Description
In this episode of the Salted Podcast, Beth Barlet and Katherine Rose discuss the concept of pioneering within the Kingdom of God. They explore the challenges and rewards of stepping out in faith, the importance of obedience, and the necessity of maintaining intimacy with God. The conversation emphasizes the need for community support and encouragement during the pioneering journey, as well as the significance of focusing on God’s blueprints rather than worldly success.
Host Commentary
In this episode of the Salted Podcast, Beth Barlet and Katherine Rose discuss the concept of pioneering within the Kingdom of God. They explore the challenges and rewards of stepping out in faith, the importance of obedience, and the necessity of maintaining intimacy with God. The conversation emphasizes the need for community support and encouragement during the pioneering journey, as well as the significance of focusing on God’s blueprints rather than worldly success. The episode concludes with a prayer for those feeling called to pioneer in their own lives.Call to Action: Reflect on your own journey and consider how you can pioneer in your community or workplace. Share your thoughts and experiences with us!
Takeaways
- Pioneering requires intentionality and courage.
- Women in the body of Christ are called to break barriers.
- Building according to God’s blueprints is essential.
- Obedience is not determined by the outcome.
- Do not despise small beginnings; God rejoices in them.
- The process of pioneering builds our faith.
- The cost of not stepping out in faith is significant.
- Facing opposition is part of the pioneering journey.
- Intimacy with God is crucial for sustaining our work.
- Community support is vital in the pioneering process.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Pioneering for the Kingdom
05:14 Defining the Role of a Pioneer
08:39 Faith and Obedience in Pioneering
12:20 The Cost of Pioneering
15:38 Facing Opposition and Staying Focused
19:26 The Importance of Intimacy with God
24:53 Encouragement and Community in Pioneering
33:30 Introduction and Intentions
34:00 Closing Thoughts and Community Engagement
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Transcript
eth Barlet (00:01)
Welcome to Salted, where I help you uncover the transformative power to know and love Jesus in His fullness and stir up revival within your heart. Join me, Beth Barlett, as I come alongside you every week on the narrow path that draws us into a deeper relationship with Jesus. Get ready to be encouraged, empowered, ignited and equipped as we pursue authentic discipleship to influence the world for the Kingdom of God.
Beth Barlet (00:31)
Hey family, how is everyone doing this week? I am so again excited to be with you all because I again get to share some time with you with my sweet friend, Catherine Rose. We remember Catherine from a couple weeks ago where we talked about mentoring and the importance of spiritual motherhood. Well, we promised you last time that we would come back and give you an episode about pioneering.
So here we are today. I hope you all are having a great week, that the Lord is just moving in your heart in a powerful way, and that this episode this week blesses you in a way that you didn’t think that the Lord would, but that we all know that we are on a journey with Jesus in whatever way it looks, whether we’re at home or in the workplace, but that we as women have been
called to be vessels for the kingdom of heaven and called to pave new roads for the kingdom of God. And so this episode, I really wanted to focus on just what it looks like from both me and Catherine’s perspective over the past couple of years on pioneering and what it looks like to pioneer for the kingdom of God, things to look out for.
that we need to hold onto when it seems like we can’t go anymore and just using God’s word to reignite our hearts, to give us the perseverance, the endurance we need to keep on going for that prize in heaven that we all await and for Jesus to look at us and say, good job, well done, my faithful servant. So hey, Catherine.
Katharine (02:18)
Amen.
Hello, glad to be back.
Beth Barlet (02:22)
We are so happy to have you back. Yay. I wanted to first guys just kind of go into the definition of what a pioneer actually is. So I went to Wikipedia and you know, pioneer refers to someone who leads the way in new ventures, whether geographic, scientific, social or cultural. And it often connotates that it needs someone with courage.
innovation and leadership in uncharted or developing areas. And particularly women in the body of Christ, we’ve had to break barriers, we’ve had to challenge cultural norms, and we’ve had to in so many ways, whether it be in our home, in our communities, at our workplaces, have had to pave the way for future generations of women through faith.
based leadership. And the one vision that I always get when I think about pioneering that one of my friends shared with me a long time ago was I see myself and this generation in the middle of a jungle with one of those machetes. And you know, you can’t really walk like one or two feet in front of you. Literally chopping down these vines.
Katharine (03:33)
Yeah
Yes.
Beth Barlet (03:43)
with your generation or your family or whoever it is behind you in order for them to be able to walk that narrow path that much easier in line with the Lord. But because of either generational iniquity or just the pressures of worldly society, it feels like mud for the pioneers and amount of pressure and difficulty and burden.
Katharine (04:06)
Yes.
Beth Barlet (04:09)
you know, that sometimes we’re called to for the next generation. But that I always think of that picture of really hard in front, but really easy behind. that selfless drive that the Lord, the selfless love that the Lord has given us to make way and prepare the way of the Lord for those behind us. And it’s powerful.
Katharine (04:13)
That’s such a…
So good.
So good.
Yes, that is such a great image. I’m going to keep that in my mind because that’s literally how I feel like Machete just out there in the wild just whacking away. That’s so good. Yes.
Beth Barlet (04:46)
I think I did well.
Well, Catherine, tell me a few things. know that we both have a similar time scale. The Lord had called us to do this podcast, to do ministry for women in the body of Christ, And I know we’ve talked so many times about just encouragement that the Holy Spirit continues to give us and the truth that we’ve had to cling to during these hard seasons of doing something new.
with the Lord, co-laboring with him. And what’s some truth that you can give people that they’ve felt called to pioneer for their family at home or in the workplace or a new job? What are some things that you can give to cling to in God’s truth to help them to keep going to persevere?
Katharine (05:14)
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I mean, I think, first of all, it’s recognizing that you are whatever the Lord is calling you to build or pioneer, you are literally building according to his blueprints. So it is like the blueprints of heaven that that you are calling forth and calling down and building according to not according to the world’s wisdom. Like the world’s wisdom and God’s wisdom are two very different things. And a lot of the times what the Lord will call us to doesn’t make sense. In fact,
If it does make sense and you can figure it all out and kind of have the whole picture, I don’t quite think maybe that it would be from the Lord. it’s recognizing that it’s literally you are to step into and step out one step at a time and that the Lord will continue to reveal to you as you go.
But it’s recognizing that if you’re waiting, and I speak from experience with this, if you’re waiting to have the full picture and make sense of things, you’re never gonna step out and move. And so it’s recognizing what is that first step that the Lord is asking me to take? And it’s gonna require faith, it is, it’s gonna require faith. That is scriptural, we see that all throughout the Bible. I think of Noah a lot of the time, Noah has been my man in this season because it’s like,
the Lord gave him these specific instructions and he just had to build according to that blueprint, regardless of what people thought or regardless of any discouragement he might have faced. I just imagined him, and I talked about this before, or I know Beth, we’ve talked about this, but this idea of how many times he probably thought, what am I even doing? Nobody just kept building or like.
you know, did I really hear God? Is this really what I’m supposed to be doing? But he just kept building or discouragement or voices from other people. Like, what are you doing? But he just kept building. And so it’s really recognizing that you are building God’s kingdom, And he is like, he is your CEO, and you’re to listen to his voice and have his voice be the one leading, guiding and directing you.
And you really have to, what I’ve had to learn to do is to like tune out a lot of other voices and be hyper focused on what the Lord is telling me to do. And you think about to Abraham, like Abraham was like the original pioneer, like the OG pioneer. God told him to pick up, leave, leave his country, leave his home and go to a land that he will show him. Like he had no direction other than I will show you as you go.
And I love that verse in Hebrews 11, eight, when it says, you know, by faith Abraham, when called to go to a place that he would later receive as an inheritance, he obeyed and went, even though it says he didn’t know where he was going. And that that’s sort of been the verse that I’ve clung to and pictured for me just in this season is like, I don’t know exactly the end of what I’m even building. But I’m just going to keep walking it out with the Lord and keep to my best ability obeying.
God.
Beth Barlet (08:39)
And I think too, like Abraham had to keep an eternal perspective Noah had to keep an eternal perspective with his eyes fixed on God, not on the ways of the world. Because it’s the ways of the world that we actually have to shut out and protect our eyes and our ears when God is calling us to something. Because like you said, it doesn’t make sense through a worldly viewpoint of what we’ve called to do for the kingdom of heaven.
Katharine (08:50)
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Beth Barlet (09:07)
And I
think one of the traps that we can get caught into is by looking at success and what the world’s deems as successful, which can get us off course.
Katharine (09:22)
Totally, totally. And two, of along that line, obedience is not determined by outcome, right? Our job is to obey. The outcome is in God’s hands. We are not in charge of the outcome. And again, just to use Noah again, Noah’s job was to build according to God’s instructions, but God had to bring the rain. And
There is this sort of partnership that takes place where the God is using you to build something, but he’s ultimately the one in charge of bringing the promise, delivering on the word he gave you and in charge of the outcome. And I think like you said, Beth, where we can get hung up and where I know personally I’ve struggled is, okay, what if it doesn’t look like what you thought it would, right? Or success by the world’s standards. But it’s like you have to shut that, you have to shut that down and shut that out.
Because again, just going back to it is my job to obey and it is the outcome is in God’s hands.
Beth Barlet (10:21)
And I think too, I forget what verse is, but the Lord tells us to not despise small beginnings, that He takes joy in them.
Katharine (10:29)
Yes, that is one of my favorite, that’s another verse that I’ve been clinging to, Zachariah 4 10, I believe it is, do not despise the small beginnings for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin. Like that verse, if it were for that verse, honestly, it’s like, my gosh, I just cling to that because it is, it’s so true. And you think about too, just you have to, you, especially with pioneering,
you’re literally starting from scratch and you’re forging a new path. that requires a process and things aren’t just gonna happen, overnight. but to know that the Lord in your taking your very first steps, it’s like those baby steps, right? Like he is rejoicing and cheering you on in that.
And another thing I feel like the Lord kind of has been speaking to me too is while you’re building, like he’s also building you. know, while, and I think of Noah again, back to my man Noah, like it’s like, I just have this picture of with every, hammer swing or with every plank that he laid for that, for that arc, like he’s exercising his faith day in and day out laying another.
laying another board, and it’s like the Lord is building you in that process just as much as you are building for Him. And that’s something that I’ve had to keep in mind as well.
Beth Barlet (11:51)
That is so good. And I think he uses all things for our sanctification, right? So, order for us, I think, to walk in the maturity spiritually, he needs us to in order to continue to grow whatever he’s called us to, he has to continually mature us from the inside out to become more like his son, to be able to then handle all that he’s given us in the future as we continue to build more and more.
Katharine (11:55)
Yes, yes.
Yes.
Yes. Amen.
Beth Barlet (12:20)
I also remember too, like God says, faithful in the little, faithful in much. So can we be trusted with the little small beginning that he’s given us? Are we gonna walk in obedience? I hear his voice. Are we gonna walk in the fear of God over the fear of man? And we have to realize too that when we’re called to follow Jesus, again, the same biblical principles of authentic discipleship is that
Katharine (12:32)
Yes.
Beth Barlet (12:49)
It’s going to cost us. It’s going to be hard that there are a way that leads to life, whether it be just trying to be more godly and righteous and becoming more like Jesus and knowing his heart and our heart to become more like his heart. But it’s just also hard to do the ministry he’s called us to or hard to raise our children fully from a biblical perspective against the ways of the world or hardly to stand firm.
Katharine (12:51)
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Beth Barlet (13:19)
in our convictions at work or to build a new business that will build the kingdom monetarily, whatever it may look like. It’s going to cost our time our comfort, our possible friendships in the season. Like it’s going to cost us and it’s going to cost us
Katharine (13:32)
Yes.
Yes.
Beth Barlet (13:37)
things that we clung to that weren’t even of God, we would to for comfort or reliance, where we have to 100 % be fully dependent on the Lord. He has to kill that self-sufficiency in us continuously so that we can fully rely on him, hear him, so we know the directions and the blueprints that we continually have to build.
Katharine (13:42)
Yes. Yes.
Yes, amen, amen. And kind of to go with that too, it is costly, 100%, but also like, what is the cost of not? You know, what is the cost of not stepping out in faith and in obedience to the Lord? And I really, this is where having an eternal perspective comes into play, like in setting your mind on things above, not things below.
The way I have thought about it too in this season is like my motivation and it’s like what Paul talks about in Philippians, know, pressing on toward the mark, like forgetting what lies behind and pressing on toward the mark to the goal of the prize that the Lord has called us to. But it’s this idea too of like, I’m gonna have to give an account to the Lord. I’m not gonna stand before anybody else but the Lord. And so I want.
you know, I’m driven by that eternal perspective because I do want to hear those words, well done, good and faithful servant, you know, and where I’ve really had to kind of die to myself, especially as a recovering, people pleaser I say is not letting the fear of man stop me because that definitely has been a stronghold in my own life, but recognizing I’m not.
I’m not beholden to any of these other people, right? I’m only gonna be standing in front of the Lord. So again, that eternal perspective and continually setting your mind on that, on the things above, I think is helpful in the pioneering, in the challenge, in when things are costly, it’s like, no, you are pressing on toward that mark.
Beth Barlet (15:38)
And tell me a little bit about Nehemiah and how God used that story to help you through that process.
Katharine (15:44)
Yeah, Nehemiah is another man, another one of my mans in this season. So I just, I think that you do inevitably, I think, encounter opposition when you are pioneering, whatever that might look like, or all of us can encounter opposition in our own lives at some point when truly dedicated to following the Lord.
There are a couple of things that have stood out as I’ve sort of studied his story is every time someone comes to him with opposition or is taunting him, he doesn’t even like respond back. just prays like he goes to God in prayer and he says, the Lord will deliver or will give me my success. He’s not engaging. He’s not trying to defend himself.
He’s simply saying, take over. God, know, turning again, turning his eyes to the Lord. So that’s one thing. I think also there is this image, right? Of there’s one part in the story where they talk about, there are a bunch of opponents coming after him and saying, you know, why don’t you come down from this wall? And they’re trying to trap him essentially. And he’s like, I am doing a great work.
and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to come down? And they come to him four different times, four different times. They do this over and over. Why don’t you come down? Why don’t you come? He’s, I’m doing a great work and I cannot come down. And so it’s like, every time I encounter this opposite, I’m like, I’m doing a great work. I cannot come down. But it is this, it’s recognizing that literally, I mean, the Lord has my back.
And again, I’m not in charge of defending myself. I am simply in charge of obeying. And all of the opposition or taunting or barriers that you encounter, it’s literally giving those up to God. And it’s also an opportunity, I think, for me, it’s an opportunity to kind of crucify my flesh a little bit more and die to myself a little bit more with every sort of opposition and to draw closer to God.
And so those are just some things that have kind of stood out from his story. Another thing actually I just remembered, a good visual that I’ve been clinging to is he’s clinging, he has a hammer in one or they have his team, they have a hammer in one hand and a weapon in the other.
while they’re building, have the hammer they’re building, they’re also they have a weapon to defend the opposition, the sword, they have and they have a sword by their side. And it’s like, I visualize that as like, okay, I’m over here building, but I’m also using the word of God as my weapon to counter any opposition that is coming my way. And it’s not, ⁓ I’m not opposing, like I’m not using my own words to oppose, I’m using the I’m throwing the word of God, the sword of the spirit at that opposition. So that’s another good talk about visual. That’s another good visual.
Beth Barlet (18:28)
Good
and you know, have to remember like you said that everything we’re doing is for an audience of one that we continually remember that everything we’re doing is for the Lord and Lord alone and to silence the naysayers because to be honest with you, they don’t understand they have not been given the blueprints they are looking from an outside perspective and have to trust solely in what God says and his word and that we
Katharine (18:29)
Yeah.
Yes. Amen.
Yes.
Yes.
Beth Barlet (18:58)
that we have the trust that we hear also from God. When the enemy would try to make us doubt, did God really this just even from way back into the Garden of Eden? Did God really do that? Did God really do that? Yes, He said that. Yes, He said that. this is who I am and it’s believing. you know, many times the Lord in seasons prior to our pioneering is preparing us for this.
Katharine (19:08)
Yes. Right. Right. Yeah, yes, right.
Yeah.
Beth Barlet (19:27)
The one thing I really want to touch upon too, is that he’s preparing us not only to have discernment and to hear his voice, but also right before pioneering, many times we walk through seasons of preparation where we’re digging wells. I like the where we’re digging wells of faith, but we’re also digging wells to be filled with his presence, filled with his water, to be full of that deep, deep intimacy, which is so important that I have
Katharine (19:43)
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Beth Barlet (19:56)
before we step out into that pioneering role. Because once you say, set, go, there is a lot of work that’s involved, correct? And you have to remember that even though that we co-labor with the Lord and we have to work and be diligent and we have to persevere, that we’re still co-laboring and that we still need to be fully reliant on our intimacy with God. And right now the Lord has me even
Katharine (20:06)
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Beth Barlet (20:25)
walking into a season from go, go, go, build, build, build, out that he’s now drawing me back into a season of intimacy and rest. Because, you know, eventually those wells that we dig are eventually going to be empty if we’re not going to the Lord and spending more time with him and realizing that we need to take breaks.
Katharine (20:38)
Yes.
Beth Barlet (20:51)
And thinking about Noah, I’m sure when he was doing brick by brick for how many years he was building that arc that he took breaks, right? How many times did he just sit and be like, man, I’m tired. Like I need to take a break for maybe a day or two days or a month. I think that, you know, our type A gung ho personalities like all in.
Katharine (20:59)
He had to have.
Yeah. Or a week. Yeah. a month. Yeah. Exactly.
Beth Barlet (21:20)
We need to get this done. Like we have to realize that we, it’s an ebb and flow and God moves us in seasons of work, but also seasons of rest where we need to refuel. We need to refill our lamps with oil because the whole purpose we’re doing this anyway is to be 100 % in the will of God, but fully in line, not only to his will, but fully, deeply intimate with him.
Katharine (21:35)
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Beth Barlet (21:47)
You know, I found myself even in this pioneering stage where he had a woo me back again as his woo me back to the point where once again, he was alone. My first love. And we can start to one of the things I just want to bring up just that I’ve walked through is that we can start the ministry, the job, everything we are doing for the Lord. One can become an idol to
Katharine (22:00)
Yes, amen.
Beth Barlet (22:14)
it can keep us away from the intimacy that we need with the Lord because there’s only 24 hours in a day. And I always say with two kids under three and doing a podcast ministry and my husband and cooking dinner and doing this and that, like there are not enough hours in the day. Plus I love to sleep. And so I need at least eight hours of sleep. so all that, happens, to be honest with you, I know in my life,
Katharine (22:19)
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
Beth Barlet (22:43)
I need to get things done and therefore my time with the Lord suffers because to be honest in all humility and authenticity that is the easiest thing to put on the back burner.
Katharine (22:49)
Yep.
Totally. It is. is. Yeah.
Beth Barlet (22:57)
It is.
And so I found myself then clinging to other things to give me reprieve or refreshment, were apart from the Lord and through this cycle. And I remember one day waking up, we went to the mountains and that’s where our heart is. And, I went there to have refreshment. You know, I was looking so forward to getting away just with all the busyness and stuff. And I get up there and you realize that nothing but the Lord satisfies completely correct.
Katharine (23:24)
Yes, amen.
Beth Barlet (23:24)
And so after
a couple days I was there, I’m like, this is great. And then it started to wean away again. And you start to feel that stress and, you know, the emptiness that comes without fully being in the Lord’s presence. And I remember one morning he woke me up and he was, I can feel the pull of the Holy Spirit, like just wooing me outside and just sitting in his presence and just hearing him say like that he’s missed me and that I
Katharine (23:32)
Uh-huh.
Yes.
Yes.
Beth Barlet (23:53)
and to remember that I’m his bride and that he’s my bridegroom and that he’s my beloved and that just wooing me back to just just rest in his love for me and rest in his goodness and his gentleness and that he is the bread of life and the fountain of life giving water that only in him that I seek and and he’s continually he brought me back into like song with Solomon and I know I’m going off on a rabbit hole with the whole pioneering thing
Katharine (24:07)
Yes.
No, no.
Beth Barlet (24:23)
But just to get the sense that it’s all about just Jesus. It’s all about being with Jesus, loving Jesus, seeking Jesus, embracing the love Jesus has for us to become more like Jesus. And, you know, ministry, pioneering, whatever the things that we do tend to, Satan can use easily with our good intentions to pull us away from the most important thing. Just like Maria and Martha, I think about, you know,
Katharine (24:28)
Yes.
Yes.
Beth Barlet (24:53)
you know, when she was busy, busy, busy doing and Martha was like, why isn’t Mary helping me? And Jesus is like, don’t take this from her. Mary is doing the best thing. She’s sitting at my feet and hearing my truth and being in my presence and that you can be busy, busy, busy, but that the most important thing is being and spending time with me. So anyone who’s walking through the pioneering,
Katharine (25:05)
Yes.
Amen.
Beth Barlet (25:19)
stage right now and just feels overwhelmed. It just feels strung out or anxiety or just feeling burdened. The Lord is probably calling you back and wooing you back and he alone is is your first love and I had a talk with a dear friend of mine that the Lord has her in Revelation with the church of of Ephesus and how they did all the right things. They did all the ministry. They walked in righteousness.
Katharine (25:31)
Mm-hmm.
Beth Barlet (25:47)
They were against false prophets, but the one thing the Lord was calling that they had to repent of was that they had forgotten their first love. And with all the ministry that we do or the jobs that the Lord has called us to, or even just in our home with my children, the busyness of that, that even we can put our family before the Lord, like we always need to step back and ask, is Jesus still?
my first love and am I investing in that relationship with him and am I allowing myself to rest so that then I can continue on with the work that he has for me because without him apart from him we know in the gospel of John apart from you can do nothing of eternal value and I want the work that I do in the last day to not be burned up with fire I want to withstand the flame that everything I did was done with him
Katharine (26:37)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Beth Barlet (26:43)
not only just for him so that I can add that impact, but also keep what’s the most dear and precious my deep connection with Jesus Christ.
Katharine (26:45)
Yes.
Amen, yes. And as you were talking, Beth, I just have to add like, John 15, like abiding, abiding, right? Abiding in the Lord. I am the vine, you are the branch. Apart from me, you said, we can do nothing. We can’t do anything apart from him. And so that is, and as we were talking, it’s like, I’m recognizing too, I’m in this season of been going, going, going, and the Lord is calling me back.
and to rest, and to rest in Him, and to be refueled, because you can’t, again, can’t pour from an empty cup. And so it is, and at the end of the day, we are ultimately, regardless of what we’re doing, ministry, work, whatever, our first call is to the Lord. It is to the Lord. That is what the invitation and the thing that He is most interested in is spending time with us. ⁓
And so I think just that’s something that is so important to your point to keep in mind in the pioneering where it can be so easy to just be going nonstop. And it’s like, at some point you do, you have to go back to that intimate place, you know?
Beth Barlet (27:59)
Amen. And I was thinking about one last thing that I wanted to touch upon. Like, I am so thankful that I have Catherine, that the Lord has given me her to encourage me, that we can literally be each other’s soundboards, you know, going through similar seasons. And we’ve had this conversation multiple times off the microphone.
Katharine (28:21)
Yes. yes.
Beth Barlet (28:24)
You’re like so good so good. I need to hear that I need to hear that even though you know the truth like hearing someone else Speak that truth to you. There’s so much power in and I can’t explain it But if you are walking through a pioneering season, you need to find that special someone that you can just Share it all with to encourage you to keep going to speak through that you need to hear and you know, it’s so hard because
Katharine (28:46)
Yes.
Beth Barlet (28:50)
The enemy tries to come in and right away we can be defensive. We can have that competitive spirit that comes in, that comparison spirit that comes in, the jealousy, the envy, the, again, the comparing success based on what the world says and how come it doesn’t look like this or someone’s looks like this. And I remember just something wise that my pastor had once said that he does, even just as a pastor where he prays every day.
Katharine (29:06)
Right.
Beth Barlet (29:19)
⁓ to kill that competitive spirit, that selfish ambition within him and to actually pray for those who are around him in similar situations or in similar positions or ministries or whatnot where the enemy can come in to steal, kill, destroy and divide. And I feel like the Holy Spirit leading me into that if you guys are struggling with that too. Like if you feel that
Katharine (29:23)
Yes.
Yes. Yes. So good.
Beth Barlet (29:49)
jealousy or that envy or comparison, use that as just right away a conviction to go and pray for that person, to bless that person, to help that person, to serve that person because we’re on the same team. Amen.
Katharine (29:56)
Yeah.
I was just going to
say we’re not yes, we are not in competition with one another. We are running the race together alongside of each other. And sometimes we got to pull each other along and sometimes we have to be pulled along, you know, but that’s why I’m so grateful for you too, Beth, because just having someone to encourage and like you said, to speak those words that you know, but sometimes you just you need to hear so super grateful.
Beth Barlet (30:08)
It’s good answer.
Well guys, really, this was just a podcast episode that I wanted to do just for fun because this has just been such a huge season in both our lives. And I know there’s so many right now prophetically that have been called to stay humble and build for the kingdom of God. There is just a shift of pioneers for the kingdom that the Lord is just calling out and to take the place of those who are overcome by just
self-indulgence and the ways of the world and waywardness and lukewarmness in the Western Church and God is just rising up an army of voices of soldiers who fight on their knees who fight God’s word with that sword to build the build for the kingdom in these last days and you have been called you have been prepared God has chosen you for such a time as this for those blueprints that he’s given you
Katharine (31:05)
Yes.
Yes.
Beth Barlet (31:22)
So stand firm in your faith, stand firm in your convictions on what you know God has spoken to you for. And if you continue to just build brick by brick and just keep your eyes fixed on Jesus, he will provide for you every step of the way. Amen. Amen. Catherine, do you think you can pray over these women this week and just anoint them for the work that the Lord has given them before we close out?
Katharine (31:40)
Amen.
Yes, absolutely. So, Lord God, Holy Spirit, I thank you, Lord, for each and every woman listening, Lord. I thank you for the call that you have placed on their life, Lord. I pray for just an increased measure of faith and boldness and courage, Lord, for each woman to step out, to step into, to arise into the plans and purposes, Lord, that you have for their life, Lord. I pray for…
increased revelation and knowledge and discernment as they build what you are calling them to build, whether it is in the home, whether it is in a ministry, whether it is a business or in work, Lord. I pray that you would draw them near, Lord, that they would just be filled with the Holy Spirit, Lord, to pour out onto others, Lord, what they are gleaning from their time with you, Lord. I pray for…
for just an increased grace, Lord, a grace ⁓ to just cover them as they do this good and holy and mighty work to build the kingdom. Lord, we thank you for the honor and the privilege that it is to come, that you choose us, Lord, to be vessels for your glory, Lord. And so I pray for each woman who may be feeling weary or discouraged, Lord, I pray that you would just fill them with a fresh hope, Lord, a fresh anointing, a fresh wind of the Spirit on their life, Lord, to keep propelling them.
forward to the eternal purposes Lord that you have for them in Jesus name. Amen.
Beth Barlet (33:19)
Amen.
All right, you guys, I pray that you have an awesome week. I look forward to seeing you all soon. ⁓
Beth Barlet (33:31)
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