Unveiling The Bridal Covenant with Michele Keen: A Prophetic Message for Such a Time as This

In this episode of Hope Unlocked, Kristin Kurtz welcomes back Michele Keen to unveil her long-awaited book, The Bridal Covenant, releasing September 25, 2025. Born out of a Holy Spirit encounter and a prophetic call to write, Michele shares the journey of carrying and birthing this message for such a time as this. Together they dive into themes of covenant, identity, and Kingdom destiny, offering a prophetic invitation to rise in courage, embrace intimacy with Christ, and boldly release the assignment God has placed within you.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Hope Unlocked
• 10:42 Michelle's Journey to Texas
• 22:04 The Significance of Spiritual Rivers
• 31:50 Charlie Kirk and the Rising Army
• 43:15 The Bridal Covenant Revealed
• 55:02 Surrender, Obedience and Taking Action
• 1:08:13 Book Announcement and Publishing Ministry

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:16

Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast. I'm your host, kristen Kurtz, and I'm also the founder of New Wings Coaching. I help and empower wildhearted and adventurous women of faith feeling caged and stuck, unlock their true purpose and potential, break free from limitations and thrive with confidence, courage and hope. If you're curious to learn more about coaching with me, head to newwingscoachingnet and be sure to explore the show notes for ways to connect with me further. Get ready to dive in as we uncover empowering keys and insights in this episode. So tune in and let's unlock hope together. Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast. I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host. I pray this episode is like a holy IV of hope for your soul. Please help me.

Speaker 1: 0:56

Welcome Michelle Keen to the show. I am so thrilled to have her back today. She was on back in December of 2024, episode 106. So please go back and listen. But I'm very thrilled to have her here today because we have a birth announcement. We have something coming soon and it's just been such a joy to I'll just say soar alongside her on this journey of bringing something to life that is so needed in this hour and, as we're recording today, this announcement is going to be a precursor to what's coming on September 22nd 2025. So, michelle, would you just tell us a little bit about yourself before we get into the birth announcement?

Speaker 2: 1:41

Absolutely, kristen. It is so awesome to be here. Thank you again for letting me just come on and be a part of everything that you do here. It is an honor and, yeah, the last time we met back in December, the Holy Spirit just exploded. I remember when we got off of our podcast and we were both just on fire, like what just happened. You yourself, you're the one who actually told me there needs to be a book, and I felt it too, and that's what's been happening since then, and that's what's happening on the 22nd my book baby is about to be born.

Speaker 1: 2:16

Yes, yes. Well, tell us a little bit about just I know people might go back and listen to your journey, but if you could just tell us a little bit about who you are and like where you're at right now, and then we'll get into you know more about the book and what it's about. Like this journey to even bring it to life.

Speaker 2: 2:33

Absolutely so. I grew up in the foreign service. My life was spent abroad, in the nations for a good part of my life, and then I came to the United States for college and had been here ever since then. But the Lord still carried me overseas, ministering in places like Uganda and Israel, spent quite a bit of time in both of those places, and it's neat because there was a season in my life when he had me going to Uganda for a number of years, and there was a season when he had me going to Israel for a number of years, and even when I was in Uganda, I was speaking at conferences there, emphasizing what the Lord was showing me was that there is a spiritual connection between Uganda, israel and the United States. So it's neat that now, on the heels of both of those two seasons, he's now brought me back to my homeland to be on mission here. Now brought me back to my homeland to be on mission here, and so in 2012, he actually began showing me, speaking to me about the revival that we are 100% diving even now, and so I'd been praying for the United States from both here and Israel, and then in 2020, I couldn't get back to Israel because of COVID couldn't fly. And I started getting into routine and I asked the Lord. I took some time and fasted and asked him you know what is your next step for me? And he said get a van, get it built out, I'm going to position you for the revival. I'm like, okay, so I did, and November of 2022 is November 2nd. Wow, that's a lot of twos. 11 to 22,.

Speaker 2: 4:10

Um, uh is when I flew off to California from Virginia, picked up my van and started driving through. I drove across um, arizona, new Mexico, came to Texas because I was going to visit my brother who was in an RV here. I was going to visit him here for a couple of days before I head up back towards Virginia. I just had some things I was storing at my mom's I was going to pick up. And when I got to Texas though I have to tell you, when I crossed the border from New Mexico into Texas, I felt like I was in a different country.

Speaker 2: 4:45

There was a spiritual shift that I felt. And when I got to actually Kerrville which we've seen on the news in the past few months, where my brother was, the Lord said this is where I positioned you. So I was there for eight months and then after that he brought me to the Gulf Coast states to do some redeeming of land. There that's my mantle is redeeming land and after that he said you're not going back to Curvil, you're going to the Houston area. And he brought me here and this is home base, this is where I am. There's so much he's saying about revival, so much he's putting in place, and so I've just been in the secret place with him and it's out of that secret place, out of that intimacy, that he has birthed this book.

Speaker 2: 5:32

The name of the book is the Bridal Covenant, and we'll get more into exactly what that means. But yeah, it's an exciting time that we're in. Let me tell you we're not in Kansas anymore, toto, it is a whole new question.

Speaker 1: 5:48

So how long have you been where you are now, then?

Speaker 2: 5:53

Oh my, I got here September 6th of 2023. It's two years. Okay, it's September, middle of September. We're recording this. Wow, yeah, it's two full years and I've been where I'm now okay.

Speaker 1: 6:08

So when you say I would just be curious for somebody who maybe is listening, and and you said that there was like a big shift going from New Mexico to Texas, you know what, what does that? What does that mean to you, like?

Speaker 2: 6:24

well, one thing I've found out about the state of Texas. Well, first of all, I didn't even really know much about Texas having been a nation of its own once upon a time, and I felt the shift so strongly that I actually asked my brother okay, I've heard that there are chances that Texas could become its own nation again. What are the chances of that happening? That there are chances that Texas could become its own nation again, what are the chances of that happening? And he said well, probably would never happen, but everything is in place, the full infrastructure is in place here to, if necessary, they could flip the switch and be a nation. And I felt it so strongly that I even asked so, if I'm not a Texas resident? And yet, what am I going to do? Do I have to defect? I mean, if that were to happen, it was like you know, and he's like I don't know, but you better become a Texas resident now. And I did. And what the Lord then showed me, he brought me. It was a January of 2024. He actually brought me to an area called Washington on the Brazos, which I had never heard of, and I did some research before I got there. Washington on the Brazos, it turns out, was where the signing of the Declaration of the Republic of Texas was signed years ago, at the same time as the Alamo was being fought. Well, well, as I was doing my research, I also found out that once Texas became its own nation, became its republic, it was a republic for 10 years and during that time, in 1840, in Washington on the Brazos, revival broke out. There are seeds of revival here in Texas and there's a significance with Texas spiritually being still this nation of sorts, whereas there's a position here to be able to impact prophetically and spiritually into the rest of the nation. The Lord even had me and he said look up what's been said about this nation. I know that Chuck Pierce and Dutch Sheeps went from state to state, went to all 50 states, and they said that Texas was the prophetic state. Engel has said that Texas is the battleground state and on Elijah list I found numerous posts that say that the seat of revival is in Texas.

Speaker 2: 8:41

So when I went to Washington on Brazos, the Lord said I want you to go there and I want you to open the wells of revival. So I went there, poured the, the wine, the blood into the ground and the bread and consecrated that land for the Lord. Um, I remember he told me to take, take the wine and put it on the doorposts of that declaration hall and as as I did, I knew a spiritual, that a, the spirit of death was passing by. I'm like what? Where's the spirit of death passing by? And he said it's passing by the Southern borders of Texas. I'm like, oh, thank you.

Speaker 2: 9:19

And as I left the Washington Abrazos, he said that the wells have been released and there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that can stop the water from flowing. Now and then it's neat because and thank you for giving me an opportunity to share about this yes, because we heard about the floods happening in Kerrville. Yes, because we heard about the floods happening in Kerrville and another friend of mine, amy Dial, well as well, she's also been on your podcast. The Lord called her and I to go to Kerrville not too long ago after the floods. But before we went he said go back to Washington on the Brazos. And what he showed us is so that town. It's a very small, historic town. It's on the Brazos River, which is one of the biggest rivers in Texas, and Brazos is actually short for the full name of the river is Rio de los Brazos de dios, which means river of the arms of god.

Speaker 2: 10:26

And yeah, when the spanish settlers fell upon this river, they literally thought that they were dying. They didn't have water. They thought that they had met their end. And then, when they discovered this river, they literally felt they fell into the arms of god, and that's why it's named that. And the lord said take the water from the Brazos, because during the revival in 1840, people were actually baptized in the Brazos River.

Speaker 2: 10:51

And here's another key thing that revival, I found online, was a spirit-filled revival, not just Wow, right. And so he said I'll get jugs of water from the Brazos, the river of the arms of God, and bring it to Curva, where there's just been flooding and so much parting, and poured into the Guadalupe River. The Guadalupe River turns out Guadalupe means Valley of the Wolves. So we took the water from the river of the arms of God to pour it into the river of the Valley of the Wolves, valley of the wolves. And we were there with leaders, um, church leaders in that area just declaring freedom and purity to that river and that life, yes, river of life, yeah, in jesus name.

Speaker 2: 11:35

And what the lord showed me while that was happening he showed me texas and he showed me a heart in the middle of texas and that heart was curvil right there in the heart of texas.

Speaker 2: 11:42

And he showed me these rivers flowing out from the heart of Texas and he showed me these rivers flowing out from the heart of Texas and I could see it going out throughout the whole I'm just going to say the whole nation of Texas, because that's what I'm feeling right now, and I know it would have ripple effects into the rest of the United States.

Speaker 2: 11:59

I saw this heart with all these rivers flowing out of it. I knew that what God was doing there with the redeeming of land and just every other things, that he's got other teams coming in for worship and all sorts of things and the churches, that what happens there was going to start flowing throughout the state. Well, right after that he brought me to John 738, where it says he that believes in me, as the scriptures have said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. And if you look at John 7, 39, the very next verse, it specifically says that those rivers of living water are rivers of the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 2: 12:36

And he's saying that Kerrville was quote baptized in water, but it's now about to experience a baptism in the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, power of God coming down and that is what's going to flow out through the state of Texas, that's what's going to ripple effect into the rest of the United States and word after word is confirming online. I'm seeing so much fire upon the water and about the about it. We have entered into a place where the Holy Spirit is about to explode, into a place where the Holy Spirit is about to explode. It says in Acts 2, 17, that in the last days that God will pour out his spirit on all flesh. And that was the thing too.

Speaker 2: 13:13

The leaders of the church in Kerbal one was saying how there's so much disunity and God was saying like when this revelation of the Holy Spirit? Because this has been withheld from so many churches, because the enemy is terrified. If we get this, because God is raising up a powerful church, he is raising up his remnant bride, we're about to prove in power like the church has never seen before. There is a shift. We know it just happened. We know it just happened. Know it just happened. We know it just happened. And when and when the revelation, the truth, really hits the church of the power of the holy spirit and what they have not been stepping into, that's going to start unifying not just in curvil, not just in texas, but throughout our nation. Not just our nation, but throughout the globe. We are about to see fire spread.

Speaker 1: 14:03

Yes, yeah we're seeing the, the, the onset of that. Would you like to share a little bit more, because we we're in the, the, the script truly like. Do you want to get after that like?

Speaker 2: 14:31

I'd love to so when that happened. Um, first of all, I'm just gonna say the lord, actually, as grieved as I, the Lord said this needed to happen. So don't think that this was just an. This was an enemy attack that, you know, blindsided God. He didn't fall off the throne. He actually allows things for a certain time. I heard a word from Kent Christmas, who also mentioned. He mentioned about the man who was lame for 40 years and people asked well, why is this the case? Did he sin? What does his parents do? And Jesus said, no, the life he's lived has been because he's to act as a marker for what I'm doing. And that's exactly what Charlie Kirk's life is. His life was to act as a marker, yeah, for what I'm. I'm doing and that's exactly what charlie kirk's life is.

Speaker 2: 15:27

His life was to act as a marker, and god has taken as a consideration everything, including, of course, his wife, erica, and their two children. I know he's gonna, he's gonna, his hand is gonna cover them. I know it's hard, but he's gonna use them and he's gonna cover them. Um, but he showed me also, um, just how much this is going to ignite the true bride and we can get into that too um, the true remnant, the bride of christ, that the warrior bride. We are closer to the coming of our king, closer than we realize, because we're like, oh, it's like, you know, he's coming for a clean and spotless bride. Well, our understanding of who the bride really is hasn't actually been true. So when you get to see who the bride really is, we are there, the bride is ready and she's ready to go, and that's what we're seeing a step up in and and it's neat because I felt um prompted to look up the meaning of charlie kurt's name- yeah and the name charlie means warrior or free man, and kurt's church.

Speaker 2: 16:32

Yeah, his name means warrior of the church and by his death and the army of god is rising up. Yes, and it is time. It's time for us to.

Speaker 1: 16:42

It's time, it's time for us to it's time.

Speaker 2: 16:44

It's time. And then, in addition to that, going to the marker, I saw all the words were coming out just confirming that exact thing. And I remember seeing one by Nate Johnson, who knows a prophetic voice from Australia, who was actually here in the United States for many years. They're back in Australia now, but in one of his posts he said what if Charlie Kirk's passing was a prophetic timestamp of an ineffective and weak church breathing its last and the lion church coming out of slumber? If that doesn't hit it on the head, I don't know what does. And after I read the full message that he had there, the full word, the Lord said now I want you to look up Erica's name. What does Erica mean? So I looked up Erica's name, the name Erica when it's spelled E-R-I-K-A means ever powerful.

Speaker 2: 17:39

Put that with the last name, kirk, meaning church, and her name means the ever powerful church, which is exactly the remnant bride, the triumphant church that we're talking about right now. That's about that. That is rising up, not even about to it, it's happening. It is happening and it's neat too, because when she gave her, um, her address, um, let me first of all, two days after her husband had passed, the strength in this woman that God has placed in her is just amazing. And one thing she said is you have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife. And someone pointed out which I'm like oh, it's exactly right. She's like she may have thought that she was talking about herself, but she was talking on behalf of the bride of Christ.

Speaker 1: 18:28

Yes.

Speaker 2: 18:28

Let me read this coming from the perspective of the bride of Christ, saying these words about our husband Jesus. You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife, the bride of Christ. The cries of this widow were echo around the world like a battle cry to everyone listening tonight, across America. The movement my husband and I'll interject Jesus, the movement my husband Jesus built will not die. And she is a nester, she is a warrior leader for the church right now. She is a voice for the other and other voices are stepping up and we are. It's amazing because god is. He's actually releasing two armies. He's releasing the army of the bride and he's releasing the army of youth and he's given both armies. These are both armies of his. He's given both the voice of truth, because there's too much lies that the father of lies is.

Speaker 2: 19:29

What we're dealing with and that's why it's so dark is because the father of lies has been taking over. It's been infiltrating among our children, among our families, among our government, our you know, just everywhere, throughout. You know, not just our country, in the world, that we know, and it's going to be the voice of truth that cuts the darkness. It's the word of God and the light of God that the darkness cannot comprehend, it cannot extinguish, it cannot overcome. And it's time now. It's time for us to say you know, when God created heaven and earth, he said let there be light. Well, it's our turn now. Tag you're it, let there be light. It's time for us to say let there be. What do you want to see created in your world? We have the power to create. It's time Let our voices be released, just like the voice of God was released before the beginning of foundation of this earth. It's time for our voices. It's, tag you're it?

Speaker 1: 21:22

It's our turn now, stopped. It's like, it's like this inferno, and I, I did. I had a vision of um, of him almost handing this torch.

Speaker 1: 21:35

It's like a literal you know, at the olympics, where they hand, it's like rather than a baton, it was a torch, and those of us who are carrying the fire like we are called to, let that inferno, you know, go to others and it's going to be like a wildfire, because you can't like wildfires, it's hard to contain wildfires and that's what we're seeing right now. This is like a global wildfire. Could you talk like you know? We're also seeing on the flip side of that. Just, you know, hard to see things, the way, the vile, the evil response to some of what we're seeing. Like could you speak to that a little bit, like what you're sensing on that side? Because, um, I think there's again. There's like we're going through these periods of time where there's a line in the sand and a dividing line in essence like the wheat and the tares right.

Speaker 1: 22:33

Would you share?

Speaker 2: 22:34

what you're seeing. We have come to a place where god, um, he keeps showing me a checkerboard where it's black and white squares. And if you look at a checkerboard where it's black and white squares, and if you look at a checkerboard, it's two armies there's a white army and a black army. And he's giving me the word. Capitulate concerning the black army Capitulate, I should look it up, but it basically has.

Speaker 2: 23:01

It means to surrender, and we are in a place where there is no gray area anymore. It is black and white, and he is literally saying choose this day, whom you will serve, because he has drawn the line in the sand. The battle lines have been drawn. And when you say the battle lines have been drawn, the actual meaning of that means that the points of contention have been established and the fighting can now begin. But the thing is, the fighting that we're about to enter into it's a blitzkrieg. That's another word he's given me. What's a blitzkrieg means? Um, I'm gonna have to paraphrase these because I don't have the definitions in front of me but a blitzitzkrieg is a military campaign that produces a very quick and mighty victory. Very quick and mighty victory. Okay, guess what? Better? Make sure you're on the winning team. You don't want to be on the black side. It is, it is, it is. I mean, the black is black, the white is white. We know that the line has been drawn and you cannot. Don't ride the fence.

Speaker 2: 24:03

Here's another thing I remember reading in a book I think it's got yeah, live before you die by Daniel Kalenda, and he was sharing a dream that a friend of his had, where he said in this dream his friends saw, saw a field, a big field, and then and there were actually two big fields and there was a fence between the two fields.

Speaker 1: 24:26

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 24:27

One field belonged to God and the other field belonged to the devil. Well, in this dream, his friend was sitting on the fence and the devil pops up out of the ground and his field, grabs him and yanks him into the field and he's like hey, hold on Timeout, Timeout. I wasn't in your field. I was on the fence, and the devil goes. The fence belongs to me too.

Speaker 1: 24:52

Somebody needs to hear that.

Speaker 2: 24:56

We cannot compromise. There is no room for compromise, none.

Speaker 1: 25:00

So somebody is listening right now and they're like, well, how do I get off the fence? What does that look like for me in this time?

Speaker 2: 25:07

It's obedience and surrender. Obedience and surrender, it's turning away from your own agenda, from your own desires, laying down your flesh. It's an issue of alignment who are you aligning with which? Are you aligning with the army of light or the army of darkness? And there are things in our lives that we think, oh, they're so insignificant and they don't matter. And that's how the devil gets in. He has been using things like, you know, vampires and all these crazy things that he's interjected into the culture among kids to reel them in, and it isn't always just the blatant thing like that. I mean, we have to be really sensitive to. You know the music. I'm listening to the movies. I'm watching the music. I'm listening to the movies. I'm watching the clothes I'm wearing. Is this honoring God? Or is this actually partnering with the wrong side? Because then you give that enemy a foothold to get in there. And it's very real, it's very real and we don't have any. There's no room to be messing around with this.

Speaker 2: 26:16

I was watching a video not too long ago, um, about, uh, someone who had been a Satanist. And they came to the Lord, um, and they were talking about what is the key thing? He's, and I actually remember hearing this word from somebody else. I remember going to a conference where, um, somebody, uh, one of the pastors had given a testimony about a warlock that he was speaking with, who I'm sorry, he's not a warlock anymore, he was, once upon a time he got radically saved and but the guy who used to be a warlock, he was explaining to the pastor that we can see a fire in Christians and we could. We can see a flame, let me put it that way. And, and so that's how we know who's a christian, because we can see a flame. And then we can like, terrorize and deal with. You know, snuff them out, he's like. But there are some christians who have a raging fire and they're the ones who snuff us out. The burning ones, right, so better. I mean, this is a time where, wherever you are in your christian walk, do not. There's no room for being lukewarm.

Speaker 2: 27:23

God said himself in revelation. He's like, if you're lukewarm, I'm going to spit you out. Better, yet, I'm going to vomit you out. That's his exact words. There is no room for compromise. And in this other video that I watched more recently about someone who used to be a Satanist, he said the key things that gives the church authority to trample on the snakes and on the serpents and on every evil work of hell is surrender and obedience. Hell has nothing against surrender and obedience. Hell has nothing against surrender and obedience. That's the whole reason that the devil and his demons fell from hell I mean heaven to begin with. They're angels, we know, but they're demons now because they did not surrender. They took everything upon themselves, made themselves glorious and God's like I have got no room for that and out they went.

Speaker 2: 28:14

And for all any one of us, who, who partners with that in any capacity, guess what. But if we surrender, I mean truly surrender. The bride of Christ is a pure, a pure and spotless bride. Purity People in this culture we see purity. People say, oh, it's like you know. You know, if you're purity you're wound too tight and like you know you must get a goody two-shoes. No, purity is power. It's power like even think about like a car. If you have a car and you don't have clean gasoline in your car it's not going to run well. But if you've got this sports car and you want it to run like at full, full, powerful capacity, you're going to put pure, high octane gasoline in that car you need to be careful about what we're compromising with.

Speaker 2: 29:04

There is no room no room and that's the line that's been drawn. That is so clear. Now, with the passing of charlie kirk, it's like now these voices are rising up. Now you can see clear as day who's on what side, and you better make it quick. Hop over to the white side, hop over to the army of light as soon as you can and make it a wholehearted.

Speaker 2: 29:24

The key thing, too, is we need to make Jesus our Lord, not just our savior, but our Lord. Too many people who are like oh've got the, I've got the. Um, oh, what's that, that term? Um, I've got you know that safety net of like, oh, I'm gonna get into into heaven, you know my fire escape, that's it, I got my fire escape, I'm in heaven. Yeehaw, I'm good.

Speaker 2: 29:46

No, no, if you just see him as your savior and and you're just like getting the ticket to ride into heaven, that's not uh-uh. We need to make him not just our savior but our Lord, and that's what this book also enters into. It's like what does it really mean, when we really truly make him our Lord, not just of one corner of our soul, but our whole, entire soul, to be truly become one with him? What are the promises, the blessings, the authority that we're walking in. But what this book goes into is a whole different level than the church has known, and it's a whole to us, because we are entering into a whole new dimension of what Jesus died to give the church.

Speaker 1: 30:28

Well, tell us a little bit as much as you are open to sharing about the book, without giving too much away, because we really want people to grab the book and read the whole thing, like from cover to cover. I was like this woman has been in the secret place and this is not something that somebody can just conjure up. So tell us a little bit more about you. Know what can you expect when you open up the pages of this book? And you know what was he showing you?

Speaker 2: 31:00

Yeah, yeah, it was a wonderful experience and it still is. He would wake me up in the middle of the night and just start downloading and I would take notes on my phone. Or I'd wake up in early in the morning and he would just start speaking to me. And notes on my phone. Or I'd wake up in early in the morning and he would just start speaking to me and I knew it was like I don't even know how to pull all this together. I'm just going to sit down and just type I'm just taking dictation, Lord, and he was snapping my synapses. We can't come into this with a religious spirit. We can't come into thinking that everything we know about the church is everything that there is, Because, as he even points out in the very beginning, there is so much more to this than you know. Yeah, so should I just?

Speaker 2: 31:50

should I go ahead and explain what the bridal process is Because I think that may be important to even the rest of our, I think I think, could you, if you could do that?

Speaker 1: 31:58

I want to just make a little stop for a second. If somebody hears like religious spirit, like if you could just very briefly explain what that is for somebody maybe doesn't know what that is a religious spirit is a spirit.

Speaker 2: 32:13

Um, so you may know the difference between religion and relationship. Um, if you don't, religion is really having a set of rules and doing things out of obligation and trying to do things to be quote perfect in god's eyes and your heart's not really into it, you don't really have that relationship. It gives room for us to get puffed up in self-righteousness and to point out the flaws that we think we see in other people. It blocks the ability of the Holy Spirit to really speak to us. It comes from a place where we may not realize, but there may be brokenness in our past that's causing those kind of ideas that you know, because we want to protect our own hearts and you know we unknowingly step into places of pride and to cover shame, and thinking that we know certain things when we haven't had the true revelation can gloss over the reality of what's really going on in our souls.

Speaker 2: 33:17

Um, I know that's maybe a lot to explain of, like, what really it is to be religious when you're in a relationship. It's, it's the love of the father. We step into sonship, we get to no longer slaves, no longer orphans. Where it's, we flow in this relationship where we get to know the lord and I orphans where it's we flow in this relationship, where we get to know the lord, and I don't mean know of him, know what, you know what the word says about him, but to really know him. Yes, and he knows us.

Speaker 2: 33:45

And it's no longer doing things because we've got to, but doing things because we get to. Yes, from the gut to the get to. Yes, it's the joy, it's a, and that's where the power of god flows and that's where that intimacy flows. And so, if you aren't in that space right now, it's going to be really easy reading this book and going, oh, this, this can't be right, this can't be right. But if you are, lay your weapons at the door and just let your heart be open to receive what the holy spirit, what the father, wants to say to you. Because what he's saying is this what he has for us is for all of us.

Speaker 2: 34:26

It's just who will receive yeah how, what we're willing, you know, what we receive, what we believe and in any area of our christian walk. God can only heal the areas that we allow him into. And, in the same way, what this book presents is new levels of our stepping into authority and blessing. And we can only access those new levels to the degree that we're willing to allow ourselves to receive it and allow the new thing that God is doing. It may seem new to us, but he had this planned out since before the beginning of the foundation of the earth. It's new to us, but it's not new to him.

Speaker 1: 35:09

It just reserves certain things for a specific moment in time, and it's time now for these new revelations to come yeah, and just the I mean just we were talking about this before just the timing that he uh gave you the book birthday of what. What was what's so significant about it? Can you share a little bit about that?

Speaker 2: 35:31

Absolutely so. The book birthday is September 22nd and the reason and I had actually asked him, lord, when do you want me to birth this book? And he highlighted September 22nd for me, which happens to be Rosh Hashanah, which is the beginning of the Jewish new year, and so that in itself speaks of a crossing over into a new. It speaks of new beginnings, new birth, and and so immediately when I saw that, I hop online and I'm like, okay, so what is what Jewish new year? Is it this year? It's the year Jewish new year of 5786. So like, okay, what does that mean prophetically? So I went out, you know, I I Googled that and I fell on on this, um, this article that's, that says that the Jewish new year five seven, eight, six is will be the year when we officially begin to occupy our promised land. And is that not what is stirring up right now?

Speaker 2: 36:35

It is time to occupy our promised land, and the author of the article also emphasized Isaiah 54, which speaks about, says seeing a barren woman who has not had children, because you're going to have more children than even the married wives have had. And that's been a word that's been for me personally, because I'm not married, I don't have children, but I have had an intimate relationship with Jesus as my husband for many, many, many years. And Isaiah 54, I mean there's been a promise of revival. And those children speak to the revival of all waves and waves of God's children coming in to his house, coming home, coming to stretch out those tent pegs this is a massive tent but also Isaiah 54 speaks to the fact that it says your maker is your husband and it's all about coming into a place of oneness with him.

Speaker 2: 37:34

And that's what this book also dives into. What is it truly, truly mean to be one with christ? What does that open us up to in the limitlessness of heaven, of what jesus died to give us, of what we have access to when we start putting, when we stop putting the barriers before the Lord and we give him free reign to move us into higher echelons that we never imagined. And the book also deals with, of course, because it's called the Bridal Covenant of the Bride, that Bride Army raising up. And that's the other neat thing with September 22nd, because Rosh Hashanah is also in tandem with Yom Teruah, which is the Feast of Trumpets, which has always been highlighted as signifying. You know, there's a strong belief that when Jesus does come, it's going to be on the Feast of Trumpets, because it's all about declaring, you know, welcoming the coming king, you know, as we understand it. So there's so many markers in this.

Speaker 1: 38:41

There's like ah this is the day for this book to be released. Yeah, when I love. You know, part of like, the work and the walk that we did together was, you know, like I'll ask questions, right, I've you know, it's.

Speaker 1: 38:54

It's that's part of what I do is asking questions, and initially I'd asked when you were going to release the book. Do you remember? And, and there's such a like, what would you say to somebody who you know we can, we can come up with these dates and think that we've got the plan? You know, it kind of goes into the obedience surrender piece. So even though you had this idea of April, we look now at this moment in time, so we last a little bit about that yeah we first spoke was.

Speaker 2: 39:30

You said december 13th. And you asked me, after we did our podcast, when, okay, a book has to be written. And then so, and I knew it needed it too. And then you asked me before we got off okay, let's set a date when? When is it going to be written by? And I said april, um, which sounded great in my eyes, but the lord had something else in mind, because he just continued to download even past April. So I'm like all right, it's not time yet. And here he is, it's a what. It's the middle of September and he's saying it's time to launch. And that's exactly what Nine months from when first, the conception, literally the conception of the book book baby.

Speaker 2: 40:17

It's the nine month gestational period that is complete and it's time for this baby to come, and the timing in line with, as we said, what just happened with regard to charlie kirk, with regard to the army of the bride rising up, this, this book, is a handbook written for that army, the house of the bride.

Speaker 2: 40:37

This was written specifically, not just for the church at large, but for the specific army of the bride that is rising up with that fire, like you're saying, I felt the fire too, and I actually I love what you're saying about that torch, because I felt the same thing too where there's a fire that's hidden in each one of us and Charlie Kirk had a torch and I saw this fire in each one of our beings go whoosh, like it was. Like it was like these fires were dormant and it's time for them to ignite. And we are in a place and and this book is right in tandem with everything that God's doing right now and it is a word for the rising church, for the triumphant church. It is a because we know I have seen, or heard, or imagined what God has in store. And this book starts to peel back the veil on what we're really entering into and how to function into the in that place yeah, absolutely so.

Speaker 1: 41:37

you know, for those who, for whatever reason, maybe they aren't able to access the book, which we would, I'll, you know, put it in the show notes, of course. But if, for some reason, somebody's not able to access the book and they're in somewhere just happening to hear this podcast, like how can somebody like function in this time that we're in like fully fiery, functioning freedom fighters? That's a big word, I'm hearing goodbye yesterday.

Speaker 2: 42:18

Um, so let me, let me go ahead and tell you what the essence of the bridal covenant is, what that covenant is, um, so this is a revelation that god had given me actually years ago, I want to say about 15 years ago. And when I started downloading, I'm like whoa, that's, it was too much for me. Even then I mean I was like, uh, this I can't share. This. People are gonna think I have three heads. So I capped it to myself and then it breathed and then back and I think it was oh gosh, I have to look at the dates. I think it was September of last year when my friend Jimmy passed away.

Speaker 2: 42:52

The book opens up with his, and it was out of that that God started downloading things and he brought back what he had told me 15 years prior about the bridal covenant and then took it a whole lot further. And and so let me just say, when God says something, of course it's always important when God speaks, but what God will typically do is, when he has something like a message, he wants to just really drive home that under no uncertain terms. Do you pass by what I'm saying right now? This is set in stone and not to be taken lightly. I've found that when he has that kind of message and not to be taken lightly, I've found that when he has that kind of message, he'll either say it three times, like I even mentioned in my book how, what we know you know John 3, 16, those words in John 3, 16 are mentioned three times in John 3, because it's so important when he says it three times that he is driving and nailing it.

Speaker 2: 43:51

Even the angels in, you know, in the throne room, they go holy, holy, holy, three times, just, over and over again, because there are no words to convey how holy God is. The only way that they can put any legitimate emphasis on it is to say it three times. So I knew that when he gave me this word, that he was putting his finger again on that three. And what he'll also do sometimes he'll say things three times sometimes, but other times that he's done for me personally, over and over and over and over again is he'll show me a progression of threes. Well, he'll give me three different messages, but I can see that they're connected and it's one building upon the other, building upon the other.

Speaker 2: 44:35

And he says this over and over again. And so what he, when he showed me about the bridal covenant, I knew it was him and it was. I know his voice and I know his presence and I know his word and what he was doing and what he is doing and what he's he's shared, even since then. So so here it is. So we know there's the Old old testament, which is the old covenant, and we know that there's a new testament, the new covenant, which is what we're living into living in right, right now.

Speaker 2: 45:05

But what the lord is saying? He said, but said but there is yet another covenant set for us. It's a third covenant, he said it's called the bridal covenant and it's a covenant that we will enter into when we get to heaven, and it is talk about limitlessness, talk about moving and everything. I don't even. There are no words to explain and I don't have a full understanding of yet. This is still new to me. I'm growing in it as well. No words to explain and I don't have a full understanding of yet. This is still new to me. I'm growing in it as well. But I know it's there for us, and the key thing is that what the Lord is saying is that those whose hearts are toward me, who have gone through the fire, who have allowed me to purify them, who have surrendered their life for me, those who are truly a part of the company of the bride the true bride we are going to, we have full access to that covenant even now, on this side, before we get to heaven.

Speaker 2: 46:09

And let me just back up a bit too. Because so, if we go back to the beginning, let's go back to the Old Testament again. Because so, if we go back to the beginning. Let's go back to the Old Testament again. So even in the Old Testament, the prophets of the Old Testament, they knew that another covenant was coming. They knew that Jesus was, that the Messiah was coming and they knew that there was a whole new realm that was coming with him. They had a wish and shadows of it, but they didn't have a full understanding of it, but they knew it was coming.

Speaker 2: 46:43

Well, we now live in the New Testament and we experience this relationship with the Lord and we're getting to walk in that covenant that the prophets of old only had small glimpses of right. Well, now let's take that whole concept that you know what the prophets of old were experiencing and let's take that whole concept that you know what the prophets of old were experiencing and let's place that on us. Remember, a new covenant came on the heels of jesus coming. He came and then we entered into new. Well, he's coming again.

Speaker 2: 47:07

And there's another covenant on the side, other side of that, in the new, we have wisps and shadows of a millennial reign. We know that there's something greater, but we don't know the full gist of what that really means. Yes, but it's very real and we can experience it now. Honestly, with all that's happened this past week with regard to this crossover that we are now experiencing of the army of God truly being jet-propel into its calling, we have crossed over into that place where, now that bridal covenant is fully ours to access, we have crossed over into that point.

Speaker 1: 47:58

Yeah, I feel it.

Speaker 2: 48:01

Yeah. So here's my question to everyone listening Will you lay down what you have been holding on to and embrace the new? It's going to take surrender the new. It's going to take us. It's going to take surrender. It's going to take really putting our heart to the heartbeat of God and allowing him to move us into those new places without us tight, gripping, white knuckled onto what we think we know, because this isn't Kansas anymore, toto. To what we think we know because this isn't kansas anymore.

Speaker 2: 48:38

Toto, we have. We have crossed over. Yeah, it is a whole new experience and things happen differently here and we cannot rely on what we've known from the past to function in this new space. The world desperately needs the bride, the true bride, to raise up into her rightful position. It's dependent on us Taking, grasping hold of what is now provided for us and running with it full on, not compromising, not putting a foot in the sand, just releasing completely and trusting. And that's why the move of the Holy Spirit is so powerful and where we are right now because it's going to take the fire of the Holy Spirit. It's going to take trusting the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 2: 49:21

I myself have been in places where it's like I want to have all my ducks in a row, I want to have my bullets on what's to speak about, and the Holy Spirit is like no, just open your mouth, let me fill it, just step forward, give me room to do without you getting in the way. I heard it once said. Chris valentine said this in one of his books I think it was um the supernatural way of royalty. He said if you really want to see the holy spirit move, you've got to be willing to let it get messy.

Speaker 2: 49:51

We don't like that. We like perfection. We like everything to be in its place. We don't want to like feel like perfection. We like everything to be in its place. We don't want to like feel like embarrassed of oh no, I didn't get it right. Well, we don't have to worry about that, because the Holy Spirit is when you allow to take over. He's going to be far above and beyond anything we could imagine, but we have to be willing to step out of the boat on the water and actually let him do it. Yes, it.

Speaker 1: 50:12

Yes, I mean, if you look back, I mean just even over this, the beginning of this year, since you know we had the last podcast to now, like, what would you say that has looked like for you?

Speaker 2: 50:25

It is a different place. It really it is a different place. I mean well, just growing with the Lord, and I mean the honor of getting to witness everything that he's saying, getting to sit at his feet and let him. I mean that's really where I've just been just hidden, hidden with him. But in even in my own personal life, though, as you know, he's as you personally know, he's moved me out of. I mean, I was a graphic designer for for 30 years. I had my own business, my own design firm, and he said I want you to let go of that and step into full-time ministry. I'm like, how am I going to feed myself?

Speaker 1: 51:06

The big question that people ask is how, how?

Speaker 2: 51:10

But the how is not up to us.

Speaker 2: 51:13

I remember the very first time you and I met over that and I said I could. It's clear as day, I could see it. My foot is in a mud hole. I got one foot in a mud hole. I mean it was like my boot is in the mud hole and it was so thick it's like to try to even pull it out. You couldn't pull it out and there would be such as just suction of, like you, you know, trying to get out of the mud hole. And so while I got one foot in the mud hole, off to the side I see this river of living water that's sparkling and alive and it's fresh and it's full of life. And I'm like, oh my gosh, it's like how do I? That's where I need to be in that flow. And here I am with my foot in a mud hole, which I realized later was actually the mud hole was part of a river that I used to be in that flow. And here I am with my foot in a mud hole, which I realized later was actually the mud hole was part of a river that I used to be in, that had dried up and it was time to move.

Speaker 2: 52:01

He had actually given me a prophetic word back in 2009. Someone walked up to me while my business was booming and said you're going to have a Brook Carradeth experience I'm like what? And he said a Brook Carradeth experience. Elijah was at the Brook Carradeth experience. I'm like what? And he said a Brooke Carradeth experience. Elijah was at the Brooke Carradeth when Israel was in famine and the Lord fed him with food from ravens and brought him, and he had the water of the river, and so the Lord sustained him. And he said the Lord's going to sustain you in your business. You're going to come to a time where there's going to be famine, but the Lord's going to sustain you in your business. You're going to come to a time where there's going to be famine, but the Lord's going to sustain you. But then, eventually, even that river is going to dry and it has to dry up. It dried up for Elijah. It's going to have to dry up for you and he knows it has to dry up because he knows that you will not leave your business, what you're doing, unless it dries up.

Speaker 2: 52:51

And if you look at in, I think it was second Kings. You know when? When Elijah left the river? Um, that's when the miracles really began to happen. That's where he met the widow, who all she had was the flour and the oil, and and the multiplication happened there and and her son was raised from the dead and all these things started happening, but he had to leave the river. So for anyone out there who is stuck in a place because I have heard this from so many of you um, maybe not necessarily those listening, but I've heard from many, like other friends of mine they are in a place where they're stuck, they're tired of what they're doing in their career. They know there's more. I know, kristin, you have done it yourself. You know what we're talking about. Yes, it's scary, but when you do it, oh my gosh. Can I just tell you how great it is to be in this place. The flow, yeah, it is a whole new world.

Speaker 1: 53:45

It is a whole new world it truly is yeah, I like to call it like you gotta get into your, your assignment, alignment, and like it's. I think we've just been so systematized and you know, I think of it as like being cattle prodded. You know, at some point in your life you were cattle prodded into some path that it's hard to come off of, unless you like have this revelation with the Lord that, hey, wait a minute like this is not the field you're to be in anymore.

Speaker 2: 54:20

You made me for more.

Speaker 1: 54:23

Yeah, there's a cry in many of us At least that was my heart's cries. There's more and I know, like in my heart's cries, I know that there's others out there that have that heart's cry. So I want to help unlock that heart's cry into what that thing is, even if it makes no sense it doesn't, and that's the key thing, it isn't about us.

Speaker 2: 54:43

Yeah, like I couldn't write this book if I was still busy doing what I was doing. When we step into our call, it isn't just about us, because what our call a call is to touch, is going to touch so many people like Kristen, the way that you've touched my heart with with what you do, with your coaching, and all the other people that you coach, of course, your podcast, just everything. I mean. There's lives are at stake right now. So anyone listening to this, if God's calling you out of the boat, the people not only is God going to thank you when you make that step, but everybody you've been called to touch is going to thank you because your decision is affecting their lives too.

Speaker 2: 55:27

And again, we are in a place where it's hot. Our world is in dire straits. It needs what is in dire straits. It needs what is in us. It would be a sin for me not to step out and go full-time with the lord, because you know what is that verse. You know for him who knows what to do and does not do it. It is actually sin yeah, wow, yeah wow and what?

Speaker 1: 55:53

what would keep most people from stepping into that place?

Speaker 2: 55:57

It's that comfort zone. We all want to know what to expect. We all fear the unknown. It's. Do I really trust you, lord? Do I really really trust you? I know it's burning in my heart. I know what it's calling me to do, but how? And again, that how is not up to us. Yeah, but when we take those step, when we do what we can do, naturally he'll do everything he can do spiritually yeah and it's going to be far and above what we can imagine and it's going to be fun.

Speaker 2: 56:28

Oh my gosh, the freedom, the flow in this river, yeah right, oh life, oh my goodness, yeah, it's like it's like that. We have this jet, you know, it's like, it's like you're leaving the earth and you're, you're, you're, you're, now, you know, in this fighter jet. You know this, now you're in the skies. It's a whole different dimension. You can't compare being, you know, tied to the earth with soaring like an eagle exactly we're not called to be chickens or turkey.

Speaker 1: 57:03

Those of you who are, you know, listening. We're, you know, we're not putting anybody down in any way here, but we are calling you to rise up, like the word that I keep hearing this last week is rise up and roar, and it's been a word. It's not like something that I've just started speaking, but it's like a clarion call, wouldn't she say?

Speaker 2: 57:22

Absolutely.

Speaker 1: 57:22

And it's going to look different for everybody. So there's this, there's this word that's going out right now. I am Charlie Kirk. Well, I would say like yes, let's, let's have that boldness, yes, let's have that tenacity and willing to go to places that the Lord leads you, no matter what, but you need to know who you are.

Speaker 2: 57:45

Exactly, exactly. You are not Charlie Kirk. No, you're not.

Speaker 1: 57:49

You'll never be him. You're going to infiltrate places that he could never infiltrate.

Speaker 2: 57:56

Don't try to be him, because there's no power, there's no authority in being an Assyrian personation of somebody else. There's only power in being the identity that God has given you.

Speaker 1: 58:06

Yes, and that's that's a lot of where I believe that he's really bringing us into that place of really the word is sequestering I don't know if this is the right way to put it, but sequestering our identity, our destiny and, um, you know, from there, like, let's go do wild exploits, and here's the deal, like for you and I, like I know there's many of us, many of us have been kind of in this more hidden place. He's using the. You know, like the disciples, you don't have to be put together. I like to say you don't need to be perfectly put together to go out and do the thing that he's calling you to do, wouldn't you?

Speaker 2: 58:51

agree Absolutely. I'm a disciple we're talking about. There was a thief, there's a tax collector which everybody hated. There's a bunch of stinking messy fishermen. I mean, these were not. They were uneducated, and that was the key thing when the Holy Spirit came upon them. Even people in the crowd they're like you know, they knew that they were uneducated and now look with the boldness that they're speaking. That's what the Holy Spirit does. It doesn't matter what we bring to the table. We bring our loaves and fishes and Jesus multiplies and goes bonkers with it. It's like when the Holy Spirit gets on you. I mean I've known times when I was terrified to go up and speak in places. And then I go up and speak and then my friends are like who is that?

Speaker 1: 59:34

I'm like, I don't know, like it's so beyond you right, it is and it's so much fun.

Speaker 2: 59:41

But yeah, it is scary taking that leap.

Speaker 1: 59:43

But once you do, it's worth it so worth it. So worth it. Well, this has been a joy. I'll probably have to have you back on again, because I know you have volumes of books coming.

Speaker 2: 59:56

Yes, have you back on again, because I know you have volumes of books coming. Yes, I actually I'm working on the study guide for this book because I for the those who have read it or like there's too much in here and it's so good and we don't want to pass it by. So a dear friend of mine mentioned, you know, if we could have a study guide, that would be really helpful. So I'm working on that right now. I also have another book that I'd started back in 2012, when God began showing me about the revival coming, and then he took me on literally the most incredible adventure between Washington DC and Israel back and forth for a number of seasons, and he built upon it on each trip and with that, he revealed a secret about our nation and Israel that will just blow the socks off of you and will give you the courage and the encouragement, for we are so on the winning team. This is such a done deal. We are the triumphant church and it's just really neat. I won't get into that one, obviously, right now, but that'll be coming shortly, uh, you know, soon as well. So, and of course, there's others.

Speaker 2: 1:01:00

The very first prophetic word I was given was when I was 16 years old and I wasn't even walking with the lord at that time. I had technically given my heart to him when I was six years old, but then I ran and, know, sowed my wild oats, um, and then came to him, uh, in 2000, and it was just nuts from there, amazing. But anyway, when I was 16, my mom was having a Bible study or just a group of friends in her house and I came downstairs and they had just finished up and one of the leaders there um me a prophetic word and said I see that you are going to be writing multiple books. And I just about spat and laughed in his face because I hated to read. I couldn't write. To save my life, I was actually kicked out of an English class because I couldn't write and demoted.

Speaker 1: 1:01:54

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2: 1:01:56

But here we are. It's quite a few years past that, and this is what God can do. That's why do not limit yourself. When Holy Spirit gets up, it's just yeah. The world cannot dictate your life it can't. And all the more when you are in a position when you think you're not capable, all the more God's like yes, because now you are so dependent on me that you're not going to get in the way. I'm going to fill you up, because you're an empty vessel, just just like you got nothing without me. And so I get to have more, I get to have full reign, and when we let him have it, oh my gosh, it's so much fun, it's so powerful, it's so exciting. It just blows my mind. It's amazing.

Speaker 2: 1:02:38

So so, yeah, out there. I mean, don't hold back. He, the word he gave me at the beginning of 2023, was limitless. He wants to bring us into a space that's limitless. Just even stop and think what that would mean if your life was limitless with the Lord, what that would mean if your life was limitless with the Lord. I mean it's. There's so much more than we can imagine.

Speaker 1: 1:02:59

You can hit pause right now and take like five minutes to do that Right. Seriously, that's incredible. I'm, I'm just so like proud of you, for just you know the spiritual midwife over here, the mama, the eagle mama.

Speaker 2: 1:03:15

It's beautiful.

Speaker 1: 1:03:16

You know well how can people find your book and contact you, because I'm sure people want to. You know, get in touch with you and find your book. What's the best way to find it?

Speaker 2: 1:03:28

um, we can put my information um on the notes for the podcast. Um, facebook is a great place to connect with me. My book is going to be available on both Amazon, and I have my own website, live Brilliantly, so you can go to livebrilliantlyorg or that'll take you to the website as a whole. That also includes some the ministry that I do that kind of thing. But if you want to go directly to the book page where because I'm not only doing my own book, I'm also publishing books for others just started that, so I didn't know that was included in the prophecy too well, I wasn't gonna ask.

Speaker 1: 1:04:04

I wasn't sure I was getting ready for that announcement. Do you would take a moment? Take a moment there if you'd like okay, I would love to so.

Speaker 2: 1:04:12

Um, I've been speaking with a number of friends, you know, just months ago. There's so many of us are writing books because there is that word that God has placed in us, that, that voice of truth that he's releasing in his army, and so many of us have these books that have this word, these books that he is releasing. And so I had originally looked at publishing with, you know, a well-known Christian publishing company, and but when it really came and actually signed up with them, but when it came down to, you know, really getting my book published, I was like, well, what can they do for me that I can't do myself? Because, being a designer for so long, I'm going to design my book the way that I know it needs to be, because I'm going to have a more prophetic insight of what the design should be. I'm going to be able to do a better job than they would be able to. You know their own designers, so I'll just design my own. Outside of that, you know, they'll put you up on Amazon and all these other international distributors. Well, to be honest, I don't. For me, those other international distributors were just worthless to me. They had no value. Yeah, putting it on Amazon's good and I could do that myself.

Speaker 2: 1:05:26

But I really believed also that you know as God takes me out, because he had told me when I got my van. He said itinerant, so I know he's calling me out to be an itinerant speaker, and that's he actually specifically said get your book done, because you're going to need it when you go out to speak. So I feel that a lot of my sales are going to be out there. You know, face-to-face with the people who you know who I'm actually speaking to. That's what I've had. You know, some of my friends were started asking when they saw, like, when my book cover, like, oh my gosh, can you design mine? Can you start doing? Can you do my book? No, what does it take? Do we have to go through? You know those publishers. So I started doing some research and no, the only requirement you can set is like set up your own company. Like, well, I already have my design firm, so already got a company. Um then, yeah, just just the. All the other details are all things that I could take care of. So now I'm starting to publish books. So live brilliantly. Brilliantly is the name of the ministry that I have, but I didn't have Live Brilliantly publications through that, which is now publishing books, and here's the thing. So whenever I design the covers, I first of all I pray over these books.

Speaker 2: 1:06:30

The revelation the Lord gave me years ago was that you know, so many of us, we, like you know especially. I'll just speak about designers. We'll just design. You know what they think looks good.

Speaker 2: 1:06:39

But identity has been such a huge piece in my life, you know, for so many years. It was about my personal identity and trying to find that. And then God moved me into corporate identity with designing for companies and their websites, logos, print material. So identity has always been big. But the revelation he gave me, even when I was doing corporate design, was, rather than trying to, you know, figure out their logo or come up with an idea, just ask god. So I'd pray and I'd ask god. He's like you know their identity, what's their identity? And he would give me a dream, or he just drop in my spirit what their logo looks like and boom, just like that. I put it together and they're like all right, we don't need to see anything else, that's it. How did you know? Over and over and over again. So he's given me a gift in that area and now I'm carrying it over to God's righteous army to design these books with that same heart, with that same prophetic insight.

Speaker 2: 1:07:29

And, of course, in addition to that, you own all your content. I'm not touching what the Holy Spirit has given you. I'm not going to edit out the Holy Spirit. I mean I'll look over it for spelling, that kind of thing but the words are your words and I'm here to help release your word in such a time as this and get it out there. So, yeah, if you're interested, if you've got a book to be published and you want it to be under the covenant of God, under his prophetic holy fire, yeah, live Brilliantly publication. So you can go.

Speaker 2: 1:08:04

As I mentioned, livebrilliantlyorg is my website, but you can also go directly to the book page. Brilliantbooksorg will take you directly to that book section. So you'll see some of mine are about to come out. You'll see one that I've already published for a friend of ours.

Speaker 2: 1:08:21

And the key thing too, is what the Lord's also in my heart is as he starts releasing me out there to churches to speak, and I know that it's going to be a lot. That's why I have this van because it's mobile, so I can get out there and do a lot of speaking engagements. I'm going to be representing Live Brilliantly, which also means I'm going to be bringing not just my book, but I'm going to be bringing printed books of all those books that I publish. So I'll be bringing your books out there to be on the book table, to also be right there with the real audience that you're targeting. Not these, you know. These pools out there of you know have no idea what you're putting your fish hook into. No, this is, these are, these are, this is the. This is the church that's hungry for your message. This is the church that needs your message. So I'll I'll be doing that as well.

Speaker 1: 1:09:12

So you guys, michelleelle, you're amazing. I am so honored to be like your friend and sister in christ and fellow fiery warrior um, and I'll be sure I'll be sure to put all of her information in the show notes. Like I said, if you want to go back to episode 106 it was released on 12, 13 of 24 and listen to more of her story, um, you're welcome to do that as well. Um, as we close today, would you be open to? Um. You know, I always like to ask people to just get in mind the one person who's listening in today. Um, do you have any other like knowledge, wisdom for them, a word for them, and then would you pray us out today?

Speaker 2: 1:09:58

a word for them. And then would you pray us out today, absolutely, um for the one. Uh, you are created for such a time as this. God knows every detail of your heart, every detail of where you've been and every detail of where he's going, and he's mapped it out. He's saying take my hand, just take my hand. I know the my hand, I know the way. I know this is new territory but it's familiar to me. I know it well and I've got you. Just follow my lead. And what I have for you is more amazing than you can possibly imagine. You know what I'm actually seeing right now. I'm seeing okay, I know there's the you know thoughts back and forth with, like, the little mermaid movie.

Speaker 2: 1:10:38

I'm going back to a very original one, right, the Disney cartoon. I'm seeing the moment when she has come up out of the sea and she is in a chariot. I guess, not a chariot, not a chariot. What is it when she's with the Prince? You don't call that a chariot. I guess, not a chariot, it's not a chariot. What is it when she's with the prince? You don't call that a chariot. You know, with a horse and carriage. She's in a horse and carriage. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's in a horse and carriage with the prince and he's bringing her into his kingdom and showing her this. I'm getting chills with that.

Speaker 2: 1:11:13

This is yours. This is what I'm getting chills with that.

Speaker 1: 1:11:15

This is what this is yours.

Speaker 2: 1:11:17

This is what I'm bringing you into. And she's just looking around and, oh my God, and if you can compare that with under the seat, it's a whole different dimension, totally different of dimension. She can't even I mean she's on feet now she doesn't even I mean like the whole way that she even functions.

Speaker 2: 1:11:39

she can't rely on what she functioned before yeah same kind of things, because I know that men are also listening for this too. So you know that's may apply more, you know, resonate more with women. For men, consider this when an airplane is taxiing along a runway, it's using a certain kinds of mechanisms necessary to function here on the ground. But when it's time for that plane to take off, first of all it has to be committed. It can't hold back in any way, shape or form. It has to be committed. It can't hold back in any way, shape or form. It has to be committed to the takeoff. And once it commits, it has to abandon the mechanisms it functioned with on earth and embrace a whole new set of mechanisms to function in the air. That's where we're at.

Speaker 2: 1:12:35

So, lord Jesus, thank you. Thank you, lord. You are the alpha, you are the omega, you are the beginning, you are the end and you know every detail in between. And thank you, lord, so much that you have counted us worthy to even get to participate and be a part of what you are doing. In these last days, lord, I just pray over each and every person here, in the sound of my voice, lord, god, that they would take up their torch and they would run with it, that they would release their voice and not hold back, run with it, that they would release their voice and not hold back, lord God, that the cords of yesteryear would just fall off them, dead and void, without any power whatsoever, and that they would soar on wings of eagles.

Speaker 2: 1:13:26

Lord, speak to your company, your bridal company, lord God. Speak to your army, lord God, give them a definite alignment with what is of you and what is not of you. There are two things that every soldier knows going into battle they know who the enemy is and they know what side they're fighting on. But unfortunately for many of us, we may know that the devil is an enemy, but are we truly fighting on the kingdom of light, lord? Let it be so apparent to each and every one of us not to compromise and to where to make those adjustments, and that we would do it willingly, lord God, and we would go full forward, lord, with everything that you have in store.

Speaker 2: 1:14:11

I thank you, lord, for the light that is ours. Lord, you said that your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven. Lord, god, that we would enter into that oneness that you're talking about the oneness, lord God, where there is no defining line between where we start and you end. Lord God, we are one. When we go and do a thing, you're doing it, god, we are one. When we go and do a thing, you're doing it, lord God.

Speaker 2: 1:14:38

When we move, we move in full authority. Take it that we would fully grasp what it really meant when you said you have given us all authority, lord, and also, as it says in Ephesians 1, 3, it says that we have been given all the blessings of Christ. Lord, we are not tapping into even a fraction of what you would die to give us, but it is available for us, lord, to live and move and have our being in you in these final days when the world so desperately needs it. Lord, lord, you desire so much, lord God, that none should perish. Let us not just think about ourselves, lord God. Let us think about our neighbor. Let us think about the person on the side of the street, lord God, let us shout from the rooftops. Let us shout with all our might, lord God, and not hold back, not be intimidated, lord. In the name of Jesus, I come against every spirit of intimidation that would dare try to stop us. Lord, break every stronghold of fear. In the name of Jesus, lord, let your Holy Spirit fire roar upon us, lord, god, ignite us that we would run the race, that we would run for that prize, lord, god, and just as they've been saying concerning Charlie Kirk, that we too, in our own identity, in our own purpose, in our own call, when we do arrive in heaven, lord, we will each get the well done, good and faithful servant.

Speaker 2: 1:15:59

Lord, we praise you. We praise you so much, lord. We bless Erica, we bless her kids. Lord, I thank you for this mighty move that you are doing, not just in our nation but globally. Lord, god, let us set our sights on you and you alone, lord, god, we do not focus on a man. We do embrace, lord, the full prophetic significance of what this moment is, lord, but let us take up ourselves and run with everything that you have created us to be. Lord, that you would be glorified, that you would be honored, that you would receive all that is yours, lord, god, that we would truly worship you in everything we say and do and defeat hell for a living. We praise you, we magnify you, we thank you, father, god, that we get to be a part of your perfect plan in the name of Jesus, amen, amen and amen.

Speaker 1: 1:16:54

Amen, all right, all right. Well, I'm going to close with our anchoring verse. It's may the God of hopefully with all joy and peace and believing so that, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you may abound in hope, and that's Romans 15, 13. So, michelle, thank you for being a brave voice that's setting so many free. I cannot wait to see your more. There's so much more in store for you, girl, so I will be back with another episode next week and, as a reminder, check out the show notes for Michelle's information. All right, bye, thank you. Bye.