Walls Must Fall: Day 6: Endure the Process: Faithfulness in the Middle

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Music.

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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're still on the series,

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and we're going to be on it for about maybe to 12 episodes.

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So brace for an impact because we're going to break through the Walls Must Fall

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series And I hope that you are being blessed and you are learning so much how

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to be consecrated and dedicated and also how to circle the promise,

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carry the presence, sound the trumpets.

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And for day six, we're going to endure the process, faithfulness in the middle.

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We're going to start out with our foundational scripture found in Joshua chapter

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six, verse 14. it says, so on the second day, they marched around the city once and returned to camp.

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They did this for six days.

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Think about that. It says, endure the process. Whenever someone says,

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endure the process, we already know that it's going to be hard, right?

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We already know. We know for one that the Israelites, they like to talk.

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And so God told them to be quiet, do not say a word.

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And so they're enduring the process of not saying a word, of complaining and whining.

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They're enduring the process of not knowing what the end result would be.

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They had to follow instructions.

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I mean, have trouble with that.

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Endure the process. I know this is going to work. And I share some stories in

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the other episodes prior to this one, but I have another one about enduring

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the process that you may enjoy. I know.

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Finished my master's degree. And instead of doing what you call comp test,

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I wanted to write a master thesis.

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I thought that would be fun because there was a topic I really wanted to research.

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And plus, I'd rather do research and do a lot of memorization.

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If you ever finish any type of high degree, they always have these tests at

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the end where you have to take these long tests and write a whole,

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it's like writing a master thesis, I would say, but memorize a lot of the terms

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and terminology that you would use in that field and be a master of that field.

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But I decided I wanted to be a master of this topic.

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And the topic that I chose was about, it was about an implicit bias.

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And I was wanting to study out, study out, you know, change implicit bias.

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Now, like you said, I'm on a Diary of Black Women podcast.

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I have another podcast that's titled The Morris Perspective,

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where I talk a lot about implicit bias and a lot of different topics about race

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and just a lot of fun topics that we cover that's totally opposite from what

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I cover on my Diary of Black Women podcast, needless to say.

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And so during the process, I'll make it really short, is I finished my master

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thesis and little did I know that this master thesis was going to take a year.

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I wanted to write it up and get it done in a semester, like a class.

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I believe that I wrote it up in the first couple of weeks and I thought I was done.

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But when you have different advisors having different ideas of how that process

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to take and what should be added, it takes a little bit longer, as you can see.

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And so by the 30th rewrite, I had had enough. I was like, this process is ridiculous.

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Why would I got to rewrite it, the same thing over and over?

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Just how we get, we get a little so enduring the process.

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And so I finally finished it after rewriting it to fit the advisor's perspective

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because they are the experts. I was not the expert. Understand that.

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Remember, God whispers in your ear, he is the expert.

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We think that we know everything. Come on, keep it real. But we don't know everything.

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We don't know everything. And so I want to keep it real. We don't know everything.

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And so we want to have our own process. We want to shorten our process.

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And so by the time I rewrote that thing about 20 times, I was like, okay, this is wrong.

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You start to get a little attitude.

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And I said, I'm not going to get an attitude. I'm going to keep doing it.

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And everything I learned about myself is that I can be a little spoiled.

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Brad, how many can raise their hand for that?

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Right? And so I realized I endured the process. I finished the course.

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I passed the course. I ended up getting a job at a university in Nebraska.

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University of Omaha, Nebraska, one of the top criminal justice universities.

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And I think about it. I endured the process. I ended up getting hired as a criminal

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justice instructor at the university that really is the best in its field.

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How cool is that? That's one what happens when you endure the process and not

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be the one who seemed to know more than the professor, right?

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The Bible says you'll know more than your teacher, smarter than your teachers.

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But guess what? You learn it because they teach it to you, okay?

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And so I finished that process. But the best part of enduring the process is

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that master thesis became a book.

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Let me share how that became a book.

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Out of obedience to writing a master thesis, the Lord began to tell me through

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prophets that this was going to be a book. And.

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I am not an author. That's what you say, right?

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But the Lord whispered in my ear and says, Connie, this is going to be a book.

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And lo and behold, one morning I woke up and he just says, Connie,

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it's time to write the book.

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And I said, okay. So what I did is I organized my master thesis,

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how this book would look, right?

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Endure the process. I was able to write a book.

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Why? Because I endured the process of writing a master thesis.

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If you ever wrote a master thesis and rewrite it about 23 different times and

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then had to go back and find the one they really like, it's a process.

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So writing that process of writing

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a master thesis helped me organize my thoughts to how to write a book.

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So I ended up organizing my master thesis on how this book would be formatted.

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And it wasn't enough information to write a book, don't get me wrong,

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but it was an outline for a book.

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And so after the Lord had said that, and that happened in 2022 as I moved here

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to Nebraska, I began to have dreams on each chapter on what will be covered in each chapter.

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I know. I'm just saying God began to move with me.

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First, he says master thesis.

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Then he says, you'll get hired at the university.

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Then he began to speak to me on how to write a book.

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Okay, so I outlined this, my master thesis, with about four or five chapters of a book.

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And I say, okay, Lord, who's going to be my publisher?

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Then he connected me with a publisher. Not just a book that you can get on Amazon for sure,

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But it was a textbook I wrote for the Lord, but also from my master thesis.

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And so I want to leave that with you because when you endure the process,

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great things come out of it, but there's a learning curve in it when you just

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kind of endure the process of what it takes to do that part. So check this out.

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And so wrote the book. Each chapter became part.

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He gave it to me in a dream or a word or phrase or whatever,

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how God speaks to me in a dream.

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I will research that word or phrase, and then I'll write a chapter on it.

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And then I'll have dreams. I says, and he'll maybe add a little bit more and

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tell me more about what he wanted to add to the book.

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And then I wake up and I'll go do that part.

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And it just continued on till the book was finished. Got a publisher.

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Good, right? Think that was done. And then one chapter out of that first book

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I wrote, because I remember then I had to edit it, find pictures for it,

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and do all those great things to do that book.

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But let me tell you, because I was able to endure the process of writing the

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master thesis, I was able to endure the process of publishing.

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Publishing a book is not an easy task, especially with a professional publisher,

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because they edit every chapter. You had to go through and edit.

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Every word had to be right.

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Every research had to be dated.

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It was just very intense. It takes about six months or so to get the book ready.

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Then you have to go through and find pictures and put the pictures on the right page.

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It was just a very intense job to publish your first book.

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But once it's done, once it was done, I was like, wow, that was a lot of work. That was intense.

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That was endurance. But guess what? Because I took the first step in writing

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the master thesis and all the edits that it required, the writing of the book wasn't as intense.

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Yes, it was intense, but not as intense. Out of that first book came a second book.

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Out of that second book came about, I got over 260 devotionals.

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You see what happens, right?

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And then out of those devotionals, I wrote a couple manuals for my church regarding ministry of helps.

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So it's like pulling the string out of a garment.

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Once you pull it, it loosens the whole garment.

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And that's what happens when we endure the process. We don't know how far we

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can go until God just presses us to that end. Amen.

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And so let's continue with this. It says endurance, endure the process,

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faithfulness in the middle.

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Continue what God has called you to do. I don't care if it's walking around

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like I'm walking around.

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I told your neighborhood and my new neighborhood. I'm going to say that. Amen.

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And then for whatever, he might be a student in school.

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You might be believing God for a relationship.

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I don't know what he's having you endure at this time, but trust and believe.

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I know people say that, that when you finish, no matter what else comes up,

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that's your foundation, your brick solid foundation.

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It won't be built on sand. It'll be built on the rock, the rock of Jesus, right?

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So that nothing else can move you. Everything else will be built from that.

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And that's what someone prophesied.

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Connie, the book that you write, other books are going to come from that book.

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Isn't that interesting? So when you endure a process of,

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Other things come from that book. And out of the books and the devotionals came the podcast.

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So endure the process. Things are birthed out of obedience. So let's continue here.

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So we see here that the Israelites, they were enduring the process.

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They were enduring the process of marching around the city, marching around

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Jericho, blowing a trumpet. and on day six, let's be honest.

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This is our devotional, the excitement starts to wear off.

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So we set out on a 12-day Derico fast and consecration dedication.

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I don't know if you have any excitement. I don't know if God has showed up in your life. I don't know.

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But by now, if he hasn't, the excitement is probably worn off.

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You've been fasting, you've been praying, you've been marching,

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believing, you've been worshiping, you've been shaking the heavens.

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But guess what? The wall still looks the same.

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There's no crack in the stone, no shift in the atmosphere, just another lap, another return to camp.

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This is where most people give up. They give up in the middle.

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But day six is not a failure. It's a formation.

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It's strengthening your consistency.

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He's watching how you handle the silent seasons when your only instruction is to keep going.

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How many of you maybe have ran track or played a sport and you are so close

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to winning, but you're so tired, you just want to fall out right there, you know?

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And you just run it, you can't even feel your legs. But you know that if I can

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keep this lead, I will be in first place.

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That's what endurance is.

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Endurance is not giving up. Anybody can obey on day one.

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Anybody can obey on day two. But would you still be obedient on day six when

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it looks like nothing is working?

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Spiritual maturity is forced in the middle. not as a shout, but in the silence.

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God isn't just preparing your breakthrough. He is preparing you.

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The wall will fall, but today your assignment is this. Stay faithful in the cycle. Amen.

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Let's pray. Father, give me endurance in the middle.

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When my flesh grows weary, when my faith is tested, Help me remember your faithfulness.

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I will not quit. I will not complain.

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I trust that you are working behind the wall.

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Strengthen me to keep walking until you tell me to shout.

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In Jesus' name, amen. Let's decree this. I decree that I will not grow weary in well-doing.

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I am steady, focused, and faithful in the unseen process. I may not see the

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results yet, but I know God is at work.

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My breakthrough is not denied, just in the process.

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Galatians 6, 9 tells us, Let us not become weary in doing good,

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for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

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So today, fast from impatient and discouragement.

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Refuse to entertain the thought that nothing is happening. and remind yourself obedience is working.

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Even when it's invisible. Make it your point today to drink extra water,

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rest in its presence, and stay grounded.

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This is a point where people give up.

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They give up in the middle. You know why?

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Because we can go, you don't feel like cooking a dinner and unthawing and prepping

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the food and getting ready to cook and preparing the meal.

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You can go grab a quick meal through a drive-thru these days or go sit at a restaurant.

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But to go ahead and go through the process of preparing that meal, it takes time.

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And to go ahead and prepare yourself for consecration and a dedication and for

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major walls to fall, it takes time.

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So here goes some journal prompts for you. Where in my life am I tempted to

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give up because I don't see change?

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Or you can ask yourself, where have I given up? Why have I just stopped and

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not allowed even change to occur?

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You know, you know, here goes, I always got a story. I know one of my friends

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at work said, Connie, we should carry, you should carry a camera around your life.

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So we keep an eye, have a camera because you always have something exciting going on.

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I really don't think I have anything exciting going on. But how about this part?

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You ever try to grow out your hair and that process seemed like it takes forever

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until a certain point and then it just start growing really fast.

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But during that growing process, you go through a lot of different changes.

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You're like, oh, my God, I'm growing out. My hair was short,

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like a short, really short brush cut. I mean, really short.

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And I remember, and, you know, I always say I started to grow my hair.

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Laura said, I want you to grow your hair out. I said, oh, man,

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because I like my hair short.

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I'd rather get up, do a wash and go. I don't need to be dealing with hair, you know.

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But Laura said, go ahead and grow your hair out. I said, ah, okay, I'll do it.

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And now I'm in the process. It's been a year and a half.

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Yeah, literally a year and a half for the top. And then the size I wore really

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short, now they're growing out.

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And so we know if you've ever been in that process of growing out your hair,

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you know what that feels like. It's always different stages.

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We call it the ugly stages, right? And so I've been going through the ugly stages

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of this hair for the last two years.

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People love it. I'm looking at it like, I can't wait till it gets super long.

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But how many know that each part of your hair is growing regardless,

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whether you see it grow or not grow?

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You don't wake up one day, unless you probably wig, with hair down your back.

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It's a process. But because you don't see it growing, it don't mean it's not growing.

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So during day six, in the middle of our fast and our dedication.

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Just because you don't see nothing happening, I want you to know that there's

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some things happening if you don't give up.

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You will reap. What has God already done to show me that he's working,

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even if the wall hasn't fallen?

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Wow. Let's just do some basics. When you wake up, you're breathing in the morning. Your mind is right.

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You can see your eyes are right. Your ears are right.

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You have a job. A job is right. You have a relationship. Your relationship is right.

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Your children are healthy. You can just kind of go through your checklist of those things.

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If you pray, his presence is there. He's still speaking to you daily.

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So just because you haven't seen the walls fall doesn't mean that they won't fall.

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Remember, it's all in the process. It's endured the process.

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Why? Because he's building a solid foundation for you to build on forever and ever.

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If you want something quick and fast, go through a drive-thru, right?

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And then you eat that food. It tastes good going down, but how many know sometime

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on the other end, we could have just left that at the garbage can,

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right? It's just not good coming out, literally.

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Our body is like, what was that? Why did you even eat that, right?

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But then when you eat a nice, warm cooked meal that you prepared.

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Your body even gives you a hug on the inside because it knows it was prepared

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with love and it knows it was good for your body.

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And you know that you're not running to the bathroom immediately because it

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can use every bit of that food that you need to eat. So do you understand?

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And so what you don't see with your eyes, remember God is always at work behind the scenes.

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He's always at work behind the scenes.

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And so if you haven't shared any of these episodes and you know someone who

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needs some walls that must fall and they just, I just need, they need to be encouraged.

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You know, are reminded that their obedience is working even when they can't

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see it, please just share.

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But that wraps it up for day six, and I'll see you on day seven. 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. 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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Music.