Divine Alignment: A Ministry Of Life Or Death

Tanya shares a first-time public account of a 4:04 a.m. encounter with God that occurred in December of 2010 and reframed her view of the Holy Spirit, spiritual warfare, and divine alignment. 

Scripture anchors a wake-up call to cruciform living, surrender in our methods and motives for obedience and a life defined by eternity including an exploration of:

• A relationship with the Holy Spirit as one third of God's relational heart
• A warning against altars to control and performance
• A vision of the last days (the hour is late)
• A ministry of life and death based on 2 Cor. 2:14-17
• A supernatural answer to prayer
• Revelation 5 as a lens for urgency and hope

Transcript

Why Share This Story Now

From Traditional To Charismatic

There Is More Than Ritual

Fruits And Gifts Of The Spirit

Healing From Misuse And Hurt

Avoid Building Altars To Control

Cruciformity And Alignment

Descent Into Illness And Loss

The 4:04 A.M. Prayer

Music From Another World

Vision Of The End Times

Scripture: Aroma Of Christ

The Shofar Revelation

Confirmed: Jake Heard It Too

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Hi friends, this is Tanya Gotti, and you're listening to the Unforced Gifts Podcast. Well, happy late February, friends. Um, we've officially made it through the hardest winter months here in the West, and we are eagerly counting down the days till March 21st, which is the inception point of spring for us here in America. I'd like to officially welcome you back to those who have returned for another installment of the Altars of the Heart series. The last episode was really weighty as we explored 1 Samuel 15, but today is going to be a bridge of sorts between a rebellious King Saul's conversation with the prophet Samuel and the next chapter of the story where we see the prophet Samuel anoint a new, unlikely future king of Israel. So today I'll be sharing more on divine alignment and altars of the heart, but in a very different format through a profoundly personal story, and it's one that I have never shared publicly before. This story flows from a very private encounter both my husband and I had with God in December of 2010. And today I'm going to share the details of that account and a life verse that was given to me through that experience right out of 2 Corinthians 14 through 17. Now here's what I want to tell you. If we have waited just over 15 years to talk publicly about this story, you can be sure of one thing. And honestly, in my heart of hearts, this felt like a story that I never had any plans on disclosing for public consumption. And so you may be asking, why share now? Well, very simple. This feels like obedience, and this step of obedience really makes sense for where the state of the world is at the time of this recording. The birth pains of the earth have really increased as we look to the culmination of all things with the return of Christ. And that's definitely not a statement that I would have made 15 years ago. But here we are in 2026. We're not in the world we were in in 2010. And I think you'll agree that the signs of the times all point to a coming king and a coming kingdom and a coming rescue. And so the story we will share with you today will most definitely be in the spirit of preparation for the coming hour. So before I get into the story, I want to start by laying some foundation. It's highly likely those of us here who are listening have varying levels of openness to the more that God offers. And before I get into the story we are sharing today, I want to say that I get that. I understand that. I was actually born and raised in a very traditional Protestant denomination until my dad, the pastor, had an encounter with the Holy Spirit. And that encounter with the Holy Spirit changed the entire trajectory of our church and of our family and our lives. But as a kid who had grown up in a pretty reserved expression of church life up until that point, being catapulted into services where the gifts of the Spirit were on full display, where even demonic deliverance was not uncommon, especially in the Latin culture where witchcraft runs rampant. Transitioning from quiet services to fiery worship and teaching was a huge transition in my life. I can't tell you how often I experienced the Holy Spirit growing up as a heat on my face when I kneeled at the altar or when I led worship or when I prayed. God was real and I knew it in my heart, but I didn't understand it all. My tiny little heart and brain had a lot of questions and even some fears around the supernatural. And so when I left home at 20 to move to Nashville, I began attending a very reserved, highly intellectual, Bible-based community. I loved the teaching, I adored the people, but I did notice that there was less openness to the spirit. I learned to adapt, and in some ways, walking into a service with predictable structure and outcomes gave me a false sense of security. But it wouldn't be long before God began to comfort that. Because in my mid to late 20s, without any solicitation of my own, I began to have prophetic dreams, dreams that foreshadowed coming events that would later take place in real life. Sometimes these things would happen the next day, sometimes they would happen the next month, sometimes it would take years to see them come into fruition. But they always happened. And then strange coincidences, I put coincidences in air quotes, began to unfold. I would change my seat on a flight and sit next to someone with a prophetic gifting who would prophesy over my life and foretell events that would actually come true. I'd travel and be contacted by local prophets who had a word from the Lord for me that always, always materialized down to the very last detail. All of this was happening while I was in a very conservative, reserved, non-charismatic community of faith. It was almost as if the Holy Spirit was saying, there is more. And the same more that I offered the disciples in Acts is the same more that I am offering you. It was almost as if I was beginning to understand that if we ignore the third person of the Trinity, we will inevitably miss one-third of God's relational heart for us as his children. I was beginning to understand Jesus' words in John 16, 7. But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away. For if I do not go away, the helper, the comforter, the advocate, the intercessor, the counselor, the strengthener will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him, the Holy Spirit, to you to be in close fellowship with you. This is a reading from the Amplified Bible, which I love. And so why do I share this? Because there is more. There is more. And the more will always align with God's spirit and God's word. And the more will always push you out of the bondage of a religious spirit that resists a real-time experiential faith, a faith open to the possibility of being surprised by God. See, legalism and rituals without relationship keep us bound to rules, regulations, outward appearance, and a mindset of performance that leads to exhaustion, frustration, and emptiness. Because it's not by might and it's not by power, but it's by the Spirit, says the Lord. And so if we're not careful in our life of faith, we can really end up building an altar to security, an altar to control, instead of remaining open to following the activity of God wherever He leads. And yes, this includes good, sound, biblically centered, spirit-filled discernment. In Tyler Staten's book, The Familiar Stranger, reintroducing the Holy Spirit to those in search of an experiential spirituality, he speaks to this truth when he says, the kingdom of God is not an either-or kind of kingdom, but a both and kind of kingdom, the Bible and the Holy Spirit, thinking and feeling, teaching and experiencing, contemplative and charismatic, biblical exegesis and words of prophecy, preaching the gospel and signs and wonders. A thousand amens to that. A thousand amens to that. Simply put, it is unbiblical to sacrifice one for the other. And he later goes on to say, the scandal of the Holy Spirit isn't power. If there's a creator to be known, power has to be part of the equation. The scandal is the power of God dwelling in and operating through wounded, ordinary people. You know, I heard someone say the other day, the Holy Spirit isn't weird. People are. And if you've been in charismatic circles within your lifetime, I'm sure you've seen people get it wrong a time or two. And this may even be tender for some of you. It may have even affected you personally. And if so, I encourage you to seek healing. I encourage you to forgive. I encourage you to let go and renounce bitterness and resentment and unforgiveness and to give God access to your heart anew so that he can restore it. If that's you, I also want to tell you this: God longs to know you, and God longs for you to know him in his fullness, not a partial knowing, not a two-thirds knowing, but he wants you to see and experience and engage with every part of himself that is available to you, and that is necessary for you to enter into the complete biblical expression of who he is as outlined in the fullness of the pages of the Old and the New Testament. And so, yes, this includes the Holy Spirit, who we don't just see in Acts, by the way, but who is present at the foundation of the world as we know it in Genesis 1:2, and throughout the entirety of the biblical narrative. And yes, this includes the fruit of his spirit that we see in Galatians 5 22 through 23 love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. It also includes the gifts of the Spirit we see in Romans 12, 6 through 8, 1 Corinthians 12, 4 through 11, and in 1 Corinthians 12, 28. The spiritual gifts identified in Romans 12 are prophesying, serving, teaching, encouraging, giving leadership and mercy. In 1 Corinthians 12, 4 through 11, we see the inclusion of the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, healing, miraculous powers, prophecy, distinguishing between spirits, speaking in tongues, and interpretation of tongues. And in 1 Corinthians 12, 28, we see the inclusion of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. That is so much, friends. And imagine what the body of Christ would be without the fruit of the Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit. Imagine. Imagine. The Holy Spirit is not an add-on value proposition to Christianity. The Holy Spirit is essential, He is foundational, He is critical because He is the real-time relational doorway to seeing God's kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven through you and through me. He's the real-time relational doorway of revelation to Jesus. The Holy Spirit is the source of all wisdom and all revelation, and he reminds us of all truth. And we see this in John 14, 26, and these are Jesus' words, but the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. So if you've been hurt by someone who didn't discern Holy Spirit properly, or who didn't interpret Holy Spirit properly, or who didn't represent Holy Spirit properly, I would submit to you that this falls within the realm of man's free will and man's error. And I am praying you would begin to heal from this and also pray for that person who was the conduit for that harm, that God's grace would be given to them to properly discern, to properly receive revelation, and where appropriate, that there would be repentance on their part. I'm praying that they would learn how to operate in health with respect to their gifts and calling. I'm praying that they would learn to discern out of a proper fear of the Lord. But friends, let's not turn our face away from the one Jesus Himself identified as our helper. Because if we turn our hearts away from the helper, we turn our hearts away from the help. And many of us can intellectualize and strategize and plan our way into the next season of life or the next relationship or the next opportunity, but we will end up misaligned with the heart of God. Because why? Because the Holy Spirit knows more than you or I do. And like Saul, if we avoid his voice, if we shut him out, we will end up strategizing our way to building an altar to self instead of an altar to God with our time, our attention, and our intentions. Because it's not just obedience that God asks of us, it's purity in that obedience, it's submission in that obedience. How we respond to his promptings, how we fulfill the Great Commission, and how we complete our yes to God is just as important as our initial willingness to say yes. Because surrender at the start of something needs to continue and run throughout the fulfillment of it, right? So much gets lost in the two M's as I would refer to them. The purity of our motives and the purity of our methods. Why and how we obey God is just as important as our yes. It's worship, it's response, it's relational. So I understand many of you are in different places in terms of alignment. Some of you have heard directly from God Himself about the directional course of your life and the investment of your heart, and you are moving in health with that focus in mind. Others of you find yourself in a place that I would probably call cultural autopilot, right? You're looking at the currency of the culture and accumulating more and more of that type of currency in an effort to manufacture some form of security, identity, and purpose in your life. And then there are some of you who are being prompted into a new kind of awakening. You're being awakened to cruciformity. I was at the Upper Room conference in December when one of the speakers got up on stage and said, cruciformity is for royalty. Think about that in light of Jesus' life. What is cruciformity? It's a death to self, but it is the doorway to becoming like Jesus. And some of you are beginning to understand that there has to be more than the status quo, more than simply a wash, rinse, repeat approach to the condition of your heart, to the condition of your relationship with God, to the condition of your gifts, calling, and future. And if you find yourself in this latter category, frustrated with a cycle that never satisfies, I would submit to you that this is the level of openness and this is the level of hunger that is the prerequisite to discovering the more that God offers and to full alignment with Him. And so this brings us to the story I want to share with you today: a story about how God began to align my heart in a very clear way to four pillars of divine alignment: relational alignment and prayer and scripture, and a yieldedness to his spirit, and in a chosen surrender to pursue becoming like Jesus. The story begins in September of 2010. I had a dinner for the celebration of my second recording. It was an incredible night during which I played new songs and shared my heart in a room entirely packed, full of supporters, friends, and family who were rallying around us in a new season of ministry. There was so much expectancy, there was so much excitement in the room. It was a moment in time. And then the very next day, I fell ill and I went to the doctor and I was diagnosed with mono. I thought it would be a short-lived stint, a blip on the radar. But as the weeks and months passed, this would not be the case. I would actually contract multiple illnesses on top of mono during this time without an immune system that could actually fight them off. And so an ER visit about a month and a half into it would confirm internal bleeding and complications that made normal life almost entirely impossible. And if that level of trouble wasn't hard enough, the very next month we would experience the devastation of loss as we grieved the passing of my grandmother on October 22nd, 2010. And then my grandfather on November 20th. In less than 30 days, we lost the matriarch and patriarch of our family. And I was actually too sick to travel to attend both of the funerals. As the months passed, life as I knew it really did begin to fade into the distance. Couldn't remember normal. Most days were spent fighting fatigue, taking long naps, using whatever strength I had left to care for my then two-year-old. And in the wake of the illnesses that I was trying to fight off, and in the wake of mounting loss in our family, that December, I began to suffer from debilitating back pain. Pain so excruciating that I was unable to walk normally and even unable to lie down and get up without assistance. I have this distinct memory of being in the throes of this level of pain and discerning the spiritual warfare that was taking place over my heart. In a season that began in the heights of celebration and the heights of preparation for a new ministry chapter, there was a rapid deterioration into the worst series of events I had yet to experience in my young adult life. And I remember there being a particular day when I recalled the horrific counsel of Job's wife in Job 2.9. When his wife said to him, Are you still maintaining your integrity? Just curse God and die. Oh my gosh. Horrible counsel, right? Suffering has a way of bringing us to the end of ourselves. And coming to the end of yourself will indeed make you come into agreement with either God or the enemy. And in Job 2.9, we see his wife being used by the enemy to exploit his trauma and his suffering. And I remember feeling a similar voice come to me in the depths of my pain on a day when I walked into my kitchen in both physical and emotional distress and agony. Remember standing there and understanding that the enemy of our souls has but one goal in our suffering, and that is this: to turn our hearts away from God. Plain and simple. Went to sleep that night, and in the middle of the night, in the wee hours of the morning, at 4 04 a.m., I cried out to God. Because I woke up in so much pain I could barely move. I cried out to God, and in that very moment at 4 04 a.m., I asked him to send his angel armies to fight the battle over me and over my family that we could not see. What does Ephesians say? Our battle is not against flesh and blood. In 2 Kings 6, 15 through 18, Elisha's servant sees the hills full of horses and chariots of fire, angelic armies surrounding them against enemy forces. I want to read more of that story to you right now from Scripture, starting in verse 15. When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. Oh no, my Lord, what shall we do? The servant asked. And Elisha prayed, Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see. Then the Lord opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, Strike this army with blindness. And so he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked. At 4 04 a.m. in the morning in December of 2010, I prayed a desperate prayer. After three months of intense crises, after three months of feeling completely surrounded by my enemies. And when I woke up the next day, I can't tell you what happened, but I had a new hope. There were new mercies for a new morning. That's the only way I can describe it. My pain level had not changed in a dramatic way, but my heart had. I felt lighter. And so as I went throughout my day praying, I began to experience gradual relief in my body. And so I went to bed that night where I normally slept in my own bedroom beside my husband. And I definitely wasn't fully healed, but I was on my way to feeling more normal than I had in months. That night I slept right beside my husband and drifted off to sleep, only to be woken up at exactly 4.04 a.m. in the morning. Exactly 24 hours after having prayed a prayer of desperation to God. And I wasn't just woken up by any sound. I was woken up by music. But the type of music that I heard cannot be described by any words, any expression of the human language, any sounds available to us on this side of eternity. The sounds that I heard were otherworldly. And I shot up from my sleeping position immediately because I knew that something was filling the room that was incredibly other. The music that I heard would continue on for the entirety of the events that I'm about to describe to you. But I want you to keep in mind that 2010 was not a time when I was seeking miracles or any expressions of the supernatural. We were attending like an incredibly conservative church, and again, I was a long ways away from the charismatic background that I had been raised in. And so I got out of bed, completely dumbfounded, began to walk to the restroom, and noticed that our bedroom door to the hallway was still open. I just passed right by it, proceeded to the restroom. And when I began to make my way back to bed, I was interrupted by God's voice in the clearest and most distinct expression of his voice that I have ever heard. And the words that he spoke to me were spoken against the backdrop of the otherworldly music that was playing. And he said these words to me. I'll never forget where I was when he said that to me. I'll never forget the fill-in-the-blank it was in my life. How all of the pieces of the puzzle began to make sense. The spiritual warfare against me in the music industry and creative circles, my lack of desire to acquiesce to godless business practices and cultural norms. That feeling that I had always had, that I just didn't quite fit. It was by design. And as I passed by our bedroom door, the one that had been opened to the hallway, I noticed it was now shut. But everyone was asleep in the house, including my two dogs who were in the room, sound asleep. My toddler was in her crib. We could see it on the camera. My husband was in bed. And all I can tell you is that within my spirit, I was struck with a radical fear of the Lord, an intense fear of the Lord. I knew something supernatural was happening, even though I couldn't quite understand it. And so I got back into bed, pulled the covers over my head, and was immediately given a vision of end times. Yes. A vision of end times. Now remember, this is 2010. This is before Ebola. This is before COVID. This is before mass school shootings and exposed government corruption and heightened religious persecution and rampant gender identity confusion and increased natural disasters. Receiving a vision about end times honestly just did not make sense in that era of my life. But there it was, scene after scene, laid before me of the destruction and the devastation that was coming during the tribulation. The disturbing news headlines, the martyred, the missing, those raptured, and the full spectrum of chaos released from a groaning world. I sunk under the covers even more, and then I heard these words. And yet I was shaken when I read the title of that passage because guess what the title of that passage was? A Ministry of Life and Death. At this point, there was no mistake whatsoever that God had come to me that night to encounter me with a very clear message. A message he intended to back with his word, so that there would be no mistake that it was him. And so today I want to read to you the passage that God gave me that night out of 2 Corinthians 2 14 through 17. It says, But thanks be to God, who always puts us on display in Christ and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this? For we are not like the many who market God's message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God. Listen to this again. For we are not like the many who market God's message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ as from God and before God. From God and before God. As God would have it, the pieces of the puzzle were about to come together for me in a God-ordained phone call between my dad, the spirit-filled pastor of 35 years, and myself. As I described what I heard at 4:04 a.m., exactly 24 hours after asking God to send his angel armies to fight the battle that I could not see, he communicated to me that what I described and heard was the sound of a trumpet-like shofar used in connection with battles in biblical times. I'll never forget him saying, Did it sound like a shofar? Did it sound like a trumpet? Sent chills through me because in biblical times the shofar was used as a battle cry and a call to arms. It was used as a signal of God's intervention and war. And it was also used as a warning of danger and coming judgment. And sometimes it was used as a sound of victory and worship after deliverance. You can see that in 1 Chronicles 15, 28 and in Psalm 81, 3 through 4. All of the above, right? All of the above. We had asked God to intervene in the warfare that was happening in our life. God had given me a vision of coming, judgment, and danger. And then the next morning I woke up to the evidence of victory from an illness and from a set of circumstances that I had prayed for deliverance from. We see so much evidence of the use of the trumpet and the shofar throughout the biblical narrative. At Jericho, priests blew shofars as Israel marched and then gave a prolonged blast before the people shouted and the walls fell. You can see that in Joshua 6. In Gideon's battle against Midian, all 300 men blew trumpets when going to war in their land. Prophets of the Bible also used trumpet imagery as a warning of coming judgment or a call to spiritual readiness. Look into Joel 2.1 and Ezekiel 33:3-6. In eschatological passages, trumpets mark decisive acts of God and redemptive warfare. We see that in Revelation 8 through 11 and 1 Thessalonians 4:16. I'll never forget that phone call. And feeling like my eyes had been opened, like the eyes of the men who met Jesus on the road to Emmaus, I could finally see. God had done something so deeply and incredibly supernatural to answer the desperate prayers of a kid in crisis. And the proof was in the fruit. The proof was in my healing the next day. That was enough for me. But what I didn't know is that the Lord didn't just allow me to have this supernatural experience. Because after the phone call with my dad, I went to my husband to relay the story of what had happened at 4.04 a.m. in the morning. Only to hear him respond, I know I heard it too. If you know my husband Jake, you know. He is the most grounded, steady, logical minded man. And yes, he heard it too. In fact, he was so impacted by the otherworldly sounds we heard that he approached several neighbors the following day to ask if they too were awakened by anything in the middle of the night. Their answers were no. You want to know why? Because it was God's response to the prayer that I prayed 24 hours before that at 4 04 a.m. in the morning. And I wish that I could describe to you the sound of the music we heard that night, but there are no words, there are no sounds available in the human language or the human experience to describe the otherworldly echo of two distinctly long minor notes reverberating throughout our home and outside of our home over and over and over again. The sounds of what we believe today to have been the battle signals of an angel army assigned to war over our family in the depths of crisis. And so, why do I share this with you today? Fifteen years later, because I need you to know that you have an advocate in Jesus the Son. Hebrews 7.25 and Romans 8.34 tells us that he is interceding at the right hand of the Father for you. And you have an advocate who in Revelation 5.5 tells us is the lion of the tribe of Judah. And I have a message for you today. Don't quit. Don't you dare stop praying. Don't you dare stop believing that your God is a God who hears. Don't you dare stop believing that Jesus is on his throne praying for you and praying that your family would be kept. Don't you dare grieve the Holy Spirit who has come to teach you all things and to manifest the power of God in your life in real time. The hour is too late to get in God's way, friends. The hour is too late. You and I are not called to a ministry of entertainment, a ministry of people pleasing, a ministry of success, a ministry of upward mobility, a ministry of popularity. We are called to a ministry of life and death. You are called to understand the weight of your own eternity and the weight of the eternity in the lives of the people who you come into contact with. Every single one of them, every single one of us will give account to God for the lives that we have lived. Every single one of us will spend eternity somewhere. And the hour is too late to forget the reality of that, friends. And so, what do you need to do to get fully aligned with this reality? What needs to change in our hearts? What needs to change in the stewardship of our time, our gifts, our attention, our intentions, so that we live a life fully sober-minded to the reality that the ministry that we have been called to is not a ministry of success for its own sake. It's a ministry of life or death. If God has called you by name, he has first called you to himself and into cultivating an intimacy with him here on earth that will last for all eternity. And if he has saved you in this way, he has saved you to send you to carry the fragrance and the aroma of his salvation to a world that is perishing. Will you live in this reality? Will you make choices unto the reality of God, capital R reality of God, and the reality of eternity more than any other lowercase reality in this life? It's a question. It's weighty, it's eternal. And I want to end with a reading of Revelation 5 today, and I want to ask the Holy Spirit to impart a new sobriety to you as I read this, and I pray that he would speak to you in a personal way as you seek his face. Revelation 5 says, Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals, and I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll? But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. Then one of the elders said to me, Do not weep. See the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals. Then I saw a lamb looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne, and when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God's people. And they sang a new song saying, You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priest to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth. Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. In a loud voice they were saying, Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise. Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea and all that is in them, saying to him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, Be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever. The four living creatures said, Amen, and the elders fell down and worshipped. Friends, that day is coming. And I shared this with you today because it's time to wake up. The hour is too late. It's time to align yourself with God on a heart level. It's time to seek his face more than anything else that you could seek. It's time to ask him what he is inviting you to die to. And to die for. You're going to find him there on that narrow road because it is the only road that leads to life. And my prayers are that you would cultivate a fear of the Lord in your life more than any other fear. That your fear of the Lord would usurp every other fear that the enemy has tried to send to your doorstep. I opened the contents of my heart in today's story out of obedience, and I pray that it has been a supernatural deposit in your life with God. This is maybe the only time that I share this story, but it is most definitely the first time. And so until next time, I pray that every seed that was sown today would fall on good ground, that God would use it to bring a harvest of righteousness in your life. Go in peace, friends, to love and to serve and to know him with all of your heart and to look for the unforced gifts riding on the current of his spirit that will take you to places you have never been for his glory, for your good, and for his kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.