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I used to have this therapist 
that talked about gifts in a 

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ditch, and she said there's some
things in life that are really 

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good, right? 
But they come with a ditch, they

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come with a slippery slope that 
takes that something from being 

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good to being a problem that you
can't even see as a problem. 

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And sometimes when we understand
our identity in Christ and we 

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hear the things he says that we 
are, it can be easy to take that

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gift and slide into a ditch 
because we we live in a culture 

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that really values productivity.
What are you producing? 

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How is what you are and what you
have and what you know, creating

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something other people can 
consume. 

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And I had found myself running 
into this performance 

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relationship with the Lord on a 
level that I couldn't really see

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my deepest identity of few 
months ago would have been I am 

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the daughter of the King. 
If somebody were to ask me and 

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whoever asked this question, but
you know, if somebody were to 

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ask me, who are you, my truest 
honest to God answer would have 

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been I'm the daughter of the 
King of glory. 

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And I didn't really realize that
with that identity for me came a

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performance to always know, to 
always do, to always have 

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something to show other people 
that they would value and and to

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use the authority in him to make
the changes I felt I needed. 

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And I always had this kind of 
deep feeling of pressure, like I

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have to show that I'm the 
daughter of the King of glory. 

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And I and as I went through a 
season of breaking, he changed 

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my identity. 
And now I would say my truest 

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identity is I'm the object of 
his love. 

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And it doesn't matter if he's 
using me in great ways or I'm in

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the valley of the shadow of 
death with the Lord and, and 

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nothing makes sense and 
everything is horrible. 

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I'm still the object of his love
and the circumstances in life 

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are really only to my benefit, 
whether they feel like it or 

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not. 
And the Lord said to me one 

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time, and I was mad when he said
it now. 

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So don't think that the truth 
doesn't first make you mad 

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'cause it often does. 
He said, Carly, just be the 

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broom. 
And I was like, Lord, but you 

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said that this is my inheritance
and that's what I'm supposed to 

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do. 
And I don't know how to do any 

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of those things. 
I don't know how to make any of 

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that real in this realm. 
I don't know how to. 

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You said you sent me to nations,
to prophecy, but what nations? 

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Listen to me over here in the 
corner of cold, frozen 

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Minnesota. 
How is that like? 

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I understand and I believe you, 
Jesus, but I don't see how that 

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has feet on the ground. 
It's all just this pie in the 

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sky thing. 
And his answer to me was be the 

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broom. 
And I remember wrestling with my

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husband about this because he 
got the revelation and I didn't.

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I was mad about it. 
And he was like, look, you have 

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to just rest. 
You have to surrender. 

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You have to lay down all the 
things you think you need to be 

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doing from moment to moment and 
just be. 

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Just be in surrender, be in 
Sabbath, be in rest with the 

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Lord. 
And I was like, fine, I'll just 

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be the broom. 
And I was mad about it. 

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But after my my pride took a 
back seat and I leaned into that

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surrender of being the broom, I 
realized how how much richness 

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there is in being willing to be 
something that it doesn't have 

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any glory of its own. 
The broom doesn't have any glory

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of its own. 
Nobody's like comes in someone 

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else's house and goes, wow, that
is a nice broom. 

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Like the broom is in the closet 
until you have to sweep 

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something up. 
But when you have to sweep 

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something up, you don't want 
nothing but that broom. 

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But that's how the Lord teaches 
us humility. 

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That's how our identity ends up 
having feet. 

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It's always the foolish things 
to confound the wise. 

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It's always the dark places in 
life where you find His 

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goodness. 
It's always that brokenness in 

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which you find His richness. 
And it's always in being that 

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honorless vessel where you find 
the most honor. 

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So if you're looking at your 
life and you've heard the Lord 

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say all these wonderful, 
awesome, amazing, super true, 

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absolutely wonderful things that
you're supposed to do and you're

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supposed to be and you're 
supposed to possess and exhibit 

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and bless the world with and da 
da, da. 

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And, and, and you're like 
pushing and striving and trying 

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to do the things. 
Honey, just be the broom. 

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When the Lord needs you to act 
in a place, he'll take you out 

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the prayer closet, the crying 
closet, the place where you meet

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Him, and He'll use you for that 
mess. 

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He'll use you for that spot and 
then go back in the closet with 

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Jesus. 
Be the broom. 

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There's no pressure on being the
broom. 

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The broom is not the vase 
holding the flowers. 

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The, the broom is in the closet 
with Jesus until there's a mess 

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that He needs you to clean up 
and then He calls you out and 

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you do the thing and you go back
into the place with Him. 

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But you're always just the broom
and that's OK. 

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That is actually wonderful 
because you know who gets the 

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glory when he uses the broom? 
He does. 

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He does. 
And there is such richness in 

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humility. 
The only thing the Lord can 

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clothe with His glory is 
humility. 

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It is the humbleness of your 
soul, the brokenness of your 

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heart. 
It's not in the accolades, it's 

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not in the titles, it's not in 
the identities that other people

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are astonished by. 
It's in being willing to be the 

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broom. 
Those who want to be the 

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greatest have to become the 
last. 

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Jesus came and was a servant to 
everybody. 

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Even though he was the king who 
made everything, He was a 

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servant to everyone. 
And it's such a broken place. 

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It is a broken place to realize 
you have to be the broom, honey.

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You have to be the servant. 
You don't have to be the 

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doormat. 
He never said come over here now

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and be the doormat. 
He said. 

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Come into my rest. 
It's not about striving. 

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It's about resting. 
It's about humility. 

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It's about service. 
It's about feeling the honor 

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bestowed upon you when the Lord 
calls you to be in a place and 

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do a thing and say a word, even 
if nobody else sees it but Him 

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and that other person in you. 
It's an honor to be used by the 

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Lord, even if you are just the 
broom. 

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I tell you the the broom, the 
broom is a vessel of honor. 

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Be the broom. 
Music. 

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Music. 
Music. 

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The.