Can we, can we, can we land back at this different version of you piece?

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Why?

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Yeah, because this is why.

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Because I think, at the end of the day, god changes you before he changes it, if that makes sense.

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So God is more concerned about changing you than changing it.

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And we see that over and over and over, because we see circumstances remain but people changing.

00:42:27.574 --> 00:42:31.597
Ooh yeah, and so Ooh Ooh.

00:42:31.597 --> 00:42:33.539
Sorry, that was good.

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Circumstances change, but what was said said, said we see, circumstances remain the same often but people change.

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We see God changing people in the midst of the same circumstance, because God is more concerned about changing you than changing it.

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So if you if you, if you, if you approach this idea of hope with that truth in mind, then the hope is not in the it, it's in.

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How is God?

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I hope that God makes me Differently so that I can experience what he has for me differently.

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Say that again, Ruth Abigail has for me differently.

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Say that again, Ruth Abigail.

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I hope that you make that God makes me differently, so that I could experience what he has differently.

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See and that I think if we all at the beginning of this year, if you can ask God, lord, help me to see where I am, the way that you see it yes, you would approach the moment differently.

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I know that for a lot of us, you know we talked about we are in a moment of God Like this is a moment where God is intending to launch us into something greater, into something better, into something splendid.

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But if you could take a moment, because the moment has to make you, we are made by the moments that God allows us to move into, allows us to move into and allows us to move out of, to move into, through and out of Right.

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You're made by the moments Right, and you, right now in your life, are in a moment of God that is making you into something.

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That is making you into something that can, that can carry the weight of what you're asking God for.

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That is correct.

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And if you learn to see the moment and prize the moment, even when it's hard, even when it's stressful, even when you don't understand it, even when you feel clouded, even when you feel fatigued like I do right, even when you feel all of those things, if you could take a step back and say but this moment is making me for a glorious moment that's even that far exceeds the moment that I am.

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The moment that you are is making you for a moment that will exceed where you are.

00:44:51.907 --> 00:44:53.954
Yes, yes.

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Ruth has a thinking face on.

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I do, I, I do, I, I just um, when, when, when you, when you, when you change.

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Okay, I'll say it like this I'm trying to think of a, of a, of a, something very simple, but, um, sleep, we all have to sleep.

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Sleep is all like we go to sleep, right?

00:45:15.856 --> 00:45:17.938
Um, everybody sleeps.

00:45:17.938 --> 00:45:23.637
That's a part of more and more in these middle of the right I mean your sleep.

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Sleep is is what it is right, but you experience sleep differently depending on how healthy you are.

00:45:29.791 --> 00:45:43.465
So, um, I can eat, you know, cookies and ice cream before bed and sleep one way, versus drinking water and eating fruit and the same sleep and feel totally differently.

00:45:43.465 --> 00:45:54.538
My point is perspective lives in what.

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What changes often, and when God changes us, the thing that we're experiencing, even if it's the same, will change, because our perspective, because we're healthier we're just we're healthier and we experience it differently.

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And, to your point, the moment that shapes you is preparing you for the moment, so that you can be healthy in that next one.

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And so I think that this we, we have to be okay with walking our like, with walking with God through these moments so that we are prepared for the moments we are hoping for.

00:46:34.938 --> 00:46:36.079
I think that's one of the most.

00:46:41.324 --> 00:46:48.018
I really honestly, it grieves me sometimes to see people go after something they're not ready for.

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I mean, you know, and I'm saying that, like, even for me, there have definitely been times in my life where it's like I really want this and it's like you are not ready for that.

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And honestly, the grace of God keeps us sometimes, I will say, sometimes he lets us get in and see that we're not ready.

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But I think sometimes I'm grateful for the grace of God saying just hold on, go through the process, go through the process, go through the journey.

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I could shun that and do it myself and experience whatever comes on the other side of that.

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But a lot of times, man, people are wanting stuff and it's like I really want this and I'm going to do all this stuff.

00:47:28.588 --> 00:47:30.971
I need to get it, and it's like you can get it.

00:47:30.971 --> 00:47:43.067
And I promise you, just from experience, from the outside, looking in, I'm telling you you're going to get this and you're not going to be able to keep it because you don't, you're not ready for it and that.

00:47:43.067 --> 00:47:47.878
And so when we I think again going back, I mean we were obviously talking about hope.

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I mean that's what we're talking about.

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To be honest with you y'all.

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We were talking about, we were really trying to figure out let's just let you in on a little plan and stuff.

00:47:53.938 --> 00:48:03.293
We honestly, we had talked about this, we had this conversation planning conversation twice, we took notes twice and twice these notes have been erased.

00:48:03.704 --> 00:48:05.672
In some way we have nowhere where they are.

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Delete it.

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Gone.

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We came on here being like all right, Lord, whatever you want us to say, we just going to say so it's hope.

00:48:11.525 --> 00:48:20.179
So I think that the hope part again, and I I probably feel like a broken record.

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But is your hope placed in the thing or?

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And?

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And is your hope placed in the thing changing or in the hope placed in you changing and like are you hoping that God changes you?

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are you really?

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Hoping for that that's a mindset shift.

00:48:36.815 --> 00:48:39.929
It's a mindset shift, it's a mindset shift man Most.

00:48:39.929 --> 00:48:43.115
Of the time we don't ask God to change us, we ask God to change it.

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We ask God to change the thing around us and we are.

00:48:49.614 --> 00:49:01.130
We are often afraid to ask God to change us and my and I and I think the challenge is unlearn that mindset Start asking God, say I hope that you change me.

00:49:01.692 --> 00:49:01.992
Yeah.

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And sometimes that's all you need.

00:49:05.047 --> 00:49:08.614
And I want to encourage the saints and friends.

00:49:08.614 --> 00:49:13.130
Saints and friends, I want to encourage y'all is that it's not always that deep.

00:49:13.130 --> 00:49:16.356
A lot of times it really is in the simple things.

00:49:16.356 --> 00:49:17.298
Yeah, that's right.

00:49:17.298 --> 00:49:19.771
A lot of times you know it really is.

00:49:19.771 --> 00:49:29.887
You know, the Bible says obedience is better than sacrifice, and there are some simple things that we are missing out on because we didn't take God seriously when he told us to do it.

00:49:29.887 --> 00:49:36.634
Right and I'm going to say this for accountability's sake Right, the Lord told me, jaquita, go back to the gym.

00:49:36.634 --> 00:49:40.318
You know, I actually love going to the gym once I get there.

00:49:41.298 --> 00:49:43.382
Once I'm there, I'm like this is such a great time.

00:49:43.382 --> 00:49:49.996
I should come more often, you know, but I make every excuse for why I can't get there.

00:49:49.996 --> 00:49:51.144
But when I'm there I'm like I hear God better.

00:49:51.144 --> 00:50:03.865
I'm tuned into the spirit because I'm practicing that discipline of focusing in on where, on the moment, god has me in and in the obedience of the moment God meets me there, Right.

00:50:03.865 --> 00:50:19.789
And I know that there's a lot tied to my obedience to God's simple request and a lot of times you are waiting on God to tell you to do the deep thing when you have missed the simple instructions, y'all.

00:50:19.789 --> 00:50:21.876
God cares about your entire life.

00:50:21.876 --> 00:50:23.487
He cares about your.

00:50:23.487 --> 00:50:25.936
You are not compartmentalized in his eyes.

00:50:25.936 --> 00:50:29.711
Everything about you, he cares about Everything about you.

00:50:29.711 --> 00:50:31.385
He has a plan for right.

00:50:31.385 --> 00:50:37.594
And so when he says something like fast, simple, right.

00:50:37.594 --> 00:50:43.387
When he says something like time with me Simple.

00:50:43.387 --> 00:50:48.688
When he says don't answer that phone call Simple, that's good.

00:50:48.688 --> 00:50:56.166
When he says, take a walk Simple, be sensitive to simple instructions, simple, be sensitive to simple instructions.

00:50:56.166 --> 00:51:03.610
And then that's when you will hear the deeper things of God, when you have already answered the simple call Right.

00:51:03.751 --> 00:51:09.094
A lot of times we trying to skip steps because, especially for my seasoned saints.

00:51:09.094 --> 00:51:12.376
You know you'd be like let me tell you another thing.

00:51:12.376 --> 00:51:13.237
The Lord told me.

00:51:13.237 --> 00:51:23.501
He was like hey, jaquita, you need to read and not just keep living off of your memory of the word Right, because I'll read it and I'll be like OK, yeah, that was good.

00:51:23.501 --> 00:51:24.963
You know, I read it a thousand times.

00:51:24.963 --> 00:51:27.186
You know, I know this.

00:51:27.186 --> 00:51:27.608
I can recite this.

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And the Lord was like.

00:51:28.170 --> 00:51:31.750
The Lord said there's power in the reading of it, there's power in you.

00:51:31.750 --> 00:51:37.668
That's why I keep a hard copy.

00:51:37.668 --> 00:51:38.793
I want y'all to get you a hard copy.

00:51:38.793 --> 00:51:39.958
All right, get you, and I got a couple of them.

00:51:39.958 --> 00:51:41.204
Okay, I'm about to start a little evangelism ministry.

00:51:41.204 --> 00:51:42.349
You're going to get a little packet.

00:51:42.530 --> 00:51:46.485
You're going to get a little bag with a little Bible, a little notebook and a little pen.

00:51:46.485 --> 00:51:49.652
Okay, because I want brain hard copies back.

00:51:49.652 --> 00:51:52.235
Okay, brain paper Bibles back.

00:51:52.235 --> 00:51:55.902
All right, sorry, distraction, right, but we right, but we but.

00:51:55.902 --> 00:51:58.126
But there's, that's a simple instruction.

00:51:58.126 --> 00:52:02.396
God's saying just read again and and not read me.

00:52:02.396 --> 00:52:15.233
All right, I got a scripture in, but really, just sit down and take time to just read the bible, and allowing, because in the reading there's something that's getting deposited in your spirit, right.

00:52:15.233 --> 00:52:26.737
But when we're talking about preparing for the moments that we're hoping for, it's the simple instructions that are going to lead you to the deeper revelations and into those promises that we've been waiting for.

00:52:26.737 --> 00:52:28.688
It's the simple instructions.

00:52:28.688 --> 00:52:32.217
God takes us step by step, not leaps and bounds all the time.

00:52:32.217 --> 00:52:37.592
Sometimes it's step by step and you got to follow the simple instructions bounds all the time.

00:52:37.614 --> 00:52:39.945
Sometimes it's step by step and you got to follow the simple instructions.

00:52:39.945 --> 00:52:48.971
So this concept that you're talking about is a concept we talk about on my leadership cohort and it's leverage right.

00:52:48.971 --> 00:53:00.407
So the idea of if you have, if I have this and if you're not, if you're watching, you'll see this, or if you listen later, you may not be able to see it, but if I have this, this is on an edge of something right, and the goal is for this to tip over.

00:53:00.407 --> 00:53:04.878
It's on the edge and all it needs is something small to tip it.

00:53:04.878 --> 00:53:06.025
The question is what?

00:53:06.025 --> 00:53:08.829
How much weight does it need to get tipped over?

00:53:08.829 --> 00:53:18.271
So sometimes, to your point, we're on the edge of stuff and it's not that deep, but if you follow the simple instructions, it'll tip and it'll fall over.

00:53:18.271 --> 00:53:27.677
Yeah, that's exactly what you need to do, and so y'all got some promises on the edge, oh y'all got some stuff on the edge, go ahead, I'm done.

00:53:27.958 --> 00:53:28.987
It's some stuff on the edge.

00:53:28.987 --> 00:53:34.990
I believe that there's some stuff on the edge and the question is what's the leveraging point?

00:53:34.990 --> 00:53:35.831
What's the lever?

00:53:35.831 --> 00:53:36.833
What's the leveraging point?

00:53:36.833 --> 00:53:38.797
What's the leveraging instruction?

00:53:38.797 --> 00:53:39.719
What is it?

00:53:39.958 --> 00:53:47.978
For me, last year, the leverage instruction was stop doing certain things, say no to this.

00:53:48.639 --> 00:54:05.405
That was the simple leveraging instruction that put me in a position to now do what I need to do in this next year, right, so you have to find what your leverage point is, because I think sometimes we are, um, we're so, we're so focused on the big thing.

00:54:05.405 --> 00:54:12.851
We're so focused on, you know, this is the vision I have and the and this is what, and I need to do all these different things to get to what I see.

00:54:12.851 --> 00:54:17.418
And I need to do this and that, and I you know, but that might be true.

00:54:17.418 --> 00:54:32.333
But the beautiful thing about leverage again, I'll do my little bad example here that I can't really do very effectively, but, like, if you see everything that comes down, everything that's that that is affected by this tip, everything behind it falls as well.

00:54:32.333 --> 00:54:38.315
Right, so you don't have to have, you don't have to worry about all this, all this.

00:54:38.315 --> 00:54:44.431
If all you need to do is hit that, that makes sense, so you don't have to worry about the 10 things you need to do.

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If you find the one thing, that will affect the 10.

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Ruth got her preaching voice on to get loud with y'all.

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That's the that's the.

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That's the simplicity.

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I think that Jaquita is talking about Listen for all my preachers.

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I know you hear the title.

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The title is the Tipping Point.

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Come on y'all heard it too.

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I know y'all heard it too.

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Oh no, oh God.

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Here we go.

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Let somebody talk to your neighbor and say the Tipping Point, oh, boy.

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It was right there.

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I know y'all picked it up in the spirit too.

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My God, y'all need to help Jaquita, okay, all right, all right.

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Anyway, that's that, and so I think that's.

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But seriously, though, I have found that particular point in my life like understand the power of leverage.

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Like man, you will.

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You will do less work and get more done if you do the right work at the right time.

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Girls talk about it.

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Yes, and it's something when you think about the weight, when you said that if you get that one thing to tip over, everything else is coming with it that one thing, all it requires is a simple, a simple level of obedience.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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That's it, that's it.

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Sometimes it's not just obedience, sometimes it's God.

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I trust you.

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That's it.

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God, my hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness.

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Sometimes it's just a recommitment, sometimes it's just taking that one step that God told you to take, and that's the tipping point for everything that you've been waiting for to fall into your face.

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Let me tell y'all something.

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If y'all need a word for 2025, or at least for this month, for January, for the first quarter it's the tipping point, and this is going to be our prayer point.

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Lord, what is the thing?

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Where do I need to focus my time, my energy, my attention?

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What is the simple act of obedience that you're waiting for?

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For that thing to tip over in my favor?

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There is an abundant amount of favor that God has for us this year, and all he's waiting for is for us to commit to do that one thing that he's put on your heart.

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It's one thing.

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Stop waiting on the list.

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Y'all making lists of resolutions.

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One thing, man, one thing.

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Take this, get that one thing.

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God has a thing that he's saying.

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This would change the whole game.

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This would change your entire life.

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It's one thing, that's it.

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It's one thing.

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And say God, what is the thing, that's it one thing.

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And say god, what is the thing?

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and, and, and, build your hope back up on the fact that god has something sitting on the edge for you.

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He has something sitting, y'all okay, he has it's sitting on the edge.

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It's sitting on the edge and all you need y'all I'm trying to tell y'all but share it with a friend.

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If you haven't shared the live yet, share the live with a friend, put it on your page, because I'm about to tip into my abundance.

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I don't know what y'all doing.

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I'm about to tip into my blessings in my favor, all right.

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I'm about to tip into everything.

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God, we're gonna tip toe in the 2025.

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That's what we're going to do.

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We're going to tip right on over, okay, but ask God, what is the one thing?

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that if?

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I set my feet to walk in the path that God has me to go in.

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My simple act of obedience will begin the whole marathon of things working out in my favor.

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And not that those things don't come with work, not that they don't come with an extra amount of focus and more knows because you're more focused, because you're more clear.

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But you have to know it's about the tip over in your favor and that that was good to me.

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That's good man, hey man, come on, man, like that's that, Look, that's I really sitting on the edge.

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That's cool.

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Y'all took her out with that boy, she.

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You did so good containing yourself.

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I'm telling you because you contained some stuff.

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I felt it and you did, and I, I, I did well, you did well you y'all took her out.

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Producer Joy can't go in and edit it, so I gotta.

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I'm trying to be tame but y'all took her out.

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But I believe, I believe that I really believe that so many things are on the other side of the simple obedience, simple so many things, um, and I really, I really, I really, I.

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We encourage you all to unlearn that progress has to be complex.

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It just doesn't.

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Sometimes it's Wow.

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Yeah, sometimes it's easy.

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Yeah, my Lord, yeah.

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Man, that was good.

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That was good to us.

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I hope it was good to you.

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That was good.

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That was good.

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We said we were going to be good and keep it at one hour.

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Okay, and I'm proud of us myself personally, because had we been just recording this, oh, we would have went on and you would have let the glory fall and we would have stayed all night, but y'all got to go to work in the morning.

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Okay, all right, we all got to get up early in the morning.

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But listen, y'all, this is so good.

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This was our first time going.

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Live me and Ruth Abigail.

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I appreciate you all coming and hanging with us.

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I appreciate all the friends and family coming through.

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I appreciate some people that I've never met before, but I'm so excited to be able to commune with y'all and to just talk about the goodness of the Lord in the 2025.

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Okay, because there are some amazing things coming and we are just grateful.

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We're we're super grateful to be able to have this community and to have this time with you all.

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So so this was good Like and we're excited about this year and this new series that's coming up.

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So, for those of y'all we're going to we're going to start dropping our new series here and this.

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This time we're going to be talking about unlearning things we learned around the kitchen table.

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What are things that we learned in our homes, in our environments, in our communities that, at this season, are not as useful as they used to be?

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We need to unlearn that, and so we're going to be digging in and so I'm excited about that, and you know.

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So, thank you all.

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Like we just said, thank you all for rocking with us.

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This is the beginning of the third year of the unlearned podcast and, um, we are here for it and we are building this unlearning community and y'all are building it with us.

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Man, so like, like, share, comment, um, and let us you know, let us know, let us know some of the things that you would like to talk about.

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um, you know, we take a moment, because ruth abigail skated over that right.

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I've only been on the show not even a year yet, but three years of her being consistent, of her seeing a thing through, of her providing consistent content.

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This girl don't really miss a week unless she really has to right.

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She has been dedicated and consistent and she has built a platform that will bless the people of God, and so when we talk about being on the edge and simple obedience, tipping something over, that's what it looks like, what she's done with this podcast.

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So I wanted to give her her flowers while we're live, and so that's amazing.

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Man well, I appreciate that I'm not nice to her all the time.

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She's not.

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I don't really know what to do with that.

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And put it in your pocket, Other than say you know, thank you, I will, and so will Facebook and YouTube, so I can always go back in case I need a little encouragement that I'm not getting.

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So no, I'm just playing.

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I appreciate that and I'm grateful to be able to do this with my crew, and so, y'all, let's.

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So just check us out.

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If you haven't subscribed to the channel, to the YouTube channel, do that.

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If you haven't subscribed to the podcast on Apple, spotify, google, wherever you listen to podcasts, make sure to do that so you can always know when new ones drop.

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And we are excited, y'all.

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This is gonna be a great year, and so we're gonna see you guys.

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And we are excited y'all.

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This is going to be a great year.

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Yeah, it is, and so we're going to see you guys next week.

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Tune in to Freedom Friday.

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This Friday as well, we got a brand new one of those coming out.

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So, yeah, that's it, y'all.

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All right y'all Tip on over, let's start tipping Tip on over, let's start tipping and let's continue unlearning together so that we can all experience more freedom Peace.

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Thank you once again for listening to the Unlearned Podcast.

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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.