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Say This to God—and Everything Changes
What if your most important decision isn’t what you’ll do—but who you’ll be available to?
In this episode of the Kingdom Reformation Podcast, Glenn Bleakney unpacks the biblical power of Hineni (“Here I Am”) and how a posture of consecrated obedience prepares us for revival, reformation, and kingdom impact in 2026 and beyond.
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You're listening to the Kingdom Reformation podcast with Glenn Bleakney, equipping the church for revival, reformation and kingdom impact worldwide.
Speaker B:Welcome back to the Deep Dive.
Speaker A:It's great to be back.
Speaker B:Our mission, well, it's always the same.
Speaker B:We take the sources you've gathered, the articles, the research, all those notes, and we just.
Speaker B:We go deep, right?
Speaker A:We try to pull out the really vital stuff, the insights that connect the dots.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker B:The goal is to give you that shortcut to being, you know, truly well informed on a topic.
Speaker B:And today we are embarking on a really fascinating exploration.
Speaker B:It's about preparation, but not just for the coming year.
Speaker B:It's about a new kind of posture, a way of being that can really redefine how we approach, well, everything.
Speaker B:Life, uncertainty, our sense of purpose.
Speaker A:I'm excited for this one.
Speaker B:The sources we're pulling from today are centered around this one really compelling article by Glenn Blickney.
Speaker B: of consecrated obedience for: Speaker A:A powerful title it is.
Speaker B:And the whole thing hinges on this simple English phrase, here I am.
Speaker B:But this is the whole point of our Deep Dive.
Speaker B:Its power comes from a single ancient Hebrew term.
Speaker A:Hineni.
Speaker B:Hineni, exactly.
Speaker B:Pronounced for everyone listening.
Speaker B:He ney nee.
Speaker A:And that one word, hineni, that's where all the depth is.
Speaker A: as we're all looking ahead to: Speaker A:And the article points this out so well, is all about calculation.
Speaker B:Calculation?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:We calculate our goals, we refine strategies, we try to project our success based on, you know, maximizing what we have.
Speaker B:And this piece just fundamentally challenges that entire approach, doesn't it?
Speaker A:It completely upends it.
Speaker A:It invites us to make this really profound internal shift.
Speaker A:You're moving from a focus on optimizing your external plans to consecrating your internal posture.
Speaker B:That distinction, plans versus posture, I find that incredibly powerful.
Speaker A:It changes everything.
Speaker B:It really does.
Speaker B:It reframes the whole conversation.
Speaker B:And the article poses this one central question that for me, just cuts right to the heart of modern life.
Speaker B:It asks, what if your most important decision this year isn't what you will do, but who you will be available to?
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker B:That question alone is worth the price of admission.
Speaker B:It's really the difference between, say, self determination on one hand and relational readiness on the other.
Speaker B:Explain that a bit more.
Speaker B:Relational readiness.
Speaker A:Well, if we approach our lives just focused on the efficiency of our own output, you know, our five year plans that are all mapped out, which we're all taught to do, which we're all taught to do.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:We actually risk missing a divine initiative, something that might be completely outside the box we've built for ourselves.
Speaker A:The Source is really suggesting that the most faithful way to step into a time of change isn't with a perfect.
Speaker B:Plan, but with what?
Speaker A:With a simple, immediate relational declaration.
Speaker A:Hineni.
Speaker B:Okay, let's unpack this then.
Speaker B:We really need to dive into the source material here to define what this posture actually is.
Speaker B:Because on the surface, here I am.
Speaker B:It just sounds like you're answering a phone call.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:It sounds mundane, but it's anything but.
Speaker B:So, as you said, the standard English translation for hineeni is here I am, but the Source insists, and this is the first big takeaway.
Speaker B:This is so much more than just a spatial acknowledgment.
Speaker B:It's not just, yep, I'm in the.
Speaker A:Room, not at all.
Speaker A:Linguistically, it's really different from just saying your location in Hebrew.
Speaker A:If you just wanted to say, I am here, you might say, ani po.
Speaker A:Hineni is different.
Speaker A:It's an interjection.
Speaker B:An interjection.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So it carries this inherent force.
Speaker A:It's more like, behold me, or maybe here I am, at your service, ready for whatever is required.
Speaker B:That's a huge difference.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker A:The sources define it as a theologically charged response.
Speaker B:I like that phrase.
Speaker A:Me too.
Speaker A:And it means that it signals this whole combination of internal conditions are happening at once.
Speaker A:It's not just one thing.
Speaker B:So what are they?
Speaker B:What are those conditions?
Speaker A:There's immediate presence, you know, being fully there.
Speaker A:There's intense attentiveness.
Speaker A:You're listening with everything you have, and then there's absolute availability.
Speaker B:And it all happen inside a specific context, right?
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:It's all positioned explicitly within a covenantal relationship.
Speaker A:That's the container for the whole experience.
Speaker B:So this isn't passive at all.
Speaker B:It's a very active declaration of where you stand relationally.
Speaker A:That's a great way to put it.
Speaker A:It's an active declaration of your relational position.
Speaker A:The source material actually connects it directly to that core Wisdom from Proverbs 3.56.
Speaker A:Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways.
Speaker A:Acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Speaker B:So hineni is the moment you actually do that.
Speaker B:It's the word you speak when you stop leaning on your own understanding.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker A:It's the verbal embodiment of that acknowledgment.
Speaker A:It's the moment you actively say, okay, I'M surrendering my own impulse to figure it all out.
Speaker A:And I'm choosing instead to position myself before the one who is calling me.
Speaker A:I'm acknowledging you, especially in the areas that feel really uncertain.
Speaker B:And this is where that countercultural tension just hits you like a ton of bricks.
Speaker B:This is the aha moment the Source delivers so powerfully because we are all, whether we admit it or not, discipled by modern life.
Speaker A:Oh, absolutely discipled toward what the Source calls strategial positioning, personal branding and calculated risk management.
Speaker B:Calculated risk management.
Speaker B:That's our default setting, isn't it?
Speaker B:In our careers, in our finances, even.
Speaker A:With our health, it is.
Speaker A:The first question we asked internally almost automatically is, what's the roi?
Speaker A:What's the return on my investment?
Speaker B:We prioritize that question, that very self focused, strategic question, before we ever even pause to ask the more fundamental one.
Speaker B:What is God saying?
Speaker A:And what we demand, what our culture absolutely demands, is clarity before commitment.
Speaker B:Yes, a hundred percent.
Speaker B:If you're going to invest in a startup, you want the full market analysis.
Speaker A:You want the five year projection, you.
Speaker B:Want the full architectural blueprint before you lay a single break.
Speaker B:We want the entire picture before we take the very first step.
Speaker A:And that's the core demand that the biblical framework just fundamentally disrupts.
Speaker A:It's a collision of two ways of being.
Speaker A:We want a floodlight, you know, total illumination of the entire path ahead.
Speaker B:But that's not what's offered.
Speaker A:No, what's offered in Psalm 119 is something very different.
Speaker A:The psalmist says, thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light.
Speaker B:Unto my path, a lamp from my feet.
Speaker B:That distinction, a lamp versus a floodlight, that is so critical to understanding this whole posture.
Speaker B:The Source really spends time on this.
Speaker A:It's everything.
Speaker B:Why just a lamp for the feet?
Speaker B:Because if you only have light for.
Speaker A:The very next step, you can't strategically map out the whole journey.
Speaker A:You can't run your five year projection model.
Speaker B:It makes you dependent.
Speaker A:It forces dependency.
Speaker A:A lamp for your feet gives you just enough light for immediate obedience, just enough for the next decision.
Speaker A:But it leaves the rest of the journey shrouded in, well, in fog.
Speaker B:And that's a profound difference because it completely dismantles the idea of calculated risk.
Speaker A:You can't calculate risk when you can't see the path.
Speaker A:You are forced out of that mindset and into one of relational trust.
Speaker B:So hanani becomes this verbal declaration that says, I accept the lamp.
Speaker B:Yes, I accept that.
Speaker B:Partial clarity is enough guidance for me right now.
Speaker B:I'm Actively rejecting the cultural demand for certainty.
Speaker B:And I'm submitting to a posture of step by step obedience.
Speaker A:It's a bold rejection of calculated self management.
Speaker A:You're choosing covenant reliance instead.
Speaker A:It forces you out of that illusion.
Speaker B:Of self sufficiency, the illusion of control.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker A:If we can only see the next step, we can't rely on our own cleverness or our own sophisticated foresight.
Speaker A:We have to rely, step by step, on the trustworthiness of the one who is directing the path, even when, and especially when that path remains hidden from us.
Speaker B:And this is where the theory really hits the road.
Speaker B:This is where it gets incredibly interesting for me, because the sources show that hineni wasn't just some abstract theological concept.
Speaker A:No, it was a lived posture.
Speaker B:A lived posture.
Speaker B:That's a great phrase.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And it shows up at the most critical, pivotal moments in sacred history.
Speaker B:And there's this consistent pattern across all these revered figures of faith.
Speaker A:And that pattern is absolutely defining.
Speaker A:The core of it is this.
Speaker A:Hineni is always, always spoken before the speaker knows the full cost, before they know the true duration or the eventual consequences of what God is about to ask of them.
Speaker A:We can really summarize this as a kind of spiritual Availability precedes assignment.
Speaker B:Availability precedes assignment.
Speaker B:That just flies in the face of how we do everything today.
Speaker B:I mean, modern HR requires a detailed job description, a salary range, a list of benefits before we even think about applying.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:But here, the assignment is actually predicated upon the open posture being there first.
Speaker B:Okay, so let's walk through the case studies the source provides.
Speaker B:Let's start with Abraham, who is really the first figure to truly embody this kind of profound trust.
Speaker B:The most potent example, one everyone thinks of, is Genesis 22, the binding of.
Speaker A:Isaac, the Akedah, a gut wrenching story.
Speaker B:It is.
Speaker B:God calls his name Abraham.
Speaker B:And Abraham's immediate response without a moment's hesitation is, behold, here I am.
Speaker B:And he says this before he receives the absolutely devastating command to.
Speaker B:To offer his son, his only son, Isaac, as a sacrifice.
Speaker A:We have to try and put ourselves in his sandals for a moment.
Speaker A:That response, that Henny.
Speaker A:It wasn't just a momentary burst of religious fervor.
Speaker A:The sources interpret this as a deep reflection of an established posture of trust.
Speaker B:Something cultivated over a long, long time.
Speaker A:Decades.
Speaker A:This was cultivated over decades of walking with God.
Speaker A:So when God calls, Abraham doesn't hesitate.
Speaker A:He doesn't ask for context.
Speaker A:He doesn't question the logistics.
Speaker A:He doesn't ask if God has lost his mind.
Speaker B:He just defaults to readiness.
Speaker A:He defaults to readiness.
Speaker A:It's the ultimate act of relational fidelity.
Speaker A:He trusts the caller so completely that his willingness to obey is completely independent of whether the request is favorable or.
Speaker B:Not, or even understandable.
Speaker A:Or even understandable, absolutely.
Speaker A:This cultivated trust means he was open to God asking for the one thing, the one person he had waited his entire life for.
Speaker A:The very seed of the covenant promise.
Speaker B:And the Source reminds us this wasn't his first Tainani.
Speaker B:This wasn't a one off, not at all.
Speaker A:The precedent for this goes all the way back to his first calling out of Ur of the chaldees in Genesis 12.
Speaker B:He was living a comfortable life.
Speaker B:He was settled.
Speaker A:He was.
Speaker A:And the instruction he received was so incomplete, so vague.
Speaker A:It was, get thee out of thy country unto a land that I will show thee.
Speaker B:Future tense.
Speaker B:I'll show you not.
Speaker B:Here's the map.
Speaker A:No map, no destination.
Speaker A:Just a direction.
Speaker A:Go.
Speaker A:It's veiled in mystery.
Speaker A:If we were to apply our modern strategic planning criteria to that initial Paul, Abraham would fail every single test.
Speaker B:Oh, he'd be seen as completely irresponsible.
Speaker A:Financially risky, geographically naive, with zero actionable data, no vision for the final destination.
Speaker B:So his entire life was just this sustained, continuous declaration of anemia.
Speaker A:That's a beautiful way to put it.
Speaker A:It's a trust that says, the identity of the caller is the only certainty I actually require.
Speaker A:And that continuous availability, that sustained posture of readiness, that's what ultimately resulted in the unfolding of all the promises.
Speaker A:The Father of nations.
Speaker A:World history pivots on Abraham's immediate, non negotiable hyeni.
Speaker B:Okay, so from Abraham, we go to Moses, the burning bush.
Speaker B:Exodus, chapter three.
Speaker B:God calls out to this isolated shepherd, Moses, Moses.
Speaker B:And his response is that same foundational declaration, immediate availability.
Speaker B:But, and this is the key again, with absolutely zero comprehension of what the cost was gonna be.
Speaker A:And we have to remember who Moses was at this point.
Speaker A:This wasn't the Prince of Egypt.
Speaker A:He was a man who had spent 40 years in self imposed exile.
Speaker A:Hiding out, basically hiding out as a shepherd after, you know, failing spectacularly when he tried to take justice into his own hands back in Egypt.
Speaker A:By any worldly measure, power, influence, status, he was completely insufficient.
Speaker B:A nobody in the desert.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:So when he responds, Hineni, he has no idea that this one seemingly private encounter with a strange fire is about to launch him into a direct confrontation with the most powerful empire on earth.
Speaker B:He doesn't know about the plagues.
Speaker B:He doesn't know about the 40 years of leading complaining people through the wilderness.
Speaker A:He knows none of it.
Speaker A:He just knows his name was called.
Speaker A:And it's so instructive, as the source materials point out what happens in the very next exchange, because it shows that conflict between the hynamia posture and our modern strategic self assessment.
Speaker B:He objects.
Speaker A:He immediately objects.
Speaker A:Exodus 3.11.
Speaker A:He asks the ultimate question of inadequacy.
Speaker A:Who am I that I should go into Pharaoh?
Speaker B:He does a quick personal inventory and comes up short.
Speaker A:He does.
Speaker A:That is the voice of calculated risk management.
Speaker A:He's weighing his skills, his criminal history, his speech impediment, his social standing, and he's weighing it all against this monumental, impossible task.
Speaker B:And the answer he gets from God.
Speaker A:Is so profound, it is the genius of God's response in the next verse is that he completely dismisses Moses qualifications.
Speaker A:The question was, who am I?
Speaker B:And the answer isn't a motivational speech about Moses hidden talents.
Speaker A:No, the answer to who am I?
Speaker A:Is not a list of Moses strengths.
Speaker A:It is a simple promise of presence.
Speaker A:Certainly I will be with thee.
Speaker B:And that just shifts the entire paradigm, doesn't it?
Speaker A:It changes everything.
Speaker A:The source material summary on this is so vital.
Speaker A:It says, hineni doesn't require sufficiency.
Speaker A:It requires availability to the one who is suffic.
Speaker B:So Moses's ability, or his lack of ability, was actually irrelevant.
Speaker A:Completely irrelevant.
Speaker A:The success of the assignment rested entirely on the presence and the power of the caller, not on the quality of the instrument being called.
Speaker B:Then we have the story of Samuel.
Speaker B:He's just a young boy serving in the temple.
Speaker B:And this case study introduces a really crucial nuance to the idea.
Speaker A:It does.
Speaker A:It introduces hanani as the practice of learning to hear.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:In 1 Samuel 3, the Lord calls Samuel's name repeatedly, and Samuel responds three times, Here I am.
Speaker B:But he thinks it's Eli, the priest who's calling him.
Speaker A:So he's got the availability part down.
Speaker A:He's present.
Speaker A:He's willing to get up in the middle of the night, but he lacks discernment.
Speaker A:He doesn't recognize the voice.
Speaker B:He models this relentless attentiveness.
Speaker B:But it's before he has any real comprehension of what prophetic ministry even is.
Speaker A:It's a pure, if slightly misplaced, willingness to serve.
Speaker A:He's just present and ready to answer, even though he's assuming the source of the call is human.
Speaker A:And this really highlights something important, which is that while availability can be instantaneous, discernment often has to be cultivated over time.
Speaker A:It often requires mentorship and Practice.
Speaker B:And that's where Eli comes in.
Speaker B:It takes the older, more experienced priest to recognize the pattern.
Speaker B:He realizes this must be a divine.
Speaker A:Voice, and he instructs the boy on the correct posture.
Speaker A:He tells him what to do next time.
Speaker A:So when Samuel finally masters that necessary combination of presence and active listening, his response becomes this kind of expanded template for hineni.
Speaker B:He says, speak for thy servant heareth.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:And that phrase takes the simple relational declaration of I am here.
Speaker A:And it adds this active, humble submission.
Speaker B:It's not just I'm here, it's I'm here as your servant, and I'm ready.
Speaker A:To receive whatever word you have for me.
Speaker A:It's presence, humility, active listening, and experience, expectant readiness, all wrapped up in one act of consecrated obedience.
Speaker B:Samuel's learning curve here really emphasizes that a Hany is a posture we have to be taught and that we have to deliberately cultivate.
Speaker A:Yes, it's rarely our natural default state, is it?
Speaker A:Especially not in an age as distracted as ours.
Speaker B:The last case study is Isaiah.
Speaker B:And his Hanni is maybe the most intense of them all.
Speaker B:Because it only comes after this devastating but necessary personal deconstruction.
Speaker A:His availability is predicated on his own undoing.
Speaker A:That's a great way to put it.
Speaker B:In Isaiah, chapter six, he has this vision.
Speaker B:He sees the Lord in the temple.
Speaker B:And his response isn't enthusiasm, it's terror, sheer terror.
Speaker A:He cries out, woe is me, for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips.
Speaker B:And the source material identifies this as a critical prerequisite.
Speaker B:Before Isaiah could volunteer for anything, he.
Speaker A:Had to be annihilated in his own self sufficiency.
Speaker A:This undone moment, it's not just about feeling guilty.
Speaker A:It's an existential collapse in the face of pure, transcendent holiness.
Speaker B:So before he could offer his availability, he had to gain this deep, painful awareness of God's absolute holiness and his own absolute inadequacy.
Speaker A:Conviction has to come before consecration.
Speaker B:The sequence is so important.
Speaker B:Here he has this moment of terrifying self assessment, seeing himself as a total failure.
Speaker B:And then, only then, does the divine intervention happen.
Speaker B:The cleansing.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:The angel takes a live coal from the altar and touches his lips, purifying him for service.
Speaker B:And it is only after that cleansing, after his defense deficiency has been addressed by divine grace, that the Lord asks the great commissioning question, whom shall I.
Speaker A:Send and who will go for us?
Speaker B:And Isaiah's response, now that he's been purified and profoundly humbled, is that iconic hanani from Isaiah 6.8.
Speaker A:Here am I?
Speaker A:Send me.
Speaker B:And again he volunteers before he knows the assignment.
Speaker B:And what an assignment it turned out to be.
Speaker A:A brutal one to speak.
Speaker B:A message that he was told would be met with resistance, with deafness, with rejection.
Speaker B:A message that would bring him immense personal sorrow.
Speaker A:Yet his immediate availability, which came right out of that profound encounter with holiness, it positioned him for a ministry that would shape millennia of theology.
Speaker A:He said yes to the call before he ever read the job description.
Speaker B:So if we bring all four of these stories together, Abraham, Moses, Samuel, Isaiah.
Speaker A:The pattern is undeniable.
Speaker A:Haneni is consistently a declaration of readiness, not a declaration of understanding.
Speaker A:They all committed to the caller before they could possibly grasp the complexity or the consequences of the task.
Speaker A:They surrendered the demand for clarity in favor of relational trust.
Speaker B:This pattern really establishes the whole theological framework for the posture we're talking about.
Speaker A:It does.
Speaker A:And if we synthesize this, what we're really talking about is a foundational posture that's rooted in this vast, you know, unbridgeable difference between God's perspective and our own.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Isaiah 55 puts it so clearly, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways.
Speaker B:My ways?
Speaker A:As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways.
Speaker B:And hynini is just the human humble acknowledgment of that divine asymmetry.
Speaker B:It's saying, I know you see things I can't see.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:And this leads us to some really important critical distinctions the Source makes about what hanani is not.
Speaker A:Because when we hear a phrase like consecrated obedience, we can project our own modern fears onto it.
Speaker A:We assume it means abandoning our agency or our intellect.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:That it's a blind leap.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:So we have to be really clear to prevent those misconceptions.
Speaker B:So first, hen any is not passive resignation.
Speaker A:Absolutely not.
Speaker A:It is not a fatalistic shrug of the shoulders, you know, a whatever happens, happens kind of attitude.
Speaker A:It is an intensely active, conscious decision to participate in a purpose that is higher than your own.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Second, it is not uncritical submission.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:It doesn't demand a naive compliance where you just abandon all discernment or critical thinking.
Speaker A:I mean, think about it.
Speaker A:Moses questioned his own capacity.
Speaker A:Abraham argued with God over the fate of Sodom.
Speaker B:So they maintained their intelligence.
Speaker A:They did, but they surrendered ultimate control over the outcome.
Speaker A:That's the difference.
Speaker B:And third, it is not anti intellectual.
Speaker A:This is a big one.
Speaker A:The Source is very clear about this.
Speaker A:It is not a bypass of wisdom or preparation or strategic thinking.
Speaker A:We are still called to think, to plan, to be wise stewards.
Speaker A:The critical difference is the orientation, the position from which we do all that planning.
Speaker B:So if we strip away all those misunderstandings, what is heineni?
Speaker A:What it is is a conscious orientation of the self toward the divine, and it's grounded fundamentally in trust, in reverence, and in relational fidelity.
Speaker A:It's the posture that really aligns with Psalm 40, which says, I delight to do thy will, O my God.
Speaker B:And this posture creates this direct, profound tension with almost all contemporary frameworks for success.
Speaker B:A huge tension in business, in finance, in education.
Speaker B:The assumption is always that commitment should follow certainty.
Speaker A:Always.
Speaker A:We wait for the plan to be proven, for the market to stabilize, for the resources to be secured, and then we commit our capital or our time.
Speaker B:But Hanadi just completely reverses that logic.
Speaker A:It executes a total reversal in the biblical imagination.
Speaker A:And this is such a key insight from the source material.
Speaker A:The sequence is intentionally flipped.
Speaker A:Commitment creates the space in which clarity is later revealed.
Speaker B:Say that again.
Speaker B:That's huge.
Speaker A:Commitment creates the space in which clarity is later revealed.
Speaker A:You say, hey, Nini.
Speaker A:First you declare your availability, and only then does the map begin to unfold.
Speaker B:That requires a tremendous amount of humility, especially for people who are highly competent and driven.
Speaker A:Oh, it's very difficult.
Speaker A:We're great at devising plans, at mapping out contingencies, at setting our own course.
Speaker A:But Proverbs 16 provides that crucial A man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps.
Speaker B:So we're still supposed to devise our way.
Speaker B:The planning is part of our job.
Speaker A:Yes, we must devise.
Speaker A:That's our responsibility.
Speaker A:We must plan.
Speaker A:That is wise stewardship.
Speaker A:But heineni is the necessary spiritual discipline that makes us hold those carefully constructed plans loosely.
Speaker B:Loosely enough for what?
Speaker A:Loosely enough for immediate divine redirection.
Speaker A:It's the acknowledgment that our meticulously crafted agenda, our budget, our career path may need to be interrupted at a moment's notice by a higher, better, though maybe currently hidden purpose.
Speaker B:It really sounds like the essence of relational openness.
Speaker B:I'm thinking back to Abraham when he packed up and left ur.
Speaker B:He wasn't being intellectually lazy, not all.
Speaker B:He was just relationally available to the one who had called him, even though the logistics made absolutely no sense from human perspective.
Speaker A:That's it exactly.
Speaker A:Their initial response of Haineni established a kind of relational openness that then allowed God's purposes to be disclosed over time, step by step.
Speaker A:It ensures that our planning process always remains subservient to the covenant relationship, and that the planner, while still active and thinking, surrenders that ultimate rigid control.
Speaker B:Okay, let's pivot now to the application for you, the listener.
Speaker B: y mean for us as we step into: Speaker B:Because the source materials frame the coming year in terms of, well, profound uncertainty.
Speaker A:And that feels right, doesn't it?
Speaker A:There's cultural volatility, institutional instability, economic unpredictability, not to mention all the complex personal transitions people are facing.
Speaker B:It's the kind of environment that makes you want to double down on your own calculated planning to try and control things more tightly.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:We seek security in forecasts, but forecasts just tend to amplify our anxiety about the uncertainty.
Speaker A:The source points us instead to that promise in Jeremiah 29, the promise of hope in the midst of profound disorientation.
Speaker B:For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an.
Speaker A:Expected end, a future and a hope.
Speaker B:That verse is so famous, but we so often rip it out of its grim context.
Speaker A:We do, we forget.
Speaker A:This promise was delivered to people who were captives in Babylon.
Speaker A:They were in exile, they were completely disoriented, displaced, and they had absolutely no frame of reference for how that promise future could possibly arrive.
Speaker A:They couldn't see the end of their own difficult journey.
Speaker B:And it was precisely because they were so disoriented that God gave them these incredibly practical, almost counterintuitive instructions for the present moment.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:The command was basically, don't just sit around and wait for things to go back to normal.
Speaker A:Don't wait for the political situation to resolve itself.
Speaker A:Engage right where you are.
Speaker B:And the instructions were so startlingly concrete.
Speaker B:Build houses and dwell in them, plant.
Speaker A:Gardens and eat the fruit of them.
Speaker B:And this one is the kicker for me.
Speaker B:Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it.
Speaker A:This is hanani operationalized in the middle of a crisis.
Speaker A:It is availability and faithfulness right in the thick of ambiguity.
Speaker A:God is telling them, invest here, build here.
Speaker A:Live your life here.
Speaker A:Pray for the well being of the very system that holds you captive.
Speaker A:And trust me with the long term plan, even when you can't see, see it.
Speaker B: application to our uncertain: Speaker B:Don't wait for the cultural or economic exile to end before you start building and praying and being faithful right where you are.
Speaker B:That makes this costure so deeply practical.
Speaker B: If we start: Speaker B:We're prioritizing our plans, but Hanani invites us to ask a prior, more fundamental question first.
Speaker B:To whom am I available in the midst of this uncertainty?
Speaker A:And that one shift completely reframes how we define success.
Speaker A:It moves it away from achievement alone and toward faithfulness and responsiveness.
Speaker B:So if you're facing a career change, the Hanani posture doesn't start by asking, which job has the best 5 year growth potential.
Speaker A:No, it starts by asking, where am I currently called to build and serve with the light that I have right now for this next step?
Speaker B:It changes the entire metric.
Speaker B:We stop judging our progress by asking, did I accomplish all my goals?
Speaker B:And we start asking, was I present when I was called?
Speaker B:Did I respond with availability when the lamp for my feet was lit, even if that first step felt small or completely insignificant?
Speaker A:And this all ties back to those core requirements of faith summarized so beautifully in Micah 6.8.
Speaker B:To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.
Speaker A:To begin the year with chaineni is to embrace that humility, that willingness to see step even when you're uncertain.
Speaker A:That is the operational reality of the Haineni declaration.
Speaker B: or the economic volatility of: Speaker A:No, of course not.
Speaker B:What it does is it places all that uncertainty within the framework of relational covenantal trust.
Speaker B:It grounds you, the believer, not in the financial forecast or the political outlook, but in the unwavering faithfulness of the caller.
Speaker B:This has been such a profound deep dive.
Speaker B:But it's crucial that Hanni moves from just being a theological concept we analyze to an embodied day to day practice.
Speaker A:It has to become a way of life, right?
Speaker B:We can't just talk about the Word, we have to inhabit it.
Speaker B:As Psalm 143 says, Teach me to do thy will, for Thou art my God.
Speaker B:So what does this posture actually look like in the routine, repetitive moments of our lives?
Speaker A:Well, the sources outline four really practical ways we can start to embody this posture, to transform that one time declaration into a continuous of being.
Speaker B:Okay, let's hear them practice.
Speaker B:1.
Speaker B:Attentiveness in prayer.
Speaker A:And this is about moving beyond just a monologue, right?
Speaker A:Beyond just speaking to God, reciting our list of needs and wants, and actually cultivating the capacity to hear.
Speaker A:That's the heart of the hyening, the listening part.
Speaker A:The listening part.
Speaker A:It requires creating literal space.
Speaker A:We have to carve out stillness in our noisy, demanding lives for that unexpected word or that redirecting whisper or even the disruptive call that changes our entire day.
Speaker B:We have to position ourselves like Samuel.
Speaker A:Did, Exactly remembering Psalm 46 point Zillow, be still and know that I am God.
Speaker A:That stillness isn't just about relaxing.
Speaker A:It is the active precondition for true attentiveness.
Speaker A:You're intentionally quieting the internal noise of your own planning and calculating so you can hear another voice.
Speaker B:I mean, in a world of constant notifications and strategic information overload, just cultivating that stillness might be the single hardest part of modern spiritual life.
Speaker A:I think you're right.
Speaker A:It requires intentionally starving our demand for external input so we can listen for the internal transcendent voice.
Speaker B:Okay, so once we practice that attentiveness and we hear that call, what's next?
Speaker A:We move to the next critical step.
Speaker A:Practice two Responsiveness and obedience.
Speaker A:If the word comes, we have to act on it, even when the full scope of the request is unclear.
Speaker B:This is the real practical challenge of the lamp for the feed, isn't it?
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker A:It means you have to treat partial clarity as sufficient grounds to take the first step.
Speaker A:If we wait for the floodlight, we will never, ever move.
Speaker A:If you only have enough light to take one step toward that new project, or that difficult conversation, or that change in direction, then you must step.
Speaker B:We have to make haste and delay.
Speaker A:Not, as the Psalm says, like Abraham, we set out toward a land we will be shown, trusting that the guide is sufficient for the journey, no matter what the terrain looks like.
Speaker A:Responsiveness means prioritizing immediate small acts of obedience over postponed, calculated, grand gestures of obedience that may never happen.
Speaker B:I love that.
Speaker B:Okay, that brings us to practice three humility in decision making.
Speaker A:And this ties directly back to what we were saying about holding our meticulous plans loosely.
Speaker A:We all have intricate agendas.
Speaker A:We have goals.
Speaker A:But humility involves recognizing that your carefully constructed life trajectory may need to be interrupted by a higher one.
Speaker B:It requires a willingness to pivot, a.
Speaker A:Radical willingness to pivot when the Lord indicates a different direction, even if that redirection seems, by purely human calculation, to be less advantageous financially or strategically.
Speaker B:So we're still planning, we're still thinking critically, of course.
Speaker A:But we submit those plans to the reality that the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord.
Speaker A:As Psalm 37 says, this is the continuous daily surrender of ultimate control.
Speaker B:And finally, the Source brings this all full circle.
Speaker B:It moves from our vertical relationship with God to the horizontal presence with others, a horizontal hineni.
Speaker A:This is such a powerful and often overlooked application.
Speaker A:If we declare I am here to God, then we must also be truly present and available to the people he has placed around us.
Speaker B:So it's not just about our quiet time.
Speaker A:Not at all.
Speaker A:It means active, focused presence with others, not half listening while you're mentally scripting your next email, not constantly calculating the time commitment while friend is sharing a burden with you.
Speaker B:Horizontal hanani is the embodiment of bear one another's burdens.
Speaker A:From Galatians it is it's fulfilling the law of Christ in that way.
Speaker A:To say Hanini to God means we must also be willing to say Hanini to the immediate unscripted needs of our community, offering our availability before we know the full scope of the cost, whether that cost is emotional or practical.
Speaker B:So over time, if we practice these.
Speaker A:Four things, the Source suggests that the consistent practice of attentiveness, responsiveness, humility and presence of forms a life.
Speaker A:A life marked less by that rigid self determination, that cultural need to control every single variable, and more by a discerning, joyful participation in God's broader purposes.
Speaker B:And that is the ultimate consecrated result of the Haineni posture.
Speaker B:Wow, what a necessary deep dive into an ancient yet radically contemporary concept.
Speaker B: t of this discussion to begin: Speaker A:No, not at all.
Speaker B:We continue to devise our way, but we subordinate that planning to presence.
Speaker B:We commit our way unto the Lord, trusting, as Psalm 37 says, that he shall bring it to pass.
Speaker A:It's the ultimate statement of relational trust and radical availability.
Speaker A:It's simply saying, I am here, I am listening.
Speaker A:I am available before I know where you're leading me.
Speaker A:I'm saying yes to the journey before I understand the cost.
Speaker A:I'm offering my availability before the plan is clear.
Speaker A:My posture is set.
Speaker B:And the sources remind us that the great figures of faithabraham, Moses, Isaiah, they all said hineni before they knew the full extent of the cost.
Speaker A:And the entire human story turned on that immediate consecrated response.
Speaker A:Hedoni is not just a biblical term for us to analyze.
Speaker A:It's a theological posture for us to inhabit, especially in the face of uncertainty.
Speaker B:The voice behind you is ready to speak and to guide you, as Isaiah promises.
Speaker B:So the final provocative thought for you to carry into this uncertain year is Are you ready to say hineni?
Speaker B:The rich article we've been discussing today.
Speaker B:Here I am.
Speaker B: of consecrated obedience for: Speaker B:It was written by Glenn BLICKNEY who is the founder of Awake Nations.
Speaker B:He's an apostolic leader, an author, a teacher, really focused on this kind of deep Kingdom theology.
Speaker A:And for those of you who found these insights on Hineni, on Kingdom theology, apostolic insight and just real biblical depth compelling, we really INV you To join Glenn's community.
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Speaker A:It's called Kingdom Architecture.
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Speaker A:It's really the best way to stay connected with his ongoing teaching and writing and his deep dives into these transformative concepts, just like the one we explored today.
Speaker B:And to learn more about Glenn Bleakney's wire ministry, all his resources, and even how you might invite him to come speak, to teach, to preach and equip communities in this idea of Kingdom Reformation at your church or a conference or an event, you can visit awakenations.org and.
Speaker A:We should mention Glenn is available for invitations.
Speaker A:He's passionate about carrying this vital message of posture and consecrated obedience to groups all over the world.
Speaker B:So if this conversation stirred something in you, maybe a desire for greater presence or deeper listening, or just a stronger posture of trust as you face the New year, don't let it stay here as just a concept.
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