does anybody have a scripture for this year you know i had one last year and
i think it's going into this year two um and that is galatians 5 24 and 25 and um
it says those who belong to christ jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful
nature to his cross and crucified them there right yes since we are living by the spirit amen amen
let us follow the spirit's leading in every part of our lives right okay and for me
what i like to pull out of that coming out of 2020 into 2021 is let us follow the spirit yeah
you know it takes a lot of discipline to follow yeah yes yes you know and if we're gonna receive
especially all you leaders it takes discipline to follow the spirit because that means you're not
trying to think ahead of what he's gonna do and how it's going to be fixed and right because
that's where a lot of anxiety and fear comes in but it's just being willing to wait you know
just like he told the disciples go away wait why because then you'll be able to follow the spirit
and receive his power yes yeah you know what i love about that is that when jesus was baptized
the bible says he followed the spirit into the desert that's right right that's right
right right so he was so in love with the holy spirit it was like wherever you lead me i'm going
and you know bibles make a break there and there was no break in the original text he
went straight from the dove coming down yeah and god bellowing from heaven this is my beloved son
immediately into the dark which i love that too because i think we tend to think well if
you give me a little more time and if you let me know the transition i can prepare myself
and i can like get the right shoes to go with that and it's like no he's god in the light and
in the dark and he's never not god i love that it's hard yeah and he goes into the wilderness
but you're right so in the spirit and so convinced the spirit will take care of him right i think in
that story you know it says he's full of the spirit led by the spirit he goes to the desert
experience and then i had y'all had never seen this in all the years of studying the scripture
i knew he was full and he was led into the desert it says he comes up full that's right that's right
and what the lord began to show me was there's one thing between those two bookends in the desert
yes this is the desert experience and for me you know i've always been a desert hater yeah like
we all are we're all doctor fighters and i think 2020 felt like one long
desert yes but when i started to see that it was the spirit that led him to exactly like you said
lori but then after the experience he came up full and then he walks into the synagogue and he says
i am he yeah he's come by way of the desert and so it's kind of reframed i think 2020 helped reframe
the desert experience even more deeply for me because i think there's a deposit yeah of course
that was placed in all of us through the suffering and the winnowing right and the flattening
for many of us that we're coming up i believe so good we're coming up full yeah yeah the spirit
and i don't know what that's going to look like but as you said that lori just just reminded
me don't forget it goes right back to what you said that's acts 1 8 that you will receive power
so you may have been in the desert but you're going to come up you're coming out of power
you're saying we're going to see salvation this year yeah earlier in the week you're like yes
it gives you the authority that jesus gained because he overcame the enemy in the desert and it
was in the private i sometimes think you know we get the call we get the prophetic word we get the
prayer and then we're like ready for ministry it's like no no because it's like any kind of special
ups they go through a boot camp right right right before they go to war right right they don't just
take someone out of drafting to war maybe world war one because it was urgent right but nowadays
it's boot camp and we think the training is hard but the training is actually what's necessary for
us to win on the other side and we scurry away from boot camp right and i'm like no
no no no no no no no it's discipline mm-hmm yeah discipline kill you it makes you better
and in the spirit if he kills it makes you better
i'm on kelly clarkson you know and that's the thing of it all but the authority that and you
know he didn't perform one miracle until he came out of that yeah and we all want the signs and
wonders before we've actually overcome the enemy in the secret place yeah because if we were the
father we would say well this is because this is what happens this is my beloved son i'm well
pleased and then revival the likes of which come on you've never seen that's how i'd script it
but never in a million years would it be audible blessing and then the desert coming you know and
i think even in addition to overcoming the enemy i think sometimes that desert experience will
tell you who you actually are does the enemy keep saying true identity if you are the son
if you are the son of god yes so for me i think those experiences help root my identity yeah so
i can actually face what's coming yeah the enemy always does questions your identity
that's right adam and eve that's right so what i love about jesus is how he modeled that warfare
he spoke truth to a lie that's right and he knew the truth and the truth set him free and
then he finally says satan get behind me right yeah you're not gonna listen
yeah yeah i'm finished with that and go and do what i'm called to do you know
that's what i think we have to be talking about that defiant hope and that you find
speaking truth to a lie maybe 2020 just pounded us with lies right they sure did he did everything it
was just it did lie after laughter you couldn't believe hardly anything right 2020. it was just
a mess yeah and we had to stand fast yeah we had to stand firm and i know a lot of us will owed
and wallowed around you know in pain and sorrow and all that but now we have to come out yeah
that deserves experience right yeah that's right yeah you know we have to be defiant about that
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