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Hello, hello. Good to see you all. I love you too. I don't know who said they love me,

but thank you. Yeah. Oh, there we go. Right back at you. I get this is the cool thing to do now.

So my son is getting to that age where he's now showing me what's cool. And I now, I think about my parents and what they thought, but I'm like, sometimes I look, I'm like, that's cool. There's this thing called Sigma, they do, where they're like, I'm like, okay, that's a, and then there's these funny dance moves. I don't know, I'm not going to try them, because they make me feel awkward when I watch them. So it's good to be with you. What a joy it is. Happy New Year.

As prophetic people have a, well, maybe I shouldn't say us. I'll just say for me. I have this like

love, dislike relationship with New Year's because when you're a prophetic voice, everyone wants

to know what is going to happen in the new year. And while that's really wonderful, I think

it gives us this time to set apart what, you know, time and to focus on the Lord. There's this other

part of me that like sometimes I'm like, like this year, I feel like it's actually not like this whole

separate thing God's doing, but it's actually a continuation of what we've been speaking on all of

2024. I actually feel like this new era word. You know, Chris came with half time in

2024 and we've been talking about the new era. I believe that we're only at the very

beginnings of the opening of a new era.

We're at that like seed form, the little shoot coming out of the ground. Like we're beginning to see, behold, I'm doing a new thing. And so I really feel like as we go into this fast, and I'm going to preach a little bit into that for this coming week. but really for this year, I feel like is, as we go into this fast,

I feel like the Lord is kind of inviting us to refine. And then the Lord, when he said the word

refine, immediately he said the word define. And I feel like as we allow him to refine our focus,

as we allow him to refine what we're looking at, he is actually going to bring definition to things that haven't had clarity, definition where there's been chaos. I feel like he's refining and defining. But there's this invitation, I believe, on what it looks like to steward seed. Amen? So why don't we pray, since that's a good way to start always. And welcome online family. It's so good to have you too,

so glad. But let's pray, Jesus, we're here for you. That's why we're here. We're here for you.

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