Mind of Christ: Ep 12: Hearing Heaven Clearly: Developing Spiritual Discernment

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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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Here we go again. Welcome to Diary of a Black Woman's Podcast.

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I'm your host Connie Morris, and we're continuing our Faith on the Go series.

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This one is hearing heaven clearly.

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Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

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It is so important that you hear heaven clearly, right? We don't want to get it twisted.

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Was that God or was that me or was that the devil? And so that's why you build

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your faith up because you're listening to God. You're listening to the whispers.

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Not only you listen to the whispers, you're obeying the whispers.

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And that's how your faith is being built up.

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You're hearing it, but you also being a doer of the word and that is one of

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those muscles that we build up on this podcast.

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That is why this space was created, for your quiet moments, your work days,

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your commutes and those in between spaces and places where your spirit needs

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to be uplifted, recharged and refilled.

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Faith on the Go is for the times when you're fighting battles,

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not just one, not yet one, but already finished in Christ.

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It's time to cross the finish line, you guys.

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It's for the ones who keep believing, keep pressing, keep walking,

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even when the road gets long.

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So wherever you are today, settle in and let the word of God strengthen your faith.

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While you're on the go. So let's get started.

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Day 12, Mind of Spiritual Discernment, Hearing Heaven Clearly is the title today.

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Let's go to our key scripture found in John 5, 19, and it reads,

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Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself. He can only do what

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he sees the Father doing?

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Because whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

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Every moment of Jesus' ministry was led by the Father's voice.

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He didn't guess his way through life. He heard his way through it.

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When others reacted, Jesus responded.

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When others rushed, he waited. He moved in divine rhythm, always in sync with heaven.

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In John 5, 19, Jesus revealed his secret.

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He says the Son can do nothing by himself, he can only do what he sees his father doing.

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That means every miracle, every message, every movement came from revelation, not impulse.

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When he met the women at the well, it wasn't a coincidence. The father had scheduled an encounter.

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When he delayed going to Lazarus until the fourth day, it wasn't negligence, it was divine timing.

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And when he shows 12 disciples, He did so after spending all night in prayer, Luke 6, 12 to 13.

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Jesus didn't operate from assumption. He operated from awareness.

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He lived with discernment because his heart stayed close to the Father.

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Spiritual discernment is the ability to sense what God is doing and align your actions with it.

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It's not suspicion or intellect. It's intimacy.

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Discernment grows in the quiet. Prayer, worship, and the Word.

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The whisper in your spirit says, wait here or speak now or this is not for you.

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You're waiting for that. That's that discernment. That's hearing heaven clearly.

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The more time you spend with the Father, the clearer his voice becomes.

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Just Jesus could perceive motives, recognize deception, and anticipation of

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opposition because his mind was tuned to heaven's frequency.

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When you walk in discernment, you stop focusing or forcing what God hasn't breathed on.

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You begin to sense his peace as confirmation and his silence as instructions.

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Isaiah 30, 21 tells us your ear will hear a voice behind you saying,

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this is the way, walk in it.

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Discernment is heaven's safeguard

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against deception. It's how you stay rooted when the world is noisy.

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The mind of Christ gives you the sensitivity to recognize when something looks good but isn't God.

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Ask yourself, do I pause long enough to hear before I move? Am I acting from peace or pressure?

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Do I recognize the difference between God's timing and my own urgency?

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Remember, discernment isn't about knowing everything. It's about knowing Him

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deeply enough to trust in His direction.

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So here we go. We're going to walk it out like Jesus.

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How do we walk in that? So discerned that Jesus was so close to the Father that

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he said, I only do what my Father does.

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And we are like him.

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We are supposed to mimic him.

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We have the mind of Christ. We're stirring up that gift so that we can walk

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like Jesus in this earth, that we will not be deceived.

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So number one, practice daily stillness. Create time to listen without agenda, Luke 5, 16.

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Stillness is the soil where discernment grows.

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There are some times when I wake up in the morning, I know I have this routine

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of praying, but some particular mornings, I have a big sofa in my bedroom.

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I will come and I will sit and I will listen before I start prayer.

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I'll just listen, listen.

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And then he speaks. He speaks. He speaks in that stillness. A lot of my devotions

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are coming from that stillness.

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So it's so important to practice that. Stillness is not just sitting there.

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Stillness is listening. It's actively listening. That's the difference.

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You're actively listening because it's a still, small voice.

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And once you pick it up, then it's clear to you.

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You've got to pick up this heavenly signal just by sitting in silence.

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And when you pick it up, you'll hear a voice. And when you hear his voice,

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begin to just start taking notes because he has a lot to say because you're

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waiting on him. Number two, let scripture be your filter.

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The word is the measure for every message. Hebrews 4.12.

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The word is the measure for every message. If it contradicts the word, it's not from God.

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Number three, pay attention to peace.

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God's direction always carries peace, even when it challenges comfort.

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Always follow peace. Peace is knowing the world is crashing and burning,

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but you know you're supposed to wait until you hear which way to go.

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That takes practice, and that practice comes from sitting in the stillness in

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the morning, in the evening, wherever your time you allow.

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Just sitting in it will allow you to just hear him.

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Number four, wait before you decide. Jesus waited before calling Lazarus forth, John 11, 6.

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Sometimes the delay is divine. Wow.

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Sometimes, you know, me, I told you I had to get it done yesterday,

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but sometimes I can't because he says, I need you to wait. And then I'll wait, and then I'll wait.

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And then he says, now is the time. And it's always the perfect timing.

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Number five, ask for wisdom and test the spirit.

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Pray, Lord, reveal what's hidden. The Holy Spirit discerns that human eyes cannot.

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1 Corinthians 2, 10-14 and 1 John 4-11.

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So let's see how Jesus walked it out. He practiced daily stillness.

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You know he prayed. He went away and prayed. Let scripture be your filter.

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Always check the spirit with the word of God.

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His word will not return void. It won't even be twisted if you pay attention

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to it. That don't sound like God.

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And so you go, let me find it in the scripture. Did it happen to anybody in the Bible before?

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What does the word of God say? Pay attention to peace.

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God's direction always carries peace. And.

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It's just the absence of you moving without feeling that smoothness in it.

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You know how you follow the Lord. It's kind of a yes, go.

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And it's a stop. When you feel that sudden stop, just stop. Even if it challenges you, you just stop.

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The way the world is moving today, you better be paying attention to what heaven is saying.

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And then waiting before you decide. I'm a quick decision maker.

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Sometimes I'm like, I get slowed down by the people who move slow.

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Which is okay because that slows me down a lot. But remember,

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sometimes there's a divine delay and we don't wanna miss God on that divine delay.

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And then we wanna ask for wisdom and always test the spirit, always test the spirit.

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Father, let's pray. Father, thank you for giving me the Holy Spirit, my counselor and guide.

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Teach me to recognize your voice above all others, silence the noise of fear,

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distraction, and confusion.

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Train my heart to respond with wisdom and peace. Let discernment guard my steps,

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purify my motives, and lead me to divine alignment. In Jesus' name, amen.

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I decree I have the mind of Christ. My ears are tuned to heaven's whisper.

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I do nothing by impulse, but everything by instruction.

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The Spirit of God guides my decision, and I walk in divine clarity and peace.

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Let's think on this one. Where is God asking you to pause, pray,

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and proceed before proceeding? And how might stillness reveal his next instruction?

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God is speaking. He is regulating everything, but we have to be in touch with

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him. We have to stay in contact with him.

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We must, we must, we must.

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So I want to also thank you right now for listening to Faith on the Goal.

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With your host, Connie Morris from Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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I pray that this word energizes your faith and reminds you of God's promise.

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His promise, according to Isaiah 55, 11, he says, My word shall not return void.

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It will prosper in the thing I sent it.

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That's the short version. So remember, every time I'm using my faith to preach

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the gospel and you're using your faith to listen and to be obedient to the gospel,

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me too, being obedient to the gospel.

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God wants to prosper the theme, the word.

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What did the word say? The word said you'll hear clearly from heaven.

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This is the second part of that discernment. You want to hear clearly in a world

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of chaos, but you have to sit still and listen and be confident of this,

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he says in Philippians 1.6.

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He, we know, who began a good work in you will carry it out to the completion

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until the day of Christ Jesus.

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Remember, we are a work in progress and God wants to get us fine-tuned like the clay that we have

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on the potter's wheel. He wants to get just so perfect.

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He doesn't look for perfection. He looks for perfect, right?

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Perfect is what it looks like when you follow Jesus.

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Each of us are individual. We are not iRobots. We have our own thing.

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He created that on purpose.

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He didn't want robots. He wanted humans with their own mind and their own emotion.

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But he also wanted us to have the mind of Christ, right?

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Our own mind don't mean we're doing stupid stuff. He wants us to develop this

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mind of Christ so that we don't do stupid stuff, right?

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So that we stay free and clear, so that God and unhindered, so that Jesus can finish the work in us.

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So keep believing, keep walking, and keep trusting because God,

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yes, He will, will finish what He has started in you.

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And I pray that in Jesus' name. Amen.

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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.