Launch Out Into the Deep and Let Down Your Net!

 Through spoken word, gospel-inspired singing, Scripture, and sacred music, this meditation reminds you that God is not through with you yet. Your life still matters. His gift still lives in you. His dream for your life is still waiting to blossom and bloom. Launch Out Into the Deep and Let Down Your Net is a Sacred Soul Meditation created to encourage weary hearts to trust the voice of Jesus and move forward in faith. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Launch out into the deep and let down your net. A sacred soul meditation written by Reverend Deloris Marie Foster.

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Launch out into the deed. Let down your net. Launch out into the deed.

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Let down your net.

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Launch out into the deep. Let down your net.

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Oh beloved. Can you hear the loving voice of Jesus calling to you today?

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Launch out into the deep.

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Let down your net. Perhaps you have fished all night. Perhaps you have worked, prayed, served, believed, yet your nets seem empty. Perhaps criticism wounded your heart. Perhaps disappointment convinced you that your labor was in vain. Or perhaps you never laid down your tools at all. You simply grew weary. Weary from the past. Weary from waiting. Weary from wondering. If what you were doing still matter. Listen carefully. God is not through with you yet. So please have patience with yourself. His gift still lives in you. His dream for your life is still tapping at the door of your heart. Waiting to blossom. Waiting to bloom. So launch out into the deep, let down your net. Pick up your tools again. Don't give in. Love again, believe again, be not weary, and well do it. For in your season you shall reap. If you faint not, launch out into the deep, let down your net.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

Oh beloved, your best days are still before you, your life still matters. Jesus is calling you not to stay on the shore, but to launch out into deeper waters. The disciples had fished all night and caught nothing. Yet when they obeyed the voice of Jesus, their empty nets became overflowing nets. So do not measure tomorrow. By yesterday's emptiness, measure it. By today's obedience.

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Launch out into the deep.

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Let down your net.

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The good Lord has placed within you. Waiting for your kindness.

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Waiting for your presence.

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Waiting for your song. Waiting for me. Just show with the gifts that only you can give. There comes a time when you must stop worrying about the harvest. And simply kindergarten. The good Lord has given you. You prepare the soil. You plant the seed. Launch out into the deep. Let down your net.

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God brings the increase. Do not allow fear to silence your voice. Don't let disappointment bury your dream.

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Refuse to let weariness steal your hope. Keep walking. Keep believing. Keep casting your net into the hearts of others. Keep doing the work the good Lord has given you to do. And one day you will say, I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. For your labor is not in vain. In the Lord, beloved. You are not responsible for the harvest. You are responsible for planting the seed.

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Do the work. Give it to the world. Leave the miracle to God.

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Launch out into the deep. Let down your debt. Launch out into the deep.