From Spiritual Drift to Sacred Rhythm: Rebuilding a Daily Rhythm of Intimacy with God

Have you ever realized days—or even weeks—have gone by without a real moment with God? You love Him deeply, but somehow the noise, the schedules, and the endless to-do lists have drowned out that sacred space you used to protect.

In this episode of The Higher Pursuit Live, Cecily Lachapelle helps you move from spiritual busyness back to sacred stillness—rebuilding a daily rhythm of intimacy with God through the Word and the Spirit.

You’ll discover how to create sacred space in the middle of real life, combine the power of Scripture with the presence of the Holy Spirit, and experience renewed confidence in prayer. Cecily also shares from her personal “Tabernacle Time” and gives practical ways to reconnect with the Father without guilt or striving.

This message is for anyone who’s felt spiritually dry, distracted, or distant—and is ready to return to the well of living water.

Stay rooted. Stay faithful. Keep pursuing Him—because the Higher Pursuit always leads to Him.

📖 Scripture Focus:

• John 4 — Worship in Spirit and Truth
• Psalm 46:10 — Be still, and know that I am God.
• Matthew 6:6 — The Secret Place
• John 15:4 — Abide in the Vine

🕊️ Notable Quotes from Cecily:

• “You decide first, and grace follows.”
• “When the Word and the Spirit flow together, everything changes.”
• “Our sacred space isn’t about perfection—it’s about presence.”
• “God didn’t save us just to make us soldiers. He restored us to intimacy, awe, and delight.”

🎧 Next Episode Teaser:

Join Cecily next week for How to Hear God’s Voice—a deep, practical look at how God speaks to His people and how to respond when He does.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Sacred Space
• 2:18 Challenges in Creating Sacred Space
• 7:30 The Importance of Word and Spirit
• 14:28 Personal Testimonies and Experiences
• 20:23 Practical Steps for Tabernacle Time
• 28:21 Intimacy with God in Everyday Life
• 37:21 Closing Prayer and Encouragement

Transcript

Cecily Lachapelle (01:03.266)
Hey everybody, I'm so glad that you are here, that you have joined me on the live stream. But first I gotta ask you, have you ever looked up and realized that days, maybe weeks have gone by without a real moment with God? If you love him deeply, but somehow the noise, the schedules and the endless to-do lists have drowned out that sacred space you used to protect. If that's you, just type.

That's me in the chat or drop a heart in the comments if because you're not alone Tonight we are going to rebuild that sacred space together and hey dawn It's so good to see you driving home from the gym. Awesome way to be about it sister. That is so good It's so proud of you. That's awesome. All right. Well, let's see who else is here where people are joining I love seeing people coming in

Tell me where you're joining from. see a bunch of you on, so tell me where you are coming from, where you're joining us from. All right, well guys, in case you don't know who I am and where you have landed on this live stream, I'm Cecily LaChapelle and welcome to the Higher Pursuit live stream. It's a live stream for people who are on a higher pursuit of Jesus in their everyday lives. there's John LaChapelle. He's watching from his garage, my garage.

But maybe you're new to your walk with the Lord and you're looking for content that will educate and inspire you. Then you're in the right place. Or maybe like many people on this live stream, you've been walking with the Lord for years and you're looking for content that will challenge you, mentor you, come alongside and coach you. You're also in the right place. Or maybe you're a seeker. Maybe you're someone who's wondering who Jesus is.

and how some guy dying on a cross 2,000 years ago has anything to do with you. I get that. Man, I was there. No matter where you are or where you feel you are in your pursuit of Jesus, I'm super glad you're here tonight. So we've got Whitney Murphy watching with your mom. Hey, mom, good to see you. Good to see you, mom. I'm so glad that you guys are with us tonight. That's excellent. Excellent. Well, let's start by getting real for a second.

Cecily Lachapelle (03:22.09)
What has been the hardest part about sacred space for you lately? Has it been finding time in your busy schedule? I know so many people I talk to say life has just ramped up. Now the kids are back in school or there are things that work have gotten super busy or is it staying focused when you get into that sacred place with the Lord? Your mind is just bouncing all over the place. I know I fall prey to that all the time.

Or maybe it's just feeling connected once you're there. It can be a tough challenge. So tell me which one you guys are struggling with tonight. Is it finding time, staying focused, or feeling connected? And as you're typing, I just wanna quickly share two things from last week that tie into this conversation. Dawn, your daughter, Jayden, is with you. That is so great. Hey, Jayden, good to see you.

All right, so last week we talked about prioritizing sacred space and I shared how I had to start waking up at 430 in the morning to reclaim that time with God. It was during the season where I had started working at Starbucks and had to be at work at quarter of seven in the morning. And so my Bible time just got sucked into work, but I had to begin to expand my day. So I talked about how that wasn't easy.

But the moment I made that decision, the grace was there. We have to decide first and then grace follows. Have you ever experienced that where you made a decision and then God met you right there? Tell me about it in the comments. I'd love to know. And at some time when you have experienced God after you made the decision and then he met you there.

Awesome. So Stephanie Hall says her challenge is finding time and staying focused. Girl, you have young kids. I get that. I totally understand that. And every season it has its challenges, doesn't it? Whether we have a toddler or we have high school kids or whether our kids are out of the house, life is just demanding and it can be hard to find sacred space. It can be hard to keep our attention focused in that place.

Cecily Lachapelle (05:48.116)
So then that brings me back to another thing that we talked about is consistency. Last week we talked about that and how I said it's not about perfection, but it's about showing up. When we act, grace flows. So I read a really cool post today by a friend of mine, Eric Fredrickson. He's host of Recovering Reality. He is a sober coach and a mentor. He's a speaker. He's a minister. And so his posts are

are always awesome. But today's was really cool because he shared that neuroscience has proven that motivation doesn't come before action. Put your hand up in the chat if you knew that before I said it, because I didn't know this. Apparently, when we act, dopamine is released in our brain and then we feel motivation. I mean, for me, that's a huge aha moment because

I don't know about you, but a lot of times I am waiting for the motivation before I do something, especially when it comes to spending time with the Lord. I mean, we get a regular dopamine hit every time we do an action, every time we can check something off our list. Let's just say you go and unload your dishwasher. You get a little mini dopamine hit. And for someone with ADD like me,

Those dopamine hits are necessary for my brain. So I will often do the thing I can get the quick dopamine hit from like folding laundry, check done. Unload the dishwasher, check done. But going into the presence of the Lord, I don't always feel that dopamine hit until I'm there. And that makes all the difference. Knowing that neuroscience proves that I'm not crazy, that's awesome. So on a scale of one to 10,

How would you rate your motivation to engage in creating a sacred space with the Lord consistently? So on a scale one to 10, how are you going to rate your motivation to create this as a daily habit? Put that in the chat. Let me see where you're at. And while you're typing in your numbers, what we're here talking about tonight is something that every believer feels at times.

Cecily Lachapelle (08:15.114)
Often we feel the desire to go deeper, but not knowing how. We want more of the Lord. We want more connection with the Lord. We know there's more, but we're just not really sure what to do or how to get there. And then sometimes the demands of life are so intense that we really struggle to feel motivated.

do something where we don't feel necessarily always see a payoff right away. So that's what we're talking about tonight. We're talking about creating times of communion with God, spirit to spirit. Because as I said last week, it's critical that we spend time in the Bible devoting ourselves to the study of the Word because that's God's Word. It's the truth. But then we also

need to have time to worship, to pray, to intercede, to listen to the Father's voice and commune with Him Spirit to Spirit. We have to have the Word and the Spirit because He designed us to be able to commune with Him Spirit to Spirit. Our true life comes from Him. So if we don't connect to the life source for our spirit, then our spirit man is going to become weak and

impotent, we're going to feel like that raisin that I talked about last week. Remember last week when I said, if you are not communing with the Lord, if you're not taking time for sacred space, then you don't know who you are. And what I mean by that is oftentimes we feel like we are a soul with a spirit, but we forget that we are actually a spirit.

with the soul. So when we are not living our life spirit first, then we're walking out the door being led by our soul. And I don't think any of us want that. So in order to live from the spirit, to be empowered by the spirit, we need both the word and commune with the spirit. The word is our bread and communing with the Holy Spirit is where we get that fresh oil.

Cecily Lachapelle (10:39.8)
And that makes me think about when Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well. How many of you know the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well? Just put a little hands up emoji in the chat. Linda Sullivan, she's in her living room. Awesome. So good to see you. You probably got that new puppy with you. That's awesome. So when Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well, they dialogued about a lot of things, but the part that

pertains to our conversation tonight is that she was going back and forth with him about her beliefs and her understanding, her religious understanding. And Jesus, she said to Jesus, you know, I know that our people say we're supposed to worship at this mountain, which was Mount Gerizim, but you Jews say that you can only worship God in Jerusalem. And Jesus was like, time out. The point is God is looking for those who will worship him in spirit.

and in truth. And that's what we have to learn how to do to take time not to just study our Bible. That's wonderful. That's the truth part. We have to have that. But also to be worshiping the Lord Spirit to Spirit. So what did that look like when the word and the spirit combine in a believer's life? When a believer has taken time to put a reservoir of God's word

and God's anointing on the inside. I don't know about you, but I can only just give you some examples from my life of, I see those two things so critically intertwined. For instance, every Sunday at church, I pray for people at the altar. And when people come forward to the altar for prayer, maybe they need healing for their body. Maybe there is an emotional struggle.

maybe there is a breakthrough that they need. Maybe they just need someone to agree with them in prayer about something. And what I'm not, I don't know what people are gonna come forward for. So when they come up for prayer, I need the Holy Spirit to dig down into the reservoir of the scripture and the word that I have put in my heart. And as I pray over them and I'm praying using scripture, it builds their faith.

Cecily Lachapelle (13:04.704)
It builds, can see it do that work on the inside of them. It builds their faith to see what God's will is. They might've known that it's God's will to heal them, but when they hear scripture after scripture after scripture come out of my mouth in prayer, it's framing out God's full desire. Not to mention the fact that the word of God is anointed. It is sharper than any two-edged sword. It is also anointed.

to tear down every stronghold and break every yoke of bondage. So when we have the word planted deeply in our heart and we can use it in prayer, then we are mighty. The word of God is mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. So that's how I see the word of the spirit coming together because I need the Holy Spirit. I need the communion, the ability to hear the voice of the Lord as he's guiding me saying, pray this.

pray that. But if I don't have the word planted in me as a reservoir, what is the Holy Spirit going to pull on? The same thing goes for when I prophesy over people. I might look at a person and know God's heart and know what the Lord wants to do in that person's heart. But I also need to be able to line it up to the word of God, because if I can't find scripture and verse for what I think I'm hearing, I have to keep my mouth shut.

because God isn't ever going to contradict His word. And I need to know in my heart that I have chapter and verse for the every single thing that I'm going to prophesy over a person. The same thing goes for my teaching. If I'm going to speak a message, generally it comes up out of my spirit. go through something, I'll have the victory, I'll gain some ground somewhere. And then a number of months goes by and the spirit says, okay, now.

Now teach it to the people. You're ready, they're ready. But it still has to be lined up and backed up by the word. I have to have both. I have to have the scripture and the spirit working as I teach. And the same thing with prayer and intercession. I think we've all probably experienced a time when you're praying for someone and the

Cecily Lachapelle (15:29.986)
scripture starts coming up on the inside of you and it gives you confidence to pray when you know, I'm praying the word of God. I know that I'm praying in accordance to God's will. So when the word and the spirit flow together, it changes everything. So now I want to ask you, how have you seen that in your life? Tell me.

how you have seen the word and the spirit like move together and work together in your own life. Put it in the chat. Have you seen it in times of prayer? Have you seen it as you have taught? Have you seen it as you have had a conversation with a family member and the spirit is prompting you on things to say to a family member and you see the chains start to break or a conversation.

with a coworker, how have you seen that happen in your own life? And speaking of confidence and prayer, I just wanted to share a quick testimony of something that happened to me the other day. And I want to share it because I know that it's going to bless somebody who's watching this. I've been praying for someone for years, someone that I love very much. And

Recently, my intercession has felt urgent, sort of like we're in a season when it's time for things to change. And not urgent in a negative way, urgent in a good way. Like it's time for the new birth to come forth. And just like a woman in labor, when she gets to that place in transition where the contractions are more intense,

and they're closer together. That's how I had felt in this season of prayer and intercession. And I felt things shift, like we are closer than ever to breakthrough. awesome. Linda, you say you felt that in times of prayer, in conversations and in Sozo. Yeah, that's so good. I can totally see how you would feel in Sozo. So Sozo for anybody who doesn't know, it's a prayer transformation ministry where Sozo ministers.

Cecily Lachapelle (17:55.666)
help a sozo client, sozo means saved, healed and delivered in Greek, by the way. And they help the client hear the voice of God for themselves. And the Lord brings massive healing in a way that no counseling or somebody just speaking from the outside can do. It's amazing. But you yourself have to be able to hear the Holy Spirit in those situations. So I can totally see it's a great answer, Linda. Thank you for sharing that.

So in my story, like I said, things have been getting closer than ever to breakthrough. And then I got two really bad reports. I got a couple of text messages and I saw some posts that were beyond discouraging. It just actually dropped me to my knees. And the other night I just knelt by my bed and I just sobbed and my husband

I mean, like, there's nothing he could say, just, you know, nicely just rub my back. But the sobbing, it was like I had this division between soul and spirit in that moment because my emotions were in the blender. My emotions were grieving. My emotions were disappointed. My emotions were discouraged. My emotions were saying, I'm tired. I'm ready for this to happen. Like when, God, when? But my spirit

rose up and spoke out of my mouth. And that was the cool thing. Out of my mouth I said, Lord, I trust you. Lord, I trust you. Just give me the grace to hang on. But I trust you. I know what you've shown me and I'm not going to allow this negative report to steal the faith, to steal the vision that you've given me in my heart. That kind of confidence only comes from time spent in his presence.

In times past, I would have let my soul speak. I would have let my soul have its venting way of saying, you know, when you pray, cry, or you cry, pray, it's not really praying. It's complaining. It's whining. It's saying, you know, God, why is this happening to me? And what's happening? You know, it's, it's just, it's, that's when our soul is talking.

Cecily Lachapelle (20:23.42)
But in that moment, when it was my spirit that was able to jump over my soul, because my spirit has had so much time in prayer with the Lord, speaking the word over the situation, I could not be pulled out. There was no way I had become so entwined in God's word and God's will in this situation that

These two negative reports could not pull me out of that place. And I just wanted to share that with you in case you are in a situation where you feel like you keep slipping into the soul and your soul is having an emotional moment. It's feeling the feels. But you want your spirit to be in ascendancy. Your spirit is confident in the Lord. Your spirit knows the word. Your spirit is strong in the Lord.

and you want your spirit to be the one that speaks. So maybe you've had a moment like that. Have you had a moment when your history with God is what held you together? Put it in the chat. Let me hear. Stephanie says that nightly Bible readings with her husband, that's when you're feeling that alignment of the word and the spirit. That is awesome. I love that.

So again, put it in the chat if you've had a moment where your history with God has held you together when you needed it the most. I know some of you on this chat, I know it applies to some of you, totally, you have. So moving on while you're typing, many of you have heard about what I call my tabernacle time. And that's the name that I gave to my sacred space.

because of a word that God dropped in my heart in January, 2022. John LaChapelle says, definitely many moments. That is for sure. You've walked me through a lot of them. So sometimes people ask me what my tabernacle time looks like because maybe they feel stuck when they're trying to commune with God or maybe they're just not sure what to do.

Cecily Lachapelle (22:45.212)
When they go into a sacred space where they're trying to commune with the Lord, they want to have intimacy with God. I mean, admittedly, it's hard. I get it. He's invisible. Into the naked ear, he's silent. So one day when I was having trouble pressing in, I created a document that I put together for myself as a reminder of all the activities that I can do in my tabernacle time.

So if I'm ever stuck or feeling like I'm just going through the motions, I change it up. Let's see. Tom Hall said, I love when he turns mountains into mole hills, finances felt hopeless, and now there's speed bumps. Yes. That is so awesome. That is so awesome. And yes, your history with God held you in your faith until you could get to this point, Tom, to see what is happening.

in your life, how God is just taking care of you and your family. I love that. Oh, and Stephanie says health scares with my kiddos. Yes, because when you have a health scare with a child and you, if you have the word on the inside of you, you know where to turn. You know how to hand your child over to the Lord and say, you're the healer. We've got your word. We're going to stand on your word. And it's amazing.

Also, mamas, watching you hand that faith down to your children as an inheritance. That's so stupendous because when you stand on your faith, those little eyes are watching. And man, it is incredible. The faith of a child. I love that. So I'm just going to quickly run through some of the things that I have on that checklist in case you're wondering what are some of the things you can do when you go into

your secret place, your sacred space, your tabernacle time, whatever you want to call it. That time where you want to come face to face with the living God, spirit to spirit. So for me, the first thing on my list is communion and repentance because it's just my first approach to the Lord. When I'm taking communion, I'm holding the body and blood of Jesus. I'm not holding a wafer and juice.

Cecily Lachapelle (25:10.928)
In my spirit, in my heart, I am standing in the court of heaven. am standing before the throne of God and I'm holding up the body and blood of Jesus and saying, I plead the blood. I plead the blood. There's no reason why I should be allowed here. Except I have a living advocate. He's standing right there. He ever lives to make intercession for me and advocate for my right and my righteousness.

to be a child of God. And here's the blood. This is the blood of a covenant that will never, ever, ever be replaced. This is the blood that speaks a better word over me than any word curse, any generational curse, any evil altar that would ever speak in my life. So I always start with communion because it's the place where I repent. It's the place where I humble myself. It's the place where I bring everything into alignment.

I know exactly who I am. I know exactly what I'm capable of. And it is not me who stands there. I no longer live, but it is now Christ who lives in me. And so I have every right to come to my Father through the body and blood of Jesus Christ. So I'm just curious, do any of you ever take communion at home? Put it in the chat. Let me know if you do. And...

if it's a regular thing or if you just hadn't thought about it, tell me about your communion practice at home. Most people don't. I didn't realize that I was kind of unique in this regard, but I'm spreading it. I'm spreading it. I want more people to be able to just do this at home. It is a life changer.

So that's one thing on my little checklist. Another thing that I have down is worship. Sometimes I will just say, all right, I've taken communion and now it's time for a praise party. I did that this morning. I put on a playlist all about the name of Jesus and I had a praise party. And as I'm singing the song, some of them I don't know. So I'm just thanking God that the name of Jesus is doing works and wonders.

Cecily Lachapelle (27:32.907)
in everything I'm praying about. When I'm speaking the name of Jesus over my family, I'm speaking the name of Jesus over my husband and his business. I'm speaking the name of Jesus over you, everyone watching this live stream. I just had this praise party. I don't do that every day, but it's on my checklist. It's one of the things I get to do, I can do. And then Thanksgiving. I think Thanksgiving is so important. It's so important. Thanksgiving is humility and God draws close to the humble.

He resists the proud, but he draws near to the humble. So thanksgiving is an important part of drawing near to the Lord. And then I have declarations and intercession. That's on my little list. I'm wondering, do you keep a prayer list or a journal? Do you have a notebook for prophetic words or promises? Because I do. I have a folder and every single prophetic word that I recorded, I type it out.

and I put it in that binder and I highlight certain things about, I highlight my part of that prophetic word, I'll highlight God's part and I review them frequently because I want to make sure I'm on track for doing my part. I know God's on track for his part, but I sometimes can get amnesia and forget what my part is. Oh, I love this. Lots of worship parties in the Hall household.

And Tom said, no communion yet, but we like the idea. That's awesome. That's so good. And then also on my list, my checklist, have supplication. And generally supplication is just me praying in the spirit because when it gets to that place of supplication, I'm so limited in my understanding of what I should go to God about for a circumstance, especially when I'm in supplication for a person. And I just say, Lord,

I just need to pray in tongues right now because you know all, you know your perfect will. So those are bulleted things on my list. So when I get into that place of sacred time with the Lord, if I'm stuck, if I feel like I'm just doing the same thing over and over and listening to the same instrumental worship track and starting to say the same things over and over, it's starting to get like, you know, boring or rote. I'm not focused, I'm not engaged.

Cecily Lachapelle (29:58.647)
I just pull out that bullet sheet and say, okay, so what am I going to do differently today? What haven't I done? What can I really dive in and do right now? So maybe that helps you. Maybe that helps. So guys, I just want to remind us all that God didn't save us to make us soldiers, although we are, or servants, although we are for that too. He restored us to intimacy.

to awe, to delight. Think about it. The God who created the universe. I heard there was a comet that was going over our house last night. I couldn't see it. I was so disappointed. don't know. Tell me in the chat if any of you saw that comet. I guess it was the closest thing to Earth's atmosphere. But even just imagining seeing that comet and thinking God made that and that's like a dust mite.

to God, not even. He's outside of time, he's outside of space, he's the olam ha olam, the everlasting to everlasting. And yet he wants intimate fellowship with us, spirit to spirit, just like Adam and Eve had with him in the garden. And that's what the Garden of Eden was. It was a place of delight, of fellowship, and of partnership.

They still had life to do. Adam had a job. He had things to do. Eve had things to do. But they were doing it in partnership with God. And that's what God wants to do with us. He wants to speak to us. He wants to do life with us. Your everyday life. The changing the diapers, the doing the dishes, the going to your corporate job, the driving around, doing errands. He wants to be in it.

with us and it starts in that sacred space that we create. So when we come into that sacred space, we need to be ready and expecting to hear his voice. We need to be ready to record what we hear. Because if the God who created all things is going to say something,

Cecily Lachapelle (32:28.535)
Don't you think it's worth recording? Isn't it worth writing down?

Isn't it worth being able to refer back to? Because every single thing God has ever said to me in the moment, I questioned it. I thought, am I making this up? I don't know, but I still write it out. And when I go back and I read it, I think, wow, wow, it's incredible. So in next week's live stream, we're actually talk about how you can hear God's voice and what you should do with the things that he says to you.

Linda Nardella, I just figured out how to chat. been listening. work. It's so good to see you, Linda. I'm so glad that you finally figured out how to chat. So great. And you know what, Linda, I might have to have you give some other people a tutorial because I know that there are some people who have been telling me on the text that they can't figure out how to chat either. So maybe we'll just do a little video on that. Well, speaking of journal entries and speaking of things that the Lord has spoken to me.

I today got out that green binder that I have that has all my prophetic words, my declarations, things that God has spoken to me personally that I know are prophetic. And I was just going through it today, not even thinking about tonight's live stream. And two journal entries that I had printed out were sitting right in the top. And when I read them, went, holy moly, this is perfect.

for everybody to hear tonight, because yes, while God spoke this to me months ago, it is so for you right now. So as I'm reading this word, I just want you to hear the Lord speaking to you. And I might have to stop and start, because there are some things that are like kind of specific to my podcasting and stuff that you don't need to worry about. But so here's the first one. You are going to experience.

Cecily Lachapelle (34:31.081)
supernatural connections and communion with me very soon. Do you want to receive that? Take that. I'll say it again. You're going to begin to experience supernatural connections and communion with me very soon. Amen. This morning, you did something important when you focused on me. You know that I need your full attention as you wait on me.

That was the right decision and action. As you continue to prioritize my presence, your works are priming the pump and building up in the heavenlies. Think about that guys. When we are priming a pump, what is happening? We're doing a lot of motion, right? And it seems like the motion, repetitive motion is doing nothing. But is it? no, it's doing everything. It's building up the...

pressure so that there can be what? Flows, a stream of living water. And that's what happens when we make a habit out of coming to the presence of the Lord. Some days it's like fireworks on the 4th of July. Some days it feels like priming a pump. But if we don't stay consistent in our godly habits, then that river can never flow.

So then the Lord goes on to say, am a rewarder of those who diligently seek me, who require me and heartily pursue me. You will not be disappointed. If you want that, take it. Put a hands up emoji or say, that's me, I'm taking it. Let's see, where are we going with this? Okay. You can become saturated with the fragrance of heaven and carry that into your businesses, your family and your marketplace life.

There's no encounter too small that my glory isn't needed and that my presence can't bring purpose, bring the purpose of heaven to. Think about that. Every single person you meet, no matter where you meet them, that is an eternal soul that you're meeting, an eternal soul. So I, I get really kind of caught up with that.

Cecily Lachapelle (36:59.565)
where I realize that God wants and needs me to be connected to Him and to allow Him into every part of my life and to practice His presence so that it's not just 15 minutes on my knees and then I'm out the door and I'm on my own, but it's always constantly reminding myself, okay, where's the Lord in this?

Lord, are you saying something? Would you like to chime in? What do you have to say about this? Being a partner, an actual partner with God, because he might add things to say to the people that I'm meeting. Like he said, no encounter is too small that my glory isn't needed. Let me see, where are we? You want to experience me because you have always longed for more of me. Is that you? Does that describe you? Have you always longed for more of God?

But you've just been thinking, I don't really, I don't know how to do that.

Let me see. desire to reveal the more to you. You will need my presence for the days ahead so that you can impart prophetic wisdom and insight into people who are seeking to understand. Well, if that is you, type that's me in the chat. I really feel like God led me back to that word, not just to encourage me, but to encourage you as well, that he

wants to overwhelm you with supernatural encounters of his presence. Yes, for you, but also for the people that you're going to impact. He wants to fill you to overflowing. He wants to give you that extra supply of oil. But where is that found? That extra supply of oil is found in the secret place behind closed doors.

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where no one is looking, no one is listening, but your Father is waiting. So here's, yay, that's me, fantastic. So here's what I want you to do this week. Choose one small thing that rebuilds your sacred space. One small thing that enlarges that the tent of dwelling with the Lord. Maybe it's five minutes of worship before bed.

Maybe it's taking communion on a Tuesday morning. Start there. And if you're committing to rebuild or to fortify that place of your sacred space this week, type, I'm rebuilding in the chat. Awesome. So good. I see a lot of smiley faces. Terrific. Well, I want to just pray for everyone tonight before we close.

All right, let's just pray. Thank you, Lord. Lord, I thank you for every heart that is turning toward you tonight. I ask you, Lord, to restore that sacred space, fortify that sacred space. Pour out your grace upon us, that we can prime that pump regularly so that the flow of living water

can always be coming up and out of us. That we know that sometimes we might feel all the feels and other times it might seem like we showed up and nothing happened, but that's never the case because time with you Lord is never wasted time. You are a rewarder of those who diligently seek you. Diligently being the key word.

So we declare in the name of Jesus that we are going to be diligent seekers of your face. Yes, we love your word. We will take in your word. We will study your word. And then we're going to believe that your Holy Spirit is going to make that word come alive. The word is the kindling. Your spirit is the match. Let every home become an altar of peace.

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of your presence and of your purpose. Lead us Lord from spiritual busyness back to sacred stillness. Help us rebuild a daily rhythm of intimacy with you through the word and through the spirit in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Well guys, if this encouraged you, I would love it if you would share this live stream with someone who is hungry for more of God and

I really would love it if you would join me next week as we talk about how to hear God's voice. So until next time, stay rooted, stay faithful, and keep pursuing Him because the higher pursuit always leads to Him. May God bless you in your pursuit. Amen.