WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.840 Greetings. 2 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:04.400 Greetings, Prosper Women. 3 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:08.840 And did you just start the recording, Earlene? 4 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:09.600 Beautiful. 5 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:10.400 OK. 6 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:11.800 I had to go find it yesterday. 7 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:13.120 You sent it to the cloud. 8 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:14.280 And so thank you. 9 00:00:14.280 --> 00:00:14.800 Thank you. 10 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:15.920 I'm glad it's there. 11 00:00:15.920 --> 00:00:17.400 Love it. 12 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:18.320 All right. 13 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:21.480 Ladies, I am so excited. 14 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:26.480 I think that, in my opinion, I've loved every single day. 15 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:29.040 And we've built line upon line. 16 00:00:29.040 --> 00:00:31.720 And they're all super significant, right? 17 00:00:31.720 --> 00:00:35.200 I mean, starting with day one, if we're not 18 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:37.320 partnering with God, if we're not 19 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:41.040 knowing how to hear the voice of God 20 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:44.520 and have divine appointments, have divine direction, 21 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.720 have divine provision, walk in the miraculous, 22 00:00:48.720 --> 00:00:51.040 see miracles in the marketplace. 23 00:00:51.040 --> 00:00:53.400 If we don't have that, then we're 24 00:00:53.400 --> 00:00:56.080 kind of like the Bible describes the tree that's 25 00:00:56.080 --> 00:00:59.160 not connected to the branch, right? 26 00:00:59.160 --> 00:01:00.800 Jesus said, I'm the vine. 27 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:02.400 You are the branches. 28 00:01:02.400 --> 00:01:06.080 And we are meant to be so interconnected. 29 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:10.720 In fact, that was one of Jesus's last prayers. 30 00:01:10.720 --> 00:01:13.840 Father, let them be one. 31 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:17.120 Let them know, just like I'm in you and you're in me 32 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:21.560 and I'm in them, help us to understand, right? 33 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.400 So we opened with the partner with God in business. 34 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.520 And so deliberately so, because I think apart from God, 35 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:30.120 we're nothing. 36 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:32.120 We're like that branch that is cut off. 37 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:35.160 What life does a branch have cut off from the vine? 38 00:01:35.160 --> 00:01:36.880 None, you know? 39 00:01:36.880 --> 00:01:39.240 And we run out of juice. 40 00:01:39.240 --> 00:01:41.440 If we're relying on our own willpower, 41 00:01:41.440 --> 00:01:44.800 on our own strength, on our own wisdom, 42 00:01:44.800 --> 00:01:47.920 well, what we have has gotten us this far. 43 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.320 It's not going to get us further, right? 44 00:01:50.320 --> 00:01:52.960 So day one about partnering with God, 45 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:56.640 go back and listen to that super significant. 46 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:02.600 Then we moved into day two that, of course, partnering with God. 47 00:02:02.600 --> 00:02:06.000 But there's this view out there. 48 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:10.440 So often, people just say, well, I'm just waiting on God. 49 00:02:10.440 --> 00:02:14.440 There's this, I call it the bus stop philosophy, right? 50 00:02:14.440 --> 00:02:16.000 They're just parked at the bus stop 51 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.040 waiting for the bus to take them to heaven. 52 00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:20.640 And that's when everything's going to happen. 53 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:22.240 And they're not living now. 54 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:30.120 And we saw, I got feedback that understanding that there's 55 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.280 God's part, and there's our part. 56 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:36.120 And God has called us to be transformed 57 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:38.600 by the renewing of our mind. 58 00:02:38.600 --> 00:02:40.800 We choose our thoughts. 59 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:44.360 God doesn't take over your brain and make you into a robot. 60 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:45.800 We choose our thoughts. 61 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:48.280 We choose our words. 62 00:02:48.320 --> 00:02:53.360 We choose to learn, to grow, to renew. 63 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.840 And so there's God's part, and there's our part. 64 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:57.160 And it's a divine dance. 65 00:02:57.160 --> 00:02:59.120 It's a divine partnership. 66 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:03.120 And so day two, learning how to renew our mind. 67 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:08.360 And this is a moment-by-moment, day-by-day journey, right? 68 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:15.480 And then learning how to open the flow and activate. 69 00:03:15.480 --> 00:03:19.040 We have to understand that this world, the way 70 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:22.920 that God created the planet, there's basic laws. 71 00:03:22.920 --> 00:03:26.920 And those laws are cover to cover in scripture, right? 72 00:03:26.920 --> 00:03:30.360 And so we learn about sowing and reaping. 73 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:33.760 And we learn that if we sow sparingly, we reap sparingly. 74 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:36.920 And we sow abundantly, we reap abundantly. 75 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:40.120 And often that's used in church in the context 76 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:41.720 of giving money and tithing. 77 00:03:41.720 --> 00:03:46.920 But no, no, no, this is a basic principle of life, right? 78 00:03:46.920 --> 00:03:51.240 And so if you're trying to grow an apple tree, 79 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:54.000 don't plant a corn seed, right? 80 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:56.440 And there's basic principles. 81 00:03:56.440 --> 00:03:58.280 And we nurture the seeds. 82 00:03:58.280 --> 00:03:59.560 We get rid of the weeds. 83 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:00.440 We water. 84 00:04:00.440 --> 00:04:02.360 We add fertilizer. 85 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:08.080 Like everything in nature is a parable, right, of our life. 86 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:11.200 And so there's ways that we open the flow. 87 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:13.720 If you've been constipated, coagulated, 88 00:04:13.720 --> 00:04:17.160 whether it be physically, spiritually, relationally, 89 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:22.400 emotionally, there's things you can do to activate the flow. 90 00:04:22.400 --> 00:04:25.520 It's like the old pumps, the old well, right? 91 00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:27.800 You had to get it primed. 92 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:31.000 You had to start the process, right? 93 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:35.240 Or any of you that have had to, I hope you didn't. 94 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:38.560 But I remember being young and when 95 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:40.400 you ran out of gas in your gas tank 96 00:04:40.400 --> 00:04:42.000 that you didn't have the dollar that it 97 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.000 took to fill your gas tank, right? 98 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.440 And any of you had to siphon, you know? 99 00:04:46.440 --> 00:04:48.560 And you had to like suck on the gas 100 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:50.520 and move it over and not get it in your mouth. 101 00:04:50.520 --> 00:04:52.440 Hopefully, you weren't stupid like some of us. 102 00:04:52.440 --> 00:04:56.000 But anyway, you know, there's this principle 103 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:58.880 that you've got to activate the flow, right? 104 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:01.040 So we really. 105 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.000 So all of that to say, we've covered some really powerful ground. 106 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:14.000 We talked about creating space and how clutter, physical, emotional, spiritual clutter keeps us from advancing. 107 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:23.000 And today, I believe, is one of the most important days because we're talking about your identity. 108 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:29.000 Now, identity is really interesting. 109 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:41.000 It's a concept of how you see yourself, what you believe about yourself, what you believe you can do, what you believe that you can't do. 110 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:46.000 So it's a combination of your belief of how you see yourself. 111 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:55.000 And how many of you know that that can get really twisted and it doesn't line up with how God sees us, right? 112 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:58.000 And so we're going to look at that. 113 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:02.000 And it's also the standards that you're setting. 114 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.000 What is your floor? What is your minimum? 115 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.000 Because you're getting what you're settling for. 116 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:13.000 You are at the income level that you are willing to settle for. 117 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.000 It's like a thermostat. 118 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.000 If you get below that, you will not tolerate. 119 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:20.000 Whatever your floor is, you won't tolerate it. 120 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.000 And you will get out there and make it happen to get it back there. 121 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:24.000 It's like a thermostat. 122 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.000 It goes below the temperature you have it set. 123 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.000 Heater's going to kick on and get it there. 124 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:34.000 But on the other hand, it's adjusting your ceiling. 125 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:38.000 Adjusting your ceiling of what you believe is possible. 126 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:43.000 And that is setting the future self. 127 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:45.000 So there's some really classic examples. 128 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:47.000 And then we're going to pray. 129 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:48.000 We're going to dive in. 130 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.000 We've got a lot of ground to cover. 131 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:56.000 But I want you to think of things that people say or how they see themselves. 132 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:02.000 So, for example, maybe they see themselves as a smoker. 133 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:04.000 It's just part of their identity. 134 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:05.000 I've always been a smoker. 135 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:06.000 I'm a smoker. 136 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.000 I'm not going to stop anytime soon. 137 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:14.000 So if they go to quit smoking, even if they quit for a week or two or a month or two, 138 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:19.000 they're going to go back because their basic identity, they see themselves. 139 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:21.000 Now, you can apply this to anything. 140 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:30.000 If you see yourself as being stupid or see yourself as not being successful or seeing yourself, 141 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.000 hey, my family's never had money. 142 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:34.000 I come from a long line of people. 143 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:36.000 We just don't have money. 144 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:43.000 Or maybe you can see yourself as an addict. 145 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.000 And I have mixed feelings about that. 146 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:52.000 I come from a long line of addicts, mothers, grandmothers on both sides, brothers, sisters. 147 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:59.000 I've been around the struggles of addiction all my life. 148 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:04.000 I struggle with opening every day saying, I am an addict. 149 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.000 I am an alcoholic. 150 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:13.000 I struggle with putting, after the words, I am the name of God, something and tying myself. 151 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:18.000 Now, I understand for them, that becomes a very important. 152 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.000 And I love the program. 153 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.000 I love the steps. 154 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:26.000 I love the biblical ones as well. 155 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.000 It's helped so many people get out of addiction. 156 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:34.000 I'm in no way in any place to judge anything about that. 157 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:44.000 But I've always had a little bell go off to continuously repeat, after the most powerful words, something that maybe you don't want to be. 158 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:45.000 Right? 159 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:52.000 And so it begs the question, are we something like stagnant? 160 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.000 Are we something? 161 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.000 Right? 162 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:12.000 Or is there something called emotional flexibility or mental flexibility that actually we have the ability to change who we are and who we see ourselves as? 163 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:24.000 And I think that the jumps in psychology right now, the jumps in psychology have opened whole new doors of possibility, in my opinion. 164 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:25.000 Right? 165 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:31.000 If you were like me, you probably were taught, you know, my master's was in counseling psychology. 166 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:32.000 Right? 167 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:35.000 And even in high school, I was taking psychology classes. 168 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.000 I was always fascinated. 169 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:38.000 Right? 170 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:45.000 And so we were very influenced, you know, Freud and Erickson and all of them. 171 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:58.000 And so much of what we inherited as psychology has the idea that your past has made you who you are today. 172 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.000 And so we're taught to do all kinds of things. 173 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.000 kinds of inner child work and past regression, whatever. 174 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.200 And the idea is we're trying to go back and heal the past. 175 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:09.680 We're trying to heal the trauma. 176 00:10:09.680 --> 00:10:13.280 Because somehow, if we can make the past better, 177 00:10:13.280 --> 00:10:16.160 our current life will be better. 178 00:10:16.160 --> 00:10:20.840 And so we tend to be very fast, very past focused often 179 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:23.360 because of this psychology. 180 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:28.560 Newer, newer positive psychology, newer research 181 00:10:28.560 --> 00:10:31.560 says, actually, that's not the case. 182 00:10:31.560 --> 00:10:36.400 That who you are today is framing 183 00:10:36.400 --> 00:10:38.400 how you look at your past. 184 00:10:38.400 --> 00:10:44.080 Your present is shaping your past, OK? 185 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:48.800 Meaning you have the ability to go back and reframe 186 00:10:48.800 --> 00:10:54.280 how you view and what you attribute to your past. 187 00:10:54.280 --> 00:10:57.600 Because the truth is, the past is gone. 188 00:10:57.600 --> 00:10:59.240 It's completely gone. 189 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:02.360 And the interesting thing is we have a distorted memory. 190 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:07.080 We remember the past very differently, OK? 191 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:11.840 And so when we go to think about the past in this present time, 192 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.680 we actually reconstruct it based on who we are now. 193 00:11:16.680 --> 00:11:22.520 And so knowing that, you can not be driven. 194 00:11:22.520 --> 00:11:25.080 You can make your past an asset. 195 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:27.000 You can make your past something 196 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.040 that you're very thankful for. 197 00:11:29.040 --> 00:11:33.760 And that doesn't mean that it was roses and lollipops 198 00:11:33.760 --> 00:11:35.160 and unicorns, OK? 199 00:11:35.160 --> 00:11:37.600 We've been, I know many of you, we've 200 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.680 been through some tough stuff. 201 00:11:40.680 --> 00:11:45.560 I'm not denying that that impacted us and impacts us. 202 00:11:45.560 --> 00:11:49.560 I'm not denying that it doesn't, OK? 203 00:11:49.560 --> 00:11:52.840 I know what it is to be molested by your father. 204 00:11:52.880 --> 00:11:55.520 I know what it is to see domestic violence. 205 00:11:55.520 --> 00:11:58.600 I've seen a lot, much more than any child 206 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:00.440 should ever have to see. 207 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:03.960 So I'm not negating that it didn't happen. 208 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:07.120 But I am activating our God-given power 209 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:13.160 to choose how I choose to view my past. 210 00:12:13.160 --> 00:12:16.520 Do I look at it as a liability that keeps me tethered? 211 00:12:16.520 --> 00:12:20.040 Or do I look at it as a springboard and a gift? 212 00:12:20.040 --> 00:12:22.200 And I choose the latter. 213 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:24.480 I can use the lessons. 214 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:26.440 I can use the lessons. 215 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.440 I can use the wisdom. 216 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:33.280 I can use those experiences to have more compassion, more 217 00:12:33.280 --> 00:12:35.120 insights, more et cetera. 218 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.920 Are you all following me so far? 219 00:12:37.920 --> 00:12:41.040 This alone, before I even start in prayer, 220 00:12:41.040 --> 00:12:45.040 is laying a foundation for something really significant. 221 00:12:45.040 --> 00:12:49.480 So how many of you, let me get where I can see the chat. 222 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:51.160 I want to see your comments. 223 00:12:51.160 --> 00:12:55.120 Let me go over and grab that so I can see the chat. 224 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:56.680 OK, perfectly. 225 00:12:56.680 --> 00:13:00.240 So I can see the chat. 226 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.040 By the way, if you didn't get the study guide for today 227 00:13:03.040 --> 00:13:04.840 because it just went out this morning, 228 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:07.200 Linda's going to pop the link in the chat 229 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:10.240 so you have the notes for today. 230 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:11.920 They weren't included in the others. 231 00:13:11.920 --> 00:13:14.640 So Linda, if you could put that there. 232 00:13:14.640 --> 00:13:18.720 OK, how many of you put in the chat 233 00:13:18.760 --> 00:13:23.760 feel that you have really changed over the last 10 years? 234 00:13:23.760 --> 00:13:25.400 In other words, who you are today 235 00:13:25.400 --> 00:13:29.880 is very different than who you were 10 years ago. 236 00:13:29.880 --> 00:13:33.400 Put in the chat if you feel that you have greatly 237 00:13:33.400 --> 00:13:36.720 changed over the last 10 years. 238 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:39.400 OK, yes, oh, God, yes. 239 00:13:39.400 --> 00:13:40.640 Yes, I have. 240 00:13:40.640 --> 00:13:44.520 OK, oh, yes, changed so much, so much. 241 00:13:44.520 --> 00:13:48.040 OK, all right, yes, and every decade. 242 00:13:48.760 --> 00:13:50.840 Truly, yes, all right. 243 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:53.360 So why do I ask you that? 244 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:56.680 Because when you realize that you've 245 00:13:56.680 --> 00:13:59.440 changed that much over 10 years, then 246 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.360 you realize you also have the possibility 247 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:06.200 that you can greatly change in the next 10 years. 248 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.200 Now, this is where what I'm teaching today 249 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:11.640 becomes very, very important. 250 00:14:11.640 --> 00:14:15.240 Because what we tend to do is we tend 251 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:19.720 to project that who I am today is how I'm always going to be. 252 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:23.840 And doing that mental exercise of going, 253 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.160 wow, if I change that much over the last 10 years, 254 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:30.000 what's possible over the next 10 years, 20 years, 30 years? 255 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:34.760 And this opens up mental flexibility. 256 00:14:34.760 --> 00:14:37.520 So this opens up. 257 00:14:37.520 --> 00:14:39.160 And by the way, there's two books 258 00:14:39.160 --> 00:14:42.160 you can read that really go into this. 259 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:49.440 And there's some fabulous YouTube, like TEDx talks 260 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:53.320 about what I'm talking about is future self, OK? 261 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:56.400 So I really like Benjamin Hardy, Dr. Benjamin Hardy's 262 00:14:56.400 --> 00:14:58.680 Be Your Future Self Now. 263 00:14:58.680 --> 00:15:00.920 And any. 264 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.240 He also wrote a book called 10x is easier than 2x really good. 265 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:09.240 And he really has a good grasp of he's 266 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:14.520 an organizational psychologist and positive psychologist. 267 00:15:14.520 --> 00:15:15.880 And he's pulled a lot. 268 00:15:15.880 --> 00:15:21.280 If you go onto YouTube and watch 10x, Daniel Gilbert, 269 00:15:21.280 --> 00:15:23.540 there's several people that have really 270 00:15:23.540 --> 00:15:27.320 spoken a lot about this concept of future self. 271 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:32.840 So the idea of future self is that we 272 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:37.360 can, through the power of imagination, 273 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:40.240 tap into our future self. 274 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:42.200 Now, here's my bias. 275 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:43.240 Here's what I think. 276 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.240 Because you know I want to be scriptural. 277 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.000 I tend to line up everything with the word of God 278 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:50.000 to the best of my ability. 279 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:53.840 I don't see a lot in scripture that tells 280 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:56.600 us to go back into our past. 281 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:58.000 I don't see it. 282 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:02.320 I don't see stuff about nurturing our inner child. 283 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:04.480 And I understand it's helped a lot of people heal. 284 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:06.200 But I don't see a lot. 285 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:11.120 But I see a lot in scripture about fixing our mind 286 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.960 on the future, about vision, about future. 287 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:15.640 I see a lot. 288 00:16:15.640 --> 00:16:18.240 And I'm going to share all those scriptures with you. 289 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:21.480 So with that in mind, in the same way 290 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:24.800 that we can in the present, because I believe now 291 00:16:24.800 --> 00:16:27.120 is all we have, every moment, this moment, 292 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:28.040 this is all you have. 293 00:16:28.040 --> 00:16:30.120 This is where prayers are answered, right now, 294 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:31.000 right here. 295 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:32.640 This is where your life changes. 296 00:16:32.640 --> 00:16:33.920 This is where you choose. 297 00:16:33.920 --> 00:16:35.240 This is where you move forward. 298 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:37.240 Right now, it's always, and it's the now. 299 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:39.880 And it's the now, and it's the now, right? 300 00:16:39.880 --> 00:16:43.360 And so we can choose with the now 301 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:46.120 how we're going to view the past, OK? 302 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.880 So it doesn't have a negative charge on us. 303 00:16:49.920 --> 00:16:56.000 And we can choose the now to, by vision, 304 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:59.640 by the power of our God-given image maker, which 305 00:16:59.640 --> 00:17:03.400 is our God-given gift to be able to imagine, 306 00:17:03.400 --> 00:17:10.880 we can tap into imagination and revelation and prayer 307 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:17.680 to get very clear on a future self, on a future self. 308 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:23.520 And the more clarity you have about the future self, 309 00:17:23.520 --> 00:17:27.839 the more you will have, like you do for the inner child work, 310 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:33.920 the more you will have compassion, love, vision, 311 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:37.680 connection with your future self. 312 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:39.800 This is so big. 313 00:17:39.800 --> 00:17:42.160 Because if you're really connected, 314 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:45.120 if you're disconnected, you're like, ah, just live today. 315 00:17:45.120 --> 00:17:46.160 I'll spend all my money. 316 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:49.320 If I'm broke and I don't have a retirement, oh, well. 317 00:17:49.320 --> 00:17:50.920 I'll figure it out when I get there, 318 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:52.600 which is where most people go. 319 00:17:52.600 --> 00:17:54.760 Or, eh, I'll be healthy. 320 00:17:54.760 --> 00:17:58.040 I'll just continue to eat junk and not invest in my health, 321 00:17:58.040 --> 00:18:00.680 and I'll figure it out when I get there. 322 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:05.200 A good thing they've invented, heart surgery or whatever. 323 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:11.600 Because we tend to detach because of the dopamine hits 324 00:18:11.600 --> 00:18:13.640 of, I want instant. 325 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:15.440 And of course, all the marketing, everything 326 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:17.760 has trained us to want instant. 327 00:18:17.760 --> 00:18:20.120 The microwave's not even fast enough. 328 00:18:20.120 --> 00:18:22.920 I don't use microwaves, but we stand in front of it. 329 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:27.640 People who use microwaves just can't go fast enough. 330 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:33.120 So the more we can connect, the more 331 00:18:33.120 --> 00:18:39.000 that we will make choices today that 332 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:43.400 will get us where we really want to be in the future. 333 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:46.400 Put in the chat, if this is eye-opening, 334 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:48.040 if this is making you think. 335 00:18:48.040 --> 00:18:53.080 Because I'm laying a context of, why does identity matter? 336 00:18:53.080 --> 00:18:55.400 And is my identity fixed? 337 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:56.760 Or can I shift it? 338 00:18:56.760 --> 00:18:59.560 And if I shift it, will it produce 339 00:18:59.560 --> 00:19:01.520 a great reward in the future? 340 00:19:01.520 --> 00:19:03.360 Put in the chat or put in the Facebook 341 00:19:03.360 --> 00:19:06.480 if you're on Facebook Live. 342 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:10.480 What comes up for you as I tell you this? 343 00:19:10.520 --> 00:19:13.920 That the fact is we can pull from our future self 344 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:18.560 and make decisions today that will completely 345 00:19:18.560 --> 00:19:21.840 change our success in the course of our future. 346 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:25.600 And so we can continuously tap in. 347 00:19:25.600 --> 00:19:30.440 And I mentioned Dr. Benjamin Hardy. 348 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:31.440 I followed him. 349 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:33.320 I admire him a lot. 350 00:19:33.320 --> 00:19:40.000 And he has teamed up with, no, I can't 351 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:44.280 think of his name right now, Dan Sullivan, isn't it? 352 00:19:44.280 --> 00:19:46.000 Dan Sullivan. 353 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.320 So anyway, in Be Your Future Self, 354 00:19:49.320 --> 00:19:51.120 now, let's see what this says. 355 00:19:51.120 --> 00:19:53.360 OK. 356 00:19:53.360 --> 00:19:55.000 Let's just see what you're writing. 357 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.160 OK, growing awareness that vision 358 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:00.600 is improved with deepening imagination. 359 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.000 what may be absolutely very good working on this. 360 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:08.800 Yes, my future self is not crystal clear. 361 00:20:08.800 --> 00:20:12.480 What is the meditation you used yesterday? 362 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:14.480 Okay, beautiful. 363 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:19.360 Recently read future self now, such great stuff. 364 00:20:19.360 --> 00:20:21.640 Okay, beautiful. 365 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:25.400 All right, so I recommend great reading, 366 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:28.200 putting desires out into the universe. 367 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:32.080 It brings back to you in reality, I've seen this work. 368 00:20:32.080 --> 00:20:34.880 Okay, all right, love your comments. 369 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:39.760 So I like, like I said, Benjamin Hardy, 370 00:20:39.760 --> 00:20:42.560 I really like the model that he's been. 371 00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:45.880 Back in graduate school when he was working 372 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:50.340 on his doctorate, you know, he had really three visions. 373 00:20:50.340 --> 00:20:51.480 One was for his family. 374 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:55.680 He's adopted six children out of the foster care system 375 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:58.160 and raising them and all of that. 376 00:20:59.120 --> 00:21:00.600 And then where he wanted to be financially 377 00:21:00.600 --> 00:21:05.080 and his identity, he saw himself as a best-selling author. 378 00:21:05.080 --> 00:21:10.080 So he, his future self wrote absolute best-selling books. 379 00:21:11.320 --> 00:21:15.480 And so he began, even when he was in graduate school 380 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:19.520 to do the things in the current present 381 00:21:19.520 --> 00:21:22.080 in order to create that. 382 00:21:22.080 --> 00:21:24.160 Well, right now, as far as I know 383 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:26.860 he's got eight best-selling books. 384 00:21:26.860 --> 00:21:29.580 And I don't mean fake best-selling that you go out 385 00:21:29.580 --> 00:21:31.860 and get a bunch of people to buy on the first day. 386 00:21:31.860 --> 00:21:35.480 I mean like millions and millions of copies sold 387 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:38.860 and still continuing to be sold bestseller, okay. 388 00:21:38.860 --> 00:21:43.620 And so this is a powerful concept. 389 00:21:43.620 --> 00:21:48.260 So as we look at today and shaping our identity, 390 00:21:48.260 --> 00:21:51.060 we begin to do that from the context 391 00:21:51.060 --> 00:21:54.100 of who is it that I really desire to be? 392 00:21:54.100 --> 00:21:57.540 Where do I desire to be in 10 years, in 20 years? 393 00:21:57.540 --> 00:22:01.060 Financially, physically, spiritually, relationally. 394 00:22:01.060 --> 00:22:03.380 And the more tapped into that, 395 00:22:03.380 --> 00:22:08.100 so that we begin to shape and take actions today 396 00:22:08.100 --> 00:22:10.960 based on that future self, 397 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:15.140 the more we are going to up-level our future. 398 00:22:15.140 --> 00:22:15.980 Does that make sense? 399 00:22:15.980 --> 00:22:17.900 How many of you are getting this? 400 00:22:17.900 --> 00:22:21.460 Say, aha, type in the chat if this is making sense. 401 00:22:21.460 --> 00:22:23.420 And I'm laying a foundation 402 00:22:23.420 --> 00:22:25.500 of why we're gonna spend so much time 403 00:22:25.500 --> 00:22:27.340 on how are you viewing yourself? 404 00:22:27.340 --> 00:22:28.700 How does God view you? 405 00:22:28.700 --> 00:22:30.540 How do we shift that? 406 00:22:30.540 --> 00:22:33.420 Knowing we can shift our identity 407 00:22:33.420 --> 00:22:36.140 and why we need to shift our identity, okay. 408 00:22:36.140 --> 00:22:38.980 So that's a little of the big picture where we're going. 409 00:22:38.980 --> 00:22:40.940 So let's start with prayer. 410 00:22:40.940 --> 00:22:45.100 And then let's just dive right into the scripture 411 00:22:45.100 --> 00:22:48.220 and the science of all of this. 412 00:22:48.220 --> 00:22:50.260 So Father God, I'm just asking, 413 00:22:50.260 --> 00:22:53.180 I get so excited when I think about 414 00:22:53.180 --> 00:22:57.380 how you have made us in your image. 415 00:22:57.380 --> 00:22:59.420 And I get so excited 416 00:22:59.420 --> 00:23:02.940 that you've given us the ability to transform. 417 00:23:02.940 --> 00:23:05.620 You've given us the ability to be transformed 418 00:23:05.620 --> 00:23:07.420 by the renewing of our mind. 419 00:23:07.420 --> 00:23:10.820 You've given us the ability to grow. 420 00:23:10.820 --> 00:23:13.260 And I'm so thankful for that. 421 00:23:13.260 --> 00:23:15.660 And I'm so thankful for every single person 422 00:23:15.660 --> 00:23:19.980 listening to this live right now or later in the replay. 423 00:23:20.660 --> 00:23:24.940 And I'm asking Lord that whatever they need to hear today 424 00:23:24.940 --> 00:23:26.700 to get a breakthrough. 425 00:23:26.700 --> 00:23:30.020 Lord, you are Jehovah Bel-Perezim, 426 00:23:30.020 --> 00:23:32.260 the God of the breakthrough. 427 00:23:32.260 --> 00:23:36.140 Lord, I'm asking not just for little breakthroughs, 428 00:23:36.140 --> 00:23:38.820 I'm asking for massive breakthroughs. 429 00:23:38.820 --> 00:23:42.100 I'm asking for every single person who's done this series 430 00:23:42.100 --> 00:23:46.660 to make a massive leap, a leap in confidence, 431 00:23:46.660 --> 00:23:48.900 a leap in faith and expectation, 432 00:23:48.900 --> 00:23:50.660 a leap in their skillset, 433 00:23:50.660 --> 00:23:55.660 a leap in stepping into who you've called them to be, 434 00:23:57.220 --> 00:23:59.260 who you see them as. 435 00:23:59.260 --> 00:24:03.140 May a divine alignment take place today 436 00:24:03.140 --> 00:24:07.500 that we begin to see ourselves as you see us. 437 00:24:07.500 --> 00:24:10.180 And Lord, I just ask that the words of my mouth, 438 00:24:10.180 --> 00:24:13.820 the meditation of my heart are pleasing in your sight 439 00:24:13.820 --> 00:24:17.220 and that they are not just words, but they are spirit. 440 00:24:17.260 --> 00:24:19.820 They are life, they are truth, 441 00:24:19.820 --> 00:24:22.300 and that they bring about transformation. 442 00:24:22.300 --> 00:24:25.980 I pray blessings on every single person 443 00:24:25.980 --> 00:24:26.980 listening to this call. 444 00:24:26.980 --> 00:24:29.460 Lord, bless their finances, bless their health, 445 00:24:29.460 --> 00:24:31.620 bless their relationships. 446 00:24:31.620 --> 00:24:35.180 Lord, may everything they put their hand to prosper. 447 00:24:35.180 --> 00:24:38.580 I ask in Jesus' name, amen. 448 00:24:38.580 --> 00:24:40.660 Amen, amen, amen. 449 00:24:40.660 --> 00:24:41.580 Who's ready? 450 00:24:41.580 --> 00:24:44.340 Type ready in the chat. 451 00:24:45.340 --> 00:24:48.860 So I want you to look at, and it's in your study guide. 452 00:24:48.860 --> 00:24:50.740 If you didn't get your study guide, 453 00:24:50.740 --> 00:24:52.340 just in case anybody came late, 454 00:24:52.340 --> 00:24:54.340 go ahead and pop it in there one more time, 455 00:24:54.340 --> 00:24:56.660 Linda, for the study guide. 456 00:24:56.660 --> 00:24:59.740 So you'll have all of these notes, all of these verses. 457 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:07.320 are for you. The Lord reminded me last time I taught this, maybe six months ago, about 458 00:25:07.320 --> 00:25:16.360 a verse in Numbers 1333. Numbers 1333, look at that, three threes, divine perfection, 459 00:25:16.360 --> 00:25:23.320 right? Numbers 1333. And it's a fascinating, sometimes in scripture, there's like these 460 00:25:23.320 --> 00:25:29.720 fascinating little verses that often get overlooked that are just like meaty and rich, okay? 461 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:37.960 You remember that I talked, I think yesterday, about the spies that went into the promised land 462 00:25:38.760 --> 00:25:44.840 and they came out and they had a report and they were talking about the giants and I talked about 463 00:25:44.840 --> 00:25:50.760 anytime we go into, take more territory, go into our promised land, we too are going to face 464 00:25:51.560 --> 00:25:56.280 whatever area we need to grow and stretch. We're going to face giants, might be financial giants, 465 00:25:56.280 --> 00:26:04.920 might be health, physical giants. So they faced the giants, right? And it says in this verse, 466 00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:18.200 it says, there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak. And look at this, we were like grasshoppers 467 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:32.200 in our own sight. And so we were in their sight. This is such a profound statement. 468 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:38.840 So their identity at that moment, how did they see themselves? They saw themselves as small, 469 00:26:38.840 --> 00:26:45.400 as weak, as helpless, as hopeless, as no match for the giants. And they used the metaphor, 470 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:51.480 we saw ourselves like, can you imagine? Humans made in the image of God, walking in the spirit 471 00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:59.480 of God, describing themselves as a grasshopper. How often do we demean ourself and who God made 472 00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:07.960 us to be when we talk about ourselves? So it says, we were like grasshoppers in our own sight. 473 00:27:08.840 --> 00:27:17.560 And so we were in their sight. This is very profound because this is exactly how it works. 474 00:27:19.080 --> 00:27:26.280 However, you're seeing yourself is how you're showing up and it's how others are seeing you. 475 00:27:27.560 --> 00:27:34.840 It has this effect, right? And so I love that scripture just put that right there. So, 476 00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:40.920 when we look at this, we've got three dimensions. We've got how we see ourself. 477 00:27:42.040 --> 00:27:46.840 And so how do you see, what are the things that maybe you've said over the years about yourself? 478 00:27:46.840 --> 00:27:52.360 Well, I'm not the sharpest tool in the toolbox or well, I'm not good with numbers. Well, 479 00:27:52.360 --> 00:27:57.720 I'm just not good at business. Well, I'm just not good at sales. Well, I'm not a salesperson. 480 00:27:57.960 --> 00:28:03.400 I'm just not, you know, right. What are you even saying about yourself that you see yourself like 481 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:09.320 a grasshopper? And then on the other hand, what area have you really grown that you just go, 482 00:28:09.320 --> 00:28:18.680 you know what? I am a teacher in the body of Christ. I'm an evangelist. I'm called to teach. 483 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:25.080 I know I've got a book in me. I've got so much to share. So you've got, number one, 484 00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:33.960 you've got number one, how you're seeing yourself. Do you see yourself limited or do you see yourself 485 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:44.600 infinite with infinite possibilities? How? And so this is where prayer, meditation, journaling, 486 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:53.880 asking God that you begin to tap into your future self. And then I play a game with it. 487 00:28:54.600 --> 00:29:01.720 I actually play a game. I'll be out shopping and I'll be like looking at clothes and it's 488 00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:09.320 like with my future self. So, so, so there's probably pictures in your imagination. Okay. 489 00:29:09.320 --> 00:29:15.480 That you have of your future self. Okay. I have a picture coming from a God given vision 490 00:29:16.120 --> 00:29:22.680 of retreats properties that I own on four different continents for four different purposes. 491 00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:33.240 You know, a health retreat in Belize and a trauma horse retreat in Columbia. Okay. And a business 492 00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:39.800 retreat in the vineyards of Italy and a, and a kind of a combination of those in Northern California 493 00:29:39.800 --> 00:29:48.600 on the, on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. And, and I, I go over that vision very often and there's 494 00:29:48.600 --> 00:29:55.080 pictures in my mind. Okay. And one of the things is I want an absolute ease of travel 495 00:29:55.080 --> 00:29:59.800 that the whole experience for them as they step into the fullness. 496 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.900 um that from the time that my private plane actually picks them up and that they're riding 497 00:30:05.900 --> 00:30:09.860 and I might be riding with them if I feel like going to pick them up and we're riding 498 00:30:09.860 --> 00:30:16.980 in the private plane on the way to get you know to get over there and I've got the vision 499 00:30:16.980 --> 00:30:22.180 of what the property looks like and what we're doing and so I could go on and on I can describe 500 00:30:22.180 --> 00:30:27.700 this in great detail and this is what I recommend that you do that you you use your God given 501 00:30:27.700 --> 00:30:34.160 image maker to begin to design your future right but as I'm as I'm doing that and I've 502 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:40.520 seen beyond that that 90% of those profits go to the babies and the mamas of the land 503 00:30:40.520 --> 00:30:46.440 so I see the healing centers I see the micro lending I see the the the schools that are 504 00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:52.280 truly teaching and raising up these kids for their future and teaching all these things 505 00:30:52.280 --> 00:31:00.280 that I'm teaching here so so I see this whole vision right and and I see that to do that 506 00:31:00.280 --> 00:31:06.800 you know I'm a billionaire and I see the amount of money and and the one of the largest philanthropists 507 00:31:06.800 --> 00:31:12.520 in the world and so as I'm doing that and for you it might be that you're earning your 508 00:31:12.520 --> 00:31:16.920 first six figures it might be you know you're a millionaire whatever it is but now when 509 00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:25.680 you go to pick out clothes you will say would my future self wear this when you go to do 510 00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:31.040 things with your time with my future self would my future self spend two hours a day 511 00:31:31.040 --> 00:31:38.400 scrolling would my future self watch this you know I used to do this with my kids all 512 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:42.900 the time they'd they'd want to watch a movie and we didn't have TV and I kind of watched 513 00:31:42.900 --> 00:31:47.380 over the movies they watched and and they'd say something to me they say mom it's not 514 00:31:47.380 --> 00:31:51.860 that bad I don't know if any of your kids say that it's not that bad and I think we 515 00:31:51.860 --> 00:31:59.300 say that as grown kids right it's not that bad you know and I used to say is it making 516 00:31:59.300 --> 00:32:06.460 you more or less of the person that you desire to be right and so we've got to stop again 517 00:32:06.460 --> 00:32:11.560 I talked about floor and ceiling you know what's your base standards how you will spend 518 00:32:11.560 --> 00:32:16.560 your time what's your base standards about the value of your health and your energy and 519 00:32:16.560 --> 00:32:22.600 having a sharp mind what's your base standards about the people you'll allow into your inner 520 00:32:22.600 --> 00:32:29.160 circle what's your what's your base standards on how how little you'll let yourself earn 521 00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:37.280 how how broke will you allow yourself to be before enough is enough right so so this tapping 522 00:32:37.280 --> 00:32:43.280 into the future self so that you're not seeing yourself you know as a grasshopper but you're 523 00:32:43.280 --> 00:32:47.840 seeing yourself as powerful and so everything when you go to eat with my future self like 524 00:32:47.840 --> 00:32:53.600 this is this making me more or less of the person what you know when you multiply these 525 00:32:53.600 --> 00:32:59.280 donuts for the next 20 years what's going to be the cost of that right um that's why 526 00:32:59.280 --> 00:33:04.120 I don't have sugar in the house you won't find sugar in my house um I've got pure maple 527 00:33:04.120 --> 00:33:11.000 syrup I've got some amazing raw organic honey that Tracy gives me she's on the call um you 528 00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:19.600 know I don't have that because it doesn't fit my future self now I'm so grateful beyond 529 00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:27.800 grateful that I adopted that thinking when I was 17 years old so I have truly cared for 530 00:33:27.800 --> 00:33:36.040 this body in my food choices and my supplements in my exercise and I believe that it's made 531 00:33:36.040 --> 00:33:42.320 me when I get tested it's made me physically 20 years younger than I am okay um so it has 532 00:33:42.320 --> 00:33:48.520 a payoff and I know that's going to compound as I go into the next decade or two of my 533 00:33:48.520 --> 00:33:56.520 life and I plan and I say things like my future self I want to be dancing at 120 um you know 534 00:33:56.520 --> 00:34:01.560 what are you saying about yourself well I'm just old you know I can't do those things 535 00:34:01.560 --> 00:34:09.639 anymore BS there's 80 year olds 90 year olds 100 year olds any of you watched what's his 536 00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:14.199 name grandpa something the black guy that's always on social media that pops up I don't 537 00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:18.480 know if he pops up on yours but he's out there boogying and dancing at 100 years old you 538 00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:25.920 know um so this is so important you know I say age is just a number yes but do you 539 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:32.120 say every day I'm getting stronger and healthier and do you envision what do you envision for 540 00:34:32.120 --> 00:34:37.600 yourself do you you know I've had people put word curses on me you have to really guard 541 00:34:37.600 --> 00:34:44.080 the words that you receive I've had people say things about um when they're mad especially 542 00:34:44.080 --> 00:34:48.639 my children about what the end of my life is going to look like and you've got to be 543 00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:52.800 able to block that out and say that doesn't line up with what the bible says that doesn't 544 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:58.200 line up with what God says that doesn't line up with my vision for the future self no no 545 00:34:58.200 --> 00:35:00.040 I will not be sick and lonely 546 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.000 lonely and broken, nobody helping me, 547 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:03.940 and all of those stories, right? 548 00:35:03.940 --> 00:35:07.720 So we've got to look at what is the story 549 00:35:07.720 --> 00:35:09.000 that you're telling yourself? 550 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.240 What is your current identity, okay? 551 00:35:12.240 --> 00:35:14.680 And maybe take just a second right now, 552 00:35:14.680 --> 00:35:18.400 reflection in your study guide, just a second. 553 00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:21.000 When you look in the mirror, 554 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:24.260 or when you talk to yourself right now, 555 00:35:25.160 --> 00:35:27.480 how do you typically, and be honest, 556 00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:29.240 don't try to come up with an answer 557 00:35:29.240 --> 00:35:30.680 that you think will sound good. 558 00:35:30.680 --> 00:35:33.720 This is about being real and about creating change. 559 00:35:33.720 --> 00:35:37.880 So how do you, what do you say? 560 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:41.520 What is how you see yourself? 561 00:35:43.240 --> 00:35:44.840 Write a little note. 562 00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:46.920 If you want to put it in the chat and share it, 563 00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:48.840 that makes everybody richer. 564 00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:52.080 You know, how, honestly, honestly, 565 00:35:52.080 --> 00:35:54.680 do you look in the mirror and you are so fat? 566 00:35:54.680 --> 00:35:55.920 You are getting so old. 567 00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:57.880 You are so stupid. 568 00:35:57.880 --> 00:35:59.160 Why do you always do stupid? 569 00:36:00.080 --> 00:36:01.040 Do you do this? 570 00:36:01.040 --> 00:36:03.880 Or have you broken through that, 571 00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:08.040 that you honor and respect who God made you to be? 572 00:36:08.040 --> 00:36:11.200 And so I'd love to, 573 00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:17.140 Bell Pera's, oh, Bell Pera's, okay. 574 00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:19.160 I'll try. 575 00:36:19.160 --> 00:36:20.680 I may need to look it up for you. 576 00:36:20.680 --> 00:36:25.440 Jehovah, I think it's, I don't know if it's B-A-L or B-A-L. 577 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:26.840 It might be B-A-L. 578 00:36:27.720 --> 00:36:31.320 Pera, I think it's Perazim. 579 00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:32.360 I'd have to look it up. 580 00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:33.680 It's a Hebrew word. 581 00:36:33.680 --> 00:36:35.400 That's as close as I can come. 582 00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:36.400 You guys could find it. 583 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:39.480 Jehovah Bell Perazim means God of the breakthrough. 584 00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:43.000 Okay, I say age is just an, okay, who else? 585 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:45.160 Anybody, no comments there. 586 00:36:45.160 --> 00:36:47.720 So truth, when you look in the mirror, 587 00:36:47.720 --> 00:36:49.280 what do you say to yourself? 588 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:53.080 Okay, when you talk to yourself, 589 00:36:53.080 --> 00:36:54.760 what do you say to yourself? 590 00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:00.760 And awareness is the first step of transformation, right? 591 00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:05.440 I had a person that came to me for possible coaching 592 00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:09.840 and she was talking so much about abuse. 593 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:14.840 And so she was, she said, you know, my parents abused me. 594 00:37:15.680 --> 00:37:17.080 My father abused me. 595 00:37:17.080 --> 00:37:18.960 She said, then I got a divorce. 596 00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:21.480 My husband abused me. 597 00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:25.400 And then she said, my boss has been abusing me. 598 00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:27.200 When she got to about the third one 599 00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:29.120 and she said, my neighbors are abusing me. 600 00:37:29.120 --> 00:37:32.200 I, okay, you know, Houston, we got a problem here, right? 601 00:37:32.200 --> 00:37:34.120 Everybody around you is abusing. 602 00:37:34.120 --> 00:37:35.520 So I said to her, 603 00:37:35.520 --> 00:37:37.880 cause I know our outer world is a reflection 604 00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:40.600 of our inner world as within so without. 605 00:37:40.600 --> 00:37:45.600 And I said, tell me, how are you abusing yourself? 606 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:48.960 And she says, oh no, no, no, no. 607 00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:50.280 I'm not abusing myself. 608 00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:52.600 No, I take, I exercise every day. 609 00:37:52.600 --> 00:37:54.160 I don't abuse myself. 610 00:37:54.160 --> 00:37:56.240 And I said, this much abuse. 611 00:37:56.240 --> 00:37:57.920 I said, how are you abusing yourself? 612 00:37:57.920 --> 00:37:59.160 No, I'm telling you, I don't. 613 00:37:59.160 --> 00:38:01.160 I really, I love myself. 614 00:38:01.160 --> 00:38:04.600 I said, when you look in the mirror, what do you say? 615 00:38:04.600 --> 00:38:07.040 And she said, oh, it just came out of her mouth. 616 00:38:07.040 --> 00:38:09.360 She says, oh, I really beat myself up. 617 00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:12.280 I said, that would be abuse, right? 618 00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:14.680 And so sometimes we don't have the awareness. 619 00:38:14.680 --> 00:38:17.400 And so a lot of times it starts by just learning 620 00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:20.880 to listen to yourself, to think about your thinking, 621 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:23.000 to think about your inner narrative, 622 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:25.600 to think about the words that come out of your mouth. 623 00:38:25.600 --> 00:38:27.920 Do you say things like I'm sick and tired? 624 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:31.600 Don't say things like that after the word I am, right? 625 00:38:31.600 --> 00:38:35.880 And so I see my beauty first, not my flaws. 626 00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:38.480 I don't use the word old. 627 00:38:39.600 --> 00:38:42.600 I charge 25 cents when someone says it. 628 00:38:42.600 --> 00:38:44.160 Oh, that's pretty fun. 629 00:38:44.160 --> 00:38:46.440 Victoria, that's pretty fun. 630 00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:49.800 Tracy, I'm seeing myself more and more 631 00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:52.240 as who I am in spirit. 632 00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:56.880 In heaven, I can't read it. 633 00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:59.640 It says heaven, but here. 634 00:38:59.640 --> 00:39:01.800 So are you saying that you're not waiting for heaven, 635 00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:04.160 but you're starting to see who you are here and now? 636 00:39:04.160 --> 00:39:05.320 Is that what you're saying? 637 00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:07.240 Okay, I love that. 638 00:39:07.240 --> 00:39:11.680 Okay, so we've got like how we see ourselves 639 00:39:11.680 --> 00:39:16.640 and then we've got how others see us, 640 00:39:16.640 --> 00:39:18.520 which by the way, a lot of what you're doing, 641 00:39:18.520 --> 00:39:22.480 you're training others how, okay? 642 00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:25.880 And so a lot of times when I'm coaching, 643 00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:29.600 I see that come out, that the way. 644 00:39:29.600 --> 00:39:32.040 I had someone just yesterday, 645 00:39:32.040 --> 00:39:33.360 and there's no judgment in this. 646 00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:36.000 We all do this, but it's just like, again, 647 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.240 awareness is the first step to transformation. 648 00:39:39.240 --> 00:39:43.360 And so she was going to be adding Coach Accountable, 649 00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:46.400 which is the, you guys that have done anything with me, 650 00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:48.360 you've joined my coaching portal. 651 00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:52.120 And so I do everything from that coaching portal. 652 00:39:52.120 --> 00:39:54.800 It's got my client management, it's how I bill, 653 00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:58.840 it's how I create links, I can have courses, 654 00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:00.040 all that stuff, right? 655 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.200 And so she was adding that, and she phrased it. 656 00:40:05.200 --> 00:40:07.760 She says, how in the world am I going 657 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:11.360 to be able to introduce my current clients to that? 658 00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:15.040 And it was almost like she saw it as a deficit. 659 00:40:15.040 --> 00:40:17.040 Like she was really going to hurt her clients, 660 00:40:17.040 --> 00:40:19.080 making them move from Google Drive 661 00:40:19.080 --> 00:40:22.520 or whatever she's on over to this. 662 00:40:22.520 --> 00:40:25.200 And I could see room for shift immediately. 663 00:40:25.200 --> 00:40:28.000 You see, how we see things is how we're speaking them 664 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:29.840 and portraying them and creating them. 665 00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:32.200 So looking at it as, oh, I'm asking 666 00:40:32.200 --> 00:40:35.560 them to move, to do things different, making their life, 667 00:40:35.560 --> 00:40:36.880 there's going to be friction. 668 00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:38.560 Like looking at it as a negative. 669 00:40:38.560 --> 00:40:40.960 And I'm like, are you kidding? 670 00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:42.880 I'm like, do you realize the value 671 00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:44.800 you're adding for your clients? 672 00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:47.520 I'd get in there and show them all that they can do, 673 00:40:47.520 --> 00:40:49.840 how they can have an online journal, 674 00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:53.320 how they can create metrics for themselves with reminder. 675 00:40:53.480 --> 00:40:59.920 I'd show them how much better is what you're offering. 676 00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:02.040 And the lights just went on. 677 00:41:02.040 --> 00:41:03.640 And it became very easy. 678 00:41:03.640 --> 00:41:06.400 So I think about myself. 679 00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:11.160 When I went from being a founder of a international nutritional 680 00:41:11.160 --> 00:41:14.320 network marketing company, and I asked the Lord 681 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:16.720 after my divorce, and what am I going to do, 682 00:41:16.720 --> 00:41:18.640 and what's my future self look like, 683 00:41:18.640 --> 00:41:21.280 and I knew I'd always loved mentoring women 684 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:23.600 and I'd been in business for decades, 685 00:41:23.600 --> 00:41:26.360 and so I really saw the opportunity for coaching. 686 00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:28.440 Many of you have done this. 687 00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:33.200 But many of you, how you see yourself, your identity, 688 00:41:33.200 --> 00:41:37.560 you still haven't seen yourself as a coach 689 00:41:37.560 --> 00:41:41.800 or as a powerful coach, as a transformation agent, 690 00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:44.440 as a gift to the coaching space. 691 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.600 You're still looking with a deficit. 692 00:41:47.600 --> 00:41:50.880 Now, some of you have seen a testimony. 693 00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:53.520 A lot of times, I get people that are coming out 694 00:41:53.520 --> 00:41:54.680 of being a therapist. 695 00:41:54.680 --> 00:41:57.240 They have an office. 696 00:41:57.240 --> 00:41:59.480 They're psychologists or therapists 697 00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:02.520 or clinical practitioners of type. 698 00:42:02.520 --> 00:42:04.720 And they move into the coaching space. 699 00:42:04.720 --> 00:42:06.440 So I had one of them that had built 700 00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:12.560 a very successful clinical psychologist practice 701 00:42:12.560 --> 00:42:15.400 and had come over to the coaching space 702 00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:18.640 because there's so much more freedom and more opportunity. 703 00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:21.000 And they came over to the coaching space, 704 00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:24.200 and for a year, they couldn't get any clients. 705 00:42:24.200 --> 00:42:25.480 And then they came to me. 706 00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:27.160 It had been over a year. 707 00:42:27.160 --> 00:42:33.160 And they started to speak how they were seeing themselves. 708 00:42:33.160 --> 00:42:36.080 Well, I'm just really behind in the coaching space, 709 00:42:36.080 --> 00:42:38.800 and I don't have a lot of certificates 710 00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:40.240 in the coaching space. 711 00:42:40.240 --> 00:42:42.680 And I went, wait, wait, wait. 712 00:42:42.680 --> 00:42:44.600 Wait just a minute. 713 00:42:44.600 --> 00:42:45.720 Let me ask you. 714 00:42:45.720 --> 00:42:47.120 Like, you have a master's degree. 715 00:42:47.120 --> 00:42:49.000 You're a clinical psychologist. 716 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:51.320 Like, did any of that education go away 717 00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:53.760 when you moved from your practice over to coaching? 718 00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:56.560 Like, did any of that education go away? 719 00:42:56.560 --> 00:42:58.520 And they went, no. 720 00:42:58.520 --> 00:43:01.240 And I'm like, your tools that you developed 721 00:43:01.240 --> 00:43:04.000 and your ability to help people experience transformation, 722 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.200 did any of that go away when you became? 723 00:43:07.200 --> 00:43:08.480 The lights went on. 724 00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:11.440 You see, it was only about how she was seeing herself. 725 00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:15.080 She had a limiting belief about being behind, 726 00:43:15.080 --> 00:43:17.920 about being not enough, about not knowing enough, 727 00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:19.120 about not having. 728 00:43:19.120 --> 00:43:20.600 You see, these are all narratives. 729 00:43:20.600 --> 00:43:24.520 These are stories that we're carrying into and making 730 00:43:24.520 --> 00:43:29.440 excuses why we're not successful. 731 00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:34.040 And so do you know that one call immediately? 732 00:43:34.040 --> 00:43:37.800 That next day, I got a text from her 733 00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:39.520 and that she'd gotten clients. 734 00:43:39.520 --> 00:43:41.280 So I checked in with her. 735 00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:43.280 And I said, how are you doing? 736 00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:45.880 Well, she'd gotten two clients after none, 737 00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:48.320 but she'd lowballed the price so much. 738 00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:49.880 I'm like, why are we doing this? 739 00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:53.400 Again, if you're undercharging, this is all about identity. 740 00:43:53.400 --> 00:43:57.240 What you think you're worth, the value you think you deliver, 741 00:43:57.240 --> 00:43:58.840 this is a mindset. 742 00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:00.360 It's not a truth. 743 00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:02.160 It's a mindset. 744 00:44:02.160 --> 00:44:04.200 I can't tell you how many people. 745 00:44:04.200 --> 00:44:06.280 So I walked her through a script. 746 00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:09.640 And I got a really excited testimonial right after that 747 00:44:09.640 --> 00:44:11.840 that she got her first full-paying client 748 00:44:11.880 --> 00:44:14.080 that she actually used the words I gave her. 749 00:44:14.080 --> 00:44:15.880 And it was a high-ticket client. 750 00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:19.120 And she's been nonstop since then. 751 00:44:19.120 --> 00:44:23.320 All of that was simply this idea how we see ourselves 752 00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:25.320 and how others see ourselves, which 753 00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:29.840 is based on how we're projecting how we see ourselves. 754 00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.640 And so a lot of times, I'll have coaches 755 00:44:32.640 --> 00:44:36.120 do the exercise of just taking out a piece of paper. 756 00:44:36.120 --> 00:44:38.080 Those of you that are my clients, 757 00:44:38.080 --> 00:44:41.200 just start scribbling all the ways you add value. 758 00:44:41.200 --> 00:44:42.800 I help them get clarity. 759 00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:44.560 I help them learn to love themselves. 760 00:44:44.560 --> 00:44:46.000 I give them tools for this. 761 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:47.040 I give them that. 762 00:44:47.040 --> 00:44:49.840 And you just start writing all the ways you help them. 763 00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:52.760 And I said, now, just keep that nearby, 764 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:54.480 that before you get on the phone, 765 00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:56.440 you're making a sales call, before you're 766 00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:59.920 asking for the dollar amount, just 767 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.120 remind yourself the value that you're bringing. 768 00:45:03.120 --> 00:45:07.000 People will see yourself as you see yourself. 769 00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:09.600 This is the amazing thing, right? 770 00:45:09.600 --> 00:45:14.600 So when I launched in to the coaching space back in 2012, 771 00:45:16.300 --> 00:45:21.300 ladies, gentlemen, I did not have a coaching certification. 772 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:27.160 Let me just be real frank with you, I still don't. 773 00:45:27.240 --> 00:45:29.720 Never been through a coach certification program. 774 00:45:31.020 --> 00:45:36.020 I saw myself as someone with experience and value 775 00:45:36.160 --> 00:45:38.120 that can bring transformation. 776 00:45:38.120 --> 00:45:41.680 I looked at the certification programs and I saw the holes. 777 00:45:41.680 --> 00:45:43.760 They don't prepare you for business. 778 00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:48.580 They don't introduce the concept of all the things 779 00:45:48.580 --> 00:45:50.400 that I teach, be it about your brain 780 00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:52.100 or be it about your time management 781 00:45:52.100 --> 00:45:54.040 or be it about your view of money. 782 00:45:54.040 --> 00:45:55.360 So I set out and created 783 00:45:55.360 --> 00:45:58.000 the most comprehensive coach certification program 784 00:45:58.000 --> 00:45:58.840 that I could find. 785 00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:00.980 And many of you have been through that. 786 00:46:00.980 --> 00:46:03.640 And like Earlene, I'm looking at her face, 787 00:46:03.640 --> 00:46:05.880 she'll tell you, she'd been through a whole bunch 788 00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:07.160 of the really big ones. 789 00:46:07.160 --> 00:46:09.240 And I had coaches say, 790 00:46:09.240 --> 00:46:13.440 hey, this should be the standard for coach certification. 791 00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:17.440 Well, to do that, I could not be shaped by the world 792 00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:19.900 as saying, well, who are you to be a coach? 793 00:46:19.900 --> 00:46:23.480 Or my own fears, who am I to be a coach? 794 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:27.040 And I had to step into all that God had made me 795 00:46:27.040 --> 00:46:31.360 and what I could do by the power of the Holy Spirit 796 00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:35.400 and begin to create, begin to add value, begin to teach, 797 00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:39.000 begin to release the gifts that are in you. 798 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:41.600 So do you see how that works? 799 00:46:41.600 --> 00:46:43.080 I pray that this is opening. 800 00:46:43.080 --> 00:46:44.440 This is totally off the cuff. 801 00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:46.000 I haven't even gotten into my notes. 802 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:49.040 You guys are getting it raw and real today. 803 00:46:49.040 --> 00:46:51.680 Aren't you glad you're here live? 804 00:46:51.680 --> 00:46:53.800 Let me just check your notes real quick. 805 00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:56.640 How does this work if you're ready to let go 806 00:46:56.640 --> 00:46:59.640 of selfishness, the small limited self 807 00:46:59.640 --> 00:47:04.640 and step into my spiritual complete identity? 808 00:47:04.720 --> 00:47:07.880 I don't wanna make the small physical being greater 809 00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:11.400 or better, I want the physical self go, 810 00:47:11.400 --> 00:47:15.160 step into my internal spiritual self made in the image 811 00:47:15.160 --> 00:47:18.480 like this of God, God didn't create me physical. 812 00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:22.040 Well, the truth is God made you triune. 813 00:47:22.040 --> 00:47:23.920 He made you body, soul and spirit 814 00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:25.800 and they're all very important. 815 00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:30.040 So that would be a deep conversation, 816 00:47:30.040 --> 00:47:35.040 but I would say that you are beginning of course 817 00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:39.920 with your inner most being, which is your spiritual self 818 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:42.600 and you are working outward. 819 00:47:42.600 --> 00:47:44.720 But what we do in the body 820 00:47:44.720 --> 00:47:47.620 and what we do in the body really matters. 821 00:47:47.620 --> 00:47:49.300 We can no longer neglect 822 00:47:49.300 --> 00:47:51.220 or act like the body doesn't matter 823 00:47:51.220 --> 00:47:55.100 because this is how God had us experience planet earth. 824 00:47:55.100 --> 00:48:00.100 This is how we see, we touch, we walk, we experience. 825 00:48:00.700 --> 00:48:03.180 So all three are important. 826 00:48:03.180 --> 00:48:05.740 Now I wanna show you a scripture back to your notes 827 00:48:05.740 --> 00:48:07.660 because I know I've gotten way off track 828 00:48:07.660 --> 00:48:09.340 and I wanna take a quick break too 829 00:48:09.340 --> 00:48:11.140 so you don't get too tired and we stretch, 830 00:48:11.140 --> 00:48:13.860 but let's do a little moving here. 831 00:48:13.860 --> 00:48:16.340 So there's an interesting place, 832 00:48:16.340 --> 00:48:19.180 a conversation in Matthew 16, 833 00:48:19.180 --> 00:48:24.180 where Jesus says to Peter, 834 00:48:27.460 --> 00:48:30.660 he says, he asked his disciples, 835 00:48:30.660 --> 00:48:32.460 who do people say? 836 00:48:32.460 --> 00:48:35.700 This is Matthew 16, 12 in the Amplified. 837 00:48:35.700 --> 00:48:39.100 Who do people say that the son of man is? 838 00:48:39.980 --> 00:48:44.980 And they answered, some say John the Baptist, 839 00:48:45.220 --> 00:48:48.820 others Elijah, others Jeremiah, 840 00:48:48.820 --> 00:48:51.220 others just one of the prophets. 841 00:48:51.220 --> 00:48:54.980 So this tells you something really interesting, right? 842 00:48:54.980 --> 00:48:57.180 People's opinions are a dime a dozen 843 00:48:57.180 --> 00:48:59.500 and they're gonna come up with theories of who you are 844 00:48:59.500 --> 00:49:01.920 regardless of what you do, right? 845 00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:04.140 So one of the success principles 846 00:49:04.140 --> 00:49:06.740 as you're stepping into your future self 847 00:49:06.740 --> 00:49:09.940 and as you're stepping into your highest identity 848 00:49:09.940 --> 00:49:14.620 is leadership requires you must unhitch 849 00:49:14.660 --> 00:49:17.020 from the opinions of man. 850 00:49:17.020 --> 00:49:21.220 You cannot succeed and be bound to others' opinions. 851 00:49:21.220 --> 00:49:22.780 I like to say the same people 852 00:49:22.780 --> 00:49:26.060 that were putting down their robes and saying, 853 00:49:26.060 --> 00:49:30.700 here's Jehovah, blessed be the name, 854 00:49:32.220 --> 00:49:34.740 are the same people that a couple of weeks later 855 00:49:34.740 --> 00:49:36.740 were saying crucify him. 856 00:49:36.740 --> 00:49:39.300 People are fickle, people change their minds, 857 00:49:39.300 --> 00:49:41.660 people will love you, people will come against you, 858 00:49:41.660 --> 00:49:44.340 people will join you, people will leave you, 859 00:49:45.060 --> 00:49:46.380 opinions are a dime a dozen. 860 00:49:46.380 --> 00:49:50.260 And if you allow that to be your guiding light, 861 00:49:50.260 --> 00:49:52.620 you can never move forward. 862 00:49:52.620 --> 00:49:57.060 And so interestingly enough, you get in this verse 863 00:49:57.060 --> 00:49:58.980 that you know what, there's lots of opinions. 864 00:49:58.980 --> 00:50:00.380 Some people think that the. 865 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.920 He's a dead guy, reincarnated. 866 00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:03.640 Some people think he's just a prophet. 867 00:50:03.640 --> 00:50:05.800 Some people think he's a great teacher. 868 00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:07.720 People are gonna have opinions about you. 869 00:50:07.720 --> 00:50:09.800 It doesn't matter, that's their opinion. 870 00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:12.280 What matters is your opinion of you, 871 00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:15.880 and even more is God's opinion of you, right? 872 00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:19.120 And so then he turns to Peter and he says, 873 00:50:19.120 --> 00:50:24.040 well, Peter, who do you say that I am? 874 00:50:24.040 --> 00:50:26.720 And Simon Peter says, you're Christ, 875 00:50:26.720 --> 00:50:29.520 the son of the living God. 876 00:50:29.520 --> 00:50:33.160 And of course, Jesus answers by saying, 877 00:50:33.160 --> 00:50:37.280 blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, 878 00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:40.920 because flesh and blood didn't reveal this to you, 879 00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:42.880 but my father who is in heaven. 880 00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:49.760 Let me tell you something, for Jesus to respond that way, 881 00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:54.720 he had to already be clear who he was. 882 00:50:55.560 --> 00:50:58.280 If he wasn't clear those first parts, 883 00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:00.440 he may try to step into those roles 884 00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:02.320 or convince people that he's different 885 00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:04.600 or be driven by what people think about 886 00:51:04.600 --> 00:51:08.320 or try to shape into their image. 887 00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:12.120 But he was already clear who he was 888 00:51:12.120 --> 00:51:17.120 so that he could answer that when he answered Peter. 889 00:51:17.200 --> 00:51:22.000 And so this is the real truth is how does God see you? 890 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:24.000 This is the most important truth 891 00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:27.120 you can discover and step into. 892 00:51:27.120 --> 00:51:29.120 It's the one that really matters. 893 00:51:29.120 --> 00:51:33.960 So you've got getting clear how God sees you. 894 00:51:33.960 --> 00:51:38.080 And then you're getting clear on the vision 895 00:51:38.080 --> 00:51:40.520 and the picture that he's given you 896 00:51:40.520 --> 00:51:42.360 because he's given you that as a human, 897 00:51:42.360 --> 00:51:45.000 the ability to dream, the ability to imagine, 898 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:47.000 the ability to vision, right? 899 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:49.840 Without vision, the people perish, right? 900 00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:52.680 And, but with vision, right? 901 00:51:52.680 --> 00:51:55.320 Scripture says, write the vision and make it plain 902 00:51:55.360 --> 00:51:57.600 that those who see it can run with it. 903 00:51:57.600 --> 00:52:00.400 God wants us to have our vision front and center. 904 00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:02.960 That's why when I do a breakthrough business intensive, 905 00:52:02.960 --> 00:52:06.120 we write out your business vision, right? 906 00:52:06.120 --> 00:52:11.120 And so the truth of how God sees us, right? 907 00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:16.840 So we know that Jesus had been receiving his identity 908 00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:20.720 from the father all along, okay? 909 00:52:20.720 --> 00:52:24.000 And it was confirmed when he was baptized. 910 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:25.880 Now, this is something else to think about. 911 00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:30.880 In Matthew 16, he goes to his cousin, John the Baptist, 912 00:52:34.040 --> 00:52:35.680 and says, baptize me. 913 00:52:35.680 --> 00:52:38.320 And John the Baptist is mortified 914 00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:40.600 because he knows who this is. 915 00:52:40.600 --> 00:52:43.600 And he's like, I'm not even worthy to tie the sandals, 916 00:52:43.600 --> 00:52:47.200 you know, tie your shoelaces, let alone baptize you. 917 00:52:47.200 --> 00:52:51.680 And Jesus said, do what needs to be done, you know? 918 00:52:51.680 --> 00:52:56.280 And so Jesus stepped into obedience. 919 00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:58.680 So when Jesus stepped into obedience, 920 00:52:58.680 --> 00:53:02.000 he went in and John the Baptist stepped into obedience. 921 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:04.520 So they stepped into their divine call. 922 00:53:04.520 --> 00:53:07.880 He went under the water, full immersion baptism. 923 00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:12.880 He comes out and you see that it says, 924 00:53:14.560 --> 00:53:18.760 behold, a voice from heaven said, 925 00:53:18.760 --> 00:53:22.240 this is my beloved son 926 00:53:22.240 --> 00:53:26.160 in whom I'm well-pleased and delighted. 927 00:53:26.160 --> 00:53:31.160 So Jesus in obedience began to get revelations 928 00:53:31.680 --> 00:53:34.680 from the father, who he was. 929 00:53:34.680 --> 00:53:39.120 I have experienced that most of the revelation will come 930 00:53:39.120 --> 00:53:41.400 when by obedience you're in action, 931 00:53:41.400 --> 00:53:43.480 when you're stepping out in faith 932 00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:46.040 and you're releasing the gifts that God has placed in you, 933 00:53:46.040 --> 00:53:48.280 not when you're thinking about it and meditating 934 00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:50.280 and just staying at home all the time, 935 00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:54.040 but when you actually step into obedience, 936 00:53:54.040 --> 00:53:56.680 it's then that you begin to realize the gifts 937 00:53:56.680 --> 00:53:59.320 that God has given you, right? 938 00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:02.560 And so, but then what begins to happen 939 00:54:02.560 --> 00:54:06.840 is that your identity will be tested. 940 00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:11.440 So Jesus heard this when he was baptized. 941 00:54:11.440 --> 00:54:13.640 And then in Matthew four, 942 00:54:13.640 --> 00:54:17.840 we see that right after he comes straight out of baptism 943 00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:19.960 and it says, this is interesting, 944 00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:24.200 that he was led by the spirit to the desert to be tempted. 945 00:54:24.200 --> 00:54:27.040 That's an interesting verse. 946 00:54:27.040 --> 00:54:30.720 And my take on that is that 947 00:54:30.720 --> 00:54:33.320 as you are seeing your future self, 948 00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:37.760 as you are realizing the gifts that God has placed in you, 949 00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:40.320 as you're stepping into the fullness 950 00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:43.000 who God created you to be, 951 00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:45.560 it's going to need to be tested, 952 00:54:45.560 --> 00:54:48.360 it's going to need to be strengthened 953 00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:51.040 because it starts out a little weak. 954 00:54:51.040 --> 00:54:53.600 Like the first time you go to lift weights 955 00:54:53.600 --> 00:54:55.080 and you might be able to do, 956 00:54:55.080 --> 00:54:59.760 you might be able to curl five pounds or 10 pounds. 957 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.560 But each time that you do it, the weight gets stronger. 958 00:55:03.760 --> 00:55:08.880 And pretty soon, you know, you can curl, you know, twenty five and you can curl thirty. 959 00:55:09.080 --> 00:55:15.920 And, you know, because the weight and and the same is true with the character of 960 00:55:16.120 --> 00:55:18.720 what do you do in the face of opinions of others? 961 00:55:18.920 --> 00:55:20.440 What do you do with disappointment? 962 00:55:20.640 --> 00:55:22.800 What do you do with frustration? 963 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:26.560 What do you do when things that you try don't work? 964 00:55:26.720 --> 00:55:29.160 Like how we talked about it yesterday, 965 00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:33.680 increasing your capacity, the muscle of your capacity, right? 966 00:55:33.880 --> 00:55:39.840 So part of this identity is that you're continuously raising your floor, 967 00:55:40.040 --> 00:55:45.720 meaning what you will no longer settle for and you're raising your ceiling, 968 00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:50.960 which is what you're bringing even to future generations as to how high that you 969 00:55:51.160 --> 00:55:55.080 can go and you get to choose to do that. 970 00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:59.240 You get to raise your floor, you get to raise your ceiling, 971 00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:04.720 and then you develop the muscles, right, 972 00:56:04.920 --> 00:56:06.640 to be able to move forward. 973 00:56:06.840 --> 00:56:09.880 And so even Jesus had to go through that. 974 00:56:10.080 --> 00:56:12.000 And so he had to go face testing. 975 00:56:12.200 --> 00:56:14.760 He had to go face tempting. 976 00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:16.440 And so will you. 977 00:56:16.640 --> 00:56:18.880 So will you. All the different things. 978 00:56:18.880 --> 00:56:21.920 What do you do when your bank account shows there's no money? 979 00:56:22.120 --> 00:56:27.640 What do you do when someone that you love leaves you or hurts you or abuses you? 980 00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:33.280 What do you do when, you know, in your business, it seems to not be working? 981 00:56:33.480 --> 00:56:41.960 Right. And and your capacity, your floor, how you view problems. 982 00:56:42.160 --> 00:56:43.320 Do you view them? 983 00:56:43.520 --> 00:56:45.960 So so someone that has not developed 984 00:56:46.160 --> 00:56:50.360 the muscles and they get a problem and it just takes them out, OK? 985 00:56:50.520 --> 00:56:54.840 It's called, you know, 986 00:56:55.040 --> 00:56:58.520 fragile, being fragile or being antifragile. 987 00:56:58.720 --> 00:57:01.280 Right. So someone that has not built their 988 00:57:01.480 --> 00:57:05.960 spiritual muscles, they're very fragile, something comes and it takes them out. 989 00:57:06.160 --> 00:57:07.960 It takes them out for a week or a month. 990 00:57:08.160 --> 00:57:09.360 They get sick over it. 991 00:57:09.560 --> 00:57:10.680 They stress over it. 992 00:57:10.880 --> 00:57:11.840 They talk about it. 993 00:57:12.040 --> 00:57:13.000 They cry about it. 994 00:57:13.200 --> 00:57:14.840 They give up. They stop working. 995 00:57:15.040 --> 00:57:16.240 They just boom. That's it. 996 00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:17.040 Right. 997 00:57:17.240 --> 00:57:20.680 Someone that has developed antifragile, 998 00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:24.480 a problem comes and you go, great, how are we going to solve it? 999 00:57:24.680 --> 00:57:29.560 And the more you get that mindset that every problem is an opportunity and that 1000 00:57:29.760 --> 00:57:34.280 every problem is an opportunity for you to rise, to show more of God, 1001 00:57:34.480 --> 00:57:38.200 to show more strength, more power, more abilities. 1002 00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:40.000 And so what's happening is you're 1003 00:57:40.200 --> 00:57:43.320 elevating your identity of how you see yourself. 1004 00:57:43.520 --> 00:57:45.640 Do you see yourself as a leader? 1005 00:57:45.640 --> 00:57:47.080 This is part of your identity. 1006 00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:48.960 Do you see yourself as a follower? 1007 00:57:49.160 --> 00:57:51.040 Do you have to wait for instructions? 1008 00:57:51.240 --> 00:57:53.000 Do you? 1009 00:57:53.200 --> 00:57:55.960 One of the big changes for me and we're 1010 00:57:56.160 --> 00:58:00.400 talking many, many decades at this point, I have not had a boss or manager 1011 00:58:00.600 --> 00:58:05.200 since my 20s, OK, so I like to seem completely unemployable. 1012 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:06.320 Right. 1013 00:58:06.520 --> 00:58:10.600 And like, I don't see myself. 1014 00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:14.880 My identity is not an employee. 1015 00:58:15.120 --> 00:58:16.480 Absolutely not. 1016 00:58:16.680 --> 00:58:20.080 Now, if I was starving and I had to do it to feed my family or whatever, 1017 00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:22.120 there's nothing wrong with the gift of that. 1018 00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:29.800 But I see myself as an entrepreneur and I see myself as a leader. 1019 00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:35.800 And as a leader, I understand my job is to lead, which means for me to lead. 1020 00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:38.440 I have to continuously stay ahead. 1021 00:58:38.640 --> 00:58:41.800 I have to continuously grow my character, 1022 00:58:41.960 --> 00:58:47.400 grow my skill set, grow my knowledge so that I can be a good leader. 1023 00:58:47.600 --> 00:58:52.360 So I can come to you right now and say, hey, here's what's going on in the market. 1024 00:58:52.560 --> 00:58:53.640 Here's what's working. 1025 00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:57.920 Here's what's not. Here's a technology to say 15 to 20 hours. 1026 00:58:58.120 --> 00:59:04.080 Here's that's my job as a leader to lead and to raise you up. 1027 00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:07.160 And my job as a leader is to see the very 1028 00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:11.440 best in you and to call out the goal, to call out the greatness. 1029 00:59:11.680 --> 00:59:14.720 So do you see yourself as a leader? 1030 00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:18.520 So these are questions as you're looking at your identity, 1031 00:59:18.720 --> 00:59:22.360 the mental flexibility of knowing that you get to choose this. 1032 00:59:22.560 --> 00:59:25.040 This isn't something put on you. 1033 00:59:25.240 --> 00:59:29.320 Now, obviously, you've got your God given identity, right? 1034 00:59:29.520 --> 00:59:31.600 That you're made in the image of God. 1035 00:59:31.640 --> 00:59:33.880 You know, you're the container of the Holy Spirit. 1036 00:59:34.080 --> 00:59:35.240 You've got the word of God. 1037 00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:38.520 Like so obviously we've got our God given identity. 1038 00:59:38.520 --> 00:59:43.320 But there's the there is the identity of what we put on top of that, 1039 00:59:43.520 --> 00:59:46.440 of how we see ourselves. Right. 1040 00:59:46.640 --> 00:59:52.440 And so so the tempter comes and tempts Jesus three times. 1041 00:59:52.640 --> 00:59:57.640 And Jesus is strengthened by that and goes on. 1042 00:59:57.840 --> 00:59:59.880 And so part of. 1043 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:06.600 You discovering your identity is removing, 1044 01:00:06.600 --> 01:00:14.960 removing who you're not, who you're not, right? 1045 01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:20.160 Being a smoker does not have to be part of your identity, OK? 1046 01:00:20.160 --> 01:00:24.880 You can remove that and begin to see yourself as a non-smoker. 1047 01:00:24.880 --> 01:00:31.320 And as a non-smoker, or maybe a non-drinker, right? 1048 01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:34.640 Or maybe a health whatever, OK? 1049 01:00:34.640 --> 01:00:41.600 And you begin to build around that identity. 1050 01:00:41.600 --> 01:00:47.880 So you're looking at how you're seeing yourself, 1051 01:00:47.880 --> 01:00:51.640 and then you're looking at what God says about you. 1052 01:00:51.640 --> 01:00:54.600 So I asked you earlier, how do you see yourself? 1053 01:00:54.600 --> 01:00:59.000 Now, what you know biblically, what God says about you, 1054 01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:01.520 do those match. 1055 01:01:01.520 --> 01:01:06.200 We want to bring those into alignment, OK? 1056 01:01:06.200 --> 01:01:13.600 There's lots and lots and lots of verses about identity. 1057 01:01:13.600 --> 01:01:17.120 I'm just going to grab some. 1058 01:01:17.120 --> 01:01:22.760 John 1 12 says, I am God's child. 1059 01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:28.040 John 15 15 says, as a disciple, I'm a friend of Jesus. 1060 01:01:28.040 --> 01:01:32.000 1 Corinthians 6 17 says, I am united with the Lord. 1061 01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:34.880 I am one with him in spirit. 1062 01:01:34.880 --> 01:01:38.720 Ephesians 1 3 to 8 says, I've been chosen by God 1063 01:01:38.720 --> 01:01:41.000 and adopted as his child. 1064 01:01:41.000 --> 01:01:45.560 Colossians 2 9 and 10, I'm complete in Christ. 1065 01:01:45.560 --> 01:01:50.560 Hebrews 4 14 to 16, I have direct access 1066 01:01:50.560 --> 01:01:52.840 to the throne of God. 1067 01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:55.600 I'm called to come boldly. 1068 01:01:55.600 --> 01:01:57.360 I'm secure. 1069 01:01:57.360 --> 01:02:00.760 Romans 8 1 and 2 says, I'm free from condemnation. 1070 01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:04.640 Romans 8 28 says, I'm assured God's working everything 1071 01:02:04.640 --> 01:02:06.360 together for good. 1072 01:02:06.360 --> 01:02:10.160 Romans 8 31 says, I'm free from condemnation, 1073 01:02:10.160 --> 01:02:14.080 anything brought against me, that I cannot be separated 1074 01:02:14.080 --> 01:02:15.880 from the love of God. 1075 01:02:15.880 --> 01:02:19.520 Philippians 1 6 says, I'm confident God 1076 01:02:19.520 --> 01:02:22.720 will complete the good work he started in me. 1077 01:02:22.720 --> 01:02:28.040 2 Timothy 1 7 says, I have not been given a spirit of fear, 1078 01:02:28.040 --> 01:02:31.720 but a power of love and a sound mind. 1079 01:02:31.720 --> 01:02:35.080 1 John 5 18 says, I'm born of God, 1080 01:02:35.080 --> 01:02:37.760 and the evil one cannot touch me. 1081 01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:39.720 I'm significant. 1082 01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:45.440 John 15 5 says, I've been chosen and appointed to bear fruit. 1083 01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:48.760 John 15 16, I'm God's temple. 1084 01:02:48.760 --> 01:02:53.680 1 Corinthians 3 16, I'm a minister of reconciliation. 1085 01:02:53.680 --> 01:02:57.880 2 Corinthians 5 17 to 21, I'm seated 1086 01:02:57.880 --> 01:03:00.560 with Christ in heavenly places. 1087 01:03:00.560 --> 01:03:03.760 Ephesians 2 6, I'm God's poetry. 1088 01:03:03.760 --> 01:03:05.680 I'm God's workmanship. 1089 01:03:05.680 --> 01:03:10.080 So you see that there's so many, many, many scriptures, 1090 01:03:10.080 --> 01:03:13.560 but you begin to do the work to make sure 1091 01:03:13.560 --> 01:03:16.440 that what you're saying, and thinking, and feeling, 1092 01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:18.960 and seeing about yourself is lining up 1093 01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:21.200 with what God says about you. 1094 01:03:21.200 --> 01:03:23.080 God says that you're mighty. 1095 01:03:23.080 --> 01:03:25.000 God says that you're powerful. 1096 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:31.600 Jesus said you would actually do greater things than he did. 1097 01:03:31.600 --> 01:03:34.560 Scripture says that the power of life and death 1098 01:03:34.560 --> 01:03:36.160 is in my tongue. 1099 01:03:36.160 --> 01:03:39.040 Scripture says Christ in me, the hope of glory. 1100 01:03:39.040 --> 01:03:41.280 Scripture says I have the mind of Christ. 1101 01:03:41.280 --> 01:03:43.640 I can tap into the mind of Christ. 1102 01:03:43.640 --> 01:03:47.360 Scripture says I have access to all wisdom. 1103 01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:52.040 So when you get grounded in that so that you make sure 1104 01:03:52.040 --> 01:03:54.920 that the narrative you're telling yourself 1105 01:03:54.920 --> 01:03:57.680 about being weak, or hopeless, or helpless, 1106 01:03:57.680 --> 01:04:00.880 or too old, or too young, or too fat, or too skinny, 1107 01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:03.720 or whatever, that you're dropping, 1108 01:04:03.720 --> 01:04:06.760 and you're discovering your identity by releasing 1109 01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:11.800 the things that you are not. 1110 01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:15.960 Releasing the things that you are not. 1111 01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:19.440 So you are not your job. 1112 01:04:19.440 --> 01:04:21.720 You are not your title. 1113 01:04:21.720 --> 01:04:23.360 You can change that many times. 1114 01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:24.600 That's not who you are. 1115 01:04:24.600 --> 01:04:25.920 That's something you do. 1116 01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:27.240 That's a role. 1117 01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:30.440 So if I say, who are you? 1118 01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:34.360 Like Jesus said, who do you say I am? 1119 01:04:34.360 --> 01:04:35.520 He had to know. 1120 01:04:35.520 --> 01:04:38.000 If I say, who are you? 1121 01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:39.520 And you say, well, I'm a teacher. 1122 01:04:39.520 --> 01:04:40.360 I'm a professor. 1123 01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:41.440 No, that's a role. 1124 01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:42.280 I'm a mother. 1125 01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:44.800 No, that's a role. 1126 01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:47.320 I'm a daughter of the most high God. 1127 01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:51.040 Ah, yeah, that's who you are. 1128 01:04:51.040 --> 01:04:54.200 That's part of your permanent identity, right? 1129 01:04:54.200 --> 01:04:57.520 You are not your accomplishments. 1130 01:04:57.520 --> 01:05:00.680 You are not your physical body. 1131 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:06.840 Many people go through hard times when parts of their body no longer work, or 1132 01:05:06.840 --> 01:05:14.960 they have to have a leg amputated. If you had to have a leg amputated, would you 1133 01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:24.480 still be you? And the answer is yes. You are not a body, right? You live in a body. 1134 01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:30.920 You have a soul, but you're a spirit. If you had both arms and both legs 1135 01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:40.040 amputated, like I can't think of his name, the speaker, who's happily married and 1136 01:05:40.040 --> 01:05:46.240 he is still who he is. His legs and his arms didn't define him, and he chose how 1137 01:05:46.240 --> 01:05:51.120 he saw his identity, that he would go and bring hope and bring love and be one of 1138 01:05:51.120 --> 01:05:56.400 the top inspirational speakers with no arms, with no legs. He didn't say I'm less 1139 01:05:56.400 --> 01:06:02.600 than, I can't do that. And he actually, with no arms, you know, they put him up on 1140 01:06:02.600 --> 01:06:08.960 a table and everybody comes and he gives hugs and he passes on so much love, right? 1141 01:06:08.960 --> 01:06:15.680 So what are you saying about yourself? Who are you? You are not your mind, right? 1142 01:06:16.240 --> 01:06:26.160 So when you look at Exodus and the story of leaving Egypt, there's a lot of very 1143 01:06:26.160 --> 01:06:33.200 interesting, much of the tradition in the Bible about Egypt in Jewish scriptures 1144 01:06:33.200 --> 01:06:39.760 and in many of their festivals and so on. And according to Hadistic teaching, the 1145 01:06:39.880 --> 01:06:47.520 Exodus is not just one event, but a paradigm for our current life. It's not 1146 01:06:47.520 --> 01:06:55.120 only a geographical location, but a limited state of mind we must transcend. 1147 01:06:55.120 --> 01:07:00.240 So in other words, we're all leaving Egypt, going to the promised land. We're 1148 01:07:00.240 --> 01:07:06.280 all letting go of the mindset of slavery and the behavior of who or what we've 1149 01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:12.800 been a slave to as we step into the wholeness and the freedom of all that God 1150 01:07:12.800 --> 01:07:18.840 has for us, right? So I share all this because awareness is the first step to 1151 01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:25.320 transformation. When you become aware, hey, wait a minute, I have an identity, I 1152 01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:30.960 have a floor, I have a ceiling, I have what I believed about who I am and what I 1153 01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:37.480 can do, I have, you know, standards that I've set of what I'm willing to settle 1154 01:07:37.480 --> 01:07:43.880 for, and I can change those. When you realize, wow, if I've changed this much 1155 01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:49.400 over 10 years, how much more I can change and God has given us the ability, that 1156 01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:58.080 awareness alone will absolutely instill whole new hope and future for you. And so 1157 01:07:58.080 --> 01:08:05.720 it says, if Egypt represents the tyranny of self-limiting beliefs and behaviors, 1158 01:08:06.160 --> 01:08:12.720 the Exodus signifies your spiritual journey toward expansive perception and 1159 01:08:12.720 --> 01:08:17.840 limitless potential. That comes from a book called People of the Word, 50 Words 1160 01:08:17.840 --> 01:08:25.439 that Shape Jewish Thinking, page 40. So I think that this is so powerful when you 1161 01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:31.520 think about it. If you look at Romans, let me see if I put it in your notes, 1162 01:08:31.520 --> 01:08:40.800 yeah, Romans 8, 14 is in your notes for you. It says, for all who are led by the 1163 01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:47.560 Spirit of God are the sons of God. Okay, so all of us that are led by the Spirit 1164 01:08:47.560 --> 01:08:54.960 of God are the sons of God. For the Spirit which you have now received is 1165 01:08:54.960 --> 01:09:05.520 not, is not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear. So the 1166 01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:11.640 Spirit that you have received is not a spirit of slavery. You are not a slave 1167 01:09:12.640 --> 01:09:20.640 in bondage to fear. But you have received the Spirit of adoption, the Spirit 1168 01:09:20.640 --> 01:09:29.160 producing sonship in the bliss of which we cry, Abba, Father. And the Spirit 1169 01:09:29.160 --> 01:09:33.560 himself testifies together with our spirit. You see where you're getting 1170 01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:38.439 divine alignment? The Spirit of God is speaking. And you line that up with what 1171 01:09:38.920 --> 01:09:43.760 your spirit is believing and receiving and hearing, assuring us that we are the 1172 01:09:43.760 --> 01:09:52.240 children of God. And if we are his children, then we are his heirs, heirs of 1173 01:09:52.240 --> 01:10:00.040 God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing his inheritance with him. Not only we 1174 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:06.400 share is suffering but we share is glory and it says but what of that I consider the suffering 1175 01:10:06.400 --> 01:10:14.880 of this present time not worth being compared to the glory that is about to be revealed to us 1176 01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:26.960 and in us and for us and conferred on us for even all of nature is waiting expectantly and longing 1177 01:10:27.680 --> 01:10:36.000 for the sons to be made known in other words all of nature is waiting for you to step into the 1178 01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:45.840 fullness of who God made you to be and so when we don't know our identity when we haven't tapped 1179 01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:53.600 into our identity it pushes us to extremes because we believe lies like I've been teaching all week 1180 01:10:53.600 --> 01:11:00.480 it pushes us to extremes okay and um so I'm going to come back I'm going to talk about that I'm going 1181 01:11:00.480 --> 01:11:05.600 to talk about how to break through I'm going to talk about strategies you can take to move forward 1182 01:11:05.600 --> 01:11:11.760 but we're going to take a really quick five minute break so I want you to come back at 20 after it's 1183 01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:17.360 important the mind can only absorb what the seat can endure get a drink of water go to the bathroom 1184 01:11:17.360 --> 01:11:26.400 stretch move get some fresh air and then we will be back in five minutes at 20 after the hour 1185 01:11:37.520 --> 01:11:45.120 all right welcome back you know we've got about one minute uh before we come back 1186 01:11:45.120 --> 01:11:52.640 but this is a great chance put your biggest takeaway so far into the chat 1187 01:11:54.400 --> 01:12:01.840 what's been your biggest takeaway so far what has really hit you that you can apply 1188 01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:12.240 and create change okay pop that in the chat I'm going to head over and look at the Facebook group 1189 01:12:12.240 --> 01:12:18.560 too and see how they're doing over there let's see if I can see them where are they 1190 01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:36.080 let's see are we still live over on Facebook 1191 01:12:42.720 --> 01:12:44.720 all right 1192 01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:54.560 part two here part two let's look at some of your takeaways Earlene are we live on Facebook or do I 1193 01:12:54.560 --> 01:13:05.680 have to do something yes can you give me a thumbs up yeah okay beautiful all right okay so I want to 1194 01:13:05.680 --> 01:13:10.480 take a look at some of the things that some of you are saying what has been your biggest takeaway 1195 01:13:10.480 --> 01:13:17.120 before I jump into part two what we say about ourselves in alignment with what scripture says 1196 01:13:17.120 --> 01:13:24.720 this is so huge when you're tempted to feel discouraged or defeated or not enough or behind 1197 01:13:24.720 --> 01:13:31.040 or whatever and then if you can go grab the promises of God and say but that's not that's 1198 01:13:31.040 --> 01:13:37.840 not what God says that's not what scripture says okay crystal says block what others say 1199 01:13:37.840 --> 01:13:47.200 that are not consistent with how we see this is so important because most often they will see you 1200 01:13:47.200 --> 01:13:53.280 through their own lens you know just like when Jesus asked what do they think about me you know 1201 01:13:53.280 --> 01:14:04.480 who do they think I am we don't see things as they are we see things as we are so people will project 1202 01:14:04.480 --> 01:14:12.480 onto you people will project how they perceive you and so you know maybe someone knew you when 1203 01:14:12.480 --> 01:14:17.040 you were young you ever have the experience you go back and you see a relative you know and they 1204 01:14:17.040 --> 01:14:22.960 still think you're little Susie you're little Tracy you know they don't see you I was having 1205 01:14:22.960 --> 01:14:31.840 a conversation with my son yesterday and you know he's really risen as a businessman he's he's 30 1206 01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:41.120 now and and and his dad sometimes still is tempted to see him as a kid like we do that as parents 1207 01:14:41.120 --> 01:14:47.920 right and we'll offer him like a menial job and he'll be wait wait dad let me just remind you 1208 01:14:47.920 --> 01:14:53.520 you know I'm already earning this much I've already built this company I'm I'm not a teenager anymore 1209 01:14:53.520 --> 01:14:59.520 that I'm looking for menial jobs you know but that's what happens as parents sometimes we still 1210 01:14:59.520 --> 01:15:01.680 see kids 1211 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:02.160 kids, how they were when they were young. 1212 01:15:02.360 --> 01:15:06.880 And and so it's very important, this idea of identity, 1213 01:15:07.080 --> 01:15:13.720 this picture that you're walking with, and it's something that that you can refine 1214 01:15:13.920 --> 01:15:21.240 and that you can build toward to become more and more and more of that person. 1215 01:15:21.440 --> 01:15:26.480 And so other people won't they won't see you that way. 1216 01:15:26.560 --> 01:15:30.640 You know, there's there's a truth of of that, right? 1217 01:15:30.840 --> 01:15:33.520 So, OK, 1218 01:15:33.720 --> 01:15:40.480 I think everybody should be back from the break, OK? 1219 01:15:40.680 --> 01:15:44.320 So, you know, there is 1220 01:15:44.520 --> 01:15:49.600 looking at your notes, too, so I stay in line with where you are. 1221 01:15:49.800 --> 01:15:52.000 OK, so it's interesting. 1222 01:15:52.000 --> 01:15:57.880 I say to you that I'm often not knowing our identity. 1223 01:15:58.080 --> 01:16:01.200 We don't spend time doing this identity work. 1224 01:16:01.400 --> 01:16:07.040 And and one of the powerful things and it's it's in the prosper, you know, 1225 01:16:07.240 --> 01:16:12.680 daily planner and you can get that on on Amazon because it's got a daily work 1226 01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:15.120 that you can do to be renewing your mind. 1227 01:16:15.320 --> 01:16:17.160 Everything's all on one thing. 1228 01:16:17.360 --> 01:16:19.760 Renewing your mind, organizing your business, 1229 01:16:19.760 --> 01:16:23.720 keeping your goals in front of you, your schedule, everything, 1230 01:16:23.920 --> 01:16:27.200 your morning routine, your night routine, it's all right there. 1231 01:16:27.400 --> 01:16:30.800 And this is what I've used, you know, for decades. 1232 01:16:31.000 --> 01:16:32.600 It's what I've taught for decades. 1233 01:16:32.800 --> 01:16:36.440 And so part of it is writing on a daily basis. 1234 01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:38.320 I am statements. 1235 01:16:38.520 --> 01:16:43.120 This is really powerful to keep your mind, to be reminded. 1236 01:16:43.320 --> 01:16:43.960 Right. 1237 01:16:44.120 --> 01:16:49.040 So, you know, maybe it is a I am 1238 01:16:49.240 --> 01:16:53.560 a highly sought out speaker all over the world. 1239 01:16:53.760 --> 01:16:57.760 Maybe I am, you know, the top podcaster in the world. 1240 01:16:57.960 --> 01:17:00.200 Maybe I'm the largest philanthropist in the world. 1241 01:17:00.400 --> 01:17:03.120 Maybe I'm I'm a best selling author. 1242 01:17:03.320 --> 01:17:07.320 Right now, those are roles, clearly. 1243 01:17:07.520 --> 01:17:12.160 But you're stepping into the identity of that role. 1244 01:17:12.360 --> 01:17:12.880 Right. 1245 01:17:13.080 --> 01:17:17.560 So how does a best how does a best selling author think? 1246 01:17:17.760 --> 01:17:20.680 Who does what is a best selling author read? 1247 01:17:20.880 --> 01:17:23.360 What is a best selling author? 1248 01:17:23.560 --> 01:17:26.000 What classes do they take? Right. 1249 01:17:26.200 --> 01:17:32.240 And so as you're stepping into you want to be one of the finest coaches, 1250 01:17:32.440 --> 01:17:36.480 you want to be whatever it is, you know, one of the most beautiful mothers, 1251 01:17:36.480 --> 01:17:37.960 you know, 1252 01:17:38.800 --> 01:17:45.400 these are things that that we do, but not knowing who we are by default. 1253 01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:49.800 Then other people push on us what we can and cannot do. 1254 01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:53.520 Other people have agendas for us of what we're capable of. 1255 01:17:53.720 --> 01:17:55.440 If you are not set. 1256 01:17:55.640 --> 01:17:59.320 And this is why Jesus was not moved when he asked that question. 1257 01:17:59.520 --> 01:18:00.400 It didn't matter. 1258 01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:01.760 Some thought he was Elijah. 1259 01:18:01.960 --> 01:18:05.320 Some thought he was, you know, John the Baptist. 1260 01:18:05.320 --> 01:18:06.440 Some thought he was a prophet. 1261 01:18:06.640 --> 01:18:10.200 So it didn't matter because he was grounded in who he was. 1262 01:18:10.400 --> 01:18:12.760 Others opinions did not shape him. 1263 01:18:12.960 --> 01:18:16.000 So there's an interesting story in Luke 1264 01:18:16.200 --> 01:18:20.480 chapter 15 that really shows different identities. 1265 01:18:20.680 --> 01:18:22.200 Luke 15. 1266 01:18:22.400 --> 01:18:24.200 So 1267 01:18:24.400 --> 01:18:32.200 it's there's there's a couple sons and it's mainly around verse 16 that it starts. 1268 01:18:32.400 --> 01:18:35.840 And I've labeled in your notes, 1269 01:18:36.040 --> 01:18:41.520 I've labeled one identity, is that a victim or slave? 1270 01:18:41.720 --> 01:18:47.680 One identity is the overachiever or the self righteous. 1271 01:18:47.880 --> 01:18:54.080 And then one identity is the truth of who you are and who the father says that you 1272 01:18:54.280 --> 01:18:59.680 are. So there's the interesting story about the father, which represents God, 1273 01:18:59.680 --> 01:19:04.160 that has two sons that's found in Luke 15. 1274 01:19:04.360 --> 01:19:12.080 And so one of the sons decides that he wants his inheritance before the father 1275 01:19:12.280 --> 01:19:15.720 dies, he wants to take the money and he wants to run and he wants to go out to 1276 01:19:15.920 --> 01:19:19.320 the world. And so he goes and he spends it all on, 1277 01:19:19.520 --> 01:19:21.160 you know, wine, women, songs. 1278 01:19:21.360 --> 01:19:26.840 He spends all of the money and finds himself broke, 1279 01:19:27.040 --> 01:19:30.520 which is also very interesting. 1280 01:19:30.720 --> 01:19:33.280 Whatever your belief about money, 1281 01:19:33.480 --> 01:19:36.880 again, it's the same thermostat that I talked about. 1282 01:19:37.080 --> 01:19:42.440 Right. And that thermostat, until you change 1283 01:19:42.640 --> 01:19:48.720 and raise that identity around money, will continuously self correct. 1284 01:19:48.920 --> 01:19:51.600 So if you suddenly make a lot of money, 1285 01:19:51.800 --> 01:19:56.600 but you have the identity of someone who does not and you suddenly. 1286 01:19:56.600 --> 01:19:59.360 I promise you, you will lose it quickly. 1287 01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:06.560 of the equal amount will show up, or some emergency will drain it or it doesn't go through 1288 01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:11.840 and you'll get back to that comfort zone, the money that you're comfortable with. 1289 01:20:11.840 --> 01:20:17.640 Because there's these limiting beliefs around, if I have too much money, I'll lose, I won't 1290 01:20:17.640 --> 01:20:18.640 have any free time. 1291 01:20:18.640 --> 01:20:21.320 Or if I have too much money, I'll be greedy. 1292 01:20:21.320 --> 01:20:24.280 Or if I have too much money, I'll be less Christian. 1293 01:20:24.280 --> 01:20:29.220 Or if I have too much money, people won't like me and I'll lose my friend. 1294 01:20:29.220 --> 01:20:34.760 We have these conscious or unconscious beliefs, so we go back to the set point of the identity 1295 01:20:34.760 --> 01:20:38.180 around money. 1296 01:20:38.180 --> 01:20:43.240 And so, and then a lot of times, it'll take us down. 1297 01:20:43.240 --> 01:20:50.820 So I would suspect that this one had the identity of being broke. 1298 01:20:50.820 --> 01:20:57.660 And so even though, like lottery winners, like top athletes and musicians and stars, 1299 01:20:57.660 --> 01:21:03.180 even though they have a ton of money, they end up back completely broke or worse off. 1300 01:21:03.180 --> 01:21:05.060 That's what statistics show. 1301 01:21:05.060 --> 01:21:07.660 So that's the case in this Bible study. 1302 01:21:07.660 --> 01:21:17.340 So this son loses everything and it says that he attaches himself, asking for a job. 1303 01:21:17.340 --> 01:21:24.300 And keep in mind in the story, he's a good Jewish boy and he attaches himself to a pig 1304 01:21:24.300 --> 01:21:32.780 farmer and asks for a job feeding the pigs, the lowest, most degrading job, right? 1305 01:21:32.780 --> 01:21:35.260 And the verse is really interesting. 1306 01:21:35.260 --> 01:21:45.540 It says, and he would gladly have fed on and filled his belly with carapods that the hogs 1307 01:21:45.540 --> 01:21:56.420 were eating, but they could not satisfy and nobody gave him anything better. 1308 01:21:56.420 --> 01:22:01.140 So there's this interesting idea of settling, again, what's the floor? 1309 01:22:01.140 --> 01:22:04.740 His floor was, you know what, I'll just eat the pig food. 1310 01:22:04.740 --> 01:22:08.060 They're eating carapods, I'll eat the carapods. 1311 01:22:08.060 --> 01:22:12.540 But it couldn't satisfy him physically or spiritually, right? 1312 01:22:12.540 --> 01:22:14.460 And maybe many of you feel that way. 1313 01:22:14.460 --> 01:22:19.580 Your floor has been too low and you just, you're not satisfied, right? 1314 01:22:19.580 --> 01:22:27.060 But then there's an interesting verse that says, then when he came to himself, this is 1315 01:22:27.060 --> 01:22:30.820 where I say awareness is the first step of transformation. 1316 01:22:30.820 --> 01:22:36.420 He has an awakening, he comes to himself and he changes his self-talk. 1317 01:22:36.420 --> 01:22:45.060 And he says, wait a minute, how many of the hired servants of my father have enough food 1318 01:22:45.060 --> 01:22:52.340 and even food to spare, but here I am perishing out of hunger. 1319 01:22:52.340 --> 01:22:59.340 I will get up and go to my father and I will say to him, father, I have sinned against 1320 01:22:59.340 --> 01:23:05.300 heaven and in your sight, I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. 1321 01:23:05.300 --> 01:23:08.860 This is one identity that actually is very common. 1322 01:23:08.860 --> 01:23:10.940 It's a victim identity. 1323 01:23:10.940 --> 01:23:13.780 It's an unworthy identity. 1324 01:23:13.780 --> 01:23:18.100 It's the, I am the, you know, chief of sinners. 1325 01:23:18.100 --> 01:23:23.180 And you look at, I always say the thoughts and the beliefs, what's the fruit that it's 1326 01:23:23.180 --> 01:23:26.980 producing and is it true? 1327 01:23:26.980 --> 01:23:34.060 And you know, for a moment, when I think about this identity, I think about Martin Luther. 1328 01:23:34.060 --> 01:23:41.560 And I think about Martin Luther was raised in that belief that I'm the chief of sinners 1329 01:23:41.560 --> 01:23:45.380 and my body is evil and I'm wicked. 1330 01:23:45.380 --> 01:23:51.420 And he would literally beat himself and it was common in that day. 1331 01:23:51.420 --> 01:23:56.380 And he would, they would take pilgrimages and travel on their hands and knees until 1332 01:23:56.380 --> 01:24:03.340 they're bloody, you know, to try to redeem because they're unworthy sinners, not worthy 1333 01:24:03.340 --> 01:24:07.580 of having anything good, worthy of being beaten and despised. 1334 01:24:07.580 --> 01:24:09.980 This is a belief system. 1335 01:24:09.980 --> 01:24:12.100 And so he's going with this belief system. 1336 01:24:12.100 --> 01:24:18.420 We see his identity and he is going to go to the father, but he's not going to the father 1337 01:24:18.420 --> 01:24:20.340 as the son. 1338 01:24:20.340 --> 01:24:22.920 And this is true of many people going to God. 1339 01:24:22.920 --> 01:24:27.660 They're not going to God as a daughter or son. 1340 01:24:27.660 --> 01:24:30.020 He's going as a slave. 1341 01:24:30.020 --> 01:24:35.820 And you know, that was common because Jesus even had to say, look, I don't call you slave. 1342 01:24:35.820 --> 01:24:37.980 I call you friend. 1343 01:24:37.980 --> 01:24:44.380 This was a predominant belief system that had to be undone to step into the fullness 1344 01:24:44.380 --> 01:24:47.260 of the identity that God has. 1345 01:24:47.260 --> 01:24:51.700 And so he says, I'm not worthy to be called your son. 1346 01:24:51.700 --> 01:24:55.900 Just make me one of your hired servants. 1347 01:24:55.900 --> 01:24:59.980 So here you have a victim mindset, a victim identity. 1348 01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:05.000 you have a slave identity, a slave identity, right? 1349 01:25:08.180 --> 01:25:12.260 And the father's response is amazing. 1350 01:25:12.260 --> 01:25:15.260 He just goes in the direction of the father. 1351 01:25:15.260 --> 01:25:18.540 Father who's infinite love, infinite good, 1352 01:25:18.540 --> 01:25:22.500 who is seeing things rightly and judging rightly, 1353 01:25:22.500 --> 01:25:26.300 is not coming to make him feel like a worthless person 1354 01:25:26.300 --> 01:25:28.660 and say, yeah, go be a slave. 1355 01:25:28.720 --> 01:25:33.520 And so instead the father runs to greet him 1356 01:25:33.520 --> 01:25:38.520 and the father says, bring the very best robe. 1357 01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:43.720 You see the robe was to remind him he's the son of a king. 1358 01:25:43.720 --> 01:25:45.900 He's an heir to the kingdom. 1359 01:25:45.900 --> 01:25:48.200 How many of you need to get back 1360 01:25:48.200 --> 01:25:50.760 into wearing the robe of righteousness, 1361 01:25:50.760 --> 01:25:54.120 wearing the robe of knowing who you are, 1362 01:25:54.120 --> 01:25:57.720 co-heir like we just read in Romans chapter eight. 1363 01:25:57.720 --> 01:26:02.160 So bring the best robe and put it on him, 1364 01:26:02.160 --> 01:26:06.400 give him a ring, the ring signified authority. 1365 01:26:06.400 --> 01:26:10.980 How many of you are stepping in your divine authority 1366 01:26:10.980 --> 01:26:14.360 that Jesus said, you can say to this mountain, 1367 01:26:14.360 --> 01:26:18.120 be thou removed and it'll be cast into the sea. 1368 01:26:18.120 --> 01:26:23.120 How many of you are stepping into your divine authority 1369 01:26:24.080 --> 01:26:27.920 that can decree a thing and it's established? 1370 01:26:27.920 --> 01:26:31.360 How many of you are stepping into your divine authority 1371 01:26:31.360 --> 01:26:33.560 that you were told to heal the sick? 1372 01:26:33.560 --> 01:26:37.720 Do you walk by faith and lay hands on the sick, right? 1373 01:26:37.720 --> 01:26:41.540 And so he puts the ring on his finger 1374 01:26:41.540 --> 01:26:44.120 and he puts sandals on his feet. 1375 01:26:44.120 --> 01:26:46.720 You're not a slave, get your shoes on. 1376 01:26:46.720 --> 01:26:49.740 You don't have to walk barefoot, okay? 1377 01:26:49.740 --> 01:26:53.100 And so here you see the cross of the identity 1378 01:26:53.940 --> 01:26:56.940 that the son has one identity about himself 1379 01:26:56.940 --> 01:27:00.580 and the father has the true identity son. 1380 01:27:00.580 --> 01:27:03.460 Son, you're my son, right? 1381 01:27:03.460 --> 01:27:05.540 And so this is what happens to us 1382 01:27:05.540 --> 01:27:09.980 is to bring into alignment who God says we are. 1383 01:27:09.980 --> 01:27:13.300 And are we living as powerful? 1384 01:27:13.300 --> 01:27:17.340 Are we living as someone that carries the spirit of God 1385 01:27:17.340 --> 01:27:18.740 and has the mind of Christ 1386 01:27:18.740 --> 01:27:21.020 and has the authority of God, right? 1387 01:27:21.020 --> 01:27:23.580 Now, interestingly enough in the same parable, 1388 01:27:23.580 --> 01:27:26.660 there's two sons, there's another son 1389 01:27:26.660 --> 01:27:30.620 and that son, maybe some of you can relate, 1390 01:27:30.620 --> 01:27:33.900 this was me, is the overachiever. 1391 01:27:33.900 --> 01:27:37.660 That son is working even harder to earn love. 1392 01:27:37.660 --> 01:27:39.600 I was taught growing up, 1393 01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:42.980 you got approval in my family by working hard. 1394 01:27:42.980 --> 01:27:45.600 If you showed you got up before everyone else 1395 01:27:45.600 --> 01:27:48.020 and you work longer hours than everyone else 1396 01:27:48.020 --> 01:27:50.020 and you didn't eat and you didn't sleep, 1397 01:27:50.020 --> 01:27:51.780 you got approval in my family. 1398 01:27:51.780 --> 01:27:53.620 Maybe some of you can relate. 1399 01:27:53.620 --> 01:27:58.620 And so there's this identity of this overachiever, right? 1400 01:28:00.180 --> 01:28:03.500 And a lot of times with that comes a little sense 1401 01:28:03.500 --> 01:28:07.060 of indignation or self-righteousness, right? 1402 01:28:07.060 --> 01:28:11.220 And so the elder brother, this is the older brother, 1403 01:28:11.220 --> 01:28:15.220 hears about this and is absolutely angry. 1404 01:28:15.220 --> 01:28:17.840 It says with deep, the Amplified Translation says 1405 01:28:17.840 --> 01:28:20.960 with deep seated wrath. 1406 01:28:20.960 --> 01:28:23.080 And he resolves not to go in. 1407 01:28:23.080 --> 01:28:24.600 I am not celebrating. 1408 01:28:24.600 --> 01:28:26.040 I am not taking part of this. 1409 01:28:26.040 --> 01:28:28.560 This is completely wrong. 1410 01:28:28.560 --> 01:28:31.120 And so the father being infinite love, 1411 01:28:31.120 --> 01:28:35.600 being infinite goodness goes out to plead with him. 1412 01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:38.680 And he answers his father, 1413 01:28:38.680 --> 01:28:43.680 look, these many years I have served you 1414 01:28:44.280 --> 01:28:47.440 and I have never disobeyed your command. 1415 01:28:48.080 --> 01:28:51.120 Yet you never gave me so much as a little kid, 1416 01:28:51.120 --> 01:28:55.480 goat, small goat, that I might revel and feast 1417 01:28:55.480 --> 01:28:58.000 and be happy and make merry. 1418 01:28:58.000 --> 01:29:00.560 But when this son of yours arrived 1419 01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:04.160 who devoured your estate with immoral women, 1420 01:29:04.160 --> 01:29:07.440 you've killed for him the wheat, fat and calf. 1421 01:29:08.680 --> 01:29:12.280 And the father says something so interesting. 1422 01:29:13.560 --> 01:29:15.880 Again, two perspectives. 1423 01:29:15.880 --> 01:29:20.640 The father says, son, you're always with me 1424 01:29:20.640 --> 01:29:23.560 and all that is mine is yours. 1425 01:29:25.080 --> 01:29:27.600 Do you see the mix in the identity? 1426 01:29:27.600 --> 01:29:29.560 He's still trying to earn. 1427 01:29:29.560 --> 01:29:32.160 He's still trying to prove that he's good enough. 1428 01:29:32.160 --> 01:29:35.040 And he's still feeling worthy because of what he does 1429 01:29:35.040 --> 01:29:36.880 and his hard work. 1430 01:29:36.880 --> 01:29:41.880 And he's not realizing that everything of mine is yours. 1431 01:29:42.880 --> 01:29:46.360 Like when scripture says, 1432 01:29:46.360 --> 01:29:50.280 you're seated in high places with God, 1433 01:29:50.280 --> 01:29:51.800 it's not future sense. 1434 01:29:51.800 --> 01:29:53.880 It's not talking about heaven. 1435 01:29:53.880 --> 01:29:55.640 It's talking about now. 1436 01:29:55.640 --> 01:29:57.320 When scripture says, 1437 01:29:57.320 --> 01:30:00.480 come boldly to the throne to get the heaven. 1438 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:05.360 help that you need, to get the grace that you need. 1439 01:30:05.360 --> 01:30:08.200 How often are we going to the throne 1440 01:30:08.200 --> 01:30:10.240 and stepping into the fullness? 1441 01:30:10.240 --> 01:30:15.000 And so this is where identity becomes so important, right? 1442 01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:19.200 It's seeing ourselves as powerful as God sees us. 1443 01:30:19.200 --> 01:30:22.960 And it's seeing all that we can become, 1444 01:30:22.960 --> 01:30:28.360 having the mental flexibility to see our future self 1445 01:30:28.360 --> 01:30:32.560 and then to line up our actions, line up our words, 1446 01:30:32.560 --> 01:30:35.280 line up our beliefs, line up. 1447 01:30:35.280 --> 01:30:39.440 So if we really love this future self, 1448 01:30:39.440 --> 01:30:41.720 and there's really powerful exercises 1449 01:30:41.720 --> 01:30:46.000 that you can do, where in the book, 1450 01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:48.600 I think it's in Be Your Future Self Now, 1451 01:30:48.600 --> 01:30:53.320 he opens by telling the story of Mr. Beast. 1452 01:30:53.320 --> 01:30:56.440 And I don't know if any of you know who Mr. Beast is, 1453 01:30:56.440 --> 01:30:59.880 but Mr. Beast is basically the top YouTuber, I mean, 1454 01:30:59.880 --> 01:31:00.680 out there. 1455 01:31:00.680 --> 01:31:03.880 And Mr. Beast started, I think he might have been, 1456 01:31:03.880 --> 01:31:06.280 I don't remember, 15 years old, 16. 1457 01:31:06.280 --> 01:31:07.680 He was very young. 1458 01:31:07.680 --> 01:31:10.440 And he had this idea. 1459 01:31:10.440 --> 01:31:15.200 And so he created, when he was, I think, 15, I want to say. 1460 01:31:15.200 --> 01:31:17.680 Might be 17, but I think it's 15. 1461 01:31:17.680 --> 01:31:22.640 He creates four videos. 1462 01:31:22.640 --> 01:31:26.720 And he puts them on YouTube, timed 1463 01:31:26.720 --> 01:31:29.880 to be released on those dates. 1464 01:31:29.880 --> 01:31:33.960 And so one was to be released, if I'm not mistaken, 1465 01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:36.960 I want to say three years, five years, 10 years. 1466 01:31:36.960 --> 01:31:38.560 I might be mistaken. 1467 01:31:38.560 --> 01:31:41.280 And you guys can read the story. 1468 01:31:41.280 --> 01:31:45.840 The point is that he spoke to his future self 1469 01:31:45.840 --> 01:31:48.960 and what life would look like. 1470 01:31:48.960 --> 01:31:53.360 And so the 10-year mark came up. 1471 01:31:53.360 --> 01:31:55.880 And it was like, I think the three-year was like, 1472 01:31:55.880 --> 01:31:58.480 I'm going to have a million subscribers or something. 1473 01:31:58.480 --> 01:32:02.080 And he had like 47 million. 1474 01:32:02.080 --> 01:32:05.640 But the point is he could see and he held himself 1475 01:32:05.640 --> 01:32:08.480 accountable to that future self. 1476 01:32:08.480 --> 01:32:11.000 So you can do it either way. 1477 01:32:11.000 --> 01:32:14.440 You can write a letter to your future self. 1478 01:32:14.440 --> 01:32:17.800 Or you could have you step into the future self 1479 01:32:17.800 --> 01:32:19.800 and you imagine the future self. 1480 01:32:19.800 --> 01:32:23.400 And you do the exercise of having the future self talk 1481 01:32:23.400 --> 01:32:27.720 to you and say, hey, it's really important. 1482 01:32:27.720 --> 01:32:29.920 I know you don't like saving. 1483 01:32:29.920 --> 01:32:32.520 I know it takes from your money right now. 1484 01:32:32.520 --> 01:32:35.200 But as your future self, I'm telling you, 1485 01:32:35.200 --> 01:32:38.320 you're going to be so glad that you're investing right now. 1486 01:32:38.320 --> 01:32:41.000 And you're going to be able to have the life that you really, 1487 01:32:41.000 --> 01:32:42.000 really want to have. 1488 01:32:42.000 --> 01:32:44.120 10 years is going to come really fast. 1489 01:32:44.200 --> 01:32:47.800 Or hey, I know that sometimes you just really 1490 01:32:47.800 --> 01:32:49.000 think you're not enough. 1491 01:32:49.000 --> 01:32:51.520 I'm going to tell you, this is where you're going to be. 1492 01:32:51.520 --> 01:32:52.480 And you can do this. 1493 01:32:52.480 --> 01:32:53.600 Have grace with yourself. 1494 01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:54.360 Don't give up. 1495 01:32:54.360 --> 01:32:56.000 Make every moment count. 1496 01:32:56.000 --> 01:32:58.760 But the point is bridging the gap 1497 01:32:58.760 --> 01:33:01.560 and allowing your future self, which 1498 01:33:01.560 --> 01:33:05.400 is in alignment with the word of God, which is truth, 1499 01:33:05.400 --> 01:33:12.000 and beginning to build this. 1500 01:33:12.000 --> 01:33:13.080 Is that helpful? 1501 01:33:13.080 --> 01:33:18.880 Put in the content in the chat if that is helpful for you. 1502 01:33:21.440 --> 01:33:23.720 Put in the chat if this is helpful. 1503 01:33:23.720 --> 01:33:26.680 And any comments or questions about this. 1504 01:33:26.680 --> 01:33:30.320 So if you really look at where we came, 1505 01:33:30.320 --> 01:33:33.880 we talked about stepping into the now 1506 01:33:33.880 --> 01:33:41.360 and how we view the past so that we use the past as an asset 1507 01:33:41.360 --> 01:33:43.200 and not a liability. 1508 01:33:43.200 --> 01:33:45.960 So how we choose to reframe the past. 1509 01:33:45.960 --> 01:33:48.920 And understanding that it's our now 1510 01:33:48.920 --> 01:33:50.920 that can shape how we view our past 1511 01:33:50.920 --> 01:33:54.200 and how we glean the blessings from it. 1512 01:33:54.200 --> 01:33:56.400 And then it's understanding that how 1513 01:33:56.400 --> 01:33:59.000 we can grab from the future vision 1514 01:33:59.000 --> 01:34:02.840 by spending time in imagination, spending time journaling, 1515 01:34:02.840 --> 01:34:06.200 spending time asking God to show you the vision, 1516 01:34:06.200 --> 01:34:09.440 spending time researching what that looks like, 1517 01:34:09.480 --> 01:34:15.080 spending time seeing and making moment-by-moment decisions. 1518 01:34:15.080 --> 01:34:17.560 We bring that future self to right now. 1519 01:34:17.560 --> 01:34:20.720 And then we're always just saying, hey, 1520 01:34:20.720 --> 01:34:23.360 is that going to make me more or less of the future self 1521 01:34:23.360 --> 01:34:24.240 I want to be? 1522 01:34:24.240 --> 01:34:25.800 Would my future self do that? 1523 01:34:25.800 --> 01:34:28.000 If my future self wouldn't spend time like that, 1524 01:34:28.000 --> 01:34:28.960 I'm not going to spend. 1525 01:34:28.960 --> 01:34:30.840 If my future self wouldn't think like that, 1526 01:34:30.840 --> 01:34:32.360 I'm not going to think like that. 1527 01:34:32.360 --> 01:34:34.520 My future self wouldn't dress like that. 1528 01:34:34.520 --> 01:34:37.200 I'm not going to dress like that. 1529 01:34:37.240 --> 01:34:42.480 And OK, just looking at some of your feedback. 1530 01:34:42.480 --> 01:34:45.120 OK, thank you so much for amazing content. 1531 01:34:45.120 --> 01:34:46.040 This is great. 1532 01:34:46.040 --> 01:34:48.480 OK, let's keep moving. 1533 01:34:48.480 --> 01:34:49.520 Let's keep moving. 1534 01:34:49.520 --> 01:34:52.680 I want to cover a little bit more before we wrap it up. 1535 01:34:52.680 --> 01:34:58.840 OK, so if you remember, we covered Romans chapter 12. 1536 01:34:58.840 --> 01:34:59.960 I think one of the most. 1537 01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:06.080 verses one and two, some of the most significant passages in scripture that talks about how does 1538 01:35:06.080 --> 01:35:14.560 this change happen. For those of you asking how, how do I do this, right? And it says in Romans 12, 1539 01:35:14.560 --> 01:35:22.800 one and two, do not be conformed, okay, by the world, by the world's systems, by the world's 1540 01:35:22.800 --> 01:35:31.120 opinions, but be transformed. So the first step is understanding you always have a choice to let 1541 01:35:31.120 --> 01:35:40.000 the world shape you, people shape you, opinions shape you, circumstances shape you, or you always 1542 01:35:40.000 --> 01:35:48.560 have the ability, this is the amazing part about being human, is to be transformed. That scripture 1543 01:35:48.560 --> 01:35:57.360 says that we're being transformed from one glory to another. We're going from glory to glory. And 1544 01:35:57.360 --> 01:36:04.240 so, you know, one of the, one of the pictures in my bathroom says, always believe something 1545 01:36:04.240 --> 01:36:10.560 wonderful is about to happen. I see that every day when I'm getting ready. And I, I step into 1546 01:36:10.560 --> 01:36:17.600 that, that I believe today miracles are going to happen today, something fabulous, every phone call, 1547 01:36:17.600 --> 01:36:23.360 everything that I do, something wonderful is going to happen, right? So it's a, it's a mindset, 1548 01:36:23.360 --> 01:36:30.080 and it's a mindset that says, I'm not going to be conformed. I don't care what the economy is. 1549 01:36:30.080 --> 01:36:35.600 I don't care. I mean, I care who the president is, but I don't have control other than voting. I, 1550 01:36:35.600 --> 01:36:43.200 I don't, I'm not going to be conformed to what other people think or say or do, or the world 1551 01:36:43.280 --> 01:36:52.080 is doing or the situation or the mountains in my life. I'm going to be transformed by the renewing 1552 01:36:52.080 --> 01:36:58.720 of my mind, which means, yes, I love this. Susan says, I can see how making moment to moment 1553 01:36:58.720 --> 01:37:05.440 decisions as future self would be valuable. It's a new concept for me. And I'm going to tell you, 1554 01:37:06.080 --> 01:37:12.720 it just shapes everything. I had people that have been in the previous few days of calls. 1555 01:37:12.720 --> 01:37:19.760 This was a breakthrough for them that they were waiting for God to do something for God to, 1556 01:37:19.760 --> 01:37:26.320 to change their circumstances. And this is, this is more common than not people are waiting on God 1557 01:37:26.320 --> 01:37:34.240 and God is waiting on you. Okay. Because you have God given ability to choose. You get to choose 1558 01:37:34.240 --> 01:37:38.320 your thoughts moment by moment. That's why scripture says, take every thought captive. 1559 01:37:38.320 --> 01:37:44.240 You get to choose your words. You know, you guard so carefully what comes out of your mouth, 1560 01:37:44.240 --> 01:37:49.280 but that is just revealing what's in your heart. The Bible says, so it says above all guard, 1561 01:37:49.280 --> 01:37:54.720 your heart, like, what are you feeling? What emotions are you allowing yourself to tap into? 1562 01:37:54.720 --> 01:38:02.880 And so it's beginning to and I've, I've done this in everything from all aspects of business and 1563 01:38:02.880 --> 01:38:10.560 life. You know, some of you know that I learned about, I don't know, nine years ago now I learned 1564 01:38:10.560 --> 01:38:17.600 Latin ballroom dancing. So I learned salsa dancing and bachata and so on. And I got a really rocky 1565 01:38:17.600 --> 01:38:27.840 start. So I could have said in my identity, I'm not a dancer. I, I could say I've got, like people 1566 01:38:27.840 --> 01:38:34.400 say, I've got two left people, left feet. They take on an identity like that. It was a rough 1567 01:38:34.400 --> 01:38:43.120 start. I could not get it. And actually the person teaching me to dance gave up on me after a couple 1568 01:38:43.120 --> 01:38:51.120 of months. I could not learn the double left turn for the life of me, gave up and said to me, 1569 01:38:52.080 --> 01:39:01.280 I don't believe you'll ever be a dancer. Now I could take on that identity. I guess I'm just 1570 01:39:01.280 --> 01:39:08.640 not a dancer. He said, you don't have the musical training. I didn't no musical training, no dance 1571 01:39:08.640 --> 01:39:15.920 training. There was from when I was 16, there was a love of dance that had been stifled for all those 1572 01:39:16.080 --> 01:39:22.560 years. I have a choice at that moment. And you have a choice at this moment. There's things you've 1573 01:39:22.560 --> 01:39:31.360 been told. I was told it was my vision. My future self was a dancer. I wanted to dance. I was told 1574 01:39:32.000 --> 01:39:39.120 that I would not be able to dance. And there was everything in me that on one sense wanted to give 1575 01:39:39.120 --> 01:39:50.080 up. It just looks so hopeless. I struggled so roughly. But I chose the identity and someone 1576 01:39:50.080 --> 01:39:57.840 else spoke into my life and said, you will be a beautiful dancer. And I chose that identity. 1577 01:39:58.560 --> 01:39:59.840 And I got into lessons. 1578 01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:06.360 Every day of the week. I danced almost every day and I would say I'm a very beautiful dancer 1579 01:40:06.360 --> 01:40:10.660 It's a stage still a long way to go, but I can tell you that with 1580 01:40:11.600 --> 01:40:18.740 Consistency and persistency and vision you can do anything. I have the vision that I would speak Spanish 1581 01:40:19.120 --> 01:40:25.040 So when I watch any Netflix or anything, I only watch in Spanish. I taught myself Spanish 1582 01:40:25.040 --> 01:40:29.680 I'm telling you you're made in the image of God you have infinite potential 1583 01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:33.600 You can do anything if there's a desire in your heart 1584 01:40:33.600 --> 01:40:39.400 I'm telling you if you'll get clear on that identity and you'll hold that and 1585 01:40:40.040 --> 01:40:46.620 You will say to the mountains that rise up be that removed and you will take daily action to be 1586 01:40:47.160 --> 01:40:49.000 transformed by the 1587 01:40:49.000 --> 01:40:55.520 Renewing of your mind you'll read about it. You'll study about it. You'll talk about it. You'll journal about it 1588 01:40:55.520 --> 01:40:58.040 I mean you will eat sleep and drink it 1589 01:40:58.720 --> 01:41:01.000 Right that it becomes 1590 01:41:01.760 --> 01:41:03.560 Who you are? 1591 01:41:03.560 --> 01:41:09.720 So that I'm very clear. I'd like to say I'm a salsa da. I can put that behind me now 1592 01:41:09.720 --> 01:41:12.920 I'm a salsa dancer. Absolutely. I'm a dancer. I 1593 01:41:13.480 --> 01:41:20.000 Can say that and feel good about it and you know, I began to dress like a dancer 1594 01:41:20.000 --> 01:41:26.520 I began to buy the shoes like a dancer. I began to walk in like a dancer 1595 01:41:26.520 --> 01:41:34.520 I began to show up like a damn. You feel me? I'm using a random example. You can apply this to you know, I 1596 01:41:35.200 --> 01:41:39.100 Made the decision early on that. I would be an 1597 01:41:39.840 --> 01:41:46.040 Exceptional coach I'd be one of the top coaches out there, right? You are getting to choose this 1598 01:41:46.040 --> 01:41:49.160 This is your God-given ability to choose 1599 01:41:49.680 --> 01:41:51.680 right, and so 1600 01:41:52.240 --> 01:41:54.560 It's it's the key of just being 1601 01:41:55.320 --> 01:41:57.080 Transformed 1602 01:41:57.080 --> 01:41:59.080 okay, um and 1603 01:41:59.840 --> 01:42:05.440 taking the time to visualize it to see it to write it to think about it and 1604 01:42:07.360 --> 01:42:09.840 Not letting your past 1605 01:42:12.120 --> 01:42:13.720 Dictate 1606 01:42:13.720 --> 01:42:15.720 Who you are? 1607 01:42:15.840 --> 01:42:22.720 So there's some verses I want to close with and then I want to do a little closing meditation 1608 01:42:23.360 --> 01:42:26.960 Hebrews chapter 12 verses 2 and 3 1609 01:42:28.400 --> 01:42:31.440 Hebrews chapter 12 2 and 3 1610 01:42:32.400 --> 01:42:33.560 says 1611 01:42:33.560 --> 01:42:39.520 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy 1612 01:42:40.040 --> 01:42:42.040 That was set before him 1613 01:42:42.560 --> 01:42:44.560 endured the cross 1614 01:42:45.240 --> 01:42:48.040 When I think about how did Jesus 1615 01:42:48.920 --> 01:42:50.920 Knowing what was going to come? 1616 01:42:51.200 --> 01:42:56.100 How did he do it? The answer is there it says 1617 01:42:56.760 --> 01:43:01.680 that for the joy he focused on the joy you 1618 01:43:01.960 --> 01:43:09.200 focus on the joy of what will it be to have a six a seven and eight figure business and you focus on the 1619 01:43:09.200 --> 01:43:13.360 joy of impacting and you focus on the joy of the 1620 01:43:13.760 --> 01:43:20.160 Transformation and you focus on the joy of it and that takes you through the trials of but it's hard right now 1621 01:43:20.560 --> 01:43:22.560 But people suck right now 1622 01:43:22.760 --> 01:43:30.080 But now the economy is this right now it takes you past that because you're pulling from your future self 1623 01:43:30.240 --> 01:43:31.640 right and 1624 01:43:31.640 --> 01:43:33.640 Philippians 3 13 1625 01:43:33.800 --> 01:43:35.800 Says one thing I do 1626 01:43:37.080 --> 01:43:39.480 forgetting what lies behind and 1627 01:43:40.000 --> 01:43:41.040 And 1628 01:43:41.040 --> 01:43:47.080 Reaching forward to what lies ahead. So there it is right there in Scripture forget 1629 01:43:47.080 --> 01:43:50.920 I bless the past I release the past I glean the blessings 1630 01:43:51.120 --> 01:43:59.360 Okay, it's not shaping who I am. But instead I forget about that right now. What's really important is 1631 01:44:00.000 --> 01:44:05.960 Reaching forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward the goal 1632 01:44:06.760 --> 01:44:09.720 You see that's Philippians 3 1633 01:44:10.280 --> 01:44:16.480 13 and so as we ask the Lord to help us see ourself as he says and as we 1634 01:44:16.880 --> 01:44:20.440 Press in and so some of your homework number one 1635 01:44:20.920 --> 01:44:25.440 Write a letter to your current self from your future self practice this 1636 01:44:25.960 --> 01:44:29.800 Okay, and then practice in your daily actions 1637 01:44:30.360 --> 01:44:36.600 Would my future self do this would my future self wear this wouldn't my future self say this 1638 01:44:37.240 --> 01:44:39.240 okay, and then 1639 01:44:42.480 --> 01:44:45.960 Allow the Lord to just show you 1640 01:44:46.760 --> 01:44:52.960 Who you are and my favorite verse to close with is Ephesians 2 1641 01:44:53.880 --> 01:44:57.960 10 and it says for we are God's 1642 01:44:57.960 --> 01:45:00.960 Handiwork 1643 01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:08.560 is workmanship. That word is poema, poetry. You're actually God's poetry. And scripture 1644 01:45:08.560 --> 01:45:14.960 says you're living epistles. You're actually the Bible being lived out. You are scripture 1645 01:45:14.960 --> 01:45:23.280 being lived out. You are God's poetry being written. And it says we are God's handiwork, 1646 01:45:23.280 --> 01:45:32.080 his workmanship, recreated in Christ, Jesus, born anew, that we may do those good works 1647 01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:40.560 which God predestined beforehand. So you've got good works that have already, they're already in 1648 01:45:40.560 --> 01:45:48.800 you. They're already in your destiny scroll, right? It says taking paths which he prepared 1649 01:45:48.800 --> 01:45:58.080 ahead of time that we should walk in them. So God has created good works and a good path for you. 1650 01:45:58.080 --> 01:46:05.840 He's got a good vision for you. You're recreated. You're made in his image afresh again. You're his 1651 01:46:05.840 --> 01:46:12.000 poetry, his living word. It says, this is in the Amplified translation, that we should walk in 1652 01:46:12.000 --> 01:46:19.280 them, living the good life. There's a good life for you. There's a promised land for you. You've 1653 01:46:19.280 --> 01:46:24.720 been pulled out of Egypt, out of those old way of thinking, out of that mindset of slavery, out of 1654 01:46:24.720 --> 01:46:31.280 that mindset of poverty, out of that mindset of lack, out of that mindset of not enough. You've 1655 01:46:31.280 --> 01:46:38.240 been set free from Egypt. You have a promised land. It says right here, living the good life, 1656 01:46:38.240 --> 01:46:43.280 which he pre-arranged. He already made a good life for you. By the way, this is not in heaven. 1657 01:46:43.280 --> 01:46:50.400 This is now. You don't have to wait to get to heaven to enjoy the glory, to enjoy the blessings, 1658 01:46:50.400 --> 01:46:59.040 to enjoy the abundance, living the good life, which he pre-arranged and made ready for us to live. 1659 01:47:00.000 --> 01:47:10.480 So to step into that, what's required? Number one, discovering who am I? Who am I? Who does God say I 1660 01:47:10.480 --> 01:47:19.840 am? Who's my future self? Discovering. Number two, practicing, practicing. And number three, 1661 01:47:20.160 --> 01:47:32.560 being transformed, being transformed. And in Ephesians 3, 16, I'm going to read one more 1662 01:47:32.560 --> 01:47:39.120 verse. It's just too good. It says, this is my prayer. This is really a closing prayer. You can 1663 01:47:39.120 --> 01:47:45.600 almost hear this prayer with your eyes closed if you want. Ephesians 3, verses 16 through 20. I'm 1664 01:47:45.600 --> 01:47:53.760 just going to read it to you. Just soak it in. Soak it in. And now may he grant you, fill in 1665 01:47:53.760 --> 01:48:04.000 your name, may he grant you out of the rich treasury of his glory to be strengthened and 1666 01:48:04.000 --> 01:48:14.640 reinforced with mighty power in the inner man, in the inner woman by the Holy Spirit himself, 1667 01:48:15.200 --> 01:48:22.320 dwelling in your innermost being and personality. So verse 16, may you be strengthened with might 1668 01:48:22.320 --> 01:48:32.800 in your inner woman. Verse 17, may Christ, through your faith, actually dwell, settle down, 1669 01:48:32.800 --> 01:48:40.800 abide, make his permanent home in your hearts. And may you be rooted deep in love and founded 1670 01:48:40.800 --> 01:48:49.680 securely on love that you may have power and be strong enough to apprehend and grasp with all of 1671 01:48:49.680 --> 01:48:58.720 God's people. What is the breadth and the length and the height and the depth of God's love that 1672 01:48:58.720 --> 01:49:06.320 you may really come to know practically through experience, through yourselves, the love of Christ 1673 01:49:06.960 --> 01:49:16.480 that far surpasses mere knowledge without experience, that you may be filled through all 1674 01:49:16.480 --> 01:49:26.000 of your being unto all the fullness of God, that you may have the richest measure of the divine 1675 01:49:26.000 --> 01:49:37.200 presence and actually become a body wholly filled and flooded with God himself. Now to him who is able 1676 01:49:38.960 --> 01:49:50.400 to carry out his purpose and do super abundantly far over and above all that we dare ask or think 1677 01:49:50.400 --> 01:49:58.880 infinitely beyond our highest prayers and desires and thoughts or dreams, to him be all glory. 1678 01:50:00.320 --> 01:50:08.960 Amen. This is the truth of who you are. May you realize, yes, you are a body. You're a body that 1679 01:50:08.960 --> 01:50:15.600 is actually wholly filled with God's presence, and that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly 1680 01:50:15.600 --> 01:50:21.520 above and beyond anything you could ask, hope, or imagine. You think you're imagining big with your 1681 01:50:21.520 --> 01:50:28.000 future self over here? You think you're just being all big? Take that, and you're going to each time 1682 01:50:28.000 --> 01:50:35.040 10 exit, because what God's able to do in and through you is so far above anything you ask 1683 01:50:35.040 --> 01:50:42.400 or imagine. But we've got to be renewed. We've got to let go of the stinking, the slave, the limiting 1684 01:50:42.400 --> 01:50:52.080 beliefs, and we must fully step into this identity, this elevated identity, this true identity that 1685 01:50:52.080 --> 01:51:01.760 lines up all your hopes and dreams and lines up who God says you are. That's my prayer. 1686 01:51:02.560 --> 01:51:10.800 That's my prayer for you, and I'm going to invite each and every one of you two things. Number one, 1687 01:51:10.800 --> 01:51:16.240 if you lack clarity or your business is not where you want it to be or your life is not where you 1688 01:51:16.240 --> 01:51:21.360 want it to be, schedule a call. Let's talk about it. Let's look at where you're at. Like I did with 1689 01:51:21.360 --> 01:51:28.320 that psychotherapist, like I've done. I had a realtor that hadn't sold houses in years, and 1690 01:51:28.320 --> 01:51:36.400 as she coached with me, she had a six-figure year. I'm telling you that we can look at what is that 1691 01:51:36.400 --> 01:51:41.200 limiting belief. What are the skill sets you need? What are the actions? We can get you there. 1692 01:51:41.200 --> 01:51:48.960 Schedule a call, okay? Secondly, maybe coaching isn't for you right now financially, time-wise. 1693 01:51:48.960 --> 01:51:56.320 I encourage every single one of you to be part of the Prosper Leader membership. Linda, can you put 1694 01:51:56.320 --> 01:52:01.120 the link for the Prosper Leader, the discounted, because if they go to the website, it's going to 1695 01:52:01.120 --> 01:52:08.880 be $197. I want them to get it for $99 a month. Linda had the lead, and unfortunately, I don't 1696 01:52:08.880 --> 01:52:18.160 have that link. Okay, I am going to grab it. You guys be patient. 30 seconds. I am going to grab 1697 01:52:18.160 --> 01:52:24.000 it because it's very important. Let me tell you what's coming, okay? One of the things that's 1698 01:52:24.000 --> 01:52:32.800 coming is the AI. You can put on your calendar. On the 13th, the AI masterclass is coming, okay? 1699 01:52:33.360 --> 01:52:40.640 Masterclasses are free, so in the Prosper Leader membership, you're going to be meeting every 1700 01:52:40.640 --> 01:52:47.440 Thursday with me in office hours to look at what you're doing to support you, to give you the tools, 1701 01:52:47.440 --> 01:52:55.280 give you the technology, okay, to be able to grow your business. You're going to be part of, okay, now 1702 01:52:55.280 --> 01:53:02.480 let me come back to where you guys are. I can see you, and I'm going to pop this right there. Okay, 1703 01:53:02.480 --> 01:53:13.520 there it is, so that you cannot get this at $197, but you can get it, and yes, Crystal, 1704 01:53:14.320 --> 01:53:18.960 during the three months you're in the 90-day program, the Prosper Leader membership is 1705 01:53:19.600 --> 01:53:25.680 included for you. When you do a 90-day coaching, it's included for you, okay? Thank you for asking 1706 01:53:25.680 --> 01:53:30.960 that. All right, so I'm going to encourage you because I'm going to be really pressing in 1707 01:53:31.760 --> 01:53:37.920 to make sure that each and every Prosper Leader member, their business, their identity, their 1708 01:53:37.920 --> 01:53:46.160 technology, their skill set, their belief system is at the level that they need to get where they 1709 01:53:46.160 --> 01:53:52.160 desire to be to finish 2024 strong. We're tapping into the second half of the year. I'm going to be 1710 01:53:52.160 --> 01:53:57.680 pouring it all in. There's going to be masterclasses. There's going to be the weekly office hours. 1711 01:53:57.680 --> 01:54:03.760 There's going to be twice a month a group membership and mastermind, so make sure you 1712 01:54:03.760 --> 01:54:08.640 join. You'll get an email right away with the link. You'll have all access pass to everything 1713 01:54:08.640 --> 01:54:15.120 I've taught. Many of those things in there sold for $4,000 and $5,000. You have all access pass, 1714 01:54:15.120 --> 01:54:21.760 so join right now. If you love this, if you love the faith-based and the skill set and the action 1715 01:54:21.760 --> 01:54:27.840 and the transformation, join right now, and we will continue this conversation, all right? 1716 01:54:28.400 --> 01:54:34.160 Lots of love. Thanks for spending your Saturday morning with me. I pray that something has shifted 1717 01:54:34.160 --> 01:54:41.520 within you so powerfully that you will never be the same as you step into your beautiful, beautiful 1718 01:54:42.160 --> 01:54:47.200 future self. Love you all. We'll see you soon.