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0:00:03 – Jaime Luce

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Welcome to the Jamie Luce Podcast. Thank you for joining me today. I’m excited to be with you and to discuss with you something that I think at some point or another, we all need to face or we’re all dealing with, and that is rebuilding, starting over Whether we’re going through a time of what seems like things are falling apart. You’ve gone through destruction of some kind, you’ve gone through pain of some kind or are going through and, as I have been in my own reading time looking at the which might be shocking to you, but going through the last couple of books of the Old Testament, so the minor prophets we only call them minor prophets because their books are smaller, but they are just as important, just as valid and part of our canon and close out the Old Testament before we move into Jesus arriving on the scene and I was noticing some patterns that several of them were all speaking about the same thing. They’re talking about a time right after Israel’s well, several of them talked about right before and leading up to Israel’s exile into Babylon. And then the last couple of books are about them getting ready and coming out of exile and starting over again, and I wanted to.

It’s interesting that here I was contemplating this, praying about it, reading this, and I got a text message this morning saying that the area of Lahaina on Maui in the Hawaiian islands is on fire due to a fire that was sparked because of a hurricane that’s taking place and it’s you know, it’s a very, very, very, very, very fiery that was sparked because of a hurricane that’s taking place and it’s you know, it’s an old historic. I’ve been there, I’ve walked those streets in Lahaina and it’s just really sad. It’s sad not only for the and terrifying for those who are fleeing for their lives, but there are businesses that have been there for a very long time. The buildings are very, things are very old and they represent a picture of it’s kind of the romanticized picture of old Hawaii.

Whether you are someone who likes Hawaii or not, you might get that feeling about a particular city where you’ve grown up, things that hold value because of their longevity, that they were there at the beginning. There’s value in us looking at and appreciating those things that have been long standing, those things that have lasted, those things that are so important to history for us in one way or another and that can be in our lives as well, the things that have built us, our history. It can be about our history with our walk with the Lord. It can be the history of a relationship and a family, starting with a particular marriage. It could be your upbringing and friendships. It could be schooling, it could be a career starting, it could be ministry starting, it could be the gamut of all kinds of things, and there are places we can go back and think oh, but remember when? Think of all the people who reminisce about the old glory days. That’s in my finger quotes here, old glory days, and I wanted to lead us into two passages of scripture. One is in Haggai and the other is in Zachariah, so the books are right next to each other.

It’ll be easy for you to flip from one to the other, but these gentlemen were basically prophesying around the same time period and both hearing from the Lord about the same kinds of things, and I just felt that this was a real place of instruction and encouragement, because we can be in a place of destruction for all kinds of reasons Some can be completely our fault and our responsibility, and others can be completely not our fault and not our responsibility. And I’ve heard this said from I believe it was Dr Henry Cloud, a Christian psychologist, who said even though we may not be those who are the ones who caused, we are not guilty per se of the reason why we’re dealing what we’re dealing with, but getting out of the aftermath of whatever that is is actually our personal responsibility. I can’t move from point A to point B unless I take responsibility for how I’m going to get from point A to point B. I wouldn’t expect that someone who is attempting to cause me pain or harm, or someone who’s done me wrong, or if I have fallen prey to a system or something that has not gone the way it was supposed to and it’s not my fault that I got here. The illustration can be given that I could be riding my bike down along the road and, out of nowhere, a car is not looking comes and hits me. I fall off my bike and I break my leg. Well, it’s not my fault that my leg got broken, but it’s my responsibility to make sure I get medical care and I heal. I have to do something. I have to do the rehab. I have to go to the doctor. I’m responsible. I know we don’t like that. We want others to be responsible for us, especially the culture that we are living in right now. We live in a victim mentality culture and we don’t want to take responsibility to move from the place that we are to the place that we need to be Folks. That’s an incorrect, ungodly way to think. That’s not biblical, to think like that. We have to take responsibility.

Look at the life of Daniel. Was he living wickedly when they were exiled into Babylon? Absolutely not. He was not. He was a righteous man. I love how God spoke to Daniel in the times that he visited him in his dreams, or however he was hearing from God. The angel of the Lord would say to him David, you are Daniel, you are really beloved of God. He loves you. You’re special. This man had gone through a lot. They were made eunuchs to do what they were. They were taken into exile and forced into a life that they did not choose. They chose to serve God in that horrible circumstance. Anyway, it wasn’t Daniel’s fault that people were jealous of him and threw him into a lion’s den, but it was Daniel’s responsibility to continue to seek God and look to God for the answer, and it was God who brought the deliverance.

Folks, we have a responsibility. We can’t think that it’s going to change or get better, or that the new thing or that God has spoken to us or the vision he’s given us is going to come to pass If we don’t first take responsibility. We play a part. So I want to be able to show you a pattern here in scripture as you study in the Old Testament. Most of the Old Testament is prophetic in its essence, to tell you constantly that Jesus is coming to prepare us for Messiah’s entrance. And then the New Testament is all about the prophetic word saying that he’s coming again. So the whole Bible is prophetic in its nature and because it is because it’s prophetic, we can understand that there is something that is being shown to us about God, how he operates, how he deals with his people, what makes him happy, what makes him sad, what makes him angry, what is God’s justice? What does that look like? And we take all of those things and we say if this is how God has shown himself, this is who God is. I don’t determine who God is or how he’s going to act based off of my own assumptions. I don’t get to think just because I do something a certain way that he would.

God is not human. God is not even fully describable in our language. God is outside of His creation. Everything that you can understand and know is coming from a created state. You have a created mind and body and your mind that thinks, learns, based off of what it can know and understand about its physical surroundings and our scientists do scientific experiments based off of things they actually tangibly can see and touch and know.

God is not limited to. He has no physical limitations. He has no. There is no time that can bind him, there is no space that can hold him, there is no matter or physicality that he can be bound to. He is the creator of those things. He is outside of those things. Therefore, he is, he is full of otherness, things that cannot be described or known or fully understood in our earthly comprehension. He’s so much bigger. He’s so much bigger than you think. That’s why David would constantly say magnify the Lord with me. You’ve got to see him bigger, because if you are seeing him, small folks, not only are you wrong, not only are you gravely mistaken, but you will never attain or go where God is calling you to go if you are limited by only what you can see, know and understand. So I want us to turn to the book of Haggai and I want us to start here, because this is really.

You know, like I said when we began, many of us are dealing with aftermath. The people in Hawaii, on the island of Maui, are going to be dealing with the aftermath of horrendous fire and rebuilding and I could not help but think of, even in Hawaii, on the island of Maui, you have Hana, and Hana is some of the most beautiful oh my goodness landscape that you can ever see. I love tropical flowers, they’re my very favorite. Love tropical flowers out of all the flowers. The minute I see a tropical arrangement and tropical flowers, I just kind of have to stop and stare. I love tropical flowers and when we did the road to Hana and it’s a bumpy, lumpy, difficult road, but the beauty, learning where the beauty came from astounded me. That side of the island at one point had been nothing but ash from volcanic eruption and when I saw that beauty, my mind exploded, my spirit exploded, because I understood, when God said he gives beauty for ashes, what that looks like. That’s hard to comprehend, that’s really hard to comprehend. And now I’m thinking about these fires that are taking place and these people are going to be in mourning over what they’ve lost.

And I want you to get inside the head of the children of Israel who once had had Solomon’s Temple. This temple is incomparable, it’s just incomparable. It’s height, I mean, not only is it structure, its structure was hard to comprehend in its vastness and its largeness, but the gold and the carvings and the art of what the best of the best were brought in to create this building, which took years and years. I should have done, I should have looked it up. It took years and years and years to build this, and God’s promise was I will be with you all the way through completing this. Why? This is an important principle to understand. When God calls you to something, his promise to you, you can take this to the bank. If God’s calls you to do something, he will be with you until it’s completed.

Now we, as Christians, not just our task, but God made a promise to us that he who begun a good work in us is faithful to complete it. So if God is doing a work in you, you don’t have to fear that he will leave you. In our last episode we talked about God is always with us. He never leaves us, he never forsakes us. You have to know he is with you for the task. He is with you for your completion and he is with you for the completion of the purpose that he has put in you, the purpose that he has designed for your life, for the work of your hands for the, your reason. You are here for a reason, and he will not turn loose of you that that purpose must see its fulfillment, it must have its completed end, and so you can know that the pattern that God has given, that he the covenants he made. He made them with the promise that they would come to pass. The only caveat that he ever gave in the Old Testament was that I will do this for you as long as you stay with me.

And even in that we see that the children of Israel completely, for long periods of time, for generations, ignored God, disobeyed His commands, went after other gods. I mean, the whole book of Hosea is a picture of a prophet having to live out the life, of what God is dealing with and feeling and how he continually goes after His prostitute wife and she’s constantly prostituting herself. She constantly leaves Him and yet he constantly goes back and gets her back, redeems her, buys her back. And that’s the story we have of Ruth, that a kinsman, redeemer, is there to purchase back what was lost. And then some, and then does the, and then some does the sudden lease, does the complete turnarounds. This is the theme of God’s presence with us all through Scripture. He wants relationship with you, he wants to be intimate with you, he wants you for Himself alone and in His pursuit of us. He makes promises to us and he has plans for us. So, no matter what you’re dealing with today and the rubble that you might be standing in and looking at, I want you to hear this. Okay, I want you to take this to heart.

Haggai, chapter two. This is after the temple that Solomon built has been completely and utterly destroyed. It’s destroyed. There’s no getting it back. You can’t make it again. It’s like in the United States how we lost the Twin Towers. You can’t just make them again. You can’t just pretend it didn’t happen. It happened. We can’t pretend it didn’t happen and we have to. We have to look at the mess. We’ve got to see it. Okay, and I want you to hear this. I’m going to read beginning. Well, I’ll go ahead and read you verse one just for context in this. But this is Haggai, and, and he’s explaining, I’ll let. I’ll let the word explain Haggai, verse one.

Then, on October 17 of that same year, the Lord sent another message through the prophet Haggai. Say this to Zerubbabel, son of Sheltiel, governor of Judah, and to Jeshua, son of Jehoshedek, the high priest, and to the remnant of God’s people there in the lands. So this message is to those in charge, those who represent him in his temple, those who represent the governing of his people, and to the people, to those who are left in the rubble, to those who are left with the mess. This is what he says. Does anyone remember this house, this temple and its former splendor? Do you remember what it used to look like and how glorious it was? How, in comparison, does it look to you now? And I know that’s a painful question what does it look like to you now?

You can be honest with God. You can say this is awful, I’m dealing with a disaster. This there’s nothing but ashes left. I’ve got nothing left. It must seem like nothing at all that you’ve got nothing left. But now, but now hear that. But now the Lord says be strong, zerubbabel, be strong Jeshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest, be strong. All you people still left in the land.

And now, okay, so this was an. And now? How does it look to you now? But now the Lord says and we have it again. And now, what is this instruction? God’s not just saying take a look, it’s awful. I know it’s bad. It’s terrible. It doesn’t finish there. God never leaves you in that position. Never, though. The people have broken their covenant over and over again. God has not. And now get to work Now. I know that’s boy, that’s gonna offend people. That’s gonna offend people because they think I didn’t do this. I didn’t do this. Why do I have to get to work? I don’t wanna get to work. I’m exhausted. I want to mourn and stay. I want to stay in my pity party. I’m gonna stay right here. I’m gonna get me my own little cupcake and a candle and I’m gonna have a party right here. My little pity party is staying right here.

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Folks, there’s a command that God gives us. It is not his plan for you to stay right where you are. He says and now get to work. Do you remember the example I gave you at the beginning? We may not have been fully responsible for what took place, but whose responsibility is it to get up and rebuild? Whose responsibility is it to not stay like this? It’s our responsibility. And now get to work. Why? How? For I am with you, says the Lord of Heaven’s armies. My spirit remains among you, just as I promised when you came out of Egypt. So do not be afraid. Just like when God made you the promise in the first place, just like back when you got started, just back when you got saved and God said he was going to do something wonderful. Just back when you made that first promise or that first commitment to that thing that God’s called you to, or to that marriage that you’re in, or to those children, or to that business, or to that ministry. Do not be afraid, for this is what the Lord of Heaven’s armies says. In just a little while, I will again shake the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the dry land. I’m going to stop here just for a second.

There was a time in my husband and I we own a company. We own two companies, but at the beginning of this one company, before we bought the company, my husband was working for them in sales and he was doing phenomenally well. It was just an incredible thing that God was doing. It was really shocking what God was doing. And there was one of his customers who happened to be his largest customer, who was truly the tool that God was using to bring great blessing into our life. We got word that that company was most likely going to be sold and at the time, if that would have happened, that could have been catastrophic for our business. And we just began to pray. We really began to pray, say Lord, is this you? What’s happening with this? Should we be praying against this? Should we be praying for this? Do you have something else? Are you taking us in a different direction? What are you doing? And I’m not kidding you.

I sat down in prayer and I read a scripture very similar to this. I don’t have it written down so I don’t have it memorized which one it was, but it was that basically God moves heaven and earth to do what he’s going to do. And the funny thing about that is this whole deal had to do with literally a worldwide touching company and it also had to do with, I guess I could say, satellites and communication. And so I knew when I read that scripture that the Holy Spirit was truly birthing something and saying something in my heart, helping illuminate something and me to understand about him. And he was saying I have a plan for you and your husband, I have a plan for his business, I have a plan that I’m going to see through and I’ll move heaven and earth to make sure that that happens if I need to.

And we got word not too long after that that that deal fell through. It fell through and you know that same event came back around again, but it was after we were in a different position and we were done with that and that thing actually happened. That actually took place, and happened years later and with no effect on us. And I knew I went around saying this to people constantly God will move heaven and earth. I said it to my husband over and over again God will move heaven and earth for us. He will move heaven and earth to do what he did. He changed what was going to happen globally and I know you can’t convince me otherwise. I know it was for us. There was something he was doing, and what we do, we help do for the kingdom. This was kingdom business. This wasn’t just our business, this was kingdom business and I knew it and I knew that’s why God would get involved and move heaven and earth for it.

When God is doing business for his kingdom, he never fails, he never stops. He will finish it. He will finish it, and here he’s telling them again. In just a little while, I will again shake the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the dry land. I will shake all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will be brought to this temple. I will fill this place with glory, says the Lord of heaven’s armies. The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of heaven’s armies. The future glory of this temple will be greater than its past glory, says the Lord of heaven’s armies, and in this place I will bring peace. I, the Lord of heaven’s armies, have spoken.

You need to hear that word. You need to hear that word in your spirit. The Lord is not limited by how glorious something once was. He is not intimidated or hindered by the ashes of that and he is not hindered or held back from producing a far greater glory, a far greater, more beautiful, more oh what’s the word? More steadfast, more staying power, more glory. There’s more glory. He will bring more glory. It will be the road to Hanna. It will be better than it ever was. The land that was there, that was covered by ash, did not look like it looks now. It was after the destruction of what took place that the absolute beauty and awe of what is there now came about. That is God. He is not limited to time, space and matter. He’s not limited to the ashes that you are handing him to change the circumstance that you’re dealing with.

I want you to turn just it’s probably just one page or two in your Bible. Go to Zachariah, and I want us to look at Zachariah, chapter 2, and I’m kind of holding these two books together. I want you to go with me on this journey that I felt like the Lord wanted, how he wanted me to lay this out for you. But in Zachariah 2 we have another, these several series of words coming to Zachariah, and he’s also talking about the people coming out of exile. He’s talking about what God’s gonna do, how he’s gonna deal with things, how God sees things, and I want us to look at chapter 2 and I want you to go to. Let’s go to verse 3. This is a future prediction, a prophecy that Zachariah is receiving about what Israel will someday be, and this is after her exile. So this is after the destruction, after the disaster that they have gone through, after the horrible lessons that have had to been learned over the loss that they have incurred. They’ve lost everything. They lost everything, and this is now what the Word of the Lord is coming to Zachariah, and I’m gonna start with verse 3.

Then the angel who was with me went to meet a second angel who was coming toward him. The other angel said hurry, and say to that young man, to Zachariah, jerusalem will someday be so full of people and livestock that there won’t be room enough for everyone. Many will live outside the city walls. So what he’s talking about is it’s going to be so wonderful, bustling with life, so full of prosperity, that you won’t even be able to keep it all inside the walls. The boundaries will have to be lived on, even on the outside of those boundaries, of those walls, because there’s so much. Okay, and this is the verse I wanted to highlight for you verse 5.

Then I myself will be this is the Lord speaking then I myself will be a protective wall of fire around Jerusalem, says the Lord, and I will be the glory inside the city. So God is saying I myself, after this rebuilding, after this blessing of what I’ve called you to do. He said now you have to get to work. You’re gonna have to work on this, you’re gonna have to do some things to get this done, but I’m with you. Don’t be afraid. Its glory will be better after. Okay. So remember what we just read. And now he’s saying and I myself am going to be a fire. Our God can be a consuming fire of the wicked, or he can be a whirling fire that separates the enemy from being able to penetrate, just like he did when he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt and he kept the Egyptian army away from his people by becoming a huge firewall in between them. And that’s what he’s speaking about here. I will myself be a protective wall of fire around Jerusalem, he’s saying. I will not allow any more destruction to come in here, says the Lord, and I will be the glory inside the city. I will not only protect you on the outside, but I will be the one who is the glory on the inside. Folks, even if it’s your own physical body and health, the Lord can be your protection on the outside and the glory on the inside. He is not lying. God is not a liar. God has made promises to you and those promises are yes and amen to those who believe. Now, part of your belief is that you have action. Faith has feet. We have to be those who hear the Word of God and act on the Word of God. We are those who hear his instructions and we obey his instructions.

Okay, I want you to turn over to chapter 4, Zachariah, chapter 4, because the work that God is going to do is it’s not just a natural work. So, yes, there are things you need to do? He says get to work. So there are natural things that need to be done, but the work that’s going to be done, the work that’s going to get done, is not just this natural physical work. It’s got more than that. It’s not just natural, it’s super natural.

Okay, so I want us to look at Zachariah and we’re gonna read oh, where do I want to start? Let’s go to verse 6, chapter 4, verse 6. This is again in the middle of another word that Zachariah is receiving. He sees this picture of these things and he’s asking what the pictures and the things that he sees, what they mean. But this is what God says. He said then. He said to me this is what the Lord says to Zerubbabel. It is not by force nor by strength, but by my spirit, says the Lord of Heaven’s armies. You may know it as not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord. That is what God is saying that this work will get done, not because you’re mighty, not because you’re strong. This work is going to get done because my spirit is involved. I’m telling you to do it. It is by the spirit of God that you are enabled and will be able to do the things that I’ve called you to do, and I love this.

It goes on, verse 7, nothing, nothing, not even a mighty mountain, will stand in Zerubbabel’s way. Do you hear that God is calling you to do, by his spirit, a task that needs his spirit? That can’t get done just in your own strength, because it won’t get it done. But he’s saying don’t be afraid, my spirit’s with you, my protection is a fire around you, my glory is in you and I’m going to do this. Nothing can stand in your way. It will become a level plane before you. Every mountain that you think you’re going to face. God says I’m bringing it down, I’m making it plain. There will be no mountain in front of you. Nothing, not even a mighty mountain, will stand in Zerubbabel’s way. It will become a level plane before him. And when Zerubbabel sets the final stone of the temple in place, the people will shout may God bless it. May God bless it.

Then another messenger message came to me from the Lord. Zerubbabel is the one who laid the foundation of this temple and he will complete it. He will complete it. You need to hear that in your spirit, god is saying I will complete the task that I said I would do, but I’m going to complete it. In you, through you, you will complete it. You will get done and accomplished, the thing I have purposed you to do. Then you will know that the Lord of Heaven’s armies has sent me. Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand. He’s saying this small beginning is you’re just going and measuring, you’re just surveying the disaster and rubble that is in front of you. Do not despise it, do not despise seeing it, do not despise looking at it, because the work will begin and His promise is that, even though it is a small beginning, it will be completed, it will get finished, it will get done. You don’t have to be afraid that you’re going to get started on this.

God is a wise master builder. We are taught that we are not to build our house on the sand. We build on the rock. Right, we know that. But we also know that he says no one, who’s wise anyway, starts to build without first counting the cost. That counting the cost is the responsibility that is carried when a project is given. You have to go through and do your investigative work. You’ve got to measure, you’ve got to know what it’s going to take. You’ve got to make sure you’ve got all the right supplies. You’ve got to every step along the way You’re responsible for, you’re responsible for. So we need to know. Now, god may give us a plan, he may tell them. I want you to do this. God gave a plan to Noah how to build an ark. God gave a plan to Moses how to build a tabernacle. God can give us a plan, but he expects us to go and do the work, and it may not be an easy, quick work. Noah, it took him over a hundred years to build that boat. A hundred years. It was his, a lifetime project. We might be dealing with lifetime purpose projects.

Don’t be discouraged with that. Don’t be discouraged that people mock. Don’t be discouraged that you have naysayers and people who say you’re a fool. Don’t be discouraged by the destruction that has come, the fires that have devoured, the storms that have blown things over, things that look like they have to be started over again. God’s promise to you is the work will get completed. It is not by might, it is not by power, but it is by the Spirit of the Lord, and if you will lay hold of the promise of God. Know that he is a covenant keeper. He will do what he has promised to do. He will not leave you. He will not forsake you. The purpose that God has given you will be completed. It will come to fruition. The ashes that are in front of you will become beautiful. The glory of the former will not compare to the glory of what God’s going to do. God is going to bring such glory, such newness of life. Such glory will God show, and you’ll know that he is the God that he said he is. You’ll know that the word of the Lord is true and cannot fail.

Don’t allow the enemy to lie to you. Don’t believe the lies. Don’t sit in pity and blame others for where you are and then stay there. They may have put you there. Think of Joseph’s life. His brothers put him in the pit, but he refused to live in a pit mentality. He was a slave, and yet he ran his slave master’s house. He was in the prison, yet he ran the prison. Folks, you, on your journey, will find places that seem like there is no way that it is impossible to see what God has promised you. And yet nothing is impossible for God, nothing, nothing.

I want to see if I can find a verse real quick. If I can’t locate it real quick, then I’ll move on. Well, let’s go back to Haggai. Let’s go back to Haggai. I’m going to read this last verse in closing again, and I want you to, by faith, lay hold of this. I want you to hear it for your life. I want you to write down what you need to write down. I had it in my notes. I didn’t go there, but we could have turned to. I could have had you turn to.

Oh, chapter, it’s chapter two. What is it? I can’t believe. I’m blanking right now, sorry, folks, habakkuk, sorry, habakkuk two, and quoted you the scripture. You know, we write down on the tablets the vision. We make it plain. We need to do that. We need to hear God’s instructions, write them down, meditate on them, ask the Lord for direction. But as I read this, I want you to hear what God is saying to you, for this is what the Lord of Heaven’s army says In just a little while, I will again shake the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the dry land. I will shake all the nations, and all the treasures of all the nations will be brought to this temple. I will fill this place with glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s armies. The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of Heaven’s armies. The future glory of this temple will be greater than its past glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s armies, and in this place I will bring peace. I, the Lord of Heaven’s armies, have spoken Now.

I know this was a direct word to Haggai about the temple in Jerusalem, but we know that God works and he doesn’t change. He’s no respecter of persons. He’s the same yesterday, today and forever. And no matter what we face, we see the prophetic message to us God is the same. If he did it for them, he’ll do it for you. He did it not just once. He’s done it over and over and over.

In fact, the temple that was rebuilt by Zerubbabel was then destroyed in 8070 and Jesus said that there wouldn’t be one stone left upon another. Sadly, this is the pattern of those who refuse to hear the voice of God. Now there are cycles, and if you find yourself in one of those cycles, look at it, learn from it, don’t stay there, take your responsibility. But at the same time, we can know that Jesus now says we are the temple of God and he can bring every bit of beauty to ashes that we have in our life left. And his glory and what he has done far exceeds any glory that was ever done before. Any sacrifice that was ever given in the temple was far exceeded by Jesus’ sacrifice of himself, of his body. We take communion, we remember his body and the blood and we remember the sacrifice that was paid for us. Nothing compares to that, nothing can remove it, nothing can change it. It cannot be altered. It has been done for us.

So let’s lay hold of this God today, of his promises for our lives, and stand on the assurance that the glory that he will bring is far greater than any glory that we saw lost. Don’t get stuck in yesterday, today. Go today in the strength that God gives you today. That was his word to a very scared Gideon, a very frightened man that God was calling to do a miraculous thing to bring deliverance. And Gideon is like I’m the least. I’m the least, god. I’m the least of my family’s the least, my background is the least, my abilities are the least. I’m the least. And God said go in the strength that you have. That is my encouragement to you today Get to work, go in the strength that you have and watch what God will do. His promises will come to pass. Let me pray for you.

Father, we thank you for your word. I thank you for the truth of your word, for the prophecies in your word, for the way that you show yourself constantly in the midst of the trouble and the trauma and the problems. Your promise stands and you have promised us that you will always finish what you start. We are never left with a mess, left to contend with the mess by ourselves, because it is not by might and it is not by power, but it is by your spirit. So we ask Holy Spirit, right now, to come, breathe on all of our dead bones, as you did for Ezekiel. Breathe on us, oh God. Breathe on this, this mess that is left. Take our ashes, lord, and give us the vision for the beauty and the splendor and the glory of what you’re going to do. Father, we pray that you would help us, encourage us as we rebuild, as we get to work, that we are strengthened and not made afraid. We are not those who stand back and say it’s impossible, for we know nothing is impossible with you. Every mountain has to come down in Jesus’ name and we will give you all the praise, asking you to bless it in Jesus’ name, amen, amen. Thank you so much for joining me today. I pray this was a blessing to you, as always. I ask you to give me a like, a share. If you’re listening to this on podcast, give us a review.

Visit me on my website at jamieluce.com. That’s J-A-I-M-E-L-U-C-E. I’d love to hear from you. If you’d like to email me, you can do that at mail at jamieluce.com, and you can also see I’ve got other content on my website. If you’d like to visit blogs and things are there as well you can get ahold of my book. You don’t need money, you just need God. You don’t need to be dealing with a financial problem and need help. You need some spiritual guidance, knowing it’s not just the work of our hands, but we need the spirit of the Lord. We need God. The silver’s mine, the gold is mine, so we need to go to the source, right? You can get ahold of that on my website as well, or you can go to Amazon and get a copy of that for yourself. Thanks again for being with me today and we’ll see you again next time. Be blessed.

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