🎥 Freedom to Soar | Day 1 – Intertwine Your Life with God (Part 3)

0:01 Psalms 147 .3 says, He heals the brokenhearted and binds up the wounds. What else does the Word of God do? It creates stability in your life. When you allow the Word of God to anchor you, it holds you steady in the storms of life. For example, an anchor on a boat. So you're on the boat, you throw out that anchor, and you stabilize. The Word of God will stabilize you. Can I be honest? I feel, I speak by permission, not by commandment. There's a difference. Remember when Paul said that? I've seen a lot in 45 years.

0:42 So I saw the word, the word of God, the word of faith. It was word, word, word, word. And then when I had three kids in one year, I was hidden in my house, raising my kids, mentoring them. discipling them, being an example to them, teaching them how to pray, getting them filled with the Holy Ghost and speaking in other tongues, letting my light shine before them so that they could see my Father and see his good works and therefore glorify him. Being a mother is a ministry. And I, during that time of raising three kids born in one year, Which was a lot of fun. No complaints. People go, isn't it hard? It was fun. Literally had so much fun. And I didn't know that there was a rise of what's called a prophetic movement. And when I went back into the church world, I was never at a church. I was just in children's church. big people's church with the children and back in children's church.

1:51 And, you know, I just was in the church. I wasn't necessarily, you know, in ministry or leadership or even a part of a prayer meeting. I didn't have time. I had three kids, little kids. So when I got back, when the kids went to school and I went to a prayer meeting, I was shocked. Oh, people don't want to hear this more. You better be quiet. It's true. you shocked? Because nobody was praying in tongues. Nobody was yielding to the Holy Spirit in the place of prayer and letting the Holy Ghost lead them and guide them in prayer. People would get, I'm not being critical, people would get up with the scripture, read a scripture, and it just became this, I don't even know what it was, a declaration time or a show -off time? Sorry. I don't know what. And you know what? We lost something. We lost something.

2:50 But I believe the Lord is building the house and he's going to take all the streams and he's going to put them together and we're going to flow as one river and we're going to move in unity and we're going to honor one another and appreciate one another's gifts and we're going to move as that. that can these bones live as the body of Christ rising up on her feet and taking her place in the building, the kingdom of God. So the word of God creates stability.

3:34 So we need to cultivate a simple prayer life. I want to emphasize, and we only have another, okay. I want to emphasize something that I think is really fun. We talked about alone with God. You know, eagles fly alone. It's your alone time with God. It's very important to spend time alone with God where you cultivate intimacy. But what about, and I hit on this before, but we've got new people here. What about praying in your bed? That's a really good one. I like that one a lot. I had to learn that one. Praying in your bed.

4:18 It says in Psalm 63, 6, on my bed, I remember you. I think of you through the watches of the night. I love you so much, God, that even in the night, I'm thinking about you. Where? Just on my bed. No makeup, pajamas, under the covers, the kids are asleep, everything's done, the kitchen, whatever your vibe is about how you leave the kitchen, right? James 4 .8 says, draw near to God, he will draw near to you. So in your bed, you can cultivate intimacy with Jesus. you do that? You draw inward, you look on the inside and you think thoughts towards him and you talk to him about how much you love him and how thankful you are for the day and ask him for wisdom concerning decisions. You know, prayer opens up the door for God to work. And when you pray, Revelations 5, 8 says your prayers go up before heaven and they're like an incense. So when you're praying in your bed, the posture you're laying down, isn't that a good thing for us who are weary at the end of the day? You're laying down and you're praying, but he sees in secret what you're doing in the secret place of your heart. And the Bible says he will reward you openly. And

5:51 I started to really cultivate praying in my bed in more recent years because it was such an intimate time with him. where I at times would experience him right here, everyone say right here, to such a level that I would sense or feel a burning in my heart. In other words, drawn near. to God, he'll draw near to you. So in that place of praying in your bed, just laying there, he can draw near to you and he can be close to you as a friend who sticks closer than a brother. This kind of praying has made me strong. This kind of praying, in a way for me, takes out the works. I have to be on my knees. I have to be saying a lot.

6:44 I have to, I have to, I have to. No. He's not going to hear us because of our many words. God looks on the heart. And when you're praying in your bed, he's looking at your heart, and you're acknowledging him in all of your ways, and he's drawing near. And I've had so many times where he drew so near to me, my heart burned. And I remember Brother Hagin saying, and this is what inspired me to get close to Jesus. He said, Jesus. is more real to him than his wife laying next to him in the bed. And I was like, how did he do that? Because he developed and he cultivated his inward life, not just his outward life, his inward life, his life of prayer, the hidden man of the heart. The Bible says, which in his sight is of a great price, the hidden man of the heart, acknowledging Jesus and looking unto Jesus to author and the finisher of our faith. Looking at him with the eyes of your spirit. You can't see him, but he's there. Blessed are those that have not seen, but believe he's there. He's an ever -present help in the time of trouble. He's right there with you when you're laying in your bed. Please cultivate praying in your bed. Pray

8:17 as you go. When we were coming here, you know, we took a plane. I had the dog. I have the dog with me in case anybody's wondering about my dog. Anybody thinking about my dog? He's so cute. Milo. You know, it's a big deal. Take the dog. I don't know if I should say that, Lord. Can I be honest? Maybe I shouldn't say it. I'm going to say it anyway because whatever. When I got him as a puppy, people were like, well, did you give him something to make him sleep? I go, no, I'm the one that took something. Not the dog, me. Now the dog, my dog, now he goes with me.

9:04 He stays. He gets in his little crate. He knows when it's time to go. You know, habitually you train, right? See, we are being trained habitually as eagles. Your habits determine your destiny. Let me watch what you're doing today, and I'll tell you what you're going to be tomorrow or what's going to happen tomorrow. That's why you've got to crucify your flesh. Say no. So anyway, habitually he just knows, you know, gets in his crate, goes in his crate, turns around, puts his head down, and I stick him under the seat, and he just sits there, and he's good. He sometimes pokes his head out because he wants a treat. But, you know, if I give him too many treats, when he's in the airplane. And he's going to ask for treats for two and a half hours. We don't want to develop that habit, now do we? Whatever you feed grows. So, you know, on the plane, I don't know what triggered this. I think habits.

10:07 Because I will pray with the Spirit. I will pray. with the understanding. I willed, I learned, I exercised, I developed the inner man of the heart with the word of God and did certain things. So my inner man's very like obvious to me. And when it's not obvious to me, I know something's not right and I need to get back into that place. Does that make sense? So I'm in the plane and I can't even tell you, I forget the song, but I had a song for two and a half hours that played over. And over and over and over and over and over on the inside of me. Over and over to the whole time on the plane. It was more real to me than anybody that was around me. It was so strong. And then my heart just swelled. And I felt a burn. And I felt even on that plane, the Lord is with me. My rock and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? I knew that the Lord was with me.

11:15 My shepherd I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He's leading me to Fort Myers. He's guiding all my steps. He has everything under control. father forsake me. The Lord will take me up. He is my husband. He is my father. I don't see him, but he's here on the inside of me. The whole time on the plane ride, it was, I don't even know how to describe it. It was like so satisfying to be so close to him. Nobody can take that from you. I call it the hidden man of the heart. When I spoke in the prisons in Ocala, Florida, there was like 250 women. Didn't know that a lot of them were being sexually abused. It was in the paper, so I could say it. You know, but you could sense the fear. But I told those women, I said, listen, nobody can take your intimacy with God away from you. Nobody can keep you from praying. They may control what you say, what you do, how many steps you take, because they are. controlled. Let me tell you, if you've ever ministered in prison, do we have any prison ministry people? I'm telling you they are controlled. So I tell them when you pray at night in your bed, nobody can take that from you. When you walk around in the prison and on the grounds, nobody can stop you from

12:47 doing what you do on the inside of you. So it's praying as you go. 1 Thessalonians, I never used to understand this scripture. It says, pray without ceasing. I used to say, what? You can do it. It's a practice. Remember Brother Lawrence, the book, The Practice of the Presence of God? I think that's what it is. Pray without ceasing, praying always. And this develops friendship with God. And we're going to close with this. We need to pray more worship -based prayer. Psalms 3419 says, many are the afflictions of the righteous.

13:32 I'm not stopping. I don't care. Because the Lord delivers them out of them all, all of them. If I can be delivered out of the afflictions that I went through, you can. I was little Margie. Well, I'm kind of big Margie lately because I've learned who I am. Right? But what was I saying? I forgot. What was the point? Oh, yeah. So, thank you. So, I, my daughter, you know how kids are.

14:14 God help us. You get one prayed through, and then the next one needs to be prayed through. Isn't it something? how it is. Once a mother, always a mother. I was in at home and she calls me from college. She says, mommy, I hurt my eye and something's wrong with my eye. And I, I don't know what it is. And she went to the hospital, incompetent hospital. You better watch these hospitals. You got to have a head on your shoulder. You got to listen. You got to be smart. These doctors don't all know what they're doing. I'm just giving you, I'm sounding a trumpet. She went to the hospital, a hospital. They looked in her eye. They didn't see that there was a contact in her eye. Can you imagine? Lawsuit 101. But I let it go. Everyone say, let it go.

15:18 She comes home from the hospital. She calls me. My eye hurts really bad. I get in the car. You know how we are, moms. Six and a half hours, leave at six in the morning. Yeah, my husband at the time. Yeah, yeah, you should go see her. Great. You want to join me? No, sorry. Get in the car, six and a half hours. Because, you know, some of you are mothers and fathers. And God is not unrighteous to forget your work and your labor of love, which you've shown toward his name. And some of you are caretakers. You're taking care of everybody. And I have a couple of friends like that. And it's quite interesting to watch, especially at this stage. So I got in my car, drove six and a half hours, get to her dorm. I looked in her eye, and her eye was white. The pupil was infected. You know, you got to put on the doctor hat. Long story short, we took her to an eye doctor. He said, I've never seen a cornea this bad in all of my practice.

16:25 And he referred us to a specialist for corneas. He took a look at it. So for four days, we stayed in a hotel. You know, I had to give her drops in her eyes every, I think it was either every hour or every two hours for three days. Right? Thank you, Jesus. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love. The things that you do in secret. God said, I am going to reward you. You don't see the rewards here on this earth.

17:16 But when we stand before God, he's going to say, well done, thou good and faithful servant. Did you were like, you know, it's like the guy on the road to Damascus. Who's the guy that fell? Paul. No, not Paul. The one that was the guy that was sick. and some people just walked by him, and then somebody came. The good Samaritan. You don't think that the good Samaritans in the seasons that we live in now are going to get rewarded? Do you know the Bible says when you take care of your mother and father and you honor your mother and father, things will go well with you, and you will live long on the earth. But your works and your labors, they will follow you. I say to Marsha all the time, she takes care of her mother. Her mother is 100 years old.

18:07 Marsha is my best friend in the whole wide world, and we don't get to hang out a lot because she's always at her mother's, at her mother's. I've got to go to my mother's, my mother's. And I just have to take a step back because she's fulfilling a ministry to her mother. It is a ministry to her mother. And God sees everything. She may not be in a pulpit, but who cares? You use what you have in the season that you're in, and God said, I'll reward you. So anyway, so four days were just three days every hour, drops, drops. And during the day when we'd get up, because you had to set your alarm, I would just dance.

18:49 I danced around the hotel, not in the room, not in the lobby. I danced around the room, and there was a song about dance. Let the spirit move you. Dance. You know that song? I just dance, and I dance. Thank you, Father. I was raising my hands. Thank you for healing my daughter. You're her strength. You said in your word her eye won't grow dim. I thank you that by the stripes she's healed. And just dance, dance, dance. And then Danielle was taking a shower. She came out. She saw me dancing. She's like, what are you doing? Long story short, when we went back to the cornea specialist, he said, this is a miracle. He said, there's no damage on her cornea. And you know what that was a product of? Worship. Praise stills the avenger. You want to mount up with wings like an eagle? Become a praise warrior. I'm going to worship God in the midst of this storm. I'm going to find my... And I'm going to get into that wind, and I'm going to sing with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, sing and make melody in my heart. I'm going to put worship music on because praise and worship is the voice of faith. Praise you, Lord. Let's stand. We're going to have ministry, but I have another hour, right, at the end, next, after lunch. Thank you,

20:20 Jesus. Wow, look at those shoes. Ooh. Come on over here. Are you the paint diva? She's the paint diva. Look at that outfit. Ooh, baby. You look gorgeous. Thank you, Lord. Let's just lift our hands. Let's just worship. Everything you do in secret, you know, you've been hidden. You're a hidden girl. I don't want to do this. I don't think I can do that. I don't want to speak. You know, you're like Moses. I don't want to speak.

21:02 You have a leadership capacity on the inside of you. God's calling you out from the hiding place, and he's calling you in to speak to people and talk to people and be a mouth. piece. No, I need Aaron. I'm an introvert. Me too. But he can take what you have and who you are because you have a gift on the inside, and there's a gift in you that needs to be unwrapped. You sparkle, honey. You sparkle. That's just your inward. That's your outward man picking up on your inward man. You are called to arise. You are called to shine. You are called to sparkle. You are called to speak. You are called to be a voice.

21:50 And this creativity that you have here, he's going to cause you to paint in different ways with words. And he's going to use your words to paint on the inside of his people to change their image of who they see themselves to be. And as you speak, you're going to paint a vision in their hearts of who they really are in Christ. Because the spirit of the Lord is upon you. And he's anointed. He wanted you to heal the brokenhearted and restore vision to his people. But it's going to be the paintbrush is in your mouth. So the Lord says, arise, shine, shine, shine. Your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Eagle. Everyone say eagle. Praise you, Lord. Can I have a... Can we just have somebody up for music? Is that possible? If we don't have it, it's okay. Let's just lift our hands and worship him. We had a lot of word, didn't we?

22:58 Oh. other people free. You know, the scriptures come into me that, you know, with this, you're able, look at me, you are able to comfort others with the same comfort wherewith you've been comforted by God. So as God sets you free, you're going to cause others to be set free. Thank you, Jesus.

23:53 Let's pray. another service and understand that

26:27 there will be more ministry, but I want to minister to specific eagles. Thank you, Lord. And you can't fly because your wing is broken. God wants to minister his anointing to you. Now, Dr. K would say she believes in laying on of hands and ministering to people's soul, but sometimes you also need therapy, and it can work together.

27:08 But I believe also that the Spirit of God is here to heal the brokenhearted. And so if you want to begin a process today of letting go, It's a process. Am I the only one that says it like it is? Sometimes it is a process. If you would like to begin the process of the healing in your soul from the wounds and from that which would have broken your wing, I want you to come up and my brother's going to keep singing. Thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast.

28:13 It has been such a joy sharing this time with you. For more inspiration and resources on today's topic, please visit our website at margiefloran .org.