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EP 3 — Appointed Part 1: Divine Timing, Perfect Placement
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You weren’t placed randomly—you were appointed. This episode of Triple A Podcast, "Appointed: Divine Timing, Perfect Placement," dives into the truth that where you are isn't a coincidence. It's a calling. Tune in now to get empowered, equipped, and encouraged to live like you’re meant to be there—because you are.#TripleAPodcast #Tripleapodd #Appointed #FaithJourney #PurposeInPlacement
Hey fam, what's poppin' y'all, and welcome to the Triple A podcast where you can be authentically you, anointed by God, and appointed for such a time as this. Woo woo! It's Shawnee! It's Jay, and welcome back. We are here, and we are just gonna jump right into it because we have a great topic tonight for y'all. This is the last A of Triple A.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So we have did authentically you, we did Anointed by God, and now we're doing appointed for such a time as this. So this is we did the triple A segment where we talked about being authentically you, anointed by God. And tonight we're gonna dive into uh what it means to be appointed and what it means to occupy the spaces that you were appointed to. So yeah, we're just gonna jump right in a prayer.
SPEAKER_04All right, Father God, um, we just thank you. God, we thank you for this day. We thank you for all that you are doing. We just thank you for who you are. God, we thank you for such a time as this, Father God, and we pray over this podcast. God, we pray over the people that are watching right now in the name of Jesus. Father God, we pray that you speak to their hearts in the way that you want to, Father God. We pray that our words are just less and less and you become greater and greater. Holy Spirit, take over this space. Holy Spirit, speak to your children. In Jesus' name we do pray. Amen.
SPEAKER_02Amen. Praise the Lord. So, how are you today? I feel pretty good. How are you? I am great. Like, I'm tired. I'm great, but I'm tired. Yeah, like I'm so tired. However, we're gonna do this thing. So, y'all go get your Bibles because we are just gonna dive right into the word and then we're just gonna talk. Literally. So, y'all be ready in the comments to talk with us, to talk back to us. And we're gonna dive right in. Where are we going?
SPEAKER_04We're going to Jeremiah 1, 5 through 10, I believe it is. Bet, bet, bet money.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I hate that. I know that's what it's like.
SPEAKER_02Ooh, I hate that song.
SPEAKER_03It's my favorite tweet.
SPEAKER_02Hold on, y'all. Let me find it. The people are prepared. It's right. It's right here. But I'm still like. Okay, you can start reading.
SPEAKER_01No, I don't want the people in here.
SPEAKER_02I know they search it too. Where are you coming from? Jeremiah.
SPEAKER_04It's behind Isaiah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, no. Jeremiah 5, 15. Okay, bad.
SPEAKER_04Go for it. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Yep, go for it. What translation are you reading from?
SPEAKER_04Um, today I'm reading NLT.
SPEAKER_02Okay, bad.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, we are in the same translation today. Interesting. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Let's get with it.
SPEAKER_04Alright. Jeremiah 1, 5. I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born, I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations. Oh sovereign Lord, I said, I can't speak for you. I am too young. The Lord replied, Do not say I am too young, for you must go wherever I send you and say whatever I tell you. And don't be afraid of the people, for I will be with you and I will protect you. I, the Lord, have spoken. Then the Lord reached out and touched my mouth and said, Look, I have put my words in your mouth. Today I appoint you to stand up against nations and kingdoms. Some you must uproot and tear down, destroy and overthrow. Others you must build up and plant. Then the Lord said to me, Look, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I replied, I see a branch from an almond tree. And the Lord said, That is right, and it means that I am watching and I will certainly carry out all my plans.
SPEAKER_02Keep going.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Then the Lord spoke to me again and ask, What do you see now? And I replied, I see a pot of boiling water spilling from the north. Yes, the Lord said, For terror from the north will boil out on my people of this land. Listen, I am calling the armies of the kingdoms of the north to come to Jerusalem. I, the Lord have spoken. They will set their thrones at the gates of the city, they will attack its walls and all other towns of Judah. I will pronounce judgment on my people for all of their evil, for deserting me and burning incense to other gods. Yes, they worship idols made by their own hands. Get up and prepare for action. Go out and tell them everything I tell you to say. Do not be afraid of them, or I will make you look foolish in front of them. For see today, I have made you strong, like a fortified city that can't be captured, like an iron pillar or a bronze wall. You will stand against the whole land, the kings, officials, priests, and people of Judah. They will fight you, but they will fall. They will fell. For I am with you and I will take care of you. I, the Lord, have spoken. So that's good.
SPEAKER_02Holy Lord. Yeah, because ooh, that whole thing spoke to me like so, so good. I feel like a lot of people read verse five and then stop there.
SPEAKER_01Correct.
SPEAKER_02Because it's a it's a feel-good verse. I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you before you were born, I set you apart and I appointed you as my prophet to nations. But there was a there was something attached to that. Absolutely. Yes, I knew you before, you know, I formed you in my uh in the mot in your mother's womb. Oh, Pixie. But I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations. Lord, what the heck does that mean? Like, what? Okay, something comes with that that I don't know if I'm ready for. Like, what? So, Lord, explain. And that's why I had you read the rest. I love them. Because it explains even like the visions that he was he was having, right? When he was talking about what when he said, What do you see? And he's like, I see um a pot of boiling water spilling from the north. Like, if I would have thought, like, what?
SPEAKER_01Asked. Ask.
SPEAKER_02Like what it means. Like you haven't visions, ask the word.
SPEAKER_01Ask the Lord what it is.
SPEAKER_02And what does it have to do with your appointed space that you are called to occupy?
SPEAKER_01That's good.
SPEAKER_02That was good. I heard you humming around verse 10.
SPEAKER_01What's 10?
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah. But okay, I want to start at six. Six really got me. Um, when we talk about being appointed, yes. And so there are times when I'll say for me, right? The Lord is calling me to occupy a space, i.e., this space that we're in right now. The pod? The pod space that we're in right now, and he's like, I've called you to occupy that space. I've anointed and appointed you to be authentic in it. And the thing that Jeremiah says is like, wait, Lord, like, I can't, I'm too young. And I've had my own things of like, wait, Lord, wait, I can't speak in front of the people.
SPEAKER_03Why are you just mean you? It's just the phone on the thing.
SPEAKER_04So, in that appointing, there's so many. Um, I'll speak for myself, but I've talked to other people, insecurities or feelings of inadequacy or discouragement, like the enemy does jumps in there and it's like you shouldn't be doing this. Or my past, in my past, I've done X, Y, and Z. Therefore, I'm not qualified to do whatever the Lord is calling you to do. Yet, in this, the Lord told Jeremiah, I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Like he set him apart before he was even born. And I love that. I know you're gonna know what you're gonna do. You do, I love that, and so um, there's so many times where we disqualify ourselves, especially when the Lord has uh appointed you, and going back to appointed, what is that? Every space that you are in right now, the Lord has put you in that space to occupy that space and to share his gospel. We talked about that in the last episode about being anointed um to share the Great Commission, right? And so every space at work, um in church, going to the grocery store that part, going how many people have we gotten to talk to at the coffee shops or the grocery stores? And I'm like, oh, I'm just there just because, and that one person needed that word, or that one person needed that smile, and something so small as that being appointed for that space, that time.
SPEAKER_02So I know you say every time I ask you a question, I like throw you off, but I love it. Um so with with that, right? How do you think that has hindered you in the past hence or maybe has maybe is hindering you now from fully occupying the space that the Lord has you in right now?
SPEAKER_04Oh, that's really good. Um, I feel like I used to say a lot of times, like, I don't have a seat at the table, and that's again how my mind works. I think of like the table when he talked about um kings and kingdoms and all of that. I'm like, oh, for me growing up, I thought appointed was only the pastor of the church, right? Or the elders I grew up Church of Christ, right? Like titles in certain situations, and there's been so many beautiful moments where I've not been leaving anything, and the Lord's used me in miraculous places, yeah. But I think for me, when the title part comes up, I kind of shy away from that and I'm like, oh, I'm not supposed to be at this table because I'm not, I don't know, this pastor or campus pastor, or um all of the 50 million roles and titles we have in churches nowadays. Like people just read or I don't even know what things are in there. Um so yeah, I think it's definitely hindered me because I've haven't walked authentically in what the Lord has called me to do. Like I've made myself small in places He didn't call me to be small in. He's called me to a lot of times uproot and tear down and destroy and overthrow some things. And I'm like, oh, I can't do that because I'm not in this position, or I can't do this because I don't feel like I'm appointed. And so what I love so much about Jeremiah in this this passage is even him, like he's human, we're all human, and there are those moments where we say, like, hey, I'm too young, I'm not qualified enough. Moses had a stutter, right? Um Paul killed all these Christians, kill and fight, and the Lord still used them, the Lord still appointed them for a time and an assignment to change the trajectory of millions that part of people's lives.
SPEAKER_02Even with the Samaritan woman at the well, right? Like, she had you know what I'm saying, and she was still living with the man that wasn't her husband. Jesus knew, and he still went to her and was like, she was like, wait, you talking to me? Like, me? Yeah, and he's like, like, yeah, absolutely. And he still used her to go and spread to that whole town, the gospel. And and they believed. Yeah. Yeah. He uses the ones that are jacked up, that are like doubting themselves, right? Because it's not about you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02It's not about, it wasn't about her, it wasn't about, it was he can use anybody as long as you're willing. Yeah. And as long as you're open to do whatever he wants to do in that um in that season, or just be a will and bell still. And I I love that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I love that. So, okay, would you say, because I think we just we did just touch on it, but we didn't dive deep. Y'all, we don't like talking, well, I don't like talking about stuff because I'd be like, oh, that's so good. Like, we should have said that on the pod. So every time Jay started talking, I'd be like, stop. We gotta wait for the pod. Wait for the pod. So would you say so? We did an authentic, yeah. We did anoint it without the two, can you fully operate in your appointed space?
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna say no, and I'm gonna say no because then you're completely doing it in your own strength, in my opinion. I feel like um when you are authentically walking out who God has called you to be, again, you get to talk um to different people that you might not be able to that I can't, right? Like the Lord has put us in those spaces, and then and that anointing of walking out the Great Commission, right? Um, and certain times when he anoints you for a specific role, not role, but like assignment. There you go. Yeah, a different assignment, then he uses that, he'll point you to those spaces. So I feel like for me in saying that I can be appointed to something, I could be put in a position. Oh, Jesus help me. I can be put in a position walking, not authentically, walking as someone else, walking as who I'm supposed to look like, right? Who I think I'm supposed to look like, um, and truly no anointing just because I'm not really paying attention to sharing the gospel or whatever. You can be a physician all day, but again, I'm doing it in my own strength because if I'm walking in my my authenticity, I'm more in tune and the anointing of who that one person that might be in the corner at work that the Lord is like, she's not okay, right? Like, she's not okay. Stop what you're doing, that surrender and go to and speak to that person.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you're good at that. I don't like doing that. I'd be like, Lord, help me. Not if I see somebody sad, like I like I will, but I'd be like, Lord, like maybe she wants to be alone.
SPEAKER_03Like, well the other thing you're like, don't go talk to her. Like, leave them alone.
SPEAKER_02Like, she always looks like she looks like she wants a friend. Nope, she was content, honey. Leave that girl alone. Oh my gosh, I I do love that about you that you will just like boldly like just walk up like to somebody, or even if like we're in service or something, and like I don't know how, but you'd be just randomly spotting people out crying and stuff, or like going through, and I'd be like, bro, that's so cool. Because I would awkwardly go up to that person and be like, I don't know what to say, or you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04I feel like that is an assignment that the Lord has anointed me for. Agreed, because you were asking me how I met a friend of ours, oh yes, wild. And I literally walked into the church, like the music was playing, like when we started the first song that I walked in, the Lord said, Turn around, and I said, sure, bet, right? Turn to the left, and she was standing there, and I got a really cool opportunity to connect with her, and we've been friends ever since, and now she's important to us.
SPEAKER_02And doing a bit and the Lord even use that situation for the pause, absolutely, like Laura. I don't I'm not saying I want that. I'm not saying no, I want that. What I do think is like so beautiful, and I do feel like yes, you have to be anointed for it to know the right words to say that no, you know what I'm saying, in those situations, and truly let the Holy Spirit lead you into what you're one praying for them, right? Because hopefully, if you you know you're on assignment, you're gonna end that assignment with prayer and having them take whatever you said to them back to him so that he can confirm it, right? Um, so even with that, I just be like, oh boy, that's that's amazing. And so for me, what he was giving me because we haven't been here since authentic.
SPEAKER_04Oh we haven't been here since you're right since authentic, and he's literally, as you were saying, that the part of authentic that I wanted to clip out that the Lord didn't let me clip out was the vision thing. Which oh, because I was gonna say, wait, what are you okay? But in it, he was saying, like, in those moments of like the Lord gives you gifts, like um, you can hear from him, you can some people can see stuff, some people can smell stuff, don't really want that one. I'll be honest. We're gonna do a pod about that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we are definitely like your guard.
SPEAKER_04Okay, sorry, I repent. Yeah, please do not repent. Foolish, but in that and walking in the authenticity, I could just be like, okay, I'm not seeing anything, I'm gonna ignore it, right? I'm just gonna, or hey, I see that person cry, I'm just gonna ignore it, I'm gonna keep walking. But the Lord had something for her, like the Lord has something, and he wants to use you, appoint you in that moment again back to grocery stores. It doesn't even have to be something big as um preaching to masses, no, right?
SPEAKER_02You can grocery store your girl, your outfit look cute. Oh I love doing that too.
SPEAKER_04Like, girl, you look so good today, like girl, because you have what they're going through, and then if the Lord is telling you, hey, go tell that lady that I love her. Oh my gosh, that did you did do that.
SPEAKER_03You did do that.
SPEAKER_02That was so cool. That was my first time, y'all, because we were at a restaurant, and the waitress uh came in. Um, it was a friend's birthday dinner, and the waitress came in and I just started feeling things, and I'm like, Lord, like what is that? And he's like telling me stuff, and I was just like, Okay, and he was like, I need you to let her know that I love her, and I was just like, No, because in reality, sometimes you're like, What is that?
SPEAKER_04You or is that me?
SPEAKER_02Or it's not you because you didn't want to do it, it's that reaction of like, oh, she's weird because she did that, or oh, like she doing too much, or she overly, you know, spiritual or whatever. Like, I don't really want you to say nothing, like what? But I was so proud of myself, and I think I called you right after, like, girl, like I stepped out and I did it. And the girl, she was like, Oh my goodness, I waited because I was like, the I kept letting time pass. He was like, I'm gonna give you one more opportunity. And somebody wanted something, like some Tupperware to take cupcakes or something home, and they were like, Do you mind? And I was like, No, I don't mind. So I walked out and he was like, This is your time, don't let it pass you by. Like, tell my daughter I was you were pointed to occupy that space to speak to his daughter, that part that part, that part, and I did it, and she was like, Oh my gosh, like a lady a few weeks ago told me that same exact thing. I'm like, girl, he's trying to tell you something, like he's not gonna stop chasing after you. Like, he's oh it was a whole thing, it was so so so so so nice. So listen to the Holy Spirit and please occupy the spaces that he have you in, like, and be like receptive to hear from him, like to you hear him, you know that ain't you telling telling telling you to get that man's five dollars. You know that ain't you that ain't that I promise it's the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_04I promise it is go ahead, and then not being afraid of it, whatever it is. So I um went to a conference, I think November. Like the Lord had me go to these three conferences literally to impartation anoint for this season now that I look back on it. Um, and at one of the conferences, it was talking about speaking prophetically and all of that, and he was like, You gotta be at a place where you're not afraid to be wrong, and say, take it to the Lord, right? Like if you really feel like the Lord said that, take it to the Lord. Now the Lord will confirm if I say something off the wall, right to you, and the Lord confirms not that one me, right? You you leave it, you leave it. Anything to be don't pick it up. You have okay, now I'm getting off topic. Green box, yellow box, red box.
SPEAKER_03That's how my mind goes.
SPEAKER_04Yellow box, someone says something. Um, there's no scriptural backing of that at this point. There's no confirmation, it just stays in the yellow, it can stay in that box. I have A word that's still in that box for about a year now, and I'm fine with it staying there. Now, if it's something completely against the word of God, and someone says something that's red, just just leave it right there. That's red, it doesn't feel good in your spirit. Holy Spirit already told you no, and there's no biblical backing. That's red, you can leave that where it is. Green, someone's giving you a word that is already the Lord has confirmed it, and I'll explain that in a second. The Lord has confirmed it. Um, biblically, you feel it in your spirit. Somebody else might confirm it to you. Okay, Lord, is this you? He'll let you know that's me. Alright, good. And you can keep on keep that one, anyways. So they were telling us this in the conference, really great conference, actually. And for the first time, I was like, You're right, like I wouldn't say things, and the Lord was like, I told you to say that. Like, I told you to say that. I told you to go tell my son that, and you still didn't say nothing. I was like, Oh, yes, but I'm forfeiting the appointment that he predestined before he formed me in my mother's room to speak to this person that he might want to um give impart, like that's a big word. Okay, let me not do that. Um, but impartation or give um words of wisdom, something like that, to move them into their appointments.
SPEAKER_02And it's not that he might, he wants to, yeah, that's what he wants to do. That's why it was your assignment to be obedient in doing that, right? Because if you don't do it, now I gotta use somebody else when I wanted to use you, yeah, and then we forfeit watching all the miracles that happen, that that blessing. Then when you get to them gates, he's gonna be like he's gonna be like, okay, so why you ain't tell X, Y, and Z this? Okay, like what what what you gotta say? Like, go explain to me. Y'all, the Lord gonna be talking to me at them gates, and I'll be like, forgive me, please let me in.
SPEAKER_04With the appointment in this, what why I loved him. I think that's why I was trying to stop at 10 because I loved him out of this whole verse. Um, because the Lord, that's part today. I appoint you to stand up against nations and kingdoms. Some you must uproot and tear down and destroy and overthrow, others you must build up and plan. And so, in a lot of these appointments, right, when the Lord has anointed you and appointed you for certain tasks, He is moving people from culture to what He has called, and in that you're upsetting culture, like you're upsetting um friend groups. I've upset my friend groups and stepping out into what he's asked me to do. I've upset some small groups. Um, because it gets to a point, and you have to ask, especially with that appointment, do I care more about pleasing you as man? Or do I care more about the fear I have of the Lord? Right. And the the love and the admiration that I have for him and what he is trying to do, want to do with his people. Like, what do you care more about? Like, that's a heart check right there. No, seriously in those spaces that you're occupying. Why am I not talking to this coworker? Why um am I not walking fully in a position, whether it's full-time ministry, whether it's um vocational, whatever it is, why am I not walking in that? Because I'm afraid of what they're gonna say. I'm afraid of the ideas that I know the Lord gave me, yet it might ruffle these little feathers. No, we have the conversations and believe that if we're all aligned and on the same page, the Holy Spirit will speak to all of us. Like even in these situations, we've gotten stuff that we're like, oh, and the Holy Spirit will tell us both. I feel it. That's go ahead.
SPEAKER_02No, it's good because it makes me think the why, yeah, right, because we're people pleasers, right? We we're we're we want to be loved and cherished, and all the things, right? So, with that, so there was like a few conversations that I've had to have with people, however, I was terrified to have those conversations because I was afraid that the relationship wouldn't be the same, or because I was afraid that they would look at me different, right? But the biggest fear was that the relationship wouldn't be the same because they wouldn't receive what I had, yeah. Which the Holy Spirit I had already told me that it wasn't gonna be received, however, in order for you to be released, you have to say this. Oh my lord, girl, I feel so good. It took me forever, and then I'm just like, you know what, Lord? I have to stop trying to please man and focus on pleasing you because at the end of the day, man gonna let me down every time, yeah, right? I'm always us as humans, we're always gonna disappoint one another, we're always gonna switch up because we're human, we're flesh, yeah, right? But the one constant thing in our lives, why don't we focus on pleasing him more than pleasing your auntie or your mom or your dad? So good or your friend from down the street, right? Like, so I've been getting my butt whooped like with that, and I think just boldly, just recently, remember when I had to give that message, I was terrified. I'm like, bro, I don't think I could do this. The Lord started just downloading, downloading in me one um one morning while I was like in my time of prayer and stuff to some people, I don't even know these people. First of all, I don't know them, they don't know me. I don't want to know them. You know what I'm saying? So like Lord, and I was terrified. I was terrified. I was like, Lord, like, why me? Like, I don't granted, okay, perfect. You don't know them, you there's no relationship there, so okay, I can see there's no blind spots, you know what I'm saying? Oh, there's no blind spots, so I did the word and all the things, and then bam, I was released, but I was terrified to even send it to where it needed to go, and then at first I was like, Okay, well, what happened after that, Laura? Like, he was like, It doesn't matter, you're released. You sent my warning to who it needed to the into the hands that it needed to be sent into, you're released. That like that's the best feeling ever. Even before, though, like, even when I was like scared, and I'm like, Lord, like I can't say this to them. Like, I can't say this to them. I can't. And he was like, You said you were willing to be that sacrifice, and that I couldn't. Here I am. And I was just asked with with that reminder, it's like, okay, Lord, whatever you want. Now I just don't care. I still do care, but I don't care about like I'm gonna say what you want me to say, how you want me to say it.
SPEAKER_04You said you didn't know the people.
SPEAKER_03You really didn't care to know the people, but you don't know the people.
SPEAKER_04Yet the Lord still appointed you to speak his word, and you were obedient at it. So there's even times, right, where thinking, okay, um, I'm trying to like practically, like for me, there's times, oh, I'm appointed to to do my job, to be in the role that I'm in for for work, or I'm appointed at whatever um dream team position I'm in at church, right? But there are times when God might appoint you to occupy a space with people you have no idea about. Agreed, no idea about, and it was just, hey Lord, I'm here, send me. I surrender to the will that you have for me today. Where do you want me to go today? And that's what you did.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely. However, I do think it's different. Go for it for me when it's people I completely don't know, and then there's people that I have rapport with. Explain. I feel like I'm more sensitive to their feelings. The people you know or you don't know, the people I do know. Uh-huh. I don't care about the people I don't know, right? I don't, right? I'm more I think about their feelings. It's not that I don't want to say you get what I'm saying, like what the Lord told me to say to them. I know how they react to certain things, so that kind of pulls me back, like, or makes me shy away from saying what I need to say. And I'm I'm thinking, who are you? Who are you by the reference?
SPEAKER_04I don't know how it's a prophet, but keep going.
SPEAKER_02Mine too, yeah. And they were scared to say what they needed to say to the person. Or was that it's probably me and my extra? Or was it uh uh was it Elijah with uh what's the name? Or Elisha, one of the Elijah's I know, I'm sorry, it's plastic. Those are my knuckles. I don't um I don't know somebody, but I feel like people pleasing creeps in for me when it's somebody that I actually know and I'm concerned about their feelings. That part.
SPEAKER_03God, you're so good. Ezekiel, Ezekiel 2, 6 and 7.
SPEAKER_04That's wild, Lord. That's why you have me in this Bible today. Son of man, do not fear them or their words, do not be afraid, even though their threats surround you. Like uh nest, oh sorry, nettles and barriers and stinging scorpions, do not be dismayed by their dark scowls even though they are rebels. You must give them my message, whether they listen or not. And in I see, yeah, we're on the same thing. In this, the Lord was like, whether they listen to it or not, you still have to speak. And after being um, you do that, you speak, you're now released. And I had somewhere in here, yeah, God gives us the strength to accomplish those hard conversations, be willing and obedient and let the spirit move. Whether they listen or not.
SPEAKER_02Whether they listen or not. Hold on, wait. Oh, read it then.
SPEAKER_01No, you're not gonna.
SPEAKER_02No, I I'm there, but I'm not. But it reminds me of Jonah not wanting to go to Nineveh to tell those people because he knew they weren't gonna listen. Right? He's like, bro, they're not gonna listen. Like, why am I he was pissed? That man was pissed, right? So it reminds me of that too. What are you on and what are you thinking? No, I agree with that. No, I'm talking about in Ezekiel because I feel like there's more.
SPEAKER_04Okay, yeah, we're gonna start it two one. Stand up, son of man, set the voice. I want to speak with you. The spirit came into me as he spoke, and he set me on my feet. I listened carefully to his words. Son of man, he said, I am sending you to the nation of Israel, a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have been rebelling against me to this very day. They are a stubborn and hard-headed people, but I am sending you to say to them, This is what the sovereign Lord says, and whether they listen or refuse to listen, for remember, if they are rebels, at least they will know that I have had a prophet among them, and then it goes in a six. I remember that one so well because it's like when the Lord, literally what you just said, appointed you to go speak to someone, or appointed you to occupy the space. Let's just barrier. The Lord has you in the season that you're in for such a time as this, in the friend groups that you're in for such a time as this, and the families, um, in the community groups, all of these things. And if he gives you something to say to someone, or he gives you a way to walk and model, right? His goodness and um Christ's love and all of the fruits of the spirit, and you choose not to, are you pleasing them or are you pleasing the Lord?
SPEAKER_02That part, y'all hungry, and even in that, right? Even in Nineveh, I mean in Jonah, sorry, y'all. Um, with us not occupying the space that we're called to be in and being obedient to what God told us to do or called us to do, how we get others around us in trouble, or how we put them in unnecessary or harm's way. Because when Jonah got on that boat going the opposite direction, right? Sir, them folks was minding their business, okay, crossing that sea. Because you got Joe Tail on this boat, they lost certain certain uh equipment with things that they were carrying to take to the next town, all because of you being disobedient. Granted, in the end, they they begin to believe in the God that he served. However, you don't put them through this unnecessary foolishness because you said no, because you thought better than God. You thought, oh yeah, they're wicked. I'm not I'm not about to waste my time and go there. And God wanted to do a thing that whole time because in the end they repented. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Is it fair to say we don't occupy those appointed spaces and say the things or do the things, the uproot and the tearing down of things, because we don't trust that the Lord will see us through it.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely, absolutely. There has been like family members um that the Lord has told me to uh cover in prayer, speak to, right? Like go speak to them about whatever, right? Or pour into them. And I'm like, bro, they're not gonna listen to me. Like, first of all, they already see me as the holy one, right? The saved one, right? So it's all the things that come with that. Um, and God the Lord knows, let me be let foolishness, y'all. But yes, I feel like yes. I a hundred percent because there's times where he's like pouring to and I'm like, bro, they're not gonna listen. They already like they're comfortable in their mess, like they wanna be where they are. Yeah, I don't mind praying for them, but I don't necessarily always want to go to them and be like X, Y, and Z when they're gonna continue to do whatever they're doing. Like, for me, it's like what's the point? However, he is like, I'm doing something, right? Like the same way I tell you not to be weary and well-doing, and the same way you need to be encouraged when you're going through, is the same way they need this word from you right now. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_04No, he's like kicking my butt in real time. Girl, that um, because you're saying that, and um, you and I talked about it. One of the things you asked, you were like, Yeah, you you do a good job of telling people what they mean to you, like when they mean something to you, right? Yeah, I'm gonna keep that there. Like I realize how it sounded.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but I'm gonna keep it there.
SPEAKER_04That's good. Um, and in it, he was reminding me of that because as you just said it, like even in my family, right? Um, and the truth is we want all of our loved ones to be saved. We want great commission, right? Absolutely starting with our families, like we want to see them all saved, and a lot of times we don't occupy that space, we don't talk to them because they do they are like, Oh, you're holier than thou, or all of these things. Yeah, but in that situation, we're talking about it because in high school I lost um two friends early, they died early, um, around our age, one suicide, one um died in a car accident. And at that point, I realized that I never said, right, like, hey, I love you, especially the one with suicide, like, hey, I love you, like you're loved, all of these things. And then he died, right? And in real time, the Lord right now is saying that's that exact same thing. The Lord is asking you to talk to, oh, that's deep, Lord, talk to um certain family members or friends, whoever it may be, because you don't know if we're all gonna wake up tomorrow and see another day. Like, we walk in a place of um feeling entitled to have another day, but the Lord gets to choose, like the Lord has already chosen, but like he gets to choose, and you have no idea that one person in your family that he's been telling you to like go talk to for years, you have no idea if they're gonna make it tomorrow.
SPEAKER_02That part like then you'll feel terrible. Man, if you know, yeah, she's his Lord, okay. I know, and it reminds me of Esther and how we got there. Had Esther not uh occupied the space that she was in for the the time that she was in, and when the Lord, when the Lord put her there in that palace, she he put her there for a reason, right? Had she not moved at that time, right, and occup truly occupied the space that she was in, right? Because even if she would have moved or like oh, or I'll get to it. No, no, no. It this is urgent. You need to move now, and I need you to occupy occupy that space now. Had she not moved when she moved, they all would have been killed, right? So the Lord has he just like he had Esther where he was, right? And it was a whole thing, right? Leading up to her becoming uh queen and all the things, right? So even in that, like he was preparing her. So even within like the spaces that we are in, the Lord has prepared us to be in those spaces. Yeah, he's already equipped us to be in those spaces that we have everything that we need right here. Right here. Like this is all we need. You don't need that, you honestly don't need extra books, you don't need your phone, you don't need anything extra. Yeah, they're a good added bonus because there's there is wisdom in them, but this is the one in the Holy Spirit within you. That's it, hiding. That's it. That's all you need to occupy the spaces that you are truly called to be in. Are you praying and seeking? Okay, Lord, you have me in this space. What do you want to do? Yeah, open up my spiritual eyes so I can see around me spiritually what's happening. Whoo, that's a dangerous prayer to pray, y'all. Because I remember I used to Lord, don't come to me as no ghost, don't come to me as no spirit, Lord. I can't take it. Like, please don't do it, right? Like, I was like, I don't want to see nothing, like I don't know. I can't like Lord, I'm not there yet. Whole time I'm pushing, I'm I'm like pushing my blessings away. I'm pushing my calling, my purpose further and further away because I could have been occupying the spaces, you know what I'm saying? Had I not let fear take over me, Lord. I don't want to see nothing, I don't want to hear nothing. Like, I don't want to feel anything.
SPEAKER_04He's a gentleman and he's not gonna turn it.
SPEAKER_02He's not, he's not gonna force you, he's not gonna do any of the things. If you don't knock, the door gonna stay closed. How do people gonna know you outside? Right? That's right. That's some good stuff.
SPEAKER_04You talked about Esther, and we we do go and we talk about absolutely Esther in that part. Something the Lord was showing me this morning was yes, we focus on Esther and um Esther 414. However, Mordecai. Like in these appointed spaces, who are the voices that you allow to speak into? That. Oh, that's what I was just looking at. Really? Yeah. So, okay, so we'll start 13 4. Yeah. Esther 4, but I want to start at 13 because we always just quote 14. Yeah. Mordecai sent this reply to Esther. Don't think for a moment that because you're in a in the palace, you will escape when all the other Jews are killed. If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place. But you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for such a time as this? Um, so for me in that, I'm stopping there. For me in that, I was like, bro, Mordecai. Like, Esther, yes, she moved in that. But the the wisdom that was being spoken, the people, the person she allowed to speak into her life was like, hey, you're getting a little too comfortable there. Getting a little too comfortable. The Lord wants to do a thing, He's called you to do a thing. Rise up, get up, walking that anointing, that authentic anointing for the time that you're appointed for. Get up, move. I was like, I didn't think about Mortical Like that. Really? But he, yeah, I think I've skipped over that for years because we jumped to that scripture. But it really, the Lord was like, who, especially for me in this season, who am I truly allowing to speak into my life?
SPEAKER_02Who would what's who's in your circle? Who's in your community that's able to sharpen you and say, I heard this from the Lord, give it to you, and I'll tell you to take it back to the Lord for him to confirm or deny it. That's good stuff. That's good stuff, and I love how Esther was um she she didn't get on a high horse and be like, bruh, like I'm queen. Like, what? Like, goodbye. She immediately jumped into action and was like, okay, bet, y'all never fast. Y'all need to fast for three days. I mean, don't eat nothing, don't drink nothing, three days, three nights. Me and my concubines or whatever, we're gonna do the same. And then, because in times like that, you have to draw narrative.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02To hear from, like, okay, this is a serious situation. I don't know what to do. I got a word saying that, okay, maybe I am supposed to be here, right? I'm supposed to be in the space that I'm in, but I don't I don't see what what I don't know what to do next. Like, I don't know the next step. How do I figure that out? Draw close to the Father. How do you draw close? A fast. You get in his word, you quiet your flesh and let the Holy Spirit speak.
SPEAKER_04And you wait on his timing.
SPEAKER_02You wait. If you gotta wait the three days, wait the three days. I'm not saying he'll he'll every time that I've asked him for something, in the sense of like me fasting or me, like if I go into a fast and I'm like, Lord, I need clarity on X, Y, and Z, right? If I'm fasting for clarity, right? Um, he's always answered me. Absolutely. He's always answered me. It may not be even right after that fast, or it sometimes it'd be as quick as day one, and he'd be like, X, Y, and Z. And I feel like that's it.
SPEAKER_03I think I was telling you about um that's so good.
SPEAKER_04The I did a straight 24-hour fast with a friend. That was my first ever 24 hours, right? And when I went into it, I was like, Laura, you're gonna tell me our one from the it was our 23. Oh so like it like no food, obviously, it was just water and no people. It was like a whole no people had a remake at the time. She was like, Why am I being punished? Because you decide to go.
SPEAKER_03It was funny, it was funny. It's okay, and so, anyways, the point I'm trying to make is that's deep.
SPEAKER_04The Lord in the 23rd, 23 hour in 30 minutes, it was like 27 minutes. He was like, Go take a shower, and I was like, That's the only thing I heard that clear. I get in the shower complete downloads. I'm like, I can't write none of this down, like all of the things, but as you're saying it, like he meets us there, and and with yeah, that was funny. I now I'm thinking back on it. Like, he had all of these things, and he was like, I needed you to be relaxed enough to listen because your mind's still going, like your body, you're you're quieting your body, but your mind was still going, like you needed to be away and just listen in that moment, and in these appointed, occupied seasons. He does call us to be set apart, fasting, um, consecration, all these different things. Because when the Lord tells you to pivot, when you were just talking about the situation, Lord, I know I'm anointed. I'm standing in a place right now, I'm anointed and appointed for a certain thing. I don't see it. Yeah, I don't see it at all. I'm not seeing it walk by. I'm like, Lord, what is this? And he goes, You wait until I tell you to go, you stay in this space and reflect me until I tell you to pivot and move. And in those moments, in those appointed seasons, there are times where the Lord, just like with with um Esther and they all had to fast and all of that, it was because she had to listen for the exact moment of the plan that the Lord wanted to do, the exact night, whatever all the things needed to be laid out, and she needed to learn the pivot of moving. Hey, I told you to go left, but now this person's over there, so now I need you to go to right. We were talking about that friend earlier. I'm like, hey Lord, I'm going in the service, I'm about to worship, come out and turn. And I was like, oh, and it ended up being a whole thing, a whole thing, a whole beautiful thing. Yeah, so yes, when we you asked me that question earlier, can I be appointed for something without being authentic and anointed? And I'm gonna add in that and not following the Lord? Absolutely not, and why would you? We mess up everything in our own strip. I mess up everything in my house.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, no, that part. That part. I did a heart check and I was like melting. Like, I don't know how people live apart from the Lord because I can't wait to y'all. I was going through it last week or the week before last, and I'm just like, I don't know how people live apart from the father because I I can't function, everything is too much, and there's something about when you're close to him and you're like in that quiet space with him day in, day out. Like when you start to inch away from that, you feel it. Ciao, it's like it's more than off. Like, I was lost, like it felt like I was wandering around in a circle, and I just wanted to die. Like, that's literally how I felt. I'm like, Lord, he's like, bro, you let go of my hand. Yeah, I was like, Oh my gosh, how can I I was stressed, y'all. I'm talking ugly, died down, ugly crying. Um, and to say, like, when I asked you that question too, yeah, you can't because apart from we can't do anything apart from him, right? And if you like in doing that, it can be fake. Like, if you're not being truly yourself, one, who you being, who you pretending to be, yeah, right? And truly, you're not walking into your anointing, so now you're a false prophet or whatever you want to call yourself, right?
SPEAKER_04So many insecurities mass, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so how are you now gonna occupy the space that you're in? It doesn't there, it does not make sense, and it doesn't align, and now you you're giving people more of you, which is now now you're dipping in your toes in pride and all the other things and self-gratification because now you think it's the Lord leading you, but you're not even being true to who he called you to be. You're not walking in the anointing that he called you to walk into, you're operating, you're trying to operate in someone else's anointing because you've seen somebody else do it, so now you think that that is for you because y'all have some sort of similarities when no, he didn't he didn't call you to be in that lane, he called you to stay in your lane when I'm driving. The Holy Spirit literally uh literally be talking to me. Like, I'll be like, Lord, like should I speed up, or should I? And sometimes he be have he has to tell them, like, girl, slow down, like you're in you're going the speed limit, whatever that speed limit is, right? Like you're going the speed that I have appointed you to go, right? Who cares if this car is zoomed by you? Who cares if this car zooms on the side of you and it's still a little ahead of you? Who cares if the car in front of you is going three miles per hour? I still told you to wait behind them until I tell you to go. And sometimes I have to literally look at traffic like that, and the Holy Spirit speaks to me like, just stay in your lane, Shannae. Like, just stay in your lane. Don't try to veer into somebody else's lane. Don't go around because all the all the rest of the traffic is going around. I need you to stay here. There's protection when we listen. Yeah, there's protection when we're obedient. There's protection in your waiting season. Yeah, there's protection when he says, I'm not saying no, just not right now. Just not right now. Just not right now. And I think about that all the time. Like, dang, if I would have gone around, it could have been an accident and they could have smashed me, and then bam. Now we got one toe. You know, like it could have been anything. Like, so I I I love, love, love that. We can't pretend to do ministry, we can't pretend to follow Jesus. We can't pretend. It's either you do it fully, or no, I mean, people do pretend actually, or you don't do it at all and say, Oh no, no, let it out.
SPEAKER_04Stop saying, no, like it's like um again, uh fear of the Lord or fear man. Um sorry, you were saying like you the pretending, right? And all of that, the Lord kept saying to me, he was like, just say it. Um, how are you making disciples when you won't even open your Bible and get close to me? And I was like, oh my, you want to tell people that okay, that part. So he was saying, like, and and and the appointing several people. I know you're shepherding people right now, yeah. Um true shepherding of people, like you are bringing them in, thinking about the sheep, like you're bringing them in, and they follow you because they're listening to your voice as you are supposed to be imitating the Lord, right? Paul says that. Um, and the Lord is like, how are they following you, following me when you won't even follow me and you won't even open your Bible to spend that time with me?
SPEAKER_03And I was like, No, that's why it's like it's gonna come out.
SPEAKER_04It's like it was like like heart push, Holy Spirit, and so heart check for whoever this is that one, whatever the case may be heart check. Are you serving the Lord to walk in the anointing and the pointing of the Great Commission, right? And shepherding his sheep well, or are you doing it in a prideful place that you can put yourself on a pedestal and leave the Lord out of it? Ask him that and don't have that conversation. That's really good. So sorry guys, we had to stop this. Sorry, man, that was some good stuff, and there's just so much more to go. So we're gonna cut this and then come back for part two of appointed next week.
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