Shaking Off The Dust | Havilah Cunnington

Wow, wow, wow. Good morning. Oh, you guys could do so much better than that. You really. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Look at the person next to you as you find your seat and say, you look so much better. After that. You needed that. You look so much better. Oh, it's fine. Oh, it is such an honor to be with you. Gosh, doesn't it feel good to be in church? You know, there's something about, with everything that's happened in the world, I. There's. There's something about being together again. You really get to just be with each other. And how many of you know, that's why God created the church. We need family. We need moms, we need grandmas. We need honest aunts. We need people in our lives that help us. We were never created to live alone. And it's. It's amazing to be here. Pastor Hope's message last night was incredible. Did anybody just. I mean, as a communicator, I thought it took a tremendous amount of courage to even end it with taking off everything and showing us realistically of what it looks like to unpack the message and app in. In like an applicable way. So I thought it was brilliant. And I just am so honored to be here and with a woman that has persevered. And while you were up there last night, I didn't know much about everything. I tend to not know much about people's lives because I have too many children. Does anybody know what I mean? I'm like, I probably would have caught that, but I was busy keeping people alive. So I'm so sorry I couldn't follow the news or I couldn't follow your story. I was trying to just remember my kids name. And so I have. We actually have four boys and I don't know if they sent a picture, but we have four children and I have a husband. I married my husband at 27 years old. It took me a while to find him. Anybody had a husband that was lost and had to come find you? And I always say it took him a while because good meat takes time to marinate. And so it took me a minute, but then, oh, there they are. This is as good, good as we're ever going to look like this is. It goes downhill from here. This was about five minutes and then there were punching and people being thrown in the water and me yelling, can you guys please act normal? And my kids saying, why do you always do this to us, mom? Because how many of you know taking pictures with your kids is technically torture. Apparently, they want to torture us. And so I believe we put family photos on our walls just as statements of faith, like, as our family. We could say, if you'll trust me, you could look like this. You need to have faith in this. And they. They don't. But anyway, that's my husband, Ben. He is four years younger than I am. And I always say, if you don't have your spouse yet, it could be that God wants to make them legal. And so for me, that's my husband, four years younger. And then we got pregnant three months in, so we were doing something right. And we got Judah, our eldest, and he is 14 and a half. Hudson Samuel is with me today. He's in the front. I'm not gonna embarrass you, but he's there. And then Grayson is our little blondie. Very similar to me, kind of intense. He's the only blonde, and he and I both have raspy voices because we're both trying to quit smoking. And then. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. And then this is Beckham, and Beckham is our baby. And I'm so excited about never having more kids. Can I get an amen to that? Someone said, are you gonna pray for your miracle, baby girl? I'm like, I will reject you in Jesus mighty name. If somebody even tries to pray for me between here and here, I'm like, I reject you in Jesus name. Get away from me. Like, I do not want. I want a miracle college fund. Like, how come we don't pray for that? Why are we always praying for more mouths to feed? Why can't we pray for more educated kids? Anyway, so those are our kids, and we live in Redding, California, which it's kind of funny to be in California. Like, usually I'm all over the world, and so it's fun to say reading. And you guys probably know where that is. The top of California. And we go to a church called Bethel Church there. And if you've never heard of Bethel Church, you definitely have sung our music. And we are all over the radio and have won a lot of awards, and I have absolutely nothing to do with that, but just use it to brag. And then I'm the women's pastor at that church, and. And my husband and I run a ministry called Truth to Table, like Farm to Fork, Truth to Table. And it's where we reach thousands of people around the world with Bible studies and leadership lessons. And I teach on communication, how to actually create a message, deliver a message, how to write a book, how to Go live. I love to teach people how to do the things that nobody helped me do. And it took me years to figure out and decades. I just wanna help people figure it out. But I started out and I won't get into my whole message. I wasn't very academic, and if you know me at all, I grew up with learning disabilities. And so I was very dyslexic. I could not spell, really. I could not read out loud in high school. You could not read my handwriting. I could not read my handwriting. And so I was very anxious about any kind of highlight on that area of my life. And. And so when we had our four kids, I knew I was called to go into ministry and I had a heart to do it. But the Lord began to talk to me about how do I keep the message going. And I told God, I'll follow you, but I want to be my kid's mom. Like, I love you, but no one's raising my kids but me. Like, I want to be in their life. I'm Italian. I am fully intense and neurotic. And I need to be there and I need to feed them because that is love and I need to hold them and I need all of it. And so the. The Lord said, if you want to do that, then the best way to keep your calling going is to write out the messages in your heart so you can go to the soccer game and your message can be passed along into different people's lives and all the heart of it. So I started writing Bible studies. And so the first Bible study that I wanted to talk about just for a few minutes is this book is called Eat, Pray, Dream Chasing God's Way. And I don't know if you know this, but. But a lot of times we say, God has a plan for my life. Follow the call of God for my life. But we don't often know what that means. Like, okay, I don't know why. Calling, purpose. I'm doing what God asked me to do. Did you know that there are four distinct ways to know what the call of God is for your life? And I'm gonna give this to you for free. The first way is your gifts and talents. What you are good at is part of what God has put within you. If you wanna be a worship leader and you don't sing, you, you need to realize that's not the call of God for your life. God is not going to heal your voice. Your mom was wrong. You're not cute enough to do it. Like, trust it right. If you wanna do finance, but you can't actually figure out how to manage money. This is the wrong direction. So what are you good at? You know, I wasn't a natural communicator, but I was a natural, aggressive, persuasive person. And so God took that and put it within my calling. And I now use it to prepare, persuade people to get into the kingdom of God. And that's how it works. The second area that God gives us is our encounters with him. Prophetic words, moments. And if you timeline your life, you'll see that the hand of God has been on your life your whole life. When you were a child, when you were a teenager, in your 20s. And usually there's encounters that are specific to you that nobody else has. And those are roadmaps into the purpose that he has for you. The third area is your pain. Your pain is actually a map to where God has called you. I was diagnosed with postpartum depression three times. I had to walk through it three times for years of my life. Now I wish God could just heal me right away. Have you ever asked God, just heal me right away, let's get it over so I can keep going. Often God doesn't heal us right away or give us the breakthrough. Not because he's meant to, but God actually wants us to timeline what healing and restoration looks like so we can help a whole lot of other people. And so when we know you're gonna make it, because I went through this, and then you go through this, and then you're gonna do this, and you're gonna read this book and you're gonna sing this song, and we begin to map it out for people, the pain. And it's actually part of your calling. God doesn't want you to divorce the biggest areas of pain. He wants you to put purpose to it. And there is purpose in the pain. But that doesn't happen automatically. Like, just look at me for a minute. Just cause you went through something doesn't mean it's your message. The only way the pain turns into a message is if you're willing to submit to the process. And if you're willing to submit to the process and get healed and walk that out, then what the enemy meant for evil, God will turn it around for good. But just because you want God to do something, doesn't mean he's just gonna do it. We have to partner with him. We have to do the hard stuff together. And that's how it works. And so the last area besides your pain is your relationships, your covenantal Relationships. When I got married to my husband, I became a co signer of the bank account. I wanted all $5. I wanted access to that. And here's the thing. When we are in a covenantal relationship with each other, right? And we're committed to be and do life together, what you have access to, I now have access to because we're in relationship. So I don't have to have everything together and have all my needs met and figure out everything. I can have my gifts. And then Pastor Hope, she might have faith or she might have a confidence or she might know what I need and so I can get to her. And because she has access to all those things, I now have a holistic experience. Experience. And that's what's so critical. Some of you need to get co signers on people that have the breakthrough that you need and get access to them. You don't have to figure it all out. Amen. I'm not going to preach that. That's free. And so that's called Eat, Pray, Hustle. The next one I wrote was, I do hard things. And this came out of my postpartum depressions. And I don't know if you know this, but the Bible says that through trials and tribulations, we complete our faith. How offensive is that? Like, why would God do that? Well, this is important. How many of you have been married for a while? Okay. How many of you ever had an argument with your spouse? Right? I used to. My husband and I, we used to fight it out in the beginning of our marriage. And I thought the Bible said the two shall become one. And I thought it was gonna be me. I was the one that we should be. Can I get an amen? And so we would argue, and there was a lot of anxiety. When you are arguing and trying to figure out marriage, can I get an amen? Right. You guys know there's a lot of fear and anxiety and trying to figure it out. Well, now that we are 15 years in, I don't have that anxiety around it anymore. Cause I know we have been through that. We are okay. We made it last time, we're gonna make it this time. And so the thing that once held me in fear and anxiety and pain now no longer has that hold on me. And so when the enemy comes and he goes, well, how are you gonna get through that and how are you gonna heal that and how are you gonna fix that? You go, I've already been there. I'm so confident I can walk through these things. And so for some of you right now, you're going, why am I going through this? And I'm saying, if you can get through it, you will have a certain confidence in your spiritual life that you cannot get at an altar call or a prophetic word. It comes from the inside, and it says, I believe it. Cause I've lived it out. So that is, I do boundary. I mean, I do hard things. And then lastly, I do boundaries. This is my brand new one. Did anybody go through the I do boundaries? I don't know if you did, but we had about 25,000 people around the world that did this. I see your hand that did this in January. And this is about boundaries. I know that boundaries is a sexy word right now in culture, but how many of you know there's a difference between boundaries and biblical boundaries? And it's not just a no, right? My name is no. My number is no, right? It's not no. It is actually about protecting the thing that matters most to God. And so biblical boundaries are less about the no and more about the yes. What are you saying yes to? That allows you to live out your abundant life. And so that's that. And then lastly, gosh, I need to hurry up. This is called Leap Into Love. A living present to your purpose on the planet. And this was. It should have been titled Radical Love and Self Acceptance. It's a lot like what Pastor Hope talked about last night. But here's what it was. As I realized God had given me this thought that if I look in the mirror and I hate what I see, or I'm disappointed, or I feel like I'm flawed, but then I look at the Creator, God who made that, and say, you can have my life. I believe you. I trust you. Take everything. There's a disconnect, and it's not true. And so part of us fulfilling the call of God and becoming all we're called to be is not divorcing our body or the way we look or the way we sound or our gender or all the things that God created us to be, but it's actually looking in the mirror and beginning to love the person he created us to be. And then this is important to understand that God knew his kingdom needed to be on the earth and it needed to look like you and sound like you and act like you. The way that you were created was designed by God to show the world what heaven looks like. And so when we all sound alike and talk alike and look alike, it's actually a distortion to what the kingdom of God is meant to look like. God knew your skin color. He knew the size of your hips. He knew if you are rounder, you know, he knows all of those things. Things. I was going to talk about the bra that she talked about last night, but I'm going to leave it alone. He knew that. He knew that I would be short. He knew that I would have a loud voice. He knew that I would be very hairy. I'm Italian. He knew that all of those things. But he also knew that Havilah, how she's created, would be the perfect representation to the message of the gospel through me. This is how he wanted it to look on the earth, and this is how he wants it to look in your world. How you look, how you sound, and everything about you is exactly who God wanted you to be. Because he knew that that's how he would get the kingdom of God on the earth in the full representation. Why do you think the enemy lies so much about the way we look? Could it possibly be that he knew, once we get that out of the way and we begin to actually embrace the way he called us to look and be an experience, that we. That we would be unstoppable and so look in the mirror and say, God, I love it. I'm learning to love it. I'm learning to accept it, because I believe that you do not make mistakes and I trust you. In Jesus name, amen. All right, I'm done. Let's. No, I'm kissing. Okay, let's go. Let's get in our Bibles to the book of Matthew. Oh, is anybody's birthday today? Is anyone's. Is it your birthday? Can you go hand her all of these? Happy birthday. Happy birthday. I love that. Okay, Matthew, chapter 10. I want to say, Pastor Hope, that last night when you were ministering, I began to sense a prophetic word and I wanted to share this with you. The Lord showed me that you were a spiritual bulldozer. And what that meant was that when obstacles came your way, you were able to push through, through those things. And I was googling this term because bulldozer can kind of sound like a critical, like, oh, you're bulldozing people. But that's not what I felt in the spirit. What I felt is it says that you, because of its grace, because of its mobility and capacity, it can go through rough terrain because of its excellence and ground holding capacity, which means it can hold its ground and the wide tracks helps to. To distribute it. And it can go over large areas. And what I felt over you and I Heard this was that the lie. The enemy came to you was. He came to remove hope. And it was. And hopelessness was what your story was. And hopelessness means that life is perpetually bad. And I saw the Holy Spirit say that you began to figure out where hope was found. And you dug deep. And I felt the Lord say that there was something. Something profound that happened. You began to give people permission to be flawed and still be loved. And there was something in your world that people needed that you see. I feel like you had this ability. You couldn't fake it. And there was something in you. It wasn't just a drawing to do something or to go over here, but there was a part of you that required authenticity. And there was something in the mix of your atmosphere that made you shift and go, I can't be. I can't fake this. I don't want to do this. And you've constantly gone after authenticity. And then there was this moment in your life where you came to a crossroads, and you were so like, okay, God, what are you going to do with me? And I saw you. There were two roads, and one was the easy road. One road was the one that everybody would have chose. And you knew, that feels comfortable. That feels like, I could do that. That seems good. And what it was, was. It was road of shame and hiding. But instead, you picked the hard road. And I saw you turn, and you went, I'm gonna do authenticity. I'm gonna do humility. And I'm gonna. I'm gonna choose to rely. And I saw that nobody knew the price you paid because there was something within you that you said, I am. I'm gonna believe that God can turn this around. And there was a. There was such a shift in you and of competence and. And you went from being a little girl that was confused and not sure and insecure to becoming a woman that said, I can do this. And I saw there was an internal confidence instead of an external confidence. And I saw that the road you began to walk, it wasn't a smooth road. In fact, you've had to fight for every step. You've had to fight for every step that you've taken. And nobody will know the price that you paid. Nobody will know the moments that. Where you had tears streaming down your face. And you said, God, I'm gonna do this. And then I saw you. You were like a mama bear. And you just went in, and, I'm gonna take anybody who wants to go with me. And I saw that aggressive part that you talked about with Your kids. I saw it in the spirit. And Pastor Hope, I saw you say, you know what? I don't care if you're not with me. And you think this and you're over here believing this. I don't care. There's too much at stake. And you scooped up the people that wanted to do it with you. And you just. Who said, I'm going to take us this way? And you're. And you. You kind of have this, like, ability to go to battle with people, and you have this supernatural grace. And I felt the Lord say that there's a breakthrough for. There's a breakthrough in the battle. And I felt that. I felt like there's been some years of battle, obviously, things we've talked, but I'm talking about internally there's been a battle. And I saw the Lord say, the moment you went public was the moment. Moment your freedom was there and your grace was there. And I felt like the Lord said that there's people that are going to. Because of your humility and your vulnerability, they are able to live the same story. And you gave courage, handfuls of courage. And I just saw you depositing it in people's lives. And the Lord said, I'm going to remove the residue, the things that the enemy comes and lies and says things. And I saw you. It's not that you would give him a foothold, but you have a tendency to kind of go, yeah, I know that's what it was. And I know I'm pushing through. But I felt the Lord say that he's going to clothe you in a new grace. And I felt like this next season was not going to be as challenging. It wasn't going to be as hard. In fact, you were going to start to get momentum. And I felt the Lord say that this battle is coming to an end. And I don't mean in the church atmosphere, but I'm talking about inside of you, that you were. You're going to know this is what I'm called to do. And there's going to be a fresh grace and a fresh clarity and a fresh resolve, and there's going to be thousands of women that follow you on this journey. And I felt the Holy Spirit tell me to let you know that he's proud of you, that he's seen the sacrifice, that he loves you and that he's gonna help you. And I felt the Lord wanted to come in and infuse your life with grace and strength and to say to you, I am so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. And so I just speak over, just reach out to her for just a minute. This was not my plan, but I feel like God wants to give her this moment. Lord, I thank you for Pastor Hope. I ask Holy Spirit that you would rise up within her and you would remind her that she is blessed and she is covered and she is healed and she is a powerhouse. And I thank you, God, that she has a supernatural bulldozer part that says, I'm not going to let the rough terrain stop me, but because of my wide balance, because I know know what it takes to make to keep going. I just thank you, God, for resilience. I thank you for the resilience of the Holy Spirit that allows her to pop back up when she falls. She pops back up and she pops back up and she keeps walking. And I thank you for the spiritual camouflage that she's living her army and her warring. And I just speak over her destiny and I say, holy Spirit, I ask for a fresh grace this next season. Lord, I know she'll do it, even if it's hard. I know she'll do it even if it takes everything she's got. I know she's not going to stop for where she's going, but I ask for a fresh breath of air, a fresh breath of grace, a fresh breath of anointing to go into this next season. And I thank you, God, for the permission to be flawed and yet holy loved, the permission to be yourself, the permission that you've given other women, thousands of other women, permission to be themselves. And I thank you, God, that there's not going to be a sewed up scar. It's going to be a fresh whole heart. Restoration isn't just a sewed up scar. Restoration is when it's better than it ever was before. And I speak that over you right now. It's better than it ever was before. And I speak life into you. We need your voice. We need your call. We need your grace in Jesus, mighty name. And everybody said amen and amen. I think that there's a tremendous amount of courage that Pastor Hope has to walk through. It takes courage to Pastor. It takes courage to gather hundreds and thousands of women. It takes courage to Pastor in California, can I get an amen? And it takes courage to tell women that they can continue to be themselves and without being able to experience the flaw and yet live it out. And so I'm just really honored to be here and in this atmosphere. Can we pray? Okay. Jesus, help. Amen. I want to look at the book of Matthew for a minute. The Lord dropped this message in my heart this morning, and I hope that it's what you need to hear. I'm praying, God, just give them the word they need to hear. I know you've sacrificed to be here. I know that you're believing God for the prophetic unction. And I can sense the hunger in the room. And I want you to be able to leave with what you came to get. And so I hope that this message serves that ministry and the message that he has for you. But Matthew chapter 10 is a moment in the life of Jesus where it's almost like the moment in the story when the story starts to slow down and the camera zooms into the leading character and he is beginning to talk. And you know that that leading character is gonna die or something is gonna happen, and you can feel it. How many of you love a good movie? I love a good movie. And so it's almost like all of a sudden, they're in this story, and Jesus is beginning to disciple his disciples. So Jesus has had his disciples with him for three years, and he's been doing signs and wonders. He's been healing the sick. He's been casting out demons. He's been feeding the thousands of people. They're watching all of this, and all of a sudden it turns from fish and loaves and a big buffet to, if you're really my disciple, you're gonna drink my blood and you're gonna eat my flesh. And people are like, honey, get the kids. This is getting weird. And so Jesus is beginning to teach. And all of a sudden he gathers his key leaders, which there's only 12 of them, one of which will betray him. How many of you know that there's a point in your life where we're not betrayed by the outside. It's usually portrayed by one person closest to us. And so all of a sudden, he begins to teach them. And what he's doing is he's telling them. It's almost like their leadership lesson that they're going to need because he is going to be crucified, he's going to die, and he's going to go up to the heavens and. And they need to know this. And so he's beginning to give them some clarity. Jesus summoned his 12 disciples and gave them authority and power over unclean spirits to cast them out to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. Let's jump to verse 11. Whatever city or village you enter, ask who in it is worthy who welcomes you and your message and stay at his house until you leave that city. As you go into the house, give it your greeting. That is peace be to this house. If the family living in the house is worthy, welcoming you in your message, give it your blessing of peace. That is a blessing of well being and prosperity and favor of God. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace. Whoever does not welcome you nor listen to your message as you leave that house or city, shake the dust off your feet in contempt. Break all ties. You see, it's interesting that Jesus was teaching them this because as he's sharing this with his disciples, they would have had a historical context that we don't have as believers. You see, when he told them, you're going to go to some places and they're going to love you, they're gonna be like, this message is exactly what we need. This is what we've been waiting for. Come and they're gonna welcome you in and they're gonna love it. And then there's gonna be other places. You're gonna bring the exact same message and the exact same grace and the exact same anointing, and they're gonna reject you and just say, this is wrong, we don't like you. And I love this because Jesus is telling his disciples that some people are gonna like you and some people are going to hate you. And it's not that personal. He's literally telling them, hey, just so you know, some places you're going to go, they're going to roll out the red carpet and they're going to see everything that you've done and they're going to love you and they're going to say, yes. And then there's going to be other places that are going to reject you simply because of the way you look, the way you sound, the message that's in your heart. And he's saying to them, I don't want you to be so distracted by people accepting or rejecting you that you miss the message of the movement. I want you to have a strategy in your life. And he says, I want to teach you a strategy so you can make it through life with people that like you and hate you. And he says, this is the strategy when you go in to that place and they welcome you, bless them, but if they don't like you and they reject you, I want you to shake the dust and keep moving. And what he's saying to them is this. You're going to need a strategy for offense. You're Going to need a strategy for offense, because offense will come and we'll talk about this. But when he tells them to shake the dust, they would have known that when religious leaders would enter into to the Holy Land, they would often literally shake their feet off and they would consider it gentile dirt and it was too unholy for the promised land and they would declare it unworthy. So when Jesus says this in the book of Matthew, they would know, oh, you mean like the religious leaders that come in and they symbolically shake the dust and walk in. You want us to do that when we go in your name? And so he's beginning to teach them what it looks like to be a disciple. Jesus uses something they would understand, but gives it new meaning. What he says to them is this. If you go in my name and they love you, if you go in my name and they hate you, shake the dust because the dust is a distraction to your destiny. The dust is a distraction to your destiny. And if you don't get the dust off of you, you will carry it into the next city. And so what he's telling them is if you don't know how to deal with offense, the next space you go into, the offense will follow you. How many of you have ever seen that happen? With some of us, we think, if I can get into a new marriage, I can get a new job, if I can go to a new church, if I can have a new friend group, if I can. And how many of you have often seen it in friends or in your own life where that problem tends to follow you? And why does the problem follow us? Because we don't know how to rid ourselves of the dust. And I want to teach you today about ridding yourself from the dust and getting on with it. You know, Jesus said so clearly, if you find the godless prayer world hating you, remember it. Got it? Start hating me. If you've lived on the world's terms, the world will love you as their own. But since I picked you to live on God's terms, I know. And no longer on the world's terms, the world is going to hate you. You go, this is not encouraging. Havilah. I don't want to. I don't want to talk about people hating me. But what I want to do is really talk and give the church what Jesus is giving the church, which is strategy to go through hard things with people not accepting and loving and not seeing us. And how do we keep moving? You know, I love what I love the thought that your life is too short, and your calling is too great to live offended. Your life is too short, and your calling is too great to live offended. And so Jesus says to them, you're going to have to deal with the dust. Offense, just according to a basic definition, is an unresolved issue or an ugly conflict with a loved one or a friend. Offense is an unresolved issue or an ugly conflict with a loved one or a friend. And so Jesus says to them, you're going to have to get the dust off of you so that way you can be completely usable in the next season. If you have dust when you go in there, the dust in your life will distract those that need to hear the good message and need to be healed and need to be set free. They're gonna see the dust that's on you, and it's going to discredit the gospel. It's gonna cause there to be conflict. And so he's telling them, you gotta get rid of the dust. Now, I don't know about you, and I don't know how old you are. Some of you like Young Gen Z's or I don't think millennials are fine. But this is something you may have to Google. You may have to go on YouTube to find how many of you are, like, in your 20s right now. Just wave at me for a minute, okay? In your 20s. And how many of you are younger than your 20? Wave at me if you're in your teens. Okay? There's a couple. Okay? So you'll have to Google this, and you'll have to believe us, but we used to have something called a camera and film. Do you remember this now? Camera and film. How many of you remember this? This might surprise you, but we didn't take pictures on our phone. We actually had to have a camera and we had to have film. And we also had to have batteries, remember? Because it didn't matter if you had a camera in film, if you didn't have batteries, you couldn't take a photo, right? And how many of you remember that we would have to go to the drugstore? I still think it's funny. We call the drugstore. We have to go to the drugstore. And we would buy the value pack, which would give us an extra roll of film. How many of you remember that? And then, this is the crazy part, you could take pictures on your camera, but you could never see the photos until you got them developed. How many, right? So we would go. I mean, I'm talking, like, people are like, I'm living A life of faith. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. Faith was having a camera, taking photos, and paying for it before we ever saw it. Like, that is faith right there. Can I get an amen? Right? And then we would have to take the rolls of film. You had to use every single photo on the roll of film to get it developed, right? So how many of you remember you take. This is why we have random photos of our childhood, because our parents were wandering around taking photos to use up the last couple photos so we could get it developed. And then if you had an extra measure of faith, we would purchase doubles. Do you guys remember doubles? That was like, half your paycheck. I'm going to get doubles. And we would take the roll of film. You'll have to Google this. We would take the roll of film, and we would go into the drugstore, and we would have to fill out an envelope for every single roll of film. Do you remember this? So you would take a pack of 10, and then you would write, sign your name, and it would take you about 48 minutes to write it out, and you'd put it in. And then you would try not to make eye contact with the person that was going to take your camera, your film, because you didn't know what was on there. And so you're hoping they don't remember you. Do you remember that? You're like, somebody could have taken the camera into the bathroom, and I don't really know, and then they're gonna think I'm a pervert. And so I just need to keep. Right? And then we wouldn't get the camera. We wouldn't get the film or pictures for, like, a week. Do you remember this? And we would put it on our calendar. Like, we get to pick up the photos on Thursday. And it was like, it was so exciting, right? And we would fight over who got to pick up the film because it was like, it would be, like, know a year ago when we don't even. This is why we would. We would take photos as families. I don't remember this. We would take, like, 16 photos of the same pose because we didn't know if everybody was smiling. And so we had to just be like, keep smiling. Keep smiling. And we would have, like, eight, you know, 74 photos of the same thing because Aunt Bertha couldn't get her face right. And we would go through that, right? And then we would double that. So we had spent hundreds of dollars. And if we got two or even three photos out of the roll, we were like, success. And it was a success, a complete success. We would, you know, people would say, I get your doubles. And you'd say, I'm sorry, they already promised to somebody else. And this is why we have no documentation of our childhood. Because nobody either. Mom. My mom would never pay for doubles. And it's just what it was, right? Well, a couple. I mean, many, many years ago, when I was in my early 20s, I got invited to go on a missions trip, trip to China and Tibet. It was a big deal. It was epic. I saved up all my money for years and years, and I decided that I was going to take my camera and I was going to bring film with me to take photos of this event. It was two weeks, and I brought 14 rolls of film. Like, this is. I was ready. And I took photos of us riding yaks and drinking yak milk and being in Lhasa, Tibet. I mean, every epic moment of the trip, I took photo after photo. And then I got home and I remember I had to use half of my paycheck to develop them. And I got doubles because I thought, this is going to be a big deal. And so I do the doubles. I put it in. I'm excited. I run to the drugstore, I grab all of my film, and I run to my car. And you guys know how you just used to just open it up and dump it into the seat next to you, like, just going through it all. And I open up the first photo and it's got this white spot and then this kind of, like, beams, and I'm like, is this an angelic visitation? Like, what's happening? And then I go to the next one, and I go to the next one. All 14 rolls of film were completely destroyed. Could not see anything. I have no. I have nothing documenting that trip in my life because some dust had gotten into the lens of the camera. And everywhere I went to take the pictures, that dust had distorted the view. And so I could not see anything that happened in that season. When we allow offense dust to get into the lens of our life, it doesn't matter how good God is. It doesn't matter how gracious. It doesn't matter what he's providing or who's in your life. When you get dust in your lens, all you can see is the dust. And we begin to miss what God is doing because we're so fixated on that one thing. And I don't know, I'm sure this happens to you, but I will travel. I get to travel, travel all the time. We Travel, you know, multiple times a month when it's not Covid, and I get to meet people all over the world, and it happens consistently. I will be praying for somebody, and they will walk up to me and they will say, can I tell you a story of I need what I need prayer for? And I'll say, okay, yeah, tell me. And so they'll tell me, well, this happened. And then he left me, and I've got the kids, and I just need to pray. And I feel like, you know, he, you know, should fix this. And I'm just trying to get over it. And then I will, without a doubt, I will say, when did this happen? 10 years ago. 10 years ago? Oh, it was 10. Oh, he's married. He has kids now. But, you know, and I will say we. And in my mind, without knowing, I would think it happened yesterday, because everything is whole. I mean, you can feel the pain. You can see the tears. You can. You literally are like, this just happened. But that's what offense does. Offense traps us in a moment, and we can't move on unless we cleanse the lens. There's no way. And what Jesus knew when he was telling his disciples is if you don't cleanse your lens and make sure it's pure, you will miss what God has for you. And you'll be so busy telling people what the dust is and why it's there, you'll miss the cleanse, clear perspective and the call that God has and the clarity that he wants to show you. Some of you are so distracted by the dust of the political atmosphere, you cannot see what God is doing. Some of us are so distracted by the vaccine that we cannot see what God is doing. We're like, you're either for us or against us. You're either with us or you're not. I'm just saying, possibly. Could the enemy be using these things? Not that we have to be, just not that we dismiss them. We're not delusional. We're going to look at these things. I'm not asking us to be like, it's not real. It's. No, no, it's true. But my question is, just because it's a fact doesn't mean that it's not the biggest truth we need to look at. And as spiritual women look at me for just a minute, I want to remind you, you are in the world, but you are not of the world. You are in the world, but you are not of the world. God wants to give you supernatural vision to see past. Come on, to see past what the earth is telling you and the limitations and the breakdown and the fear and the anxiety and all of this, all of the what ifs and the could haves and is it going to be this way and is it going to be that way? And I'm saying, get your eyes off the dust. The dust is a destroyer, distraction to your destiny. I mean, look at me for a minute. The dust, the dust in your home, the dust in your marriage, the dust in your church, the dust in your culture, the dust, come on in your family, the dust in your, if your co workers, the dust. And all of that is distracting us. So we don't know what God is doing because we're so busy trying to clean our lens or trying to tell somebody, but I have dust. Everyone's like, yeah, me too. The dust is a distraction to your destiny. And your life is too short and your calling is too great to live offended. So he tells the disciples, shake the dust. When he says shake the dust, it means to literally shake it so that the thing that tried to hold onto you cannot hold on you anymore. The way that I see it, I had four kids in five years. I had four boys in five years. I had four C sections in five years. So I win. No, I'm kidding. But. And it, without a doubt, we would give my kids spaghetti. And you, if anybody had a toddler, I bet you guys did this. How many of you, when you gave your kids spaghetti or something with red sauce, you would strip them down to their diaper and you'd throw them in to the seat. How many of you did that, right? It'd be like, why are you getting, why are they getting naked? They're going to eat spaghetti. It's just what it's going to be, right? And when they, I had my first child, it was like very like, I'd make sure the temperature was good. And then I would slowly put a warm bath with bubbles and I'd put them in and wash them. By the fourth kid, I'd take them outside and hose them off. Like, sorry, you should have been born first. Right? But how many of you know when they would eat all that food, you would walk by them and they would try to reach out for you and you'd be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Right? Mommy doesn't love you that much. That's what a fence does in our lives, you guys. We could be, we're going through our life and a fence is constantly trying to pull you in, to grab you, to connect with You. I remember one time I took a job, and the person who had had the job before me had left in a very kind of a. Had resigned and left. I knew it was an ugly story, but to be honest, I didn't know the story. And so that person called me and said, if you ever want to know the real story, or she said, let me have a meeting with you. So we had coffee together, and she kind of, you know, skirted around what had happened, and. And then she said to me, if you ever want to know the whole story, here's my card. Call me, and we can have lunch. And when she walked out of the office, I took the card and I walked over to the trash can and I threw it away. Why? Because I am already dealing with my own dust. I don't need yours. And for some of you, you're busy trying to deal with other people's dust, and you don't know why. You're exhausted. Exhausted and overwhelmed and having a hard time. And I'm saying, because you only have grace to deal with your dust. And when you try to take on everybody else's dust, you end up being overwhelmed, overworked, over concerned, and we miss the reality that we cannot afford. I cannot afford to have the dust of broken, offensive relationships that you have in my life. I'm already trying to keep my lens clean, and that takes a lot of effort. Can I get an amen? I don't know if it's just easy for you, but everywhere I look, I want to be offended. I can be offended. I've got some good evidence to be offended. How many of you know that in the court of law, the offense that you have faced is absolutely true? It wasn't like Jesus said, well, they didn't really reject you. You're just being extra sensitive. They didn't really not receive you like, you guys toughen up. No, he's like, they hated you for no reason. They don't like you. You did it all the right reasons. You tried with everything you had to do the right thing, and they still despised you. So you're gonna have to get the dust off your lens, because there's a greater calling in your life than you sitting and looking at the dust. Jesus said so clearly to his disciples, it is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come. Why does he say that? He says it is impossible for you not to experience dust. I always say, if you have not been hurt by someone this year, stand up. We want to beat you up. Let's just get it done with. I don't know anybody who hasn't been hurt this year by something or someone. But Jesus says it's one thing to have dust thrown at you, it's another thing for you to be throwing dust at, at people. And so he says this. It is impossible that offenses should come. When you look at the amplified version, it says, stumbling blocks, temptations and traps set to lure one into sin are sure to come. But woe judgment is coming through whom they come. Stumbling blocks, temptations and traps set to lure one into sin. Now why is that important? You know, I went to. I grew up in South Lake Tahoe, but I went to high school in la, Pasadena area. And we lived up by the mountains. And amazingly enough, we had possums in la. You guys know what possums are, right? Like, how do we know the devil is real possums? Okay, so we called them out to come and gather the possums. We had these Humane Society. And you know, in California, they have like velvet colored, you know, velvet covered cages and, and they ship them to exotic, exotic islands. I'm kidding. But California is crazy. It's not like Texas where they take them out back and shoot them, but they take, basically they take them and they would come and collect them. Well, we ended up having like seven possums. And so I was watching him put the trap out one day and I said, so how does this work? And he goes, well, you put the little food here and then the animal smells it and he wanders in. And when he wanders in, his body triggers the lever and it shuts him in it and he's stuck. And this is what the Bible is saying. He's saying there are things that you have gone through or will go through that are baiting you and they're trying to get you to get stuck in a moment. And so this is why 10 years, 15 years later, we're still, still in that moment. And how many of you know, even psychologically, if you do a study, you'll find that when people haven't been healed from situations, when they bring it up, it does feel like it was today. They're not being dramatic. Your whole body, your physical part, experiences the pain like it happened yesterday, even if it was 20 years ago. Because your brain doesn't know the difference, it just knows that it's real. And so what the Bible is saying is if you don't see offense and pain as a trigger to the trap, then you will get stuck in moments and you will Miss everything God has because you're sitting in the moment of the trap. What is God trying to do today? He's trying to come and open up the trap doors to let us walk out and say, you know what, honey? That you don't need to be there anymore. You don't need to get stuck there. You're not going to get trapped there. This isn't where you're going to land in your marriage and your home and your faith. This isn't where you're going to land. You see, I believe there are things that happened in 2020 and 2021 that have tried to adhere themselves to you. They've tried to hurt you. And the Bible says in Ephesians 4, 27, it says, and do not give the devil an opportunity to lead you into sin. And then it tells you the four ways we get led into sin. You ready? By holding a grudge, by nurturing anger, by harboring resentment, or by cultivating bitterness. It's pretty clear. He says, listen, the way the enemy is going to attack you is not going to be what you think. It's going to be the dust in your life. And he's saying, you're going to have to clean it up. So why? How do we clean it up? How do we deal with offense? Well, we have to shake it off. We have to call it what it is. We have to be honest with ourselves. And sometimes we're gonna have to shake it and shake it and shake it until it finally falls off. And so for some of you, you may say, havilah, I have shook and I have shook and shook and shook and shook. And I'm telling you, there's going to be a moment in your heart, heart and mind where you shake it so much that eventually it lets go. It has no power. And what I'm trying to tell you is that Jesus was giving his disciples, which is who you are. You're his disciples. He was giving you and I permission to shake the dust. That we don't need to heal them. We don't need to help them. We don't need to set them free. We don't need to keep coming back. We don't need to convince them. We don't need to show them that our motives are pure and that they should believe us and give me another chance. And I'm sure that they just misunderstood. No, some of them, they hate you. And you're wasting all of your energy on the people that hate you rather than focusing on those that love you. And I know that because I'm a woman. And there's something in all of us that wants to save people from a painful experience. There's something in all of us that wants to make it right. And I'm saying, Jesus is saying to them, you don't have to make it right. Shake it off, do the work and keep going. It is a distraction to your destiny. If the enemy can get you to pause, stop, wait around for it to get fixed, you're not going to be able to do what God's called you to do. There are people that are offended at me today, and I still sleep wonderfully, and I still love my family. And some of the things they've said are painful and hurt. I remember one time, well, I won't even go there. I'll just leave it alone. But I have had pain. And the truth is, we just have to keep going. Keep going. I want to share this story with you as I close. So for many of us, I think in the church, we have a lot of pain because we've misunderstood some of what matters to God and why it's important to him. So if you guys know me, I have four boys. And a couple years ago, we told our boys that we would take them to Disneyland. And you guys know you can drive from here to Disneyland. Took about 8 hours from where we lived, and we got really excited about it. So we had our two eldest, our two older boys, which was Hudson at that age, and Jude was a little older, like 6 and 7. We told them that they could earn some money for Disneyland if they did some chores around the house. How many of you love to get your kids to work in Jesus name? Yes. Okay. So I'm like, okay. And so my eldest son, his love language, you know, the five love languages. His is money. And so he's like, I'm in. I'm in. So Judah goes in and he's like. I said, you have to empty the dishwasher and you have to clean the windows, and I'll give you a dollar for each thing that you complete. I definitely should have said a quarter, but I said a dollar. And so he's beginning to work. My other son, Hudson, is like, could care less. How many of you are a firstborn in the room. You're a firstborn. See, firstborns keep us together. You're the one on time. You probably drove here. You're the one taking notes, right? Firstborns make everybody work. Like, that's just how it is. How many of you know you're a firstborn? You're responsible for everybody. That's how firstborns live. How many of you are middle children? Wave at me. If you're a middle child, you're probably on your phone. You probably don't have even know what's happening. You don't know how you got here. You're just living your best life and you're a middle child. Well, my middle child was like, I'm not working. I'm going to Disneyland anyway. I don't need money. Like that's how he was living. And so Judah begins to work, and he works and works and works. And he makes $14, which is a lot of money for a seven year old. So he comes in and he's like, can you buy me a wallet? And I go, yeah, I can buy you a wallet. And I put it in and. And then we get all packed up to go. Now, mind you, that's four kids in car seats and booster seats and it's packed. And we look like we're moving. It's just huge, you know, packed up. And we get into the car and we're ready to go. And then we remember that Hudson's birthday is this week and grandma and grandpa had sent him a card. So we send the card down to Hudson. He's in the very back in the third row stadium seating. And so we give it to him and he opens it up. And when he opens it up, he yells out this excitement and it sounds like it's the Price is Right. He's screaming. I look up, he's got a card in one hand and he has a $20 bill in the other hand. And I realized we are rejoicing because we know this is his only birthday gift. So we need to make it a big deal. Do you know what I mean? When you have big families, you make everything. We're like, hey, it's Mother's day and your birthday. Congratulations. Like, we, we always partner things together because it's like we would already be doing it, but every vacation is that kid's birthday vacation because that's how we do it with big families. It's just how it is. So. So Hudson, we're all yelling and he's excited. And then I realized Judah is in the car. And Judah sitting between Beckham and Grayson and in the car seats and his arms are folded and he has these big brown puppy dog eyes and they're half filled with water. And I look over at Judah and I go, judah, does that make you sad? He goes, starts screaming. I'm like, okay, yes, Mystery solved. It does make you sad. So he starts screaming. And so I go into mom mode. Now, anybody who's a mom understands these modes. My first mode is the mother that I want to be. It lasts for about five minutes, but it's the mother that I always want to be, which is, honey, I love you. I know that hurts your heart. Things are going to hurt your heart, and I'm here to help you. And, you know, I just. I love you. We're going to make it through this, right? And usually that doesn't work ever. And so then we go into the next parenting mode, and I call it coach mode, which is, I'm sorry, Life isn't fair. Suck it up. Everybody has to do this, right? It's coach mode. Right? Sorry. Take a lap. That's just what it is. It's how life works. You know, I didn't get to go to Disneyland when I was your age. So, you know. Right? And then that's not working. So I have. Now you gotta suck it up, Judy. You're okay. It's all gonna be fine. And then I go into the third and final parenting mode, which. Which nobody likes to admit, but I call it terrorism. And it's where we begin to yell threats, and we're not going to Disneyland. We are never going to Disneyland. Even when you get married, you're not going to be allowed to go to Disneyland. And you know what? I'm getting out. Honey, unpack the car. It's over. You have ruined this for everybody. Do you know what I mean? You've ruined this for everybody. And I'm saying. And you know what? $14 is only gonna buy a hot dog. So it's not even a big deal, right? And I'm. I'm leaned over in the middle seat, and I am now preaching my best message, right? Of like, you know, this is. You know, we're gonna get out of the car. And I look over my husband's like, I'm going. This took me six hours to pack. Like, I will be happy to let you and Judah out if that's what you want. And as I'm leaning over to Judah, and I am. I'm giving it my all. It's not my brightest, best moment, but I'm in it. I say something, and when I say it, I hear the Holy Spirit say, that's what I'm saying to you. Don't you love it when God does that? When you're very. Not now. Not now. I'm busy taking care of your kid who can't get it together. And so as I'm yelling at him, as I'm yelling, I'm in his face. And I've gone from I love you, you're incredible. To suck it up, buttercup. To, you know what? Your whole life's gonna be a mess. That I say, judah, you are not going to go without. Judah, you are not going to go without sun. Your housing is taken care of, or your car ride. You're gonna get into Disneyland. Like, you're not gonna go without. And as I said it, the Holy Spirit said to me, you act like Judah a lot. I was like, well, what do you, what do you mean? He said, you know, Havilah, most of the faith walk is a 14 day. We give a little, we get a lot. We give a little, we give a lot, right? 14. We get up, we give a little, God gives us. He outgives us every single day. You might go, well, I don't know. Let me ask you, did you get an invoice for the oxygen you're using today? Did you get an invoice? Did you get an invoice for the relationships that you have in your life? Did you get it? I mean, could you imagine if God wanted glory for everything? You look up and it says, this sunset is brought to you by God, you brats. Right? Could you imagine? Or like, every leaf is turned over, made in heaven. Like everything is marked by God. God just freely gives to us. And you are, you know, us. We're like, God, I gave you everything. And he's like, it was like a week that you gave me everything, right? It was a, it was a strong week. Like Pastor Hope was saying, like, I tithe for a week and now my house isn't paid off. So God doesn't love me. And so that's the, that's the dilemma, right? But God always out gives us. We don't deserve what we have. We're using his oxygen. We've got his sunlight. We have our relationships. Most of us can move and walk and have our being in life, and that's a gift. But every once in a while, while someone gets a $20 moment, they didn't earn it, they shouldn't have got it. It's like, you know, how is she getting married? I am cuter than she is. How are they singing? I'm a better singer. I've always been a better singer than them. They're flat, right? How are they getting to be pastors? Like, I, I could be. I could do this so much better. And we watch Somebody, maybe you prayed for a baby. And then someone goes, I didn't even try, just got pregnant. Like, I looked at him and we were pregnant. And you're like, I'm gonna punch you. We've been pleading to God for years and years and years for a baby. And then you just accidentally get pregnant. You just accidentally get married. You just accidentally get a. Get to have the grace, the call. You just accidentally get the favor, really. And I don't know about you, but I wish I was gracious, but I'm not. It makes me think, what am I missing when people get good things? I'm like, what am I missing? And at times I would even demonize them in my heart. Like, well, there's probably a lot going on that we don't know about, right? Well, I'm sure their home life is a mess because, you know, can't have it all. And yet the Holy Spirit was saying to me, havilah, most of your life with me is a $14 day. And every once in a while I give a $20 moment. And the dust that you are facing in your life is that you are devaluing your $14 day because of someone's momentary $20 moment. And he said, if you don't acknowledge that they got it, they didn't earn it, but hey, they got it. And if you don't celebrate with them, then when you have your $20 moment, and you will, nobody will be there to celebrate you. Nobody will be there to acknowledge you. No one will be there to celebrate you. And here's what I think. I think there's a lot of dust that flies around our environments because we don't value our dollar 14 days. We don't value the fact that we give a little. We get a lot. He's always good. We'd rather have one day with him like this than a thousand elsewhere. Like it's worth it. And for some of you right now, the dust has distracted your lens. You cannot see what God is doing. You cannot see what he's healing. You cannot see how he's pouring out his grace and his love and his compassion. You cannot see the call that's on your life. You feel like everything is paused in time. Like, I couldn't date in 2020, and I couldn't get pregnant in 2020, and I couldn't do this. And I'm saying to you right now, God. God wants to give you a breakthrough to get the dust out of your view. I want you to stand with me. Just put your stuff down and Stand for a minute. I believe God wants us to activate this word. Isn't it funny that as we start to talk about offense, all you can think about is someone else? I wish my mom was here. I hope she hears this. And what I want to say is, your life is too short and your calling is too great to live distracted by the dust that the enemy has set up for you to mess with your lens, to take from you. And what I'm asking is that God would be able to go in and take the rag of mercy and grace and love and restoration and healing, and he would dip it in his grace and mercy, and he would wipe our lenses clear that we would begin to see who he is and what he's doing in our life, that we would not look to the left or to the right, but we would see. You know what? My $14 day is a worthy call. 22 years ago, I sat in this room. I was a young woman. I had a lot of fear and anxiety because I didn't have any gifts or graces to offer God. I didn't feel like I had anything to wow him. And I came here to see a man named Tim Story. He was one of my favorites. And while we were here going through the school of miracles, and I'm just soaking it up, he says, does anybody in this room play piano? I think this was Ron Canoli's church. Is that right? Okay, my brain. Okay, I'm catching up. All right. And he said, can anybody play for me? And I raised. I go, I. I play, but I'm not great. Like, I. I'm not. That's not my best strength, but I can. And he goes, come on up here. And so I wandered right here at the age of 19, and I played piano as he ministered prophetically. And people got healed. And I look back at that moment and I realize that God saw this moment 25 years ago. If I had belittled the 14 day, if I had thought that it wasn't worthy and I wasn't that great, and it's. I'm. No one sees me, and I'm invisible. I did not know that God had $20 moments set up for me. But I would not be in the room if I had let that 14 day be discounted and taken away from me. And for some of you, look at me right now, the offense that you are carrying is going to be generational if you don't get rid of it. If you don't deal with your offense toward God, toward man, toward people, if you don't get the edge out of your heart. Then you will pass it on. And you will not be able to set a generation free. You will not be able to get raise kids that are pure at heart. You will not be able to see what God is doing. You will not be a pure vessel for him because you'll be so busy focused on injustice that you won't actually be focused on the gospel. And I want to remind us today that God wants to help you, that you might feel like you're the girl that's messing up the cords, trying to do their best, but God sees the 20 other moments that are coming your way. You don't need to be afraid. You don't need to be afraid. He is not going to withhold from you. You don't need to be afraid. He is not going to withhold from you. He is moving heaven and earth to get to you. So let's pray. Lord Jesus, I thank you today for your grace and love and mercy. I thank you that your presence is in this room right now. I thank you that your grace is here just with every eye closed and every heart just connected for a minute. I want to ask you if you have never given your life to Jesus Christ. Christ, maybe somebody brought you here or somebody. You know, your family's always come, or your aunt brought you here, and you just have never gone public. You've never given your life to Jesus Christ. You've never said, I'm, I'm with him. No turning back. I mean, he's in your car, but he's not driving the car. And you've never said, I am following Jesus. I want to be a follower of Jesus Christ. And you've never publicly done that. And if you were to die tonight, you're not sure you would make it to heaven, and you want to have that secure eternity. If that's you, I want you to wave at me. Raise your hand and wave at me right now. Don't hesitate. Don't stop. You've never done it good. Anybody else good? Anybody else just wave at me right now. You've never done it good. Hands in the back. Anybody else never done it right here? Yep, lots of hands. Never done it before publicly. Never done it before publicly. There it is. There it is. And some of you right now, you would say, you know, Habila, I have been a follower of Jesus, but to be honest, I've lost my faith. Like, I feel like he was leading my life. But the last couple years, even the last year, I've taken back the control. And I. I'm feeling just emotionally and mentally and spiritually bankrupt, and I need to come home. I need to come back and give my whole life to him. If that's you and you would like to return to your faith, raise your hand, say, that's me. I need to do that today. Good hands everywhere. Just raise your hand right now. Yep. Say, that's me. Come on. Don't. Yeah. Don't worry about what people think in the room. They're not going to be with you in eternity. So you do what you need to do right now. Do we have a prayer team here for a minute? I know we're running out of time, but let me just do this. If you raised your hand for any one of those. Those and you're bold enough, will you lift your hand right now and just wave it? Just. Yeah. If you're standing next to them, would you put your hand on their shoulder? If you are standing with them and if you're comfortable doing that, I want you just to put your hand on. We're going to pray for these ones right now. This is where everything changes right now. This is what is matters more than anything else. Eternity. Life in God. Life in the future. Future. And let's just say this out loud as a church, as a statement of faith. Lord Jesus, we confess that we need you. We want you to be Lord and savior of our lives. I confess that without you, I cannot do it. I ask you to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins and purify me. I want to live for you all the days of my life, all the days of my life in Jesus, mighty name. And everybody said amen and amen and amen. Okay, who's got the desk in their lens that you're like, I got to get it out, Hab. I don't know how long it's been there. If that's it, let's just lift our hands. If you're like, I got to get the dust off of it. It's doesn't matter why it's there. You just know it's there. Let's lift our hands. Holy Spirit, I ask sovereign God, that you would come and wipe away every offense, every heartache, every broken relationship that's gotten into the lens of our. Walk into the lens of our future, into the lens of our perspective. And I ask sovereign God that you would bring a breakthrough over every heart and mind. We say no to fear. We say no to anxiety. We say no to the offense that wants to keep us locked in and trapped. And we ask right now for a supernatural breakthrough that our thoughts would be broken through, our heart would be broken through, and that we would be full of fully restored by the power and the authority of Jesus Christ. I want you to say the dust is a distraction to my destiny. I'm gonna shake it off. I'm gonna shake it off right now. Come on. Supernaturally shake it off. This is not going with me into the next city. This is not going with me into the next marriage. This is not going with me to the next generation. This is not going with me to the next church. I'm getting free. Whom the sun sets free is free indeed. Whom the sun sets free. Come on. Is free indeed. Hallelujah. Yes, God. Yes, God. It is not by my and not by power, but by your spirit in Jesus mighty name. And everybody said amen.