Hi, Chris Valetan here. Welcome to my podcast where I hope to inspire you to walk

in your Royal Identity in Christ and experience God's goodness in every area of your life.

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Well, why don't you grab a hand? We're going to pray this morning, Holy Spirit. We thank you for the speaker.

Listen, this is for you. Trust me. You want me to pray this prayer. We pray you bless the speaker.

You'd bless the hearers. You'd bless everybody in the room.

Holy Spirit, we pray that you would just open up revelation to us, that you would inspire us,

that you would equip us, that you would deploy us. In Jesus name, amen.

I want to talk to you about really the subject that we gathered for today. I want to talk to you

about becoming cultural architects. I've shared this message two or three times, attitude as you

know, as you learn more. But if you'll turn to Isaiah 61, I want to just show you, you may already

have know this or have heard this message. I just believe this is probably the one of the most

important messages that we are carrying as a family right now. Isaiah 61, I'm sure you'll recognize

these verses right away. This is what the Jewish rabbis call the Messiah's mandate. It's also our

mandate. It begins with the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, for the Lord is anointing me,

to preach the good news, to afflict it, to bind up the broken heart, to speak, release the captives,

and freedom the prisoners, the favourable year of the Lord, the day of vengeance of our God,

to grant all those who mourn and Zion, to give them a garland instead of ashes, a man to a praise

instead of the Spirit of fainting, how many of those actually aspire to fainting. There is a spirit

of fatigue, that they might be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may

be glorified. And so there's three verses about the captives, the fatigue, the broken hearted,

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