Hard Rest: Day 2: Heaven's Power Unleashed: A Spiritual Reboot

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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 to silence her.

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This isn't just a podcast. This is holy ground. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Welcome back to Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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We are continuing our episode, our series on the hard reset, part one.

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And today is day two, the spiritual reboot. when heaven downloads power.

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Today's scriptural focus is found in Acts 2 verses 2 through 4, and it reads,

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suddenly a sound like a blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled

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the whole earth, filled the whole house where they were sitting.

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All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues

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as the Spirit enabled them.

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I know it was a Freudian slip. It says, I said, whole house.

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This time his glory is going to fill the whole earth.

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Think about it. The first time his glory came, it filled the house, the upper room.

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The second time it's going to fill the whole earth.

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What power is that going to be?

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And guess what? We are living in that time. So we get to experience it. I'm excited.

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I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. Bible says that every knee will bow.

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So there's going to be some bowing of some knees and they're going to be some

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spiritual tongue talking people who never spoke in tongues before.

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And we are all going to experience God's magnificent glory. My gosh, I'm excited.

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So let's talk about this. It says, Noah reset came with water.

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The next one, wind and fire.

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Before Pentecost, the disciples were hiding and afraid, uncertain,

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disconnected from power.

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Jesus had already ascended and all they had was a promise.

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You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you in Acts 1.8.

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I love that when God says you will, you know it's going to happen.

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So Jesus told him, you will receive power.

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When the Holy Spirit comes upon you. Before they received that power,

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they were scary cats too.

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Think about all the things they experienced with Jesus. Jesus was taken up in

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a cloud right before their very eyes.

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And then a few days later, boom, the power came.

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Those people who were hiding, afraid, not knowing what to do next,

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they were filled with power. And the book of Acts tells you what they did with that power.

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And then we read, then suddenly it happened.

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Heaven crashed through the walls. The Holy Spirit didn't come to make them comfortable.

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He came to make them capable.

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This was God's spiritual hard reset, a complete system upgrade that transformed

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ordinary people into world changers. Are you ordinary?

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Yes, I am. Are you ready to be a world changer? Yes, I am.

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Their fear was replaced with fire. Their confusion was overwritten by clarity,

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and their weaknesses were reformatted into boldness.

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The same spirit that hovered over the waters in Genesis that descended like

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a dove at Jesus' baptism, now filled ordinary men and women with extraordinary power.

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And you know what? Here's the good news. That wasn't just a one-time event.

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That was the beginning of a new operating system.

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The Holy Spirit is still here, still active, still downloading wisdom,

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power, and discernment into those who are willing to wait on him.

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If you felt dry, if you felt weary or unresponsive, he's ready to reboot your spirit.

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God doesn't want to fix the world around you.

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He wants to revive the spirit within you.

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God wants to, boom, blow you up on the inside so that you can be a world changer,

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so that you do not be afraid, that you don't go hiding, that you don't disconnect from the power of God.

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Think about that. Heaven came into the room.

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I love that. I love that. Heaven came into the room. And God says, I got some more of that.

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And heaven is not just coming into the room. It's coming into the world.

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It's already here. It's already here at a certain level.

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Think about as God gets closer to coming back for his return,

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you think the power will be magnified?

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It has to be. It has to be. Signs, wonders, and miracles has to start coming.

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I don't know about you. Is that our miracles happening in your life?

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Are you seeing some changes in your life? Because I'm feeling this pressure

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that God is getting closer and closer and closer and closer.

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He's coming. He's coming back. His return is intimate.

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And so we know that things are just going to start change it in a major way.

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And I think that he might want us to get ready. What do you say?

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So let's talk about some things here.

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Just some reflection questions. Have you ever invited the Holy Spirit to be

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active, not just present in your daily life, right?

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So many of us may be reserved.

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We don't want all that happening in our house, you know, coming in the house,

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making all that noise, but I do.

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I want him to just show up and show out.

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And sometimes he show up kind of, and you can see he's, you can see him working.

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And sometimes you can see when literally like when Jesus in the Bible pushed

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the tables over, sometimes I can visually see the Holy Spirit just doing that in my life.

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Like enough of that, move that out the way, but we got to give him room to work.

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And so question number one, have you invited the Holy Spirit not just to be present, be active?

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I want you in the room, Holy Spirit, but I need you to just show up in a big way.

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We see that in Acts 1a, that he busted through the walls.

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Heaven invaded earth. And I just feel that heaven will be invading earth, but are you ready?

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Remember, this is only part one, getting you ready. What happens when heaven

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invades earth? We're going to cover that in our part two series.

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Are you relying on your own strength, that's the third reflection,

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or allowing God to download fresh power? You know how we can get stale.

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You know how we can get real stale? Like I told you, I'm on an HOA,

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and I tell these ladies, and I don't know if I'm not the oldest,

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but I feel like we're in a time warp.

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They want a certain picture to look a certain way to say this,

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and we got to do it this way and got to do it that way.

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I said, ladies, we are in a time warp.

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Can we get out of it? Can we refresh in the pictures on Facebook?

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Can we refresh in the way we do things? Can we just do something new?

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We're in a time war. We want to do everything the same way. And you know what?

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It ain't working. It's not working.

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And that's what happens when we don't have the Holy Spirit active in our life.

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We have him present, but not active.

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Things get to be old and stale.

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How many know that God is new and refreshed and recreative?

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You know? And think about this, as the women, we got many shoes,

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many clothes, and all kinds of things in our closet. If you're a decorator and

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you're creative, you know God's creative ways.

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I'm not the creative person, but I know what's beautiful and what I like. You get what I'm saying?

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So you can say, Lord, can you help me with my wardrobe this week? I got to work five days.

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Help me coronate some things that I haven't wore because, you know,

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we have a habit of wearing the same thing.

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And he helps me. Today's going to be this theme, that theme,

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put this shoes on with that.

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And I'm like, yes, looking all fresh, like I got a huge wardrobe,

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but all I'm using is the Holy Spirit.

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I'm using his creativity.

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That's just a simple thing. Then I take him with me to work.

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And if I'm feeling kind of under the weather, I need him to move mightily and

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I need his wisdom. I'm asking for that.

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Not just have them active, just present, but have them active in your life. Amen.

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Let's pray. Holy Spirit, I welcome you to take over, reset my heart,

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refresh my mind, and refill my spirit with power.

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Just as you came suddenly in the upper room, I invite you to come suddenly into

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my life, bringing clarity, courage, and fire. I don't want yesterday's down low.

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I want a fresh and filling of today.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Decree, I decree that the spirit of the living God dwells in me.

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Think about that. He dwells in me. I am not running on empty.

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I am being filled and fueled by heaven.

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I am bold, empowered, and equipped to walk in divine purpose.

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The reset has begun in me. In Jesus' name, amen.

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As I close out this particular day,

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I just want to remind you that the devotionals that are on this podcast are

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available for your keeping on my website,

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Diary of a Black Woman Podcast.

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I will be updating it for August, for the new.

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I got August and then September. I usually try to keep at least two months of

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what series I'm discussing on the podcast so you can have something in your

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hand that you can follow.

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Sometimes I follow the devotionals and sometimes I kind of go outside of it.

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But either or, you have a copy of some material in your hand that you can use

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for your edification, your exhortation, and your learning.

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And so just remember to allow God to not just be present, but to be active in your life.

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And like I always say, I'll see you on the next episode. Goodbye.

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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.

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So we pray. 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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