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Welcome back to Grace in the Breaking.
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I'm Elizabeth Everett.
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And before I go one sentence further, I need you to sit up.
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I need you to put the phone down if you're folding laundry.
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If you're driving, I need you to turn it up.
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Because what I have for you today is not soft.
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It is not a gentle little devotional to sprinkle over your morning coffee.
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This is correction.
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This is confrontation.
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This is the word of the Lord coming to shake something loose in you that has been asleep for way too long.
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Here it is.
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Plain.
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You keep confessing limits in him when he is in all things possible God.
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Let that land.
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You are serving a God who literally split the seas with one word.
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The God who raised a man who had been dead for four days.
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The God who spoke a universe into existence out of absolutely nothing.
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And the words coming out of your mouth sound like you forgot every bit of that.
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The second life turned up the heat.
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I can't.
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It's too much.
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Nobody really gets me.
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I have to keep the peace.
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Honey, you have said it so many times you don't even hear it anymore.
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But I need you to know that heaven heard it.
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And you know who else heard it?
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Hell.
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Because hell has been building a case against your future with your own testimony.
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This is not a gentle nudge today.
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This is a courageous word.
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Because it takes courage, my friend, to stop agreeing with your own smallness.
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It takes courage to open your mouth and say something different than what your circumstances have taught you to say.
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And that's exactly what we're doing today, right here, right now, in this episode.
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Here's what nobody has told you.
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The language that you've been using to survive all this time?
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The shrinking, the softening, the constant people pleasing, none of that is neutral.
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It's not just personality.
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It's not just being nice.
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Proverbs 1821 literally reminds us that there is power of life and death in your tongue.
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Not death or life over other people, but death or life over you.
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Every single time you say I can't, you are prophesying over yourself.
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You are building a ceiling that you keep kidding your head on and you keep wondering why.
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One soft, apologetic sentence at a time.
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Baby, this teaching is not condemnation, so you need to hear me.
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Condemnation makes you feel worse and leaves you exactly where you are.
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But correction moves you.
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Correction says the way you've been talking has to change.
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Because you cannot keep using the same vocabulary that got you stuck and expect to walk in the peace that God has already signed off on.
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The kinks, they gotta come out of the chain, baby.
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Your verbiage has to shift.
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Your declarations have to sound like who you actually are.
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Someone that's carrying the same resurrection power that rolled the stone away.
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You better be reminded of your identity.
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I speak of it often, but today's the day you recognize and you start walking in that power and authority.
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So let's slow down here.
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Because this is the part that people skip past.
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You were made in the image of God who creates by speaking.
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That means your words aren't just descriptions of your life.
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They are seeds you keep planting in the soil of your own future.
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Numbers 14 tells us the story of Israel standing at the edge of the promised land.
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And ten of the twelve spies came back and said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
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And God's response wasn't a shrug.
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He said, As ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you.
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Read that again.
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He didn't say despite what you said, he said, generation forfeited the promised land.
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Not because God had changed his mind about the promise, but because their mouths kept agreeing with the giants instead of the promise.
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So what Goliath is in front of you today that you have spoken death over, baby, you better shift and change.
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Today is the day.
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That should terrify you a little.
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Not in a fearful way, but in a wake up way because it means the small, tired, defeated things that you've been saying about your marriage, your business, your body, your carling?
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Those aren't harmless venting.
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Listen, we're all guilty of it.
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Those are agreements.
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And heaven has been listening to which report you keep agreeing with.
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The giant's report or God's report.
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So, Lord, you know what?
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Right now I repent as the conviction is coming across my own heart.
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I will do better with my words.
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I will speak life because I know the words you have spoken to me, which are yes and amen, and I will stand on those promises and speak life over them.
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Whew! Here's the courageous part.
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You get to choose again right now, just like I did today.
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You are not stuck with the last ten years of confession.
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This is a new sentence.
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This is a new agreement.
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Say it out loud if you need to.
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I have been agreeing with the wrong rapport.
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But Lord, today I agree with what you have said, not with what my circumstances have taught me.
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That's not positive thinking, baby.
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That is repentance, literally changing your mind, and then changing what comes out of your mouth because your mind has changed.
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He was hiding.
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Threshing wheat in a wine press underground, so the enemy couldn't see him.
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Doing life small, doing it scared, doing it in secret.
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And you know what the angel of the Lord called him?
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Thou mighty man of valor.
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Before he had done even one brave thing, before his hand touched a sword, God called him by the identity that he had not quite walked into yet.
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But watch Gideon's response right here, because this is where most of us live.
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He didn't say amen and pick up a weapon.
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He said, My family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
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Does that sound familiar?
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That is exactly what people pleasing sounds like from the inside.
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It's like running a list of reasons of disqualification.
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Running a lift of reasons that it's easier for you to stay small and keep everybody else comfortable around you than to step into the calling that is on your life.
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Baby.
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The problem was never Gideon's circumstances, it was his confession.
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He was speaking a language of the wilderness when God already had called the spoken the language of the battlefield over him.
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So here's the word.
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The enemy does not fear your potential.
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He fears the exact moment that you stop arguing and start agreeing with what God already said about you.
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And look what happens next in Gideon's story because it matters.
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He doesn't argue with Gideon's excuses.
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He doesn't sit down for a self-esteem workshop.
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He simply keeps giving him assignments that require him to move before he feels ready.
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Tear down your father's altar to Baal at night because he's still scared he does it.
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Blow the trumpet and gather the men while his knees are still knocking.
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God never waited for Gideon's confession to catch up to his calling before he gave him the next instruction?
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No.
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The confession caught up while he was obeying.
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You just have to move when God says move.
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And hey, I'm telling you right now, that is a word for somebody right now who's been waiting to feel like the vity man or mighty woman of valor before they move.
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You're not gonna feel it at first, I can assure you.
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You're gonna have to open your mouth and take the step while it feels like a lie.
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And watch the feeling arrive after the obedience, not before.
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Let me remind you that faith is not a feeling.
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Faith is agreeing with heaven's report over your mouth and your feet before your emotions have signed off on it.
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Do you hear me?
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That's where you move.
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That's where faith is built.
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By the end of Gideon's story, God actually cuts his army down from thirty two thousand men to three hundred.
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He did it on purpose.
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So that when the victory came, nobody could say Gideon's own strength did it.
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The same God who called him mighty before he believed is the same God who will strip away everything you're tempted to lean on, except his voice.
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I've been there.
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I'm walking through it.
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It's not cruelty, friends.
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That's him making sure that your testimony can only be traced back to him, not by my power or my strength, but by his spirit.
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Whoo! He spoke and it was.
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In the beginning, God spoke, Genesis 1.
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He didn't think the world into existence, he didn't feel it into being.
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He opened his mouth and said, and it was light, land, life.
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It all came out of one word.
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And then in his image he made you, he made me.
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Which means your mouth was never designed to be a place where fear gets the final say.
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Do you hear me?
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But people pleasing trains your words to manage everyone else's emotions instead of declaring God's truth over you, saying, I'm fine when you're not.
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It's okay when it clearly isn't.
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I don't want to cause problems.
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And slowly, sentence by sentence, you built a smaller life than the one God actually has designed for you.
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I'm going to remind you of something.
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Correction is not harsh.
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When a GPS reroutes you, it doesn't apologize for interrupting your wrong turn.
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It says recalculating and hands you a better path.
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This is what the moment is for you.
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A recalculation.
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Your language has to move from the vocabulary of people pleasing to the vocabulary of somebody who knows exactly what is living inside of you.
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Because I need to remind you, you are not too much, you are not a burden, you are not defined by who left, or who didn't clap for you, or who needed you small so they could still feel comfortable.
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Here's the word.
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You cannot speak the language of a people pleaser and walk in the authority of a kingdom carrier.
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Mic drop at the same time.
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Choose your words like your destiny depends on it, baby, because it doesn't, I'm here to remind you today.
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James chapter three says the tongue is a small member, but it boasts great things.
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It's compared to a bit in a horse's mouth and a rudder on a massive ship.
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Small instruments that determine the direction of the whole body.
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You've been letting a small, scared, people pleasing vocabulary steer a life that was built to carry a kingdom weight.
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And a rudder doesn't need to be big to change the entire direction of the ship.
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It just needs to stay turned long enough for one way.
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That's what your confession has been doing quietly over your life for years, turning you one degree at a time from the very promise that you say you're believing in.
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So today it's time to turn the rudder.
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Not someday, but today in this sentence, in this breath.
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Every time you catch the old language rising up, I can't, I'm too sensitive.
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I'm good Lord my heavens.
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Watch your words.
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I want you to stop mid-sentence and correct it out loud, not in your head.
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Out loud.
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I can.
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Because greater is he that is in me than he that is in this world.
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Romans 10 tells us that confession is made with the mouth, not just believed in the heart.
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Faith that stays silent in your chest never becomes the substance of things hoped for.
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It has to come out.
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The gate called Beautiful.
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Acts chapter 3, Peter and John are walking up to the temple, and there's a man at the gate called beautiful, who had been lame his entire life.
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Every single day he was carried to the same spot to ask for just enough money to survive.
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That was his whole world asking for scraps at the gate.
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But Peter looked at him and said, Silver and gold I have none, but such as I have to give thee in the name of the Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
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And Scripture says the man went with them into the temple, walking and leaping and phrasing God.
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Catch that detail right there.
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He didn't just get healed at the gate and stay there settling for the same territory.
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He walked through the gate called beautiful into something entirely different.
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The declaration baby was a door.
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He still had to move his feet through it.
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That's what declaring over yourself does.
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It's not magic words, it's alignment.
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It's your mouth finally agreeing with what God already established.
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And then your feet following the agreement.
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People pleasing keeps you at the gate, asking for just enough to get by.
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But declaration, baby, it walks you into an entirely different territory.
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You have the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead, living inside of you right now.
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That is not a hype line.
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That is Romans 8 11.
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That's not motivational, that's medical grade resurrection power dwelling in you in the middle of your mess, in the middle of your season, in the middle of whatever you've been carrying alone and calling it fine.
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It's time, it's time to find that power again, and it's time to use it.
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Here's the word.
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Stop begging at the gate of what other people think about you.
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You have access to the beautiful baby, and it's time to walk through the gate.
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I want you to notice something about the man at the gate.
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He wasn't expecting what he got.
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Expect the unexpected and stand with hopeful expectation to see the grand manifestation of his glory because Scripture says when he was fastening his eyes on Peter and John, expecting to receive something from them, money, small covering, a mercy.
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He had already decided in his mind that the sea what the ceiling of that encounter would be.
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And I promise you that's exactly where a lot of us tend to live.
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We show up to prayer expecting a coin.
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When God is asking us to expect more, we ask God to help us cope with people pleasing instead of asking him to completely rebuild the way we walk, the way we talk, the way we think.
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We pray small prayers because we've trained ourselves through years of disappointment to expect small answers.
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What if today that all shifts?
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What if your perspective shifts and you step into actually Ephesians 3.20 because he is the God who can and will do exceedingly and abundantly more than we can ever ask, think, or imagine according to the power that worked within us.
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Why don't you let that power rise up and see what that verse actually means?
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Peter had to look past what the man was asking for and speak to what God actually intended for him.
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And somebody needs to do that for their own life today.
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You need to stop praying for the strength to keep tolerating smallness.
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You better stop declaring the thing that God actually intended for your life.
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Full recovery of your voice, your confidence, and your assignment.
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Not just enough grace to sustain or survive another week of shrinking.
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This, this is your call to courage.
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Here's what I need you to do before we go one more minute.
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The kink in the chain was always the words.
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The hiding, it was always about the confession and the healing, the breakthrough, the promotion, the next assignment was always waiting on the other side of your declaration.
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We're not made to shrink to let somebody else feel bigger.
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We're meant we're not made to keep the peace at the cost of our own purpose.
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We're not made to live in the vocabulary of people pleaser.
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Will you carry the language of the most high God in your mouth?
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Gideon was called before he felt mighty.
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The lame man walked through the gate called beautiful after somebody spoke life over him.
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And you have been handed the same power that conquered death.
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So it's time to stop confessing limits in a limitless God.
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Guard your words, choose your declarations on purpose, and protect your identity like it's the inheritance that it actually is.
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Because what comes out of your mouth in the next 30 seconds is either building your future or it is capping it.
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The shift?
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It starts now, not tomorrow, not when things calm down.
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No.
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Now two people in one assignment.
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There are two people listening in this episode right now, and I want to speak straight to both of you.
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The first person has been people pleasing so long you don't recognize your own voice anymore.
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Your yes.
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Your yes is when your whole body is screaming no.
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The saw you soften every hard truth until it is unrecognizable.
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You've edited yourself in so many rooms that you genuinely don't know who you believe about yourself outside of what everybody else has told you.
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You are exhausted, not because life is hard, but because you have been carrying someone else's comfort on your back and calling it kindness.
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You don't need seven more tips on boundaries.
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You need your language corrected from the inside out.
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And you need a roadmap and people around you who will hold you to your calling instead of your comfort.
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Comfort.
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And the second person listening, you know the word.
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You've been in church.
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You can quote Romans 8:11 in your sleep.
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But there is a gap, a real measurable gap between what you know and what you are actually declaring over your life, because there is power there.
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The kink and the chain has been your verbiage the whole time.
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The old deeply worn grooves of language were built in your survival mode, and they never got corrected.
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What you're missing isn't more information, my friend.
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It's structure, it's strategy, and it's accountability.
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Somebody to help you turn revelation into the next step.
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Both of you, same assignment, stop confessing limits and start building.
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This is where rise up comes in.
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Here's why I'm bringing this up right now in this exact episode.
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Correcting the language is step one.
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But revelation without execution is just really feeling good.
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That's gonna fade by Thursday.
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You cannot declare your way into a business plan.
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You cannot decree your way into a launch strategy.
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At some point, the mighty man of valor has to actually pick up the sword and do something with it.
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That's what the rise up mastermind exists for.
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It's not a healing space, it's not a support group to process your feelings.
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That's not the assignment in that container.
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Rise up for the person is for the person who's already done the inner healing work and needs the roadmap and accountability to actually build what the next dream is.
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The business, the ministry, the calling, the thing you keep saying someday about.
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Rise up is where declaration turns into execution, where God told you turns into a launch date, where your identity in Christ becomes a strategy.
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You actually walk out with people around you who do not let you quit at the gate called beautiful when the real assignment is just through the other side.
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If that's you, I know the corrected language is already forming in your mouth, and now you need the structure to build it.
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So drop a rise up, reach out, get in that room.
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Because, baby, it's time to wear your declarations out loud and powerful.
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And one more thing because it fits right here.
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I've built grace in the breaking clothing line for this specific moment for the days that your mouth needs help remembering what your spirit actually knows.
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They aren't just soft, comfortable pieces you throw on.
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Every design carries a declaration on it, a word you can actually put on your body so that even on the mornings you don't feel like it, you've reminded of who you are, the truth over yourself, so your mouth actually catches up.
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Because sometimes correction starts with what's written across your chest before it ever makes it out of your mouth.
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So go check out the collection at Gracinthebreaking.com, the shop thing.
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You've been confessing the limits long enough, so it's time, it's time to um open your mouth and let everyone know what actually lives inside of you.
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It's time to guard your words, it's time to build your life, and it's time to walk boldly and speak and rise.
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I would like to share with you some information today about an amazing program called God's Glory Recruiting.
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So if you have a son or daughter that is looking into competitive um sports and they are looking to play at the collegiate level, you need to check out God's Glory Recruiting.
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Um, this is biblical standards.
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They follow the word of the Lord.
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And I am going to drop all of the information in the show notes.
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And, you know, GGR stands for God's Glory Recruiting.
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This is a place of surrender and knowing that the Lord leads.
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So again, if your child plays sports, you need to make sure you check out the show notes for God's Glory Recruiting.
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Friends, it's been a pleasure today.
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I can't wait to spend time with you next week.
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If you need a prayer request, you need to go to the website and drop it.
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It comes directly to me.
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Just know he is with you.
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And your words, they're gonna shift today.
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Your trajectory changes today because God, he's with you.
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Be blessed, my friends.
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I love you.
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Thank you so much for spending this time with me today on Grace and the Breaking.
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If this episode spoke to your heart, please remember to follow, download, and share it with someone who might need a little encouragement right now.
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You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast platforms.
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As I close, I want to leave you with this reminder.
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2 Corinthians 12.9.
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My grace is sufficient for you.
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My power is made perfect in weakness.
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So no matter what season you're walking through, you are not alone.
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And there is always Grace in the Breaking.
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For more information, resources, or to connect with me, visit GraceIndheaking.com or email me at info at GraceintheBreaking.com.
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Until next time, friends, stay rooted in faith, hold on to hope, and remember that there's grace in breaking.
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Welcome back to Grace in the Breaking.
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I'm Elizabeth Everett.
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And before I go one sentence further, I need you to sit up.
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I need you to put the phone down if you're folding laundry.
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If you're driving, I need you to turn it up.
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Because what I have for you today is not soft.
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It is not a gentle little devotional to sprinkle over your morning coffee.
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This is correction.
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This is confrontation.
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This is the word of the Lord coming to shake something loose in you that has been asleep for way too long.
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Here it is.
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Plain.
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You keep confessing limits in him when he is in all things possible God.
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Let that land.
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You are serving a God who literally split the seas with one word.
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The God who raised a man who had been dead for four days.
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The God who spoke a universe into existence out of absolutely nothing.
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And the words coming out of your mouth sound like you forgot every bit of that.
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The second life turned up the heat.
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I can't.
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It's too much.
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Nobody really gets me.
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I have to keep the peace.
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Honey, you have said it so many times you don't even hear it anymore.
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But I need you to know that heaven heard it.
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And you know who else heard it?
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Hell.
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Because hell has been building a case against your future with your own testimony.
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This is not a gentle nudge today.
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This is a courageous word.
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Because it takes courage, my friend, to stop agreeing with your own smallness.
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It takes courage to open your mouth and say something different than what your circumstances have taught you to say.
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And that's exactly what we're doing today, right here, right now, in this episode.
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Here's what nobody has told you.
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The language that you've been using to survive all this time?
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The shrinking, the softening, the constant people pleasing, none of that is neutral.
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It's not just personality.
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It's not just being nice.
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Proverbs 1821 literally reminds us that there is power of life and death in your tongue.
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Not death or life over other people, but death or life over you.
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Every single time you say I can't, you are prophesying over yourself.
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You are building a ceiling that you keep kidding your head on and you keep wondering why.
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One soft, apologetic sentence at a time.
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Baby, this teaching is not condemnation, so you need to hear me.
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Condemnation makes you feel worse and leaves you exactly where you are.
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But correction moves you.
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Correction says the way you've been talking has to change.
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Because you cannot keep using the same vocabulary that got you stuck and expect to walk in the peace that God has already signed off on.
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The kinks, they gotta come out of the chain, baby.
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Your verbiage has to shift.
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Your declarations have to sound like who you actually are.
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Someone that's carrying the same resurrection power that rolled the stone away.
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You better be reminded of your identity.
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I speak of it often, but today's the day you recognize and you start walking in that power and authority.
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So let's slow down here.
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Because this is the part that people skip past.
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You were made in the image of God who creates by speaking.
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That means your words aren't just descriptions of your life.
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They are seeds you keep planting in the soil of your own future.
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Numbers 14 tells us the story of Israel standing at the edge of the promised land.
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And ten of the twelve spies came back and said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
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And God's response wasn't a shrug.
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He said, As ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you.
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Read that again.
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He didn't say despite what you said, he said, generation forfeited the promised land.
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Not because God had changed his mind about the promise, but because their mouths kept agreeing with the giants instead of the promise.
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So what Goliath is in front of you today that you have spoken death over, baby, you better shift and change.
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Today is the day.
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That should terrify you a little.
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Not in a fearful way, but in a wake up way because it means the small, tired, defeated things that you've been saying about your marriage, your business, your body, your carling?
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Those aren't harmless venting.
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Listen, we're all guilty of it.
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Those are agreements.
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And heaven has been listening to which report you keep agreeing with.
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The giant's report or God's report.
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So, Lord, you know what?
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Right now I repent as the conviction is coming across my own heart.
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I will do better with my words.
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I will speak life because I know the words you have spoken to me, which are yes and amen, and I will stand on those promises and speak life over them.
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Whew! Here's the courageous part.
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You get to choose again right now, just like I did today.
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You are not stuck with the last ten years of confession.
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This is a new sentence.
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This is a new agreement.
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Say it out loud if you need to.
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I have been agreeing with the wrong rapport.
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But Lord, today I agree with what you have said, not with what my circumstances have taught me.
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That's not positive thinking, baby.
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That is repentance, literally changing your mind, and then changing what comes out of your mouth because your mind has changed.
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He was hiding.
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Threshing wheat in a wine press underground, so the enemy couldn't see him.
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Doing life small, doing it scared, doing it in secret.
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And you know what the angel of the Lord called him?
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Thou mighty man of valor.
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Before he had done even one brave thing, before his hand touched a sword, God called him by the identity that he had not quite walked into yet.
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But watch Gideon's response right here, because this is where most of us live.
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He didn't say amen and pick up a weapon.
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He said, My family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
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Does that sound familiar?
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That is exactly what people pleasing sounds like from the inside.
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It's like running a list of reasons of disqualification.
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Running a lift of reasons that it's easier for you to stay small and keep everybody else comfortable around you than to step into the calling that is on your life.
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Baby.
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The problem was never Gideon's circumstances, it was his confession.
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He was speaking a language of the wilderness when God already had called the spoken the language of the battlefield over him.
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So here's the word.
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The enemy does not fear your potential.
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He fears the exact moment that you stop arguing and start agreeing with what God already said about you.
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And look what happens next in Gideon's story because it matters.
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He doesn't argue with Gideon's excuses.
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He doesn't sit down for a self-esteem workshop.
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He simply keeps giving him assignments that require him to move before he feels ready.
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Tear down your father's altar to Baal at night because he's still scared he does it.
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Blow the trumpet and gather the men while his knees are still knocking.
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God never waited for Gideon's confession to catch up to his calling before he gave him the next instruction?
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No.
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The confession caught up while he was obeying.
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You just have to move when God says move.
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And hey, I'm telling you right now, that is a word for somebody right now who's been waiting to feel like the vity man or mighty woman of valor before they move.
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You're not gonna feel it at first, I can assure you.
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You're gonna have to open your mouth and take the step while it feels like a lie.
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And watch the feeling arrive after the obedience, not before.
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Let me remind you that faith is not a feeling.
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Faith is agreeing with heaven's report over your mouth and your feet before your emotions have signed off on it.
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Do you hear me?
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That's where you move.
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That's where faith is built.
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By the end of Gideon's story, God actually cuts his army down from thirty two thousand men to three hundred.
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He did it on purpose.
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So that when the victory came, nobody could say Gideon's own strength did it.
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The same God who called him mighty before he believed is the same God who will strip away everything you're tempted to lean on, except his voice.
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I've been there.
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I'm walking through it.
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It's not cruelty, friends.
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That's him making sure that your testimony can only be traced back to him, not by my power or my strength, but by his spirit.
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Whoo! He spoke and it was.
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In the beginning, God spoke, Genesis 1.
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He didn't think the world into existence, he didn't feel it into being.
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He opened his mouth and said, and it was light, land, life.
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It all came out of one word.
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And then in his image he made you, he made me.
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Which means your mouth was never designed to be a place where fear gets the final say.
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Do you hear me?
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But people pleasing trains your words to manage everyone else's emotions instead of declaring God's truth over you, saying, I'm fine when you're not.
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It's okay when it clearly isn't.
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I don't want to cause problems.
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And slowly, sentence by sentence, you built a smaller life than the one God actually has designed for you.
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I'm going to remind you of something.
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Correction is not harsh.
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When a GPS reroutes you, it doesn't apologize for interrupting your wrong turn.
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It says recalculating and hands you a better path.
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This is what the moment is for you.
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A recalculation.
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Your language has to move from the vocabulary of people pleasing to the vocabulary of somebody who knows exactly what is living inside of you.
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Because I need to remind you, you are not too much, you are not a burden, you are not defined by who left, or who didn't clap for you, or who needed you small so they could still feel comfortable.
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Here's the word.
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You cannot speak the language of a people pleaser and walk in the authority of a kingdom carrier.
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Mic drop at the same time.
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Choose your words like your destiny depends on it, baby, because it doesn't, I'm here to remind you today.
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James chapter three says the tongue is a small member, but it boasts great things.
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It's compared to a bit in a horse's mouth and a rudder on a massive ship.
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Small instruments that determine the direction of the whole body.
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You've been letting a small, scared, people pleasing vocabulary steer a life that was built to carry a kingdom weight.
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And a rudder doesn't need to be big to change the entire direction of the ship.
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It just needs to stay turned long enough for one way.
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That's what your confession has been doing quietly over your life for years, turning you one degree at a time from the very promise that you say you're believing in.
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So today it's time to turn the rudder.
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Not someday, but today in this sentence, in this breath.
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Every time you catch the old language rising up, I can't, I'm too sensitive.
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I'm good Lord my heavens.
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Watch your words.
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I want you to stop mid-sentence and correct it out loud, not in your head.
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Out loud.
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I can.
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Because greater is he that is in me than he that is in this world.
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Romans 10 tells us that confession is made with the mouth, not just believed in the heart.
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Faith that stays silent in your chest never becomes the substance of things hoped for.
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It has to come out.
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The gate called Beautiful.
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Acts chapter 3, Peter and John are walking up to the temple, and there's a man at the gate called beautiful, who had been lame his entire life.
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Every single day he was carried to the same spot to ask for just enough money to survive.
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That was his whole world asking for scraps at the gate.
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But Peter looked at him and said, Silver and gold I have none, but such as I have to give thee in the name of the Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
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And Scripture says the man went with them into the temple, walking and leaping and phrasing God.
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Catch that detail right there.
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He didn't just get healed at the gate and stay there settling for the same territory.
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He walked through the gate called beautiful into something entirely different.
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The declaration baby was a door.
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He still had to move his feet through it.
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That's what declaring over yourself does.
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It's not magic words, it's alignment.
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It's your mouth finally agreeing with what God already established.
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And then your feet following the agreement.
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People pleasing keeps you at the gate, asking for just enough to get by.
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But declaration, baby, it walks you into an entirely different territory.
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You have the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead, living inside of you right now.
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That is not a hype line.
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That is Romans 8 11.
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That's not motivational, that's medical grade resurrection power dwelling in you in the middle of your mess, in the middle of your season, in the middle of whatever you've been carrying alone and calling it fine.
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It's time, it's time to find that power again, and it's time to use it.
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Here's the word.
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Stop begging at the gate of what other people think about you.
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You have access to the beautiful baby, and it's time to walk through the gate.
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I want you to notice something about the man at the gate.
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He wasn't expecting what he got.
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Expect the unexpected and stand with hopeful expectation to see the grand manifestation of his glory because Scripture says when he was fastening his eyes on Peter and John, expecting to receive something from them, money, small covering, a mercy.
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He had already decided in his mind that the sea what the ceiling of that encounter would be.
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And I promise you that's exactly where a lot of us tend to live.
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We show up to prayer expecting a coin.
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When God is asking us to expect more, we ask God to help us cope with people pleasing instead of asking him to completely rebuild the way we walk, the way we talk, the way we think.
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We pray small prayers because we've trained ourselves through years of disappointment to expect small answers.
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What if today that all shifts?
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What if your perspective shifts and you step into actually Ephesians 3.20 because he is the God who can and will do exceedingly and abundantly more than we can ever ask, think, or imagine according to the power that worked within us.
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Why don't you let that power rise up and see what that verse actually means?
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Peter had to look past what the man was asking for and speak to what God actually intended for him.
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And somebody needs to do that for their own life today.
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You need to stop praying for the strength to keep tolerating smallness.
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You better stop declaring the thing that God actually intended for your life.
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Full recovery of your voice, your confidence, and your assignment.
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Not just enough grace to sustain or survive another week of shrinking.
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This, this is your call to courage.
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Here's what I need you to do before we go one more minute.
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The kink in the chain was always the words.
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The hiding, it was always about the confession and the healing, the breakthrough, the promotion, the next assignment was always waiting on the other side of your declaration.
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We're not made to shrink to let somebody else feel bigger.
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We're meant we're not made to keep the peace at the cost of our own purpose.
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We're not made to live in the vocabulary of people pleaser.
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Will you carry the language of the most high God in your mouth?
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Gideon was called before he felt mighty.
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The lame man walked through the gate called beautiful after somebody spoke life over him.
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And you have been handed the same power that conquered death.
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So it's time to stop confessing limits in a limitless God.
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Guard your words, choose your declarations on purpose, and protect your identity like it's the inheritance that it actually is.
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Because what comes out of your mouth in the next 30 seconds is either building your future or it is capping it.
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The shift?
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It starts now, not tomorrow, not when things calm down.
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No.
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Now two people in one assignment.
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There are two people listening in this episode right now, and I want to speak straight to both of you.
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The first person has been people pleasing so long you don't recognize your own voice anymore.
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Your yes.
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Your yes is when your whole body is screaming no.
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The saw you soften every hard truth until it is unrecognizable.
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You've edited yourself in so many rooms that you genuinely don't know who you believe about yourself outside of what everybody else has told you.
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You are exhausted, not because life is hard, but because you have been carrying someone else's comfort on your back and calling it kindness.
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You don't need seven more tips on boundaries.
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You need your language corrected from the inside out.
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And you need a roadmap and people around you who will hold you to your calling instead of your comfort.
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Comfort.
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And the second person listening, you know the word.
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You've been in church.
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You can quote Romans 8:11 in your sleep.
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But there is a gap, a real measurable gap between what you know and what you are actually declaring over your life, because there is power there.
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The kink and the chain has been your verbiage the whole time.
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The old deeply worn grooves of language were built in your survival mode, and they never got corrected.
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What you're missing isn't more information, my friend.
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It's structure, it's strategy, and it's accountability.
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Somebody to help you turn revelation into the next step.
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Both of you, same assignment, stop confessing limits and start building.
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This is where rise up comes in.
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Here's why I'm bringing this up right now in this exact episode.
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Correcting the language is step one.
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But revelation without execution is just really feeling good.
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That's gonna fade by Thursday.
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You cannot declare your way into a business plan.
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You cannot decree your way into a launch strategy.
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At some point, the mighty man of valor has to actually pick up the sword and do something with it.
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That's what the rise up mastermind exists for.
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It's not a healing space, it's not a support group to process your feelings.
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That's not the assignment in that container.
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Rise up for the person is for the person who's already done the inner healing work and needs the roadmap and accountability to actually build what the next dream is.
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The business, the ministry, the calling, the thing you keep saying someday about.
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Rise up is where declaration turns into execution, where God told you turns into a launch date, where your identity in Christ becomes a strategy.
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You actually walk out with people around you who do not let you quit at the gate called beautiful when the real assignment is just through the other side.
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If that's you, I know the corrected language is already forming in your mouth, and now you need the structure to build it.
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So drop a rise up, reach out, get in that room.
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Because, baby, it's time to wear your declarations out loud and powerful.
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And one more thing because it fits right here.
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I've built grace in the breaking clothing line for this specific moment for the days that your mouth needs help remembering what your spirit actually knows.
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They aren't just soft, comfortable pieces you throw on.
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Every design carries a declaration on it, a word you can actually put on your body so that even on the mornings you don't feel like it, you've reminded of who you are, the truth over yourself, so your mouth actually catches up.
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Because sometimes correction starts with what's written across your chest before it ever makes it out of your mouth.
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So go check out the collection at Gracinthebreaking.com, the shop thing.
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You've been confessing the limits long enough, so it's time, it's time to um open your mouth and let everyone know what actually lives inside of you.
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It's time to guard your words, it's time to build your life, and it's time to walk boldly and speak and rise.
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I would like to share with you some information today about an amazing program called God's Glory Recruiting.
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So if you have a son or daughter that is looking into competitive um sports and they are looking to play at the collegiate level, you need to check out God's Glory Recruiting.
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Um, this is biblical standards.
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They follow the word of the Lord.
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And I am going to drop all of the information in the show notes.
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And, you know, GGR stands for God's Glory Recruiting.
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This is a place of surrender and knowing that the Lord leads.
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So again, if your child plays sports, you need to make sure you check out the show notes for God's Glory Recruiting.
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Friends, it's been a pleasure today.
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I can't wait to spend time with you next week.
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If you need a prayer request, you need to go to the website and drop it.
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It comes directly to me.
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Just know he is with you.
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And your words, they're gonna shift today.
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Your trajectory changes today because God, he's with you.
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Be blessed, my friends.
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I love you.
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Thank you so much for spending this time with me today on Grace and the Breaking.
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As I close, I want to leave you with this reminder.
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2 Corinthians 12.9.
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My grace is sufficient for you.
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My power is made perfect in weakness.
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So no matter what season you're walking through, you are not alone.
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And there is always Grace in the Breaking.
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For more information, resources, or to connect with me, visit GraceIndheaking.com or email me at info at GraceintheBreaking.com.
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Until next time, friends, stay rooted in faith, hold on to hope, and remember that there's grace in breaking.
