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We want to grow in confidence, 
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We want to know what the word 
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is, and we want to be able to 
fulfill the calling, the plans 

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and purpose that God has 
designed us for. 

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But yet we're living extremely 
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us from getting into those 
places of really, truly gaining 

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clarity, gaining confidence and 
a knowledge of what the word 

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actually says. 
My guest today, Tracy, is such a

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powerful woman of God who is 
doing amazing things in the 

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Kingdom to help women to really 
get back to spending that time 

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knowing what the Word says. 
She's going to be sharing with 

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us how to gain confidence in the
Lord, how to hear His truths 

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over the lies of the enemy, how 
to pray with expectation and 

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practical ways to be able to 
write His Word on our hearts 

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even in the midst of our busy 
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She's also the author of four 
Bible studies, a couple 

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devotionals, and she just loves 
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And to help women to see the 
Word come alive in a way that 

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they can understand not just the
nuances of it, but the 

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relationship with the Lord and 
with God and who we are. 

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I love your story, Tracy. 
Thank you for being here today. 

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Thank you for sharing with us, 
and thank you for your obedience

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to step out and help women to 
stop for a minute and like 

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recenter and focus on God and 
what the Word says. 

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It's so important. 
Thank you for having me, 

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Catherine. 
It's quite an honor and I'm just

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looking forward to our time 
together. 

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Absolutely me too. 
You had said that you struggled 

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with self worth and I think a 
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To. 
Battling self worth and not 

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knowing that they really have 
anything to even offer this 

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world. 
So can you just take us a little

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bit on your journey from where 
you were in that struggle with 

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self worth to where God 
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started to tell you to remind 
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And then to begin to remind you 
of who He is, so that you could 

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write and you could speak and 
you could pour into the women's 

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ministry that you have been 
leading for all this time. 

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Yes, and I just want to say God 
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comforts us. 
He does not waste any pain or 

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struggles and he uses it to 
bless other people with the same

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comfort that we've received. 
And I feel like that's what he's

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done with me, my journey. 
Yes, I love the word. 

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It is so powerful, it's life 
changing. 

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It reveals who Christ is, his 
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him, but it also reveals who we 
are as a result of placing our 

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faith in Him. 
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2015. 
I had been leading women's Bible

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studies for a little over a 
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So I was in the Word, 
consistently leading other women

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in the Word. 
And I just started writing A 

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blog. 
I was super excited about it. 

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And my aunt said she planted the
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She said you should write a 
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And I thought, well, OK, we'll 
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And about that same time, I just
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insecurity. 
And you know, that rears its 

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head every once in a while. 
You know, we have the enemy who 

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lies to us all the time and 
tries to drag us down and, and 

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get our thoughts spiraling. 
And so it was one of these times

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where I just felt like I was 
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And my favorite time and place 
to spend with the Lord is taking

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a walk around the neighborhood. 
I play worship music, I pray. 

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I'm just enjoying his creation. 
It just takes you out of the 

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house. 
Any distractions like, oh, I'll 

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go get the laundry done, I'll do
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that. 
And but it just really takes you

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out of it so that you can focus 
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voice and his encouragement. 
And so during this episode, when

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I'd start to feel that 
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my shoes, head out the door, 
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home. 
Always more relaxed and peace 

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filled and joy filled and 
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And one of these walks, it was 
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download. 
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I just got this sense that, OK, 
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this is what it's going to be 
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So on the first walk, I came 
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daughter of the King gaining 
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And literally this, it was just 
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words and these pieces. 
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would take a walk, I would get 
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the scriptures, the little 
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my past, you know, stories I 
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kid to include in this Bible 
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And it was just an amazing 
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So there he was comforting me, 
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seek life and healing and hope 
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And so that's how my first book 
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And I've had the pleasure of 
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through that, including women at
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and I've had women message me 
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just saying how life changing 
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And now they're serving in 
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leaders and they are asking to 
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groups of. 
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And then just the journey, God 
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I've written 8 books now and two
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the King, are in Spanish now. 
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the Kingdom of God and with the 
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that he wants to give us. 
So it's a huge, huge blessing. 

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I love that you're saying you 
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which is what I was just doing 
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Lord. 
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many steps, you know how many 
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neighborhood? 
And it was just very interesting

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to think about the correlation 
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answers like you were talking 
about walking to get the 

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answers. 
I also do the same thing because

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I don't get caught up in the 
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in, this is my Home Office that 
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I get caught up in my doing, you
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going to do some stuff. 
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tours and stuff when I was 
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So I do understand that I didn't
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They were different 
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When I was walking this morning.
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correlation of how many steps 
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revelation he's given me around 
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seven years and lots of good 
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were hard to hear. 
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Israel wandering in the desert 
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They had to move. 
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to their promised land, right? 
And yet they were just wandering

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around in the desert. 
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did I take in the last seven 
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that were wandering steps? 
They were steps of distraction. 

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They were steps of whining of, 
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things that I didn't like. 
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How many steps have I gone back 
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circle and all the things? 
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take them a short time took them
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So how long have I prolonged 
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been wandering this desert, 
which is not it's my beautiful 

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neighborhood, but how long have 
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And it was just so interesting 
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how many beautiful revelations 
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that he's given me in this time 
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But I struggle because when I'm 
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place to write it down or get it
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spirit to a paper or whatever. 
So I don't know if you have some

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tips on doing that later, we can
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But yes, I do. 
That's good because that's one 

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of my big things. 
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distracted and so I don't really
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on in the dirt? 
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do. 
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about dealing with that going 
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not enoughness, like getting in 
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How did you push past that? 
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I know that I'm not enough, but 
I know that because Christ in is

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in me, I'm enough. 
Because of him and me, yes. 

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Lots of prayer, lots and lots of
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And going back to the Word and 
just speaking the word out loud 

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because the enemy doesn't like 
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Yeah, just turning the 
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pulling out those swords of the 
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my heart that I know to be true,
and just fighting off lies, 

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really, with the word of God and
with prayer and with good 

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Christian friends to keep us on 
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We're asked to, we're told to 
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healing in that. 
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It is. 
True. 

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It's very true. 
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distracted, if you're spending 
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media and you're plugged into 
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And that's what I think is the 
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people. 
They're seeking, but they're not

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finding. 
And you and I were talking about

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this before I hit record the 
episode that I had shared last 

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week where I had this beautiful 
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And the nugget that I got out of
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the editing process of the 
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things like clarity or we're 
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clarity or we're seeking 
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Like we just think I need to 
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I need to know how, if I'm going
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to start a ministry, or if I'm 
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walk in freedom, how am I going 
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And this isn't true. 
I'm just saying this is a 

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mindset. 
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that because they feel there's 
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is destiny and purpose, but 
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clarity over pursuing 
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And that pursuing clarity looks 
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another YouTube video. 
I'm going to get on Instagram. 

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I'm going to see what this 
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just listen to these millions of
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over me. 
Can you just stop it all right 

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now and be still and even when 
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would highly recommend and I'd 
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this. 
Not listening to worship that 

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has words that somebody else is 
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I know there may be some great 
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Some of them are actually not 
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They're glorifying self. 
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that's an instrumental worship 
like William Augusto is a great 

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one I like to go to. 
He has a new release, by the 

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way, on Spotify. 
That was I listened to this 

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morning as I was walking. 
It is so amazing. 

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It's only an hour long. 
It's the shortest one he's ever 

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done, but and it's like prayer 
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I don't remember what it's 
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If I can remember, I'll link it 
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But it is so good because 
because it shuts my mind off my 

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human busy, busy, busy mind and 
allows me to immediately focus 

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and go into the quiet place, a 
secret place with the Lord of 

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undistractedness. 
And that's where the answers 

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come from. 
So I love that you're sharing. 

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That's what you did and that you
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Lord. 
But we can't speak the word of 

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the Lord if we don't know the 
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Exactly. 
And there's such power in the 

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Word. 
Such power. 

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Yeah, there really is. 
And this I would say really this

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year, because so often don't we 
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God, what do you want me to do? 
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lot going on. 
He's like, I just want you to be

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Not what I want you to do for 

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me. 
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in his words before she got up 
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prepared things. 
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It just flows so much better 
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we sit with Him, when we talk 
with Him, when we are in prayer 

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and His word and just listening 
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don't know the tail end of every
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book thinking, OK, I'm going to 
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clarity. 
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It's. 
The real. 

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What we're asked to do is just 
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one step at a time, one decision
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it's going to lead us. 
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clarity. 
He just let gives us enough 

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light to see the very next step.
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journey, which is such a huge 
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someplace we would have never 
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surprises, but I really don't 
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couple weeks and I'm like, oh, I
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I love, thank you. 
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to be surprised by whatever my 
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birthday present today, he 
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it is. 
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my birthday present, I'm like, 
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Don't tell me what it is because
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You know now. 
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some of the hardest times in my 
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back to this place and be 
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end from the beginning. 
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would be a stone for me to lay 
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It was so dark, and because I 
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know the end from the beginning 
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would move out of the bondage I 
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life that I stayed stuck for a 
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to because I was afraid. 
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trusting God truly to know He's 
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in the season in which I need 
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So when I finally obediently 
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my foot hit the ground into the 
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what I was going to look like, 
that's when the Lord illuminated

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that step for me before my foot 
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He illuminated that step. 
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light it all up for you at one 
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It's just walking in obedience. 
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looking up a verse that it 
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which the Lord reminded me of 
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I just had to find the exact 
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the way walk in it whenever you 
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whenever you turn to the left. 
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guide us and to be present with 
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So that to me says like he's our
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everything that we need and in 
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So as you're going about leading
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about doing your Bible studies 
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you? 
I mean, you say prayer, but I 

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guarantee you there are women 
listening or watching today who 

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are thinking, well, that sounds 
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prayer? 
Like how do you get your answer?

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How do you still ring it out of 
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Can we just address a prayer 
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posture to actually hear from 
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Does that look like? 
My most recent book was based on

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the Lord's Prayer, because if 
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Jesus. 
He was our model. 

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He prayed while he was giving 
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He set time aside early in the 
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would go and spend time with his
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And He is the one that is our 
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with worship because it puts God
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God is so huge, then it puts us 
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the sun, the moon, the stars, 
the planets, He knows every hair

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on our head, then He is very 
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whatever needs we bring to Him 
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So it just reassures our hearts 
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glory. 
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Him, look back over our lives, 
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faithful in the past. 
And that reassures our hearts as

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well. 
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He is faithful, He is good, and 
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heart. 
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Scripture really informs our 
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throughout the Scriptures of all
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and the situations that they 
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I love Nehemiah. 
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going before the king to 
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people, Israel. 
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for favor with the king, which 
that's like, we can pray for 

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favor with people in our lives. 
We can pray for favor even in 

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the face of our enemy, right? 
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stood before the king, after 
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prayer, he prayed under his 
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mouth to respond. 
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the Bible, people who prayed 
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Joshua prayed for the son to 
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have victory in this battle. 
Elijah, he prayed faithfully, 

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excuse me, faithfully, as he 
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end and that rain would come 
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praying that there would be rain
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would be rain again. 
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And he kept sending his servant,
OK, go look again. 

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Is there a cloud? 
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Is rain on the horizon? 
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was a cloud as big as a man's 
fist rising up and heading their

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So it's encouraging to combine 
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And if we don't know what to 
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just borrow the psalmist words. 
They've written out beautiful 

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prayers, and we can pray him 
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We can insert our own names. 
We can insert our loved one's 

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name and just pray God's Word 
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There's so many scriptures too, 
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and to knock, seek, ask, seek, 
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it because God's timing. 
And his answers don't always 

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look the way we want. 
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We have a formula. 
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better. 
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prayer. 
Just keep pushing through and 

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make it a habit. 
We can't expect for an amazing 

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prayer life when we just come to
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The more we pray, just like with
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we get with it. 
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prayer as this big ominous 
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conversation with our Heavenly 
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would have with our closest 
family member, our closest 

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friend, just being open, 
authentic, instead of pretending

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we have it all together, but 
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Jesus knew every single detail 
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It wasn't having it all hidden 
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Yeah, it's really persistence 
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I love that you even gave 
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to be some systematic thing or 
big ominous thing is what you 

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Lord that it's more of just 
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I started praying, Now I've been
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I feel like I've been praying as
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and out of consistency. 
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was a young girl for like the 
boyfriend that I wanted, you 

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know, that kind of thing. 
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until I needed something else 
because I did not at all have 

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any clue about what relationship
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I didn't even, not even not even
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through lots of different 

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things, but I started to ask him
to teach me to pray and teach me

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to pray effectual prayers that 
really move heaven and push back

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the darkness. 
Because God is a father. 

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He's a good, good father. 
He's not a father like our 

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earthly dads who can let us down
or not show up in ways that you 

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know, are what we would hope for
or we have to prepare to to be 

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in his presence in a certain way
to get a favorable outcome. 

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And I believe that God listens 
and hears us period, whether 

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we're saying like, Lord, I don't
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I just need you or just help. 
You know, sometimes, but I've 

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been asking him to teach me how 
to pray because it is important 

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to to know. 
And that's the one thing he kept

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speaking to me about was just 
speaking his word and and then 

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going back even this morning on 
my walk. 

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This is interesting that you 
brought this up about where's he

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been faithful before I took 
that. 

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I wrote it down because it was 
like the Lord had already just 

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showed me that this morning when
I wrote what I wrote my my first

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book was only ever to document 
the goodness of God and nothing 

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to do with look at me and don't 
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I really could care less about 
my story. 

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Actually my story. 
I would like to have never have 

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told it, you know, but the point
was to make it basically a 

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monument or an altar of God's 
goodness and provision in my 

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life. 
And what he did was so 

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miraculous that I had to 
document it and then I had had 

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to share it because if he did it
for me, I know he'll do it for 

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you, Tracy, and for you, 
everyone who's listening. 

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And that's why I wrote that 
because the Lord reminded me 

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today. 
You wrote that to build an altar

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to rebuild a like a the rocks 
that they built to remember to 

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the stones. 
They said, bring your kids here 

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and tell the story of how God 
delivered you and provided 

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right? 
He got you over here. 

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Here you are. 
And that's what I did. 

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I did that in a book, right? 
It's our modern day stone. 

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That's my modern day stones at 
least. 

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And somehow, over the last five 
years, I've completely 

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forgotten. 
What in the world have I done? 

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I forsook that altar of 
remembrance and worshipping on 

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that altar of His provisioning 
goodness and started focusing my

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attention on other things and 
then forgot His goodness. 

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The only way you can do that is 
if you stop relationship with 

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Him. 
Just like you and I, we're kind 

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of strangers. 
We really don't know each other.

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Although I feel like I never 
meet a real stranger, but that 

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you and I, we don't know what 
makes each other tick. 

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I wouldn't know what to get you 
for your birthday or if your 

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favorite color is purple. 
I wouldn't know these things and

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it takes relationship and time 
in the presence of God and in 

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His presence could look like you
and I are talking about walking 

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or me sometimes in the shower 
when I'm quiet because there's 

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no distractions in there. 
I can't bring my phone in there.

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So when I see these ads for 
people that have like things in 

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their showers to distract them, 
like what are you doing? 

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Get out of there does not belong
in the shower. 

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Can't you for five seconds? 
Can't you just be without your 

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screens? 
Goodness. 

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But anyways, I digress. 
But it's just a beautiful 

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reminder to me and really it's 
confirmation. 

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So thank you in that because 
that's what I really feel like 

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the Lord has been saying to me 
today specifically and this week

450
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,840
about speaking the word as we 
pray because the word is a 

451
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,360
sword, It's a double edged 
sword, cuts through bone, cuts 

452
00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:38,880
all the way down bone and 
marrow. 

453
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,160
So I love that you said that as 
Scripture informs our prayer and

454
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:47,080
to pray with expectations. 
And again, we can't do that if 

455
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:52,600
we don't know who what the word 
says and who God really is and 

456
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,600
we need to have relationship 
with him. 

457
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:59,320
Andy something else, Tracy, I 
have many people I know in my 

458
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,920
life. 
I know of them maybe on social 

459
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,080
media. 
We say we're friends on social 

460
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,600
media, but I don't know anything
about them, right. 

461
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,360
But you know, it's like Taylor 
Swift, for instance. 

462
00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:11,720
Now, this is a terrible example 
because I do not follow her or 

463
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,080
advocate for her in any way. 
But I don't agree with what her 

464
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,320
thoughts and all things, but I 
don't know Taylor Swift, but I 

465
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:22,360
know who she is. 
If I were to see her in passing 

466
00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:26,040
at like a coffee shop and be 
like what hey girl and try to 

467
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,760
run over and sit with her and do
all things, she would probably 

468
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,680
be like security. 
And then some people would come 

469
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,120
out of nowhere, stand in my way 
and say no access. 

470
00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:38,640
She does not know you Becca. 
And that is how I spent the 

471
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:43,160
majority of my life until I was 
24 when the Lord started 

472
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,000
bringing people into my life. 
So this has been decades now 

473
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,280
that the Lord has been bringing 
people into my life to start to 

474
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,920
show me who He is and His heart 
for me, His heart for his 

475
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:59,080
children, His heart for freedom.
For we may not be in bondage to 

476
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,240
slavery right now like the 
children of Israel were in 

477
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,840
physical, like literal bondage 
to slavery, but we are in 

478
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:10,280
bondage to spiritual slavery 
right now. 

479
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,880
Most of us are because our 
emotions are being bound up. 

480
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,000
Our minds are being bound up 
with wrong thoughts and 

481
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,360
messaging and programming and 
other things that constantly 

482
00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:21,800
reach out and say we're not good
enough. 

483
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,640
We can't do things that we feel 
called to do. 

484
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:29,040
So that's why I'm so drawn to 
you, because you stepped out and

485
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:33,000
you just did it. 
And you can't lead if you're not

486
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,720
free. 
That's why the name of this show

487
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,640
is called Breed to Lead. 
So what would you say to the 

488
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,000
woman right now who is just 
really been battling, feeling 

489
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,880
like she's stuck, even bound by 
things that she knows is holding

490
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,680
her back and is unable to really
feel like she's unable to break 

491
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,000
free from those things. 
But she's still trying to go out

492
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,160
there and lead and do all the 
things and strive for the things

493
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,120
she feels called to do. 
What would you say to her right 

494
00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:05,400
now to help her to stop and 
chill out and really allow 

495
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,840
herself permission to just rest 
so that she can best? 

496
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:17,400
Yes, regardless of if we do 
something or don't do something,

497
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,160
God loves us. 
He has called us, chosen us, 

498
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:25,280
adopted us, not based on any 
merit, anything we can do just 

499
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,400
purely because we're His 
children. 

500
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:32,120
He created us in His image and 
He wants a relationship with us.

501
00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:34,880
He wants us to know, understand 
and believe Him. 

502
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,440
That is the greatest purpose for
which He has created us to know 

503
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,200
Him. 
So anything else is icing on the

504
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,680
cake. 
We can rest in our identity in 

505
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,040
Christ. 
We are secure in the Father's 

506
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:48,960
hand. 
Nothing can remove us. 

507
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:55,240
And so any voice that tells us 
that we're going to lose God's 

508
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,360
favor, we're going to lose his 
love, we're not working hard 

509
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,920
enough to keep it, sustain it, 
or earn it. 

510
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:05,640
That's a lie of the enemy. 
And he wants us to be paralyzed.

511
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,080
He doesn't want us to be 
effective for the Kingdom. 

512
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:14,200
And so we need to recognize that
and to just really rest and walk

513
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,400
in the confidence that God, who 
God says we are his daughters. 

514
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:25,000
One time I was just as an an 
example of how the enemy does 

515
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,000
lie to us. 
I had just left teaching a class

516
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,520
at Teen Challenge. 
It went very well, lots of 

517
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,480
engagement. 
The women were excited, growing 

518
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:41,320
in the word, getting healing. 
It was just awesome and I felt 

519
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,600
good. 
I got in the car, by the time I 

520
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,400
got to the freeway on ramp, 
which was probably 2 miles, I 

521
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,600
just felt this whoosh, this 
heaviness just fall upon me and 

522
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,680
these lies just started going 
through my head. 

523
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,840
Who are you to teach? 
Who are you to lead other women?

524
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,880
So powerful it makes it just 
brings back those emotions. 

525
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,000
Sorry. 
But. 

526
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:14,400
It was just so immediate and so 
heavy and so accusatory that you

527
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:19,720
have no right to be leading 
other women in freedom and in 

528
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:24,200
God's Word. 
But fortunately, I recognized 

529
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,040
these lies for what they were 
and I recognized the source of 

530
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,560
them. 
And I just immediately just 

531
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:38,200
started rebuking these lies and 
just claiming God's word and 

532
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,840
calling upon the Lord, calling 
on Jesus to just lift this. 

533
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,000
And it did. 
It lifted so quickly because I 

534
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,000
just, I rebuked it and I said, 
that's a lie. 

535
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,120
I'm not going to leave it. 
I believe this and it left me. 

536
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:59,240
So it's important that we 
recognize and we Scripture tells

537
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,120
us to, to grab hold of our 
thoughts, make them obedient to 

538
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,000
Christ. 
So anything that is contrary to 

539
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,960
what God says about us, we need 
to immediately grab hold of it 

540
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,800
and just bring it to the Lord 
and say, these are the lies that

541
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,840
I'm feeling right now are the 
lies I'm hearing, and just hand 

542
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:22,600
it over and reclaim what He says
because it truly does work. 

543
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:28,160
And to just even say it out loud
to claim who God says we are 

544
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:33,640
because there is a battle that 
wants us to be ineffective, to 

545
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,840
have no confidence in who we 
are. 

546
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,160
But our identity isn't based on 
what we do. 

547
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,560
It's based on that we belong to 
the Lord. 

548
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,920
But to just recognize those lies
for what they are, lies, and to 

549
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,920
just stop them in their tracks 
before our heads start 

550
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:54,320
meditating on them, letting them
spin, and that we start 

551
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,440
believing them. 
So we need to just stop that and

552
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,120
really just rest in that 
confidence of whose we are. 

553
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,640
And it's true. 
I mean, it is absolutely true 

554
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:11,040
what you're saying, I get it. 
But I didn't always, I did not 

555
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:12,840
always get what you're saying 
right now. 

556
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,960
At one point in my life, it was 
like foreign language. 

557
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:15,640
What do you mean? 
Who? 

558
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:17,720
Christ. 
What do you mean? 

559
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,000
Take my thoughts captive? 
What does that mean? 

560
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,160
I would get so frustrated and so
annoyed when somebody would say,

561
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,800
well, just be like, more like 
Jesus. 

562
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,600
I remember getting so that was 
like who I used to be. 

563
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,120
And it's just been such a 
process of coming out of that 

564
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,720
for me. 
But you know you can't know if 

565
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:41,440
what you're hearing is contrary 
if you don't know who you are, 

566
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,680
like if you don't know what who 
you already are in Christ when 

567
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,160
you start to hear those 
condemning accusatory thoughts, 

568
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,960
which I've so been there, so I 
totally can relate. 

569
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,800
I felt you when you were getting
emotional. 

570
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,400
It's like, I know I know because
that's what he wants to do, tell

571
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,160
you to sit down and shut up. 
You're displayed. 

572
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:02,200
And you have a good point 
because there's so much like 

573
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,040
Christian speak and it goes over
our heads. 

574
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,240
Unless you have been in the 
words, it's like that just 

575
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,520
sounds so pious, so earlier than
now and it doesn't even make 

576
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,240
sense. 
What are you even trying to say?

577
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:20,000
And so the taking your thoughts 
captive and making them obedient

578
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,920
to Christ, we can tell if it's 
the enemy speaking to us or God 

579
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,680
speaking to us. 
The enemy will give us thoughts 

580
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:33,960
of condemnation, thoughts that 
paralyze us that are accusatory 

581
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,440
over us overall like you are 
terrible, you are stupid, you 

582
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,680
are sinful, you are. 
That's like it's a calling us 

583
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,720
names and then the paralyzing 
because then we feel just so 

584
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,240
helpless and hopeless. 
Well then I'm just going to give

585
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:50,520
up. 
I'm not going to try and do 

586
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,080
anything for God. 
I'm not going to try and pray. 

587
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:54,600
I'm not going to try and read my
Bible. 

588
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,160
I'm not going to try and serve 
him. 

589
00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:04,760
Any voice that stops us from 
being productive and drawing 

590
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,840
close to God, that is Satan. 
But if it is a voice where it's 

591
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:14,239
more, if it's conviction, then 
we can know whether we know the 

592
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,679
Bible very well or not. 
It's like these criteria, 

593
00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:23,159
condemnation where it makes us 
stuck, or conviction, which is 

594
00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:27,120
God's Spirit saying, here's an 
area where you can refine. 

595
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,760
Here's an area you might want to
work on. 

596
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,360
You might want to work on your 
tone. 

597
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,600
You might want to work on your 
words and the language you use. 

598
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,679
You might want to refine the, 
you know, remove some cussing or

599
00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:44,159
whatever, or you might want to 
not participate in that activity

600
00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:47,880
anymore. 
God's voice guides us towards 

601
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,679
being better. 
It doesn't stop us. 

602
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,280
It's constantly encouraging us 
to grow and be better. 

603
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,480
Or a Satan's voice is just stop,
don't bother. 

604
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,640
So whether we know a lot of the 
word or not, it's conviction 

605
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,040
versus condemnation. 
Whose voice are we going to 

606
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,080
listen to? 
And by taking our thoughts 

607
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,520
captive, if we're hearing 
condemnation, we can put up a 

608
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,440
stop sign and say, no, I'm not 
going to believe those lies. 

609
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,040
God has a better plan for me. 
If we don't know anything else, 

610
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,920
just know that God loves us. 
He chose us, He adopted us, We 

611
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,760
are in his family and just go 
from there. 

612
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:28,960
Just some basics like the most 
basic, the song when we're 

613
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,520
little kids, Jesus loves me. 
This I know you know, just cling

614
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,720
to. 
That yeah, that's good. 

615
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,320
And like you said a minute ago, 
it's not about what we do. 

616
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,400
And I love that you're in this 
year, this season, this year of 

617
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,080
not doing, but being because me 
too. 

618
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,080
And it's just amazing. 
You said to me things I'm like, 

619
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,720
wow, Lord, it's not just me. 
Thank you like Nehemiah and all 

620
00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:53,680
the things I'm like, yes, but 
you had said it's not because of

621
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,080
what we do, it's because of what
Christ has done. 

622
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:01,840
So it's not even just because of
who he is that makes you who you

623
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,320
are. 
It's finished because he said 

624
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,520
it's finished. 
He said that's what he said, it 

625
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,840
is finished. 
It's because of what he did. 

626
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,920
And yeah, I think that's so 
good. 

627
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:16,480
I thank you for addressing the 
Christianese that I get caught 

628
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:17,440
up into. 
You know, I do. 

629
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,560
I say it and then I'm like, but 
hold on, what does that mean? 

630
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,640
So that's why I think the Lord 
had me go through those seasons 

631
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,320
of having no idea. 
I'm being very frustrated 

632
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:30,880
because I now can relate to 
other women who are like, take 

633
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,320
your thoughts captive. 
What does that even mean? 

634
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,200
So thank you so much. 
You did a beautiful job of 

635
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,600
helping to unpack that. 
And it and it reminded me too, 

636
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,480
as you were talking, I had this 
little image of this, you know, 

637
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,600
a father, which we go back to 
knowing who God is in order to 

638
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,920
know who we are and not just 
what Christ has done for us, but

639
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,440
we really need to know the heart
and character of God, the 

640
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,160
creator of all. 
And I thought about this with my

641
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:55,560
son. 
I have three children. 

642
00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:01,320
I have a 2218 and a 7 year old 
and my 7 year old is, you know, 

643
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,480
he's seven. 
He does all kinds of really fun 

644
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:09,320
things and he's he's a boy. 
And instead of when he makes a 

645
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,640
mistake and does something he 
shouldn't have done, instead of 

646
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:18,120
me yelling at him or even just 
calling him dumb or saying like,

647
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,680
hey, stupid or hey, dummy or 
whatever. 

648
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,400
Like I would never dream of 
talking to my child that way and

649
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,640
my husband either. 
So you could think about it from

650
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,320
a father's perspective or a 
parent's perspective, either 

651
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,920
way. 
But me, I would never dream of 

652
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,720
telling him, you know, you're 
dumb. 

653
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:36,160
That was that was dumb. 
Even saying that was dumb. 

654
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:40,560
I wouldn't that instead, I would
say something like, was that the

655
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:44,240
wisest decision that you could 
have made in order for him to 

656
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:48,160
start thinking maybe it wasn't, 
But that doesn't mean get down 

657
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:49,840
on yourself. 
It means let's grow and think 

658
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,000
about how can we make a better 
decision next. 

659
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,000
And instead of just calling him 
names and things like that. 

660
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,840
And I've heard parents do that 
on playgrounds, they just tear 

661
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,680
their down and call them 
terrible names. 

662
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,200
And my youngest has heard it 
too. 

663
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,320
He's been with me since he was 3
or 4. 

664
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,440
There's many occasions we've 
went to public parks and heard 

665
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,040
parents just calling their 
children terrible names, you 

666
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,720
know, and I'm like, why the IT 
is sad, but it's been good 

667
00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:19,400
teaching moments for me and 
night for for us to go, OK, this

668
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,520
is, you know, this is not how we
talk to people. 

669
00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:27,040
But it is a beautiful picture of
how the father talks to us. 

670
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,920
He doesn't come at us like, hey,
dummy, He comes at us like, hey,

671
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:35,120
daughter. 
I know that was wasn't it? 

672
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,600
That was a little fun. 
Interesting thing you just did. 

673
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:39,800
Yeah. 
Was that the wisest choice? 

674
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,840
You know, he's not going to 
come. 

675
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:46,080
And it's like, you know, and 
start just rapid fire, making us

676
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,080
feel like idiots or whatever, or
less than. 

677
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:53,360
And I think it is so beautiful 
to know the word. 

678
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,960
But could you please give the 
woman who's struggling to just 

679
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:01,120
sit down and read her Bible some
really tangible ways that she 

680
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,840
can begin to start to get that 
Scripture in her and written on 

681
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,280
her heart, that she can pull 
from it immediately when she 

682
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,840
does hear those condemning 
thoughts and when she does hear 

683
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:13,880
that she's not enough for who do
you think you are? 

684
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,640
That kind of thing. 
The books of the Bible are 

685
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:22,520
great, but if there is a 
specific issue or topic that a 

686
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,640
person is dealing with, even the
concordance in the back of the. 

687
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:29,360
Bible or. 
To just look up certain topics 

688
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,360
like Lord I'm struggling with 
anxiety right now. 

689
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,920
You can even do a Google search 
or go on Bible hub or Bible 

690
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,040
gateway and type in the word 
anxiety. 

691
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:44,560
See every scripture that 
addresses that and then just see

692
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:49,080
what God says about it. 
And then you can pray and thank 

693
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,520
God that help me to believe 
these scriptures. 

694
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,680
Or if it's grief, if you're 
going through grief and you need

695
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,400
that comfort, God will there. 
There are tons of scriptures 

696
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,920
about the comfort of God, the 
hope of God, the peace of God, 

697
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,320
and even joy in the midst of 
troubles which you know it 

698
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,360
contradicts itself. 
But the joy of the Lord can see 

699
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,040
us through all of that pain. 
There's been plenty of days 

700
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:18,080
where maybe just health issues 
or whatever, I would wake up and

701
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,760
I would choose to walk over 
because I had tucked this first 

702
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,200
in my heart. 
The joy of the Lord is my 

703
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:25,840
strength. 
I'd open the shutters. 

704
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,400
The joy of the Lord is my 
strength. 

705
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:31,120
When I wasn't feeling so strong 
or this is the day the Lord has 

706
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,280
made, I will rejoice and be glad
in it. 

707
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,360
They don't. 
You don't have to memorize a 

708
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:40,400
whole passage and all those 
ancient names in or all those 

709
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,360
laws in Leviticus. 
Just use the computer, use the 

710
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,960
concordance in the back of your 
Bible, a Bible app to just 

711
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,080
really just plug in exactly like
a prescription, the medicine you

712
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:56,920
need from God's word that day. 
And because there is nothing 

713
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,760
that we go through that God's 
Word does not address. 

714
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:06,080
I love actual Bible study 
workbooks because they really 

715
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,280
help you dissect because just 
like Christianese can go over 

716
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,320
our heads, sometimes even 
opening the Bible. 

717
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:17,600
It's like what is this? 
What is this saying or getting a

718
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:22,960
Bible that has the commentary. 
It really cannot help open it up

719
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:28,800
for you and bring understanding.
But I love a good women's Bible 

720
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,920
study and just really time in 
the work is what's going to do 

721
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,640
it. 
I, I, I joined my first Bible 

722
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,040
study when I was 30. 
I was 26 years ago. 

723
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:41,640
So do the math. 
That's how old I am. 

724
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:46,040
So I joined, I grew up going to 
Sunday school, learning all of 

725
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:50,240
the little stories. 
But it wasn't until I actually 

726
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:55,600
joined a community of other 
women, had someone leading us 

727
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,680
through the scriptures and had 
homework where I was accountable

728
00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:03,480
to show up and have done my 
homework and have been in the 

729
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:09,440
word on my own at home. 
That was really life changing 

730
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,680
and must say that I enjoy it 
because I've been going every 

731
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,920
Wednesday for the last 20-6 
years and that is actually where

732
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:21,520
I stepped up to start leaving 21
years ago. 

733
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,360
We just show up. 
It can be scary. 

734
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,920
Like the first time I did show 
up, the Bible study, I didn't 

735
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,040
know anyone. 
I just showed up, but I felt the

736
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,360
Holy Spirit. 
I just started sobbing when I 

737
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:37,120
walked in the door because it 
was like God said, this is where

738
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:41,000
you need to be. 
It was really tangible and he 

739
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,760
was right. 
That's how I've grown in my 

740
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,960
relationship with Him. 
Just community, the 

741
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:51,080
accountability of being in his 
word on my own, but then also 

742
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,960
discussing it with other women 
and really digging in and 

743
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,640
getting the meaning of it. 
Yeah, because we don't want to 

744
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,600
just read it. 
We're not reading it for head 

745
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,920
knowledge. 
It has to be applicable and we 

746
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,160
have to get that understanding. 
Like that's great that happened 

747
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:11,600
for the Israelites or the early 
church thousands of years ago. 

748
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:12,960
That's great that happened for 
them. 

749
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:17,320
But we have to be able to see 
like how does that apply to me 

750
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,560
to get the meat and see how it 
applies to us. 

751
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:25,520
So really I recommend to either 
look at a concordance, look for 

752
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:29,000
a specific situation you're 
going through, the emotions 

753
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,800
you're dealing with at the 
moment, but also to get in the 

754
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,360
word with other women if 
possible, whether it be a Zoom 

755
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:40,320
class or in person. 
It really it's changed my life. 

756
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,320
Yeah, that's so good. 
And you have also said you've 

757
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,280
done Bible studies with video 
and things like that. 

758
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,600
So if you want to supplement and
purchase something that's done 

759
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:53,640
for for you, maybe you are not 
so sure you want to show up to a

760
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,720
group yet because maybe, and I 
don't know, I don't relate to 

761
00:43:57,720 --> 00:43:59,800
this now in my life because this
is not me. 

762
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,040
I'll just come in the room and 
be like, here I am everybody. 

763
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,640
But at one point I was like, 
please don't notice me. 

764
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,080
I don't know anything about the 
word. 

765
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,240
I barely even remember Noah's 
ark. 

766
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,480
And please do not talk to me or 
ask me any questions about the 

767
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,880
Bible because even though I'm in
this Bible class or this Bible 

768
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,080
study, I'm here because I don't 
know anything. 

769
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,800
But I would walk in feeling like
they all know everything and I 

770
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,680
would not want to come. 
I'd be intimidated. 

771
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,600
So there's options, right? 
For those of you who can I just 

772
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,000
start small? 
Yes, of course, absolutely. 

773
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,680
We do need community. 
We do need togetherness. 

774
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,920
We do need to be able to lay 
hands on one another and pray 

775
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,960
and be real and vulnerable. 
And what you keep hidden in the 

776
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,880
dark has power over you. 
What you bring into the light no

777
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,120
longer can control you. 
So coming as you are and saying,

778
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,640
hey, here I am, come out, know 
nothing about nothing and that's

779
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,600
OK, but I'm here. 
I'm just here as somebody who 

780
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,120
wants to learn what the Lord has
for me and to have some 

781
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:56,880
accountability. 
I love that you said that the 

782
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,000
accountability piece is so 
important. 

783
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,920
Romans 12/2 talks about the 
renewing of our mind, that we 

784
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,440
are to be transformed by the 
renewing of our mind. 

785
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,080
That's the only prescription in 
all of Scripture that gives us 

786
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:12,960
for change, for actual change. 
We've been made new in Christ. 

787
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,040
The old is gone, the new has 
come, but in order to get to the

788
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,800
new, we've, we've got to take 
off the old, we've got to move 

789
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,960
it. 
And so how do we do that? 

790
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,400
It's a little different than 
just taking off our PJS and 

791
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,880
putting on our day clothes and 
putting on our makeup and all 

792
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:29,400
the things. 
It's a little bit different. 

793
00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:33,160
So the only way to put on Christ
is to renew your mind. 

794
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:37,520
And the only way to renew your 
mind and to be transformed is to

795
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,520
get the word in you. 
And I spoke with a woman 

796
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:45,680
recently, maybe about a month 
ago, and she was in the struggle

797
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:49,600
bus of saying she just, she'll 
read the word, but she doesn't 

798
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,320
understand it. 
There's a couple things I think 

799
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,680
that is important to understand.
He can open and close our eyes, 

800
00:45:55,960 --> 00:46:00,960
but when we ask the Holy Spirit 
to come before even start to 

801
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:05,360
read, ask Him to come and bring 
you understanding and 

802
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,960
revelation. 
Say, Holy Spirit, will you just 

803
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,960
help me open the open my eyes to
what you would want me to see in

804
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,880
this and open my ears to what 
you want me to hear in this and 

805
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,240
make this come alive for me. 
Just say a quick prayer like 

806
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:20,800
that, just inviting him in. 
And for me, before I could even 

807
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,320
actually ever read my Bible, I 
did what you suggested. 

808
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,120
So that was so good. 
I would go to Google. 

809
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:28,920
I didn't really go to Google 
because I didn't use my phone 

810
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:32,600
and all that much way back then,
but I would go to studies or 

811
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,120
whatever I would find, find some
scripture somewhere. 

812
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,840
Whether I listen to on a 
podcast, I really listen to a 

813
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,800
lot of Joyce Meyer. 
She would say a scripture and 

814
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:41,960
then I'd pause and write it 
down. 

815
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:46,240
I would put them on note cards, 
3 by 5 index cards written with 

816
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:51,120
my pen, and I would put them all
over in whatever season like 

817
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,200
you're saying that I was in. 
And in one particular season, I 

818
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,400
was going through some really 
hard, hard stuff where I was 

819
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,240
like, I'm going to go back into 
bondage if I don't get the word 

820
00:47:00,240 --> 00:47:02,760
in my heart now, right now 
immediately. 

821
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,960
And they were scriptures that I 
needed to hold on to for the 

822
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,320
Lord, like who is God, You know,
not just who am I? 

823
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:13,760
But I had to put those all over.
I even put them on my dashboard 

824
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,000
in my car where I couldn't see 
how fast I was going and just 

825
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,480
said, all right, Lord, just, I 
trust you don't let me speed 

826
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:23,320
because I needed it in my face 
all the time and I would put it 

827
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,440
in all kinds of it. 
Just put it tape and you know, 

828
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:27,360
put some Scotch tape on the back
of it and stick it. 

829
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:28,760
They're not pretty and it 
doesn't matter. 

830
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:31,400
You can pretty. 
I didn't have time for all that,

831
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,920
but putting them anywhere that 
you can and now even on the lock

832
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,720
screen of my phone, I have 
scripture there that I'm trying 

833
00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:41,600
to remember in a season. 
Yesterday I spent time writing 

834
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,920
specific scriptures about God 
providing and his love, and I 

835
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,320
wrote 3 or 4 pages worth of 
scriptures yesterday with my 

836
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,560
hand with pen and paper. 
Because there's something 

837
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,760
magical that happens when you 
pick up a pen and you write 

838
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,600
analog. 
It helps your brain. 

839
00:47:58,320 --> 00:47:59,120
Really. 
Get it? 

840
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,200
And start to remember it 
differently. 

841
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:06,080
And then I even go back through 
and I dissect the not dissect it

842
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,600
in a way that you would think go
and study the Hebrew meaning of 

843
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:10,840
this and that. 
No, I'm just talking about I'll 

844
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,000
look at that Scripture after I 
wrote it. 

845
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,280
And for instance, they that wait
upon the Lord will renew their 

846
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:17,760
strength. 
We can keep going, but I'll just

847
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:19,600
stop there. 
They that wait on the Lord will 

848
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,560
renew their strength. 
At one point I chewed on that 

849
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,840
scripture for like years and it 
fed me a lot. 

850
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:27,880
But if I were to write that 
down, I would just write it down

851
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,400
and then look at what words 
popped out to me and circle or 

852
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:36,400
what a square around them and 
then look at it again because it

853
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,080
brings it to life For some 
reason. 

854
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,040
For me, this is how my brain 
works. 

855
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:44,160
So this may be an option for the
ladies who are listening going. 

856
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:47,600
I really do want to get more of 
God's Word in my heart. 

857
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,520
And that will strengthen you to 
have a resolve as well. 

858
00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:54,960
When the storms of life come, 
just like Peter said, if it is 

859
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,840
you, Lord, beckon me to come, 
tell me to come. 

860
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,760
And he said, come. 
And Peter jumps out of the boat 

861
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,120
in the middle of the storm, OK, 
and runs to Jesus. 

862
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,560
So it strengthens your resolve 
when you're spending time with 

863
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:10,160
Jesus. 
And that's what you're doing. 

864
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:11,280
You're spending time in the 
Word. 

865
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,680
So thank you so much for sharing
your heart for helping women to 

866
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,720
get a passion like I have. 
A hunger is what I call it, a 

867
00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:21,160
hunger for the word. 
Because Tracy, I know you 

868
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,400
probably know this, but we are 
at the end of the end. 

869
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,720
There's an awakening like I've 
never seen in my life. 

870
00:49:26,240 --> 00:49:30,360
People are starting to really it
is the word awaken, awaken to 

871
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,400
things that they've never had 
awoke before. 

872
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:37,160
And my prayer has been for 
decades now, open my eyes, open 

873
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,840
my ears and let me see what you 
see and hear what you hear. 

874
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:44,920
And now all these years later, 
I'm seeing in a way that I've 

875
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:51,080
never and I have, excuse me, I 
have such a hunger for the word 

876
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,960
and it is, it's jumping to life.
And that's what I told that 

877
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:56,240
woman. 
I don't know that I finished 

878
00:49:56,240 --> 00:49:58,200
that part, sorry. 
My thoughts jump all over 

879
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,480
sometimes. 
But that woman that was saying 

880
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:03,080
she's reading the word, but it's
not coming, she doesn't get. 

881
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:05,920
I just went through one verse 
and it was in Nehemiah 

882
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:11,920
specifically about God revealing
the plans of the enemy to me. 

883
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,600
And they were like, whatever, we
already know what you're trying 

884
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:16,600
to do, but we're not going to be
bothered with this. 

885
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,680
When he was rebuilding the wall 
and and I, I read the scripture 

886
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,760
to her, I think it was in 
chapter 4. 

887
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:24,840
And I said, I just want you to 
hear this. 

888
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:26,480
And I said, listen. 
And I read it to her and she's 

889
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,040
like, yeah, I have no idea what 
that means. 

890
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:31,680
And I show I told her what it 
meant to me in my season. 

891
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,280
And it's not just for me, it was
for her too, that the Lord is 

892
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:38,400
exposing the plans of the enemy.
He's waking you up to see one. 

893
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You do have an enemy. 
And what is his tactics? 

894
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,760
What are his plans? 
Because he can't thwart the 

895
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,200
plans of God if we know the 
plans of God for our life. 

896
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And I know it was just such a 
beautiful moment because she's 

897
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:56,560
like, oh, and there are more 
people now that are releasing 

898
00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:02,840
that idea that healing was for 
then Scripture that we read now 

899
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,600
was for them. 
Like you said, it's for now, 

900
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:10,280
like God's word is alive. 
Absolutely. 

901
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:14,760
So thank you for your heart to 
to share and love on women who 

902
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:18,080
are looking as well to 
strengthen their relationship 

903
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,200
with the Lord and growing 
confidence for who he's made 

904
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,280
them to be. 
Because you said it. 

905
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,440
Everything else flows from deep 
in relationship with the Lord 

906
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:30,600
and your growth and confidence 
and who he's made us to be. 

907
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,960
But Tracy, how can women find 
some of the things that you have

908
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,240
written already, and how can 
they connect with you? 

909
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:41,760
So that I just want to say, 
first of all, if a woman is 

910
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:46,400
hesitant about joining a group 
at her church, just go in 

911
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:51,600
knowing that every single woman 
in the group had a first time at

912
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,240
Bible study. 
People didn't just come out of 

913
00:51:55,240 --> 00:52:00,160
the woodwork knowing everything.
We all had that first day and 

914
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:04,360
ask questions. 
I asked so many questions of my 

915
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,480
first Bible study teachers. 
I just felt like I was the 

916
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,240
annoying person in the room 
because I asked so many 

917
00:52:10,240 --> 00:52:11,800
questions. 
But how are we going to learn if

918
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,800
we don't ask questions? 
Like you said, that woman that 

919
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:18,720
you referred to, she was honest.
She said I don't understand. 

920
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:23,280
And you were able to to explain 
the Scriptures and I know that 

921
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:27,560
you had that question. 
But in Nehemiah when they had 

922
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:31,680
rebuilt the wall and they were 
dedicating the city back to God,

923
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,720
what did they do? 
They brought out the word and 

924
00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:37,760
Ezra read it. 
But there were people among the 

925
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,400
crowd explaining what the word 
meant, right? 

926
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,240
Because the purpose wasn't for 
the word to just be read and go 

927
00:52:44,240 --> 00:52:46,920
over their heads. 
We have to know what it said. 

928
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,840
So even then, they had people 
explaining the word. 

929
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:53,320
If a person doesn't want to go 
to a Bible study, there are 

930
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:57,640
plenty of studies, including my 
own, that have the studies 

931
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:02,440
themselves take you through the 
Word and give explanation and 

932
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:06,680
help bring understanding to what
God's Word is actually saying 

933
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,200
and how it applies. 
And then most studies now have 

934
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,280
an actual video you can watch at
home. 

935
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,040
You can watch it on your phone, 
watch it on your computer. 

936
00:53:15,240 --> 00:53:19,120
That all it also helps bring The
Word Alive in a way that we can 

937
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:25,080
understand it and then apply it.
And so my studies I've written a

938
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:30,840
daughter of the king Colossians,
Matthew and come to the Father 

939
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:34,520
drawing near to God, come to the
Father in prayer and then 

940
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:39,520
devotionals and those are you 
can find them on my website, 

941
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:44,000
beblessedandinspired.com. 
My hope is that women actually 

942
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:48,720
just open my studies and that my
studies are a vehicle to get 

943
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:52,360
women into God's word because 
his words what's really going to

944
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:57,560
impact lives. 
But I just, I'm honored and 

945
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:02,480
excited to be a part of getting 
putting women into his in a way 

946
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,200
that they can understand and 
apply because that's the whole 

947
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,720
purpose. 
God gave it to us so that we 

948
00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:12,400
would know and understand. 
Yeah, absolutely. 

949
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,360
I love that. 
I never really paid much 

950
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:16,560
attention to that part of 
Nehemiah where they had people 

951
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,280
walking through and explaining. 
Isn't that amazing? 

952
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:21,960
Yeah, yeah, we need that. 
That's why I go to church. 

953
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:25,200
I have the best teacher, like 
the pastor that I sit under, 

954
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:29,160
he's such an anointed teacher of
the word to help, you know, in 

955
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:32,320
real life, like we can see, oh, 
like that applies to me right 

956
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,200
now. 
I feel like every Sunday I go, 

957
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:35,840
I'm like, how are you talking 
just to me? 

958
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:40,160
Great. 
Who sent you a note telling you 

959
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:41,440
what to talk about? 
Yeah. 

960
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,080
It's Holy Spirit, like that's 
why I see sometimes I just like 

961
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,600
Holy Spirit's moving in the 
hearts of his people in the same

962
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:48,000
way. 
I really feel like the flow is 

963
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,880
the flow and you're going to 
catch it no matter where you 

964
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:52,720
are. 
You can get in the flow of the 

965
00:54:52,720 --> 00:54:55,640
river of God through the what 
the Holy Spirit is speaking to 

966
00:54:55,640 --> 00:55:00,600
your heart about listening and 
you're open to listening to him 

967
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,520
and not being distracted. 
And that's where we started was 

968
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,280
with distraction. 
So I want to go ahead and just 

969
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:11,080
with imploring and encouraging 
you women to put the 

970
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,040
distractions down. 
I'm saying this to myself too, 

971
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:20,080
Tracy, as I'm sharing this out 
loud, that this is a season of 

972
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:25,520
the end of the year as we are 
exiting. 2025, I really believe 

973
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:31,880
is supposed to be a time of 
release and rest for so many of 

974
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:37,200
us women who have been striving 
in our own strength to do what 

975
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:41,320
God has for us to do. 
And we're trying to do what we 

976
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:42,920
think it is and make it all 
work. 

977
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:47,360
But it's really such a season of
needing to sit, rest and relax 

978
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:49,960
for me specifically. 
But I know that there are many 

979
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,600
others who have said so I'm 
like, OK, it's not just me 

980
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:56,280
you're doing this with Lord. 
So if I know that's the case, 

981
00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:00,320
I'm going to say it. 
So the rest of this year, I 

982
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:04,560
would just encourage you to find
ways to get undistracted and to 

983
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:06,880
just be in the presence of the 
Lord. 

984
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:12,720
And that is not always easy. 
It's most times not It's 

985
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:16,560
definitely I had made it my my 
business coach even told me like

986
00:56:16,720 --> 00:56:18,600
specific directive to do 
something. 

987
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:22,400
And I was like, OK, Monday I 
didn't do it Tuesday, Wednesday 

988
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:24,040
I didn't do it. 
And then I was like she said, 

989
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,200
did you do it? 
I was like, no, I haven't done 

990
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:26,800
it. 
Why? 

991
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,360
Because distraction. 
So the enemy will use 

992
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:32,880
distractions just like he was 
trying to distract Nehemiah to 

993
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:34,720
come down off the wall. 
And he said, why should I come 

994
00:56:34,720 --> 00:56:36,280
down from my work to talk to 
you? 

995
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:40,360
Time for you, you know, And 
that's where I'm like, oh, OK, 

996
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,600
that's true. 
Because if one more phone call, 

997
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:44,640
if one more e-mail, if one more 
whatever. 

998
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:49,400
And I'm like, it's interesting. 
So thank you for taking the time

999
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,160
to share your heart. 
I think that you're an 

1000
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:54,400
incredible wealth of knowledge 
of the goodness of God and I 

1001
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,880
know many women are going to be 
blessed by connecting with you. 

1002
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:01,360
And you do say you did say that 
you had some video studies as 

1003
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:02,720
well. 
Are those available on your 

1004
00:57:02,720 --> 00:57:06,920
website too? 
Yes, on the website there is. 

1005
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:10,440
My blog. 
If women subscribe, they get a 

1006
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:14,320
devotion once a week. 
Fill your inbox too much. 

1007
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:20,720
So there is the blog, there's 
all of my books are on the 

1008
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:26,000
website, there are my videos 
that most of the videos at this 

1009
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,720
point go along with the study 
like each chapter has a video to

1010
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:33,760
supplement. 
There is also access to my 

1011
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:41,360
podcast on Spotify for now and 
those for the most part right 

1012
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:44,240
now go along with the studies as
well. 

1013
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:46,280
But the all of this is 
standalone. 

1014
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:49,320
It's not like you have to have 
the study to get the video or 

1015
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,720
the podcast encouragement there.
It's all standalone. 

1016
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:56,120
But yeah, totally relate to what
you're saying because I need to 

1017
00:57:56,120 --> 00:58:00,040
make more videos and I need to 
work on the current study and 

1018
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,440
distractions. 
Yes, we are praying against 

1019
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,640
distractions. 
But yes, all of that is 

1020
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:08,240
accessible on my website. 
That's awesome. 

1021
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:09,920
Thank you so much for being 
here. 

1022
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:14,560
And if this episode spoke to you
today, if you absolutely loved 

1023
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,280
it and you know that you needed 
it, maybe you got a girlfriend 

1024
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:19,320
who needs it too. 
I want you to share this with 

1025
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:21,960
her. 
And if you have just 30 seconds,

1026
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:24,800
would you take a moment and rate
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1027
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:28,120
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00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,320
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1029
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:32,720
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1030
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:35,400
the comments. 
What spoke to you today was the 

1031
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:37,640
Lord saying to you through our 
time together. 

1032
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:41,280
And I just want to remind you 
that you're life matters. 

1033
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:45,320
You have a message to share and 
a purpose to live, and the enemy

1034
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:49,720
cannot take that from you. 
So I cannot wait to see you here

1035
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:50,560
on the next one.