🎥 Freedom to Soar | Day 2 – Defining Your New Season (Part 1)

0:00 You pray it, and He can answer it. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. God will put the prayer in your heart to pray so that He can answer it. It goes into the hearts of the people. It doesn't return void. It produces results. Can you sense it in the seat? I just heard the Holy Spirit say, this is the dawn of a new day. It's the dawn of a new day. You know, I'm a true believer that some things in our lives can happen suddenly. And I truly believe that this time that we've had together is... huge with what God's doing in our lives. And I think the weights, the message, everything has just been symbolic of the new thing that God's doing in our lives. Amen? So before I get into the word, I again want to remind everyone, Pastor Pam has been on the call with us. Together we pray at 9 .30 a .m. Eastern Standard Time every Thursday. And I want to invite each and every one of you to join us. Huh? 9 a .m. Did I say

1:34 9 .30? Thank you, Mary Jo. So 9 o 'clock Eastern Standard Time. It's hard to be in the natural and in the spirit. 9 o 'clock Eastern Standard Time. Together we pray. There's a conference call number and then an access code. It's very simple. I'm in charge of muting and unmuting. Nobody even knows who you are or nothing, what you look like. But we really want to invite you to join us. I believe the ladies put the cards in your bag. If you didn't get one in your bag, we could put some out on the table in the back. Praise God. Can we just lift our hands for just a second? Thank you, Lord. Lord, we worship you.

2:19 This is a day that you've made for us. We thank you. We thank you. We worship you today. We thank you. Thank you, Lord. Oh, this is the word. I was trying to get it. It was in my spirit. Today, this meeting today has been a defining moment for us. It's a defining moment, defining moments plural. And things are changing inside of us, and therefore things are going to change outside in our circumstances. Amen? Okay, so we've been talking about the life and the nature of an eagle, and we talked about how important it is to intertwine our lives with God, and that that word weight means to twist or to bind whence a rope, and that when we do, we are made strong. We found out that 32 times eagles are referred to as an example of the Christian life. We found out that when it rains, eagles, while most birds head for the shelter, we eagles, we... want to run toward that storm, and we want to soar above the rain clouds. The Holy Ghost kept giving us the saying of find your wind. I have to do more research on that, and I would love to make a message out of that. Find your wind in your storm.

3:51 So we found out that eagles like a storm, that they get excited when they see the storm because they know it's an opportunity to glide and to rest its wings and to soar. mount up into higher heights and deeper depths. We found out that the eagle tests before it trusts, right, you single ladies? But the place I want to emphasize briefly for this afternoon is eagles have strong vision. They have the ability to focus on something up to 3 .1 miles away. When an eagle sights his prey, he narrows his focus on it, and he sets out to get it no matter the obstacle. The eagle will not move from his focus from the prey until he grabs it. So we're going to talk a little bit about vision. And then lastly, eagles do not eat dead things. And we're going to focus on that as well. Amen? If we're going to mount up and we're going to soar and be everything that God has called us to be and called us to do, we've got to find our purpose. And I'm going to read to you from Jeremiah 1 .5. It just says, it simply says, I'm not going to read it. I'm just going to quote it. In Jeremiah's case, God said, listen, before I formed you. In your mother's

5:27 womb, I knew you. Think about that scripture. Before I ever formed you in your mother's womb, God said, I knew you. And in Jeremiah's case, he said to Jeremiah, and I ordained you to be a prophet to the nations. So two things. Number one, before he was ever formed in his mother's womb, God knew him. Can I just say it like this? How about we knew God as well? I don't know. Ever since I've been a little girl, I've always wanted to, in a sense, get back to God. I don't know how to describe it, but as a little girl, I wanted to get back to God. I wanted to be close to God. As a little girl, I would sit in my backyard on a little tree stump, and I used to look up into the sky, and I wanted to see God's face.

6:27 No, I'm a little girl, you know, three years old. Nobody ever told me about the song, show me your face, Lord, show me your face. Nobody told me that when we behold him, we're changed into the same image from glory to glory to glory. Nobody ever told me about the life of Moses, that, you know, Moses wanted to see God's face. And God said, nobody can see me. But I think there's something to be said about the understanding of the fact that you are an eternal. eternal being. You have eternity, Ecclesiastes says, on the inside of you. And you came from God, right? And I believe we ultimately, we want to go back to God, which is our original home. Home is really heaven. God is your real father, right?

7:18 But we also have something on the inside of us that's unique, right? There's a purpose. a plan and a destiny on the inside of each and every one of us. And what I would like for each of us to do today is under this prophetic anointing that's obviously been here, I want you to let the Holy Spirit talk to you in your seat today. You have a notebook, you have a pen, you have a paper. The team here really organized this women's event with supreme excellence. I am so proud of you all who organized this. So you're ready. So as I speak, I want you to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to you. Right?

8:07 It's not just what I'm saying. It's what is he saying? When I used to sit under the ministry of Kenneth E. Hagin, it wasn't just what he said or the stories he told. I learned to look and hook up to the inside of me and say, Lord, what are you saying to me while he's saying what he's saying? And there was always a word there. I think this kind of ministry and teaching, this prophetic kind of preaching and teaching, is the highest form of prophetic ministry. We don't always need a word one -on -one, although it's good. We don't despise prophesying. But I believe that the Bible says they that are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. And you're mature enough to hear the voice of God for yourself. Well, how does God speak? He speaks in a knowing. He speaks when it's on the inside of you. You know, it's a consistency. You just consistently have the same desire. You consistently can't get away from a certain thought or a certain desire or a certain hunger towards something that's godly. He speaks with a red light. No, no, no, don't do that. He speaks with a green light. That's it. That's it. Go in that direction.

9:32 It's a feeling on the inside of peace. Doesn't the Bible say he will lead us and guide us with peace? You will be led forth with peace. Peace and the mountains and the hills will break forth into singing and trees of the field clap their hands. So listen to what the Holy Spirit has to say because I believe, and I say this by the Holy Ghost, there's purposes and purpose on the inside of each and every one of you. And for some, it's going to be revived. So I'm just going to tell you a quick story because it's coming up. Last year was a year where I felt. on the inside of me felt, I don't know how to explain it spiritually, something on the inside of me said, said, hold back, pull back, specifically pull back on social media. I want you to hide yourself in me. Now, I'm going to be honest, I didn't totally pull back on social media because I have a social media assistant. He just kept posting for me. And you can tell when something's coming from me because it's my dog or it's a scripture. Like you could really tell when it's, you know, other things like videos and things like that. That's my social media system, just taking my content, you hearing me, and putting it out there. But the Lord really dealt with

11:04 me. And you've got to listen to the Holy Ghost. You know, eagles go through a molting time or a molting season where they go into hiding where they take off their feathers, they bite their beaks down to nothing, and it's a molting time and it's a season for them to become for themselves renewed because they reach a place in their life where they need to get strong again because they've become weak. Jeez. So I felt in my heart, on the inside of me, and I didn't tell a lot of people, sometimes, you know, it's like Mary, she hid those things in her heart, because not everybody's going to understand. The hiddenness was really more in my heart, on the inside, pulling back, but also just social media, pull back.

12:01 You know, fun things that we did and pictures and, you know, Thanksgiving was, I posted some pictures, but I'm talking there was just hold back. So I would not say to you that I was confused. What I would say to you is my sheep hear my voice, the voice of a stranger they will not follow, and something on the inside of me in a gentle, sweet manner. is saying, I want you to pull back. And I didn't know as I studied the life of the eagle, it was a molting process. Didn't know it. So for a year, I did that. Did you stop preaching?

12:41 I kept preaching. Did you stop doing Facebook lives? Kept doing them. Did you stop interviews? Kept doing them. I kept doing everything out here, but nobody know that on the inside of me, something was... Something on the inside of me was being rewritten. I didn't fully understand, but it's not my job to understand how he works in me, in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure. It's our job to say, I surrender all. And if you're telling me to go against the grain, pull back from social media, don't post all your personal stuff, spend time with me, something's changing, I'm going to do it. And not everybody's going to understand. And I feel like that's why sometimes people, they just run on fumes, they burn out, and they never reach the full potential of the call of God on their lives. Because they've wasted energy on broken things, on not the gold, but the stuff that doesn't matter. Wood, hay, and stubble will not... What

14:17 matters is following, like Caleb, following Jesus fully. And like the Apostle Paul, I finished my course. I ran the race. And therefore, there's laid up for me a crown. It's obeying God fully. So I didn't fully understand. And sometimes when I get like that, my assistant gets a little nervous. Are you moving to Florida? Are you still going to be here? What's going on? I said, I'm good. It's all good. It's all good. It's all good. It's all good. See, nobody understands what God's doing deep down on the inside of you except you.

14:57 You and God. That's why you have to know God for yourself. It's a personal, intimate walk. with him. Because when you stand before God, you're not going to stand before God with anybody, no matter who that person is. It's going to be you and God. And so for me, I felt pulled back. I don't even know how to explain it. It's just pull back. That's the only way I can explain it is with the tone of my voice. Pull back. And so I pulled back. continue doing all the outward things of ministry. You understand what I'm saying? But something on the inside, this is the Holy Ghost, was being rewritten. And I didn't even know it. You know, the Bible says, remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old. For behold, I am doing a new thing. I am doing a new thing. I am that I am that I am who created you and formed you in. your mother's womb who knew you and predestined you to live in a time such as this. I am that I am doing such a new thing. The rest is still unwritten.

16:08 How many of you remember that song? And so I came to Fort Myers. My house was already built. I was still working on getting settled. And in January, you know, I was here in January. I came here and I just said, I'm spending a month. here or more. I didn't have a ticket home. And I said, I'm going to seek the Lord. Can I come down here? I'm going to seek the Lord and I'm going to spend time with him. I don't know how to pray about this. I don't know what to pray. I don't know what to pray. So what did you do? I said, I surrender all. Sang the songs about that. Hear a little.

16:51 I surrender. And I just walked the floors and prayed in tongues. One hour. Two hours. Three hours. Four hours. Walk the dog. Five hours. Six. Fed the dog. Walk the floors. Next day. Fed the dog. The dog went potty. Walk the floors. Prayed in tongues. Prayed in tongues. Listen to Keith Moore, who is an outstanding speaker and minister on faith. Renewed my mind concerning faith and what it really means. and just prayed in the Holy Ghost. Now, you remember, those of you that were here for that Sunday service, the first night I got there, all hell broke loose. I moved my foot a certain way, and they thought I had a fractured foot, two x -rays. It took forever to get to a doctor. It was like pain beyond pain. My whole foot turned black. And then the next day, my cheeks swelled up because I had a gland that was clogged by some kind of crystal, so I looked like a chipmunk. So I was like, you know, I never get attacked physically.

17:56 That's not my vibe. You've got to know yourself. My crack in my armor or my tendency is to be attacked emotionally. It kind of goes along with my temperament. My temperament is I'm an introvert. I'm prophetic. I'm sensitive. I have a lot of empathy. You know, God has to help us along these lines when we're like that to keep us strong. You can still be soft and be strong. So then I started to get attacked. It was the craziest thing. With the craziest warfare you would have ever heard in your life. Because any time there's a new level, there's a new devil. So the door is set before you. God said, I'm setting before you an open door. But there's many adversaries.

18:52 And there's war at the gates. And you're entering in. I didn't know what I was entering into. Are you listening? Some of you don't even know what is going on. But your heart. knows things your head doesn't know. And God certainly knows the plans he has for you. There are plans to bring you into that new door and plans to prosper you and not harm you, to bring you into the fullness of the plan and purpose and destiny he has for your life. But we don't always get it because we're walking by faith and not by sight. So I'm sitting there. in tow dog sitting next to me and the warfare and the thoughts and the stuff that was coming in my mind I literally couldn't believe it I'm gonna explain something to you there's war over your purpose there's war over your destiny there's war over what God is calling you, and the more the gift starts rising, the enemy sees the angelic activity. He sees something inside of you rising and shining. There's an anointing, and you don't feel it. You don't perceive it. Do you not perceive it that I am doing a new thing? perceive it. Sometimes we're just so blinded by our own emotion or our own circumstances.

20:20 We don't see it, but the devil sees it, and he is afraid of you reaching your full potential. Now, this they begin to do, reach their full potential. Nothing will be impossible for them, which they've imagined to do. So, I mean, the warfare was like... I have never experienced, and I can't even tell you what it was. It was like, I just can't even explain it. It was new warfare. New level, new devil. New season, new stuff, new level, new devil, new weird kind of warfare that I've never experienced before. Well, what are you going to do with it? You're going to cast it down. You're going to take authority.

21:03 You're going to say no. You're going to go into good teaching. You're going to listen to people like John Antonucci and Pam Antonucci. You're going to go listen to somebody like Keith Moore who talks about faith. We walk by faith. Where has the message of faith gone? Sometimes in some of our churches, we have a watered -down gospel, and that's why many are weak amongst us and are hurting amongst us because we've watered down. All those faith people, they're just full of pride. No, they're confident in what God has done through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's not about us. It's not about us. We should boast. It's about him. But we have to exercise our faith. We have to walk by faith and not by sight. So the warfare came.

21:51 So what did you do? I'm not stupid. I know the power of prayer. I called my friend Maria. And I had to confess my fault to her. And I said, not even that it was my fault. Warfare is not even your fault. But you got to humble yourself. Under the mighty hand of God. I'm humbling myself under the mighty hand of God in my living room with my dog doing the licky, licky on my toes and on my face. I'm humbling myself. All right, Lord, I'm humbling. I took authority. I did everything. But, you know, I have to humble myself in front of my friends and say, I need help. And all of a sudden, they didn't, I didn't talk long. All of a sudden, boom, her and her husband started praying in the Holy Ghost, took authority over the devil. They went on and on and on. That's what you want. Somebody, when you call them, they not only answer their phone, but they pray.

22:58 When they pray, they go on and on and on and on and on. And by the time that phone call was done, and this was five days in, I was fine. I had a little boot on my foot. So what, devil? You're not stopping me. Boot and all. I just had to find some baggy jeans that would fit around the boot. Got it? So out of this six weeks with God came a new anointing. Came another authority. Came fresh vision. And the Lord said to me, he said, you got to let go of this, that, and the other thing. And some good things that you're doing, let it go. And some people that are in your life, they want to use you as a platform, stand on you, and get accolades from man. I didn't say it. The Holy Ghost said it. I'm just Margie, the little girl that sat in the back of my yard wanting to see God's face. But you've got to mark those that cause division among you and understand your relationships. And some relationships you've got to let go. Because they're stealing

24:34 your joy and they're stealing your purpose and they're stealing your destiny. You know, it's like Janet was saying, you know, they're, I don't know, I just feel like they're just like those weights and they're pulling you down. So I did it. Got through it. But you know what? I'm going to read this. This is just coming out different. Ecclesiastes 3. I think I gave it to Bruce. I know people don't have Bibles nowadays. But I want you to listen to your spirit. Listen to your heart. To everything. I'm going to read the whole thing. Can we handle that? Oh, you're going to read a bunch of scripture in church.

25:37 I'm only used to one or two scriptures and five or ten stories. To everything, everyone say everything. There is a season. You don't have to say that. Just to everything. Because I want you to listen. I want you to listen to your heart. To everything, there is a season. A time for every purpose under heaven. A time to be born. It was my will. God says it was my will that you were born. The day and the hour and the year. that you were born.

26:33 Time to be born. I called you and I ordained you to live in this time. As a matter of fact, the Bible says, I have ordained the places in which you are to live. Well, how do you know? How do I know that I'm supposed to live there? You feel a peace there. You feel a joy there. It feels right on the inside of you. It doesn't mean you're not going to have warfare and turmoil and things. See, as a matter of fact, I just laugh at the devil at this point because you know what, devil? You just proved to me I'm called to be here. Ha, ha, ha. Time to be born. A time to die. A time to plant. A time. To pluck up what is planted. A time to kill. Well, I don't understand that one, but. And a time to heal.

27:39 It's time to heal, my friends. A time to break down. And a time to build up. It's okay to break down, but don't stay there. You got to get up. He strengthens the feeble knees. He makes straight paths for your feet. Thank you so much for tuning in to today's podcast. It has been such a joy sharing this time with you. For more inspiration and resources on today's topic,