2026: The Oil: Ep 9: Stay Ready — Don't Enter 2026 Empty

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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.

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Let your hand be with me. Keep me from evil and keep me from causing pain.

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And the Bible says, 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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Welcome back to episode 9 of 2026, the year when heaven and earth intersects.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris.

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Today's topic will be the oil of readiness, staying filled in a year of shaking.

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In this episode, we step into one of the most urgent prophetic messages for

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5786, the message of readiness, oil, and spiritual preparation.

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Because in 2026, as heaven and earth collide, shaking increases,

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as separation deepens, only those who are filled will stand.

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This episode is a prophetic call to keep your spiritual lamps burning.

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This comes from the parable of the 10 virgins, the blueprint for 2026.

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In Matthew 25, Jesus describes 10 virgins who were waiting for the bridegroom.

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All 10 were believers, expecting Jesus, position, waiting, church people aware

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of the prophecy, and they appeared to be ready on the surface.

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But the difference between who entered and who did not came down to one thing, the oil.

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Five were wise, they carried extra oil. Five were foolish, they carried none.

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When the shaking came, when the midnight cry sounded, when the heavens,

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when heaven intersected earth, only those who were filled made it through the door.

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This is the prophetic warning for 2026.

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Do not enter this year empty. So as you know, I've already set you up for success.

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I've already given you the tools to be able to, where are you? Are you ready for 2026?

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It says, do not enter this year empty. So be prepared.

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Are you, this is the opportunity. So we're kind of through almost nine episodes.

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This is our ninth episode. So by now you should have been getting ready.

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What is God doing? Praying more, you know, fasting, getting into that flow.

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So you won't miss God in 5, 7, 8, 6.

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So why does the oil matter now? 5, 7, 8, 6 is the Hebrew year of the boundary.

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Separation, divine distinction, shaking, alignment, glory, fully divide between

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the prepared and the unprepared.

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Everything in the prophetic meaning of this year matches everything.

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Matthew 25. 5786 is a year God makes visible, who has oil, who is spiritually

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asleep, who is truly ready, and who is leaning on yesterday's fire.

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You cannot borrow oil in 2026. You cannot fake readiness in 2026.

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You cannot survive on yesterday's faith in 2026.

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This is a year where only the field will flourish.

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Let's go to Matthew 25, 5. They all grew drowsy and fell asleep.

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So everybody went to sleep.

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Even the wise faced weariness. But the difference was they were filled before the shaking.

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Nothing wrong with sleeping. Nothing wrong with resting.

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Nothing wrong with being weary. But what's wrong is if you're not prepared,

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you know you're tired And so you better pray and get you some sleep and get

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ready for what God has for you.

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Stay ready so you don't have to get ready, right? Matthew 25,

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6, it says at midnight, the cry rang out.

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Midnight represents pressure, chaos, position, and shaking. The cry is a prophetic alert.

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Heaven is shifting. Prepare yourself. At midnight, the cry rang out. What was the cry?

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The cry was that the bridegroom is coming. The bridegroom is coming.

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We know biblically that Jesus is coming and he's coming at a twinkle of eye.

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That means in like microseconds, he's going to boom, be here.

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And so this practice for 2026 allow you to stay ready for when Jesus come.

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So you don't have to get ready, right? So heaven is shifting.

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Why is heaven shifting? We've been living a long time on this earth.

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Jesus said he will come back. is starting to become that season of his return.

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So as we prepare for 2026, we need to stay ready.

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For Jesus because he is due any minute now.

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You can say any second, twinkling of a second now. Let's go to Matthew 25, 8.

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It says, give us some of your oil. How many people who don't prepare for emergencies

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always want what you already prepared for?

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This is a year where you cannot depend on your pastor's fire,

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your friend's anointing, your spouse's walk, your leader's devotion.

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You must have your own oil.

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Matthew 25, 10. Those who were ready went in with him.

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Readiness is the dividing line for 5, 7, 8, 6. Are you ready?

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Are you truly, truly, truly ready for 2026?

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I'm sending you the information. I'm podcasting it.

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These episodes are a little bit longer than how they normally are because God

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has a lot to say about your readiness. And so as you go through the podcast,

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write down the scriptures and start getting ready for 2026.

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When we talk about the oil, typically oil represents Holy Spirit,

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the Holy Spirit, intimacy with God, your prayer life, consecration, sermon,

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obedience, fresh fire, devotion, and spiritual sensitivity, holiness,

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and a guarded heart. That's what the oil represents.

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Your oil tank is a condition of your inner life.

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In 2026, your inner life is your survival.

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So you can look ready on the outside, but if you're not ready on the inside,

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you are not going to make it through 2026.

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Successfully. Not saying people are going to die, but hey, this world is going crazy. So who knows?

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But so you want to stay filled with oil. I want to go through that oil list again.

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The Holy Spirit, constant contact with the Holy Spirit, intimacy with God, Psalm 91.

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You're dwelling in that secret place.

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Your prayer life, prayer life is communication. It's a two-way street.

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So you're paying attention to what God is saying.

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You know, consecration. You can't hang with your friends all year.

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You need to consecrate. You can't

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be filled up with oil if you are still trying to do two things, right?

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You're multitasking, trying to spread yourself really thin. You're going to lose a lot of oil. You're.

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Obedience. Fresh fire. How do you know you got some fresh fire?

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Just like Elijah prayed that the Lord would send fire and he did.

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So you can pray for some fire in your life. Lord, give me fresh fire.

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Fire comes from where? His mouth.

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Elijah spoke it and he had God's ears and God gave it to him right away.

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He didn't have to wait three days, four days.

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He got his prayer answered right away.

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Spiritual sensitivity, knowing when to pray, knowing how long to pray,

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knowing who's draining your oil when you're around them, right? Holiness.

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You can't be fornicating, adulterating. You can't be doing homosexuality, lesbianism.

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God wants you holy. He wants you all to himself and a guarded heart.

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Remember, our heart flows the issue of life. So whatever we put in our life,

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it's going to flow out. We want to protect that.

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What drains your oil this season? I think I got ahead of myself.

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What drains your oil this season?

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Emotional exhaustion. Let me get a drink of water. Emotional exhaustion,

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trying to solve everybody's problems.

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Pray for them and move on because this is a year you need to consecrate and

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tell them what you're doing.

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Say, you can join in. This is what we're doing, but I don't got time to be holding

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your hand this year. I'm sorry.

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Maybe I get you in 2027, but right now, I don't have time.

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Busyness without intimacy. We always can be busy, right?

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But set your alarm clock, set your time, set a schedule so that you can spend

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some quality time with God.

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Compromise, dabbling in darkness, prayerlessness, distraction,

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social media overload, delete the app, old wounds left untreated,

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inconsistent devotion,

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wrong relationships, spiritual laziness, and trusting in yourself more than

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you're doing with God. Or at least when you live in two,

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worlds. Wow. Oil leaks when you live in two worlds.

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Hypocrisy is two worlds, right? 5786 demands spiritual clarity and purity.

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Let's go over, whoa, I didn't know I had that many, 10 steps on how to keep your oil full in 2026.

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Number one, stay in the secret place. Don't just visit there.

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The Bible tells us to abide there.

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It means make it your residence that you stay in a secret place, according to Psalms 91.

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It isn't optional. It is a lifeline. Number two, pray daily.

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Consistency over intensity. Some people will say, I'm going to pray three hours

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today, and they barely get up and do five minutes.

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Pray every day for maybe 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes,

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an hour, whatever your time is. But do it consistency.

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Consistency is the plan. Fast regularly. Fast and sharpens your spiritual ear.

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Four, saturate yourself with scripture. Your spirit needs food.

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Guard your eyes and ears. You cannot be filled yourself with darkness and carry light.

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You know, every time you try to watch something,

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on YouTube or try to do a little scrolling. It's always someone has to use foul language.

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You don't want that. That's not going to help you when it's time to pray down

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some fire because you're going to need it for 2026.

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So guard your ears and your eyes. Break ties with draining relationships.

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People who pull you away from God cannot walk with you in 2026.

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And we've heard this theme throughout the episodes. If you don't do it, God's going to do it.

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So if you want to break ties and you say, hey, right now I'm doing something

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different, just tell them the truth. I'm doing something different.

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I don't think this relationship is healthy for me. I'm going to have to pray

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some more about it or whatever.

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Me, I had a time where I had to tell a friend, I said, this is not working.

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This is not how I thought this relationship would play out.

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And so we're just call it a day.

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I'm not going to make a big deal about it. I'm not mad at you.

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I just don't think this is going to be a healthy relationship.

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I met this female on the walkway. We were walking,

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for about, we're doing good. We're walking about every other day.

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It was just really a consistent relationship, but it was no connection as far as a future friendship.

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You know, when you get older, you know right away if this person is going to

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be your friend for life or just going to be an associate.

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And so we put ourselves in an associate box and that was it.

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I haven't talked to her since, right? Walk in obedience.

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Oil increases with obedience and leaks through disobedience.

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So you don't want any leaky oil in 2026.

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Don't waste your oil. Clean the house of your heart.

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5786 exposes what you ignore. So if you don't clean it out, don't get embarrassed

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because God will clean it out.

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Surround yourself with fire-filled believers. Oil multiplies in a godly community.

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So find you some godly friends.

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Worship often. Worship fills what worries empty. So stay full of the oil.

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I'm just going to go through this real quick just to help you out.

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So keeping your oil filled in 2026 requires you to stay in a secret place,

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pray daily, fast regularly, saturate yourself with scripture,

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guard your eyes and ears, and even your mouth.

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Your mouth can get you in trouble too. So put that down too.

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I'm going to add it right here as I am writing it now.

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Your eyes, ears, and your mouth. Break ties with draining relationships.

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Walk in obedience, clean the house of your heart, surround yourself with fire-filled

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believers, and worship often.

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The remnant must remain.

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Ready. Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.

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In 2026, your discernment must stay sharp. Your spirit must stay awake.

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Your heart must stay pure.

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Your devotion must remain strong.

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Your oil must stay full because heaven is moving. Heaven is speaking. Heaven is dividing.

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Heaven is shaking. Heaven is aligning.

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And the remnant must be ready. Let's do the decrees with me. declare this aloud.

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Father, fill my lamp with oil.

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Awaken my spirit. Remove spiritual laziness. Break the distraction of social media.

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Cleanse me from compromise.

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Make me ready, alert, steady, and full. In 2026, I will not be empty. I will not be foolish.

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I will be filled, awake, and prepared in Jesus' name. Let's pray.

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Father, thank you for the call to readiness.

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Thank you for the oil of the Holy Spirit. Fill us again. Fill us deeper.

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Fill us until we overflow.

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Let our listener, let every listener carry oil for the shaking and enough fire for the glory.

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Keep us awake, alert, and anchor in your presence. In Jesus' name, amen.

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I'll see you for episode 10.

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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.

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Before we leave, I want to speak the word that I close with every time because

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somebody needs this reminder today. 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. I love you.

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