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Project Church declared this a “Year of Consecration” — but what does that actually mean?
In this episode of Project Sisterhood, Chrissy and the team unpack consecration in a practical, biblical, and convicting way. We talk about the difference between guilt and shame, why consecration isn’t about legalism, and how surrender creates space for God to move in your life.
If you’ve felt spiritually stuck, distracted, or hungry for more — this episode will call you higher and deeper.
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In this episode of Project Sisterhood, Chrissy and the team unpack consecration in a practical, biblical, and convicting way. We talk about the difference between guilt and shame, why consecration isn’t about legalism, and how surrender creates space for God to move in your life.
If you’ve felt spiritually stuck, distracted, or hungry for more — this episode will call you higher and deeper.
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Host
Chrissy Cole
Chrissy’s parents moved to the U.S. from the Philippines in the late 70′s. She saw her parents both come to know the Lord at a young age. She and her family poured their lives into the local church and were changed by God. Chrissy attended Evangel University in Springfield, MO and earned a B.A. in Communications with an emphasis in Public Relations.
What is Project Sisterhood?
Project Sisterhood is a podcast for women who want to grow in faith, find healthy community, and become who God created them to be.
Hosted by Chrissy Cole and the Project Church Sisterhood team, each episode brings honest conversations and biblical encouragement centered on identity, belonging, spiritual maturity, healing, relationships, and purpose.
With a mix of humor, vulnerability, and real-life wisdom, Project Sisterhood creates space for women in every age and stage to feel seen, strengthened, and connected—because you were never meant to do life alone.
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Speaker 1
There's a huge difference between shame and guilt. Guilt happens when you have done something wrong, and shame typically happens and you feel shame when somebody has. Typically, the enemy is telling you that you have done wrong, even if you haven't. And so I think that's a one of the bigger elements that comes to play that keeps people from confessing corporately is the lie of the enemy which causes shame in their hearts.
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Speaker 2
This is a project sisterhood podcast for all things women. Whether you for purpose, for ministry, motherhood or the marketplace, we have crucial and genuine conversations that transcend your season yet impact your true identity as a woman. From light hearted and laughable to honest, deep matters of the heart, your soul will be encouraged. We hope you and all women of every age and every stage buy life and freedom in Jesus.
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Speaker 2
Hey ladies, welcome back to the Project Sisterhood Podcast. We are so glad that you joined us. We love, getting to talk all things. What do we talk about? Ministry, motherhood and the marketplace and women of every season? Every sphere of influence. We like to cover it. Every age, every stage. Every age, every stage. Man, how long you been coming to project church?
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Speaker 1
I was going to say too long, but not too long. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
I'm glad I did it. Well, we say that at Project Sisterhood that every age, every stage. And we want to cover a lot of subject matter on this podcast. We hope to encourage you. In whatever season and influence of life you are in and have so, so, today I want to talk about something that has been about you, we've been talking about in our church since the beginning of the year.
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Speaker 2
We really felt like the Lord called us into a year of consecration. And, through the weeks we're here, we are in. We're halfway through the year as weeks have gone by. People have been like, I'm so glad the word of the year is concentration. Ooh.
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Speaker 1
And not the.
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Speaker 2
Word about it. It is not that. It is consecration. So when we that said to the staff. Consecration, what were your first thoughts? Go.
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Speaker 1
Ooh. I mean about the word or like.
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Speaker 2
About the word. Okay.
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Speaker 1
Well, I feel like you guys preached on it a few times last year, and so I had.
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Speaker 2
A presence night.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, exactly. And presidents nights, we talked about it all. And so I wasn't surprised that consecration was our word of the year. But I was, in a interesting way, looking forward to it.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
I don't think consecration is necessarily an exciting thing. It's not like the word of the year being promise or like, it's not like a an action word that you're like, oh, yeah, I'm so excited to be in this place of solitude and like, quietly repenting my sins to the Lord and setting myself apart. But I felt like our church was ready for that.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
I felt like our staff was ready for consecration, and I think it took us a little bit of time to, like, understand what that looked like. But yeah, I do think we're in a good place.
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Speaker 2
Well, let's do something for those who are listening, because if they're not part of our church or if they have not really been in rooms where we've actually practiced consecration as, as a, in a gathering, how would you simplify your understanding of consecration? And let me start, actually, before you answer that, with a scripture that we use at the beginning of the year, in Joshua three, where the word consecration is actually used while consecrate, actually.
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Speaker 2
It's when Joshua and the Israelites are about to cross the Jordan River. And Joshua said to the people, this is Joshua three five, consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you. And Joshua said to the priest, take up the ark of the covenant. Pass on before the people. So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.
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Speaker 2
I didn't mean to read that much, so I did read the part that said, consecrate yourselves for tomorrow. The Lord will do wonders among you. Tell me your thoughts.
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Speaker 1
Oh, I love that.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Well, I think the word consecrate. When we see in Scripture, just like in that text, it's meaning to like set yourself apart. To make yourself holy unto the Lord. And it's for us the way that we've practiced it. And I think what we can even see in Scripture of a practical way of consecration is through prayer and repentance.
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Speaker 1
Right. I think that's, that is ultimately what sets us apart as believers is us living a repentant life. And through that repentance, and because of Jesus and his forgiveness of our sins. We're able to live freely. Yeah. And so what I've seen in how we operate in consecration at church as a staff is that we come into moments of prayer and we quiet ourselves.
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Speaker 1
The room isn't for band, typically. Sometimes it's just soaking music on our phones. But we come to a place where we quiet ourselves and we even, I would say quiet. Any racing thoughts? And I think maybe you even recognize that language, because we both use a similar app of prayer and all.
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Speaker 2
Of our scattered thoughts.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Bring bring calm to all of our scattered thoughts. And I think we've we've, started to use that within our consecration rooms, and we come to a place of, of, sharing what we need to give over to the Lord together or repenting of our sins. And maybe it's not even a sin, but it's a feeling or an emotion that we're holding on to.
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Speaker 1
Like this morning. It wasn't, for me necessarily a sin that I needed to repent of, but I was expressing to the Lord and also to our staff. You know, I'm holding on to a lot of anxiety and worry. And I want to give that over to the Lord and have him replace that with a confidence that I can find in him.
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Speaker 1
And so I do believe that it's laying down worldly things, laying down control, laying down our sinfulness at the foot of the cross and, picking up what Jesus has for us. And so, yeah, I think that's hopefully answers a question.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Consecration to me. I think, it can be really messy. I'll just use an example. So we do something with some of our sisterhood group leaders every Tuesday we pray and we use something called the Act model. And I know we've talked about it here. But it's just an acronym. Acts is just the acronym for, prayer time, where you start with a adoration unto the Lord.
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Speaker 2
C confession t Thanksgiving as supplication. And what I what we do, we start by quieting ourselves. But even quieting ourselves is maybe if it's not just quiet. It's like focusing ourselves on on Jesus, focusing ourselves on adoring him. And when there's adoration brought to him that does easily or more easily, kind of move into confession. So this morning there were so many tears, and I think, I think some people would be uncomfortable in those settings because, there's such freedom to share such raw thoughts and sins and anger towards the Lord.
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Speaker 2
Frustration, disappointment and people and and it can be messy. Yeah. But I think the important thing that we need to remember, even when I think about Joshua like that, he knew that they needed to consecrate themselves, set themselves apart and, what that looks like for us now, setting ourselves apart is laying down anything that is not clean or holy.
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Speaker 2
And even you're talking about anxiety that's not clean or holy. God wants to purify our thoughts. My emotions are not always clean or holy. They happen to us. But then they're going to happen to us because we are human. But we have to give those over to the Lord. And he wants to purify those emotions because he has all the emotions, but he's totally pure.
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Speaker 2
His anger is pure, his jealousy is pure, his. And that's all pure. But ours are not. So it can get really messy and I, I think people are afraid of it. People are afraid to give honest repentance. And I've noticed this, and I was actually going to say this. I'll probably use this our next staff meeting of like, refrain from maybe, tying your send up with a bow.
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Speaker 2
Maybe refrain from identifying that you have a solution to your repentance. Because I find myself doing that. I'll be like, Lord, I repent of my self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and my the restraint I've had to use because I've been in so many rooms of consecration. It's almost become uncomfortable. It's like, oh, Lord, what else am I? Yeah. Is there anything else that I have to repent of?
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Speaker 2
Yeah, always.
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Speaker 1
Well, if I can confess, even this morning, I kind of had this thought of like. Oh, well, because every Tuesday.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Our staff, shares a space of consecration together. And I didn't really think about it this morning. But when we got to our consecration room and we started praying and quieting ourselves, I had this dialog with the Lord, and I was like, I'll be honest, I don't think there's anything that I'm going to share today. Like. And there was almost this thought of, is there going to be a point in our consecration rooms where nobody says anything?
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Speaker 1
And then in that moment it was definitely conviction from the Holy Spirit. But I just immediately like didn't necessarily rebuke that thought but immediately went to a different thought and said, okay Lord, Holy Spirit, search me. Yeah. Is there anything that I need to give over to you? Yeah. And because we're human, the answer is always yes.
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Speaker 1
Yes.
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Speaker 2
And there always is. And, yeah. So I guess I want to encourage those who are listening, like, maybe you're not in settings with where everybody understands that, hey, our church is going after consecration. We're going after setting ourselves apart because we believe that God wants to do miracles through us, like he was going to do through Joshua in the Israelites, and he was going to do the miracles and set of us building a way towards the miracles that instead of us self disciplining and self-improving our way into the miracle, we're just going to do the only holy thing that we can do, which is lay down our sin so Jesus can cleanse us from
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Speaker 2
all unrighteousness. Yeah. And that is when the miracle can begin, because a holy work can be done. Because we are finally holy. But it doesn't require praying more, doing more. Singing louder, worshiping louder. Doesn't require a hard conversation with somebody. It just requires repentance. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. So I want to take us somewhere, and I don't do it. I don't think that repenting to another person is necessarily like a requirement. I agree. I think that ultimately our repentance is to the Lord. But I do think that there's a lot of freedom that comes when you repent in corporate spaces where other people are hearing you repent.
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Speaker 1
So what would you say to people that not necessarily haven't repented in public spaces or corporate spaces? Maybe they didn't have the opportunity to, but to people that just won't because of their pride, because of any shame that they have, guilt that they have. What would your encouragement to them be?
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Speaker 2
My encouragement, maybe it's an encouragement or a challenge would be like, why not? Yeah. Why not? And why not rid yourself of shame? Why not experience the freedom that comes? Why not believe that Holy Spirit really will cleanse you, and you don't have to hold on to it. Why hold on to that in isolation? And these are all the questions that I ask myself.
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Speaker 2
Or am I? Do I want freedom? Do I want the Holy Spirit to do something in my life? Do I want handed? Do something in my midst? Then why not just do this Holy work? And it really is the way of a believer. Like, gosh, we don't have to sacrifice animals. We don't have to pray a certain amount.
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Speaker 2
We don't have all this, all these expectations. And maybe, maybe some of us wish that we did have those expectations because we know that we can achieve them. But can we do the thing that will be the what would precede a miracle? Yeah. Like why not would be my question. So every time you even come to a place of community and there's some something that you're harboring, why not, why not.
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Speaker 1
But that's good. I had a, mentor in college that I got to this place of telling her, like, man, I've been keeping a lot.
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Speaker 1
Like, in secret, you know, like I've been repenting to the Lord, but there's not a lot of people that know about the things that I'm going through. And she said very simply, she said, I, I want to tell you, you never suffer in silence. Yeah. And that even now, to this day, like, I really take that to heart because again, we're not required.
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Speaker 1
I'm not required to tell those around me the things that are going on, like the ultimate person that I need to talk to is the Lord. But we can break ourselves free from so much shame and from so much guilt when we do come to our community and to the Lord together. We talked about that a lot. Like it's both and it's yes, this relationship in these relationships.
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Speaker 1
And if we neglect these relationships, even in spaces of consecration, I think we will continue to suffer.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Because they're still a part of us. That is, even though we've given to the Lord that sin, or at least communicated that sin to him, doesn't mean we've given it to him. I think that there's a part of us that still holds onto it, because we're not able to even express that to our brothers or sisters in Christ.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yeah.
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Speaker 2
I guess. Let me ask you a question. What do you think holds people back from.
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Speaker 1
Like, your you.
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Speaker 2
You asked me the question, you know, like. Yeah. How would you encourage them? Well, speak to the people and tell me or help them identify why they're not.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. For me, in my personal experience with not sharing with other people and I believe for others as well, are some of our core emotions shame, guilt, which if you if somebody is listening to this and experiencing shame in their sin, there's a huge difference between shame and guilt. Guilt happens when you have done something wrong, and shame typically happens and you feel shame when somebody has.
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Speaker 1
Typically the enemy is telling you that you have done wrong. Yeah. Even if you haven't. And so I think that's a one of the bigger elements that comes to play that keeps people from confessing corporately is the love of the enemy which causes shame in their hearts. And I would say a third one and this is definitely not for compromise list but would be embarrassment.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
People are embarrassed to say the things that they've done and that then leads to shame and guilt and those core emotions that we're, we're talking about here. But I would say you don't need to, be shackled by those feelings. Yeah. And confessing corporately is a really great way to free yourself from those feelings. Because also, you'll come to understand that other people can absolutely identify with what you're going through.
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Speaker 1
When you share with them what you've done or where you've been. More often than not, somebody else has gone through that same thing, and it could just so be that the person you're talking to can walk you through a process of healing, or they know somebody that they can connect you with that can also walk you through a process of healing.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. That's good. I do think that people are afraid that if they confess to a person that vulnerability, will be, weaponized against them. And the truth is, it may be, it may be, but I feel like being free from something that is, keeping me from seeing clearly. Keeping me from seeing God clearly. Because that's what I think happens when we don't consecrate ourselves, when we don't go after purity.
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Speaker 2
I was telling the staff, I feel like there's this level of division that even came in our staff where it wasn't like we had actual beef with one another, or that there was something super offensive that was done, but there was just kind of like in a season or transition. There was just like a little bit of disconnection.
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Speaker 2
Because people are kind of doing their own things and figuring out things and so nothing wrong. But there's a level of disunity. And what I realize is like the sin and that junk that fills our hearts starts like blur our vision of how we see God and how we see each other. And so some of the, you know, inexplicable division that people have are based off of assumptions that are informed by sin and shame that we're holding on to internally.
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Speaker 2
And so when we can finally let those go, it clears our vision. It clears our vision to see God as the one who can purify us. And it clears out the clutter that divides us from one another. That, you know, some of the clutter wasn't meant to push somebody away, but because we've held on to it, it just had that result.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. It's just the nature of sin separating you not just from God, but his people, too. So consecration is so important. I feel like the church. When we get to a place of consecration, then we can believe that there will be an outpouring of the spirit. Confession, repentance. Revival is when something is happening inside of you, where you turn from your sin and you go after God because you're free to run and boldly approach him, because you're free from that stuff.
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Speaker 2
And so when you're free, there's that outpouring. That comes an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, a move of God, a miracle will will happen after there's consecration, after there's repentance. And, it makes me excited of like, what can Holy Spirit do when we repent? When we consecrate, when we and then even go a step further when we administer forgiveness because we realized how what he forgave us from.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. We realize the things that we laid down. We're washed clean, totally cleansed. We became cleansed of all unrighteousness. If he if he's the only one who can do that, imagine what miracles will follow. Yeah. That only he can produce. Yeah. We couldn't take any credit for it. So that's what makes me really excited about this year of consecration.
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Speaker 2
Taking a year of consecration, almost to the point where I'm like, is this awkward, guys, we're going into the consecration room every Tuesday or every Tuesday, you know, with our staff every Tuesday morning, with our, with our sisterhood leaders. And it's like, gosh, we just keep on repenting. You think that we get all depressed, but it actually has set us free.
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Speaker 2
It's deepened our fellowship with God and it's deepened our fellowship with one another. Yeah, and that's what happens. God wants us to enjoy these relationships. Friendship with him. Friendship with one another. Yeah. And that's even a miracle.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. I mean, what I love about the Lord and what he calls us to, what he commissions us to is that it is miraculous, but it's also extremely practical.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Like, I always think about even the Levitical law. And we have a few friends that are, Seventh-Day Adventist. Right. And they don't eat certain things because that's in the Levitical law. But what you actually see there is that people who are Adventists typically live longer because they're eating well. Yeah. And I even see that with things like repentance, confession and forgiveness.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Like with what you're saying now. I think and I truly believe that that type of discourse and that maybe even potential disagreements that come into play is some of the healthiest things that we can do for ourselves relationally. And when we come to a place where we publicly confess to one another, especially when we confess to somebody that we've sinned against.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. And then they're able to, you know, hopefully receive that and forgive us and return one. I do believe that miracles will follow that. But on a practical level too, like it's both and and I, I'm continuously being revealed. Yeah. How God is both. And it's the miraculous in the practical here in the physical world. But when we confess to one another and then forgive one another, there is such a freedom in that relationship.
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Speaker 1
There is like an immediate, almost healing in that relationship. And I do think that there are degrees to healing, and it might not be the exact same level of love and friendship that you had before, but there's healing that comes into play. And a hope.
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Speaker 2
Or potential for even.
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Speaker 1
Better. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. And so I just love that about what the Lord calls us to. Yeah. It's it's not just something for, the other side of eternity. Yeah. This is something for here and now. It's it's practical, and it's for this physical world.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. The both and to will produce a reward. And sometimes we are afraid of saying reward because, like, we're not doing things for reward. But that's just the nature of a God who says I will reward those who are obedient. His presence is enough. Yeah, he is enough. He is our greatest reward. But there are benefits, man. I just makes me want to start following the Levitical laws.
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Speaker 2
With food. I do live longer. I mean.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2
And there's just wisdom that just wisdom, that, you know, you see the fruit of that wisdom in that lifestyle. Because God's good right now. He's good here on this earth. And he wants us to experience blessings and abundance in the land of the living right here, right now.
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Speaker 1
He knows what he's doing. He does. He knows what he's calling us to.
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Speaker 2
Oh, yeah. Consecration. It is a high calling. I do think that the church at large, the big C church, is going after purity, going after holiness, and with, the consecration with repentance. There are messes. So I don't think it's the easiest thing. And it's. And I just would encourage people as they pursue repentance and they pursue consecration, to not expect perfection and that you're going to do it right every time.
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Speaker 2
And just allow Holy Spirit to do with the mess what only he can do. Like, I just want to rely on him to do more powerful things than I could ever do on my own. And consecration, I think, is, it's it's humbling. And God can only do mighty things that exalt him when we lower ourselves in humility.
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Speaker 2
And then he'll be exalted and then he'll do the clean up. Yeah. Yeah, I just think that that's, such an incredible promise. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
And on the on the topic of what you were mentioning before of, the reward. Right. The messy part in consecration and confessing and repentance is that, although you will receive forgiveness from the Lord, you may not always receive forgiveness from those around you. But the the point of consecration, the point of repentance and confession is not for an outward expectation, but it is 100% an inward look.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. In taking what I have learned from my husband in the past two years is taking personal responsibility. It's not under it's not trying to get other people to forgive you of what you've done, but it's one forgiving yourself. Yeah. And receiving the forgiveness from the Lord. And that's.
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Speaker 2
It. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And. And that. That's enough.
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Speaker 1
That's enough.
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Speaker 2
And that's enough. Like the promise that we are to be. We can be satisfied with him and him alone. But no, that's that's a really that's a really good point. Oh, well, what's a high calling that we have with consecration? And how would you encourage people to practice it? In their lives?
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Speaker 1
I would say have a rhythm. You know, we have a rhythm in place as our staff corporately, where every Tuesday morning before our staff meetings, we come to our consecration room, and, we share a time of consecration together. Have that with somebody in your community if you don't already have that. You can create it, you know?
00;26;38;09 - 00;27;06;18
Speaker 1
It doesn't need to be like something extremely official. You can just gather some friends and, consecrate together, but then also don't forsake doing don't forsake doing it on an individual level. And so whether that's, you know, once a week in your morning devos, even daily the word tells us to repent daily of our sins. Whether that's in the morning or in the new in noon or night.
00;27;06;21 - 00;27;27;24
Speaker 1
Find time to just get with the Lord and start simple. Even if you don't have anything to say. Like I thought this morning, I was like, okay, got it. I might just be sitting here listening to other people. But again, he reminded me that there's always something. There's always something. And so if you don't know, it might take time, but ask him to search you.
00;27;28;00 - 00;27;28;11
Speaker 2
Yeah.
00;27;28;12 - 00;27;49;05
Speaker 1
Search your heart. Search your spirit. And he will bring something again. It might not be an action that you committed against another person, but it could be something like me. Where this morning I was like, you know, God, I'm. I'm feeling anxious and I'm feeling weary. But I, I don't want that anymore, so I'm going to give that to you.
00;27;49;09 - 00;28;09;07
Speaker 2
That's really good. I would say also. Psalm 139. Search me, know me. And also Psalm 51 made it meditate on the scriptures, created me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit in me and the scripture that we read this morning was first John five. And it's the Scripture that tells us that he promises to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
00;28;09;09 - 00;28;34;20
Speaker 2
Like what a promise. And when we can fixate not on our problem and we can fix it, not on what other people did to us, but when we can fixate on what the power of Jesus on the cross and his blood poured out, when we can fix it on what that did for us, I think that would it would only, you know, back in the response of consecration.
00;28;34;22 - 00;28;59;11
Speaker 2
So I encourage you to go over those scriptures. I, I should give them maybe I'll link it down below. Is that what they do on YouTube? But also, start with doing it with the Lord. Practice it with the Lord. And he. There's so much safety in that. Because I get being kind of nervous.
00;28;59;11 - 00;29;21;11
Speaker 2
But then I would reverse what you said and say, don't forsake the gathering of the saints. And use that as an opportunity to consecrate yourselves before the Lord. And last thing. We love our app. Lectio 365. I found myself. I told you this earlier. I don't feel like somebody who's been convicted or Holy Spirit told me, you know, stop.
00;29;21;12 - 00;29;42;06
Speaker 2
Get off Instagram. Delete it. I've done it maybe a couple times. A beginning of a year for 21 days of fasting. I did it during our sabbatical. So fixed. Six weeks off of social media. So I didn't feel like I need to delete the app, but I did find that I had a rhythm of feasting on Instagram.
00;29;42;08 - 00;30;07;12
Speaker 2
It would be in the morning. It would be after work, and it would be at night, right before I went to bed. And then I was like, gosh, if I just had something morning, noon, and I, Lectio 365. This app has been incredible because it gives you moments of meditation, reflection, praying, yielding. Learning how to pray even, and reflecting on Scripture and meditating on the right things morning, noon and night.
00;30;07;12 - 00;30;25;21
Speaker 2
And so I've made it a competition with myself. I check my statistics at the end of the week to see whenever I picked up my phone. What was the first app that I opened? That was it, was my test messages? Was it Instagram or was it my, like 2 or 365 app or my YouTube, you know, but this my YouVersion Bible app.
00;30;25;24 - 00;30;45;16
Speaker 2
We need to spend time with Holy Spirit. We need to pause. We need to slow down. And tend to our hearts and tend to what Holy Spirit's doing in and through us. And then we won't be distracted. So anyways, I love that app. That's been really helpful. It's really good. We love it. You told me about it, like a couple months ago.
00;30;45;18 - 00;30;53;16
Speaker 2
Yeah, I just started using it the last couple weeks and it's been a game changer. So no, no book recommendations today, but.
00;30;53;16 - 00;30;54;01
Speaker 1
An app.
00;30;54;06 - 00;31;00;12
Speaker 2
But in Appalachia. 365 oh, we do like the lectio divina, or the lectio Bible.
00;31;00;12 - 00;31;01;21
Speaker 1
Yes. Oh, yes.
00;31;01;22 - 00;31;25;12
Speaker 2
That one's a good one too. Anyways, ladies, we hope you enjoyed this and of explanation on consecration and the practice of it. We do believe that it is the way of a believer's life. This is a regular practice. It's not just something we want to do in 2025, something that we're definitely focusing on. Even at the end of the, as we we're going to head into the fall here soon.
00;31;25;15 - 00;31;45;26
Speaker 2
We're going to do 21 days of consecration. Wow. That'll be I can't wait to see what Holy Spirit does after that. But let's practice repentance. Let's practice consecration. Let's practice, these things with our community, with our sisterhood. So that he can do mighty works among us. All right. Cool. What a great episode. Thanks, Alex.
00;31;46;02 - 00;31;47;26
Speaker 1
Thank you. Thank you.