Wall Must Fall: Day 5: Activating Faith: The Sound of Transformation"

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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 we are continuing our series of The Walls Must Fall.

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We are on day five. Sound the trumpets.

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Activate your faith with a sound. Wow.

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We're going to start with our foundational scripture found in Joshua 6,

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verse 13 from the King James Version.

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And it reads, then the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of ram's horn

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before the ark of the Lord went on continually and blew with the trumpets.

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I love this because it says here, sound the trumpets.

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Activate your faith with a sound. And you know that the Israelites could not speak a word.

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They had to remain silent. And so we spoke in day four about carrying the presence of the Lord.

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But also now in day five, we're seeing that the presence of the Lord doesn't go anywhere quiet.

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He needs the trumpets to bear.

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And the seven priests, you don't think they were wearing blue jeans and a t-shirt.

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They were dressed for war trumpets

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are war sounds even though it was

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silent it was still a war going on they were in a battle but this was a different

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type of battle that the israelites never fought in before they used to you they

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wore you in swords but now they're using those sounds and the trumpets and the presence of the Lord.

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I love this because the Bible tells us that the Lord will fight for us and all

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we have to do is stand still. He said that to Moses.

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And so we see here that the priest, seven trumpets of ram horns went before

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the ark of the Lord and they just blew and they blew and

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they blew and they blew and they blew as a sound of warring trumpets as they

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carry the presence of the Lord around Jericho.

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So as Israel marched, the priests blew the trumpets, not once, but continually.

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Think about how loud that can be. Like, whoa, what are they up to?

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I haven't heard any talk.

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All I heard was trumpets and they're carrying this ark around.

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Like, what is going on? You know, they were looking over the wall like, what are they doing?

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We've never seen it done like this before. And I want to pause here because

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many times God will do something in your life that he.

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You have not seen before. That when you go tell your friends,

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they say, oh, he never done that for me before, right? He's doing a new thing.

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And so we have to be aware what that new thing is in your life.

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Like for me, I shared with you in the circling the promise episode that God

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had me walking in a new neighborhood.

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I mean, I would walk on one side of the neighborhood and I saw a few of the

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homes, but then he said, I want you to venture into the block,

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go into the neighborhood, go into the neighborhood, like go, go a new route.

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And that increased my, my walking to three miles in the morning.

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Go into the neighborhood. And I was like, what?

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And like I shared with you, my first time in the neighborhood,

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I was a little bit nervous, right?

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You know, I'm walking in the new neighborhood like we should be,

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you know, and walking on the sidewalk, almost slipped in some mud.

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Cause I'm looking at the houses, the mud was slippery.

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The second time I slipped in a puddle. I mean, think about how nervous you are

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walking in a new neighborhood now because you don't know the cracks in the crevices, right?

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But think what God is saying here in Joshua 6, 13.

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He says, activate your faith with a sound.

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As Israel marched to priests, blew the trumpet, not once, but continually.

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This wasn't just noise. It was prophetic sound.

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The trumpet, the shofar, was used to declare war, announce victory,

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and to signal movement in the camp.

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It was a sound of faith that said, something is about to shift.

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My God, something in our lives, because of this consecration and dedication, the walls must fall.

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Something in our lives is about to shift.

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Do you believe that? Because we have consecrated, because we have dedicated,

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like I shared some testimonies already something in our life

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is about to shift. And you know,

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we have to have an expectation that when God puts us on assignment,

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that he's not just having us do something for the sake of doing something,

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that he has something in our lives that he wants to change, that he wants to shift. Amen.

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So even though the walls hasn't moved, right? Nothing's moving.

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The sound still went forth. Even though they were still walking in circles,

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faith was still making a noise.

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When I walk the block, I'm still praying.

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When I'm walking the block, I'm still like, Lord, this is so beautiful.

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Lord, thank you for sharing me what you see.

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Lord, oh, I'm not going to even try to see how this is going to happen in my

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strength because it was your idea that had me to walk this block.

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Just like they were probably saying, okay, what is the Lord up to?

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Because we're looking at this wall. I mean, it's not a little wall. It's not like a fence.

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They're not walking around a fence. They're walking around a wall.

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When they built a wall in those days, it was fortified that they could act.

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It was so fortified, you can have horses ride on top of it.

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And so that's how strong this wall was, right? So they were getting kind of

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stirred up about their faith.

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Now the horns is going, the ark is before them, they're silent.

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So their faith is built up. You know, their faith is built up.

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Their faith was making some noise.

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The trumpet is what you release while you're still believing.

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We always want to find, I shared a little bit in the last episode, but I want to share now.

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Find you some new worship music. Sing worship songs to God without any music. Make up songs.

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Praises and worship songs. Just make some noise. Why?

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Because that's your faith at work. What's your favorite scripture?

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Some people who really can sing, they can take a song, a psalm out of the book and just sing to it.

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Find your favorite psalm, your favorite scripture, and add some beats to it.

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You can do that so easy these days.

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You can add it to maybe add it to chat GPT and say, and make some beats to this,

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and boom, you got you a song, and now you can sing it.

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I think there's a guy, it's called Ari, I think his name is,

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and he has this little system wrapped around him where he says,

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give me a beat, and he'll hook up a beat, and then he's just so powerful.

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So different than what you used to sing.

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He got his little music, a mic, and he just starts singing and walking down the street.

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I mean, just a very different type of musician, which is so powerful. and that's his thing.

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God told him to walk and he's doing his thing. What has God told you to do?

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Today, your trumpet may be worship.

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It may be a declaration. We always decree it.

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It may be a scripture shouted in the face of fear.

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It may be scripture that you read out loud before you go to bed, but it's not.

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Don't let silence become passivity. This is your moment to sound your faith.

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When the trumpet sounds, the spirit world takes notice.

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Hell knows you're coming. The wall fills the tremble and heaven leans in. Let's pray.

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Lord, teach us how to release the sound of faith.

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Let my words carry power. Let my worship push back darkness.

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Even if I don't feel it, I will declare what you have spoken.

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I release a sound that says, I believe you before I see it.

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And I want to just, let's go over some decrees here.

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Oh my gosh. I believe it before I see it. I decree that my sound is activating heaven.

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My worship is warfare.

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My sound, my voice is a trumpet of victory and I will not be silent.

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I declare the promises of God over my life with boldness and faith.

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Joel 2.1 reads, blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy hill.

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The Lord loves trumpet. It introduces him, right?

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We know when Jesus comes through the clouds, it will be a sound of a trumpet

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that will introduce him. Hello?

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Let's go. Our fasting focus is in addition to our food fast.

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Today, make a point to fast from fearful or neutral speech.

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Sometimes in our life.

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Remember our parents always tell us that if we have nothing good to say,

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don't say nothing at all.

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But I want to double dare you that when you have nothing good to say,

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pick up a decree, pick up your word of God, and begin to speak the word of God,

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your favorite scripture.

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Just challenge yourself to speak it out loud, to read it out loud.

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Read your favorite Bible story out loud and find something new in it that you haven't heard.

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Because sometimes it's different when you read it out loud than when you read it to yourself.

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You know, find a way to even preach it to yourself.

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Put yourself in that Bible character's position. How would you respond, right?

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But remember, blow the trumpet in Zion.

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Sound the alarm of my holy hill. The Lord says, sound the alarm.

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When we sound the alarm, it tells us that he is coming. But I love this part.

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It says something is about to shift.

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Are you ready for the shift? I am ready for the shift. So as we prepare for

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our journal prompts, what is one area where you've been silent when you should

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have been speaking God's word?

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And point two is, what scripture or promise can I start declaring boldly over my situation?

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And get excited because God is doing a new thing.

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And when he says something is about to shift, my pastor preached on a topic and it was titled Shift.

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He even had a prophecy on shift change.

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That means when God is getting ready to shift change, and I just found it,

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and shift change, obedience, disobedience, and the consequences of choice.

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Wow, God wants to shift change.

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Change? What does that mean to you when you hear that word?

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If you ever work a job where there's shifts, I work like an eight to five or

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eight to four, eight to three, eight to two, whatever I get done,

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there's no other shift that comes after me.

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But sometimes we have a shift that maybe seven to three, three to 11,

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11 to seven, and there's a shift change.

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What happens during a shift change, right?

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And that can really be something that you can meditate on. I probably won't

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have time for this episode.

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I want to keep this one short and sweet because it says enough already and I

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don't want to add more to it.

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I just want you to focus on the shift change and the trumpets that activate your faith, the sound.

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How are you activating your faith today?

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Is it in And whine, that's not an activation. That's a deactivation.

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But that's a good one. But how are you activating your faith today?

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And so until next time, I'll see you on the next episode.

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Thank you. This is your host, Connie Morris. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to this episode.

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And before we close out, 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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