2026: The Crossing: Ep. 4 : Step Over Into Your 2026 Promise

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast, where we pray bold prayers,

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walk in bold faith, and expect a bold God to show up.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and we open every episode with the same unshakable

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confidence Jabez had in 1 Chronicles 4.10.

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Lord, bless me indeed, enlarge my territory, let your hand be with me,

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keep me from evil, and keep me from causing pain. And the Bible says,

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God granted his request.

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So if you're here today, get ready, because we're praying big,

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believing big, and walking in everything God promised. Let's begin.

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

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I'm your host Connie Morris and today we are on episode four,

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The Crossing, leaving what was to enter what will be.

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We are in our series, 2026, the year when heaven and earth intersects.

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Wow. Hope you're enjoying these episodes.

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They are powerful, getting us ready for God to come and make a personal visit

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with us. So we talked about the shaking.

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We talked about God speaking loudly.

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But today we will talk about something deeply personal and profoundly prophetic.

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It's the crossing, leaving what was to enter what will be. Every major move of God required.

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Requires a crossing. You cannot encounter heaven on earth while holding on to yesterday.

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You cannot step into 2026, the Hebrew year of 5786, while dragging the mindset of last season.

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Crossing is an act of faith.

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Crossing is letting go. Crossing is obedience.

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Crossing is trust. This episode is about the spiritual Jordan River every believer must cross.

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Hebrew year 5786, the year of the threshold.

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In Hebrew imagery, 5786 symbolizes a threshold,

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an edge, a border, a crossing point, a divine line that you must step over,

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a moment where heaven pushes you into the new.

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5786 is not a passive year. It is a movement year, a year where God says you

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cannot stay where you are.

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You must cross over.

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Just like Israel, the church is standing at a riverbank, one foot in the wilderness

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and one foot in the promise.

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And God says, step forward. The water will move when you do.

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The water will move when you move. Oh my gosh, that's so powerful.

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I just want to take a pause here just to kind of marinate in what we just said,

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what I just said. It says this is a year of movement.

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So how many of you waiting for God to move?

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God says, I'm going to push you right into your new.

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The other one we talked about, shaking away all the old.

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And this podcast is about movement, getting you into your new.

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So a lot of times we say, I can't go because my brother, my mom,

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my sister, everybody got a story why they can't move from their comfort zone.

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But God says, not this year. I'm not going to ask you to move. Just going to push you.

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We got things to do. You ever had your mom tell you like, it's like sometimes

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if you're moving too slow, I don't know about your mom, but it's like,

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if you're moving too, my mom in her younger years, she was always on a mission

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getting things done. And I picked up some of those things.

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So it doesn't really take me long to make a decision to like,

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if I get ready to do a purge of my closet, everything goes, if I can't fit it, it needs to go.

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No matter how new it is, I should never bought it. What a waste, right?

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But God's saying to us this year that it's not a passive year.

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You cannot stay where you were.

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You must cross over.

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Let's keep going. Scripture alignment. God always calls us to cross.

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Let's look at Joshua 1, 2.

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Arise, go over this Jordan, you and all these people, into the land I am giving.

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Your inheritance is on the other side of your obedience.

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So Joshua had to take those same complaining and whining people on a journey.

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And this time, we're going to cross Jordan. Now, Jordan was not as big.

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As the Red Sea, but they still had to move. And we knew how hard that was.

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Let's look at Isaiah 43, 18 to 19.

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It says, forget the former things. Behold, I'm doing a new thing.

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It says, you cannot carry the old into the new.

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Check that out. What is God telling you to let go?

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That's why I'm giving this message early in December. So when you get ready

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to cross over into the new year of 2026, you've already began to get mentally prepared.

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You know, a lot of times you think about, I did some very hard jobs.

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So policing was one of those jobs. You had to go through the academy.

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You had to be trained all the time. It was always training, training, training, training.

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And so that it developed in me kind of a mental strength, a mental perseverance in my mind.

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So when it's time to do something hard or something that's going to take a little longer than expected.

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I just kind of go into that zone. Like he says, I want you to do this.

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And you look at the pitch, like I wrote two books and writing books,

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they seem easy, but it's not. It's a lot of work involved.

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And so you have to sit on that project. It takes about three to six months just

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to sit on it. They go through the editing to find the right photos in it.

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It's a lot of work, right?

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But when God gives you that strength and that endurance to do it,

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you just go and do it. That's why Isaiah 43 feels so strong in my heart today,

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because he wants us to forget the former thing.

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Behold, I'm doing a new thing.

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And then it continues, can you not perceive it?

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Can you not perceive that God wants to do something new in your life?

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New is like never seen before.

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That it'll surprise you. But first thing we have to do is get rid of the old.

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Let's go to Philippians 3 verse 13. Forget what lies behind and press towards what is ahead.

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Press towards what ahead. When you're pressing towards what is ahead,

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you're going to have to separate yourself from some things, some distractions,

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some people, some places.

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So crossing requires a separation. Let's go to Luke 9, 62.

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It says, no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom.

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Looking back disqualifies you from moving forward. Why is that?

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You know, sometimes we get so caught up. Like we might be real comfortable in our job.

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Everything is very good. You know, we're moving along.

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We're getting promoted. Things are working really well for you.

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But then God says, it's time for you to switch.

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And you go like, you start counting like, wow, what happens here?

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But when you don't move, when God tells you to move, you get caught up with

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the rest of the people. He might tell you to move because he about to close that business.

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He about to fire that boss and somebody else will come in a lot worse than he was.

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You know, and so when he says, when you put your hand to the plow,

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when you start following me with all your heart, Jeremiah 29,

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11 through 14, and you start searching for me.

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And you're doing that with all your heart, you really don't have time to look back.

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You don't. But if you're only doing it a little bit and you're always looking

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back to see who's watching, looking back and see what your friends are doing,

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always looking around you, seeing if everybody else doing it, then you miss out.

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He tells you here in Luke 9, 62, he says, looking back, you're not fit for the kingdom.

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Kind of a word we use in America, it's like, you are not ready.

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You ain't ready, right? You ain't ready. You ain't ready for this.

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And so God says, just keep going forward. Keep going forward.

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No one who puts his hands to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom.

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That word fit means, are you in shape? Are you ready for war?

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Are you, you have your armor on, right? Are you really ready to do this?

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Because when you put your, when you put your heart into something,

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at least when I do, it's considered done.

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I get it done. I get it done in record time, right? Let's go to Genesis 19, 26. it says lot white.

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Turned back. She couldn't cross into deliverance because her heart was still in the past.

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So some of us are going to miss out because one, we're too comfortable.

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We'll go into all those later, but we'll miss out because we want everybody

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to, are you coming? Are you coming to them?

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Sometimes God will send you somewhere by yourself. I live in Nebraska by myself.

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It was a separation. had to cross over to what God has for me.

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If I was still in Michigan, I don't think I'll be podcasting.

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I don't think I'll be doing some of the things that God has allowed me to do,

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write two books. Why? Because I was distracted.

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I was almost on that compromise rope because God was moving way too slow for

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my speed. And so he just pulled me away.

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And when you're in Nebraska, there is nothing going on but the wind and the snow and the rain.

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It's a beautiful place, but not a lot of activity. like it was at home.

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Not a lot of familiar activities that I wanted to restart, right?

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So just remember, 2026 will expose whatever is in you that still wants yesterday.

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Just a little thing. I'm not ready to go because of this.

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I wasn't ready to leave Michigan because my mom, my mom lives there. She's elderly.

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She's healthy, but she's elderly.

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So I was like, Lord, why would you have me to leave my mom, right?

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And then at the end of the day, my mom is actually doing much better.

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She was never sick. But that was the hardest part, leave my mom.

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Leave the friends I only knew since I was in high school or in elementary, right?

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Leave what's familiar. Leave what's familiar.

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So what stands between you and the new? The Jordan River represents whatever God's having you cross.

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It represents, number one, fear of change. You can't enter a new year with an old mindset.

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That's why I gave you this scripture and gave you these devotionals early so

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you can check yourself regarding your mindset.

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Like I just shared with you, I had to leave my mom. You know,

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I'm the eldest of the family.

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She's there with my younger sister. And my younger sister, I noticed that she

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has matured since I left.

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She's no longer acting like a younger sister. She's taking full responsibility,

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making sure mom gets to her doctor's appointments and everything.

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So she's taking her full responsibility.

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Sometimes, you know, we have to leave familiar surroundings to just see what

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really that person is about.

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Can they handle it? It could be any relationship. Like, I'm going to go over

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here and I'm going to do this, right?

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And deal with the politics of the office all by yourself, so you say,

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but God said he'll never leave us or forsake us.

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And so they always wonder why I feel so bold because I'm not by myself.

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I look like I'm by myself, but yet God always comes through.

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Number two, familiarity.

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The wilderness was painful, but familiar. The promise is beautiful, but unknown.

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How often do we stay stuck Because of familiarity,

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We had to start a new church and just do things I've already done before.

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It seemed like it was repetitive.

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I was preaching before I left. I'm just an usher now. I don't think I've ever

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been on the stage at the church.

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You're thinking, God is pulling me back to take me forward.

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I'm like, okay, I will do this, Lord, for you.

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He gave me a podcast to take all that spiritual energy to give it all.

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So you got to be careful when God gets ready to move you out of that familiar

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zone. He's going to give you something that's going to really be so much more satisfying.

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And I love doing my podcast.

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I love studying the word. I love preparing for what God has next.

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I don't want it to be similar to anybody. So I don't model after anyone.

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I remember as I started and as my views were getting busy, getting a little

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bit higher, then people want to call you and say, hey, can you...

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We want you on our team, but it's going to cost you this mile,

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and you need to do this and this with your podcast.

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And it's like, where were you when I started, when I only had a laptop?

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And so I wasn't really keen on changing. But I asked the Lord, is this you?

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And he said no. And guess what? I let it go. I let it go.

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Why be on a top platform when it's only you and God is not in it,

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right? If God ain't in it, I don't want to be in it.

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Can I get an amen out there? Let's go to three. Old cycles.

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Old thinking. Old relationships. old behaviors, old wounds.

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You know, this is what stands between you and your new fear of change,

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familiarity, old cycles.

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We think we want new, but we like the drama.

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We like the trauma. We like it. So we hold on to it because that makes us who

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we are. But God is saying, no, no, no.

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I'm taking you into your new. All things have passed away.

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All things must be let go. So you can see what you really are about,

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you'll learn so much with God about how strong you really are, how strong you are,

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how smart you are, how wise that you are, because now you're not listening to nobody but God.

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Remember, Jesus only did what he saw the Father doing.

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So he was able to walk through all that drama, trauma stuff when he walked on

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earth because he had a focus and he also had his backup. They didn't see it,

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but all he said, I can call a legion of angels.

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Think about that. You can call a legion of angels and you know that you've got

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your back. Your back is covered.

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Let's go on to number four. Emotional attachments.

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God is severing soul ties to old seasons. He's cutting things loose.

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Wow. Sometimes we hold on to things too long.

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Emotional attachment. Let's go on. Delayed obedience. He's asking you to obey.

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He's taking away delayed obedience from you. You're a procrastinator.

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You better get ready. God don't need it yesterday. He need it now.

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Come on now. And number six, your past identity. 786 confronts who you think

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you are to reveal who you truly are.

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Many of us wear masks. We're faking and shaking all the time.

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And so this year he's removing masks. He's taking away old emotional attachments,

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old cycles, familiarity, taking

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away that fear of change so you can find out who you truly are in God.

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The crossing is a prophetic moment. When God brings you to a crossing,

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he ends what needs to end.

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He seals what needs to die. He awakens what needs to live.

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He shifts what needs to move. He possesses you in what you were born for.

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This reminds me of Esther in the book of Esther.

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Esther was tossed into the king to be a queen and she didn't have no queen training, right?

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She didn't go in there like already trained to be a queen.

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She had to learn some queen stuff. So the first year they taught her queen stuff, right?

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Get that, how to talk, how to walk, how to smell, how to do queen stuff,

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all the etiquette about bowing, you know, just to be a queen.

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It's a lot of work. And so, and then.

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She ended up going to meet the king. She was ready.

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She didn't have all that stuff already in her. That probably wasn't even on her mind.

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She was just a beautiful girl and was set up for such a time as this and didn't

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realize her strength until she was called by her foster dad,

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said, hey, I need you to do this.

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And all of a sudden she got her act together and she did what she did to save her people.

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She realized that this is why I'm here. Because a lot of times we're in positions

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and places, and we might not even be happy.

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Now, all of a sudden for 2026, God will show up and he will tell you, this is why you are here.

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I'm looking for that because I'm where I'm in Nebraska. Looking for why you're here.

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Then you don't get just, your back is going to get straight.

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Your voice is going to change. You're going to be bold, just like Esther.

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Esther was bold because she knew exactly what she was called to do.

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She even set up the enemy.

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I mean, she got really smooth with it because she's partnering with a God.

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God's partnering with God. God has strategies to make you look smart, to make you look wise.

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But everybody think that you're failing, that you're not going to be anything,

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you know, you're not, or you might be too old. We don't need that.

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You know, he's going to show up and show up and says, yes, you were born for

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this and go ahead and conquer that. Amen.

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So what is God calling you to leave behind in 2026? We already talked about

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what God's bringing us into.

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What is God calling you to leave behind?

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Let's go. Old disappointments, old trauma responses, old versions of yourself,

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old spiritual dryness, old relationships that hinder you, old ways of thinking.

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Old assignments that expired. Come on now. Some of our assignment has expired,

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but we're still there because we are comfortable.

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Old fears, old offenses.

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The Hebrew year 5, 7, 8, 6 draws a line.

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You cannot carry Egypt into Canaan.

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What is God calling you to step into? God never takes you out of somewhere and

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leave you out there empty.

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He has a plan for you, but sometimes he has to give you that space to let go of the old.

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What he's calling us into for 2026, fresh fire, greater boldness,

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vine clarity, new assignments,

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higher purpose, kingdom identity, unshakable focus, increased discernment,

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and a deeper walk with him.

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A remnant will not just step forward, they will cross over with authority.

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Now, how do we cross over with authority, right? How do we do this really well.

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We have to, listen, listen, how do you cross well?

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I'm all stirred up. It's still December, but God is calling us to step out of our comfort zone.

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Into our new. He's calling us to obey immediately.

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Late obedience is disobedience. So we're telling you to do something, just do it right away.

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Release fully. Partial release, partial breakthrough. You only want a little

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bit of God, he'll give you a little bit of him.

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Stay in the secret place. Crossing requires intimacy. He wants you to stay close to him.

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He has the strategy, but he's also the protector and the provider.

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So don't you get out ahead of God. You stay right there in that secret place,

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right in his shadow, aligned with God's voice.

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He speaks directionally as you move.

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So as close as you are in that secret place, you're able to see his shadow move.

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You just move when he moves.

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If he goes right, you go right. If he goes left, you go left.

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If he stops, you stop. If he goes, you go.

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If he run, you run. If he walk, you walk.

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Everything he's going to tell you to do. Instruction, step by step by step. Expect opposition.

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The enemy always fights crossings.

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So be prepared to fight. But you will be prepared because we already stepping

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into this a little early.

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So get your boxing gloves on, but also put on your armor. Get on your armor.

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Get on your armor. Make sure you're fully dressed before you You step out every

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morning and then be ready to listen to God. He has a strategy.

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If he says, now this is spiritually, if he says punch him in the gut, punch him in the gut.

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If you say kick him, kick him. Whatever he says, do it. He might say just pray.

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Go lay hands on him in a nice way, right?

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Just listening to his voice and following his instructions.

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And number six, walk by faith. The water won't part until your foot hits it.

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Oh, things aren't going to move because you pray. Things are not going to move because you're fast.

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Things are not going to move because you are obedient.

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Things move when you put your foot in it, right?

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When he says go, you go. You have to put your foot in it. That means it's going to be something new.

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Think about the, I'm not a, you know.

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If you like to swim in strange waters, that's good for you. I don't like my

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feet in strange waters, right?

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And so this reminds me of like, God said, I need you to put your foot in.

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You're like, I don't know what's in that water, but we have to trust God that

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whatever's in that water won't touch you,

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that you can go ahead and do put that one faith in and watch that one faith

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move and watch God move everything else out of the way.

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Let's do this prophetic decree and pray. And then we are done with this one.

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This was good. Father, I step boldly into my crossing. I release what was and

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I embrace what will be. I refuse to look back.

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I refuse to stay stuck. I hope you're repeating this with me.

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I cross over the boundary of 5786 with faith, obedience, and expectation.

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What you have for me on the other side, I receive it by faith in Jesus' name.

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So when that clock strikes 12, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready.

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Let's pray. thank you for bringing us into this divine threshold.

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Give us the courage of Joshua, the faith of Abraham, the obedience of the disciples,

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and the strength of the remnant.

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Help every listener release what must be left behind and step boldly into the

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future you have prepared.

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Let this crossing mark the beginning of transformation, elevation, and divine encounter.

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In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

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Family, thank you for spending this time with me today. To every woman listening

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who has ever felt hidden, overlooked, or pushed aside, I want you to hear me clearly.

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God has not forgotten you, and neither have I.

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No pressure, just love and community. Before we leave, I want to speak the word

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that I close with every time because somebody needs this reminder today.

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It comes from Jeremiah 29, 11, 14.

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I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and

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not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future, then you will call upon

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me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you.

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You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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I will be found by you, declares the Lord.

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Beloved, God has a plan for your life, a real one, a good one,

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and as long as you keep seeking him, you will find him even from the hidden places.

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I love you. I'm praying for you and I'll meet you next time.