Whispers of Peace: Ep 3: Finding Strength in the Mighty God through Divine Dreams

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Welcome to the Diary of Black Women podcast, where faith, growth,

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and transformation takes center stage.

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

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series, and we're diving into an incredible aspect of how God speaks to us through dreams.

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This episode is titled Empowered in Sleep, Finding Strength in the Mighty God Through Dreams.

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We've already explored how Jesus brings peace to our dreams.

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Still in this episode, we'll focus on the strength he provides,

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especially when we feel the weakest.

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Whether you're battling an overwhelming

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situation or need to be reminded that God's power is with you,

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I pray that today's message encouraged you to lean on him.

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Let's pray. Father, we thank you for being our strength and we are weak.

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As we discuss how you, mighty God, revealed your power and strength through

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our dreams, open our hearts and minds to receive your message.

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Help us to see that even in our sleep, you are actively working to renew,

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restore, and empower us for the journey ahead.

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In Jesus' name we pray, amen. In Isaiah 9-6, one of the many powerful titles

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given to Jesus is Mighty God.

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This title speaks of the limitless strength and sovereignty that Jesus holds.

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He is more than just a savior.

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He is our protector, our warrior, and one who fights on our behalf.

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When we think about the challenges we face today, it's easy to feel overwhelmed.

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We can run out of energy, lose hope, or feel like the weight of the world is too much for us to carry.

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But God's word reminds us that we don't have to rely on our own strength.

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Ephesians 6.10, Paul writes, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

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This isn't just encouragement. It's commanded to lean into God's power,

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trusting that he will provide the strength you need.

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I remember a time when I was going through a highly challenging season.

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I was physically and emotionally, spiritually drained.

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One night, I had a dream where I felt the presence of Jesus in such a powerful way.

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I didn't see him, but I knew he was there.

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In the dream, I was carrying a heavy load and felt like I couldn't go any further.

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But then, in the midst of my struggle, I felt a sudden surge of strength,

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like a divine hand lifting the burden off of my shoulders.

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When I woke up, the message was clear.

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God's strength is made perfect in our weaknesses.

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This dream was a reminder that I don't have to carry the load alone.

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Jesus, the mighty God, is with me, offering his strength when minds run out.

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Have you ever had a moment like that? Times when you're at a breaking point

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and God gave you strength you didn't even know you had.

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Sometimes those reminders come in our waking moments, but often God speaks to

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us in our dream, giving us a glimpse of his strength and the power when we need it the most.

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Throughout the Bible, God has used dreams to empower his people.

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One powerful example is found in the story of Gideon in Judges 7.

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Gideon was about to face the Midianites, and he was feeling unsure and weak.

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But during the night, the Lord spoke to him through a dream about the victory he would achieve.

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The dream gave Gideon the strength and courage to move forward in faith.

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Even though the odds were against him.

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This story shows us that God's strength isn't just for the battle we face when we're awake.

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It is also for the time when we're asleep when we feel vulnerable and uncertain.

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God's strength transcends the physical realm and pours into our spiritual and

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emotional, I like to say, in our supernatural realm in our lives.

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Just like Gideon, we can receives strength through divine encounters in our

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dreams that prepare us for the challenges of him.

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How many of us have had a dream where we in the natural was having a fight,

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but in this dream, this supernatural realm, we were winning.

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That's what God does. When we encounter Jesus as the mighty God in our dreams,

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he reminds us of his power that goes far beyond what we can see or feel.

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In our daily lives, we often strive to handle things on our own,

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but God wants us to rest in the knowledge that his strength is sufficient.

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He knows when we're weary and in these moments of sleep, he can restore and

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empower us to face the next day with renewed energy.

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Think about it. Sleep is when our physical body recharge, but God can also use

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the time to recharge our spirits.

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We might not always recognize it, but dreams are often a way for God to remind

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us that his strength is working in us.

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Even when we feel powerless.

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Can I get an amen? Amen.

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I've never thought of it that way. That dreams that even our rest is the way

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that we recharge our physical body.

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Our dreams is the way that God recharges our spiritual bodies.

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So here are some practical steps for receiving God's strength in our dreams.

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If you're feeling like you're running on empty and need to experience the strength

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of the mighty God, here are some few practical steps to help you receive his

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strength, even in your dreams.

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Like I said before, many times when I know that God wants to speak to me, I will go to bed early.

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My excuse, I just feel heavy. I feel drained. I feel tired.

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And I know that I need, I know I need physical rest, but I, physical rest,

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but also I know I need to, to touch base with my supernatural God.

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And so I would go to bed early. And just recently, I know it was a rainy day.

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It rained all day in Nebraska.

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I mean, it rained from the moment I woke up until I went to bed about 530 that

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afternoon. It gets dark early around here now.

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And I was like, when I get out of work, I'm going to go home and I'm going to go to bed.

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I prepared for bed early and I went to bed and I had a dream.

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I knew God was going to give me a dream, but I just knew that I need to be mostly

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spiritually recharged.

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And so that can be your excuse to say, I just need to be physically recharged

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and go to bed and watch the mighty God just recharge you. But here we go with

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some practical steps Number one.

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Surrender your weaknesses. Before you go to bed, bring your weaknesses before God.

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Admit that you feel powerless and ask him to be your strength.

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Let him know that you trust him to carry you through.

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And it's so easy to carry that weight with you to bed and toss and turn and

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worry about it and how it's going to work out.

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But try giving it to God. Say, I surrender all this to you. and I think I left it at the front door.

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You know how you go like, leave your worries at your front door.

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If you have a garage, leave it at the garage, leave it in the car,

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whatever, leave. Don't bring that junk in the house.

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Lord, I had a bad day, I'm leaving it here.

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Leave it at work, let's do that. Let's leave it, don't bring it in the house,

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don't bring it near the houses.

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Lord, I'm going home, I'm going to bed, I'm leaving it here.

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I'm gonna let you handle it here. Number two, pray for divine empowerment.

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Just as God gave Gideon strength through a dream, ask him to empower you in your dreams.

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Pray that he revealed his might to you as you sleep, reminding you that his

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strength is perfect when you feel weak.

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That's powerful. So you pray for divine empowerment.

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I need, Lord, I got to, maybe there's something you have to resolve at work.

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Maybe there's a problem or issue you need to resolve or some project you need

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to finish. and you're like, I am stuck on this, ask him to help.

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I remember just moving to Nebraska and Nebraska is a quiet place.

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Nothing happens in Nebraska, at least from my perspective here.

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And so my member of the Lord was putting on my heart to write some books and

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I was puzzled because I don't know nothing about writing a book.

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I never wrote a book before.

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But yet I got 178 journals, hello, and two books that are in first edition print.

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But God will empower you to do the impossible.

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And so I remember saying, okay, I'm going to start this book.

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So first thing I did was outline the chapters that I want to write.

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And I said, Lord, I need your help. And know what he gave me?

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In my dreams, I was able to write these books by chapter.

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I will say, I'll give you an example. So I'll have an outline.

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It was from my master thesis.

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I had what I wanted to do. And master thesis and writing a book is truly different.

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And so the titles would have to change. And so I had the idea,

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but it didn't settle in my spirit how God wanted it to go.

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So I said, Lord, what are going to be the topics?

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And that's what I'll ask before I went to bed. I said, Lord,

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what's your vision of this book since this is your idea, right?

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So I'll go to bed and then in my dream, I can see.

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So then I'll wake up and I'll write down the titles of the chapters.

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I said, okay. So then that would be my first day. I write down the titles of

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the chapters and I was like, interesting.

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And then I'll organize what I had in my thesis according to what I had in those chapters because,

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everything didn't fit underneath one topic so I

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had to kind of cut and paste and just kind of see how that

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was going to fit with that so that took almost all day to do

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that but in Nebraska there's nothing else to do so just snow and cold so I did

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that the first day first four chapters I did I did that in the first four chapters

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and then didn't know kind of finished the first four chapters based off being

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led by the Holy ghost through dreams, through dreams, trust me.

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And then finally got someone to say they were actually, let me write a textbook.

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And I was like, what, but it's going to be 12 chapters.

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I said, 12, I said, I think I got about 17. I think this book got about maybe 20 chapters.

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My first book got like, I think it's 20 chapters, 17 to 20 chapters.

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And each one after the fourth chapter all came from a dream.

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God would show me something in a dream and I'll write the title of the work.

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It was kind of different because what he gave me, I didn't have knowledge of

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before in my waking day, but he would give me knowledge of it in a dream.

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I have to go research it out and that would be that.

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And how do I know the chapters were done? I will go back to sleep.

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Isn't that cool? God was my editor-in-chief.

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And I'll say, Lord, is that chapter done? And I'll go to sleep.

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And then, oh, if he didn't give me a new chapter title, that means that that

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first chapter, that chapter need more work.

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So I'll go back and I'll finish doing more work on it. And then when I know

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it's done, he'll give me another chapter.

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That's a long explanation, but divine empowerment does happen in the dream.

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I wrote two books on divine empowerment,

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that God will give you divine empowerment through your dreams.

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And you will feel so empowered. You feel like you just want to go back to sleep

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to get some more wisdom and revelation from the Lord because they all come from him.

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Like I said, these devotionals are divine revelation from God.

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It was like God was showing me how he wants things done.

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He will give it to me. I'll go research it, write it all out with help of the Holy Ghost, of course.

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And then I'll go, is that done? Then I'll get another chapter.

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Number three, like I mentioned in every other episode, is the journey of dreams.

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How powerful is that? If you look at, you don't know, you can't look at it,

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but if you keep track of all my devotionals, you'll find out that they're just

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a journal of my Bible study or my dreams, right?

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Or my life. And so keep a journal by your bed.

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And when you wake up, write down any dream that leaves you feeling empowered or strengthened.

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I would say all of them. You can put empowered or strengthened next to your

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dream in your journal, but write down all your dreams.

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Even if they don't fully understand them over time, you might begin to see how

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God is using those moments to restore your spirit.

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So write down all your dreams, whether they feel empowering or not,

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and you will see how God will strengthen you up.

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I think in my limited knowledge of not a dream expert, but remember God is slowly

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walking me through many, many dreams, is that he is training me for something.

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And so remember, God is a trainer, teacher. And so everything you do, if you actually.

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This is powerful. Begin to memorialize what he tells you. Write it down.

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He begins to give you more.

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He begins to give you more and more and more. If you just brush it off like

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it's nothing, you won't get anything.

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You won't get anything. I memorialize it in my devotionals. Then I memorialize it in my podcast.

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So God is like, okay, girlfriend, I'm going to give you some more.

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Now, yes, it can be overwhelming. But at the end of the day,

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it's not for me. It's for those people, for you.

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If you are growing in the podcast and in the word that I'm learning,

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as I'm teaching, as I'm growing, then this is powerful. It's for you.

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Our walk with God is never for ourselves. It's always for others.

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And so journalize your dreams, journalize it, little small things,

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little things he speaks to you throughout the day.

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I have a, like I have a, on my phone, I have a journal that I keep.

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That's what I write on. I don't keep it on a paper because I did that. I lose it. Right.

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So we know we keep our phone and then it saves to the cloud.

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And so I have everything that I wrote in my, it's dated, it's timed and everything

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that I can write when God speaks to me during the day, during the night.

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I wake up in the middle of the night and I just journal it.

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What I do is I put a star word from God, star if it's a word from God, if it's a star dream.

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And I just kind of journal my dreams. So it's so important just to journal your dreams.

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Keep track of them. And number four, meditate on scripture.

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Got to read the Bible. Reading the Bible, putting the word of God in you allows

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you to identify God's voice.

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Today, I just wrote a journal on bow.

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It's called bowing to the beast or bowing to God.

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And so towards the end time, which we are in, if you are not able to discern the voice of God,

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You will bow to the beast system and not even realize it because you haven't

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took time to put the word of God inside of you. And so we're going to get to that.

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That's going to come up later. But it's so important. If you ever notice a theme

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that I give you is to get the scripture in you know, the voice of God for yourself.

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So meditate on the scripture, spend time meditating on scripture that declares God's strength.

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Why? So you can be have discerning to know the voice of God that you can discern

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between a false prophet and a real prophet, false miracle or a real miracle.

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So you don't take the mark of the beast, but you take the seal of God. Amen.

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That you won't you won't be confused.

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You won't get it twisted, but you will know the voice of God.

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Because he is speaking to you through your dreams.

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He's speaking to you throughout the day and you are alert and you're active

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and you're discerning it and you are memorializing it and you're obedient to it.

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It just creates just a solid foundation.

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Now, example of that is if you got children and we have obedient children and

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we got some disobedient children, can I get an amen, right?

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And those obedient children, You don't have to tell them to clean up their room Wash the dishes,

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take out the garbage They just do it automatically Once you get them You train

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them well As they're growing up I want you to do this, this is your responsibility ABC,

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and they do it automatically Then you have some Some of your children You have

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to act like they never heard the rules Before,

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and you always have to tell them This is what I need from you They're still

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asking to use the car Why are they still thinking that the rules have changed

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since they got older, but really nothing has changed.

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And so you're looking at the obedient child and the disobedient child.

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The one that listens to you, just like God talks to us and we obey.

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And then the ones who hear the voice of the mother and the father and still disobey.

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That can happen in real life as we get to the end times where we know the voice

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of God, but we still continue to disobey because we want to have our own way.

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But if we meditate on scripture, I know that was extra. We meditate on scripture.

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We're spending time meditating on scripture that declares God's strength.

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Verses like Philippians 4.13 says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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Can help prepare your heart to receive his empowerment.

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Trust that God will meet you where you are and renew your strength even as you sleep.

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Have you ever went to bed weak and woke up strong because God had renewed your

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strength while you rested?

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Healed your body while you rested? it. Number five, reflect on his promises.

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Sometimes we just have to reflect on what he's already done.

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And this morning I woke up and I think it's Psalm 79 in the message.

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And I never saw it before, but the Lord gave it to me.

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And what it says, it's a song written by Torin Well, well, do what you're famous for.

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And you're like, where is that in the scripture? Guess what?

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Psalm 79, Lord, do what you're famous for.

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Reflect on his promises. Do what you're famous for.

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So put Psalm 79 down and put in the message and you'll read that and you'll

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be like, wow, Lord, do what you're famous for.

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What are you famous for? So when people see you, they'll say,

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wow, oh, God still does that.

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We want that, right? We want God to do what he is famous for in our lives today. Amen.

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So reflect on his promises. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves of God's promises

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in the Bible about his strength.

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And since I mentioned that, I didn't write that scripture down.

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It's not in my notes, but I'm just going to pull it up right now and just read

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it fresh off the path, Fresh off the press, let me find it in my Bible, Psalms 79.

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Oh, let's see. In the message, sometimes, let's find in the message.

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I hope that's the right one.

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All right, I'm going to have to look it up later.

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I think that's it. But sometimes we need to remind ourselves of God's promises.

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The Bible about his strength, Isaiah 42, 19-31, tells us he gives strength to the weary.

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He gets strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

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Even the youth grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall.

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But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.

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They will soar on wings like ego. They will run and not grow weary.

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They will walk and not faint.

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Let this truth encourage you. And so I'm going to find my devotion that I wrote today.

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I'm going to find that scripture. don't you?

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Psalm 79, 8 through 9, 79, 8.

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Here it goes. Okay, here it goes. Don't blame us for sins of our parents.

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Hurry up and help us. We're at the end of our rope. You're famous for helping.

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God, give us a break. Your reputation is on the line. Pull us out of this mess. Forgive our sins.

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Do what you're famous for doing. Don't let the heathens get by with their sneers.

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Where is your God? Is he out to lunch? Go public and show the godless world

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that they can't kill your servant and get by with it.

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Lord, do what you're famous for. When we begin to trust God,

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his promises, and we just kind of say, Lord, do what you're famous for.

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Sometimes we can't remember for everything he's famous for, because God is famous

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for a lot of great things and miracles he's done in the Bible,

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but do Lord what you're famous for.

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Do what you're famous for.

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Mighty God, you are a mighty God. Do what you're famous for.

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Take a moment now to think about areas in your life where you're feeling drained and powerless.

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Are you carrying burdens that are too heavy for you? Are you facing challenges

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that seem impossible to overcome?

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I want to encourage you to surrender those areas to God tonight before you sleep.

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Ask him to give you strength in your dreams and to empower you with the might

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that only he can provide.

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And that scripture is found that I just read. Do what you're famous for in Psalms

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79 in the message translation.

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Before we end this episode, I want to remind you that God's strength is not

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just for you when you're awake, but it's for every moment of your life,

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even in the quiet hours of sleep.

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Jesus, our mighty God, is always ready to renew and restore you.

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If you're feeling weak today, know that his strength is available for you.

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He's fighting your battles, lifting your burdens, and empowering you to keep moving forward.

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Heavenly Father, we just come before you and we pray to you.

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Mighty God, we thank you for being our strength. Thank you for reminding us

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that we don't have to carry the weight of the world on our own.

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As we sleep, we ask you to renew our strength, to empower us through our dreams,

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and to remind us of your might.

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Lord God, do what you're famous for.

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Help us to trust you fully, knowing that your strength is perfect in our weakness.

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In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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Once again, I want to thank you for joining me today on the Diary of a Black

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Woman podcast with our Faith on the Go series.

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I hope you feel encouraged and ready to embrace the strength that Jesus,

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our mighty God, offers through your dreams.

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Stay tuned for our next episode where we'll explore the everlasting love of

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the Father through divine encounters with dreams.

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Until then, be strong in the Lord and remember you are never alone.