Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Foreign.
[00:00:20] Amazing. Wow. That was.
[00:00:24] That was beautiful. Thank you guys.
[00:00:40] Just wanted to take the time to remind us of some of the things that we talked about last week, that we should get in the habit of doing this on a regular basis, just kind of as a routine until we really start to take ownership in what it is we fill up that God is laying for us. I introduced all last week that is to people, invest love and to tell the epic story. So building people. You can sit with me. Build people, investing love, telling story. I like telling story because it is. It's an epic story.
[00:01:22] And so I think we shouldn't leave it off because whether it's our story, joy of Christ in the midst of it, or his story where it's all about him, it's epic. Right? Finding Christ in the midst of the story is absolutely epic. It's the best story ever told. Right? And then our values that we went over were to land in love, invited into oneness, clean our agency, faith in action.
[00:01:53] A couple of songs that we sang this morning, that we're definitely owning our agency, knowing who we are and stepping into it fully. And I'm going to tell you one of the reasons why this piece right there, that value is so important right now. And it's because of the land endeavor.
[00:02:16] If we want to see restoration in the land, the land is waiting for something. What is the land waiting for? Anyone? I'll give you a hint. Romans 8.
[00:02:28] Yes.
[00:02:30] All of creation is growing, groaning, crying out for the sins of gold to take their rightful place.
[00:02:39] Why?
[00:02:43] It's our inheritance. It's the. The point.
[00:02:48] It's the reason we were created. We were created to love God and to be loved over the land.
[00:02:58] And so creation is waiting for order. And order means who I am, you know, who you are, and take place. Which really requires us to live boldly, to do the things that we're scared to death to say out loud. It's time that we stop being intimidated by self. We just live as he has made us to live.
[00:03:25] Taking up a lot of space.
[00:03:30] It's important.
[00:03:34] So land in love, invited into oneness, agency and faith in action. And owning your agency and faith and action go hand in hand. It's one thing to know who it is that you are. It's a whole nother game when you start living it out loud. Right?
[00:03:54] That's what Jesus did.
[00:03:56] Can you imagine Jesus coming to earth and being like been crippled for 30 some years, laying at the pool?
[00:04:18] But that's how we live. We walk around about who we are. Action behind it.
[00:04:28] What good is it for me to know who I am if I can't live it for someone else?
[00:04:38] If I'm called to do something, it doesn't do anybody any good for me to just tell you about it.
[00:04:47] I think we should do less talking, more actioning.
[00:04:52] Yes, it is. Turn with me to Psalm 85. I'm going to show you something.
[00:04:58] And as you're talking there, I want you to listen to me this morning. I've been in this unfolding encounter for the last couple of weeks.
[00:05:10] It's like a kind of thing. There's nothing super like, but you know what I'm saying, Moments where all the lights are on and you feel like the overextending power of the glory of the Lord in your face, although it's there. You know what I'm saying?
[00:05:30] And I was listening to somebody talking about Holy Week so profoundly the way that he was breaking it down. He was saying the encounter in John 19, which is Jesus being crucified.
[00:05:49] And so this is John writing, right? He's writing his own account.
[00:05:55] He's the only.
[00:06:01] He's the only one who made it to the cross.
[00:06:06] Being at the cross in John 19.
[00:06:12] Revelation.
[00:06:19] Beautiful account. I don't want to read it right now. So that would be delightful because there in the midst of the throne room victorious and what this teacher was breaking down. But five is the exact same moment lived in different cases.
[00:06:46] One is the secret realm and the other is earth. You could say at the foot of the cross. And that is his of the Lamb of God. You want to know how he took back the keys because coronated king by laying everything down. You want to know why you redemption.
[00:07:33] You were made in his image.
[00:07:36] We O and we for redemption. Sometimes these things in the direction these things because we're in his image to be like him. Right.
[00:07:51] We're going to start in verse eight.
[00:07:56] So good. I mean you can find of who he is and what he would do all through the Bible. That's fantastic. And I think we should stop utilizing this book as if it's some kind of.
[00:08:17] Yes, it's information.
[00:08:20] It's story. First Psalm 85.
[00:08:25] I will listen to what God show the Lord to his people his foolish ones and not ways those who fear him. So that glory dwell at mercy and truth will join together righteousness and up from the earth and righteousness look down from heaven. Do you see what's happening here? I love this.
[00:09:01] Righteousness and peace will increase, will spread and righteousness will look down from heaven. This is Incredible. Let's really quick because we need to establish kind of a foundation and understanding. I know we all know that's important. We know in the days of creation God creates everything. Right?
[00:09:27] Right.
[00:09:28] And we know that the spirit of God was hovering or brooding over the formless and void which is the earth.
[00:09:42] And when the spirit of God hovers or broods over something, you better believe there's some activity going on.
[00:09:50] There is action.
[00:09:54] Because Holy Spirit is who he is and he lives it and not because.
[00:10:13] Right. I'm moving. So on day six we could go through all the days of creation. But you know them.
[00:10:21] There's us. And God says for last into that let's make them look and and them announcement.
[00:10:43] It is very just good. But on day six it was very good.
[00:10:51] This is a moment like we need to understand we look at this good. You'd be like she's so prayful.
[00:11:05] Right.
[00:11:15] Image bearing it is very good.
[00:11:21] And at that moment in those days of creation, there was no intersection between heaven and earth as this earth were in the womb of heaven. Right. There's no intersection attempt to get somewhere. I must cooper life.
[00:11:45] There's no try in it. Earth is contained within the womb of heaven. It's just. There's just no. There's no veil. It's a thin place. You can just go in. Wow. That's how God came walking with them in the cool of the day. They enjoyed union together. Can you imagine? They didn't know any different though their image bears Adam and Eve are created. They're walking. They're enjoying who they are as image bearers supposed to be. And that's the decisions Obviously we have identity because they found their image in was God.
[00:12:44] They never wondered for one second am I a lion?
[00:12:48] No, because we want image bearers of a lion or a dog.
[00:12:55] And that's just it. I mean can you imagine being that comfortable in who you are that you're just. I won't cause minds to wander. So then we leave who he's told not to eat the fruit of the truth of knowledge of good and evil. You and I think what's wrong with knowing the difference between good and evil? Most of us live from evil. Instead of when we're comparing good and evil.
[00:13:28] You really understand what feasting on the of good and evil is? Watch this movie. It is powerful. I know there's all kinds of how evil this moves. Well listen, just don't the incantations. Okay?
[00:13:49] It's that simple. Like don't try and cast spells that they're casting in the movie, but I want you to pull it. Nobody else in the whole world, especially our nation, is probably telling their people to go and watch this movie, but it's. It's really that good. What you have is two different witches that are. One is from the good fruit and one is from the evil fruit. And opening scene where they are comparing the two immediately. And whatever the other one's name is. Elphaba. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Question mark.
[00:14:34] And she obviously is the evil, which as you're watching the movie, you're going to start to get very confused at who's actually good and who's actually evil because they both have moments of profound goodness, but they also have moments of profound evil, which is what true knowledge of good and evil is good for us because it causes us to compare and contrast. But when we.
[00:15:06] We look at Jesus as the image bearer, and that's all we know.
[00:15:13] Oh, Eve eats of the fruit immediately. She's opened up to all kinds of information.
[00:15:21] Knowledge, right?
[00:15:23] It's knowledge. It's things that she was now having to contemplate, grapple with in her mind up to this point.
[00:15:33] Knowledge.
[00:15:34] That's it. Adam eats the fruit. Something happens to him. And the first thing they wonder is, why are we naked?
[00:15:44] Do they know that? Are we supposed to know when we're naked?
[00:15:50] You know, it's an interesting question. So that God comes, He draws near to his creative genius. He's like, hey, well, not only are these two hiding, but they've sunk together makeshift clothes out of what many people call fig leaves. I don't know if that's true. We don't know what it is, right? And God, which is just hilarious to me, he's like, what have you done? And Adam's like, she did it right? Because that's what shame does. It causes us to shift the blame to someone else.
[00:16:41] Anyway. Then God tells them, this is the consequence of what you've done. Many people will look at this as a pronouncement of punishment on God's end. I don't think so.
[00:16:52] I just don't think so. This is just the consequence. This is the natural consequence. Because there's all kinds of things vying for attention in the spirit realms.
[00:17:07] This is God just. He's just pronouncing consequence all along. He's got the Lamb of God in his back pocket.
[00:17:17] Because we know the Lamb of God was slain at the foundation of the earth. He gave up his life before he touched down, tells him, you can't remain here again. This isn't punishing them, this is protecting them.
[00:17:37] He moves them out of the garden. He tells him everything that's going to happen, which I think is profoundly kind.
[00:17:43] That's kind for him to give them warning of. These are the things that are going to transpire. One of them is that ground now that they're is going to produce thorns and thistles. Right.
[00:17:59] And what's created in their mind is an intersection and earth. No longer are they experiencing the comfort of the walkers of womb of heaven. Now experiencing is this intersection between the two and this, this desire crawl back in.
[00:18:25] Because in our minds separation, we're separated. It's only our minds that we are separated with God.
[00:18:36] To get this, it was never on God's end. He didn't say, oh, this is the message that is told often.
[00:18:47] It's a message of rejection by the author and finisher of our faith. That's Aaron's, because he didn't reject us, he protected us. Say he protect me.
[00:18:59] Yes.
[00:19:01] And so in Psalm 85 we have beautiful picture of what's happening from his vantage point. What's happening? He's saying that mercy and truth will join together, righteousness and peace will embrace. Or other translations will say that righteousness and peace will kiss, truths will spring up from the earth and righteousness will look down from heaven. What we have is a re emerging between the heavens and the earth.
[00:19:42] He's laying out a plan to bring it back to where it was in the first place. Remember, we are made in God's image.
[00:19:56] We forget who we are. God sends Jesus.
[00:20:00] Yes, God sends Jesus held within the womb of the 16 year old.
[00:20:08] What?
[00:20:10] It doesn't get much more humble than that from a teenager. Unwed, you can find Jesus conquering and every single thing he does then he didn't come to Satan, God, he came to prove it. So being born from an unwed, he's conquering shame, right? There's a shame story there that he's going like, huh, I'm going to, I'm going to take care of that. And so you see him in every exchange with someone that he is conquering it.
[00:20:57] You and I, we pine for redemption and restoration.
[00:21:05] No, only Jesus could do something like this. Turn to Matthew 5.
[00:21:12] This has been a really fun place for me to camp out lately. Jesus is laying out the Beatitudes and he's going into his sermon, which is known as the Sermon on the Mount. And Jesus is taking the law that was given to Moses. We could just play with the ten Commandments if you want to. But you can find the full in the Sermon on the Mount.
[00:21:40] And how Jesus is laying this out is so beautiful. And what I want to find is in Psalm 85 about how the complementary reaction of heaven and earth coming together, the lungs only provided one side.
[00:22:02] Now Jesus determined he's bringing them both back together. He's causing this again for us to have a front row seat. And it's things like that. It was said to our ancestors, do not murder.
[00:22:25] I tell you, it's like one who is with his brothers, subject to judgment.
[00:22:45] See in here, have two hands back there.
[00:22:55] By laying it all out like this, I think he's proving that we're still feasting on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
[00:23:10] Because to even end someone means we're holding something against them. We're using a plumb line of good and evil to judge one another.
[00:23:23] Listen to what he says.
[00:23:25] He says, you have heard it. An eye for an eye, a tooth tell you as for the ones as well. And someone forces you to go mile, go with them, just you. And don't turn away from the one who wants to bounce from you.
[00:23:56] So you've been told, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
[00:24:00] You've been taught tit for tat.
[00:24:05] And he's going, but here's what I'm going to tell you. If someone slaps your right cheek, just turn to them the left.
[00:24:13] What? Is this making anybody uncomfortable?
[00:24:18] Yeah, because how many of us would not want to defend ourselves?
[00:24:29] How many of us would actually turn the other cheek?
[00:24:38] Hilarious.
[00:24:44] In the midst of a very trying time, I joked some words down.
[00:24:50] It was very simple. A face was made to be stricken and the will driven to turn and offer the other side. A heart will throb under the wrongdoing keeps in sight locked in on righteousness. How can we display mercy triumphs lovers and grace that raises a standard if not in the face of darkness.
[00:25:18] For me this was like.
[00:25:21] This was kind of ground myself in the justice of God. How many of us want to take justice into our own hands?
[00:25:30] Often and typically petty things.
[00:25:34] So this was my. This was my attempt to kind of ground myself in the truth and to tell my emotion what it will do.
[00:25:44] I'm a little bossy, but this.
[00:25:48] How can we display mercy that triumphs, love that comes in grief that raises the standards, not in the face of darkness. You won't get another opportunity.
[00:25:59] It's only in the face of darkness that we have the opportunity to prove love that covers and justice that raises a Standard.
[00:26:12] Many of us are comfortable within the confines of the justice that comes from the earth. But this is not our position is the justice that is the very foundation of the throne of God.
[00:26:27] Justice and righteousness move together and mercy and grace, divine power that comes from the outworking of his authority.
[00:26:39] It's not the justice of the earth. And if you try to intermingle them, it will not work. It'll be a disaster.
[00:26:47] And until we hinge everything upon the justice and righteousness of the throne of God, we will not see the things that we are pining for. Restoration, revitalization, reconciliation. All right, Those things are only going to come by way of justice and righteousness. They will have staying power. If you're doing it out of your own or the justice that exists within the earth can't do what God can.
[00:27:23] Which means we have to give up our ideas of having rights.
[00:27:31] Here in the blessed land of America, we have people riddled with the concept of having rights. And here's the thing. God's justice will offend us. God's justice will absolutely offend us. You've heard me talk about my experience of being on the jury duty for a murder trial. It was very clear, very evident that this guy was guilty. And in the middle of God starts asking me, Angie, what does my justice look like in this?
[00:28:06] Because it was a gruesome situation.
[00:28:09] It was planned out event to murder his wife and his daughter and daughter.
[00:28:21] And God is going like what's. What does my justice look like in this guilty.
[00:28:36] But what does God want to do in situations and scenarios like this?
[00:28:42] I can tell you that Jesus allowed himself to be treated for a murderer.
[00:28:52] When Pilate came to the people, he said, it's tradition. Prisoner go free who you want. They had the opportunity to set Jesus free at that moment and they said free Barabbas.
[00:29:10] Whose decision was that? Truly I have no authority here. I am here.
[00:29:33] I will to be here.
[00:29:35] It was will that Barabbas go free. What a picture.
[00:29:41] What a picture. A murderer goes free and the only one found innocent death dies our death.
[00:29:51] Incredible.
[00:29:55] So with the understanding of of Psalm 85 and what Jesus was doing in in the Sermon on the Mount and create intersection between heaven and earth, bringing us all back into on the tree of life. And only the tree of life that's actually reach for the fruit. Yes, we'll get there.
[00:30:23] Compassion is what on the forefront of Christ's mind when he is everything that he did, he allowed himself to be arrested.
[00:30:40] Right?
[00:30:41] This man, he's on a pedestal, right?
[00:30:48] Rightfully so.
[00:30:53] King of kings whips out a sword and Peter gets chastised for defending Christ.
[00:31:08] Jesus's justice does not look like ours was his will to be arrested in that moment.
[00:31:20] It was an act of justice. It was righteousness. He was establishing his throne in that moment as an act of compassion. And we need to better understand what compassion is. And here is the definition in its truth mingled with mercy, its righteousness and peace kissing. I'm going to read it again. Compassion is truth mingled with mercy. It's righteousness and peace kissing.
[00:31:49] Compassion means to suffer together.
[00:31:54] To suffer together. When Jesus is telling a crowd of people that are just scattered along a hillside that if somebody slapped you, turn the other cheek, you know what I think is happening? I think Jesus is inviting us to suffer well together.
[00:32:13] To identify with the pain in the person who in the first place, Jesus.
[00:32:22] Jesus didn't come just to set a standard. He came to with our humanity, with the things we endure.
[00:32:34] We were very beginning.
[00:32:39] It didn't work out so well for us. We fell, we sinned, we came up short.
[00:32:46] What does Jesus do?
[00:32:49] He extends the commission come together.
[00:33:00] And now he's given us a new image to look on.
[00:33:05] He looks like us when we see him in the throne room in Revelation 5.
[00:33:13] See him as the wounded lamb still.
[00:33:20] This is the image he has now given us to look upon in the God image after we fell. So Jesus came to give us an image we couldn't look upon. And he looks like the suffering servant. He looks like the victorious king. All at the same time it sinks to be more humble than that. We're talking God here taking image so we can once and for all agree with who we actually are. He is both lion and lamb.
[00:34:01] He is both servant and king.
[00:34:07] Right. Like he's l deep locks into.
[00:34:12] Understand that our own woundedness used.
[00:34:23] Compassion means to suffer together. The feeling that arises when you suffer motivated to relieve it. That's what he did.
[00:34:34] It's what he did. It's what we're invited into invest build people well, this is what we need to put on. We need to have compassion on. So when somebody comes and slaps us across the face, we can see foreign empathize with it. Now listen, I want us to really understand big difference between empathy and trauma bonding. I think mostly empathy, actually trauma bonding. Which means I'm going to take trauma and I'm going to set it before T and T. Oh yeah.
[00:35:17] And we bond over it.
[00:35:22] Dangerous empathy.
[00:35:27] Same thing as bonding. So you can both stay in a place life that's not the way See just means I like compassion better. It just means you I see what's happening now. I can enter into that and lift you up out of it.
[00:35:48] We can both stay present of trauma. We want relief from it. It's time us to Missouri.
[00:35:58] But that's because we've gotten really accustomed to trauma bonding.
[00:36:04] We're probably even looking going shoot we need to be mindful of these things. And we don't pull another into our own narrative. We pull one another into Christ's narrative. Mine is dangerous for you. It's rough terrain. Listen, don't come into my own right. We want Jesus's okay. There are certain forms of compassion familiar stranger compassion and you compassion and this is going to be people who are friends in your life and you're familiar with them, you're familiar with their story and you can have compassion for them. Jesus didn't separate them and I don't think we should either. I think our compassion should just be turned on and ready to go at any given moment. If we walk into Walmart and you feel agitated immediately well guess what spirit that lives there you just need to extend your compassion.
[00:36:59] Live your heart fully.
[00:37:03] So many people go into scenarios like this and they think that their only job is to pray for the greeter at home or play for the cashier. Why don't you just try being nice?
[00:37:18] You know, let's just be kind to one another because kindness is going to be more lasting than your trite prayer in the first place.
[00:37:27] Oftentimes they're just attempting to put themselves on a pedestal because they don't themselves inspired by kindness don't power trip Right.
[00:37:48] Okay.
[00:37:51] And we know that Jesus lived from all three of these places. He didn't create divisions because he said here is your mother and here is your brother. Right. He when his brothers were outside the house where the man was being on from by the friends that they should have a pharmacy because family and Jesus is like these are mother can you imagine kids that to me okay just I want to quickly tie together so we can up and really what our mission is.
[00:38:36] Whether we are here in this place, we're out in the community or right now we have land that has thorns everywhere.
[00:38:48] Looking through there last night I walked all the way all the way but the first 20 and I was just me and declaring and relieving there's something of pain out there. And Christy, Christy mentioned she's I think there's actually things growing here that aren't supposed to have thorns. And when she said I was like, oh, man. I think that's true.
[00:39:14] That's. That's true of the land. That there are things out there. I mean, you guys, seriously. Thorns, massive thorns and everything quickly.
[00:39:27] And. And so just I felt the oak of land last night when we were out there.
[00:39:36] I felt like God was like, relieve the land.
[00:39:40] Relieve the land. Bring peace to the land. And it's interesting. I've been telling these guys that a week or so ago, I really felt like I was saying to call the water in. And I had no idea. No idea. Like, I thought we were talking about the creek.
[00:40:06] And then after we had the guy come to dig the well, I realized this was actually calling in water so that we could have well. And this is when I felt God shook me. Pray into this with me because this is just aging season part right? So.
[00:40:24] And what I felt was like the water moved away because there's so much power in water. Water carries authority. Water doesn't carry. It carries our authority. And the thing is, is that what it has to do no matter what. It doesn't have a voice. It does to do no matter what. So whatever authority has been over this land from it to protect land. Because sorry. And I'm pretending what all is going on out there.
[00:41:02] I just think we have this opportunity to see restoration of this land. And I think I'm taking pictures of all sorts mountain.
[00:41:19] I mean, even these locust trees that are the size of thorns growing on this tree think to see on them. But I think to even see those reduced in size like they do right now, to me, it's just like. It's almost like there. And. And Chris also said to me the day she's like tennis shoes because I think that my boots are hurting my feet once several nights in a row go home and like my aching so bad I was having a hard time falling asleep. And I've had them for years. And see Rich came to that conclusion that it was just an issue of like, you know, having to break shoes in or whatever.
[00:42:26] They were both having these achy legs. And I felt like immediately the spirit was like drive tension. It's the ache of the land. You're feeling the ache in your legs because it's the ache of the land. And so that we have this.
[00:42:49] I think it's the most beautiful place.
[00:42:52] Honesty and God also reminded me of an encounter that I had last July. Actually right here.
[00:43:02] Approximately right here. And it was after one of the sessions and up to him to share and something he had said really provoked something in Me. And so I'm just sharing it with him. And he cracked my hands. And the next thing in this deep, deep encounter, and he plays like the third tour guide.
[00:43:29] I think it was close to a long event. It's only five minutes. I was on the floor for quite some time.
[00:43:36] Ended up was underground the other day. And I was like, wait a minute. Was.
[00:43:47] I knew exactly where I was. And then I understood everything to get this new Chris ground confirming you're under the land.
[00:44:01] And he drawing attention to the water that was flowing under the land, going, hey, remember that the water. It wasn't like it was.
[00:44:27] It was a steady deep that had a.
[00:44:33] And God was reminding me of that to be like, something that happened in this account and pull me over and open it and see what's in and treasure chest. But the appealed to me was this really drew my attention. I needed the tenant compelled to. And then. And it was so funny, you guys, because Mark would say, now do this now. Look at that. And I'd be like, oh, my gosh. How does he know?
[00:45:21] In the same place, he's like, you see that chair over there? Go sit in it. And I was like, shut up.
[00:45:28] Like, stand a chair. And. And then after I get done sitting in this chair and was done with that part of the encounter, he goes, ask the if you can take something from the treasure trust. And I was like, I'm a naughty little girl, because I.
[00:45:45] But get this, you guys. So I'm telling Mike and Christy about this way back when last summer, and Christie starts doing research on. On velvet. Do you know that? Do you remember the details of velvet? I know I had to do with compassion.
[00:46:06] Yes, yes. And so the. The very material that this hat was made out of. And I mean, it's a hat things off, right? And. And it was deep, deep navy in color. And so there was a revelational piece to it, and there was also this compassion piece to it. And. And I had gone through this long season of trying to shut down my compassion because I felt like it was like, actually false compassion kind of thing. And I think some of it was. But. But God starts bringing this back, and. And so here I am in this space, this hat of compassion and flowing water, and I'm going, oh, my gosh.
[00:46:46] Like, do you ever. Do you ever just, like, sit and you're just, like, mind blown because of the things that God does, like, in advance.
[00:46:55] In advance. And you look back and you're like, what?
[00:47:00] What? I mean, if we made a list, and we should. We should have A whole workshop and make a list of everything that God has done. So we have a really good track record of it all because it's pretty phenomenal. But if we did that, we would just have no shortage of things to delight in. No shortage of things to delight in. And so then God was like, Angie, I want you to go back and look at, look at the prophetic words that you have collected. And I was like, for what? And he's like, remember when I told you that you were compassionate International? And I was like, you said, what?
[00:47:32] Vaguely, but it was years ago. And luckily I've kept good, good track of these things. And so I just did a little search and just did Compassion International and was allured by the things that were captured in these documents about. There was two different times that, that he called me that and I've gone through seasons of time where God has given me a new name. And that was just one of them where he, he was calling me Compassion International. And I'm like, compassion International, that seems big and dangerous. D'Angelo, that was a name gifted by Ryan Nilsson. So anyway, I can just track all of these things back. And why am I telling you this? Not to tout my own history with God, but for us to understand. This has been on God's mind all along.
[00:48:19] This has been on God's mind all along. Because one of those words was just. It was three years ago in 2022, that God was calling me Compassion International. And he was saying to me, he's laying out, he's like, angie, everything that you have been through is by my own hand. I've taken everything from you. I have stripped everything off of your life. You are acquainted with poverty for a purpose. It is for my purposes. I wanted you to be stripped of everything so that you could operate in compassion appropriately. And I was just like so wowed by the full on mystery of God in our individual lives and corporately of the things that he's doing. So I just wanted to draw your attention to that because I think that it's important that we understand part of our mission is to heal that land. And I don't think it's going to be difficult. I think that as we all rise up individually in our open agency and understand what it is that I, that we each are called to.
[00:49:17] The land is waiting for you.
[00:49:20] The land's waiting for you. All you have to do is rise up in your ownness.
[00:49:27] It's just waiting on the sons and daughters of glory to take their place. That's what the land is groaning for, and its groans are coming out in thorns and thistles.
[00:49:37] So all you have to do is live fully.
[00:49:41] And it's going to take accountability for us to do that, to be able to say, wait a minute, are you sure that serving coffee is your only call?
[00:49:51] Are you sure that feeding the chickens is the only thing you're supposed to do? You know, I know we all want to take on these little chores that make us feel good, that makes us think that we're doing something to provide heaven something. But until you're operating in the fire, you're not going to see the intended results. The ache, the pining for restoration in your heart. The answer to that is to live fully in Christ Jesus. Yes. Will you stand with me?
[00:50:27] Let's pray. Father God, I'm asking that your boldness fall on each of these in this room. That it is a boldness that is unquenchable, that there is a hunger to get to the end of ourselves, to begin to live for you.
[00:50:42] That we would be shocked by who we are, that we'd be a little intimidated to, but do it anyway.
[00:50:51] That we would thoroughly understand the call, and that we would walk in our own agency and feel your fullness all around us. And that we would begin to appease the ache of the land. That we would see the restoration, that we would see the reconciliation.
[00:51:18] And that the land would once again delight in who you are. Jesus, make us brave, make us bold.
[00:51:40] Cause compassion to overtake us.
[00:51:50] Let us be those who are looking for reasons to extend compassion, to invest love and to build one another up.
[00:52:00] God, that we would not be people who are growing thorns and thistles ourselves.
[00:52:10] Let her every step be pleasing to you. Every word be pleasing to you.
[00:52:18] Jesus, thank you for all that you have done.
[00:52:24] Thank you for meeting us where we are at, just to lift us higher.
[00:52:36] We love being yours.
[00:52:38] Amen.
