"Eyes Wide Open: Discerning Delays: Ep: 3: Spiritual Warfare in the Heavens"

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Hello, and welcome back to Diary of Black Women podcast devotional series.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and we are diving into episode three,

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Discerning the War Behind Delay.

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But before I get started, I'd like to just pray this prayer of the best over us before we begin.

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So, Father, I just pray that your hand is upon us, that our territory is expanding,

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that you keep us from harm, that our prayers are heard and they are answered,

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that we rise from pain, walk in truth, and return to deep intimacy with God,

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healed, empowered, and walk boldly in divine purpose.

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So let me tell you right now, we're back to episode three.

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And I love the story of Jabez because God heard Jabez and I believe that God hears us. Amen.

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And so in this episode three, we're going to discern the war behind the delay.

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So let me tell you right now, delay doesn't mean deny, but if you don't have

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spiritual sight, you'll mislabel every war as a no.

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And some of you have been fighting depression, confusion, or weariness,

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not because you're out of alignment, Because a war in the spirit realm, you have been carrying.

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Sometimes we have to understand when there's a war and when there's a no.

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So let's get into God's word.

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The scripture, let's go to the scripture because the word reveals the war. Hmm.

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Discerning the war behind the delay.

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Discerning the war behind the delay. Okay, so let's go to Daniel 10.

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I love the book of Daniel.

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Daniel was a fighter. He fought with the kings and they, oh, is this a good book?

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You get a chance, read the book of Daniel. He'll show you how to war.

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He'll show you how to war, how to stay relevant through many,

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many kings. Daniel stayed relevant through many kings, but he did not sell out

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his soul to the world. He stayed relevant.

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How he stayed relevant? He stayed connected to God.

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Okay, Daniel chapter 10, 12 to 13. It says, then he continued,

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do not be afraid, Daniel.

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Since the first day that you have set your mind to gain understanding and to

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humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. and I have come in response to them.

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But the Prince of Persia kingdom resisted me for 21 days.

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So Daniel's prayer was heard on day one, but the answer was delayed for 21 days.

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Now, how many of us has probably given up on our prayers after day two, day three, day 20?

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Why not? Not because God ignored him. Why was his prayer delayed?

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But because warfare in the heavens was blocking the breakthrough.

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You've got to stop doubting the prayer just because the timeline was stretched.

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Dang, that's a good word for everybody.

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Because the word was delayed doesn't mean that it was denied.

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Don't that make you go? To me, just hearing that makes me a little upset that

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I might have quit a little bit too early.

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Sometimes we know when we get punked out, we got punked out from some of our prayers.

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But Daniel continued to be persistent in his prayer.

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Remember, we talked from day one, pray until you see, right?

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You're praying in the Spirit, and God tells you.

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The other one, we want to stay connected. Remember the characters we talked

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about, when they got in the Spirit, they prayed. They prayed.

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And so in Daniel, Daniel says he was still praying. What happened was Daniel was still praying.

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And the guy said, this guy is not going to give up.

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Somebody better go tell him what's going on. And so he went,

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I love this. He went to find out.

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The angel told him, your prayers was heard on the first day,

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but there's war in the heavenlies.

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That's like a devotional title, but there's war in the heavenlies.

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Oh my gosh. 2 Kings 6, 6-17, said, Don't be afraid.

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Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.

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Elisha prayed, Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.

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Then the Lord opened the servant's eye, and he looked and saw the hills full

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of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

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The servant saw the enemy but didn't see God's army.

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That's how it feels when you're under attack and can't discern what's behind the scene.

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But God wants us to open our eyes to help what's already there.

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He wants us to see that he's already sent help. Isn't that the kind of God we serve?

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We don't have to panic. We don't have to be afraid.

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Just like Daniel, he sent Gabriel to say, Gabriel, tell Daniel,

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Daniel, don't you worry.

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We heard, God heard your prayer the first day.

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There's just been war in the heavenlies against that prayer.

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And Daniel probably continued to persistently pray. That's a scripture that don't stop praying.

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You keep praying until that prayer manifests itself.

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And then you got Elisha. He said, can you open his eyes so he can see?

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So you pray until you see.

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Don't stop praying until you see what God is doing.

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If you ask for something, if it's not there, you do not give up.

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Help is already there and available.

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Here again, we see in Ephesians 6, 12, it says, For our struggle is not against

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flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against principalities,

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rulers, against authorities, against the powers of this dark world.

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You're not dealing with bad luck. closed doors of confusion,

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you're wrestling with strategic interference.

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But God doesn't want you guessing. He wants you discerning.

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Wow. What I love about this whole series is the comeback after the games we play.

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God is just like a father. He is a father, not just like. He is a father.

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And he says, smack, smack, get it right, get it right, get it tight.

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And then he comes back and tells you how to get it right and how to get it tight.

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He says, you're not dealing with bad luck or closed doors or confusion.

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You are dealing with strategic interference.

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Doesn't that help us?

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Doesn't that just help us? It tells us like when things are not being answered

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right away, don't you stop, don't you give up.

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You keep praying.

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You keep praying. You keep believing.

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You keep trusting until you see.

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Until you see. Amen.

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Delay is often a sign of destiny. Let's cover some spiritual commentary.

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Some delays are demonic resistance.

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Some are divine protection. Others are developmental timing.

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We ain't ready yet, but you won't know which is which until you live with your eyes wide open.

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God is not keeping anything from you. But until you keep pressing in,

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you don't know what it is.

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You don't know what it is, right?

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And so some delays are demonic resistance. We see with Daniel,

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it was demonic resistance.

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We see some are divine protection. We see in Elisha, I think that was Elisha.

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Yep, Elisha, that was divine protection. You didn't see it because it was divine

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protection. of our developmental timing.

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That could be me. That could be you. That when it's right, I'll show you what it is.

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But you don't know which it is until you live with your eyes wide open.

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Eyes wide open really means living in the spirit.

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Sometimes it's not time yet. Sometimes it's not safe yet.

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And sometimes it's already yours, but the enemy is trying to exhaust you before it arrives.

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That's why Daniel fasted. That's why Elisha prayed for vision.

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And that's why you can't go silent when it gets hard. You must press in deeper.

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Oh my gosh, isn't that good? I'm just, I'm not going to preach. It's preaching itself.

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A woman once, when real life meets revelation, a woman once told me she was

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praying for a new job and started to feel discouraged after weeks of silence.

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And what she didn't know was that HR director had already selected her,

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but paperwork was held up in corporate.

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The answer was on its way, but her heart was under fire.

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Delay will still try to convince you that you've missed it. But if you knew

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what was happening in the spirit, you were praised instead of panic.

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You know, I can tell you many stories. When I try to tell all my business on

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the podcast, I wait till I go live.

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But, you know, a lot of times we will have a delay.

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I remember, you know, I got Swiss jobs recently and it was a delay. It was an actual delay.

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My boss, she said, I'm going to call you Friday with what our decision is going

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to be. I didn't get a call on Friday.

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And so I continued to put applications in.

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Interviews started rolling in. The call came on Monday.

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Connie, would you accept the job? And I said, wow, I thought you were going to call on Friday.

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He just said, Connie, we had to make sure that everybody knew who was coming.

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We didn't want that to get out. So they waited till that person arrived because

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they took a sick day or something.

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And so, and I was like, yep, I accept the job. And so we have to do a background check.

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Meanwhile, meanwhile, other jobs were calling me, blowing me up,

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you know, and I said, I said, hey, I can take this job because it was more money.

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It was just more money. And I said, no, no, no, Lord, it's this job he wants

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me to have. The Lord wants me to have this job.

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I didn't know why he wanted me to have this job. It wasn't high pay.

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It was menial tasks. He just said, I want you to have this job. This is your job.

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And I was like, okay, I'm going to sit here. And meanwhile, all the other jobs

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are going by, more pay, more pay, more pay.

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And I had to deny, well, I've already accepted a job. I already accepted a job.

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And I'm at that job now that I want me to have.

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And when I accepted the job, the Lord just whispered and he said, you chose wisely.

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Now, I'm still working out the revelation of why this job. I really am. I really, really am.

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But when God tells you to choose a job that you wouldn't have chosen because

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you're looking at in the natural, the pay and the natural, the pay wasn't really grand.

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But God says, I want you to look.

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Don't look at the pay. I want you to look at what I want you to do at this particular

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job. And already I've run two people to the Lord.

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Is the body more important? I don't know yet. I'll keep you posted.

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Right? So understanding when real life meets, when real lives meet,

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I can't even say it, revelation.

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To understand that even though I waited, I could have took another job while

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I waited, but it was over the weekend.

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I said, nope, the Lord told me that that's your job and told me to wait.

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And so that delay convinced you that you might, I missed what he had for me

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if I would just kind of ran ahead of him.

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And so being aware that that divine delay could mean what it doesn't mean,

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it could mean demonic resistance, I felt like I was just talking a lot, but divine resistance,

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divine protection, and developmental timing.

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Let's go through some more scriptures. Let me remind you what Paul says.

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It says, 2 Corinthians 10, 4, it says, The weapons we fight are not the weapons of this world.

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On the contrary, they are divine power to demolish strongholds.

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What that means is that fasting shifts things in the spirit.

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Tongues confuse the enemy. Declarations reinforce the assignment.

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Worship builds your faith and weakens demonic plans.

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So yes, we're under this divine delay, this strategic interference.

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But God has given us weapons for our warfare.

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He has given us the equipment, the tools to beat this. And what are those tools?

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And many of us don't use them. Can I just say the truth?

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Fasting, what does it does? It shifts things in the spirit.

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And it's funny that that's happening

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right now because just recently the Lord said, I need you to fast.

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And fasting is not always on your timing. Can I just give you amen?

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A lot of times we have a fasting at the church that's always in January,

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right? So everybody do their fasting in January.

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But God may not want you to do it in January. where he might tell you,

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like, I need you to start doing some fasting right now.

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It'd be random to you, but God's already, remember, nothing random to God. God's intentional.

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So when he tells you, I need you to start fasting, you need to do that.

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He said, Connie, right now, I need you to start. I was like, ooh, today.

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Yes, today. Tongues confuses the enemy. So you need to pray in tongues.

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Declarations that we do, we declare, we decree some things. It just reinforces

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what you're supposed to do. It reinforces that assignment.

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And in worship, it builds your faith and weakens demonic plan.

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You always got to worship the Lord. So you're not defenseless.

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You're under-equipped if you don't engage. Wow.

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You know, some of us maybe are not in the natural physical fighters. I'd rather not fight.

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You know, I'm not going out to start a fight because fighting,

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I mean, can be real. I mean, you get scratches on you.

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People pull your hair. I mean, it's not, you get, oh, it's just not a good thing

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if you want to stay pretty, right?

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Fighting can be ugly sometimes.

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So I'm not really a fighter fighter.

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I don't like that fighting thing, but I'll fight, right? I'm a fighter.

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So I'm not going out to start a fight, but I probably can, I will finish it.

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Cause if I got to get nasty and dirty and you didn't got me,

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you didn't took me, maybe you punched me.

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You didn't, it's kind of like this for me.

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You know, you go to the swim, you go swimming and you don't want to get wet,

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but somebody puts you in the pool. You stay in the pool because you're already wet.

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If you punch me, I'm in the fight, period. We just going to fight.

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And that's how it is with the enemy.

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He's already threw you in the pool. he's already

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through the first punch he your nose is

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bleeding he caught you off guard you might

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as well go and get into the fight just go ahead and get take off those fake

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nails pull that wig off come on now wipe that makeup off your face you know

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put a little vaseline on let's just get into this fight let's go get our children

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back let's go get our healing back let's go get our money back Let's go get our families back,

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our children, everything that he has stolen.

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He's already started it. He's already through the first punch.

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Let's get in the fight, people.

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But that's kind of in the physical. But in the natural, in the spiritual, fasting.

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If you want to throw a punch at the devil, stop eating everything.

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If God tells you to do it, that means he's already set up a shield that's going

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to protect you. If he says start fasting, boom, do it now.

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Tongues, begin to confuse the enemy by praying out God's strategic plan for

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your life. Start doing it.

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If you're at a five-minute praying in tongues, if he tells you I need you to

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pray in tongues more, then you better pray in tongues more.

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Don't ask him how long. You pray until you can't pray no more.

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You in a fight, girl. You've had a fight until you win.

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Declarations. You decree until you see.

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You decree until you see. And you worship until, I don't care, you worship.

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That makeup, you can put some new makeup on. Come on now, you pretty girls. You worship.

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Worship builds your faith and weakens the demonic plans. We can't keep losing

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because we're afraid to get dirty with the devil.

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He is playing for keeps. You need to play for keeps. Amen.

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I know I got kind of loud on that one, but hey, you know, it's like training

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you guys to win a fight. Like, let's get in this fight.

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You know, I used to wear fake nails. And even as a police officer, I wore them.

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And I realized, you know, when I broke a couple of them, they were,

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you know, you break them off wrong.

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They hurt and they injured for like another month. You can't put a nail on it anyway.

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So I was like, you know, forget the nails. We're not doing that. We're not doing that.

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We're in a fight. And then when I retired, put them on a couple of times.

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What's the purpose? It's a waste of money for me.

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All right. But hey, because I'm in this spiritual fight. So what are some of

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our spiritual weapons, ladies?

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It's fasting. It's praying in time. It's declaring. It's worship.

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Right? Get equipped. Don't forget, put on our spiritual armor,

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Ephesians 6, 6, 10 through 18. Praying all the time.

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So let's kind of go back to a reflection period here. I know I get to talking.

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It's so good. So let's ask ourselves, have you been mislabeling your delays as rejection?

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Yeah, I have. I have, I have, I have. So let's get that going.

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A delay is not a rejection. I'm in a fight.

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What's the last thing God told me to do? And did I stop short?

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We all can say, yep, we did. Am I spending more time panicking than praying?

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How about complaining than praying? How about buffeting at the wind and then

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complaining and then praying?

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Let's just put that together. I want to say this part again,

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fasting, tongues, declaration, and worship.

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Put that back on your list of things to do.

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Write this in your journal. Lord, help me to discern the delay.

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Open my eyes to see the war behind the wall and give me strength to press forward anyway.

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Come on, girls. We know how to fight. We know how to protect our family, ourselves.

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I mean, I'm a lot older than when I was when I was in high school. We know that, right?

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So fighting ain't the thing for us older folks to be out there fighting.

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But we can fight in the spiritual.

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Saying you cannot have no more of, you can't steal no more.

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Ephesians 4.30, you're not stealing no more stuff from me.

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Our decree for the day is, I see you, I see with spiritual eyes.

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I will not be deceived by delay.

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And a lot of times when we deceive by delay, I'm supposed to be a decree,

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but I'm gonna have to stop and do a preaching moment.

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We start making stuff up in our own. We start doing our own thing.

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Don't we? We start creating our own, doing it ourselves, and then God gets out the way.

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So don't let that delay allow you to create your own stuff.

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Go buy your own thing. Let God the Father become that provider for you. Amen.

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So I'm sorry, the decree. I will see with spiritual eyes. I will not be deceived by delay.

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My breakthrough is not denied. It is defended.

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I fight from victory, not for it. I pray.

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I'm in a fight mood. I'm about to start over. Sorry, y'all.

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I see with spiritual eyes. I will not be deceived by delay.

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My breakthrough is not denied. It is defended.

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I fight from victory, not for it. I fast. I pray. I speak. I believe.

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The war may be real, but so is my promise.

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I say it again. I see with spiritual eyes. I will not be deceived by delay.

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My breakthrough is not denied, is defended.

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I fight from victory, not for it. I fast, I pray, I speak.

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I believe. The war may be real, but so is my promise.

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I just want to pray that we have a prayer of strength and spiritual sight.

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Father, thank you for the reminder that just because it's delayed doesn't mean it's denied.

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I surrender the timeline, but I stand firm in your word. Open my spiritual eyes.

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Reveal what I've been wrestling.

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Help me discern the enemy's tactics and refuse to quit before the promise arrives.

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Give me the fight pack in me, Lord. Strengthen my hands.

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Reignite my faith. Let me war with worship, fast with focus,

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and decree with boldness.

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This promise will come to pass in your

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timing in your way I will

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not lose heart I will not back down because

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I am armed aware and awake in Jesus name Amen Wow that's powerful Wow If this

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episode stirs something in your spirit stay in position don't let delay break

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your focus the war is real but so is your victory,

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So join me for the final part of this series, episode four,

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Sudden Glory, Birthing the New Thing.

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Until then, keep the sword sharp and the eyes open.

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And let me activate the promises of Jeremiah 11-14 over your lives.

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God knows the plans He has for you, plans to prosper you, not to harm you,

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plans to give you hope and a future. and when you seek him with all your heart, you will find him.

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He will bring you back from captivity and restore everything that was lost.

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Hold on. Your healing, your clarity, your breakthrough are closer than you think.

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This is more than a podcast. It's a return to God's plan for your life.

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Let's keep walking it out together.

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Stay connected with our website, DiaryOfBlackWomenLLC.com and Twitch, which is coming in July.

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Twitch, DiverBlackWomenTV, DOBWTV, coming to you soon, Tuesdays and Fridays.

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You'll get more information on the website.

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Until then, keep your eyes wide open. Until next time, bye-bye.