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As I have mentioned the last few times I have spoken,

that I have felt, at least for me, it's a season of review,

especially with the unusual nature of the last 18 months

that I have felt for me personally.

It's just really, really critical,

just to review what God is here.

And last, let's see, it would be December of 2019,

I had an unusual experience with the Lord.

I've had him speak to me in the night

where he's awakened me with his voice twice.

So what I don't want to do is create a picture that I have these encounters every other month. There's like five and fifty years, so you do the math.

That's not real common, but it happens.

But this particular time, it was instead of a voice coming to me, it exploded within me. I don't know

how to describe that, but it's what happened. I was dead asleep, and I was awakened with a thought

in my sleep, which I don't think in my sleep. I sleep. I intentionally ignore anything important so that I can sleep.

I just do.

But I was awakened with this thought.

A walled city without gates is not entirely safe.

Just out of nowhere. That's not even a thought I would have come up with, certainly not for Just out of nowhere.

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