The Gathering!

Y'all are so nice to me. Y'all are so sweet to me. Okay,

before I get started, actually, I'm gonna pray. But also I

would like Carla to come up as y'all saw. Yeah, Carla, y'all

probably noticed last week that Mark DuPont did a lot of testifying testimonies, right,

he was testifying a lot to what God has done and what he's seen.

Well, we know when people release words, it means do it again.

Lord? Do we all know that? Like it's it's saying do it

again? And so this last week for Carla has been one of the biggest.

Okay, so I'll let her tell you about it. Go ahead,

don't get the mic over here. M good, can you guys hear me?

Awesome? Okay, I'm gonna sit down because I don't like to be

on camera. I have like no makeup on my face. Ain't fix But

y'all are family, y'all know me, So it's all good for those of

you that don't know my story. Yes, I was trafficked as a child

and as an adult. I'm not going to go into any of that because

we do have little ears in here. But on August twenty third of twenty

sixteen, I cried out to God in the bathtub. All I really said

was I can't take this anymore. And three days later, walking out of

that hotel, I was recovered by DPS by law enforcement. Sorry, thank

you. The day that I cried out to God in the bathtub, it

was because I found this cross. And I know that anybody that knows me,

you guys, know that I had never take this off anymore. I

found this in my stuff that night and that was what prompted me to make

that outcry. And that was seven years ago. This past week has been

beyond amazing for me. Normally about this time, I hide in the house.

I don't come out young, ask cha. I usually just take this

week to nope, not see nobody, not be around nobody, and not

really do much because I get really emotional during this time. But not this

week. God had other plans, YEA. So Tuesday I left for Dallas

because I found out that I was the recipient of an award that was statewide

by the Department of Family Protective Services, and the award is actually titled Light

the Way to End Human Trafficking. Thank you. So on the day that

seven years ago, I cried out to God in the bathtub. I took

the stage in front of thousands of people and accepted this award. You can't

tell me that God wasn't in that, because the timing is just way too

perfect. And then yesterday, yesterday was that seven years of what I call

my freedom day, the day that I was rescued, the day that I

found freedom. And I went to Jay's house because I felt prompted that it

was time to rededicate my life to God. It was time too. I

had been baptized when I was seven years old Pentecostal Church in Chema, and

I haven't really been baptized in water as that act of faith since then.

So I felt like yesterday was that perfect opportunity. And so Chay actually baptized

me and her fancy bathtub. You know, I tell a lot of people

that that scripture Isaiah sixty one, he sent me. He sent me to

do all of these things. He knew all of this the day that I

was rescued. He had it all planned from the very beginning. All I

had to do is do the hard work, surrender, walk it out,

and be obedient through it all. I didn't get healed by sitting in the

back row. And I'm not trying to offend nobody. I got where I

was because I went head first for Jesus. I went all in. There

was no compromise to my faith. There was nothing that I would compromise.

There's nothing that I don't do without seeking Him first. I'm talking about speaking,

engagements, anything I do. I seek the Lord first in all things,

and I wait for his answer, for his guidance. I got here

because Sunday at church wasn't enough for me. I started hanging out with people

who could actually teach me how to wield my sword and how to fight.

Ye. Last week Mark talked about sharing testimonies to help others find hope.

So for those of you, and I'm not just talking about human trafficking,

guys, we are called to light the way for so much more than just

human trafficking. YEA. So those that are struggling in silence, you guys,

it's time to get loud. Ye. For those that are hiding in

fear, I got news for you. It's time to release that. It's

time to get uncomfortable. It is time to surrender, it is time to

forgive. It is time to go deep deep with the Lord and allow him

to peel that next layer. Father, you have given us authority to tread

over serpents and scorpions. You have anointed and equipped us and called us for

things that are so much greater than ourselves. So right now, Father,

you told us to freely that we freely you freely give, and we are

to follow that same order. So Lord, I just freely give every bit

of freedom, every bit of strength, every bit of that warrior mentality that

you have placed in me. Father, I just release it over every person

that is here today. Father, I thank you for blessing me, for

calling me, for equipping me, for turning every single thing in my life

to good. Yes, Lord, I thank you for your redemption. I

thank you for what you have done in my life. And Lord, I

just asked that you now do it in others too, Amen, just the

same. I who I know? Right? The Lord was like, she

needs to release it, and I said, yes, yes, yes she

does so I I really it was on my heart, little Lord, put

it on my heart for for you to open this up. As many of

you know, Carlin, my story very much inter twins. You know,

the last six years, this is the month. In fact, it was

the is about exactly this time, six years ago, probably to the day.

If I'm being on us the way Lord works, you know that we

met. So I want to pray for myself with you'll just extend your hands

for me. Please, Lord, I thank you that you have called me

to be a vessel today. Holy Spirit. I ask for you to come

speak to me, speak through me. Let every word that comes out of

my mouth be you. I yield to you right now. I pray for

angels to be released. I pray for you to prepare every heart. Lord.

I pray that you would saturate the atmosphere right now, just with your

presence. And we don't say that lightly. That's not those are that's not

words, Lord, those that's that's kingdom coming. And so I asked for

you to come in Jesus's name, Amen. So in April twenty four,

twenty twenty, or on April twenty four, twenty twenty, I had to

get permission to at to open with this from sweet Olivia. She gave me

permission or else I wouldn't be able to be seeing it's hers. She was

ten years old, had just turned ten, and she was in the office

at the Cross Kingdom Office, COVID had just hit little Olivia sitting there.

We had all of our kids, Lesia, Kaylin were there, justin Rich.

I can't remember who always there, but a lot of us, and

we had our kids in tow and all of a sudden, Olivia's there was

a little rocker and all of a sudden, I look over and I'm like,

where's Olivia, because I mean, she was gone, and I just

kind of looked at her and tilted my head and just I didn't think much

about it, except for she just looked really different. All of a sudden,

she comes back too, and she says, did you hear that?

And I said hear what? She goes you didn't hear that? And I

said no. She said, I just heard a voice. It was up

in the rafters. And again she's like, you didn't hear that, And

I'm like, no, nobody heard it. None of us heard it.

So the Angel I released that to y'all confidently. The angel said something's coming.

The time is coming. Olivia asked time for what. It didn't answer

her. The angel said revelation, and it gave the number four nine eight.

So she jumps up and she's like, mom, where's your Bible?

And I'm like, I don't have it here right now, that's at home.

I said, Uh. She goes, where's your phone. Now She's

a little girl, so she was like, I gotta get to the Bible.

I gotta get to the Bible. I need a bible, you know.

And here we are in the office. I could have gone and gotten

someone else, but she just ran and got my phone. So we go

and we sit in the car and she's like, wait a second, she

goes, help me. So so we go to Revelation four, and of

course there's no four ninety eight, and I knew that, but I'm like

letting her feel all this out herself. She goes, there's no four ninety

eight, and I'm like, hmm, So in my in my heart,

I knew. I was like, it's strong. So here it is.

And this is I don't remember ever releasing this publicly, and I'll explain why

in a minute. So in the Greek, anti tasso means to square off,

to oppose, to battle, to reject the entire makeup of something,

to set oneself a completely against something. Four nine eight in the Hebrew is

l use, which means God is my strength. See the opposing God is

my strength to wage war, to battle against something. Why did I tell

you that? I tell you that because the gathering has begun. Some of

what I'm gonna say today, I'll be very careful. I'm going to release

a word to you, and I'm gonna be very confident, and it's a

word from the Lord. But I will also some of it will be me

saying I'm prophesying, and then part of it will be what I feel.

And I will tell you the both, okay, because I want to be

very careful with that. So the gathering has begun. I can be in

Walmart HB. I hate Walmart, but I could be an HDB and I'm

pushing my cart. The gathering has begun. I might be driving down the

road all of a sudden the word comes to me the gathering has begun.

I might just be sitting talking to people. The gathering has begun. I'm

like, what are you talking about? So recently? Within the last month,

the Lord put the two together. I'm not telling you that. I'm

not talking about in times. I'm talking about the next season. I don't

know when the Lord's coming back I'm always anxiously awaiting, you know, But

I'm not talking about that. There are a lot of people talking about a

shaking this. I have no idea when the Lord's coming back. That isn't

my business. My business is to be forever watchful, anxiously keeping my oil.

I need to have lamp my oil. I need. I need to

have what I need for him for his kingdom. So I'm not I'm not

prophesying in times, I'm anxiously awaiting that. I'm talking about the next season.

What is the next season? Some say the next three and a half

years is a season in the Bible. I've never seen that, So if

y'all know anything about that, you can let me know. I'm really I

feel like I'm talking about probably the next eight months or so. That's kind

of what's in my spirit. Is that something that the Lord has told me?

It's just a feeling. So there's that. Now, why is God

gathering his people? And like what do we need to pray into and what

does this next season look like? So it's the why. So the why

I believe there's specific strategies for this next upcoming season and if we do what

he tells us what we need to do, we'll be good. If we

don't, I feel like that we're gonna miss it. We'll miss an opportunity

to love on the church. I've I've been walking with the Lord now.

So this I'm coming upon a lot of y'all know my story. I came

out of utter destruction. I mean absolutely bankrupt in every single way, spiritually,

mentally, emotionally, physically, financially, completely bankrupt, so wiped out.

So Jesus picked me up from the pit and said you're mine and I'm

yours and we're gonna do life together. And everything changed. And that was

almost seventeen years ago. So I have history with the Lord. A lot

of y'all in here have been walking with the Lord a lot longer than me.

Like Carla said, once I hit the ground, it was like,

who what when we're houch Send me Lord, send me Isaiah six yes,

let yes, Lord. I love people. I love people. Some say

I like the hard cases. Nah, I just love people. I don't.

I mean it's not. I just love people. I don't care who

they are. I don't care who they are. I don't care where you've

come from. I don't care how crazy it is if you need if the

Lord calls me to fight for you, I want to do that. I

love it. I love it. I love it. So the gathering that

has begun is asking, like what we need to do for that is asking

the Lord who the people are that he needs to call you to to be

around in this next season. So some of you are extremely set in your

ways. It's just part of you know, just your life. You're you

do the same thing every day. You get up at seven, you take

a shower, you eat breakfast, you go to work, you come home,

you watch TV. That it I mean, you're I encourage you don't

do that this season. Ask the Lord what he needs from you, because

it's not I'm being honest in my spirit. I truly feel that this is

a now word. It's in now time. It's very important to do what

He's calling us to do, and prayer is always the foundation for that prayer.

So some of this I had to write out because it's a lot of

scripture. So during all this time, when he started stirring me, it

really started heavy, heavy, heavy. In June, we went away to

retreat for Mercy Gate, and I had no idea what we were I was

like, what are you saying, Lord? I heard the words firm foundation.

I'm like, okay. So we got there and there was like twelve

of us in the room. The whole staff was in the room. Mind

us one person and many of us got the same like a scripture. It

was nea mayah. A lot of us had pieces of the puzzle. It

was wild. I mean, only God could do that. And so the

firm foundation of that time it was prayer. And we've been bathing things in

prayer ever since then. And I have spent more time in prayer in the

last and I always pray, but I would say in the last couple of

months, probably in the last five years, I mean since mercy Gate really

took off, you know. I mean I'll pray every morning and I'll pray

for a couple of hours. But this has been in the middle of the

day, at night, in the morning. I mean, it has been

on and so but he's been speaking. It's been very fruitful. He has

been speaking. So in the book in Namayah, I mean, I'm sorry.

In the Book of Numbers, chapters one and three, we see God

calling Moses and Aaron to gather the people each tribe had a job. Their

placement around the tent of meeting was exact who they were next to. So

if you look there, so you got the tent of meetings, and you've

got the three tribes on each side, so north southeast west, everything was

very exact. And Neemiah God called him to gather and rebuild the walls of

Jerusalem. I look at the walls as the church, the body of Christ.

Now that's how I look at the walls. It's like shoring these things

up, like rebuilding, making it a firm foundation. Are y'all following me.

It's like we're trying to rebuild something that has been destroyed, because much

has been infiltrated. Much has been infiltrated into our government, into our schools,

into our children. H prayer Neemiah two seventeen and eighteen says, then

I said to them, you see the trouble we are in, and how

Jerusalem lies in ruins, with its gates burned. Come let us build the

wall of Jerusalem that we may no longer suffer. And I told them of

the hand of my God that has been upon me. And they said,

let us rise up and build. So they strengthen their hands for the good

work the gathering. So Niemiah goes and he says, hey, here's what

the Lord's told me. I'm coming to you. Will you partner with me?

And they said yes, can't do it alone. Can't do it alone.

In chapter three three you see the exact placement of people groups. They're

called to each of the ten gates. That's very cool if you've never read

any amayah of the gates. I mean, so each gate there's a family

in front of it. And so Niemiah starts getting downloads from God, starts

getting strategies. If you don't spend time in prayer, you don't get the

divine strategies. You can't. You can't. You got to spend time in

prayers so you can get the divine strategies for today. Do you need a

way out? Are you stuck? Divine strategy? He can tell you go

to this person, do this through that, pray this pray that stand on

this scripture dada, and then he can he can strengthen you, strengthen yourself

and the Lord. In chapter three, so it talks about the exact placement

the people groups that were called. There was great opposition, yet God made

away. The wall was finished. Y'all know how many days, fifty two

days. So it was finished on the twenty fifth of alul Guess what day

this year? The twenty fifth of a lull falls on nine eleven. Just

saying, just saying. When he showed me that, When God the Holy

Spirit showed me that, I was like, You're so fun, You're so

fun. I just love it. I love dates, I love numbers.

He's always spoke to me through them. It's like, I mean, he

gives me a page number, I'll be thinking about something. This is how

he started me. Again. Not all of y'all know my story, but

I was. I was locked up. I was in jail, and so

I got released on the thirty first of August in two thousand and seven,

and again I hit the ground running, and I was a mess. I

was a mess. I was a mess, and I didn't have to spend

a lot of time, but I sat there and I was just like soaking

up everything him. He was like, it was not a punishment. That

was my divine destiny to sit my honey bucket there until I could learn better,

but also to just be filled by him because I always joke I'm like,

send me back. Shoot, I'll sit there and I will just pray

and pray and pray. It was It was not bad. It was glorious.

And that's crazy craziness to say that it was glorious. So if you

ever get a time out, look at it as glory. Don't go to

jail. I'm joking, y'all. Y'all awake, all right? So this

could not back to Neemiah. So this could not have happened unless everyone worked

together for the common good. Oh we I'm about to step on a couple

of topes. Mhm. He told me he was gonna do some stuff,

and I'm like, I know a lot of people's good people, amazing people.

Summon this room. You're not team players. It's about you. There

are a lot of people in the church as a whole. If it's not

about your business, if it doesn't benefit you, if it doesn't bring glory

to you, you're out. Why is that? I love partnering with lots

of people because you know, I think about like us doing stuff with y'all

with Prodigal Road, I think about like us doing stuff with so many other

organizations. I have to say, Mercy Gate has what is it almost a

hundred partnership or over a hundred partnerships. We're in Kerville, Texas. Y'all

over a hundred partnerships throughout the state of Texas. And when it was almost

a hundred, that means we got a few more. Praise God this next

season. It's not gonna work that way. We need to link arms and

join together, laid down our own agenda and follow his. There are many

of you in here. Maybe you're thinking like, well, that doesn't benefit

me, that doesn't How do I do that? I go to work,

I don't have any time to day. Ask the Lord, Ask the Lord.

When was the last time you stopped and you went? I don't know

how to do all this. I'm doing this. I'm spinning my wheels.

I'm not getting a lot done. Help help, help, ask him,

ask him. He will tell you. He will talk. He will talk.

I have There are so many times I don't have a lot of extra

time, and can I guess, Oh, there's some water. Good?

I was like, I need some water, Thank you, Doug. I'm

not trying to hurt anyone, and I don't know. I would never hurt

anyone's feelings. I hope y'all know that, but it is so on me

whenever I was preparing for this, which was a lot, not because I

didn't already know, but because I was worshiping and praying, and because this

has been so heavy on my heart. It's one of those like this where

I'm like, oh, you know, and mercy gate a lot of my

friends here, y'all know how I am. And I will come in and

I'll be like wow through like slowdown, chain, please leave, no,

please live. But this is so heavy, the gathering that has begun.

And again that part I'm in a prophecy. We have to work together.

Everybody has a part. If you think that you can't do anything. If

you don't think you have a part, you're wrong. You're wrong. That's

a lie. That's a lie. It's a lite, a lie. Let's

don't live like that anymore. I don't know about you, but I've I

would lived a lot of my years lying believing lies. No, we all

have a part. So all right. So then in chapter seven, Niemiah

gathered all the people who had been exiled. This is twofold, so it's

like the labors. So the luke ten to pray earnestly for the labors,

but it's also once the laborers, those of us working together for Kingdom good.

Once that happens and the unified front takes place, then we get to

go out and gather more because we're in place. We're in position. Does

that make sense to y'all? So, but we have the first be unified

because if we're not, he can't send the people that he wants to to

us. We're not ready. Does that make sense? Okay? So it

is very very important. Again, I'm gonna reiterate prayer. First, ask

him what your part is, then move forward, ask him who your people

are, then move forward. So it's not hard. This is very simple.

And I'm not talking to y'all. I just know sometimes when someone's preaching,

my mind's going a lot of different directions. I wish that they would

just kind of did you do it for me? Because I am not add

all right, I'm not not in the name of Jesus, I'm not getting

tested. Okay. Can we be so bold, and I wrote this out,

can we be so bold to say, working together as the Body of

Christ, it gathers the loss and the broken and bring we can bring them

back to him, where he then gets to rebuild them. Jeremiah thirty one

three and four says, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore

I have continued my faithfulness to you. I will rebuild you, and you

will be rebuilt. That's for personal and that's corporate the church. It's both.

We need to be rebuilt. There's been a breach, a big one.

There's been a big breach in the church. It's it's heartbreaking. As

the gathering begins, he was showing me the kryptonite. So you've got there's

a lot of kryptonite. We're just gonna go through a few. So you've

got grumbling and complaining. So I want to tell y'all. So you've got

grumbling, complaining, lack of faith, unbelief, idolatry, compromise. Is

that our world today? Huh? I want to tell y'all something that happened

recently. So we were over at the Haven. It was when Wayne and

Susan and Anthony. There was a lot of us gathered over there and we

were worship being and we were praying. It was beautiful, and all of

a sudden, I got this vision. It's one I will never forget because

it was heartbreaking. And I saw the Lord. There was his throne right

here, and he was like this, he was not on it. And

I'm like, what are you doing? What are you doing? Why are

you not on your throne? No, what's going on? That's me with

the Lord. I mean, he knows how you made me okay, And

I'm like, why are you not on your throne? What are we doing?

And I was already kind of freaked out, like I was just in

the mood. I was trying to really engage in worship, and I was.

But I have been very, very very about things. Y'all have to

understand what I see a lot, so knowing what those of you who might

not know what Mercy Gate is. So we help women who are coming out

of sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, sexual abuse as a whole. So yes,

prays the Lord. We get to see many beautiful miracles, but we

also see and hear hard every single day, and sometimes it gets overwhelming and

you're just angry. I'm angry. I'm angry at the the injustice. I'm

angry at what our government has done. I'm angry at you know, what

I'm seeing as a whole. I'm just like, ooh. So here's what

happened before that. All right. So for about probably two weeks, I

had been just kind of like this with the Lord. Obviously, I talked

to him all the time, and I love him so much. He's my

everything, He's my everything. But I had a couple of weeks where I

was grumbling and complaining and here's things I was telling him. It's not good.

I'm like, do you not see that? Do you not see that?

Go get him help? What is going on? This is not okay?

All right? So there's one thing about the injustice I'm saying. Here's

what else I was telling him, And I feel like that this is the

kicker I was having to We are doing nothing and it's beautiful, and so

I'm not complaining. But all Mercy Gate is doing, it's great, is

growing, growing, growing more? Well, yes, but that means more

details, dot every I cross, every tea, working with the government,

working with this, working with all the organizations. And all I want to

do is help the girls. That's it. That's all. That's why we

got into this. There was no I didn't know what we were doing.

When we said yes, I had no clue. I was like, Lord

said dots. Yes, I didn't think one thing about partner with anybody.

I had no clue what we were doing. He just said, Carlo needs

your help. Carlos got there's a lot of Carlos. Go get him right,

Okay, hallelujah. So I did not know what what? What did

it look like? And y'all there're so many details in a five O one

C three. I had no clue. So here's what I was doing to

him. I'm gonna be real honest him. I was like, you know

how you made my brain? You know how you made me. I'm extra.

You need to do this, this and this. You need to give

me this, you need to dada. I mean, I was mad at

him for the way he made me because I'm like, I'm silly. I'm

a big vision girl. I'm not small vision girl. And he was like,

I gave you other people to run with. I know they're tired too,

you know, and I and so I'm just like everybody's started, everybody's

tired. Everybody's tired to Mercy Gate, you know. And I'm just like

no, no, no, no no, and I'm complaining. And do

you know that he said, you want to sit down, you want to

sit down on this throne. Good here, And I'm glad that I'm kind

of smiling right now because I'm gonna tell y'all bawled my eyes out. I

bawled my eyes out. I did because I was like, oh, I'm

so sorry, I'm so sorry, and I'm kind of laughing and crying.

Joke thirty eight. Now, prepare yourself. I will question you, and

you'll answer me. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Tell me, if you have understanding, who determined its measurements? Surely

you know? Or who stretched out the line upon it to where its foundations

fastened, Or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together? Where

were you and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Or who shut

in the sea with its doors when it burst forth and issued from the womb?

When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness, it's swaddling band,

when I fixed my limit for it and set bars and doors, when

I said this far you may come, but no further. So he put

that line there, and here your proud waves must stop. Where were you,

chay I was like, I repent, That's what I do. I've

had that one other time when it was that bad with him, and it

was when my precious Ryan got pregnant at nineteen, who now has my most

best, sweet, yummiest gift ever in the hole. I'd wear a little

Brooks Michael. Y'all see him up here running around with Angela or whoever.

He's the best. And I remember I said things to the Lord. And

I'm sharing this with y'all because this might help you to understand, like,

we don't get to question him. We don't get to question him. We're

not God. We don't get it, we don't see the full picture.

We don't see it. We're full of all these emotions. We're full of

fears, we're full of doubts, we're full of insecurities, and yet we're

questioning the one who made us, who made everything. It's craziness. It's

craziness. So I remember whenever with Ryan, whenever that happened, these are

things I said to him. And you might have said things like this to

him too. Maybe you're saying it to him now because I want to share

this with you. And I, of course you know Ryan and I would

giggle about it now, but it was not beautiful. My poor husband watched

me throw the biggest fit with God because I said things like I spend my

days working for you and you this is how you protect my child. I

did, I said it. I sure did. And I'm close enough with

him that, you know. But he's gone quick enough, and I'm seriously

I'm throwing this fit on the floor and I'm like crying and I'm just like,

what is going on? No, no, no, we stop this

jo narrational stuff. Lord. I went before you. I did all this

stuff, help, help, help. I thought we were better, you

know, And this is John, you know. And I'm like laid out.

He's gone, and that best My family with me, with Jesus,

They're like, oh, here she goes because it's but I'm very overt in

my house. I'm like, y'all might want to shut the doors. It's

on right now, and I'll go after stuff. Y'all heard me a lot

of y'all in here. I had a broke foot with an X ray and

literally the Lord leans over me. He says, you don't have to take

that. He leaves. I'm on the couch, I said, You're right.

I've got pictures. I have everything you would need to prove that miracle.

Because I got up and I started walking around. I said, in

the name of Jesus, you will be healed. In the name of Jesus.

And I'm like this at first, you know, in the name of

Jesus, you know, And but I got up. I've got pictures every

thirty minutes and it was healed. So and I'm telling y'all because, yeah,

relationship, but also there's this reverential awe, this fear of the Lord.

And I think because I've been so close to him, I think,

yes, I fear him, and I never want to be separate. But

he's gone and I'm not period, all right. So the kryptonite we're number

one. Grumbling complaining numbers eleven one. Now when the people complained, it

displeased the Lord. For the Lord heard heard it, and his anger was

aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, burned among them

and consume some and the outskirts of the camp numbers eleven four and six.

Now the mixed multitude who are in and this is so mind you. The

Red Sea happens, and Moses and Aaron are setting up camp, and they're

everybody's positioned, and they've been fed, okay, and they're throwing fits all

right. So now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving.

So the children of Israel who also wept, and said, who will

give us meat to eat? But we remember the fish that we ate freely

in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leaks, the onions,

the garlic. But now our whole being is being dried up. There is

nothing at all except this manna before our eyes. So he freed them from

literal slavery. And they want an onion. Oh, it's not smarting,

just saying, are we complaining about onions? I'm just asking. I'm just

asking, y'all. Are we complaining about some onions? All right? Number

two lack of faith unbelief? This one costs the most. Hear me,

church, lack of faith and unbelief. Lack of faith and unbelief, all

right. So they just saw the Red Sea, part number thirteen. One

in two, the Lord's Pope to Moses, saying, send them in to

spy out the land of Canaan Israel, which I'm going to give the children

of Israel. They returned after forty days, and verse twenty eight says,

people who dwell in the land are strong. The cities are fortified and very

large. Moreover, even the descendants of Anak, which that was the giants.

So they're they're like, no, these people are this is too much,

They're too big. They returned after the twenty eight days. They're like,

nope, we can't do this. There's giants. You got down to

verse thirty, and Caleb quieted the people before. Let's be a Joshua and

Caleb. Can we say that? Yes? And amen? Verse thirty.

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, let us go up at

once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it. All

right, can we say this together. I'm very serious. I want to

be a Joshua and Caleb. I want to be a Joshua and Caleb.

Okay, because the giants can be wiped out. He did it. So

Chapter fourteen, this is all in numbers. It talks about all the congregation

lifted up their voice and cried, and the people wept that night, and

all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the whole congregation said

to them, if only we had died in the land of Egypt, or

if only we had died in this wilderness. You got verse five. Then

Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of

the Children of Israel. All right, here's how this has to do with

the gathering. Right now. If you're called the lead, you're called to

intercede. If you want to lead without interceding, you're not going to be

a good leader. You can't. The people that are in your camp that

are called they're not going to be perfect. They're gonna be messy humans.

You're called to intercede. And really it doesn't really matter which part of the

leadership break. It doesn't matter. We are called to intercede for one another.

I never ever want to go. You just made a mistake out of

here. People didn't do that to me, and I made plenty and still

do still do. Fast forward to verse eleven. Then the Lord said to

Moses, how long will these people reject me? And how long will they

not believe me? With all the signs which I have performed among them?

Moses intercedes again. All right, so the old Joshua and Caleb thing six

hundred, three thousand, five hundred fifty people two made it to the Promised

Land. Why unbelief, lack of faith? That's how big of a deal

it is. I'm saying that because when you gather with your people, and

you will and you are, when you gather with them, let faith be

on your lips. If you're having a hard time, say would you pray

with me? Don't let unbelief, don't let fear. Just sit there and

and you stop, and you don't go forward. I don't care if you're

five, I don't care if you're one hundred and five. It doesn't talk

about age here. There is no junior Holy Spirit. We know that without

faith, impossible to please him. All right, Kryptonite number three, rebellion,

idolatry, compromise. We have a lot of that right now. In

the church. People sold out. Sometimes it's fame, which is connected to

power, which is connected to money. I'm like, what is this whole

mega anything, mega church, mega mega what mega Jesus. I don't get

it. We see this in the Golden Calf. Moses wasn't Moses was not

back in their time frame life didn't look like they wanted it to, so

they took things into their own hands. M Again, Moses intercedes for the

people because he was a good leader. He made a mistake, but and

it cost him, but he was a great leader. There's other kryptonites.

So we've got pride, jealousy, envy. These are all huge when we're

talking about gathering people. Pride, jealousy, and envy will keep you away

from your tribe. They will keep you away from your people. Judgment,

being judgmental, they will keep you away from your people and the enemy.

If he yachts in your ear long enough, you'll think that's you. You'll

think you're being wise. Take the thoughts captive, make it line up with

Jesus. Ask the Holy Spirit, confirm it to me? Are you saying

this? Are you saying this? Confirm it? Let me know, praying

for a clean and pure heart. I have a vision of like what like

all the prayer groups and all the you know, every one of us in

here, we want a people group. Nobody came in here, and even

if they're you're an introvert, you know, nobody comes in here going I

pray, not one person sees me or talks to me. They don't do

that. I don't care how broken you are. You're coming for a reason.

You're coming. Nobody comes and says I like, don't talk to me.

I mean I want to end with something m so normally I get up

here and you know, I'm all emotional on The Lord has solidified something in

my heart. I know the gathering has begun. I know it has.

I know it has. I say it with such confidence. I know October's

an important month. I know it is. I've feeling in my spirit will

at all manifest like we right. I don't know the play of events,

and there's a lot of things. There's more that I don't know than I

do, and I know that. But I know that he is setting things

in motion in a different way than what he has done in the past.

What if what if the Lord, you know, things things get wild.

I mean, there are a lot of people are prophitsign about, like the

shaking and things like that. Is that something that I believe, yes,

I do feel out in my spirit. Is that something that the Lord himself

has told me? No, has he told me the gathering has begun?

Yep? Has he told me that there's a shaking company coming. No do

I feel it, yes, but it hasn't been confirmed me and I want

to. I want that's important to say that there's a because there's a difference

if you me, if we have it in our eyes of what's something supposed

to look like, he can miss it. So just because something is really

dark, ugly and MESSI doesn't mean it's not God. And I can prove

that He uses the evil and proud gatherers against one another. He uses their

alliances, He renders judgment and it turns against them. He said this morning

it was the deep traps they set, they're gonna fall into it themselves.

And it was funny he dropped this word. He goes Egypt two point zero.

So he gave me a scripture. This is Revelation seventeen seventeen. And

I don't know if any of you studied the number seventeen seventeen means overcoming victory,

and so on the seventh month, seventeenth day of the seventh month on

Mount our Era. So you've got that is when the flood stopped, and

when he when Noah landed on Mount Araq, and so you've got so many

things throughout history throughout the Bible, seventeen means overcoming victory, all right,

So I found it interesting that here Revelation seventeen seventeen, for God has put

it into their hearts to fulfill his purpose, to be of one mind and

to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled.

What he's saying is that he has a plan for the most evil of all

evil, and we can trust him no matter what it looks like. So

we've got a few minutes left, So for the what's to come, the

gathering of the people, my heart is for you to ask the Lord,

what does that look like to me? Personally? Who are my people?

How can I partner with you? Does it mean start a small prayer group

with Mercy Gate y'all? We literally broke up. It was so cool.

We drew names, and so the whole team drew names, and there was

four teams because there's twelve of us, so you've got three people in each

group, and everybody had a specific and this was God at the retreat.

He was like, draw names, four teams, three people in each team,

and we go after stuff. And I'm telling y'all, we have seen

mountains be moved already. I mean, it's we're talking about just two months

and things have changed. We're watching things we have prayed for come to pass.

We are watching our family program be built, which is us pouring into

the kids of the women that are there. We're watching it. We're meeting

with someone next next week or this week, this coming week who I believe

has big keys for that started with prayer. So a lot of you maybe

like, what is what are we going to pray about? You know,

what do I do? What do I do? Don't overthink it, don't

overthink it. I pray in the name of Jesus that the hidden intercessors in

here will find their spiritual mother and father. Do y'all know what that means?

So you've got people that are intercessors in here and they don't know how

to cultivate that prayer life. They don't know, they don't have people yet.

We all have a gift. I'm gonna tell y'all, you don't want

me building your house. Okay, it will fall down, it will never

get built. I am horrible at engineering. It's comical. My husband and

he's like, oh, you know, I'm like, I don't know it

looks pretty what and some of you in here you have great engineering minds.

You want me on your team if you're down, because I will fight for

you. Some of you in here you have an gift for entrepreneurialship, like

you have a gift for different things. And when the body connects together,

it functions as it should. There are mothers and fathers, spiritual mothers and

fathers in here, and you are not bringing anyone up yet because the enemy

has lied to you and say you have nothing to give. He's a liar.

Some of you in here you are giants and the faith. Giants and

the faith you can move mountains with your prayers, but fear, doubt,

in security has just riddled you. So I guess what I'm saying is the

first part of this is healed heart, healed mine, renewed mind, healed

heart, asking him for your people, asking him like, who's supposed to

walk alongside me? Do y'all see? I would like, with a few

minutes we've got left, if somebody could come play. I want to pray

for you, and I invite you. If anything I say resonates with you,

I invite you to come up to the front m father, I think,

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