Divine Alignment + The Altars of The Heart: Obedience Is Success

"To obey is better than sacrifice" 1 Samuel 15:22 

Join us as we trace a straight line from Saul’s disobedience to the modern pull toward pride, people pleasing, and performative relevance, and we invite a return to divine alignment where obedience to God Himself is the measure of success. We end with a prayer of reconsecration to start 2026 with clean hands and a pure heart in the spirit of Psalm 24. In this episode we also discuss:

• Defining divine alignment as full agreement with God's word + Spirit
• 1 Samuel 15 as a framework for obedience over sacrifice
• How culture normalizes disobedience and dulls reverence
• New Testament warnings about flesh and false godliness
• The 3 altars of the heart: pride, fear of man, relevancy
• The danger of platform without hidden devotion
• Practicing discernment to hear God directly
• Living for the audience of One and in light of eternity
• A guided prayer of repentance and reconsecration

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Chapters

• 0:00 A New Year, A Clear Call
• 1:00 Defining Divine Alignment
• 3:22 To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice
• 6:39 Culture’s Domestication Of Disobedience
• 10:52 A Timely Wake-Up And A Choice
• 18:06 New Testament Warnings On Misalignment
• 22:49 Lordship, Cost, And The Narrow Way
• 26:49 Who Gets Your Altar And Why
• 31:07 Altar One: Pride And Visibility
• 41:12 Hidden Devotion Over Public Platform

Transcript

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Hi friends, this is Tanya Gotzi, and you're listening to the Unforced Gifts podcast. Well, greetings from the starting line of 2026. It is a new season, a brand new day. And as we stand on the precipice of all God has in store for us in 2026, and in this time together, I am praying for the Holy Spirit to open our eyes, attune our hearts, and sharpen our inner level of discernment so that we can move and step with God's unforced gifts, and so that we may follow the fragrance of friendship with him, follow his activity with radical love and loyalty this year. All right, friends, I believe that today's conversation has the power to literally impact the entire trajectory of your 2026 and mine. What are we talking about today? We are talking about divine alignment. And what is divine alignment? Okay, it's simply this belief that obedience to God is true success. It's living from that belief that success means doing what God says. And so I would submit to you that divine alignment is coming into full agreement with God, his word, his spirit, and his revelatory instruction. And so we're going to be discussing full alignment with God in this way. And I want to lay the groundwork for this conversation with a story in 1 Samuel 15 that provides us with critically foundational truth. In these passages, we see the prophet Samuel's words to a rebellious King Saul. And one of the key verses I want to focus on today is verse 22, which says, To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. This is Samuel's response in the wake of Saul's disobedience to God, a level of disobedience that would result in disqualification from the throne and eventual destruction. A serious, serious matter. And so as we begin this conversation, I want us to think about a question today. Because we're just gonna dive right in. We're going from zero to 90, okay? And so here's the question: which is actually more costly in the end? The cruciform nature of obedience to God or the consequences of misalignment that ensue when we disobey his promptings? Well, I think today's text is going to help us answer this question. Let's read on, beginning with 1 Samuel 15, 22, and then we'll continue deeper into the text. But Samuel replied, Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king. Then Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, I violated the Lord's command and your instructions. I was afraid of the men, and so I gave in to them. I want to go down to verse 28, where we see Samuel's reply, where he says, The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to one of your neighbors, to one better than you. He who is the glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind, for he is not a human being, that he should change his mind. I encourage you to read this entire text and this entire story in God's word, but I want to point your attention to the very last verse, which says, Until the day Samuel died, he did not go to see Saul again, though Samuel mourned for him, and the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel. I hope you feel the weight of verses 22 and 23 with me today. To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams, for rebellion is like the sin of divination and arrogance, like the evil of idolatry, because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has rejected you as king. And I want you to see that the Hebrew word for rebellion is Marie. Lexically, Marie is defined as bitterness. And no, I'm not just rolling that R because I'm Hispanic. Go look it up. You get to roll your R with this word, but lexically, it's defined as bitterness. And it's interesting that bitterness and rebellion are tied in this way. I believe an examination of rebellion in this text is so timely because here's what I see in this culture. Here's what I see the culture leaning towards: a domestication of disobedience, a normalization of the untamed, unnamed, and unchallenged, chosen autonomy from God and the rejection of his voice. When we as a people begin to process the voice of God through his word and through his spirit as a mere suggestion, a mere recommendation, a mere option in our eyes, when we think our ways are better, then we have drifted into very, very dangerous territory. When the weight of the words that the Maker of Heaven and Earth, the Alpha and Omega, the Great, I am, when his words do not resonate with us as deeply as our own thoughts, as deeply as the TikTok influencer we watch every day, or the celebrity pastor we follow, then we know we're in treacherous territory. And there is something we must recover of a healthy fear of the Lord, which is simply taking God's word seriously. I want you to know that I had not planned on recording this podcast for probably another week. And last night the Lord woke me up in the middle of the night two times with a sense of urgency, and he just literally said, Record it today. Someone here that needs to hear this. You're standing on the precipice of a decision, and you know what God has asked you to do, but you're struggling with your flesh, you're struggling with your fears, you're struggling with your own humanity. And God wants you to know he sees that, and you can bring that to him in confession in the spirit of emotional honesty, which the psalmist modeled for us and Jesus himself modeled for us in the garden. He sees you. And I also want to add this statement here for all of us: it is important to glean from other biblically centered, spirit-filled members of the body of Christ. And yes, they're everywhere. They are on TikTok and they are on Instagram and they are on YouTube. But here's what I want to say. It's also critically important to ask ourselves: when was the last time that God gave me a word directly? When was the last time I opened up my Bible and received a revelation from God's Spirit? When was the last time I was in prayer or in God's presence and he gave me an impression or a moment of directional revelation that altered my decision making, that altered the course of my relationships, that altered the trajectory of my life. Friends, God wants to speak to you, to me, to us directly, one-on-one. Why? Because we serve a God and we belong to a God with a relational heart. And we see that all throughout scripture. Beginning in the garden and even until the end of the age. And so, although our text today is rooted in the Old Testament, these truths are set against the backdrop of the story of Saul and Samuel's discourse. I want you to know these truths can also be found in the New Testament literature. The New Testament addresses disobedience, addresses rebellion, addresses a lack of reverence for God, which is essentially what disobedience is, right? We'd like to put disobedience in a different category, as I said earlier. We'd like to domesticate it, right? But stories like Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 that chronicle the cost of disobedience and the truth that Romans 8 imparts. These are critical moments in scripture and New Testament literature that help us understand the far-reaching implications of a heart misaligned with God's word and God's voice. And I want to read to you what Romans 8, 6 through 8 says. It tells us the mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. It's a sobering scripture, is it not? Bonhoeffer has this great but also sobering quote, which says, When Christ calls a man, he bids him to come and die. Because it's one thing to declare Jesus as Savior and to say, I believe you died for me, Jesus. I receive your salvation. And it's an entirely other thing to say, I will be crucified with Christ so that I no longer live. That's lordship. That's humility. Salvation is a gift, but turning our lives and loyalties over to Jesus in radical surrender, I'm going to tell you the truth. It's going to be a war. The invitation of God over your life and my life is Hebrews 11, childlike faith, radical loyalty to God. And it comes at a cost. It's going to be a war with the enemy, the world, and the flesh, but I can promise you this is where the immeasurably more of the presence of God is found. It's holy dependence. It's the narrow way of Jesus. So as we study the dialogue between Saul and Samuel, we can see that Saul lost this war within himself. And I would submit to you that he lost this war because he began to spend his life building an altar unto himself instead of building an altar to God. And so the question I'd like to pose today is this: Who are you building an altar unto? With your life, your gifts, your time, your treasure? We're going to explore this question in detail as we reflect upon 1 Samuel 15. If you've studied the Old Testament, you know sacrifices were made at altars. This practice actually began with Noah post-flood and continued until the new covenant was instituted by the death and the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But at the time of this Old Testament exchange between Samuel and Saul, altars were a place of sacrifice, a place of worship, and a place of blessing and promise. And so let's pose a question today. What is being communicated on behalf of the heart of God through Samuel in this portion of the text when he says obedience is better than sacrifice, and a heed is better than the fat of rams? Well, one commentator notes, in sacrifices a man offers only strange flesh, whereas in obedience he offers his own will. I would submit to you that scripture reveals a God who prefers sincerity and relationship over ritual void of authentic private devotion. God prefers ongoing loving loyalty over temporary ceremonial exchange. He prefers private integrity and devotion to any public display of honor to him that lacks sincerity in the secret place. And so deliberate disobedience to God, as in the case of Saul, ought not to be compensated with sacrifice. You can go and read more about how Saul got to this place, and I would encourage you to do that in the text. But today we're going to talk about three altars of the heart that Saul constructed in his interior life that ultimately misaligned him with God. First, that I'd like to mention is the altar of pride. Oh, to me, the last line of 1 Samuel 15 is one of the most sobering, heartbreaking, and chilling passages of scripture. It says, the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel. But if we go back to verse 17 in this very chapter, we will unlock one of the keys to understanding the origins of this statement. In this verse, Samuel said, Is it not true that when you were insignificant in your own eyes, you became head of the tribes of Israel? This alludes to the reality that when God chose Saul for kingship, he found himself in a humble station in life. A humility that all but disappeared when he experienced the test of visible success, the test of prosperity. Saul had been chosen by God, but Saul did not choose God in return. His capability to fulfill his role as a king really exceeded his willingness to consecrate himself to a level of private integrity with God that would expose the snares of success and disarm the fear of man. Saul had become misaligned spiritually, and this inner spiritual misalignment would ultimately make its way into outward disobedience. And so what caution does Scripture offer about what we're calling the altar of pride? Proverbs 16, 18 says, Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Matthew 23, 12 says, He who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. And if we try to place this conversation in the context of our culture, where do we see people worshiping at the altar of pride? This is a really simple answer. Wherever you see humanity operating in rebellion to God's design and God's ways, there's an altar to pride. But I want to focus on one expression that I see culturally in this day and age, and it is the lust for visibility and the false gospel of popularity and platform as the most idolized and sought-after version of the Christian lifestyle. And so you may be wondering why is popularity a false gospel? Well, because as we will discover as we continue to cover the story of Saul, God had removed his favor from the throne of Saul, and he had actually turned his sight, turned his gaze to a David of the Field, a shepherd boy who hid himself in the obscurity of sheep pastures, worshiping God and allowing God to reveal himself in the silence and solitude of all things. You see, popularity is a false gospel because all the favor that culture has to dispense is ultimately powerless on a spiritual level. In the wake of the real time and eternal implications of what occurs in a person's life, when, like Saul, their choices have misaligned them from being able to live in the flow of God's favor. Doesn't matter if you have man's favor if you don't have God's. It's entirely possible for you to have the favor of God and for God to dispense favor in the eyes of man. But the other way around is absolutely empty. When you come in to the favor of man through your own striving, through your own strategy, through your adherence to your own convictions, void of the voice of God, absent of spiritual, biblically centered dispersion. It's just a matter of time before you wake up and realize that it's empty. And that the milk and the honey in that substitutionary promised land doesn't taste so sweet. This is just an observation, but in cultural Christianity, I believe we have a whole generation of kings and queens who have forgotten how to be David's of the field. Oh, but I believe that God is cultivating a generation that has been delivered from the stage. A generation that knows how to prioritize their invisible life with God over visibility to the world. Far too many believers have sacrificed their devotion to God in secret on the altar of public ministry. And yes, I do feel like a weeping prophet when I talk about this. Because I hear so many people say, Oh, I'm out there saving the world, and I'm out there prophesying and I'm fulfilling a great commission. And we celebrate that with you. We're thankful for that. Me too, actually. And you know what? We also need to be on our faces with God. Not as a secondary priority, but as our first calling. And I understand there's not a paycheck attached to that. And I understand there's not a 401k attached to that. I know that nobody sees it, but God sees it. And do you still believe that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek his face? We need to be on our faces. We need to be fasting and praying and seeking his face before we make one more decision in his name. I read a quote recently to the effect of this. You can minister to thousands and be a stranger to God. And I think Matthew 7 reminds us of this truth. What does that passage say? On that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name? Drive out demons in your name, and do many miracles in your name. And then I will announce to them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you lawbreakers. It's Matthew 7, 22 through 23. Just want you to let that settle over your heart for a minute. The more God offers, the more that I talked about in the last podcast episode, it's not influence, absent of intimacy. Jesus says many people of influence will present their works unto him in eternity and will not be received by him because they have operated in a form of godliness without having had a truly sincere relationship with Jesus. And so what does Jesus want before he wants our missional strategies? Jesus wants your time. Jesus wants your attention, not out of obligation, but out of love. Who are we building an altar unto with our time and attention? And if every altar requires a sacrifice, what do you think Saul sacrificed at the altar of pride? What does humanity sacrifice at the altar of pride? I would submit to you that he sacrificed and we sacrifice our loyalty to God at the altar of pride. And what followed was a loss of spiritual authority. The next domino to fall was his calling. This is the trajectory idolatry takes us all down. And that is why God is inviting us into wisdom and a new sobriety about this, friends. James 4 6 says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. May we be like the psalmist at the start of the blank page of 2026 that says, Examine my heart, O God. Because here's the thing: God is in the light of exposure. He is in the work of that which has been hidden, finally coming to light. Why? Because it is the truth that sets us free. And so let's continue to ask the Holy Spirit to illuminate truth as we reflect on what is being shared through God's word today. The second altar of the heart I want to expose and call our attention to today is the altar of the fear of man. Verse 24 says, Then Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned. What did the fear of man result in within Saul's story, if not proof of these two truths? Partial obedience is disobedience, and delayed obedience is also disobedience. Saul did not obey God in full, but only to the measure he was comfortable with. And he withheld his hand from completing all the commands of God. Again, this is where we see rebellion. And I just want to add one note to this statement. Sometimes our disobedience is not in what we will not do, and not in what we omit, but in adding things to our lives, to our processes that God never said to do, that God has not called us to in this season. My pastor says this a word from the Lord will give you staying power. I love that. If you have a word from the Lord, you will have endurance and perseverance, even in the hardest of circumstances and seasons. So even when times get tough and the garden path leads to an eventual wilderness on the way to a better promised land, if the Lord told you to do it, that word from the Lord will sustain you through the seasons because it's not by might and it's not by power, but it's by the Spirit that we remain tethered to the vine that is Jesus, so that we can continue to bear fruit. But so many of us don't know how to discern when the winds of the spirit are blowing us onto a new course and off of the one that we've always known. And so so many of us won't release an old wineskin so God can pour that new wine into the new wineskin He has in store for us. If that's you today, there's still time. There's still time to obey. There's still time to surrender. And then there are other times when we become subconsciously tethered to what the culture or our flesh or the enemy may try to influence us to want. I want a bigger bank account, God. I want 10 days in New Zealand, God. Has anyone ever said that, or is it just me? I want a brand new car, even though the current one has like 30,000 miles on it, you know? Those thoughts come to us. And if we're not careful, if we don't filter those thoughts through soul-level discernment with God and through healthy, godly community, we may actually go take an extra job. We may try to launch a business, or we may overextend ourselves, hustling to lock in yet one more deal. And often going down those roads, snuff out the space in our lives that God told us to preserve, to properly steward the actual tasks that He did call us to and intends to entrust us with? What has God truly asked you to do? And what is preventing you from doing it? Is it the fear of man? Is it regard for what the culture says is important? Are you deprioritizing God's invitations by the very nature of all the yeses you give to other people, other places, other pursuits that God is not actively asking you to sacrifice your time for? He's not asking you to sacrifice at those other altars. Let me tell you this. Sometimes disobedience doesn't stem from sins of omission, but sins of addition. What do you need to subtract to be fully aligned with God this year? And if every altar requires a sacrifice, what did Saul sacrifice at the altar of the fear of man? He sacrificed the fear of the Lord. And that was a dangerous move. Because it is the fear of the Lord that protects us on so many levels. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold, sweeter also than honey, and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned, and keeping them there is great reward. There's something that you and I cannot do without in this life, and it is the fear of the Lord. And the last altar of the heart that I want to draw attention to in this text is the altar of relevancy. Let's go back to verse 30. And Saul says, I have sinned, but please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me so that I may worship the Lord your God. In this text, we see Saul was still seeking favor with men rather than true forgiveness from God and relational reconciliation with Him. His primary concern was to salvage his credibility, excuse his error, and resume his role of power among the people of God. His desire to remain relevant proves to us that being chosen by God in a role of power was actually more important to him than being fully surrendered to an intimate friendship with him on a soul level. And how often do we see this take place? A transactional relationship with God propped up with the outer scaffolding of roles and responsibilities that serve cultures and communities, while inner integrity and wholeness before God has not been kept intact. And it's so sad because there is a more available to that person. There is a more available from the heart of God, from the hand of God, from the voice of God, from the word of God. There is more. And so, where do we see humanity operating at the altar of relevancy? I think it's important to even define relevancy as we continue this conversation. It's a word related to things that have societal importance, cultural currency, if you will, remaining within the boundary lines of what provides a reasonable chance of success according to cultural standards. In many cases, this can manifest as striving for a life more aligned with the culture of the world instead of the culture of the kingdom. If you're curious about what the culture of the kingdom is, go to Matthew 5. Listen to Jesus' words and the Beatitudes. But when people get into this heart space, there's often a higher regard for exterior metrics and presentation and striving for the wrong things. And ultimately, this is this is harmful to their human heart because it frequently looks like people pleasing and performance anxiety and protecting and cultivating upward mobility in the American dream. When I was much younger growing up in rural Texas, I would often take long drives out on a farm road, and I'll never forget feeling the nudge of the spirit one day. When he said to me, Tanya, whatever you put your confidence in will eventually define you. If that's the health of your bank account, you're gonna crash out when it crashes. If that's your association in influential circles, you will lose your identity when all of your associates of influence stop calling. If that's the number you see on the scale, you will come undone when that number changes in a direction you can't control. If it's your outward beauty, you will lose yourself when people no longer see you as attractive or desirable, or when you no longer see yourself that way. And so when these little g gods of our time build altars in the heart, something gets sacrificed at the altar of relevancy. And typically it is our sincerity and a wholeness before God. Why? Why? Because we have forsaken first love and chosen to idolize optics over what the psalmist calls truth in the inward parts. Joshua 24, 14 says, Therefore fear the Lord and worship him in sincerity and truth. Get rid of the gods your fathers worship to be on the Euphrates River and in Egypt and worship Yahweh. It says, For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. The three altars of the heart we discussed today were constructed in Saul's interior life due to misalignment with God over time. And in this vein, I think it's important to note again that salvation for those of us living in light of the cross of Christ is a free gift. But it's important to be reminded that lordship is a choice to opt into the costly hourly, daily, weekly process of sanctification and full surrender. This process is not easy. It involves cruciformity, dying to ourselves, taking the narrow way of Jesus. It involves destroying an all-too familiar altar in the age of autonomy and individuality, the altar of self. We have to develop some intentionality about traveling in the direction of John the Baptist's words in John 3.30. He must become greater. I must become less. Because until we see God, his dominion, his word, and his throne room as the ultimate reality of all realities, we will continue to be lulled into varying degrees of spiritual slumber, unaware, unawake to the reality of eternity and the impact of our real-time decisions, both in the here and now and in the life to come. Because let me tell you, that life eternal is coming. Until God Himself is the capital R reality of all realities residing on the throne of our hearts, we will continue to make temporal decisions based on desired but finite outcomes that will not enter into eternity with us. Here's the reality. Someday you and I will see God's face. What do you want to hear him say when this moment unfolds? This moment in eternity will not be between you and other people, you and other associations, you and other organizations. This moment in eternity will be relational, just between you and God. And so, how will you spend your time this year in light of this ultimate reality? How will you remain aligned with the heart of God, with the activity of God this year? In the spirit of reflecting upon the weight of what I've just shared, I want to ask you some questions. Questions that will be just between you and God. And the first question is this Who are you building an altar unto in your interior life? At every altar there is a sacrifice. And every sacrifice is unto something or someone. Who are you building an altar unto with your time and attention? Who or what has captured the motive of your heart? I heard someone say a while back, the person you're thinking of when you're worshiping on a Sunday morning is the person you're actually worshiping. So who are you thinking about when you worship with your time? Who are you thinking about when you worship with your gifts, your talents, and your work? Who are you thinking about when you steward your attention? Who is it unto? What have you been sacrificing? And who or what have you had in mind while you've been sacrificing those things? And has the sacrifice been a direct result of God's divine instruction in your life or a default norm you've grown accustomed to over time that needs to be revisited with Him in this season? I want to say this many times we have blind spots in our story, unhealed wounds, unhealthy attachments, and unmet longings that can position us. For the construction of idolatrous altars of the heart. And how can we discern this? Well, every altar has a priest, every altar requires a sacrifice as an expression of devotion. And so much of discerning into the altars of the heart really comes down to one question: What is God saying? And have I been obedient to do what He's asked me to do? Or am I building an altar of the heart unto someone or something else? When we answer this question and we answer it honestly, we can truly evaluate whether our lives are being lived as fragrant worship unto God, or whether we are subconsciously or consciously pursuing false gospels. The good news is that God is no stranger to this, guys. He's no stranger to dealing with our idols. And it is in his kindness that we will often find ourselves frustrated with these lesser pursuits. Don't be surprised if God begins to come for some of your well-worn comforts this year, because he would rather see you go through a holy undoing than to see you chained up to one more idolatrous altar for one more year. Here's the reality: you and I get one life. One. And it is a vapor. A vapor. In a few generations, no one will even remember my name on this side of heaven. Man, but the treasures we store up in eternity. Our loving relationship with our Trinitarian God, our devotion, our consecration unto Him, these things will last forever. And so as we close today, I want to invite you into a posture of reconsecration to God. And reconsecration begins with repentance. Because as Romans 3.23 reminds us, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. It takes humility to put yourself in that collective. But if you agree and you want to aim your heart like an arrow in the direction of full agreement with God this year and full divine alignment, pray this prayer with me today. God, I want to begin this new season with a posture of Psalm 24, with clean hands and a pure heart. I do not want to set my mind on what is false. I want to align my heart, my life, my decisions, my actions with those who seek your face. I renounce every altar I have built to pride, to the fear of man, to fleeting relevance in this homesick world. And I invite you to tear down every high place in my own mind, in my own will that has attempted to exalt itself above my loyalty to you, oh God. I ask you to create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me and cast me not away from your presence, God. Restore to me the joy of my salvation and renew a right spirit within me so that I may go into 2026 in righteous alignment with you, to take dominion over the schemes of the enemy in my life, dominion over the enemy, the flesh, and the world in the name of Jesus. I pray that you would reposition me in the center of your will and in the center of your keeping, that I would be a voice pointing this generation to the reality of your throne room, to the purity of your presence, to the power of your word and your spirit. Set me apart, God, because I have but one life, and this one life is a vapor. And I long to live into the fullness of my relationship with you from every day, all the way into eternity. I long to fulfill your vision for my life, your dreams for my life, your plans for my gifts, your requests of my time. Because all that I have is yours. It belongs to you. All I am is yours, God. And I know obedience to you and all of these things is success. The reward of all rewards is just to see your face. Just to know you. Just to be in your presence. So God, may this be the year of total consecration unto you. May I withhold nothing that you ask of me. And may you give me a Hebrews 11 childlike faith to run hard in the direction of your leadership. I love you, but I thank you for your mercy and your grace. And I honor you at the start of a brand new chapter. In Jesus' name. Amen. Well, as 2026 begins, I plan to be with you more often here. Um, I have really been encouraged by your partnership in this space. We've got people from literally all over the world, 44 countries, 603 cities, and growing. And I just want you to know that I am saying a prayer for your year, for your stories, for the deepest desires of your heart. And you can find me um on Instagram at Tanya Godsi and on the website tanyagadsi.com. We do have some retreats coming up that are sold out. But if you are interested in joining us for a Befriending God weekend in the future, more than likely in the fall, um, I'm gonna put the link to sign up for our mailing list in the show notes. Alright, friends, I love you guys, and until we meet again, go in peace.