Spiritual Insights & Focus For 2024 (Part 2) Family Is The Way Forward - Nicole Lee

Each year, we pray and seek the Lord for His guidance, insights, and direction for the upcoming year. This teaching is an overview of some of the prophetic insights God is highlighting to the AeroNova spiritual family for the year 2024 and beyond

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​I wanted to expound more on family is the way forward. And I started hearing this in October, just very clearly in one of my prayer times, and the longer the year went on and some of the events that happened, I just felt this really solidifying in my spirit that the Lord was emphasizing that family is the way forward. And we've read it so many times. But I want to read it again, that I'm just gonna move this a little bit, so you can see better, but Acts two, verses 42 through 47. They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles teaching, and to fellowship, and to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe, and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles, and all those who had believed were together and had all things in common. And they began selling their property and their possessions. And they were sharing them with all as anyone might have need. And day by day, continuing with one mind and the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number, day by day, those who are being saved. And it's a really beautiful picture when it says that they were breaking bread house to house and sharing their meals together. I just really love that picture of the Church of them just communing together day by day, and being in awe of the way that the Lord's working through them. Alan hood recently wrote a letter to the church and it said, The Spirit is wooing us out of the previous season of celebrity Christianity, where powerful executives and founders build massive religious empires around the coal have a personality. And then the post in which he released that letter. He said, The Holy Spirit is wanting us to be more than entrepreneurs more than vision casters and and strategists He wants us to be fathers and mothers who lay down our lives for the next generation of fathers and mothers to take their place. And I think this is a really vital, vital truth for our hearts to grasp. Because the Western Church has so long recognized a healthy body as one in which the numbers are growing and growing. And people are really happy with the church amenities, and there's money coming in for the new building. And those are not bad things in themselves. But they're not necessarily signs of a healthy body. Tay and I were in a service once. I'm not making this up, we were in a service. And the pastor asked us to leave a five star review for the church on Google. And I was just like, oh, I don't know. Just that feeling of like marketing the church. Just a little bit cringy for me, if I'm being honest, and I want to be really clear that I am not saying that a house church is superior to a church in a building. I'm saying that churches have been functioning like an organization organization in order to have capacity for more and more people. Instead of cultivating a culture of a family. Again, whether you're in a building, or whether you're in a home, I am not saying one is better than the other. But there is real sacrificial work and time, maybe even money of being a spiritual mother and being a spiritual father and growing a culture of a family that doesn't just doesn't work in a business and doesn't work in an organization. So it's going to slow down growth a little bit. But not only that, in, in a family where the body is functioning as a father and a mother, a brother and a sister, it does a lot to eliminate the enamel of the teacher right and the profit because we're all offering our spiritual gifts to each other within the body. And so I'll talk about this a little bit more further on but you know, I just a side note Paul does lay out a very clear that very clear guidance that there has to be a governing body within the church. So I'm not saying that there's no clear leadership, I'm just saying that the church is not depending on one person, like Alan hood says, A celebrity type prophet, a celebrity type teacher, instead, we're all providing the spiritual gifts to one another. And there are churches across the earth that are doing this. I just I don't think that it's been the church at large, focusing on God's picture of the church functioning as his family. Unfortunately, I think many churches have seen people seeking and orphans coming through the door, and then orphans leaving the church instead of orphans coming in the door, and sons and daughters leaving the church. And by leaving, I mean, walking out the door not leaving the church. I, I want to read you an excerpt from the Journal of Governor William Bradford, who was one of the leaders of the pilgrims, and he led the establishment of the Plymouth Plantation. And let me show you the book. This is the book and it's called a Plymouth Plantation. I highly highly recommend you read this I can't talk to like get back to the microphone Ross is gonna cut me off. But I highly recommend you read this because there's a lot being said right now about the founding of America and the the coming of the pilgrims, that is simply not true. It unfortunately, there's a lie, a lot of lies being said. So whenever we go to the original sources, like a Plymouth Plantation, which is William Bradford's actual journal, we can get the truth of what happened. And part of the reason why I want to read this is because the Pilgrims really functioned as a family. They were a church, they were a sector of the Christian church, but they were functioning as a family. And whenever they were in England, they were experiencing some intense persecution from the King of England, and from the whole government there. So then they moved to Holland, hoping to find religious freedom there. And unfortunately, the King of England continues to persecute them from England because they're speaking the truth about the need for religious freedom. And at the same time, they had this growing concern that in Holland, their kids were going to be having bad influences by by the children there in Holland, who were walking with the Lord to the intensity that they felt like was necessary. So they come, you know, they come up with this plan to start a plantation in America and they go through many hardships, to even get to the point where they are on the Mayflower the ship that would bring them to America. So so they go through all these difficulties. All these trials, they go through a lot of betrayal. But they do this as a family deeply committed to one another. And Governor Bradford writes, these troubles being over and all being together in one ship they put to see again on September 6, with a prosperous wind, which continued for several days and was some of some encouragement to them. Though as usual, many were afflicted with sea sickness. After they had enjoyed the fair winds and weather for some time, they encountered crosswind and many fierce storms by which the ship was shaken, and her upper works made very leaky, they committed themselves to the will of God and resolve to proceed. In several of these storms. The wind was so strong and the seas so high that they could not carry a lot of sail, but were forced to hold for many days, once as they lay. Thus, in the whole of a terrible storm, a strong young man called John Howland coming on deck was thrown into the sea. But it pleased God that He caught hold of the top sales, which hung over the overboard and ran out at length. But he kept his hole though he was several fathoms underwater. So they're in the midst of this very intense storm. And I have to, for the sake of time, skip out some things but one of their beams was actually cracking. And a lot of the people on the ships, the ship who were like working with the captain, they wanted to turn around and leave. But the Pilgrims had so much faith that God was going to carry them through. They actually convinced the captain to just continue onward. And this guy, this poor guy, John Holland, gets thrown off the ship catches the sail, and is underwater as they're going through this storm. He was hauled up by a rope, and then with a boat hook helped into the ship and saved and though he was somewhat ill from it, he lived for many years. After beating the sea on November 11, they fell in with part of the land called Cape Cod. And it is purely by accident that I'm wearing a cape cod sweatshirt that was not on purpose. just an accident, having found a good Haven and being brought safely inside of the land, they fell upon their knees and bless the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries of it, again, to set their feet upon the firm and stable Earth, their proper element.


I used to imagine that life was similar to walking on a pathway, a bit like Pilgrims Progress, which I really love that book. But I imagined it was like walking on a pathway. And sometimes you're going through field of wildflowers. And sometimes you're going through a valley, and sometimes you're going up a mountain, but the older have gotten in and experienced life a little bit more, I think it's a lot more like being on the high seas just continually that you're on the high seas. And sometimes it's calm, and sometimes it's easy, but sometimes there is a massive storm and the waves are crashing over you and saltwater is in your eyes and going up your nose. And you might get pushed down into the water by a wave and you don't know which way is up. And if you're by yourself in the water just on a little boat, you might capsize, and you might not make it, but you're if you're with a family, and viewing the family as like a ship, then you're gonna make it through that storm. Whenever you're on a ship, you've got, you know, hopefully at least one person with a compass, seeing the direction that you're gonna go, you've got people at the helm, directing the ship, you've got people looking out for dangers and, and, and the possibility of land, you've got all these people working together and you're able to look beyond the storm that you're in. And you're able to see past to yourself, sometimes we need that. And rather than focusing on the ways of the storm, you're able to get to your destination together. So after coming onto the land, the Pilgrims still had to do the very hard and gruesome work of creating a home. And they think that everybody is looking for a home everybody's looking for a family a place where they belong, where they're known where they're loved, where they're nourished. Psalm 68 Six says that God sets the lonely in families. And he leads out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious live in a sun scorched land. And I think it's noteworthy that the Hebrew word that is used here for families is translated in other versions as home so he sets the lonely in families. And it's also translated as he gives the lonely a home. This is what we want to be as the body of Christ is to be a home, a family for the lonely and if we don't have an accurate picture of what God's heart is for home, or what God's heart is for family, this might not seem like a very big deal. But if we are getting the Lord's perspective of a home filled with people who are deeply committed to one another in Christ's love, then that changes everything, a home that is filled with the vibrancy of the joy of the Lord, and the nourishing of us feeding one another in the Lord and also very much physically, as we all know, here we all love to eat. That idea of home of the warmth, the love, the acceptance that changes everything. And going back to x two in the description of the early church, I have to wonder that if along with the working of the miracles that was being done by the Spirit of God, and the truth that was being spoken, if the evangelism of so many people coming into the church and coming to the Lord was from the fellowship that they had together as a family, going from house to house breaking bread and caring for one another. A reading that verses 46 and 47. Again, day by day, continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking the bread from house to house. They were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart. Last week, I was asking the Lord how Tay and I could be ministering to a couple we recently I met who has just experienced some deep, deep tragedy and hardship, almost unimaginable and so it's asking the Lord, how how do we even minister to them? And I felt really clearly like the Holy Spirit said to me, if you see someone in the cold in the freezing weather, you don't need to stand with them outside and try to convince them to become warm. You invite them into the warmth. And if you see someone drown Running in the seas, you don't talk to them about how safe ships are, you invite them onto the safety of the ship. And it was just a couple days later that we have the New Year's Eve service that Lucy shared the word to open our homes. And I think this, this idea of opening a home and being a family to the lonely, and to the last is actually such a huge part of the heart of God to communicate his love, his healing, his deliverance, and the miracle of his hope. And Janae I didn't tell her I was putting her on the spot. But Denise is so good at this. As you already know, if you've ever eaten anything, Janae cooks, anything she makes is the best version of that. If it's a baked item, a cake, a cookie, it's the best version. If it's me, you know, shredded pork chicken, like I didn't know, chicken could taste so good. She makes the best version of it. But as long as I can remember Janae has been very purposeful that she doesn't just create a meal, she really tries to create a memory. And so when we were younger, we used to have days we called the Lord of the Rings days, which just meant like it was cold and raining. So my brothers would like break out the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, and Gabriel was usually the one to get the tea out. And Andrew, I hope he doesn't mind I tell everybody this, but he would get out his knitting. And Andrew, because Andrew like anything Andrew makes has to be like the biggest no bet. So the scarf he was making was this wide, I kid you not like it. And he was, you know, knitting five, five stitches and purling five stitches. And so anyway, as we're all doing this Janae is cooking like a feast for us that will match the Lord of the Rings theme. And like these incredible biscuits, this soup that is a basil and broccoli soup, okay. And it doesn't sound as amazing as it is. But I tell you, I crave this soup, it is so good. Or she would instigate these massive breakfast feasts for us on a Saturday morning. But anything she made was really gourmet. And anything it always came with, like, the whole atmosphere was a whole memory that she made. And she's continued to do this as an adult, even a full to having a full time job. And having three boys, she's continued to do this. And so almost every Thursday night, I think she gave herself a little break in the holiday. But almost every Thursday night, she makes this gourmet dinner, and she invites anyone to come it's just an open house. And her coworkers come her friends come, friends of friends come and her house is like filled to the brim of people. Obviously eating and having every kind of conversation you can imagine. And someone's usually playing music. And it's a lot of people who maybe wouldn't necessarily walk into a church, but have, you know, such a desire for connection. And for family and such, you know, just they each come with their own story. And they're seeking. And so Janae has created this whole atmosphere where they feel what loved and welcomed and nourished. And I just love how the Spirit of God is working through her to meet the needs of their heart just by opening her home. And I mean, we've all felt lonely at times. And sometimes loneliness is just a little bit of a part of life. But to be chronically lonely, I think is honestly one of the most devastating things, it's just horrible. And in our digital post COVID era, it really is, honestly, I think it's the true epidemic as people are so lonely. And there's so desiring true connection, but just medicating that with the scrolling, and scrolling and scrolling. And when we're alone, we tend to go inward, right? We tend to look inside ourselves and become very self focused, and have a hard time seeing truth from lies and, and so we need to be a part of a family, a whole family system where our hearts are making these connections and having these godly relationships. So there's a few points I want to highlight about how the church can operate in the context of family.


In a family, we bear one another's burdens. If we're simply seeing the church as an organization, outside of family, and outside of the home. It's easy to stay distant from one another's pain, and it's easy to stay distant from the difficulty that we're each going through each other. We might say a prayer for someone at the altar call or we might get a prayer chain email. I don't know I haven't gotten rid of was in a really long time. But I used to get all that, that prayer chain emails and you know, that's good. But when we're in a family, we truly are weeping with those who weep and rejoicing with those who rejoice. And it's not something that we have to make an effort to do like, Well, the Bible says to, you know, Bear one another's burdens or weep with those who weep, it's just, we love one another so much that when one of our brothers or sisters is going through difficulty, we feel that pain with them, and we're not distant from it. There's a song by old crow medicine show, does anybody know old crow medicine show? I just learned from taste, some people call ocms. They're not a Christian band. But they have some good music, and okay, go listen to it. But people either love them, or hate them. That's just kind of my kids are still on the hate them camp, and I'm trying to inch them over to the love them. But they have a song. And it's called, we're all in this together. And it's about walking with a friend through the difficult and lonely parts of life. And the last line of the chorus is, when you cry, I taste the salt in your tears. And it's just such a poetic description of being a friend to someone who's walking through grief and trial because their heart is so near to the one who's going through sorrow that they're feeling that sorrow with them. And I think we all know this, but nobody heals in isolation. Sometimes when someone's going through something difficult, they need space, and we need to honor that space. But for any of us, whenever we've gone through pain, we know we can't just just completely isolate us isolate ourselves from one another, we need to be with others. So again, they can help speak truth into our situation and help us see truth from the lies in the midst of the difficulty. So secondly, in a family, the spiritual gifts can be active in each person, and not just the pastor or prophet. So as I mentioned this earlier, we don't simply have one celebrity type of this is the Prophet, anyone who feels like they have a prophetic word from the Lord has the opportunity to share. And it's the same with all the other spiritual gifts. And when we're walking as a family, it's also much easier to test those gifts. Like, I don't know if you've ever been in a service and, and the big, popular Prophet gets up, I fit in this situation, and they give a word and your your spirits just going ooh, I don't like you're not resonating with that. But everybody else around you is cheering and they're like, Oh, the prophet, and you don't know if it's a situation of like, the emperor has no clothes where everybody's thinking it. Or if it's just you, you know, but it's a lot harder to speak. I don't want to say speak against but to to do, as Paul says and test the word. It's so much easier to do that when you're in close relationship with each other. Because you're not viewing this person as the Great One who can never be wrong, you know, we've all seen each other be wrong at some point or another. We can be like the early church and be in awe of the miraculous works that God is doing in our midst, rather than making a big show of it, and giving all the honor to the miraculous leader. And I personally I have had like wonderful encounters with the Lord in a big service. So I am not trying at all to put the big services down. I do believe that God will put it on leaders hearts, to organize like a big worship gathering or conference or something like that. But the moment that they have actually shaped who I am, and the moments where I've actually experienced deliverance or a word from the Lord, that changed my perspective on myself or others have always come in the context of family whether my my blood family, or my spiritual family. I wouldn't shared with my mom something I was struggling with. And it was it was just a thought process. It wasn't really a sin. But it was just a wrong thought process. I had to assure him that with her and to me it really wasn't a big deal. But when I shared it with her because she knows me and loves me She immediately recognized it as an area that I needed deliverance, and like within a few minutes are sitting down with my dad to pray. And I'm like, Wow, this this escalated quickly. And they start praying over me and I had this like full On very powerful deliverance, and not only have I never struggled with that wrong thought process again, I felt very liberated. And you know, sometimes when you're captive, you're in captive to something you don't even recognize it's an issue until you feel the freedom. And you realize, oh my gosh, my mind was was completely taken captive by that idea. But again, I would not have gone to an altar call for that. And I don't, you know, unless someone received a word from the Lord or something, they wouldn't have come and said, We need to pray over this, you know, it was just, my mom knew me. And she understood where I was coming from. And she recognize this is a bigger issue than what you think. And we can all do this as spiritual mothers, and fathers, brothers and sisters, when we feel safe, we open up to one another, right? I felt safe enough to share that with my mom, so she could even recognize it. But you know, we're, we're probably not gonna go. Well, we might, you know, if you're really close to someone in your church, but a lot of times, my experience in church, I barely know the person next to me one time 10, I went to church for a year and a half. This was not the fault of us person is just was the structure of the church. We went to this church for a year and a half. And we always sat behind the same couple. And we always said hi to them during the meet and greet. And I saw him in Barnes and Noble. And I said, Hi, and he looks at me and he goes, sorry, I don't know who you are. And at that moment, his wife comes up and she goes, honey, they sit behind us every week at church. And again, I don't blame him. It was just like the structure of the church, there was not a lot of fellowship. But you know, I never would ask that couple for prayer about anything that I felt really deep, deeply about. But in that family context, again, whether you're in a building or a home, if you're having that family culture that you're developing, then you feel a lot more comfortable going to someone and asking for prayer. Or, if you feel something from the Lord, it's a lot easier to speak that. Even if they give you no context, even if the Lord gives you a word. Lucy gave me a word one time. I guess it was it was probably like six years ago. Oh, yeah, I remember because it was when I met Kiyomi, it was on the phone, and Kiyomi gave me a word two, I still still treasure that word. And Lisa gave me a word about the birth of Gabrielle. And I was really grateful she gave me that word, because I just prayed into it. And the Lord fulfilled that word in a really powerful way. But again, you know, if Lucy had just seen that person, like, in the church, well, Lucy's brave, so she probably would have given it anyway, I wouldn't be so brave to just walk up to someone I see once a week and give the word. But I was really grateful. And again, because I knew Lucy, I just was quick to accept it. And feel Yes, that is from the Lord. Because I know Lucy. And number three, in a family context, we all have accountability. Because family is all up in your business all the time. And that's a good thing. My sister's looking at me, that's a good thing. Sometimes it feels like a lot if you have an outspoken family. But family is all up in your business. And so whether you are a leader, or you know, or even, you know, in this family context, we're all leaders. That's the thing. We're all functioning in different gifts. So, again, there is not that celebrity status, where it's like, oh, I can't, I can't confront them on that, you know, we feel this depth of relationship were with one another, where if we see something, we can confront it in love. My example for this is from when I was younger, but I think it gives a good picture of accountability and love. We used to work at a summer camp in Alaska. And whenever we would work at the camp, we would be away from my parents all summer, even when they lived in South Carolina, and we were going literally almost as far up the country as you can get. My parents felt comfortable with it because we're all together. And we're all keeping each other accountable.


And one summer, Andrew actually got to come because he had just graduated the Air Force Academy, so I can't remember how long he was there, I think was a couple of weeks. But within I don't know three days of us being there. He pulled me aside because he had seen me veering off course just a little bit. And I don't think anybody else other than people in my family would have even recognized it. But because he's my older brother. He saw it And again, because he's my older brother, and have this really close relationship with him. And he's very kind, but he's very straightforward. He just said, You're doing this, you need to stop. And I accepted it. Because again, it's my big brother. And I trust him. And it was really grateful, actually, that he came to me about it. Especially really grateful now, because he saw, he saw where that that behavior was going. And I think it's just a great picture of what we can be doing for each other, in love in kindness, keeping one another, accountable. And again, if someone had just come to me from church, or even Honestly, even from like the camp leadership, I probably would have just blown them off, like you don't know me, you know, get out of here. But not not with my older brother. And just being around the culture of your family, a lot of times, can you bring you back to where you're supposed to be? Again, if you go off into isolation, and you're by yourself, it's hard to see the truth, it's hard to even recognize sometimes when your hearts going off course, just like one degree two degrees. But when you have your feet, when you're in the context of your family, and you're in the truth, it's being spoken, it reminds you of who you are, and of what the truth is. And it is a lot easier to recognize if your brother or sister is going off course than the guy in the pew in front of you. Nor would you probably care. You know, I see people sometimes are trying to veer off, I should say this, sometimes you see people where you're thinking that's a bad choice. But you don't, you don't have the voice to speak into it, I guess is the best way to say it. But my brothers or sisters, if I'm like, Oh, that's a bad choice, then I'm going to tell them. And it's a lot more likely, if they have the close relationship with you that they're going to listen. The way that I think of it is, truth just goes down a lot easier. over a meal, over a hot bowl of soup over some fresh bread of your going to confront someone in love, rather than in the pew at church. It's it just goes down a lot easier. But as we talked about on New Year's Eve, family is messy. And all families have brokenness. Even our church family has areas of of weakness and areas of brokenness. But I'm so grateful that the Bible clearly describes the brokenness of some of the most important people, important families that have been on the earth. I mean, you just think about Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Noah, his sons, you know, Joseph brothers betraying Him, you could just go on and on and some of the most important people that have lived on the earth and the brokenness that was in their family. But the Lord has continued to work. His purpose is in those families, as they have continued to walk in repentance, and faithfulness to God. But it often takes long periods of walking through that messiness, and long periods of love, and speaking truth into people's lives to see the growth and the healing that we're praying for. But it's in that mess of the brokenness, and it's in the authenticity of, of the vulnerability of opening up, okay, here's the truth of, of what it is, of what our family is right now, where the love of God can come and heal and deliver. But as we're, as we're discussing the idea of being a family, I think it's also really important to note that boundaries are a really good thing. And I this is a little bit more. This isn't necessarily for the people here as much as to anyone who might be listening to this. But boundaries are really good and really biblical. And this is for us here too. I'm just saying, I don't see this as a problem here. But boundaries are good, and they're biblical. So you don't have to let people into your space all the time in order to cultivate a family. And if you're introverted, you already know this, like, if you're introverted, you need your time. You need your space. I am extremely introverted. People who know me know like, if I get peopled out, what happens is my facial expressions no longer match, like whatever the conversation is, and my sister, or Gabrielle to they'll just look at me smirking, like, Oh, you're tired. Like you're not even listening to this person. Because though he told me something funny and I'm doing like the most empathetic face. And it's just like, I'm done. I've reached mass capacity. I need to be by myself. So I am a big believer in prayer. texting my space. And in order to cultivate the family and the trusting relationship, it is good and right for us to have a measure at which we protect our space, and protect our family's space. And we also need to protect our hearts. Many people want this close relationship, and they want to cultivate these spiritual friendships that are so good, but you should not completely be vulnerable with someone you've just met. And just jump into wholly trusting anyone right away, that you're wanting to cultivate this relationship with. The trust that we have in these family relationships is built over time. And we grow these as we have in this room. We grow these godly relationships by sharing meals together week by week and doing ministry together and praying with one another. We slowly grow this friendship, in wisdom in discernment, rather than just beating someone and saying, I want this relationship and telling them everything we need that time and we need that growth. That's just the way of the Lord is that growth takes time and can be very slow. This is second thought I wanted to share on this is we really need a father's expression of this. I recognize that everything that I'm sharing today, as far as being a family culture, I'm sharing it from the perspective as a mother, because that's all that I can give is a mother's perspective and a mother's heart. But we really need the men's perspective. And the Father's heart that is, is not going to be opposite in any way is not going to be in conflict with this. But there's going to be a depth of a vision that they have that I simply don't have and can't share. One of my boys was literally a different person. In the six months that Tay was gone. I, I did my very best to love and pour into them. But they needed their daddy, that's all it was. And moms can't be dads. That's just the way it is. Dads can be dads and moms can be moms. And so we need the Father's heart, the father's perspective on what this looks like to walk as a family. And I say that being someone who I believe that women should very much be walking in spiritual authority. Janae and I have spent a lot of time talking about this. I do not think a biblical womanhood is being mousy and scared and quiet. That has been pushed on us by Elia the enemy. And Janae and I we were talking about JL or JL depending on how you say it, man. When Cicero came into her tent, she was like, Oh, you walked into the wrong 10 Today, like she was not afraid she didn't call a man. She didn't even have a real weapon. But Cicero did not walk out of that tear alive. So that's what I believe about biblical womanhood. That's That's what I believe women should be. But again, women cannot be men and mothers can't be fathers. So I look forward to hearing more of the men's the Father's heart on what it means to walk out spiritual community and a family. And that's all I had for today.


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