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And Dionne, by the way, you've heard me brag about Kim.

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She's our top producer.

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Oh, I'm well aware of who you are, Kim.

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I have a great guide and mentor, obviously.

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The Holy Spirit.

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He's amazing.

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Yeah, we appreciate you jumping all in.

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And that's been fantastic.

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It's been a real encouragement to us.

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For sure.

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It's great to have people like you in our group.

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Great to be here.

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Yeah.

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Hey, Lisa.

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Yeah.

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Hey, there.

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I drove past you today.

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No, you did not.

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I did.

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I mean, kind of.

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I mean, I drove up to Clearwater.

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So, you know, you're on that way.

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I should have waved.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It was raining when I went through your area.

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It was pouring.

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Yeah.

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We got some good rain needed.

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Well needed.

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Yeah, that's great.

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Awesome.

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Awesome.

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I've got a thought we could share for a second.

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Please.

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Just extra for those who are on time.

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Right.

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So now what I was saying at the beginning, before we came on live,

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was I don't know if you're familiar with Simon Sinek's whole thing about

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the finite versus the infinite game and why some companies do so

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extraordinarily well and other struggle.

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And it's about, it comes from mathematical game theory.

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And basically the idea is very simple that in the finite game,

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finite game has set rules, has a start and start and an end.

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And, you know, they have winners and losers like a football game.

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You know, it's a finite game.

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And, and so when somebody is playing the finite game,

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it's very short term focused.

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And so they use words like we're going to be number one and all the rest

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implying someone else is going to be number two and all that stuff.

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And he was explaining how companies like Apple and others play the

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infinite game.

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And the infinite game is you are your only other reference.

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And so Apple will use language like this is the best iPhone we've ever made.

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They're always referring to themselves.

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And the infinite game is about staying in the game and about the long range

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impact and creating a legacy that,

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that transcends over a long period of time, not just the core leader.

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And the problem with modern incentives in corporate America is it's all

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designed around the finite game,

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especially around executive bonuses and so on.

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So they make a lot of short term decisions.

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And one of the things I found about kingdom executives and training kingdom

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CEOs is that unwittingly we've all bought into the finite game.

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Unwittingly.

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We've all bought into the idea that, Hey, I've got to be top.

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I got to be number one.

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I got to be that there's these set rules and there's this start and finish.

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And, and even if you are number one, you're number one for now,

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things change rapidly. Right?

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And so one of the most freeing things a kingdom leader can do is step into

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the infinite game, because that is a kingdom idea.

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Cause in the infinite game,

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you're now building something of eternal value because you're building

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yourself.

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And all that the business stuff is is just training fodder to get you to be

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more like him.

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And that's so cool. Right? So the pressure's off. It's not like God,

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you don't get to heaven.

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He said,

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I expected $1.3 billion of total profits over your lifetime and you missed it

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by a hundred thousand.

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I'm sure that conversation never happens in heaven, you know,

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but he will have, Oh, I love how you became like me.

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And so Graham and I've been having this whole conversation around,

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that's cool. You know,

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how do we train leaders to live from heaven to earth?

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Cause our training right now is exactly how we're going to live in heaven.

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It's not going to change. And so we, we act like, well, this is all temporary.

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And then this will go away and then it will be different in heaven.

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But this is training.

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This is how it is in heaven. And so that raises a lot of,

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it has fascinating implications.

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So maybe someday we'll dive into all that and talk about the complete,

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it's a completely different paradigm.

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Very cool. Very cool. Rebecca, you want to pray us in,

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then we'll get the party started. Yeah, let's do it. Oh, heavenly father.

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Thank you for this time together tonight, Lord.

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Thank you for your faithfulness for your presence, Lord.

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I just pray that you would prepare us with expectant hearts tonight, Lord,

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help us tune in with the spiritual eyes and ears.

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We need to glean everything you have for us.

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I pray that you bless Dion and Ray as they minister to us tonight, Lord.

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And we just pray for an increase of wisdom and discernment, Lord,

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more knowledge and understanding as we lean in, as we,

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as we press into trust your guidance, Lord, we love you.

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We give you all the praise in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen. Awesome. Well, Deanna, I'll let you take it away.

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Well, this is such a fun setting that we can really get into this.

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What I want to share tonight is a one of my most used kingdom habits that I have,

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and that I learned in a very tough way. And, and I'm really happy to share it with you guys

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tonight. But I'm also aware, I haven't shared this very often, but I'm also aware that it

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takes a minute to catch on to what we're talking about. So it's a small group, so just jump in and,

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you know, just chat away and we can make this more of a conversation than a training or a talk.

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So firstly, I just wanted to say that the way I came across this, and I've called this the

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acceleration effect, or the kingdom acceleration effect. And so I was, you know, I was the sort of

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guy who believed, you know, the fallacy, which incidentally, you know, Elon believes too,

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if you work 80 hours a week, and your competitor works 40 hours a week, you're going to go twice

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as fast. And, you know, maybe that works for him. And that's great. But I was that guy who worked

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like that nonstop. So it was not uncommon for me in an average week to, you know, work through the

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night. And my family got very used to it. And so one time, you know, and this is up till fairly

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recently, till maybe six or seven years ago. And there was one time over a 10 day period, I slept

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two hours a night, at Monday, Monday through Sunday. So literally, I was working 22 hours,

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sleeping two, and, and my record is 10 days, sleeping one hour a night. See, these are all

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the wrong badges of honor. And, but I thought I'd just, you know, talk about how clumsy I was

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in learning this, because somewhere in my assumptions, I gained the idea, and took this

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concept of stewardship, instead of partnership to the next level. See, to be a stewardship is a

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101 principle in the kingdom, partnership and friendship. You know, you can't get to this

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level of partnership with a servant mindset. You know, that's why Jesus said, I don't call you

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servants, but I call you friends. And the reason is servants don't know, and understand the Master's

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business. And if you're going to be about the Father's business, you need to understand,

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therefore, you need to be upgraded to friend mode, because it's only in friend mode that you

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can function at that level. And then Jesus went on that beautiful promise, and I will teach you

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everything the Father has taught me. Well, we've covered over these last few months, several of

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those core ideas. But where this lands us in a very practical place, is that this idea of kingdom

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acceleration, for me was the missing key, that really amplified my effectiveness as a leader,

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so that I didn't have to work these crazy hours. And, but I also needed to know that, because I

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kept feeling like, man, I'm just going to burn out for Jesus. And I almost, well, I actually did it

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40, and had to take, you know, a very long period, nine months off. And so I've been down this road

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of being the workaholic, super hardworking. And I would focus so intensely on what I was doing,

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because I felt that was the way I showed the Lord that, you know, I was worthy. And so, you know,

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sad story that, especially from a guy who was supposed to be a pastor, no better, right? So,

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but I do remember these times working through, and the one night I was working through the night,

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the next I was exhausted, I had this huge report that I had to deliver. And it was 80 pages, and I

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was doing everything I was supposed to do. You know, and being an academic, I've written large

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papers before, this didn't frighten me, the research didn't frighten me. And so I was, but

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instead of just delighting what I was doing, it was, I was just, I was just done with it. Do you

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ever get to that moment? Like, okay, there's got to be another way, I'm done with it. And sometimes

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I think we have to come to those moments to break through into our whole new revelation.

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So that night, in my frustration, I found myself praying differently. And I said, Father,

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I don't want to just work harder anymore. There's, what am I missing? And the Lord said,

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if you, if you'll let me, I'll teach you, right, just like he promised he would do in, you know,

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Matthew 11, I will teach you and learn from me. So, you know, while I'm sitting there,

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and I'm thinking about John two comes to mind, and Jesus turning water into wine.

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And here is the epiphany moment.

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It struck me, Jesus didn't create the wine from nothing.

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He accelerated a natural process.

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Now, yes, he converted the water into wine.

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There's no natural process for doing that,

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so there was a miracle element.

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But he accelerated a natural process

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that normally takes years, and he did it instantly.

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So he didn't just create something from nothing,

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he transformed something that was available.

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What was available?

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Water.

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What was needed?

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Wine.

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How many times what we need and what we have

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are two very different things.

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You know, when my kids were growing up,

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I never let them use the phrase, I did my best,

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because that was a complete delusional nonsense.

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And so, because how do you know what your best is?

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You mean you tried hard, sure, I get that.

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But, you know, I always say to the kids,

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this was required, this is what you did.

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So you didn't do what was required,

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but whether you did your best or not,

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this is what was required.

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And often our best and what's required

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are not the same thing.

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And you see this again with Jesus

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is teaching the disciples this.

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So the loaves and fishes, which story we all know well,

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but take this now into a business context.

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That miracle of taking a few loaves and a few fish

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and feeding 5,000 people took hours,

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and it happened in the hands of the disciples.

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For hours, they're taking the little they have

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and producing what's needed, what's required.

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They took the little they have

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and delivered what was required.

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And the people ate to their full, so much so,

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there were 12 baskets left over.

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There was an abundance.

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When we go into this mode with the Lord,

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because it's not up to us to deliver what's required,

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but our yoke partnership,

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our partnership with Him can deliver this.

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And shortly after that particular story,

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they get in a boat,

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they have to cross the lake or whatever it was,

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and it's in John 6, the story there,

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and instantly they arrive at the other side.

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When Jesus gets in the boat,

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you have an instantaneous acceleration.

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And suddenly I started to wake up

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to this upstairs kingdom reality

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that God is a massive accelerator.

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Jesus is called the quickening spirit.

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And so this was my big epiphany moment

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that downstairs I can use fantastic productivity tools

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and being a student and a learner and my whole life,

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I can refine those tools.

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But upstairs, when Jesus gets involved,

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when Jesus gets in the boat, acceleration happens.

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And it doesn't just accelerate for acceleration's sake,

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He takes whatever is, whatever's in your hand,

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and He accelerates it to what's needed.

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And so what was needed to feed 5,000

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was many, many truckloads of food for 5,000.

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some theologians think it was 15,000

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because they were obviously women and children there,

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so maybe it was more than 5,000.

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at that point it doesn't matter.

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And that's the point in the kingdom.

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When you partner with the Lord in this way,

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when your expectation lines up with Him,

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so then I became fascinated with,

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okay, can I do this every day?

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So the next day I approach my work super differently, right?

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So instead of just praying for help with my work

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or praying for wisdom or praying that He'll bless it,

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you know, the usual, you know, the usual prayers.

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but it felt mechanical.

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like, Lord, how would you approach this problem?

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or help or energy to solve it myself.

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was absolutely remarkable.

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Solutions like I'd never seen before

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just became obvious to me.

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where I was stuck.

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how would have I solved that?

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that what was taking me months started taking me weeks

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or started taking weeks, started taking days.

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after I started spending a lot of time with Graham.

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to speak at our leadership event.

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on it for a year, because that's what relational upstairs learning is like, you know, every

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time you go back to the phrase, you've grown, you're at a higher level.

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and more territory for you.

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weeks takes days, what should have taken days takes hours.

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I mean, this has now become so entrenched in my life, that if I have to prepare something,

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and I think it's going to take two hours, and I tell my wife, Bridget, you know, I'm

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going to be gone for two hours.

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I'll get the tea ready, you know, and sure enough, 10 or 12 minutes later, I'm back and

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So let me share with you three keys I've learned from the Lord.

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So talk about direct learning and a talk about direct learning.

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Giving a talk about how I learned something directly is, is a fun thing to do.

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So look, I think for most of us as leaders, you know, we increase our impact through three

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conventional methods, right?

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If we have to take on bigger loads and do more, we either work longer hours, as I was

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doing, or hire more people, which I was doing.

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And most of them were professional people.

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And all three, we just, you know, continue to search and hunt for the latest productivity

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hacks, now AI tools and various other things.

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But what if we discover that Jesus actually has a completely different approach, that

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he wants in on the partnership, that he wants in on the relationship, he wants to do it

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with you.

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He's not saying he's not saying, well, you know, that we've talked, we've joked before

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that the one prayer that God doesn't like answering, Lord, give me this, I can go and

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do that.

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Because that just leaves him out, right?

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And he's like, and I'm not doing that, you know, I don't think he ever answers that prayer,

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actually.

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Unless he does on a rare occasion.

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But that's not his favorite prayer, for sure.

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And so what happens is when we move out of this, okay, it doesn't matter what I can do,

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and then it's all about being a good steward, and then stewarding myself and my time and

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my resources and my talents and my treasure and blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, the

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problem with that is that's really small.

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I mean, it's not wrong.

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It's just the starter kit.

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But there's a place in God we step into in business, in which we step into a true partnership,

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the Matthew 11 yoke, take my yoke upon you, take my partnership.

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And what's sweet about that, he says, you know, and learn from me.

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And then he says, for I'm lowly of heart, that means I will speak to you at the level

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you're at.

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I won't speak above your head.

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I won't say things you don't understand, I'll make it obvious to you.

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And you notice the word velocity in there, right?

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So the Kingdom Velocity Framework comes down to three things that I do all the time.

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Invitation.

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I start off my day or situation, and I say, I'm inviting you into this thing.

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Lord, I know you want to do it with me.

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And it's amazing how kind he is.

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And he waits for us in that same verse, when he said, and learn from me, for I'm lowly

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of heart, and I am humble.

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The humble part is he just waits.

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He loves it when you ask.

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He's bound himself to that parameter.

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this.

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I don't know how to explain it, but what I couldn't see, I can now see.

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I'm now doing what's needed, no longer just working hard and doing my best.

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It takes it away from me trying to get to.

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somewhere, and he just jumps in the boat, and we're there, and

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suddenly it's obvious. And then the third thing, which took me

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longer to learn, so invitation, alignment, and then

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amplification. How do I make this a kingdom normal

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experience, this idea of multiplication of results, this

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idea of multiplication, in which he gives you back your time, in

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which he gives you back your peace, and you find rest for

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your soul. This is a whole beautiful way to do business in

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the kingdom. Two kingdom leaders have that lightness about them,

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right? And because his partnership is easy, and the

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burden we carry together is light. And that's the part

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that's the sign that we're getting to this place, that this

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place, firstly, it exists. He loves it. He's all in on it. But

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it takes us to invite him. It's not like he's not in our hearts.

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Of course, he's in our hearts, he's in our lives. But he wants

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in on the detail. And he wants, he wants us to draw him in. So

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that that's number one is this, this kingdom velocity framework,

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invite, align, amplify. Number two was, let me talk for a

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minute, it's a different mindset, what I just called

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simply the acceleration mindset. This, you know, when I explain

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this to people, and especially when I started training, our own

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team on this, there were there were there was so much pushback

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around the idea of, you know, I'm not there yet, or I can't do

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that. Or, you know, I don't know if I can hear the Lord so

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clearly. And it's actually doesn't involve that. Remember,

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you said it'd be lowly, he knows what you can hear what you

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can't, and he will engage at whatever level you're at. So

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it's not about what you can do or what you cannot do. It's what

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he can do with you. That's the key. So this endless searching

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for the next private productivity hack is fine. And

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it's interesting, but we don't shouldn't have to be so

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dependent on it. You know, constantly analyzing and pushing

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myself and team to the brink of burnout and all that stuff. But

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my biggest breakthrough came when I realized that this kind

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of thing, I kept when I wrote wired, which you can see over my

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shoulder, I think some of you have it, I kept using the word

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supernatural, the supernatural ability to do this, the

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supernatural ability to do that. And when I asked Graham to write

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the foreword for the book, which he graciously did, he said, I

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only have one problem with it. I loved it. I love the way you

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explain the new creation. I love the way you went through it. But

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I don't like that word supernatural. I said, Well, I'm

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just trying to explain that it's an upstairs thing that's not

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natural. It's above the natural, hence, supernatural. And so he

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asked me the simple question, is it supernatural for God to do

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that stuff? I said, No. So it's natural to him, then? Yes. But

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as he is, so are you in the world. So it should become

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natural to you, like your new natural. And so as we've

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developed that theme over the years, we've come to use the

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language kingdom, normal, it's normal in the kingdom to do

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this. This isn't one day when you big, one day when you

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advanced, when you have some degree in theology, or whatever,

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there's no criteria that there's nothing that disqualifies you

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from doing this. The only requirement is that you're in

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this yo partnership, that you come to him, you can't come in

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stress and burnout, we've covered all that before. Rest

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activates this mode. So God is interested in your professional

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growth and your productivity in your product development, your

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customer service and your financial reports, everything as

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is in your spiritual growth to him, they all want in the same

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thing. It's because it's all about you. And he's, and he's

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fixated on you, because he adores you. So key number three,

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then we'll get into a chat is I've, I've seen that many people

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disqualify themselves based on, well, this doesn't work in my

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industry. So you don't understand I'm in construction,

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or I'm in and they've got some field or another that's

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supposedly disqualifies this from working. You know, Jesus

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was in carpentry and fishing. And he worked with a bunch of

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fishermen, he worked with the simplest of people. And, you

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know, and it worked there. So it's really interesting, or my

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team, you know, my team, not very spiritual, no, they don't

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know the Lord, none of that matters. None of that matters.

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That's not the criteria, just that the leader is in a yoke

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partnership with the Lord, that's it. Or, you know, their

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circumstances, man, I don't I don't have time to change the

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way I think I don't have time to change the way my working

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memories already set. I have too many urgent demands. I don't

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have time for a new approach, you know, or just simply, I'm

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not mature enough. So all of that comes down to what's at

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under all these disqualifications. One compartmentalization, that my spiritual

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life is here, my work life is here, and that they're not integrated as one in the same thing.

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Two, maybe a control addiction, a sense of fear that if I don't manage every little detail,

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it won't work out right. There's a trust that your yoke partner can do it. And three is scarcity

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thinking, thinking that we're operating from the limitations of what's in my hand.

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Well, I've got a few loaves and a few fishes, so let me see. So there's five people. Well,

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if we divide that by five, we can give everyone two fifths of a fish and whatever, that stuff,

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as opposed to, well, I'll give you all the fish and all the bread, and then I look up and my

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hands full again, and I'll give you all the fish and all the bread, and I'll look up again.

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And I can do that for hour after hour after hour. What a remarkable training lesson. I can imagine

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the conversations Jesus had with the disciples about this. So I put together just a simple

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little worksheet, which I know we haven't normally done, worksheets, and to give you a little,

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to get you started down this road, because for me, this is probably one of the most

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precious things that I do every single day, mostly all day long. And even though I know this,

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and even though I've just taught it, you know, and we've just gone through this,

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I can't tell you how many times I'll struggle for an hour and then think of it.

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You'd think I know by now, but evidently not. So it's just, you know, whether it's complex finance

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where I can't balance something, or I'm trying to crack a technical issue, or I'm trying to

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think through a breakthrough idea, or whatever it is. And then I just invite the Lord, and I just

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create that alignment. How do you see this? How do you look at this? And just let Him talk in whatever

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way He wants. And sometimes I just keep working, and it just happens. And other times, He says,

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get up, stop what you're doing. Now, one time, and it's happened not one time, it's happened a few

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occasions, but not often, the Lord said, we're not working on that today. And that's usually when I

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want to remind him about deadlines, because he doesn't understand, etc. You know, because you

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know how he doesn't know anything. Yeah. So you know how you explain to God. So, but my favorite

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story about that was, I was in partnership with somebody whose brother was running for President

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of the United States at the time. And there was a very high profile client. And I had to deliver

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this product, all that just to say that it was extremely serious to me. And, and I had to have

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the report at 9am, Eastern Time, on their day, and they're a big law firm at, and he's the senior

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00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:05.760
partner, and I had to deliver it to him by 9am. And sorry, by 5pm, the sorry, 5pm, get my story

466
00:28:05.760 --> 00:28:13.360
straight. The night before the things in a mess. And I said, I sit down with Bridget and I say,

467
00:28:13.360 --> 00:28:18.560
if I work for 12 hours straight, and all the research goes perfect, and all the financial

468
00:28:18.560 --> 00:28:23.360
modeling goes perfect. And all the and I go through all that has to be perfect. Maybe I'll

469
00:28:23.360 --> 00:28:27.280
have it done at 10am. But then I still have to reread it, it's probably gonna be a 100 page

470
00:28:27.280 --> 00:28:34.480
document, blah, blah, blah, to get it to them by five is going to be nightmarish. But I can trust

471
00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:38.080
the Lord and he can be the accelerator. And I'm, you know, some of the things we're talking about

472
00:28:38.080 --> 00:28:42.800
here. And so I go to the Lord, and the Lord says, you'd need to have a good night's sleep.

473
00:28:43.520 --> 00:28:47.920
And we'll hit in the morning. I said, No, no, Lord, I was counting on those 12 hours.

474
00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:53.920
And I was no, no, you'll be fine. So I get up really early. And so I go and sit down,

475
00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:56.880
I said, I'm ready to go. And the Lord said, Oh, no, you're fine. You know, take it easy.

476
00:28:57.520 --> 00:29:02.800
And, and so then the Lord said to me, Do you trust me? I said, I trust you, Lord. So he said, Okay,

477
00:29:03.760 --> 00:29:10.000
here's the trust. I want you to go and read a book until I tell you when and I said,

478
00:29:11.360 --> 00:29:18.400
No. So my wife comes down, she stares at me, I'm lying on the couch, on the sofa, and she says,

479
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:23.280
What are you doing? I said, I'm, I'm reading a book. You know, I think I'm half tearing the

480
00:29:23.280 --> 00:29:29.520
pages out because I'm like, so wound up. And I'm trusting the Lord, you know, that was hilarious.

481
00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:36.880
So anyway, so she says, Okay, so she goes off, she comes back, it's one in the one in the afternoon,

482
00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:41.600
I'm still lying on the couch reading the book. He hasn't, he's just said, Trust me, enjoy your book.

483
00:29:41.600 --> 00:29:46.240
I don't even know what the book was. I'm not sure I read it much. So now it's four o'clock. And I

484
00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:52.880
think this is great. I got one hour to go. And the senior lawyer calls my phone rings, his name comes

485
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:59.760
up. And I pick up the I pick up the phone and I'm just dying. And he says,

486
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.920
Man, I am so sorry to make this call.

487
00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:03.760
I said, what's wrong?

488
00:30:03.760 --> 00:30:05.920
He says, you've probably been going flat out,

489
00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:07.520
knowing you, you've put all this effort in.

490
00:30:07.520 --> 00:30:09.880
We gave you such a short deadline on this.

491
00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:11.160
We're not gonna need that report

492
00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:12.720
for about two or three weeks.

493
00:30:15.040 --> 00:30:16.060
Here's the coolest thing.

494
00:30:16.060 --> 00:30:19.460
I said to the law, so now I'm really impressed

495
00:30:19.460 --> 00:30:21.280
with the law and I'm really thrilled

496
00:30:21.280 --> 00:30:22.320
that I've trusted him.

497
00:30:22.320 --> 00:30:26.360
And it was like, you know, you have to pass a test

498
00:30:26.360 --> 00:30:29.440
to get a testimony, you know, as Graham says, right?

499
00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:31.120
You can't have a testimony without a test.

500
00:30:31.120 --> 00:30:33.760
So I'm feeling very proud of myself at this moment.

501
00:30:33.760 --> 00:30:36.680
And the law said, oh, one more thing.

502
00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:37.760
I said, what's that, Lord?

503
00:30:37.760 --> 00:30:40.500
He said, I don't want you to ever write that report.

504
00:30:42.120 --> 00:30:45.040
And sure enough, two weeks later, I get another call.

505
00:30:45.040 --> 00:30:47.240
You know, we're just not gonna go down that road.

506
00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:48.080
Don't worry about it.

507
00:30:48.080 --> 00:30:50.120
Because they were asking me to help them

508
00:30:50.120 --> 00:30:52.660
make an acquisition on the company.

509
00:30:52.660 --> 00:30:55.240
And I had written this whole report and justification.

510
00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:58.440
So they decided not to pursue that acquisition.

511
00:31:00.080 --> 00:31:04.000
That's how I learned this stuff, right in the firing zone.

512
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:05.400
So there's the story.

513
00:31:07.520 --> 00:31:09.200
I'm so grateful to hear this.

514
00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:11.420
I'm so grateful that others go through

515
00:31:11.420 --> 00:31:13.540
this same kind of thing.

516
00:31:14.520 --> 00:31:18.960
Because I've had, not the quote unquote report,

517
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:20.560
but the thing that just didn't make sense.

518
00:31:20.560 --> 00:31:21.920
Lord, you don't understand.

519
00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:28.480
I mean, it's been, I've had so many instances of that

520
00:31:30.320 --> 00:31:35.320
of, I don't know if I can give a rough example here,

521
00:31:35.760 --> 00:31:40.760
but things that seem very cataclysmic.

522
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:46.400
What do you want me, what are we doing about this?

523
00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:47.880
Nothing.

524
00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:50.280
And it just disappears.

525
00:31:50.280 --> 00:31:55.280
I've had two different instances of massive importance

526
00:31:56.280 --> 00:31:59.520
that just disappeared.

527
00:31:59.520 --> 00:32:01.080
I'm like, what are we doing about this?

528
00:32:01.080 --> 00:32:02.200
Nothing.

529
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:04.160
I'm like, is it gonna come back?

530
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:05.400
No.

531
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:06.960
Do I need to do anything?

532
00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:08.180
No.

533
00:32:08.180 --> 00:32:10.320
And it just disappeared.

534
00:32:10.320 --> 00:32:12.480
And I'm like, all right.

535
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:15.840
It's just so cool to hear the same levels of stress

536
00:32:15.840 --> 00:32:18.240
that he puts me through.

537
00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:19.080
Yeah.

538
00:32:19.080 --> 00:32:22.360
And this is a good thing you bring up there, Ray.

539
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:25.840
Because at some point it has to become joyful.

540
00:32:25.840 --> 00:32:29.040
This has to, at some point, become a delight to us.

541
00:32:29.040 --> 00:32:31.200
It was a test because I was a baby in the Lord

542
00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:33.120
and I was a baby in this thing.

543
00:32:33.120 --> 00:32:34.440
I wasn't a baby in the Lord.

544
00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:37.840
But I was, as you know, I just had my spiritual birthday

545
00:32:37.840 --> 00:32:40.360
two weeks ago, 48 years of walking with the Lord.

546
00:32:40.360 --> 00:32:41.800
So yeah, yeah.

547
00:32:41.800 --> 00:32:44.200
So with spiritual mentors and father-

548
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.000
Between the two of us, we're at 50.

549
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:47.360
Sorry?

550
00:32:47.360 --> 00:32:49.480
Between the two of us, we're at 50.

551
00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:51.200
That's right, that's right.

552
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:53.160
Just like me and Elon gave a billion dollars.

553
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:55.760
I gave a hundred dollars and he also participated.

554
00:32:55.760 --> 00:33:00.760
And so, but here's what the Lord said to me.

555
00:33:01.600 --> 00:33:03.200
As that started to progress, he said,

556
00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:05.920
hey, hey, I don't want you to be in that mode

557
00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:08.120
of always feeling you're passing a test.

558
00:33:08.120 --> 00:33:10.600
What if we did it from delight?

559
00:33:10.600 --> 00:33:12.640
And then when I started to become delightful,

560
00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:16.280
then I discovered that I had to change my theology

561
00:33:16.280 --> 00:33:20.440
to encapsulate God's sense of humor.

562
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:22.760
He is so funny, you know?

563
00:33:22.760 --> 00:33:26.840
He has such a delightful sense of humor and he's a tease.

564
00:33:26.840 --> 00:33:30.480
And he, you know, and he laughs at certain things.

565
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:32.120
He teases me on certain things.

566
00:33:32.120 --> 00:33:35.560
There's always kindness, obviously, it's never unkind.

567
00:33:35.560 --> 00:33:39.520
But I realized that sometimes the conversations

568
00:33:39.520 --> 00:33:40.960
go a little more like this now

569
00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:43.040
that I've been doing it for a while.

570
00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:44.720
What's it now?

571
00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:46.920
11 years I've been practicing this thing.

572
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:48.320
So it's not that long.

573
00:33:48.320 --> 00:33:51.600
So, you know, then he'll goes more like,

574
00:33:51.600 --> 00:33:54.400
so what if I just take care of this?

575
00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:01.120
But there's a deal then, you have to go and take a nap.

576
00:34:01.120 --> 00:34:03.320
You know, there's like, he's got some funny thing

577
00:34:03.320 --> 00:34:04.600
he adds to it.

578
00:34:04.600 --> 00:34:09.600
I do tell one more story, which was really a moment for me.

579
00:34:09.600 --> 00:34:13.040
So I assume we're recording these,

580
00:34:13.040 --> 00:34:14.800
so I'll leave out the big names

581
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:16.360
because you will know these names.

582
00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:20.719
But anyway, so a very large franchise group

583
00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:22.719
were looking for capital.

584
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:25.320
And at that time I was part of a group of partnership

585
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:27.000
and we provided capital

586
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:29.120
and we'd come up with a brand new product

587
00:34:29.120 --> 00:34:30.960
to allow emerging.

588
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:32.880
So when somebody had 200 stores or so

589
00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:35.120
and they're trying to get to a thousand stores

590
00:34:35.120 --> 00:34:36.280
or trying to get to 2000,

591
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:38.560
when you get 2000, you become a national brand.

592
00:34:38.560 --> 00:34:40.760
So how did they get capital for that?

593
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:42.120
Because they're not big enough to go to the bank.

594
00:34:42.120 --> 00:34:44.440
Banks can't lend them money, they're too small.

595
00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:46.360
So where do they get their growth capital from?

596
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:47.920
Well, that's why they create franchises.

597
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:50.960
So they use your capital to do it and so on, right?

598
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:52.880
So franchise is a great idea.

599
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:54.560
So, but we came up with a way

600
00:34:54.560 --> 00:34:56.520
and help them do it in chunks of a thousand.

601
00:34:56.520 --> 00:34:59.320
So we were doing these pretty big loans.

602
00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:00.160
And so.

603
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.260
So the CEO of this group asked me if I would come and present this whole thing.

604
00:35:04.260 --> 00:35:05.700
I'd been working with him for months.

605
00:35:06.300 --> 00:35:08.880
So I got about 80 something slides ready to go.

606
00:35:09.140 --> 00:35:11.880
And it's the board meeting and, and you go around and introduce

607
00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:15.540
it, all the board members into, there's a big board there, about 15 people.

608
00:35:16.120 --> 00:35:19.040
And I mean, it's like the senior partner of this massive law firm.

609
00:35:19.040 --> 00:35:23.880
And the, you know, this guy's ex-Price Wodehouse Coopers auditor, and

610
00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:28.080
this guy came from Goldman Sachs and they were like the who's who around the table.

611
00:35:28.340 --> 00:35:30.020
And so I get up to do my presentation.

612
00:35:30.020 --> 00:35:30.420
I'm very excited.

613
00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:35.300
I'm not intimidated by them, but something was bothering me in this mode.

614
00:35:35.780 --> 00:35:39.980
Cause I can tell when he's up to it, you know, Lord, you're up to something I can

615
00:35:39.980 --> 00:35:47.580
tell, and so I get up fantastic boardroom, beautiful screen behind me first slides

616
00:35:47.580 --> 00:35:53.140
up and the Lord says to me, don't say a word, but they're all looking at me.

617
00:35:54.120 --> 00:35:58.400
So I'm adjusting my computer and everyone's like, yeah, we can see the

618
00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:04.480
screen, you can get going and I'm just, and I can literally hear him laughing.

619
00:36:04.720 --> 00:36:08.600
I mean, he's laughing so hard, but in kind laughter, like, don't worry, I got this.

620
00:36:08.600 --> 00:36:11.840
I got this, but I want to just, so I said, Lord, you're just letting me

621
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:13.480
squirm for a few minutes, aren't you?

622
00:36:13.900 --> 00:36:17.360
So then one of the, one of the board members turns to us and says, before he

623
00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:21.320
starts, I have a question, throws this question out, they get into this rigorous

624
00:36:21.380 --> 00:36:23.620
conversation for about 40 minutes.

625
00:36:24.300 --> 00:36:28.900
The whole thing resolves beautifully at a much higher level than I was going to ask

626
00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:29.260
for.

627
00:36:29.820 --> 00:36:33.620
And so they said, Oh, sorry, what was going on with your presentation?

628
00:36:33.620 --> 00:36:35.660
I said, no, that's basically what I was going to say.

629
00:36:35.660 --> 00:36:38.140
And you guys landed at the same conclusion.

630
00:36:38.140 --> 00:36:39.680
So the guy goes, so that's the deal then.

631
00:36:39.700 --> 00:36:40.580
Well, let's vote on it.

632
00:36:40.780 --> 00:36:41.540
They vote on it.

633
00:36:41.580 --> 00:36:42.380
It passes.

634
00:36:42.580 --> 00:36:45.860
The CEO looks at me like astonished.

635
00:36:45.900 --> 00:36:49.220
And he says, can you, he gives me the sign to stay behind.

636
00:36:49.400 --> 00:36:52.680
So they all leave to go off to this beautiful place where we're all going to

637
00:36:52.680 --> 00:36:53.600
go and have lunch.

638
00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:58.960
And, and he says to me, and he looks at me and he says, I have no idea how you

639
00:36:58.960 --> 00:36:59.760
pulled that off.

640
00:37:00.600 --> 00:37:01.920
You didn't say a word.

641
00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:03.840
And I can literally hear the Lord laughing.

642
00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:07.360
And I said, Lord, this is a double whammy because now he thinks I did something.

643
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:08.160
I did nothing.

644
00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:09.080
You did it all.

645
00:37:09.640 --> 00:37:11.480
And then he thinks I'm a genius.

646
00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:12.680
And the Lord says, you are a genius.

647
00:37:12.680 --> 00:37:13.440
You did nothing.

648
00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:14.900
You did what I asked.

649
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:16.720
And that makes us such great partners.

650
00:37:16.740 --> 00:37:22.580
He was having so much fun and I just learned to delight in that, you know?

651
00:37:22.660 --> 00:37:23.340
That's awesome.

652
00:37:24.020 --> 00:37:26.980
So anyway, that's, that's my most intense ones.

653
00:37:27.020 --> 00:37:28.380
That's my most intense story.

654
00:37:28.380 --> 00:37:33.180
I don't have a worse one than that, but, uh, that was pretty, pretty brutal.

655
00:37:34.140 --> 00:37:34.540
That's all.

656
00:37:34.540 --> 00:37:39.260
After you face that, it's like, whatever, you know, so.

657
00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:45.300
And it's, and it's so, it's so cool for you guys to, you know, to hear this, you

658
00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:50.440
know, these stories you've heard some of these kinds of stories from me, um, you

659
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:54.400
know, being told to raise my hand in the middle of a keynote and, you know, like

660
00:37:54.440 --> 00:38:01.680
very uncomfortable, um, but there, but he, he does, God does have a sense of humor.

661
00:38:02.040 --> 00:38:04.880
And I'll tell you one, you may not have heard this one.

662
00:38:05.200 --> 00:38:06.040
It's very light.

663
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:11.460
Um, but we're in North Carolina and we're supposed to have dinner with a client.

664
00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:17.280
And, um, Jess had wanted me to get Graham's haircut.

665
00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:19.160
I think some of you may have heard this.

666
00:38:19.160 --> 00:38:20.040
I don't think everyone now.

667
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:24.320
And, um, and so, you know, I Google everything's far away in North Carolina.

668
00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:26.480
Like it's like, you know, 25 minutes here or 30 minutes there.

669
00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:31.600
And so I, you know, I Google, I find a haircut place and, uh, And I'm looking

670
00:38:31.600 --> 00:38:34.240
at, I'm looking at the time I'm looking at how far away it is.

671
00:38:34.240 --> 00:38:36.480
And I'm like, I don't think this is going to work.

672
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:39.520
So, you know, I pray and like, Lord, should I take him and go get his haircut?

673
00:38:39.540 --> 00:38:40.040
Yes.

674
00:38:41.880 --> 00:38:42.380
Okay.

675
00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:42.980
All right.

676
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:47.600
And so, you know, we get, and you know, we, we go there and on the right over

677
00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:50.040
Graham's like, if I'm getting my haircut, I get a lollipop.

678
00:38:50.040 --> 00:38:51.240
I'm like, all right, you'll get a lollipop.

679
00:38:51.240 --> 00:38:56.920
You'll get like, and so, you know, we get there and we walk in and we, they

680
00:38:56.920 --> 00:38:58.400
look at us like we're crazy.

681
00:38:58.640 --> 00:39:00.360
Like, they're like, do you have an appointment?

682
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:01.880
And I'm like, uh, no.

683
00:39:02.200 --> 00:39:04.920
And they're like, yeah, you, yeah, you're not getting it today.

684
00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:08.040
And I'm thinking, man, Lord, you told me to come here.

685
00:39:08.300 --> 00:39:13.100
And I look over and Graham's grabbing a lollipop and I'm like, Lord, did

686
00:39:13.100 --> 00:39:14.520
you want Graham to have a lollipop?

687
00:39:14.580 --> 00:39:15.180
Yes.

688
00:39:16.560 --> 00:39:20.180
That's why he sent me there for Graham to get a lollipop.

689
00:39:20.620 --> 00:39:22.020
And I'm like, all right, fine.

690
00:39:23.700 --> 00:39:26.980
I think it's time to add playfulness into our theology.

691
00:39:26.980 --> 00:39:27.480
Yes.

692
00:39:27.580 --> 00:39:28.080
Yes.

693
00:39:28.380 --> 00:39:28.880
Yes.

694
00:39:29.060 --> 00:39:32.820
Why, if we're playful and we're in his image, don't we think he's playful?

695
00:39:32.980 --> 00:39:33.480
Right.

696
00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:37.020
I mean, you've got to look at a couple animals and saying, is that your day

697
00:39:37.120 --> 00:39:37.620
off Lord?

698
00:39:37.620 --> 00:39:39.560
Cause he looked, those, those things look weird.

699
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:40.460
Right.

700
00:39:40.460 --> 00:39:40.960
Right.

701
00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:42.600
Were you just having fun?

702
00:39:42.640 --> 00:39:43.140
Yeah.

703
00:39:43.140 --> 00:39:43.640
That's right.

704
00:39:44.080 --> 00:39:46.760
Were you, you made his nose so long, called him an elephant.

705
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:47.760
What was the thing?

706
00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:49.120
What was going through the mind?

707
00:39:49.120 --> 00:39:49.620
Yeah.

708
00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:55.880
I think, I think that's the, the, I think we cannot overstate the

709
00:39:55.880 --> 00:40:00.040
delight he has in us and when we catch that, when.

710
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.520
You catch His sheer delight, whether it's your business

711
00:40:03.520 --> 00:40:06.240
and your marriage or whatever it is, your life,

712
00:40:06.240 --> 00:40:08.200
He delights in you.

713
00:40:08.200 --> 00:40:11.040
And you know, old covenant teaching was,

714
00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:13.520
you delight yourself in the Lord.

715
00:40:13.520 --> 00:40:15.440
You meditate on the Lord day and night,

716
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:17.480
and then all these good things.

717
00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:20.120
But when you take that through the cross, it all flips.

718
00:40:20.120 --> 00:40:22.400
Because He delights in you,

719
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:25.400
and because He's written His law in your heart,

720
00:40:25.400 --> 00:40:28.640
you now share His delight in you.

721
00:40:28.680 --> 00:40:29.840
Lips.

722
00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:31.200
Because in the Old Testament,

723
00:40:31.200 --> 00:40:33.120
which of course we're not part of the Old Covenant

724
00:40:33.120 --> 00:40:34.480
because we aren't Jewish,

725
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:37.480
but we're included in Christ in the New.

726
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:39.480
But in the Old Covenant,

727
00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:42.280
everything is first you, then God.

728
00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:44.000
In the New, it's first God, then you.

729
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.240
Freely you've received, freely you give.

730
00:40:46.240 --> 00:40:48.640
Freely you've been forgiven, freely forgive others.

731
00:40:48.640 --> 00:40:53.040
Everything in the New Testament you're commanded to do

732
00:40:53.040 --> 00:40:55.200
is because He's already done it in you.

733
00:40:56.800 --> 00:40:58.320
Every single thing.

734
00:40:59.000 --> 00:40:59.920
There's not a single thing.

735
00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:02.640
We can get into all the complex theology,

736
00:41:02.640 --> 00:41:05.160
but basically what it comes down to

737
00:41:05.160 --> 00:41:09.520
is everything that the Lord asks of you

738
00:41:09.520 --> 00:41:11.640
in that context, in the New,

739
00:41:11.640 --> 00:41:14.280
is because He's already done it in you.

740
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:16.400
He's already, He doesn't start it

741
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:18.120
unless He's finished it first.

742
00:41:19.040 --> 00:41:20.320
I love that.

743
00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:22.080
That's God's logic.

744
00:41:22.080 --> 00:41:23.840
And so if He asks you to start a business,

745
00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:25.120
He's already finished it.

746
00:41:26.040 --> 00:41:27.600
Just saying.

747
00:41:27.600 --> 00:41:30.360
So Lord, you've been here before,

748
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:33.640
so I don't know how many of you

749
00:41:33.640 --> 00:41:37.480
have heard Graham's story about provision,

750
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:40.320
that using World War II's analogy.

751
00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:41.960
Have you heard that story?

752
00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:42.960
This may help some of you

753
00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:45.520
with some of your business stuff you're going through now.

754
00:41:45.520 --> 00:41:48.840
So in World War II, the advanced teams would go

755
00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:51.440
and they would bury the diesel and the food

756
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:53.080
and the water in the desert,

757
00:41:53.080 --> 00:41:56.000
and then they would provide a map with X marks the spot

758
00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.680
and send it back to the commanders

759
00:41:58.680 --> 00:42:01.440
so that they would know where to find the provision.

760
00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:03.880
And so that's a beautiful thing.

761
00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:06.000
God has already been to your tomorrow.

762
00:42:07.040 --> 00:42:09.080
He's already finished this business.

763
00:42:09.080 --> 00:42:11.760
He finished it before He started it.

764
00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:13.160
That's a great, you know,

765
00:42:13.160 --> 00:42:15.800
Jesus was slain before the foundation of the world.

766
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:18.440
That's God's sense of logic and timing.

767
00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:20.520
You know, He finished it and then He started it.

768
00:42:20.520 --> 00:42:23.000
So in your case, so the question is,

769
00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:25.280
Lord, where's X marks the spot?

770
00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:28.840
So the acceleration is also,

771
00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:31.160
sometimes you just go along and say,

772
00:42:31.160 --> 00:42:32.920
Lord, should I focus on this?

773
00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:36.240
No, no, you don't need to focus on that.

774
00:42:36.240 --> 00:42:38.200
Stay here, focus on this.

775
00:42:38.200 --> 00:42:39.760
And I've had the Lord say to me,

776
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:44.760
your mind is so, you know, bouncy at the moment.

777
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:46.160
Why don't we just take a break

778
00:42:46.160 --> 00:42:47.600
and come back to it in an hour?

779
00:42:47.600 --> 00:42:48.440
Settle down.

780
00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:50.240
Or we do it tomorrow.

781
00:42:50.240 --> 00:42:51.600
Which of course, then you want to explain

782
00:42:51.600 --> 00:42:53.440
that's even a shorter time to deliver it

783
00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:56.160
than if you started today.

784
00:42:56.160 --> 00:42:58.600
So it's like the little kid who arrived late at school

785
00:42:58.600 --> 00:43:00.360
and the teacher said, Johnny, why are you late?

786
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:01.400
He said, because we left late.

787
00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:02.760
She said, well, why didn't you leave earlier?

788
00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:05.080
I said, it was too late to leave earlier.

789
00:43:05.080 --> 00:43:06.800
So it's a bit like that, you know.

790
00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:07.960
You're explaining to the Lord,

791
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:10.480
Lord, we have to do this now.

792
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:11.480
So there you go.

793
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:15.960
If I can convey one thing to you,

794
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:19.040
make this business venture of yours

795
00:43:19.040 --> 00:43:20.760
and the Father's a delight.

796
00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:22.400
Don't go into servant mode

797
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:25.040
and I'm trying to be a good student and all that stuff.

798
00:43:25.040 --> 00:43:25.880
It's fine.

799
00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:27.680
It's in the Bible, I know that.

800
00:43:27.680 --> 00:43:29.800
There's a higher way though.

801
00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:32.800
And the higher way is do it with your friend.

802
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:35.400
Do it with your yoke friend and your yoke partnership

803
00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:36.960
and do it together.

804
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:41.960
And do that in a place of friendship and delight and laughter

805
00:43:42.600 --> 00:43:45.160
because all warriors of the faith

806
00:43:45.160 --> 00:43:48.800
learn to partner with God in laughter at some point.

807
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:50.120
Hmm.

808
00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:52.240
Yeah, you know,

809
00:43:53.160 --> 00:43:58.160
He's given me lots and lots of words

810
00:43:59.120 --> 00:44:02.480
about our business together.

811
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:04.640
Lots of promises, lots of words.

812
00:44:04.640 --> 00:44:09.480
And most days I'm like, Lord,

813
00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:12.360
am I supposed to be doing something additional today?

814
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:13.840
No.

815
00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:16.640
And like, okay, you've told me this

816
00:44:16.640 --> 00:44:19.920
and you're, I'm doing this.

817
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:20.840
Do you want?

818
00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:24.360
And then a few times I'll catch myself saying,

819
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:25.840
Lord, can I screw this up?

820
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:26.680
No.

821
00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:28.720
Okay.

822
00:44:28.720 --> 00:44:30.240
All right.

823
00:44:30.240 --> 00:44:32.080
Continue to guide me.

824
00:44:32.080 --> 00:44:35.240
And so it's just, you know, I love,

825
00:44:35.240 --> 00:44:38.360
I heard, I think I'm pretty sure I heard it from Graham

826
00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:42.280
about why did you make discipline a discipline?

827
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:45.040
You know, thank the Father for helping you

828
00:44:45.080 --> 00:44:47.080
to delight in that discipline.

829
00:44:47.080 --> 00:44:49.240
And I realized that's one of the things that God gave me

830
00:44:49.240 --> 00:44:51.560
is I do delight in routines.

831
00:44:51.560 --> 00:44:53.320
I delight in consistency.

832
00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:55.520
I delight in waking up and starting all over

833
00:44:55.520 --> 00:44:56.360
and doing all of it.

834
00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:58.200
Like I just had that.

835
00:44:58.200 --> 00:45:00.160
And I realized now.

836
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:07.000
The big difference between people that struggle with consistency and me is he gave me that delight.

837
00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:12.000
He didn't give me a lot of, I wasn't like naturally really good at a whole bunch of stuff.

838
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:17.000
I actually sucked at almost everything I've ever tried, but he delighted me in progress.

839
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:21.000
And I love progress. I love routines. I love the consistency.

840
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:30.000
And so I just, I don't, I don't look at what I do as discipline or tough or whatever. I love it.

841
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:38.000
I went through a very dark time at one point and I was, I was, I woke up, I was exhausted.

842
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:49.000
I had so much stuff going on at the time and it was 2016 and so much pressure to do so many big things.

843
00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:56.000
And, you know, we helped plant a church, we were running a school, I'm running two businesses, etc.

844
00:45:56.000 --> 00:46:02.000
And I've got a little kid in the middle of all that, you know, my three older ones are growing up.

845
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:06.000
And I'm just feeling the pressure and the Lord said, why?

846
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:09.000
So the Lord said, I have the perfect antidote for you.

847
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:13.000
There is a talk that will just really help you.

848
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:19.000
And I said, that's great, Lord. I don't even know if I can hear, just, can you just guide me to the talk?

849
00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:23.000
And after a while I found the website, but it's of our church.

850
00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:27.000
And he takes me a talk of a talk I did.

851
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:30.000
The sermon I have. He said, listen to that. That's a good sermon.

852
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:34.000
So I'm listening to it and it's like this whole running commentary in the background.

853
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:38.000
Oh, that's brilliant. That guy's genius. That guy's, that guy knows what he's talking.

854
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:43.000
So you should listen to him. And he's having a completely playful, wonderful time.

855
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:48.000
At the end, I'm crying with laughter. I'm rolling on the floor. My stomach's hurting.

856
00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:53.000
Only you, Lord, could do that, you know, and the joy of the Lord is your strength.

857
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:58.000
You know, so why would we ever say things like, oh, I can't wait till it's over.

858
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:04.000
No, no, you need joy now. I'll be happy when it's over. No, be happy now.

859
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:08.000
Be happy now because you need the strength now.

860
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:10.000
You don't need the strength when it's over.

861
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:16.000
So when we learn God's ways and how he is with us, it's a great question to ask the Lord.

862
00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:22.000
Lord, what is it you delight in me? Just give me, give me something.

863
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:28.000
You know, and many of us were taught, well, God's pretty ticked off with you most of the time.

864
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:31.000
And you're probably way behind the time of your development anyway.

865
00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:36.000
So whatever, you know, but it's not how he thinks at all.

866
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:41.000
He doesn't think like that. And that's why Jesus paid the price he did.

867
00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:45.000
So you don't have to think like that. Right.

868
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:48.000
Well, that was fun. Did you want to walk them through the worksheet?

869
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:52.000
I know we mentioned it, but I haven't. We can do it.

870
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:55.000
So the worksheet was just to be very straightforward.

871
00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:59.000
I tried to put on a page, but for some reason it ended up a little bit more.

872
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.000
But the idea was just so you didn't have to take notes.

873
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:07.000
I asked you to identify two acceleration opportunities that you might have, you know,

874
00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:13.000
in areas you feel stuck or where the progress just seems stupidly slow and necessarily slow.

875
00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:17.000
Pick two areas. Pick one if you like. And then what resource do you have?

876
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:21.000
So think of what's in your hand. You know, the loaves and fish example.

877
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:27.000
So, OK, Lord, I've got this, you know, but I need this much bigger thing.

878
00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:30.000
And then just apply that simple thing. So invite him in.

879
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:34.000
So invite his perspective and then alignment.

880
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:37.000
Let him speak to you in the way he wants.

881
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:40.000
And, you know, whether it's just you want to just keep working, you'll help me.

882
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:43.000
Will you make it clear? Would you want to do I need to stop?

883
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:46.000
Get get get him involved and then amplify it.

884
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:50.000
In other words, start to make this your kingdom normal, that you do this with everything.

885
00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:55.000
I know you do that, Ray. And I love that you do that all the time.

886
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:59.000
And, you know, you gave me you gave me a great distinction.

887
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:04.000
So I'll ask the question, hey, should I reach out to this person?

888
00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:09.000
Should I do this thing? Should I? I was not asking.

889
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:13.000
How would you approach this problem? How would you approach this?

890
00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:16.000
Would you reach out like that's that's a little that's a little different.

891
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:21.000
I feel like I feel like that's a that's a different. How would you approach this?

892
00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:24.000
I was not asking that open of a question.

893
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:31.000
I was I was coming up with tasks that I thought would, you know, were good ideas and saying, hey, should I do this? This is this.

894
00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:35.000
How would you approach this is very different.

895
00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:38.000
Yeah, because the second version is partner mode.

896
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:43.000
So think of an actual part. So so we're partners now in a business together. Right.

897
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:49.000
So you wouldn't call me and say, should I do this? And I sit there going, yes, no, no, yes, yes, no.

898
00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:53.000
Right. Yeah. You would say, how would you think about this? I was thinking this.

899
00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:59.000
Well, I might say to you, hey, sometimes say the Lord, how how should I think about this?

900
00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:00.000
And the Lord or.

901
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.960
What should I choose, A, B, or C?

902
00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:04.200
And I'll say, what would you like?

903
00:50:04.200 --> 00:50:06.120
And I say, you choose.

904
00:50:06.120 --> 00:50:07.600
Because sometimes no matter what you choose,

905
00:50:07.600 --> 00:50:10.040
he's going to be, well, he's going to be with you either way,

906
00:50:10.040 --> 00:50:11.480
but he's going to bless whatever you do.

907
00:50:11.480 --> 00:50:12.920
He blesses the work of your hand.

908
00:50:12.920 --> 00:50:15.080
Sometimes it's like blank check stuff, you know?

909
00:50:15.080 --> 00:50:18.200
And sometimes it's like, well, let me give you a shortcut.

910
00:50:18.200 --> 00:50:19.600
And then there's sometimes you do know

911
00:50:19.600 --> 00:50:21.920
you don't need to do this at all, right?

912
00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:24.120
No, but so-and-so put, or I put pressure on me,

913
00:50:24.120 --> 00:50:25.800
or I want to do this, or, and I'll say,

914
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:26.960
yeah, we don't need that.

915
00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:31.040
You see, you used great language earlier, you said we,

916
00:50:31.040 --> 00:50:33.120
not you and me.

917
00:50:33.120 --> 00:50:35.800
We're not in servant mode taking notes.

918
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:37.480
We're not taking a set of instructions

919
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:40.320
to go and execute, to come back and report to the master,

920
00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:42.920
see, I did all the things you said on the checklist.

921
00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:45.680
We're going together.

922
00:50:45.680 --> 00:50:46.720
We're partners.

923
00:50:46.720 --> 00:50:48.880
And that's what he called yoke.

924
00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:50.440
Such a clever word.

925
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:53.440
To hide the most beautiful, free thing in the universe

926
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:55.640
out of something that sounds like bondage.

927
00:50:56.520 --> 00:50:59.080
To the world, to the worldly minded, that sounds terrible.

928
00:50:59.080 --> 00:51:01.520
Oh, I haven't got a life, I'm all bound to God.

929
00:51:01.520 --> 00:51:03.000
Yeah, if you're bound to him, trust me,

930
00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:05.640
you're the freest person on the planet.

931
00:51:05.640 --> 00:51:08.000
So it's clever, yeah, yeah.

932
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:11.120
But to finish up on the little note there,

933
00:51:11.120 --> 00:51:12.120
so you can go through it.

934
00:51:12.120 --> 00:51:14.040
And so I just gave a quick checklist

935
00:51:14.040 --> 00:51:15.000
just to make sure you don't have

936
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:17.360
any of those acceleration blockers,

937
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:21.680
all those things that you could, you know,

938
00:51:21.680 --> 00:51:24.000
cause you to disqualify yourself.

939
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:26.200
So you can take a look at that.

940
00:51:26.200 --> 00:51:29.120
And then a quick seven day acceleration experiment.

941
00:51:29.120 --> 00:51:30.680
If you want to try this.

942
00:51:30.680 --> 00:51:33.000
So invite your yoke partner

943
00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:35.120
into a specific business challenge.

944
00:51:35.120 --> 00:51:38.840
Pick one, say, and then approach one activity

945
00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:40.640
with this acceleration mindset.

946
00:51:40.640 --> 00:51:42.600
So what is an acceleration mindset?

947
00:51:42.600 --> 00:51:46.840
It means I have an expectation that because you're involved,

948
00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:48.760
it's going to go really well.

949
00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:49.760
It's going to be accelerated,

950
00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:51.720
or it's going to get stopped or canceled or something,

951
00:51:51.720 --> 00:51:52.560
but it's going to happen.

952
00:51:52.560 --> 00:51:54.120
It's going to happen quick.

953
00:51:54.120 --> 00:51:56.640
And then, you know, you release.

954
00:51:56.640 --> 00:51:58.920
So you release the control.

955
00:51:58.920 --> 00:52:01.160
I don't have to control this decision.

956
00:52:01.160 --> 00:52:03.280
That was my biggest one, by the way.

957
00:52:03.280 --> 00:52:05.280
I really struggled with that in the beginning

958
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:07.360
because I felt like I wasn't being a good steward.

959
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:09.800
I was being irresponsible, blah, blah, blah.

960
00:52:09.800 --> 00:52:11.560
But I just remind you that responsibility

961
00:52:11.560 --> 00:52:14.400
and accountability are not fruits of the spirit.

962
00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:15.880
There are great downstairs words.

963
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:17.640
There are not upstairs ideas.

964
00:52:17.640 --> 00:52:20.400
Jesus took full responsibility for your life

965
00:52:20.400 --> 00:52:22.760
and your sin and everything about you.

966
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:25.520
And he held himself fully accountable to the Father.

967
00:52:25.520 --> 00:52:27.920
And the Holy Spirit takes full responsibility

968
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:30.880
that everything Jesus paid for, he will make yours.

969
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:34.120
And the Father holds him accountable to do that.

970
00:52:34.120 --> 00:52:37.160
So that's how it works in the kingdom.

971
00:52:37.160 --> 00:52:39.760
Maybe religion told you that that somehow was your job.

972
00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:41.000
Well, you're not the Holy Spirit.

973
00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:44.200
So good news, you just got freed of that responsibility.

974
00:52:44.200 --> 00:52:46.600
So this whole, I've got to be responsible, you know,

975
00:52:46.600 --> 00:52:48.080
that's true downstairs.

976
00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:50.520
Our team members in my team,

977
00:52:50.520 --> 00:52:52.360
I want them to be responsible and accountable

978
00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:53.800
to the standards and the policies

979
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:56.400
and things we run in our business, for sure.

980
00:52:56.400 --> 00:52:59.680
Upstairs, however, that's not how your yoke works.

981
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:03.200
That's a different ballgame.

982
00:53:03.200 --> 00:53:05.560
So if you integrate those two worlds,

983
00:53:05.560 --> 00:53:07.840
what if they became one thing?

984
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:10.920
Then you start to look for the impossible outcomes.

985
00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:13.080
And Ray, I think the reason the Lord's speaking

986
00:53:13.080 --> 00:53:15.800
to you about high impossible outcomes

987
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:17.320
is because he just wants you to know

988
00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:19.880
that that's exactly how he thinks about it.

989
00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:23.120
You asked, he answered.

990
00:53:23.120 --> 00:53:24.960
Yeah, yeah.

991
00:53:24.960 --> 00:53:27.200
Amazing we're able to hear that, though.

992
00:53:27.200 --> 00:53:28.360
Yeah.

993
00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:29.320
Yeah.

994
00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:32.720
So the question, when I hear a big answer,

995
00:53:32.720 --> 00:53:34.560
and it's way above where I am,

996
00:53:35.520 --> 00:53:39.640
my first question is, who do I need to become then, Lord,

997
00:53:39.640 --> 00:53:40.920
for us to go there?

998
00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:45.360
So a friend of mine, well, I suppose one might say

999
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:47.680
a friend of both of ours, Ray,

1000
00:53:47.680 --> 00:53:51.360
got this huge, huge prophetic word over his business.

1001
00:53:52.240 --> 00:53:54.520
And it was huge because it implied the business

1002
00:53:54.520 --> 00:53:56.480
would become a billion dollar business

1003
00:53:57.560 --> 00:54:00.240
and by simple calculation.

1004
00:54:00.240 --> 00:54:01.520
And he was very excited.

1005
00:54:01.520 --> 00:54:03.560
And then another prophet said the same thing.

1006
00:54:03.560 --> 00:54:06.360
And man, I flew to him.

1007
00:54:06.360 --> 00:54:08.240
I flew across the country to sit with him.

1008
00:54:08.240 --> 00:54:10.400
I was so concerned about this.

1009
00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:11.760
And I was involved in the business.

1010
00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:15.040
So I sat down with him and I said,

1011
00:54:15.080 --> 00:54:16.880
you cannot do this.

1012
00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:17.720
And he said, what?

1013
00:54:17.720 --> 00:54:19.560
These are great words and they came from big prophets.

1014
00:54:19.560 --> 00:54:21.200
I said, where's the governance in this?

1015
00:54:21.200 --> 00:54:22.080
There's no governance.

1016
00:54:22.080 --> 00:54:23.840
This thing has been flown around

1017
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:26.800
all throughout your organization like it's candy.

1018
00:54:26.800 --> 00:54:28.640
And it's reckless.

1019
00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:31.800
And I said, okay, so if God is saying

1020
00:54:31.800 --> 00:54:32.760
there's gonna be a billion dollar,

1021
00:54:32.760 --> 00:54:34.800
can you lead a billion dollar business?

1022
00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:37.120
Do you have the skill, the leadership, the ability?

1023
00:54:37.120 --> 00:54:38.560
And he said, no.

1024
00:54:38.560 --> 00:54:40.280
So I said, well, what a beautiful compliment

1025
00:54:40.280 --> 00:54:42.560
from the Lord that he's offered that to you.

1026
00:54:42.560 --> 00:54:43.960
The question is, what are you gonna do?

1027
00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:45.080
Do you think this team here

1028
00:54:45.080 --> 00:54:47.680
is gonna run a billion dollar business?

1029
00:54:47.680 --> 00:54:48.600
He said, no.

1030
00:54:48.600 --> 00:54:52.760
I said, okay, so when you put it in their hands

1031
00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:54.240
and because there's no governance,

1032
00:54:54.240 --> 00:54:55.200
there's no management,

1033
00:54:55.200 --> 00:54:57.400
there's no setting of proper expectations

1034
00:54:57.400 --> 00:55:00.160
and saying, okay, the Lord has laid out for us.

1035
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.360
an invitation to step into a big place.

1036
00:55:03.360 --> 00:55:06.600
So that means that with that came an invitation

1037
00:55:06.600 --> 00:55:10.240
for you, each of us personally, to step into a big place.

1038
00:55:10.240 --> 00:55:12.800
So that's gonna mean massive growth from you,

1039
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:14.240
massive growth from your team.

1040
00:55:14.240 --> 00:55:17.480
Some of them, it's rare that the team that started

1041
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:18.620
are the ones that finish it,

1042
00:55:18.620 --> 00:55:20.560
but in the kingdom it's possible.

1043
00:55:20.560 --> 00:55:23.320
So what does that mean?

1044
00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:26.460
That means we gotta go all in on that word.

1045
00:55:26.460 --> 00:55:27.760
Instead of throwing it around

1046
00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:29.800
like a bunch of children and candy,

1047
00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:33.800
why don't we rather take him seriously?

1048
00:55:33.800 --> 00:55:35.700
And so, okay, what does that mean then?

1049
00:55:35.700 --> 00:55:38.940
That means, so Father, let's start the program.

1050
00:55:38.940 --> 00:55:40.420
It's not up to me to get there,

1051
00:55:40.420 --> 00:55:41.800
but you're inviting me to go there

1052
00:55:41.800 --> 00:55:43.780
because you're asking, you're saying,

1053
00:55:43.780 --> 00:55:47.060
let's do that together, let me take you there.

1054
00:55:47.060 --> 00:55:49.760
Okay, what's the first thing you wanna do, Lord?

1055
00:55:51.140 --> 00:55:53.420
So that's a big thing, and I just wanna bring that up

1056
00:55:53.420 --> 00:55:56.540
because we have helped so many businesses

1057
00:55:56.560 --> 00:56:00.000
where they get a big word, it doesn't happen,

1058
00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:01.840
then they get a bigger word, that doesn't happen,

1059
00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:02.680
they get a bigger word.

1060
00:56:02.680 --> 00:56:03.720
This is believerism.

1061
00:56:03.720 --> 00:56:05.400
In fact, that's extreme believerism.

1062
00:56:05.400 --> 00:56:10.320
Believerism is when you believe something to be true,

1063
00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:12.440
but you don't grow up to the level

1064
00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:14.600
of what that word will bring that word in.

1065
00:56:14.600 --> 00:56:16.000
You just stay at your level

1066
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:17.800
and expect it to happen at this level.

1067
00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:19.520
That's believerism.

1068
00:56:19.520 --> 00:56:21.160
You don't become anyone new,

1069
00:56:21.160 --> 00:56:23.480
you just expect that thing miraculously to happen.

1070
00:56:23.500 --> 00:56:27.860
And it doesn't, because your rising pulls that word in.

1071
00:56:29.100 --> 00:56:30.220
Does that make sense?

1072
00:56:30.220 --> 00:56:31.660
So think of an X, Y axis.

1073
00:56:31.660 --> 00:56:33.620
On the X axis is the prophetic word.

1074
00:56:33.620 --> 00:56:36.100
Let's put a 10-story building.

1075
00:56:36.100 --> 00:56:37.000
I don't know, this is black,

1076
00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:38.860
so I have to pick something you can actually see

1077
00:56:38.860 --> 00:56:40.420
over there on the black and black background.

1078
00:56:40.420 --> 00:56:42.460
Okay, so here's the prophetic word,

1079
00:56:42.460 --> 00:56:45.380
here's the axis, here's what's sitting.

1080
00:56:45.380 --> 00:56:47.260
When you get a word, that means the Lord's saying,

1081
00:56:47.260 --> 00:56:50.260
I'm going to grow you to be a 10-story person

1082
00:56:50.260 --> 00:56:52.020
so that you can make this word.

1083
00:56:52.040 --> 00:56:55.520
And so what happens is, as you rise, you pull that word in.

1084
00:56:55.520 --> 00:56:59.520
David pulls New Testament worship

1085
00:56:59.520 --> 00:57:02.120
thousands of years into his time,

1086
00:57:02.120 --> 00:57:04.800
because he rose in worship into a certain level.

1087
00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:07.040
Man after God's heart, learned to worship.

1088
00:57:07.040 --> 00:57:10.920
If anyone else had gone into the Holy of Holies

1089
00:57:10.920 --> 00:57:13.280
and done that, they would have been killed instantly,

1090
00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:15.280
and many were, but not David.

1091
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:17.860
What happened there?

1092
00:57:17.860 --> 00:57:20.840
That's because David pulls in a prophetic word.

1093
00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:22.700
And so prophetic words are beautiful,

1094
00:57:22.700 --> 00:57:25.300
but they're really serious,

1095
00:57:25.300 --> 00:57:28.240
and they are beautiful compliments to you.

1096
00:57:28.240 --> 00:57:30.540
The Lord is saying, and so, you know,

1097
00:57:30.540 --> 00:57:32.100
when my friend got a little overwhelmed

1098
00:57:32.100 --> 00:57:34.140
because of my strong response,

1099
00:57:34.140 --> 00:57:36.940
I said to him, but it's a beautiful compliment to you.

1100
00:57:36.940 --> 00:57:38.300
It means you're capable.

1101
00:57:38.300 --> 00:57:40.260
That's why the invitation was made.

1102
00:57:40.260 --> 00:57:42.420
But the invitation doesn't mean

1103
00:57:42.420 --> 00:57:44.020
it's going to sit around passively,

1104
00:57:44.020 --> 00:57:46.140
and one day, miraculously, the fairy's going to come

1105
00:57:46.140 --> 00:57:46.960
and touch you on the head,

1106
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:49.660
and then it's going to be a billion-dollar business.

1107
00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:50.720
How?

1108
00:57:52.160 --> 00:57:54.660
So, and that doesn't mean we have to implement strategies

1109
00:57:54.660 --> 00:57:56.120
to make it a billion-dollar business.

1110
00:57:56.120 --> 00:57:58.120
It means we have to rise to be a person

1111
00:57:58.120 --> 00:57:59.920
who can run a billion-dollar business.

1112
00:57:59.920 --> 00:58:01.120
Does that make sense?

1113
00:58:01.120 --> 00:58:06.120
God almost always is talking to who you're becoming.

1114
00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:10.720
So downstairs, it doesn't actually matter what you know.

1115
00:58:10.720 --> 00:58:12.640
It doesn't matter how many scriptures you know.

1116
00:58:12.640 --> 00:58:16.000
It doesn't matter how much biblical principles you know.

1117
00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:18.320
It only matters who you're becoming.

1118
00:58:18.340 --> 00:58:19.660
Have you become that scripture?

1119
00:58:19.660 --> 00:58:21.340
Have you become like Jesus?

1120
00:58:21.340 --> 00:58:24.620
So God is always kindly and playfully,

1121
00:58:24.620 --> 00:58:26.540
as we've pointed out earlier,

1122
00:58:26.540 --> 00:58:31.540
rising us up to the fullness of life that's in Jesus.

1123
00:58:32.980 --> 00:58:34.700
And he just happened to use business

1124
00:58:34.700 --> 00:58:36.140
because we all love business.

1125
00:58:37.780 --> 00:58:40.860
That happens to be our game, so that's what he uses.

1126
00:58:43.500 --> 00:58:45.460
I'm worried, so Rebecca's asking a question,

1127
00:58:45.880 --> 00:58:48.880
and I'm worried about the very easy worldly thought

1128
00:58:54.120 --> 00:58:57.400
of if it's gonna be, it's up to me kind of scenario

1129
00:58:57.400 --> 00:59:00.000
with the way that you labeled believerism.

1130
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:02.500
So what's the difference between believerism

1131
00:59:02.500 --> 00:59:06.280
and if it's gonna be, it's up to me, you know?

1132
00:59:06.280 --> 00:59:08.280
Yeah, yeah, great question.

1133
00:59:08.280 --> 00:59:11.600
Thank you for asking that actually, Ray.

1134
00:59:11.600 --> 00:59:12.480
Yes, exactly.

1135
00:59:12.480 --> 00:59:14.240
So the Lord says it's up to him.

1136
00:59:14.240 --> 00:59:15.440
He wants to take you there.

1137
00:59:16.280 --> 00:59:17.120
What he's saying to you is,

1138
00:59:17.120 --> 00:59:18.740
okay, so we've got some work to do.

1139
00:59:18.740 --> 00:59:19.980
Follow my lead.

1140
00:59:19.980 --> 00:59:22.380
We're gonna grow you to 10 stories.

1141
00:59:22.380 --> 00:59:24.700
So because what most people do is

1142
00:59:24.700 --> 00:59:26.380
they don't engage that conversation

1143
00:59:26.380 --> 00:59:28.380
that the Lord just invited them to.

1144
00:59:28.380 --> 00:59:30.340
My point about the prophetic word

1145
00:59:30.340 --> 00:59:34.620
was it was an invitation to him to become someone.

1146
00:59:34.620 --> 00:59:36.560
Your prophetic word is an invitation

1147
00:59:36.560 --> 00:59:38.780
for the Lord's inviting you to become someone

1148
00:59:38.780 --> 00:59:41.540
which he fully intends to bring you to.

1149
00:59:41.540 --> 00:59:44.380
He has bound himself in that prophetic word.

1150
00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:47.960
He's given you his word of honor to take you to that place.

1151
00:59:47.960 --> 00:59:49.760
Yes, we're not saying this is now,

1152
00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:50.880
you better go and perform.

1153
00:59:50.880 --> 00:59:52.360
God's standing with his arms folded.

1154
00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:53.960
I'll give you a three or a seven.

1155
00:59:53.960 --> 00:59:55.520
Didn't do that too well.

1156
00:59:55.520 --> 00:59:56.680
That's not what we're saying.

1157
00:59:56.680 --> 00:59:59.960
We're saying don't miss the point of.

1158
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:05.360
word. We get excited about the outcome. God is talking about who you're becoming.

1159
01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:11.520
And that's my and my response, because I haven't had a lot of that until recently,

1160
01:00:11.520 --> 01:00:17.680
and now I get it all the time, is my response is, thank you for helping me become the person

1161
01:00:17.680 --> 01:00:26.000
that can do that. Yes, that's, that's my response. Yeah. And, and get intentional on. So one of the

1162
01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:31.200
ways, and we can take a minute on this if you have an extra minute on this, but this is such

1163
01:00:31.200 --> 01:00:34.480
an important, how many of you, let me ask quickly, I know there's only a few of us, how many of you

1164
01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:41.360
are sitting on a prophetic word that's pretty big? Okay. All right. So if you're sitting on a big

1165
01:00:41.360 --> 01:00:47.920
prophetic word, that means that there's a big person, there's a giant of a person in you that

1166
01:00:47.920 --> 01:00:55.040
God is developing. Okay. So that means, back to Ray's point, this, you don't suddenly become the

1167
01:00:55.040 --> 01:00:58.560
architect of your own self-development program, because you're trying to prove to God you're

1168
01:00:58.560 --> 01:01:02.480
going to get to that level, which is what we're talking about. This is not up to you, it's up to

1169
01:01:02.480 --> 01:01:07.920
Him, because you trust Him. So how do we do that? So Graham comes up with a simple framework that's

1170
01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:14.800
really helpful here. And he says, there's three spaces in which we grow with God. Right? The first

1171
01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:20.560
space is what we might call the living space. That's the area of your life that you'll think of,

1172
01:01:21.200 --> 01:01:26.000
think of each space as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The living space is where you're becoming

1173
01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:32.080
or, you know, are like Jesus in some fashion already. And you just enjoy living in Jesus.

1174
01:01:32.080 --> 01:01:36.080
That's part of you that's already starting to grow into it, maybe in certain areas started

1175
01:01:36.080 --> 01:01:42.240
even maturing that area, and the living space is you're living like Jesus. Okay, enjoy that.

1176
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:49.040
The next space is the storage space. The storage space is what the Holy Spirit's keeping in

1177
01:01:49.040 --> 01:01:55.200
storage. That's all the stuff the Lord wants to work to get you to that 10 story person. Right?

1178
01:01:55.200 --> 01:02:01.360
But it's all in storage. And it's got a big sign on the front that says no touchy. Right? You may

1179
01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:07.200
not touch this door, you don't get to open it and pick what we're working on. That's in storage.

1180
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:13.120
Then there's the workspace. This is the space that the Father has prepared beforehand. So think

1181
01:02:13.120 --> 01:02:19.120
about any of you could do workbench, you know, engineered heart here, I do projects. So I just

1182
01:02:19.120 --> 01:02:23.440
restored some antique furniture of the weekend, because I just needed a break. So I, you know,

1183
01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:28.080
strip the thing down. If you look at my workbench, it starts off perfectly clean. But halfway through

1184
01:02:28.080 --> 01:02:32.800
the project, it's just piled up with tools and stuff. And, you know, all the things I'm doing

1185
01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:39.280
and working on. Now, a lot of us get into that mode with the Lord. We're trying to work on

1186
01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:43.440
everything, we want to fix this and fix that and work on this and work on that. Well, it's like the

1187
01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:47.920
Lord just sweeps it all off and says, Okay, let's put all that in storage. This stuff is already

1188
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:52.720
yours, you're already living in Jesus. So that's good. Now, let's put this one thing on the middle

1189
01:02:52.720 --> 01:02:56.640
of the table. Let's work on one thing. You know, that's a lot easier to work on the workbench when

1190
01:02:56.640 --> 01:03:01.040
there's one thing on the workbench. And it's clean, right? And it's not that God only has one

1191
01:03:01.040 --> 01:03:05.920
thing at a time. Here's the sweet thing about this. So God takes the one thing out, he says,

1192
01:03:05.920 --> 01:03:10.880
Okay, we're working on this one thing. And you start to get some breakthrough and some learning,

1193
01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:14.560
and it's starting to, it's starting to come into your living space now. And the Lord says, Okay,

1194
01:03:14.560 --> 01:03:18.080
so you go up to the storage space. And guess what, half the stuff is missing.

1195
01:03:19.760 --> 01:03:24.320
What happened? The Lord said, Well, we while we were about it, we've cleaned up that we fix that

1196
01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:29.920
the reason we picked that one is because it was a keystone issue to some of the other things you

1197
01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:34.400
were struggling with. So instead of teaching you 10 things, we picked the keystone thing that would

1198
01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:39.040
fix the 10 things. So that's why they're missing now from the storage. If you were doing it, you

1199
01:03:39.040 --> 01:03:46.480
try to do all 10 things. Isn't that kind? So we all know about keystone habits, that there's one

1200
01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:50.400
habit you do that triggers off other habits. You know what I'm talking about? We have that in

1201
01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:56.960
business, keystone habits, or God works with us in this very beautiful, very sophisticated and kind

1202
01:03:56.960 --> 01:04:06.000
way in which he brings us into maturity and into himself into fullness. And so when we get a big

1203
01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:13.040
word, we got to, we got to realize, Okay, I need a big workbench. I can be building a big project

1204
01:04:13.040 --> 01:04:20.160
here. And that's fine. It sets expectation is what it does. And it sets our focus. And

1205
01:04:20.160 --> 01:04:27.120
one of the toughest things for fivefold ministry people like Graham is they'll go to a church.

1206
01:04:28.160 --> 01:04:32.880
They'll minister and lay a credible foundation. They waited on God for months. They've got his

1207
01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:39.840
word. They've got the tone down. They clear on the assignment. They lay a foundation as apostles

1208
01:04:39.840 --> 01:04:45.120
and prophets do lay a foundation into their church. They come back a year later, nothing's changed.

1209
01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:51.200
They come back a year later, nothing's changed. We just sold more books, sold more videos,

1210
01:04:51.200 --> 01:04:56.640
sold more stuff, had another conference, made some money. You go back the next year.

1211
01:04:56.640 --> 01:04:59.920
And so what's happening is the laborers are laying these foundations.

1212
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:01.920
and they don't move.

1213
01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:05.600
Nobody follows through, nobody follows up,

1214
01:05:05.600 --> 01:05:08.320
and you might think, well, that's just a poor church.

1215
01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:12.680
That is actually more the norm, in my view.

1216
01:05:12.680 --> 01:05:14.880
And so I'm speaking a bit openly with you,

1217
01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:17.200
but I'm just trying to explain to you

1218
01:05:17.200 --> 01:05:19.160
that you might think it's the norm

1219
01:05:19.160 --> 01:05:20.600
that everybody gets a big word

1220
01:05:20.600 --> 01:05:22.640
and just sits on it and it's all okay.

1221
01:05:22.640 --> 01:05:24.760
That's not okay.

1222
01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:28.680
But then you get churches where, like the church we ran,

1223
01:05:28.680 --> 01:05:31.440
Graham comes in, he gives prophetic words.

1224
01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:33.280
The elders and deacons, we're recording them,

1225
01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:35.160
we're getting transcripts to all the people.

1226
01:05:35.160 --> 01:05:36.640
We're handing the transcripts to them,

1227
01:05:36.640 --> 01:05:37.920
then we're having meetings with them.

1228
01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:39.560
Elders and deacons are meeting with them.

1229
01:05:39.560 --> 01:05:43.600
What does the Lord, what does that word mean for you?

1230
01:05:43.600 --> 01:05:45.880
What's this thing the Lord's inviting you into?

1231
01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:47.600
And then we will have discussion with them

1232
01:05:47.600 --> 01:05:49.040
for several months.

1233
01:05:49.040 --> 01:05:52.520
When that five-fold person comes back in,

1234
01:05:52.520 --> 01:05:54.760
they need to meet a whole different version of you

1235
01:05:54.760 --> 01:05:56.880
because of the word you got last year.

1236
01:05:57.880 --> 01:05:59.520
Does that make sense?

1237
01:05:59.520 --> 01:06:00.360
That's the purpose.

1238
01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:01.920
The purpose of the prophetic

1239
01:06:01.920 --> 01:06:04.240
is not to make you feel just comforted.

1240
01:06:04.240 --> 01:06:07.840
It's to open up new charity that you step into it.

1241
01:06:07.840 --> 01:06:11.360
You are His workmanship, created in Christ, in yoke,

1242
01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:15.480
to do good works, which the Father has prepared before,

1243
01:06:15.480 --> 01:06:18.680
that you should walk in them.

1244
01:06:20.200 --> 01:06:23.600
So what do we need to walk into next, Lord?

1245
01:06:23.600 --> 01:06:26.040
So don't come under pressure with what I said.

1246
01:06:26.120 --> 01:06:28.760
Just let it be a little bit of a sober moment of,

1247
01:06:28.760 --> 01:06:30.200
wow, that's a big thing.

1248
01:06:30.200 --> 01:06:32.960
Thank you, Lord, that you would do that for me.

1249
01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:36.640
Okay, let's get serious, let's make this happen,

1250
01:06:37.600 --> 01:06:41.040
which is probably the point Jesus makes a joke about that

1251
01:06:41.040 --> 01:06:42.200
because He's playful.

1252
01:06:42.200 --> 01:06:43.480
All I'm pointing out to you is this.

1253
01:06:43.480 --> 01:06:44.800
I don't want to put you under pressure,

1254
01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:48.400
but I do want to bring some clarity around.

1255
01:06:48.400 --> 01:06:49.760
If we're going to take words seriously,

1256
01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:51.400
that's what it means.

1257
01:06:51.400 --> 01:06:53.160
Because I see people, they're just claiming it

1258
01:06:53.160 --> 01:06:55.720
and declaring it and speaking it.

1259
01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:57.520
That doesn't move you.

1260
01:06:59.240 --> 01:07:02.120
I know that's popular, but I haven't seen that.

1261
01:07:04.520 --> 01:07:07.040
If you're growing up in Christ,

1262
01:07:07.040 --> 01:07:11.080
that's the thing that matters, that you're becoming more.

1263
01:07:12.200 --> 01:07:14.440
So, ask the Lord.

1264
01:07:14.440 --> 01:07:16.040
I'm glad I asked that question.

1265
01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:18.840
Well, it was a little tricky.

1266
01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:20.320
That was expertly delivered.

1267
01:07:20.320 --> 01:07:22.600
Well, thank you, but no, I'm very appreciative

1268
01:07:22.600 --> 01:07:25.640
because we never put the bride under pressure

1269
01:07:26.560 --> 01:07:29.720
because Jesus gave His life for her not to be.

1270
01:07:29.720 --> 01:07:31.080
So, we never do that.

1271
01:07:31.080 --> 01:07:32.120
So, thank you, Ray.

1272
01:07:32.120 --> 01:07:32.960
Appreciate it.

1273
01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:34.080
Well, that was fun.

1274
01:07:34.080 --> 01:07:35.880
Yes, thank you so much.

1275
01:07:35.880 --> 01:07:37.960
Everyone, give Dion a hand.

1276
01:07:37.960 --> 01:07:39.880
That was amazing.

1277
01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:40.720
Thank you.

1278
01:07:40.720 --> 01:07:41.560
Very good.

1279
01:07:41.560 --> 01:07:42.600
Thank you, man, thank you.

1280
01:07:42.600 --> 01:07:43.440
Bye.

1281
01:07:44.720 --> 01:07:49.720
Okay, well, I know I have lots to pray about now.

1282
01:07:50.680 --> 01:07:52.760
I have different questions.

1283
01:07:52.760 --> 01:07:55.080
I just updated my journaling process.

1284
01:07:56.080 --> 01:07:57.680
I'm moving things.

1285
01:07:59.040 --> 01:08:01.240
Man, that was really, really good.

1286
01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:05.680
What questions can I help you with now?

1287
01:08:08.200 --> 01:08:11.120
What can I do you for?

1288
01:08:13.720 --> 01:08:14.800
Well, I'm gonna ask the question

1289
01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:16.040
because you kind of broached it,

1290
01:08:16.040 --> 01:08:19.800
and that is, I apologize, it came in a little bit late.

1291
01:08:19.800 --> 01:08:22.399
I was running, actually running some business errands.

1292
01:08:22.399 --> 01:08:23.520
I had to get done.

1293
01:08:25.840 --> 01:08:28.319
Based on, so I came in on the backside,

1294
01:08:28.319 --> 01:08:31.680
but based on things that we've talked about in the past,

1295
01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:33.760
this was a really good one for me

1296
01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:37.640
in the context of my understanding

1297
01:08:37.640 --> 01:08:41.840
of how well or not how well I feel like I hear.

1298
01:08:41.840 --> 01:08:45.439
But so, from your perspective,

1299
01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:48.479
and I know that it's unique to you,

1300
01:08:48.479 --> 01:08:53.479
but what is, for someone who knows,

1301
01:08:54.319 --> 01:08:56.359
who knows you're hearing well,

1302
01:08:56.359 --> 01:08:58.680
you're walking this journey with the Lord,

1303
01:09:00.080 --> 01:09:02.399
out of everything he just said,

1304
01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:06.080
like, what is something that you felt was,

1305
01:09:06.080 --> 01:09:09.000
not necessarily new, but really God saying,

1306
01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:12.920
okay, he's touching on that point, you know what I'm saying?

1307
01:09:13.960 --> 01:09:16.800
Yeah, well, there's, you know, I,

1308
01:09:24.479 --> 01:09:27.680
I'll just, I'll give you my last two things here, right here

1309
01:09:27.680 --> 01:09:29.880
and then I'll, then I will give you a good answer.

1310
01:09:29.880 --> 01:09:32.120
This is kind of a, for me,

1311
01:09:32.120 --> 01:09:34.080
but then I will give you a good answer.

1312
01:09:34.080 --> 01:09:39.080
So, did I need to hear Dion's words tonight?

1313
01:09:39.439 --> 01:09:41.479
So that's something I'll pray on.

1314
01:09:41.479 --> 01:09:44.600
Now my gut says yes, but I haven't prayed on that yet.

1315
01:09:44.600 --> 01:09:46.800
And then my second question was,

1316
01:09:48.160 --> 01:09:50.359
and I'm, I think I,

1317
01:09:51.359 --> 01:09:54.640
I just, I always want to,

1318
01:09:56.640 --> 01:09:59.040
I might start crying just, just thinking about it,

1319
01:09:59.040 --> 01:09:59.880
but I always.

1320
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:08.480
always want to honor him. And and so I believe the answer is

1321
01:10:08.480 --> 01:10:12.360
no, but I am I'm going to pray on this. And that is, Lord, was

1322
01:10:12.400 --> 01:10:17.800
was I was I abusing your prophecy? Was I not honoring

1323
01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:22.440
your prop, you know, your words, your promises? And, you know,

1324
01:10:22.440 --> 01:10:24.880
that's just some that's just, you know, does everyone need to

1325
01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:29.040
do that? Probably not. But I'm, I'm just I always I owe that

1326
01:10:29.320 --> 01:10:31.720
that's one of my questions I ask every morning, Lord, have I

1327
01:10:31.720 --> 01:10:35.440
honored you? And I asked that, you know, everywhere I go, did I

1328
01:10:35.440 --> 01:10:40.760
honor you? You know, was it was honoring to you? And for as

1329
01:10:40.760 --> 01:10:45.640
long as for, you know, there was a time where I was rushing

1330
01:10:45.640 --> 01:10:51.720
things. And when I asked that question, I got no. And so it's

1331
01:10:51.720 --> 01:10:54.840
probably been a good probably year, you know, since I've

1332
01:10:54.840 --> 01:10:57.400
gotten to know I always get yeses, but I still ask because

1333
01:10:57.400 --> 01:11:00.320
I feel like that's honoring. And so I just oh, I always want

1334
01:11:00.320 --> 01:11:03.960
to be honoring. And so I want to make sure that, you know, I

1335
01:11:03.960 --> 01:11:07.720
mean, literally every day, he's telling me something about my

1336
01:11:07.720 --> 01:11:11.840
project. And and it's really good. And, and I just want to

1337
01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:15.480
make sure I'm honoring and receiving it in the way he

1338
01:11:15.480 --> 01:11:19.640
intends. You know, like I told Deon, when when he gives me a

1339
01:11:19.640 --> 01:11:22.880
big word, you know, I'm like, hey, thank you for growing me

1340
01:11:22.880 --> 01:11:27.040
into that person, you know. And so I'm just gonna ask that

1341
01:11:27.040 --> 01:11:34.320
question. Now, as far as what, you know, my biggest, like,

1342
01:11:34.320 --> 01:11:38.880
like, rub my hands together, I'm excited about this one, is I've

1343
01:11:38.880 --> 01:11:42.960
never asked, Lord, how would you approach this problem? Never

1344
01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:47.000
asked that. That's a really good question. You know, he gave me

1345
01:11:47.040 --> 01:11:53.240
about why actually, I would know if I want all my notebooks over

1346
01:11:53.440 --> 01:11:57.800
but I know it's right here. I think this No, that's not the

1347
01:11:57.800 --> 01:12:02.240
right one. I guess I mean, no books. So I think it's been

1348
01:12:02.240 --> 01:12:05.800
probably three months. He had me every Monday, except I didn't

1349
01:12:05.800 --> 01:12:09.760
today. He wants me to do it tomorrow. Every Monday, I have

1350
01:12:09.760 --> 01:12:14.880
this journal process, where I walk through so many different

1351
01:12:14.880 --> 01:12:19.600
things. And in my life and business, and I pray about,

1352
01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:22.360
okay, Lord, you know, is there anything you want me to do here?

1353
01:12:22.360 --> 01:12:25.440
Is there anything here? Is there anything here? And

1354
01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:29.840
sometimes I'll get a promise about that thing. Sometimes I'll

1355
01:12:29.840 --> 01:12:33.640
get an action step. You know, so lately, I've been getting on one

1356
01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:36.040
particular project, I've been getting a lot of action steps.

1357
01:12:36.160 --> 01:12:39.400
Okay, so this is the thing for the week, go do these things.

1358
01:12:39.440 --> 01:12:42.480
And I, I go and do it. But I've never asked, how would you

1359
01:12:42.480 --> 01:12:44.360
approach this? You know?

1360
01:12:44.360 --> 01:12:46.360
Oh, a second, my son, I hear my son.

1361
01:12:51.240 --> 01:12:53.160
My son screaming. Oh.

1362
01:12:56.680 --> 01:13:00.920
Okay. And, and so how, Lord, how would you approach this?

1363
01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:07.040
How he gave me a distinction when I prayed about this.

1364
01:13:07.600 --> 01:13:11.440
So how he likes, for some reason, for me, he likes the

1365
01:13:11.440 --> 01:13:15.520
word you not not we in this particular context. So how

1366
01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:20.880
would you approach this? How do you think about this? And, you

1367
01:13:20.880 --> 01:13:25.440
know, because I first had, how should we think about this? And

1368
01:13:25.440 --> 01:13:28.240
he didn't like that. So you know, I don't know. So I'm

1369
01:13:28.240 --> 01:13:32.320
getting, you know, I'm getting, you know, I'm getting, you know,

1370
01:13:32.800 --> 01:13:36.160
and he didn't like that. So, you know, I don't know. So I'm

1371
01:13:36.160 --> 01:13:39.680
getting the question that I'm going to be asking tomorrow.

1372
01:13:40.040 --> 01:13:43.320
Actually, I'm asked some of this tonight. But tomorrow morning

1373
01:13:43.320 --> 01:13:46.440
for the journaling process, how would you approach this? And I'm

1374
01:13:46.440 --> 01:13:48.920
gonna go through each and every one of those things. How do you

1375
01:13:48.920 --> 01:13:52.600
think about these, this, so I can kind of get, okay, how's he

1376
01:13:52.600 --> 01:13:54.840
engaging? Because there's some, you know, there's some projects

1377
01:13:54.840 --> 01:13:58.360
that I have that are very profitable, I'm not doing

1378
01:13:58.360 --> 01:14:04.120
anything for and like, you want me to do anything over here?

1379
01:14:04.120 --> 01:14:09.560
You know, like, I don't know. And so yeah, so that was really

1380
01:14:09.560 --> 01:14:12.720
big takeaways. And just, I would, I would listen to the

1381
01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:17.560
beginning of his talk, because he talked about how he used to

1382
01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:21.400
be a very much workaholic worked all the time, you know, went

1383
01:14:21.400 --> 01:14:27.120
through 10 days of only sleeping two hours a night, and how

1384
01:14:27.360 --> 01:14:31.600
everything accelerated when he learned this kind of framework.

1385
01:14:32.160 --> 01:14:35.800
And, you know, just just, you know, Jesus is a quickening

1386
01:14:35.800 --> 01:14:40.040
spirit. And just, you know, to have this, you know, this type

1387
01:14:40.040 --> 01:14:41.040
of acceleration.

1388
01:14:41.920 --> 01:14:44.600
It's interesting about your question. Because I mean, if you

1389
01:14:44.600 --> 01:14:48.600
think about mentorship, what are you trying to do? You're trying

1390
01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:51.840
to discover, you know, how does your mentor look at it? How does

1391
01:14:51.840 --> 01:14:55.560
your mentor think about this? So I mean, you know, and of course,

1392
01:14:55.560 --> 01:14:59.160
you know, we know we have the mind of Christ, but we're, we're

1393
01:14:59.160 --> 01:15:00.360
constantly trying to

1394
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.000
Identify what, you know, what, what, how are you thinking about this? Right.

1395
01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:09.080
Yeah. And so you're, you're really asking your mentor, you know, how, how does,

1396
01:15:09.080 --> 01:15:13.400
how does he think about the, the thing that he's now calling you into, you know?

1397
01:15:13.400 --> 01:15:18.440
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure, man. Yeah. This is a good one for me.

1398
01:15:18.920 --> 01:15:22.560
This is a really good one. More questions.

1399
01:15:23.640 --> 01:15:28.120
And, and remember you guys never do, but you can't always hit me on Voxer.

1400
01:15:30.720 --> 01:15:33.720
Actually, Kim does from time to time, but hardly anyone else.

1401
01:15:37.880 --> 01:15:40.920
Well, cool gang. Well, I'm gonna get into some prayer. I'm like,

1402
01:15:41.160 --> 01:15:44.480
I'm just rubbing my hands together. I'm really excited about this. And so, uh,

1403
01:15:45.040 --> 01:15:48.960
if you need any help with implementation or any other questions that didn't come

1404
01:15:48.960 --> 01:15:53.800
up, or is there anything we can help you with, please let us know. And so,

1405
01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:57.600
um, I'll, uh, uh, Carrie, you want to pray this out?

1406
01:15:58.560 --> 01:16:00.360
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

1407
01:16:02.160 --> 01:16:04.440
So father God, we just thank you. God, you know,

1408
01:16:04.440 --> 01:16:08.880
I thank you that you are so good and you're so kind to

1409
01:16:09.520 --> 01:16:12.400
just draw us into your heart to,

1410
01:16:12.440 --> 01:16:16.680
to reveal the fact that we do have the mind of Christ and the Holy spirit.

1411
01:16:16.680 --> 01:16:21.160
You are so good at gently leading us and walking us into

1412
01:16:21.520 --> 01:16:25.480
that understanding. And, um, you know, I thank you. Um,

1413
01:16:25.520 --> 01:16:30.480
I thank you that each one involved in this mastermind coming together,

1414
01:16:31.320 --> 01:16:33.200
uh, that, that you're, you're, you're leading us all.

1415
01:16:33.200 --> 01:16:37.320
You're drawing us all together into your heart and into, uh,

1416
01:16:37.320 --> 01:16:42.320
who you have us to be in terms of who Jesus

1417
01:16:42.360 --> 01:16:47.400
is and, uh, and just the journey that you have us in and God right now,

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you know, each one of us has a specific task,

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a specific mission that you've called us to. And we want to know, uh, you know,

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we want to know, how do you see this? How do you think about this?

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Because we want to know that. And we want to become the,

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the, the people who reflect you perfectly or reflect you as best we can in the

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environment that you've given us. And Holy spirit,

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just thank you for your gentleness in your leading us. And God,

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I'm so grateful that when I look at yesterday,

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all I can see is the testimony of your goodness and your mercy.

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And as I look to and ponder tomorrow,

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I just see you before us just saying gently, come, come with me.

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So father, I thank you for Ray. I thank you for each one.

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I was a part of this group and God, uh, we just, uh,

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we want to go deeper with you. Deep calls unto deep.

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And we say yes in Jesus name. Amen.

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Hmm. Wow. That was good. So good. Thank you, man.

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Thank you. Well, awesome guys. Well, God bless you guys.

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Let me know how we can help. All right. Thank you, Rebecca. Thank you everyone.

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Bye guys.