Forever is Composed of Now! The Spiritual Art of Living in the Moment ❖ 220

"Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon." - Anne Ruth Schabacher

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• Personal Encounters with God: Learn how to recognize and cherish mystical moments in everyday life.
• Spiritual Tools: Discover keys to living in the present—governing your race, gaining clarity, and focusing forward.
• Scriptural Insights: Deep dives into verses like Habakkuk 2:3 and Revelation 5:8, making ancient truths relevant today.​​

• Authentic Connection: Kristen’s heartfelt stories, relatable reflections, and even the occasional dog snore (Dash) remind you of the beauty in life’s imperfections.
• Practical Encouragement: Assignments and reflections to help you actively engage with the episode’s teachings.

"Each of the keys open a different portion to the aha." - Kristen Wambach

Hey there, Kristen Wambach here, and welcome to the Intentional Now Podcast. Today's show is all about soaking up the present like a sponge, whether it's those awe-inspiring moments that snatch our breath away or those sweet divine encounters that transform our day. We all need a good reminder to stop and smell the roses.
As an author, ordained pastor, and entrepreneur, I know our "now moment" in Him is the root system and sustenance for strength and encouragement. If you're hungry to hear, to feel, and make it personal, this episode is for you.
With our busy lives and endless to-do lists, it's easy to miss out on the good stuff life has to offer. But don't fret! In this episode, we'll be unlocking access to seven secret keys to living in the moment and making every second count. From mindfulness magic to pro tips for enhancing your relationship with Him – Jesus Christ – we’re going to cover it all. So grab your cup of coffee, kick back, and get ready to discover how to live the best life He has for you.

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Unlocking the Seen and Unseen: Keys to Living in the MomentHello and welcome! It is Thursday, and I'm so excited to share this episode with you: "Keys to Live in the Moment, Seen and Unseen." Moments are like the air that fills a room, and the people breathing the same air.
This past week, I encountered a lovely, feel-good mystical moment – the kind where the Lord showed me an "aha!" Prior to that, I had been holding an encounter in my heart for a personal need. When He spoke to me, I didn't understand His words, His imagery, or His thought process. I kind of went, "Huh?" So, I held that encounter. I held His words in my heart with a big question, saying, "Huh? Speak to me, Lord, huh? I don't understand. I know You gave me an answer, but I don't understand."
Has that ever happened to you? We are going to have such a good time today. In this episode, I'm going to discuss the first of three of the seven keys to living in the moment. And yes, we talk about the seen – the practical, you and I here now – and we talk about the unseen, the mystical, and the things that we don't always understand. (That's my dog snoring in the background, by the way! He's part of this broadcast and just made me smile.)
Each of the keys opens a different portion to the "aha!" Sometimes explaining that can be challenging, but Holy Spirit is going to help me. This is a really important part: the Father and I, our desire, is to release what we, Trinity and I, together, release the "aha!" in your own language between you and God. Not from my perspective and my library of language, but from yours. Is that possible? Absolutely.
The moment I'm talking about, it is recorded in time from the unseen to the seen. So you and I are talking about the open door, the sound, or the frequency, and that brings us to a realm on the earth. Its first origin is in Him, and we are in Him. I'm going to talk a lot about being "in Him" today—our oneness. Ooh, it's so good!
So I'm inviting you – this is your assignment, your task – to put on the table during this episode, to lay your "I need to hear from You, God, I don't understand," lay your request on the table before the Lord. And while it's laying there, marinating in the love and the frequency and what we are talking about today, I know that you will hear. That is my heart's desire for you to hear.

Habakkuk 2:3: Wait for It, It Will Not Delay
Let me share this with you from Habakkuk 2:3. We all know it:

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For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end, and it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come and it will not delay.

Amen. As Emily Dixon said, "Forever is composed of now." We're talking today about living in the moment, living in the present.

Revelation 5:8-9: The Hour of Incense
So in Revelation 5:8-9, from The Mirror and some of my added inflections, it shares that same thought about marking and completing time in our understanding:

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So the moment He took the scroll, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, the four living beings, and the 24 elders bowed down in worship in their priestly offices before the Lamb. Each one had a stringed instrument and a typical temple vessel. They each held a broad, shallow saucer, handmade, hand-pounded of pure gold. It was filled with incense. The incense representing your prayers and my prayers, our prayers and our worship. All of us, the saints.
Each prayer eternal, each prayer unlocked by our voice key. Our voice is so important. It unlocked in the realization how innocent and sanctified we are before time. We are in time. We are here now, our future now because of the Lamb. Then the 24 elders carrying gold firepans designed to receive, designed to hold the consummation of the sweetest smelling frankincense, which was ignited from the coals of the brazen altar. The residue of sin itself consumed. If you have ever cleaned a fireplace, a wood burner, this gives us the visual for the soot of sin consumed God. His sacrifice, the Lamb of God marked in time, has just been presented in the outer court and then offered on the golden altar before the veil. We've gathered at the hour of incense, at the hour of our eternal selves, at the hour of gratitude and praise. And we're standing before the Lamb. We're standing in the Lamb and standing as Him before Him as we sing a new song saying, "Here is our proclamation of Your excellence."

You are the only one in the universe entitled to open the scroll and break its seals. We witnessed Your sacrifice, and in Your blood, You've redeemed mankind's authentic identity in God. You purchased my freedom. You bought back my innocence. You were slain as the penalty of my guilt. You were crucified wearing my shame. You rescued me. You rescued us from everything that society could possibly define us in or as. Everything that we could possibly label ourselves as. You brought us out of the confines of our dwarfed mindset. You brought us out of the confines of every limiting belief system spoken to us, about us in our own words, or the words of others.
Every spectrum of people groupings, our tribal identities, our language-specific dialect preferences, our political and religious associations, as well as every form of racial identity—I call that "all"—and You have made us unto and for Yourself. You returned us as a realm of royalty to reign upon the earth as priests. And this is our proclamation of Your excellent worth. You have caused me, You have caused us, to remember who we are, who I am, and whose I am.
Embrace the present. Live in the moment. To live in the present means to let go of the past and not fret about the future. It’s about cherishing the current moment and making the most of today.
I have some more secrets in this for you. Write it on your heart that "every day is the best day in the year." – Ralph Waldo Emerson. Every day is the best day in the year. Smile and laugh. Choose your words. Choose what you listen to. Choose who you listen to. Choose the moments that take your breath away. Choose to govern your day.
I'd like to draw your attention again to the "aha!" moment in question. I gave you an assignment during this episode, between you and Holy Spirit, to lay a "huh" moment—something not understood—to lay it on the table, the desire and the purpose in your heart. Did you lay it there?
Remember, the Father's and my desire is to release what we, Trinity, experience together, but release it in your own language, in your own library of thoughts between you and God, between what I experienced. And now I can say I've experienced it twice. It's multiplied. It's lingering in the air and lingering in our hearts. And I thank you, God, for touching my friend and listener in a language of their own. I look forward to hearing their story.
In Jesus' Name.
​Breathe in. Breathe out. It is extremely warm. Good stuff. Thank you, Jesus.

Key 2: Clarity Now vs. TomorrowNow vs. Tomorrow, from 1 Corinthians 13:12:

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There was a time of suspense when everything we saw was merely mirrored in the prophetic word, like an enigma. But then when I became an adult in the revelation of Christ, now I gaze face to face that I might know me, myself, even as I have always been known.
I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb, Jeremiah.

I gaze face to face that I may know me, I gaze at Him to know me as I have always been known. I'll repeat that from the New Living Translation:

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Now we see things imperfectly like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. Perfect clarity is gazing face to face that I may know me even as I have always been known. All that I know now is partial and it seems incomplete but when I know everything completely just as God knows me completely.

"Jesus lived in His moment so we could live in ours." - Kristen Wambach

Governing our race, reiterating our proclamation of His excellence and His worth. It clears the day. Clarity. When you walk through His sacrifice, you walk through His reflection, through His face.
"Happiness, not in another place, but this place, not for another hour, but for this hour." – Walt Whitman.
When I look into His face, experience His face in all the different and unique ways He shows me Him – and they are unique, and different, and weird! (I love weird!) – it clarifies today. It clarifies the now. It clarifies the living in this moment, in this. But it also lights the flame that burns into tomorrow.

Hebrews 12:2: The Joy Set Before Him
We dive deep into what Jesus said for the joy set before Him, before me. We're making it personal here.

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Looking unto Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame and He sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2.

Let's say it again from The Mirror:

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Look away from the shadow dispensation of the law and the prophets and fix your eyes upon Jesus. He is the source, the sustenance and the conclusion of faith. He saw the joy of mankind's salvation when He braved the cross and despised the shame of it. As the executive authority of God, the right hand of the throne of God, having accomplished purification of sins, He sat down.

Let's unpack that: He sat down with us in Him. He sat down with us in Him. He could see you and I today. The joy of today gave Him the strength to brave the cross because of today, this moment, this breath in the present, in the now. Jesus lived His moment so we could live in ours. And that brought Him joy. It clarifies today, the now, the living in the moment, but it lights a flame that burns into tomorrow. And I'm impassioned with that conquering spirit, a spirit that says, "Yes, I can. I am clear about His love for me. And with that love, I can face anything, accomplish anything, and walk through anything and get to the other side."

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Key 3: Focus Future, Closing Past
I can feel the soapbox coming out. One of my favorite and endearing parts of the Tabernacle is the laver. In the tabernacle, the temple is us. But the laver... think I'm going to blend this story, my favorite parts, our third and our final key for this episode, part one.
Focus Future, Closing Past.
And I love the graphic that I put in the show notes on this particular one. If you're driving or let's put us in the passenger seat, you're riding in the passenger seat and you look in the side mirror that's to the right. You look in, well again, if you live in a country that you're driving on the other side, it could be on the left, but you're looking in the side view mirror. You're looking behind yourself, but you're going forward. Focus future, close the past.
"Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift." – Oprah Winfrey.

Exodus 27:17 & 38: The Bronze BasinBack to the laver, the bronze basin. I love this from Exodus 27:17:

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And the Lord said to Moses, "You are to make a bronze basin with the bronze stand for washing, set it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it with which Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister by presenting an offer made by the fire to the Lord. They must wash with the water so they will not die." Thus they are washed when they wash their hands and feet so they will not die. This shall be a permanent statute for Aaron and his descendants for generations to come. Jesus, our high priest has done this for us. He has washed us so that we will not die.

"I am one of the mirrors reflecting him." - Kristen Wambach

Exodus 38: Next, the craftsman made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting. They brought their mirrors to be added and made the bronze basin, the laver that held the water, their mirrors.

In Exodus 40:30, Moses is responding:

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He placed the basin between the tent of the meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing. And from it Moses, Aaron and his sons washed their hands and feet. They washed whenever they entered the tent of meeting or approached the altar, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Focus future, close past. Remember that side view mirror?
Let me share with you a perspective about the mirrors. We walk through His flesh. We walk through His tabernacle. Those journeys of prayer and inner healing are the journeys He walks with us to bring us out of the death that He completed for us. A journey that we can describe and tell a story and bear witness. That is why we encounter it. We encounter His death on our behalf.
For years, I looked into the mirrors of the tabernacle in prayer and meditation, and I allowed Him to bathe me with His healing waters, with His reflection, His light. I looked into the mirrors and I say reflection with His face looking back at me. I see His face looking back at me.

Final Thoughts: Living in the moment isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence. It’s about recognizing that Jesus lived His moment so you could live yours—fully, joyfully, and with purpose.

So, breathe in. Breathe out. Untie today’s ribbon and discover the sacred gift within.
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See you on the inside, beloved. 💕

"The Father and I, our desire is to release what we, Trinity and I, together, to release the aha and release it in your own language between you and God." - Kristen Wambach

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