Dear Generation: God Changed Us...

Episode 12: Dear Generation: God Changed Us...

In this episode of the Dear Generation Podcast, my wife and I share about a recent encounter we had at the Presence Driven Church Conference that truly changed us. God used this season to mark our hearts again with fresh fire for intercessory prayer, daily encounters with His presence, and spiritual leadership.

We open up about what the Lord has been teaching us, what He’s been revealing in this season, and what we discern the Church is up against in this hour. We also share what we believe God is doing in our region and why we believe He is calling this generation back to prayer, purity, hunger, and His presence.

This is an episode about awakening, conviction, fresh vision, and the call to carry what God is pouring out.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Welcome to the Dear Generation Podcast, where each episode is a letter to our generation.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

And our goal for every listener is to encounter the truth that sets them free and live a life that's worth the price that Jesus paid. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Dear Generation Podcast. My name is Lemoyle. I'm Adriana. And this is episode 12. And if you haven't seen our episode 11, the previous episode, I encourage you to do so and go check it out. It is audio only, so it should be just on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. And it's called the Gospel of Grace. It is amazing. I encourage you to go back and listen to that. But here we are.

SPEAKER_02 0:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

We love you guys. We've been wanting to record. You know, initially we said we were going to record, I think, what what that every other week or something like or every week. We started every week. Um with the commitments of life and and just the busyness of our schedule. We found that out to be very difficult as we were kind of a one band band here. Um and yeah, our rhythm kind of fell more so like monthly. Yeah. And so that's that feels uh a little bit much more better. Yeah. Or uh or twice a month. So here we are, and we're so excited. We got a lot to share on our hearts, a lot of testimonies, what the Lord has been doing, uh just within our own hearts. And babe, I'll let you kick it off.

SPEAKER_02 1:17

Yeah. So we recently just went to Mercy Culture in Texas. Um What is Mercy Culture? Mercy Culture Church, if you don't know. And they're incredible. Heather and Landon shot lead. Um, they started it and they have a lot of campuses, and they're about to launch a campus in LA and DC. And so I guess rewind. When we were praying and fasting, um, the beginning of the year in January, God spoke to you, Lamuel, about us.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

Uh keep it a little a ways from your mouth.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

Um, I have my mic a little too close, but um, God spoke to you about just how we needed to go to Mercy Culture.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

We're praying here one day, and God said go. Uh, we signed up that very night, uh, we registered that very night to go to this conference which uh Mercy Culture was hosting called the Presence Driven Church Network Conference.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

Yeah, and when we signed up, we were like, I don't even know if we're allowed to sign up because we're not technically a church, we're a ministry called Jesus Place. If you don't know, that's the ministry we have here in the Twin Cities, and there's also like multiple locations throughout America, but yeah, we signed up in faith, and I was afraid, not gonna lie, because I was just like, I just know that like a lot is gonna change when we go, as well as it's a little bit of a step of faith to take time off of work and it's an investment. Um, and so I was like, okay, like we're gonna do this. We went um Sunday and we got back Wednesday morning, but from Sunday to Wednesday, it was an absolute transformation in us. Yeah. And every time there was a speaker, uh a pastor, a prophet, or an evangelist who got up on stage, they just encouraged the body of Christ to really go after the presence of God, to not build your church on strategy or formulas, but really first have a daily encounter with God. And then from that place, do what he tells you to do. Whatever he says, be obedient. And everyone just had so much to bring to the body, and so every time there was like an altar call moment, everyone was at the altar weeping, including Lamelle and I. Yeah. We just got rocked by the Lord. I personally just I was gifted this uh heart of intercession, this gift of intercession, and imparted um to really just war in the spirit for our generation, for the churches in Minnesota, for America as a nation to truly submit themselves to the Lord in in every way. Like we want to see revival in America. Um, but first it starts with us in our homes. And so after I had this moment of just weeping at the altar with the Lord, and I started praying in tongues in the spirit in a way I never have before. It was like I understood the power of this gift that the Holy Spirit gives us when He gives us uh the gift of speaking in tongues, the gift of praying in the Spirit. I have never used that the that gift in tongues in a way where there's so much power behind it. And so it changed me. And now every day I can't help but like intercede for our families, intercede for this nation, intercede for uh the the church, the body of Christ, um, in a different way where it holds weight and authority and power, and not just like, oh Lord, like you know, save America and bless America, but there's an authority because God gave me his heart, completely broke my heart for the church and this nation and our generation, and then came the impartation of intercession. So that's what God did in me. What did God do in you, babe?

SPEAKER_01 5:44

Yeah, pretty much the same, but to backtrack, uh, we we've been married seven months, we've been learning the ins and outs of how to do ministry together. Um, we felt that there was an attack on our prayer life. Yeah, we felt that instead of having daily encounters with God, praying every day, and having that intimacy with God, uh, it was kind of fading out. We would do it like once, twice, three times a week. And before we would do like every day just alone, before you know we were married. And um, and we would try our best, but it there was no first love act. Uh I felt like the flame had gone. I don't even know. It's just ministry kind of crowded our minds, busyness, uh, stress of finances, uh, all the trials, all the different things we went through. Yeah, and there it at the end of the day, there's no excuse. It's just our responsibility that, hey, you know, we let this go by and one day turn into two days, two days turn into three. Next thing you know, we we were serving people out of an empty empty tank. We're doing this podcast at one point out of an empty tank.

SPEAKER_02 6:46

We were doing it off of gifting.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

Yeah, out of just raw gifting. God gifted us with certain gifts and we operate in them, praise God for that. Uh, but if we only were to operate in gifts and not out of the anointing that God has placed on us or out of the overflow of our relationship and love with God, then uh the effectiveness uh is not all there. And um, and that's when you gr grow weary, that's when you gr uh burn out, that's when a lot of things happen. Um, where you just play church, you just uh uh just do it just because you're doing it, uh do it because you have to, or it's just you get to. Yeah. And so all these different things begin to seep in. And it's not my first time of this happening in me. Uh, this happened uh when I began to be a youth pastor in 2024 or three or 2024. And uh basically that that that crept in too. And it's the um it's a temptation of apathy to say, to go on cruise control and say, you know what, I'm gifted, people are coming, I see the fruit, there's some fruit here. Um, and I don't need to pray as much as I used to, because I think I'm just fine. And that's the temptation is that I think it's fine. I think that you know, people are still gonna get impacted by the word of God. I think um, you know, I have enough revelation in my tank to preach off of for the next 10 years, let's say, or whatever that may be, right? Lean not on your own understanding, and that's literally leading leaning on your own understanding, leaning on your own experience, leaning on your own gifting, leaning on your own, right? And so that's a great temptation in this generation that we've fallen in. I've fallen in as a single minister also, but at the end of the day, you cannot stay there. You will dry up, you will literally dry up in your spiritual life, you would die spiritually while trying to lead other people to live a life uh that's alive in the spirit when you're you're dead. And so, all that to say, coming to this conference, I knew it was it was a a call from God to be just reignited, reset. Yeah. Um, and it wasn't a cute conference, okay? It wasn't like, oh, we were so encouraged. No, we were demolished, we were obliterated, we were weeping, we were getting set free, we were getting rekindled, we were getting renewed minds, we were getting like literally fire hose of the word of God in our spirits, yeah um, to never be the same. And that's how every conference should be like. But uh, all that to say, yes, God changed me. Um, I think the title of this uh podcast is Dear Generation, God changed us because he really did. He really did. And uh I think our journey serves as a great testimony um that even as spiritual leaders that we are, we can still tend to uh have that temptation to fall into apathy and think, well, we can just hit the cruise control and go from there. Uh no, I truly believe the moment you press cruise control, the devil has won. The devil has won. And what I mean by that is when you tolerate apathy, it's a sin. You tolerate apathy in your life, it is a sin. And we have to repent of that. And even me getting tempted today from apathy, meaning I I didn't feel like praying. I was tired and weary, and and I slept really good last night, but yet I'm still tired. Like that tells you it's not natural, it is spiritual. Um, and so I know that I encountered that and just coming back to Minnesota from Fort Worth, Texas, recharged with my wife in unity as we're praying, hitting the ground running. We're believing God for a spiritual reformation in the body of Christ here in the Twin Cities, and we're believing God uh for God to use us and Jesus' place to reach and you and unite and empower and equip the church and save the lost here in the Twin Cities. And we are fresh vision, but fresh vision, not just vision, but we got some gas behind the vision. We we're praying into what that's looking like, and yeah, that's where we're at right now. Yeah, and don't fall into that. Let that be a lesson to you. Like, it's so easy to fall. It literally is easy because your flesh says, Oh, just pick the easy route. You know what's not easy? Praying, denying yourself and praying, praying up a storm, praying against the enemy, praying for God's kingdom that advanced, praying for yourself, praying for your family, praying for your generation. That stuff, it may be easy for one or two days, but if if you keep going consistently, the enemy is gonna notice, and he's gonna invite that and tempt you with apathy. And soon enough, yeah, you'll want to give up, but don't give up.

SPEAKER_02 11:37

Yeah, I think like what I have noticed since moving here to Minnesota is the church here it is not praying or like has in and like we experienced that personally, right? We're like it was so weird. Like during our uh engagement, we prayed all the time together, and we would just encounter God like together individually as well. I would tell them, well, like this is what God did, and he would he would pray for hours a day, um, and intercede. And and so it was so weird. As soon as I moved to Minnesota and we get married, it was like immediately the enemy just attacked our prayer life, and I really feel like God allowed that to show us where the church is at here in Minnesota because yes, what the enemy meant for evil, God uses for good, because it was truly an attack. Like I've never experienced that in my life.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

Yeah, and I believe everything we were tempted with in our spiritual lives is what every believer in this region is getting tempted with in their spiritual life. Yeah, and if we fell into apathy, how much more others, right? Yeah, and and that's why we are calling that out. And many people are like, what is apathy? Apathy is lack of action, lack of responsibility, lack of um, you know, zeal for God's house that consumes you. Um, it's the lack of you putting your hand on the plow and not looking back. It's that's what apathy is. It's it's it's it's you picking up your cross on Sunday, but not picking up your cross on Monday. That's spiritual apathy. Um and the temptation to uh not deny yourself and pick up your cross daily, that is spiritual apathy.

SPEAKER_02 13:23

Yeah, yeah. And so God really is still showing us where the church is at. And um I think that the church does not maybe know how to pray. They just know maybe the prayers that the pastor teaches them. Yeah, or whoever is discipling them maybe is not praying for them and warring for I don't know what it is, but I just know that the enemy is trying to keep the church from praying in Minnesota, and I believe that's why there's so much spiritual apathy, chaos, demonic like activity constantly happening.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

Minneapolis has been in the headlines, national headlines and international headlines for so many times, uh, all throughout the couple the past couple years. And I I I believe, guys, when you see a city and something drastic happens in a city, and you keep seeing that city on the headlines, and this mass shooting happened, and this huge fraud happened, and this you know, killing happened, and this murder happened, and these protests are happening, these riots, and these burning like guys, you have to eventually notice that okay, this city is under siege, and and what we see in the natural is actually what's happening in the spiritual. And you know who's to blame? Ready? The church. The church. But even deeper than the church, the leaders of the church. Because they have a responsibility of leading God's people deeper and farther into the things of God. And you know, I've I've heard, you know, soft sermons produced soft saints, and uh, you know, tolerance of sin could uh uh produced sin within the people, and all these different things have occurred within the church. I'm talking about the Capital C church, right? The body of Christ. I mean, we're not talking about denominations, we're talking about everybody accumulated within the body of Christ, within this region specifically. Um, but this also correlates to America a lot, and that's where we observe, and we're not trying to bash the bride. We we love the bride of Christ, we love God's bride so much that we would understand, call the truth and call out and say, hey, let's get equipped, let's put the full armor of God and let's go after this thing. Let's see our our our our nation, our city, our region flipped upside down with the gospel.

SPEAKER_02 15:46

Yeah, and it first starts with prayer, it first starts with an encounter. It starts with you.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

It starts with you, it starts with you, and and and that's why, you know, before us getting even on this podcast, we understand that. And it starts with us, and we have to be in our prayer closet first. You know, you have to set the example. You can't just want the change for others, but not for yourself, and and I think that's where it begins. If you want to be a chain breaker, your chains have to be broken in the secret place between you and the Lord.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

And let that be a call to you uh to even just go deeper in the Lord and let the Lord deal with the apathy in your heart and the plank in your eye, and then you go out and be the change you want to see in the body of Christ through grace and truth.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

That's so good. Paul says in Galatians 4, verse 19 This is him right first. He starts with, hey, you guys are sons, you guys are heirs. He's talking about sonship in the beginning of Galatians 4. And then he says in verse 19, My little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth, until Christ is formed in you. I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. So Paul is saying, My little children, like I am so concerned. I am in anguish and prayer, like childbirth pains for you guys. Until Christ is formed in you, I will not stop in the anguish of prayer. There's no other way. He's not just like physically feeling this anguish in his body. Like this is him, I believe, travailing in prayer like women do when they're giving birth. It's it's it's almost painful because I mean it is painful. But for Paul, he's he's saying the the pain that I have in my heart for you guys to know Christ until he is fully formed in you. Like that is what I feel like childbirth when I pray. Yeah, it's like a travailing yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:46

And and you notice the goal is for Christ to be formed in you. Yes. And and and where we see the body of Christ is that Christ is He not actively being formed in many people in the body of Christ. How do we know? We see the fruit. You see the fruit, you see the apathy, you see the spiritual immaturity, and you see uh the lack of the famine of God's word, the famine of understanding the gospel and their identity in Christ, the famine of understanding that they've been made right with God and they're not sinners anymore. Just those basic truths are are are are almost alienated from a lot of the pulpits in America today.

SPEAKER_02 18:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

And just that can tell me that wow, because those things are missing, those gospel foundational truths, that is telling me that Christ is not really being formed in a lot of believers. Um, you know, not all, but most in a lot of believers. That's the whole goal that Apostle Paul he's he kind of points it back to that. He's like, guys, I'm praying, I'm agonizing, I'm travailing over the church for this one thing to be formed. Christ to be formed in you.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

Yeah, and like if if Christ was being formed in the church, like you said, we would see the fruit. Yeah. And we wouldn't just see the fruit of like in the church, but outside. Yeah. And there would even I believe there would be even sons and daughters who are operating in the gifts with ease, like prophecy, gift of uh knowledge, word of knowledge. Like there's all these things that it's hard to come by that people are it's coming from the overflow of like, hey, I was with the Lord and he spoke to me and I encountered him, and I love him, and he loves me, and I'm gonna bring that now to the body of Christ to the bride, and I'm gonna encourage the body by prophecy and strengthening, or a word of knowledge, like, hey, God showed me this in my prayer closet about you, and I want to speak identity over you. I'm like, do you know what I'm saying, babe?

SPEAKER_01 19:48

Yeah, but I just feel that the the prophetic almost has been so um mixtured with a lot of selfish ambition. Yeah, and also there's been bad examples of the prophetic ministry. Um, and I'm also more so speaking of like our region, because I know our region so well. I grew up here and uh pastor's kid for 18 years here, and so like I've seen a lot within the church, and I I could say with confidence, like a lot of the people are either skeptical of prophecy or they're uh or they're walking in it purely, or the other side of it is they're walking in it impurely, uh, with selfish motive and mixture and and using the prophetic ministry with fear in it and not identity. Uh, there's no gospel or forgiveness, there's a lot of manipulation when it comes to that. Um, and so all that to say, I believe God is purifying the church, but it's starting with us, it's starting with you. Amen. Because you are the church, I am the church, right? And it starts with me, it starts with you. Um, and having that realization kind of puts you in a place where, okay, first, God deal with the plank in my eye, purify my heart when it comes to the prophetic. If I'm not even operating in the prophetic, God grow me in the prophetic, you know. And I think with that, babe, we talked about this, and uh, I feel like you hear this a lot in charismatic circles, but I'm gonna say it and I'm gonna explain what it is. Um, it's it's the religious spirit.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

The religious spirit go there.

SPEAKER_01 21:21

Now, people are like, oh, you you smack the word spirit on everything. Uh actually, I don't. I'm actually actually against that too. But this legitimately is a spirit because um it operates in and through a lot of people, and it's the same spirit that hung Jesus on the cross. It's the same spirit that the Pharisees had that uh tried to stone the woman caught in the act caught in the act of adultery and wouldn't extend mercy, but Jesus did. Uh it's it's the same spirit we see all throughout um the Bible that that they they honor God with their lips, but their hearts are far from him. It's the same spirit that walks in law and not grace, it's the same spirit that. That um that tries to make themselves uh righteous by their own works and not by his own work. Um it's that same spirit that we see in a lot of churches today that are preaching uh law, the do's and don'ts of the Mosaic Law, not understanding that that Jesus fulfilled the law so that we can walk by grace through faith in his finished work. Um and so that's what I mean by the religious spirit. We could even call it just the religious mentality um in the church now is that there's a lot of of that going on.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

Yeah, no, there's a lot of gospel of law, which is not a gospel at all, instead of gospel of grace. And we do see the church, I think, operating in like self-righteousness. It is just so sad.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Yeah, and the temptation for me, I'm gonna, you know, the temptation for me was was to slip into works too. I mean, we we went on a fast and uh like a couple weeks in, I was like, someone would ask me, How's your fast going? And I'm like, I'm cruising, I'm cruising, I'm doing good. And uh the moment I said that I actually slipped into my own works and I fell out of grace and I couldn't finish the fast. And so that's just one example of many that many of us can fall into works thinking, well, I got this. My gift is good, is good enough to take this giant down. No, it's not, it really isn't. And uh, you might take one down, but the second one will run you down, and you can never do things on your own. And I think also the religious spirit, um, what it does to the church, it makes people dependent upon their own works rather than dependent on God. Yeah, and so it it it makes you uh it it gives you a form of um selfish ambition and and um pride, really, and you lose your full trust and who he is and what he's done.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

Yeah, well that's so true. Good job.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Amen. What else, babe, do you do you feel that we've learned uh just in this season? Uh not just getting reset by this conference and and lit up, but what what is something that you feel that God is teaching you in this season?

SPEAKER_02 24:18

Oh man, honestly, I really feel like God is just showing me how much I need Him. Um and I just have this fresh love, first love fire once again for the Lord, where I'm just at the end of myself and I'm like, God, I need you, I need you to even breathe. Like you're the breath in my lungs, yeah, you're the one who wakes me up. You are the only one that I need that I want, and I don't want to do anything without him. Like I don't want to do anything without him being the center. So he's just bringing me back to the first love. I feel like that's why when Pastor Landon was preaching that night at the altar, I was weeping over the first love. Yeah, because I think it's so easy to forget, and then you again you'll slip into works and self-righteousness, and you can do everything, but really it takes humility, it takes so much humility to humble yourself before the Lord and recognize your need for Him and how much His love is the only one that will satisfy you and carry you into the next day because you don't want the next day to happen to you. You want to happen to that day, you want God to happen instead of it happen to you, and that only can come if you're first with the Lord.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Yeah, let's talk about daily encounters because uh the the thing we learned, and uh I love the language that Mercy Culture and the Presence Driven Network uh puts uh on on this. And you know, many times I'd hear your prayer life or this or that, but I think daily encounters puts it very, very well in one in one uh or two words there. Daily encounters, daily encounters. Uh, let's talk about that because that's the foundation to our Christian life. We cannot spiritually grow for not having daily encounters. And that is something we've learned over time, and that's something that has been solidified in our hearts just recently is that if you're not willing to have a daily encounter, not just one, but daily encounters, um morning and evening, your spiritual life is gonna dry up. It really is. And there's different ways we connect with God. I connect with God through adoration and solitude and meditation on the scriptures.

SPEAKER_02 26:40

Uh, my wife connects with God through remembrance, adoration, and learning.

SPEAKER_01 26:46

Learning, yep. Just learning through the Bible. You connect with God and you just have these light bulb moments with God. You know, we all have those moments, and you have to learn how you best connect with God to then have daily encounters, which then will change your life. And daily encounters what would will literally develop you to be a spiritual leader. Because as you're having these spiritual daily encounters with the Lord, he's gonna teach you how to steward them because you have them every day. And as you have them every day, you're gonna learn how to steward them, and stewardship comes upon your life because you're not just stewarding your spiritual life, but God's gonna then entrust you to lead other people and steward theirs. Um, and so I believe everybody's called to be a leader, but not just a leader, but a spiritual leader. Uh I believe like this world is lacking spiritual leaders. Yeah, we have a lot of good leadership books, leadership tools, leadership advice, leadership quotes, but not many too, not not many spiritual leaders that lead spiritual people because that's who we are.

SPEAKER_02 27:45

Yeah, and Jesus modeled daily encounters with the Father. He didn't do anything that he didn't see the father doing first. How did he know the father was saying? How did he know what the father was doing and wanted him to do? It was because he first encountered him. He would go and pray often by himself in solitude before the miracles and after. So he had daily encounters. And if he did that as the son of God and modeled that, and that is why the disciples asked him, teach us how to pray. We see you praying all the time. Yes, we have to do that, and so that is just what we're so passionate about now. We want everybody to catch this because we're Mercy Culture Church has just changed our life.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

Yeah. And I would say this we could do a whole teaching on how to pray and do, you know, five points, this and that. But really, it's there is no formula. Uh, find the way you best connect with God. Prayer is just simply putting your attention towards the Lord and engaging God in that in that manner of uh putting your attention towards Him, whether that's through worship or learning or solitude or stillness, whatever that may look like for you, find that. Yeah, connect with God daily. And I promise you, your life, your spiritual life, it's gonna be a game changer for your spiritual life and your spiritual growth. And that's the whole point is to spiritually grow. That's Christ may be formed in you, right? That's how you spiritually grow, is that the more time you spend with Christ, the more time Christ spends in you, essentially, and and grows in you so that you can be like him. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

Yeah, so Christ can be formed in you.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

Amen. Yeah, so that's one of the biggest things we've learned as of lately, uh, just doing daily encounters on my own and then doing daily encounters together.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

Um, and which has been a game changer for our marriage because we did not know how to come together and just pray. It was like really cute little prayers of like, you know, bless his day as he goes to work and protect him. But like, but I feel like the Holy Spirit is like no pray for your husband, like go to war for him. And so, like, I'm praying for him, like in the spirit, but I'm also like praying over you. Prayers I've never had with authority, and this isn't to boast, I just feel like God just did such a deep work in my heart, and I encountered him, and so yeah, our marriage has just been amazing.

SPEAKER_01 30:06

Amen.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

I mean, it all it always has, but like it was rough there.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

Yeah. When you just focus the prayer, everything begin in your life, begins to slowly just dim like the life in a lot of things, like life in your relationships, life and in your community, a lot of it just begins to grow dim just because your spiritual life is dead. And um, yeah, I just that's the number one thing we've learned. God has changed us completely through us just simply humbly meeting him every single day and saying, God, I need you. I can't do this on my own. Yes, you've given me gifts that I could operate on my own, but I don't choose to. I choose to submit under you and receive your your your oil to fill my lamp so that I could keep burning. And that is the whole goal in your Christian life. So yeah, that's huge.

SPEAKER_02 31:00

What is our benediction for them today?

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Yeah, I would say what I just said right now, but also find the way you best connect with God and do it.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

Oh, you can actually text. You can text connect, right? To 590. Or no, is it encounter? I think it's encounter. It's encounter. Text that to 59090 and it'll send you a link to an assessment that you can take. And it's a really good tool that teaches you how you best connect the top three ways, and it shows you how.

SPEAKER_01 31:38

Yeah, so text encounter to 59090. If uh you really want to know how you best connect with God, take a quick assessment quiz. By the end of it, you'll get an email of the top three ways you could you best connect with God. That way you can connect with God every day. Daily, daily, and it's gonna be a game changer for your spiritual growth. Now is the time, guys. We're literally in the last days. Rumors of wars and actual wars are happening. I mean, lawlessness, you name it. But that's not the point. You know the point is to be a pure and spotless bride for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Yeah. And the way you're gonna do that is by daily encountering God through his word, through his presence, by his spirit, by grace through faith. And so that's our benediction to you today, babe.

SPEAKER_02 32:24

Yeah, and I quickly wanted to say, just imagine if Jesus were to come tomorrow. Did you know him and spend time with him today? Like if he were to come, I want to be, I want to be like, oh, I was just with you. I was just in this secret place with you. Like we, you and I were just connecting. That's how I want to be. I don't want to be like, oh, I was just, you know, in the club, I was just sitting. Like, if you are in I was just scrolling on Instagram. If you are, yeah, I'm not even gonna get in there. I don't want to start preaching, but like if you feel far away from God, go shut the door, spend time with him, and let him just cover you in his presence.

SPEAKER_01 33:03

Yeah, his presence is everything you need and more, guys. His presence is everything you need and more, guys. Worship him, praise him, and his presence will carry you through this season and all the seasons of your life. In Jesus' name. We're gonna pray over you guys, and yeah, this is gonna be good. Yeah, we'll love to see you guys in the next upcoming episode. So, Father, I thank you in Jesus' name for everybody listening and watching right now. Holy Spirit, would you continue to rekindle the first love flame in their heart? God, would you bring them to a place of encounter, of daily encounters with you? God, would you show them what's the plank in their eye that they need to get first before they go out and bring change uh into the body of Christ by your spirit, by grace, through faith. Lord, I thank you in Jesus' name that you would bring direction and bring a rekindling in their spirit so that after this podcast, they wouldn't just turn off this podcast and scroll away or find in the next podcast, but they would simply just go and tuck away with God and find him there and encounter his presence in Jesus' mighty name. Father, bless them.

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Amen.

SPEAKER_01 34:08

Jesus' name, amen. All right, God bless you guys. We'll see you in the next episode.

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Thank you for watching this week's episode of the Deer Generation Podcast. We love and appreciate every single one of you.

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