It’s a New Day—No More Delay

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Hello and welcome. This is Diane Lake, your host,

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and I'm going to be sharing how you can understand

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and apply the prophetic through practical terms,

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practical ways, and practical means that make

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it relevant to everyday life so that you can

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prepare the way for the Lord's purposes to manifest

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in the earth. This is the podcast show Preparing

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the Way, The Practical Prophetic. Well hey guys

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and welcome to today's episode number 57 titled

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it's a new day no more delay. Well it's like

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a new chapter has opened up in the spiritual

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realm. Let's start by reading Isaiah 42 9 in

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the New King James. It says behold the former

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things have come to pass and new things I declare

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before they spring forth I tell you of them.

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The Lord often illustrates what he's been speaking

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to me prophetically through what is happening

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in the natural realm in our lives. Currently,

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my husband and I are building a significantly

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sized addition onto the existing ranch house

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that we bought, and it will pretty much double

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its size. On the day we broke ground, I sensed

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the Lord saying, it's a day of new beginnings,

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it's a new day. It's like we're starting a new

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chapter here the first two years at the ranch

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could be called the ranch Moved and the new title

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the new chapter called the ranch improved Friends

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my sense is that there's a much larger prophetic

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picture being Illustrated here than just what

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is being demonstrated in our lives For whatever

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reason the Lord often makes me live the word

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before I can release it to others My prayer is

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that the Lord will use the examples that I share

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here today to encourage you in your particular

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circumstances as you begin your new chapter in

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your life. Several weeks before we started this

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project, I awoke one night to hear the Lord say,

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no more delay. Wow that got my attention now

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as I prayed and pondered over this word that

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I heard I began thinking about things had been

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delayed in our lives Building this addition was

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one of them. We had actually been talking and

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planning for this for about two and a half years

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Another one was restored health because despite

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hearing the Lord say that turnaround is here

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Elements of healing have yet to be realized in

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our lives. Now you can go back to the previous

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episode and listen to that one on turnaround

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where I get into more detail in that word. I

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could go on, but I'm sure you have experienced

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delay in your life as well. The scripture that

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the Lord brought to mind concerning this word

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of no more delay was Jeremiah 1, 11, and 12.

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So let's read that in the New King James. It

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says, Moreover, the word of the Lord came to

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me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I

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said, I see the branch of an almond tree, Jeremiah

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speaking. Then the Lord said to Jeremiah, you

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have seen well, for I am ready to perform my

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word. The name used for the almond tree in this

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passage, the Hebrew word, means wakeful, as the

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almond tree was the first tree to wake from the

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sleep of winter, and it was a sign that the hard

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frost was leaving and new life would begin. It

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was meant to symbolize, it's a figure of speech,

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meant to symbolize the speedy and certain fulfillment

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of the word that the Lord had just been speaking

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to Jeremiah in the verses previous to this. Now,

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despite the many challenges and uncertainties

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surrounding building this new addition, the word

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of no delay gave us the confidence to start.

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I pray that it may awaken your confidence to

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start if you are also being delayed on something

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that you are planning to undertake in your life.

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Now the next section is called taking the plunge

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and I want to start out by reading Matthew 8

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13 in the new King James It says then Jesus said

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to the centurion go your way as you have believed

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So let it be done for you and his servant was

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healed that same hour Now as I said, we had some

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major challenges with this project. Some of the

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major challenges had to do with the site itself.

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The power main had to be moved off of that end

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of the house. The location of the well limited

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the footprint how big we could build. But the

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biggest concern of all I would say would be the

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rock pile at the end of the house. It's rocky

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terrain. And we're like, how are we going to

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dig a basement? Because there really did need

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to be a basement to make what we needed to work.

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Other concerns included that we had a previous

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contracting business for many years, but it was

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located in an area over two hours away. So that

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means all the subcontractors and suppliers that

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we had built good relationships with and loyalty

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with would be too far away to use. So it would

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be like starting from scratch. And as I said,

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there have been some health concerns. My husband

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has over 40 years of general contracting experience.

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but we wondered was his health good enough for

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him to undertake a project of this size. And

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then we had a good prophetic friend give my husband

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a word that he would be healed as he moved forward

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to build this project. As he was in process,

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he would be healed. Now that confirmed a sense

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that I had that I expressed to my husband. I

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didn't hear it in a form of a word, but I just

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sensed it. So this was great confirmation, a

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very good word to receive. We took a deep breath,

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dedicated the site, rented excavation equipment,

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and prayed for the best. We took the plunge.

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Now you ask the Lord if he would have you take

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the plunge in an area of your life as well, all

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right? And now I want to talk about every need

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supplied because this is a very good word for

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you and for me as well. Let's start by reading

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Philippians 419 in the New King James. It says,

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and my God shall supply all your need according

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to his riches in Christ Jesus. Shortly before

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breaking ground on the project, I had a dream.

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In this dream, a guy was showing me a kind of

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diorama, a little box used to illustrate things.

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He took me to a certain corner, or directed my

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attention to a certain corner, and he said, if

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you look up there, you will find your name. It

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was the upper right hand corner, I think. And

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at first I didn't believe him, but sure enough,

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there was my name. I saw a little figure that

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looked like me, clearly represented me. It was

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a bit crude in a way, almost childlike in its

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representation, and it even had the long hair.

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Now, the idea that was present in the dream was

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that God was looking down on me. It's as if in

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this dream I needed to pay some bills or something

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and God was saying don't worry about it I've

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got this it's taken care of every need supplied

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Now I am watching this play out, this word, with

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this project because we have seen God's fingerprints

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all over it from the very beginning. There have

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been so many examples that my husband recently

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made a list of them all so that we wouldn't forget

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them. The first thing that happened was our lead

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contractor came out of retirement to work on

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the project for us. Then we began seeing all

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kinds of favor with suppliers and subcontractors.

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We rented a large excavator for the price of

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a smaller one. Then we were able to keep it for

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a month for the same price as a week. Concrete

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and gravel trucks just seemed to be at the ready

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and able to deliver. deliver loads whenever we

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needed them very rapidly. In some cases within

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hours instead of waiting for weeks. And there

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seemed to be always the perfect amount on the

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trucks. In fact one load of concrete was so precise

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that my husband said that in over 40 years of

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construction he had never seen a load so exact.

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Next on his list was the well leak that we experienced

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now remember I said the well placement limited

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the fit the footprint of the build so much so

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that we have actually built a It's already been

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constructed. We've built a porch over top of

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the well. Now that is not recommended in case

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you have maintenance issues with your well, but

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we plan to replace the pump just as preventative

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maintenance to help prevent that kind of situation.

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But before we could do that, we were still in

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the excavation and I think pouring the basement

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stage. The well started leaking. and that turned

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out to be a gift because the approximately 25

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year old connection between the well and the

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line simply rotted away. We were able to dig

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everything up and replace every single part so

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that someday we won't have to dismantle that

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porch to do some maintenance and we were able

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to turn the water back on later that same day.

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I don't even know how that how that happened

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so speedily but It did because it was God. Then

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there was the role of roof paper. Another example,

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we had been we had a role left from a job one

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time and we brought it with us in the move. Because

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it's kind of expensive, you don't want to just

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waste it, right? But we didn't we didn't think

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we'd have enough. So we bought two more rules.

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but somehow that leftover roll that we brought

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with us just kept going and going and going to

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the point that when we were done rolling that

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roll over the roof we were done and had two inches

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left over. Didn't need those extra rolls whatsoever.

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So the pattern that we've seen emerge in this

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build is that there is always enough. Nothing

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lacking, wasted or extra. But perhaps the most

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dramatic example concerns digging the basement

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in that rocky terrain that I was talking about.

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Somehow the rock seemed brittle enough and the

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excavator could break it up pretty easily. And

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then after one day of digging, so we thought

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it would probably take two days to excavate this

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basement, if all went well, after one day of

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digging that night, I had a dream. I saw the

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existing house on his crawlspace foundation.

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the bedrock that it was sitting on. Now though

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we discovered that's probably why they didn't

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put a basement under this house because it's

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literally sitting on bedrock and it looked like

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a rock wall because remember we had been digging

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for a day and now we can see the house and the

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exposed bedrock it just looked like the house

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is sitting on a rock wall. Then in the stream

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I heard the Lord say a wall of hope is being

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released. Now I do want to mention that if you

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go to the article format of this word on our

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website www .starfireinternational .com I have

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posted personal pictures of many of these illustrations

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So when I'm talking about a wall of hope being

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released, which I'm going to mention here, of

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course that it is actually literally illustrated

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with my own picks so you might want to find that

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and and look at it it's pretty interesting. So

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the next morning I'm thinking about this word

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and I remember that the evening before I'd actually

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said out loud to myself I don't know why but

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I feel so full of hope. Now at lunchtime that

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day I was talking with the excavator and he kept

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saying you have got to go take a look you have

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got to go take a look because at this point he'd

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dug another half day right in the basement he

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said is literally surrounded by rock walls on

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three sides. It sits on bedrock. In other words,

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he ducked down nine feet as far as we needed

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to go and he hit bedrock. It was like there was

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a shelf. So the existing house sits on bedrock

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and so does the addition. And not only that,

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we couldn't go further in any direction. The

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rock. didn't break apart anymore. It was literal

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solid rock. So even in front we couldn't go any

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further because of the well. He just kept shaking

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his head and saying this just doesn't happen.

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This just doesn't happen. He had never seen anything

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like it in all of his years of excavation. We

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had just enough room for that basement and nothing

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extra. A very dramatic example of that. And then

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it all started coming together. The reason that

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I had felt a surge of hope the evening before

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and how the dream and real life were just colliding

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together to illustrate what the Lord was doing

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in this season. I could not find mention of a

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wall of hope in scripture. However, I feel that

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Zechariah 9, 11, and 12 infers one. So let's

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read that in the New King James. It says, ask

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for you also because of the blood of your covenant,

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I will set your prisoners free from the waterless

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pit. Return to the stronghold, you prisoners

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of hope. Even today, I declare that I will restore

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double to you. Now in the New Living translation,

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the term waterless pit is rendered as waterless

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dungeon. So that effectively paints a picture

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of imprisonment by walls of despair, the opposite

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of hope. But I hear the Lord saying I am turning

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your prison of despair into a fortress of hope

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No longer will the walls confine you instead.

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They will be your firm foundation stabilizing

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protecting and surrounding you with my presence

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and provision Wow, that is a good word. I receive

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it. I pray you do as well Now a final thing that

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the Lord has recently been speaking to me about

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is that he's calling people all over the world

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to step up their prayers for President Donald

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Trump. In a time of prayer recently, I saw a

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chess board and I felt like the Lord said that

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the kings of this world are plotting to take

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out President Trump. But God's plan is for him

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to triumph. But it will take the response of

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the body of Christ, the saints around the world,

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to prevent this plot from happening and from

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succeeding. So just close in prayer with me,

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if you would, in agreement. Lord, we pray that

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this call to increased intercession for President

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Trump will be answered all over the world. And

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we ask you, Lord, that this word of hope would

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be received well in the body of Christ. And may

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we all be filled with hope. as we enter this

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new season of no delay and fulfillment. Amen.

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I receive it. I pray you do and may you be blessed.

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