2026: Don't Be Lot's Wife- Warning: Ep. 10: Cross the Threshold into Your Future

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Hello and welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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I want to wish you all a happy, happy new year.

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We are on episode 10 of.

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Of our 2026th year when heaven and earth intersects.

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The title is The Warning, Don't Look Back.

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And I'm your host, Connie Morris, and I'm so glad to be with you on this New Year's Eve, right?

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New Year's Eve, getting ready for what God has for us.

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We're in the starting blocks. And like I said, I never got to get in the starting

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blocks because I was not a fast runner. I was a distance runner,

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so we started standing up.

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So we're in our positions waiting for the whistle or the little gun to go off. So let's get started.

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Today's message comes with a prophetic heaviness, a seriousness, and a holy urgency.

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I just want to be honest with you that this message, these messages,

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these podcasts that I've done, they have been heavy.

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I can feel God's heaviness, his weightiness sitting upon me,

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so heavy regarding this word this year.

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Very, very heavy. I'm not called to be a prophet. I'm called to be a teacher,

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but I have prophetic messages.

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Whenever you spend time with God, God always gives you an outlook, a future.

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So you don't have to be a prophet to understand that he likes to show you.

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I think God likes to share his secrets with us.

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And so he will show you some things that's coming your way. So you won't be

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surprised. So you can be ready.

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So hopefully you've been listening to the podcast and getting ready for your,

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but as we are on this new year's Eve day, I want to look and tell you.

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Don't look back. This message is heavy.

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There is one warning God is releasing in 2026.

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One message echoing across Hebrew year 5786 is this.

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You cannot hold on to the old and step into the new at the same time. I want to repeat that.

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You cannot hold on to the old and step into the new.

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The same time. What God is doing, what God is shaking, what God is aligning,

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what God is separating requires your forward movement.

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And the enemy's greatest strategy in a year of divine transition is to keep

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you tied to what God already delivered you from.

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This is the episode where we confront the spirit of looking back.

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Whoa, God says do not look back, look forward. He's a forward moving God.

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The Hebrew year 5-7-8-6, the year of the threshold and the warning.

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We learn that 5-7-8-6 represents a boundary, a crossing, a divine separation,

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a movement, a forward movement, a moment where heaven draws a line,

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and a season where God says, not there, here, where he's directing you to your right position.

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But it also represents a holy warning not to return to what God has brought you out of.

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5, 7, 8, 6, is it not a year for, here we go, revisiting old bondages,

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reopening old rooms, reconnecting with old cycles.

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I want to pause here because old cycles, As soon as you are getting ready to

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run this race, somebody from your past shows up.

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So remember, go through your phone, delete old stuff so you don't have to worry

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about reconnecting with old cycles.

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Returning to old behaviors.

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That goes with old cycles. You're hanging with the same people who you've been

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delivered from. They call you, hey, let's do this on this day.

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You're like, no, I can't. You're too good for that? Yes.

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A little bit too good for that right now. I'm on a forward movement with God.

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It's not like when you say God or Jesus, people run anyway. So maybe use that. Okay.

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Re-entertaining past relationships, falling back into old sins,

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responding to old temptations, looking back in 5, 7, 8, 6, 1026 is dangerous.

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The warning of Lot's wife.

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The message for 2026. Let's look at some scripture. Genesis 19, verse 7, 17 tells us.

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This is a story of Lot and his wife.

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The angels came to rescue them from Sodom and Gomorrah. And this was an urgent message for them.

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They had to go because God was getting ready to destroy that area.

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And so let's pick it up there. Escape for your life. Do not look behind you.

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Escape to the mountain. God gave three commands. Move, don't look back,

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go higher. Lot's wife obeyed the first command, but died at the second.

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What can we say about that?

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When someone tells you to escape for your life, you start to run.

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But then you, out of curiosity, out of whatever causes you to look back, you look back.

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But she was warned, don't look back or you're going to turn into a pillar.

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I got to check the Bible on that one.

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But she looked back and then she stayed. She was stuck.

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She can't go nowhere. She died right there. Boom.

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Genesis 19, 26. But his wife looked back at and became a pillar of salt.

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She didn't die because she walked back. She died because she looked back.

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Her heart was still in Sodom.

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Her longing was still in the past. Her attachment was still tied to a place God judged.

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And that is a warning for 2026.

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Your eyes must match your destiny. Your focus must match your calling.

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Your heart must match your assignment.

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You know, when you, when God moves you.

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It's so interesting because I moved to Nebraska. I have a sister there.

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I have two sisters over in Michigan and my mom.

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And my younger sister saying, Connie, I'll leave the light on for you.

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I was like, you can turn your light off. I'm not coming back.

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She started looking for jobs for me back in Michigan.

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You see how easy that is? You know, you go like, wait a minute.

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And I entertained it just for a minute until the Lord says, no,

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I'm not sending you back. So don't look back.

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I'm sending you forward. Whatever I have for you is right here where I've called

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you to be. That's powerful, right?

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So a lot of times it's tempting to entertain that idea of going back where God

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has delivered you. But don't do that.

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Your eyes must match your destiny. That's forward.

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Your focus must match your calling. That's higher. Your heart must match your

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assignment. That's happening sooner than later.

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What looking back means spiritually?

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Looking back is not just a physical act. It's an art and heart posture.

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You know, I remember I was looking at those jobs and my heart wasn't there.

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I said, I don't want to go back. I'm looking at it. It's entertaining.

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But it wasn't like, it was just like, no, that's not where else you can feel it in your heart.

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That's not where I'm supposed to go. And I don't care what it looks like here in Nebraska.

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This is where God's placed me. This is where my church is.

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This is where I'm staying. So looking back is not a physical act. It's a heart posture.

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That means sometimes we don't even turn our heart. God takes us to a new place,

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but we're still kind of playing the ropes.

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We're on the lawn looking for an opportunity to go backwards.

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I tell my sister, there's nothing back there for me. If I need to come back, I'll come and get mom.

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She can stay with me in Nebraska. So you look back.

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What caused us to look back? Let's just take a pause there.

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When you look back, you romanticize what God removed.

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It was a prayer for me to leave Nebraska, leave the state, but I don't know where to go.

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Not leave Nebraska, leave Michigan. And the Lord says, next thing you know,

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opportunity came and I snatched it up.

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I don't think I even thought twice about it. I maybe thought about a minute

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or so about leaving. but I put my condo up for sale and that baby sold like within the hour.

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So I was like, oh no, you are leaving now. You can't go back.

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And so once that happened, I had to look forward. I had to go find a place in

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Nebraska because my home was now sold.

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You replay old trauma, return to old relationships. It didn't work the first

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time. You know that. So why would you return?

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Bible says, return back to your vomit. Come on now.

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The guy or the girl wasn't right

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to begin with and so what would make it

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right because it looks fresh it looks new maybe you're saying that

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i haven't had a boyfriend in a while or a girlfriend in a while right but then

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you're saying like no god can do some new things he said in isaiah 43 19 doing

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a new thing so your new thing is where you're headed it's where your destiny

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is it's where your assignment is it's where you're calling it it's that the

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way it's not behind you we visit old sin cycles.

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We opened doors, God closed.

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Clinging to expired excitement. That could be me. It's expired.

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How you know it's expired? Because you didn't get the position.

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It becomes immediately expired.

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And so God said, don't sit there. Don't start no drama over it.

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I closed that door on purpose for a reason.

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Realizing past season. You ever have friends that show up saying,

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girl, we just have so much fun and let's go do that one more time.

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And you can see in the world that when people go backwards, they don't never

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get to go for it. They die.

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Things happen, odd things, crazy things happen to you when you go back to your vomit, right?

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And your old season was only good because that's all you knew,

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but you know so much more now.

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So you have to go towards your new and just enjoy what's forward, not what's behind you.

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Refuse to let go emotionally. Yeah, our body's physically here,

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but our emotions is back where we were.

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That never works. That emotion will pull you all the way back and you'll be going in circles.

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God calls that a double-minded man. He will be unstable in all his ways.

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And so, I mean, you're not trustworthy. So God is like, okay,

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girl, I need you to get it together. I need you to pay attention to me. Whatever behind you

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is gone. Try to rescue what God is judging. Oh my gosh, we save our children.

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We save our friends and we see they're going through something.

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Why? Because they rejected God and God's saying, let them sit in that because

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I'm going to help them, but they have to come to me.

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God wants a personal relationship with them. You already have one.

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So you need to get out of God's way.

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And then finally, questions God's leading because it feels unfamiliar.

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Let me tell you, off everything I've done since 2022 has been unfamiliar.

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But has it been productive? Yes, it has been productive.

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I want you to write a book. I wrote the first one.

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I want you to write a second one. I want, okay, I wrote the second one.

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I want you to start a podcast.

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Don't know any, did not know one thing about a podcast.

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I want you to write devotionals. I want you, All the things that I'm doing now

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in my new assignment, in my new space, I've never done that before.

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So God is going to give you some things that you've never done before.

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You might have to go research it, get some information, get some wisdom, ask God for some wisdom.

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But it's in your forward movement. It's not in your backwards movement.

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What's the cost? Because it's a cost when you look back. When we cross that

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threshold at midnight, wherever it is where you live, and you look back, there's a cost to that.

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It's going to cost you something. Let's check it out and see.

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When Lot's wife looked back, she froze.

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She lost movement. She lost destiny. She lost alignment.

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She lost protection. She lost the glory.

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She lost future promises. And most important, she lost her life.

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In the year of shaking and glory, looking back can spiritually freeze you.

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It can freeze your purpose, freeze your growth, freeze your momentum,

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freeze your discernment, freeze your spiritual sensitivity.

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5, 7, 8, 6 is a year where God requires forward only movement.

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Why God is warning us now. Why is this so important?

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He tells us in episode 10, I need you to go forward because everything looks

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so good right now because we're not at the threshold yet, right?

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But right now, today, we're at the threshold.

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It's December 31st. So we're right at the threshold.

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That means right here, right before you cross over, don't be surprised if all

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hell tries to break loose, but it shouldn't because you've already planned this.

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I prepped you way in advance for what was going to happen on this threshold day.

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So why is God warning us right now? Because in 2026, we'll expose old wounds,

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shake loose old identities, bring back old temptations. There's going to be some temptation here.

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Reveal past attachments, test your resolve, press your loyalties and reveal

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what you refuse to let go.

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So God's saying, whatever you don't let go, it's going to show up anyway.

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It's going to show up. He's going to notice some things about you.

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Did she really let go or not?

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When heaven touches earth, everything reacts.

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The question is, will you move with God or look back?

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The prophetic call to move forward. Scripture echoes this warning over and over.

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Philippians 3.13 tells us, forget what lies behind.

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Isaiah 43.18 verses 18 and 19, do not dwell on the former things.

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Hebrews 10.39, we are not those who shrink back.

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Luke 9.62, no one who looks back is fit for the kingdom work.

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And Matthew 24.7, let the one on the housetop not go back.

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God is clear. If you look back, you lose momentum, clarity, vision, and destiny.

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What must you leave behind to enter into 2026?

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You still got time, so let's check it out. Old disappointments, old identities,

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cycles of trauma, people not assigned to your future, familiar bondage,

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fear and double-mindedness, emotional soul ties, unforgiveness, religious routines,

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comfort zones, people who drain your oil, anything that competes with your obedience.

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5, 7, 8, 6 draws a line. You cannot cross carry yesterday.

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How do you guard yourself from looking back? I mean, we got time. It's still 2025.

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And so before we cross that threshold, there's some things you're going to leave in the 2025.

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First of all, you want to close doors firmly. How do you do that?

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You close the door, the relationship or whatever it is, and you delete the number.

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You block it, you delete it, whatever, they can't reach you.

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If you're on Facebook and all these social medias, that's kind of hard to get

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rid of people because they find a way to find you, but you can still block them on your DMs.

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You can get rid of some folks.

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But first tell them, hey, I'm doing something new. Sorry. Boom. Let it be.

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Guard your memory. Not every memory deserves meditation.

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We do think on things like, I wonder if that would be better if I would have

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did that. When God says close it, that was the end of that relationship,

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the end of that story, the end of that job. Let it be.

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Break emotional ties. Cut the intercourse to what God severed.

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So God severed it in the natural, but you're going to have to sever it in the

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spiritual and emotional realm. Number four, stay in scripture.

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The word stabilizes forward movement.

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I love that. Keep your circle pure. People who romanticize the past,

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can make you miss the future.

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Friends have a habit of doing that, especially when they see you're doing well.

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Guess who I saw? I have a sister who loves keeping track of all her old friends.

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I don't. I delete, you know.

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I delete, block, whatever I need to do because I go forward.

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And some of our friends are like, whoa, you didn't even tell us you were leaving.

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Well, sometimes you have to just go. Stay alert. The enemy loves familiar interests.

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He loves familiar people. You want to stay alert. You want to keep that door locked. Move quickly.

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Delayed obedience creates opportunities to look back.

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And finally, number eight, stay filled with oil. Empty lamps always drip backwards.

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You do not want to get stuck.

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I teach this class on like restoration over addiction.

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And these are some of these are some great, great things.

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If I could teach it in that class regarding scripture, like keeping your oil,

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staying filled with oil.

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And it says here, empty lamps always drift back.

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Anything empty or emotional that you don't have control over,

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you will actually veer most to the comfort zone.

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We're not made to fear, to the uncomfort zone.

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We want to go back to what we think is comfortable when God is trying to move you out of that zone.

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Repeat after me the prophetic decree.

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Declare this with authority. I refuse to look back.

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I release the past. I break emotional attachment to old seasons.

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I close every door God has shut.

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I set my eyes on the future God has prepared for me. In 2026,

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I move forward. I advance.

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I cross over. I will not be Lot's wife. I will be the remnant. In Jesus' name, amen.

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I know if you said that with your heart, I know I felt that one.

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And then let's pray. Lord, thank you for this prophetic warning.

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Give every listener the strength to release their paths, the courage to move

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forward, and the discipline to guard their focus.

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Cut every tie that leads backwards. Break every chain tied to yesterday.

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Remove the desire to return to what you delivered us from.

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Place a holy fire within us to press toward your calling, the high calling.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Wish you a happy, happy new year, and I look forward to what we have planned

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for this year with Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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Happy new year!