"Hard Reset: Day 1 Embracing God's Divine Update"

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast with your host,

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Connie Morris, where healing has a voice and truth is no longer silent.

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Father God, like Jabez, we cry out that thou would bless us indeed.

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Bless every woman listening beyond trauma, beyond limits, beyond what she thought

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was possible. Enlarge her territory.

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Expand her purpose. Let your hand be upon this moment.

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Saturate every word with oil and truth. break cycles, cancel every curse sent

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to silence her. This isn't just a podcast.

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This is holy ground. In Jesus' name, amen.

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

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and I am very happy to introduce to you a new

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series. It's titled hard reset, God's about to hit refresh on the whole planet.

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And this time his glory is leading the update. How powerful is that?

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God is about to hit refresh on the whole planet. And this time his glory is leading the way.

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Now, I don't know what to say, but I know that all this drama and trauma that

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we're seeing in the news can only be birth pains for what God wants to bring in.

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It's his glory. Are you ready?

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And so this is a two-part series. The first part is about seven episodes.

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The second part is going to get a little bit more deeper. I'm not going to say

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a little, a lot more deeper.

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It's going to require you to bring out your Bible and it's going to bring into

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a little bit more prayer time.

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You're going to need to know a little bit more on what God is doing.

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So I want to set this up very lightly.

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But then I'm going to go a little bit deeper because we need to get ready for God's glory.

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And we expect his return, right? But before he comes in his big return,

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I just have a feeling that he's going to show us what heaven on earth looks like.

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But he has to prepare his church for this.

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And so a lot of the things that are happening right now, if you look around

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the world, and we got some things that we have never seen before.

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The world is shaking in every dimension and he is just getting started.

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And so I want to go through an introduction.

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We'll go through episode one today, if it doesn't go too long,

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and then we'll continue this episode.

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And then we're going to do part two of Heart Reset. And Heart Reset part two

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is going to probably begin shortly after we end with part one.

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So let's just get started and see where it goes. Thank you for joining me on

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the Diary of Black Women podcast.

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Many of you don't know, I started this podcast last July and we've just made

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one year and we have over 1,600 downloads and it's continuing to grow each and every day.

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Thanks to my fans. I don't call them fans because we're not looking for fans,

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just to my faithful listeners. So let's get going.

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So sometimes the way we fix a broken system is to shut it down completely and

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start over from scratch.

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In the world of technology, a hard reset isn't a light decision.

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It's what you do when everything is corrupted, frozen, or completely out of

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alignment. You press to hold the power button. And what happens when we do that,

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it also, it resets the system, right?

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To what's not working. And it restores the system to its original intent.

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And many have done that on our laptops, on our work.

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Our tabletop computers, and even on any type of computerized device.

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And we know that that gives it a total reset.

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And many will do a total reset if we go to a total restore, if we want to turn

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it back in and maybe get a discount on another product, but we set it back to new, right?

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And God is nothing new when he does that, right? We know that God knows how to do a total reset.

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Does that ever sound familiar to you that he's done that before in the Bible?

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From the chaos in Noah's day to the spiritual drought before Pentecost,

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God has always stepped in to reset creation when it drifts too far from his design.

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Now check it out. Has we, as the people of the world, drifted too far from his

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design? The flood was a reset.

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The fire of the Holy Spirit was a reset. And now, as the world spins faster

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into confusion, compromise, and moral collapse, another divine reset is on the horizon.

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But this time, it's not going to be by water. It's not going to be by fire.

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It's going to be by his glory.

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His glory is going to fill the earth just as the waters of Noah days did,

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just as the fire of the Holy Spirit did, but at a greater, greater,

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greater, greater value.

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Do you believe that? God is not only about purging the chaos.

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He's preparing to pour out his presence in a way the earth has never seen.

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This isn't about doom and destruction. It's about restoration,

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revival, and reclaiming what was always his. I want you to get ready.

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The higher reset is not just coming. It has already begun.

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You know, we've searched or

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we have reached a moment in history where the noise is louder than truth.

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Systems are failing faster than they are being fixed.

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The hearts are growing cold while headlines are growing darker.

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You could feel it that something is off.

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It's as if the whole world is glitching. But God doesn't panic. He resets.

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The devotional isn't about fear. It's about focus.

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It's about recognizing the signs, understanding God's track record,

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and preparing for what's next.

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From Noah's Ark to the upper room, God has always used divine disruptions to

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realign his people and to reintroduce his presence. Now we're standing at the

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edge of another holy interruption.

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And this time, it's not just judgment, it's his glory.

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I just had this vision of God standing on the edge of the earth.

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And we don't really have edges because the earth is pretty much a spear and

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it's round. but think of him standing on one of the round of the spear and he's waiting to come in.

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He's waiting to just do what he do best to show up in his glory.

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So if you've been feeling something different, like what is going on,

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feeling the pull, the pressure, the prompting to unplug from the chaos and to

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reconnect with heaven, heaven, this is your confirmation.

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God is about to hit refresh. Let's make sure that we're ready when he does. Amen.

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So God is about to hit refresh. I want to continue with our episode.

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I like to call these day one because I call them episodes.

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That's good, but we're going to end up with day one. The title for,

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I call them devotionals because it's coming from my devotionals,

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but this is our hard reset series.

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And this title is When Everything Freezes, Recognizing the Glitch.

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Now, I want to just take a pause here because I don't know about you,

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but it seems like things are happening in the world that's on a glitch, right?

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You know, we know power has been going out, floods happening in strange,

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diverse places, earthquakes in diverse places.

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Tsunami, I can't say that, like these alarms going off underground where waves

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can come at about many feet high to destroy land that are pretty much below sea level, like Hawaii,

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you know, and California, those places.

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And so we're standing on alert and we're wondering like, what is really happening?

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It takes you back to the days of Noah. No one believed that it would rain because

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before Noah, there wasn't any rain.

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But God is telling us it's time for a reset.

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You got to think about the creator of heaven and earth. He created an earth, a beautiful earth.

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If you travel the world, you know that it's beautiful.

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There's some beautiful things to see in the earth, but yet we have a lot of

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sin and corruption and just, I call, I label it under drama,

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a lot of drama that we're dealing with.

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I like to call them, instead of saying drama, a lot of glitches in the system.

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And how do we fix the glitches in the system? We fix it by a reset.

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I fix it by a reset. Remember, he created everything.

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He said, you know what? It's time for a hard reset.

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So one example I want to share with you was found in Genesis 6,

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verses 11 through 13, our foundation of scripture.

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And it reads, now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.

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So God said to Noah, I am going to put an end to all people.

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For the earth is filled with violence because of them.

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And I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

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Now you have to be very upset to create something that you said was very good

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in Genesis 1, chapter, I don't know if it was Genesis 1, 1 through 3.

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And then to say in Genesis 6, I'm going to destroy both them and the earth,

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the men, the people, and the earth. I'm going to destroy it all.

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I'm going to do a hard reset.

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I'm going to fix that. But we know God made a promise that he would never do

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that again. So he sent us the rainbow.

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So we're looking at all the floods and the destruction of the earth and we're

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wondering like, Lord, you said you wouldn't do that to us again.

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He hasn't destroyed the whole earth. Some sections are being destroyed,

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but do we know if that's man-made? You know, his man trying to destroy itself and blame it on God.

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So if you ever had your phone or computer freeze up completely, you know the feeling.

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Buttons won't respond. Screens won't update. And no matter how many times you

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click it, nothing changes.

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It's not just slow. It's stuck. That's what the world looks like to God in Noah's day.

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Stuck in a loop of sin, rebellion, and violence.

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The system were corrupted.

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The people were corrupted, and the only solution was a hard reset.

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Noah didn't cause the reset, but he was chosen to survive it.

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While others mocked, ignored, and scrolled through life unaware, Noah listened.

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He heard the divine warning and made room for obedience, even when the skies were still clear.

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Maybe nothing has happened in your life.

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Maybe you happened to live in a place where you were free from floods and storms

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and tornadoes and all the things that were happening.

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But Noah was given a strategic plan on how to survive God's wrath that was coming

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to the earth, and he obeyed it when it didn't even look like it was going to be rain.

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The sky was clear, and that's something. It looked great. It was a good, beautiful day.

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Remember, he testified for 125 years, 120 years, and it never rained.

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But on that day, it started to rain. So fast forward today. Hey,

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corruption isn't new, but the level of confusion and moral decay we're seeing

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has reached a full system crash.

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God doesn't just sit back and watch. He moves.

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And just like he did with Noah, he's calling his people to prepare,

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not panic, but on purpose.

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You're not just living in a chaotic time. You're being positioned in a prophetic

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one. This first step in the hard reset isn't about avoiding destruction.

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It's about aligning with divine instruction. God isn't trying to scare you.

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He's inviting you to build before the rain falls.

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Some questions to reflect on. What areas of your life feel frozen or out of

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alignment with God's plan?

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I love the reflection questions because many times people say,

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well, she can't be talking to me. My life is good.

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Sometimes these reflection questions require you to go a little bit deeper.

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The question is, what areas of your life feels frozen?

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Where do you feel stuck or out of alignment with God's plan?

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Number two, are you more focused on the chaos around you or the call of God within you?

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Number three, if God told you to start building today, what would your ark look like? Let's pray.

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Father, I see the brokenness around me and I don't want to be blind to your

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voice in the middle of it. Teach me to listen like Noah.

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Make me sensitive to your warnings and bold enough to obey, even when no one else sees the storm.

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Align my life with your plan and help me to be a part of your reset, not swept away by it.

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In Jesus' name, amen. And decree for this.

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Day one of our devotional, recognizing the glitch, I decree that I am not afraid of the shaking.

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The noise will not move me. I will hear God clearly and obey Him fully.

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I am part of the reset, not a casualty of the crash.

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In Jesus' name, amen. And I'll see you on the next episode.

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Thank you for listening to this episode. And before we close out,

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I want to speak a word of promise over you from Jeremiah 29, 11 through 14.

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Father God, you declared, I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper

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you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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So today we receive that truth.

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You said when we call on you, you will listen. So we pray.

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You said that when we seek you with our hearts, you will be found. So we pursue.

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You said you will restore us from captivity. So we declare freedom over every

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place where our listeners feel stuck, silenced, or small.

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Thank you for always drawing near when we show up in faith. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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