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It's happening.

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Hey, Lisa.

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Awesome.

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Carrie, how are you?

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My friend, Lisa.

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Good day.

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Awesome.

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Awesome.

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Do it very well.

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Awesome.

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Nice.

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Believe my mom is supposed to call.

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She's supposed to call.

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Yeah.

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Anytime now.

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I know.

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I know what that's like.

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That's cool.

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Great.

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That's great.

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Well, very cool.

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Um, I got the, I keep messing up my.

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All right.

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Well, uh, here we are.

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And this is, uh, you know, with, with Dion, this is actually Rebecca.

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I can't tell him.

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I, am I, do I need to spotlight myself?

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You're good, but yeah, there you go.

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All right.

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So, um, so yeah, just who exciting, exciting times.

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Um, one thing I, I actually meant to talk to Deanna about this before we hopped on

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here, but, uh, I did want to mention that next month, we beginning of next month,

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we have a great event, brilliance, uh, the brilliance fall event.

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If you aren't aware of that, I want to make sure you're aware of it.

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Uh, if you're a member of the app, you, you get that at no charge, um, or it's

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a pretty, you know, pretty low investment for three full days, very different than

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limitless limitless is three 90 minute days.

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This is three full days.

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And so real exciting.

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Uh, I'll have, I'll ask Dion to share a little bit about that.

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And this is call number 11 with Dion.

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So we got tonight, we got next month and, and we will have all 12 of our sessions

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with Dion, uh, which is really, really amazing.

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And, uh, so I'm just, I'm just really, really excited.

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So let me bring Mr.

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Dion out here.

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Dion, um, I wanted to, um, to ask this, you, you spend a lot of time with Graham

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and you were sharing today that you guys are just opening up some things with the

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Lord that is just blowing your mind.

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And some of that is going to be in, uh, the brilliance fall event.

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Can you share a little bit about what, what are you excited about for the

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brilliance fall event?

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Yeah, well, thanks.

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Good to be back.

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And I have sessions with you guys and, uh, really enjoyed them.

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Something, something really cool about a smaller group.

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You kind of get into stuff a little more and it feels a little more personal.

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It feels like more like a fireside chat than a formal talk, you know?

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So yes, I've enjoyed them.

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Um, for brilliance, you know, every time we run an event brilliance, it seems like the

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gives us permission to pick the whole community up to the next level.

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So, but what happens before that is a preparation that goes on.

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And as many of you know, Graham and I spend Thursday mornings together.

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And actually we planning, uh, later this year to go and go away for three days to hotel

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at the two of us and just process through a lot of things that are going on right now

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in God's heart for us at the moment.

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And, uh, man, we're learning so much.

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It, it feels, it feels almost a sobering moment sometimes on those calls.

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Cause there are just these moments of presence and it feels like there's five of us on the

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call, me, Graham and the three and, uh, just the, the, the sheer delight of the father.

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And, uh, I think all this started, uh, this mode, this acceleration started about 18 months

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ago, uh, during one of my trips to Santa Barbara, when I was getting ready to what

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I was thinking, I was going to do my first kingdom business event, but we were going

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to call it velocity, um, rain, you'll remember all that.

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And, uh, and we were getting geared up and I got up early that morning and I was going

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to go downtown to our offices on Santa Barbara downtown, uh, just a few blocks from the beach,

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by the way, very beautiful place we have there.

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And I was just enjoying the morning and talking to the Lord.

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And I started to look at a video, Hey, what else is out there?

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Kingdom business.

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And I saw this about a six minute video.

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I just got sadder and sadder.

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The more I watched the video and I turned to the father, we're going to talk a bit about

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this tonight.

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So it lays it up very nicely.

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And I turned to the father and I said, Lord, you know, I have no judgment in my heart towards

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this guy, but I don't believe a blind thing.

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This man is saying it's an old covenant, old paradigm visitational performance-based culture.

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And I don't agree with any single one of those words, because that's not what you died for.

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And then I just got this moment of real soberness and I turned to the father and I said, father,

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do you just ever get what you want without our stuff attached?

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down cheddar with Graham, he started to cry. He's that is a

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beautiful question. So I wish I'd come up with that question.

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And it became our question. First, it became the two of us.

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But in some ways, it's become our team's question. Father,

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what do you want? How do I get rid of my stuff? What is it was

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you want? Here's the most interesting thing. When you give

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him exactly what he wants, you get way more than you ever

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wanted yourself. Because he has already placed his desires in

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your heart. That's why God gives you the desires your heart

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means he placed his desire that he wants to share with you that

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he wants to be in yoke with you about. That's what he's doing.

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And that's where we're at. That's where we are.

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Specifically, God is raising our expectation that we start to

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become an astonished people, a people astonished by our freedom

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in Jesus, astonished by how we get to yoke with him astonished

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by his unbelievable goodness and kindness towards us that we were

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so enamored with that, that even the tough challenging

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things happening downstairs pale in comparison, you know, it's

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not that they're not real, or they don't hurt, or they don't

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want to grab our attention. But when when, when you in that

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mode, God is so much bigger than your problems. You know, it's

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not small Jesus, big problem, small problem, big Jesus. And I

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think in that there's a lift into a new level of

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understanding from what rest is. Rest isn't just like another

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word for peace. You know, we spent two hours last Thursday

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just talking about rest and what it is in the kingdom, and how it

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acts as a gateway into God's heart. It's a gateway. It's like

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the entrance hall. So maybe I can summarize better with a quick

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analogy. I was I was talking to our Limitless Life intensive

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group last week. And I asked how many of you have been in a $10

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million house $20 million. I don't know how many of you have

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been into a very, very expensive home. Think of the most

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beautiful home you maybe saw on TV or been to. And let's say

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they're just finishing it off and you walk down the deck and

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you just look at the stunning landscaping and waterfalls and a

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lake and just absolutely no expense spared, you know, those

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places. But you do notice a wooden shed at the back where

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the workmen have been placing the tools and you know, all that

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stuff, because they're not quite finished the landscaping is

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doing the last touch. And then you find out the whole thing is

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yours. Expenses are paid, tax is going to be paid. If there's no

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mortgage, you get to live, you know, till the dying day. And

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then you decide in your genius to move into the shed. Now

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you've got sermons on how to stay warm in the shed in the

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winter, you know, how to get cool in the summer, and how to

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pack more dirt onto the ground to kind of even it out and the

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five steps to a more solid dirt floor. And it feels like that

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was in fact, what God has invited us into is this

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mansion. And John 14, two says in my father's house are many

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mansions. And then he says, I go to prepare a place for you. And

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then we where I am, you'll be also because you'll know the

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way, you know, and of course, you know, asks, but Lord, we

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don't know the way, you know, Thomas, and he says, I am the

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way the truth and the life. And so this raises the fascinating

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question, what if that's both now and then? Not just then?

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What if that mansion only in the kingdom, can you have mansions

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in a house in my father's house and many mansions? I don't

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understand the how kingdom architecture works, but

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evidently, that's how it works. And that's the point he has a

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broad space for each of us. It's not a shed. And if we

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behave, he'll give us a warm blanket. It's, it's. And so what

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happens rest is the is the entrance way. It's the it's the

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front door into the mansion. Rest is how we practice oneness

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with him. And that's all we're doing. We're learning as a

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people to be a people who practice oneness. That's what

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we're doing. And I think we're learning it brilliant,

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hopefully to become simpler and simpler, clearer and clearer, as

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we, you know, we don't have to fight the religious spirit, we

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don't have to argue with it. We don't say, well, religion

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teaches you this, but we teach you that Jesus did that on

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occasion, the law says this, but I tell you, but those are very

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rare. And we're at the point now we were starting to see something

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new opening up for us as a community as a movement. And you

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know, we thrilled that we're in such close partnership with you

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Ray and your team. And now, Rebecca is on our team, my

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wife's favorite new person. Nice. New favorite person, I

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should say. So yeah, and I think there is just this new space,

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new permission. I think people are going to just come there and

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go and just relax.

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in God's affection for them. For many of us, we've been trying to

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earn that, or deserve that or show we worthy of that, you

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know, but Jesus is worthy of it for you.

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Amen, amen. And so, if you want to know more details, I know you

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got a lesson to cover. But if you want to know more details,

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you can reach out to Rebecca. If you're an existing member, you

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get, you know, free virtual, there's an up, there's an

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optional upgrade if you want to take it. Or, you know, if you're

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not a member, you can attend for 97 bucks. And so that is

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the best $97 anyone will ever spend. And see and get with

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Rebecca. But Dion, I know you have a powerful lesson for us.

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And so I will turn it over to you.

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Thanks, Ray. Appreciate it. This is a very passionate subject

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tonight, I want to talk about fighting the good fight of

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faith. And specifically, what's your fight? And I was working

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out with one of our team members, our chief operating

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officer, Jenny, and I worked out, I've almost been in the

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ministry club coming up for nearly 50 years. And I thought,

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man, I'm getting old. And what a delight that has been. But in

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that time, I've seen the same mistakes make made again, and

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again, and again. And it's usually a mindset issue. And

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Paul noticed this happening with Timothy. And so he writes to

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Timothy, and he's getting him to focus on his fight. And he

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says to one Timothy 612, he says, fight the good fight of

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faith, take hold of eternal life to which you were called, there

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is something that you do, that when you do it, it brings

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eternal life, not just to those around you, but to you, you when

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you grab hold of it, that releases something in heaven,

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it's called living from heaven to earth. That's what we're

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doing, right? On earth, as in in heaven, everything we're

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learning and have been going over these last few months, is

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us learning what it's going to be like to live in heaven, this

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is practice for heaven, when we get there, we go, oh, that's

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familiar. Oh, God is peaceful with me. So I learned to be

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peaceful with him. You know, he's joyful with me, I get to be

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joyful with him, I'm just returning the favor. I just

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respond to, to who he is. But then Paul goes on to tell

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Timothy, he says, listen, God, what has been entrusted to you,

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avoid irrelevant, empty chatter. Does any of this sound like

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social media to you? Right? Avoid irrelevant, empty chatter

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and opposing arguments of so called knowledge. You know, so

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that's really interesting. I'm not saying avoid, you know,

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social media and so on, because those are fantastic tools. But

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what I am saying is many times I've watched believers so busy

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fighting so many fights on so many fronts, that if all fights

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are important, no fights are important. And so you have an

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authority in Jesus to say, sorry, that's not my fight. So

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people ask us all that, well, what do you think of the

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political blah, blah, and I go, sorry, that's not my fight. And

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then well, well, you must have an opinion. You know what, I

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haven't had the time, I'm so busy focusing on what God's

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given me to do. I haven't had time to ask him what his opinion

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is. So he and I can formulate what that looks like in my

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world. Oh, you mean just reflecting what the enemy's

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saying? Yeah, I don't I don't do that. I'm not an echo chamber

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negativity and this problem and that problem. And then oh,

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there's another problem. And then there's this conspiracy

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theory. And if you dig deep, you'll find out, you know, these

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three things and all that stuff. And I've watched believers, you

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know, even when we're running our own church, we saw our

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members on having these conversations and broke my heart

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because back to father, you just ever get what you want, without

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all our stuff attached. And so this one Timothy six is such a

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powerful thing. But later on in chapter two, Paul talks to

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heart of Paul towards Timothy, Timothy often called him his

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their own agenda. But you, Timothy, you're the only one who

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cares about what the Lord wants. I'm like, wow, you wrote that

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down and sent that to a church.

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Paul, apostle of grace and kindness, but he could be

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direct. And he says this in to Timothy one, seven, for God has

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not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of

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a sound mind. Now the interesting the word fear there

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means not being willing, not being bold. And it's really

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and he's sleeping and the storm comes and afterwards Jesus said he says you of

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little faith do not fear but the word of little faith isn't meaning that it's

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it's an English us in English trying to capture this high why were you timid

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didn't you just feed 5,000 people at your own hand didn't you just have a

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massive miracle at your own hand did you forget why where is this timidity coming

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from and the timidity comes when we are diluted in our fight because you never

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have time to develop Jesus's confidence in you because what happens and what I

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mean by that is you know is that over time you get to know what your fight is

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my fight is kingdom leadership kingdom leadership in organizations churches and

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family that's my fight but it's to its kingdom leadership not leadership and

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God gave me a downstairs leadership company so I could see how good

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downstairs leadership companies work and there was some fantastic stuff on it

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look wisdom is wisdom I get it was helpful for sure but it wasn't that

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itself wasn't my fight that was just a helpful but a wisdom for my fight what

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was my fight was how to be yoked with Jesus that's my fight teaching people

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you're not alone you're not out there all God's called me to business I gotta

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go and figure out something that's profitable and please him no no no no he

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wants in he wants in he wants to be in the yoke so what's really interesting is

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that Paul literally teaches Timothy you have the self-control the sound mind

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sometimes translated you have this pause button you know so self-control love joy

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peace patience kindness goodness faithful self-control self-control is

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the pause button self-control is how you put the pause on your old self and hit

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play on your new self you put pause on on all the things that are interesting

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but not your fight you know Marcus Aurelius said exercise your authority to

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have no opinion over the things over which you have no control that's a

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fantastic freedom because so Kingdom what that is saying is not that you

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shouldn't care but it's somebody else's fight I can't deal with human trafficking

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do I think it's awful absolutely I think it's awful do I have opinions about it I

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don't know enough to have an informed opinion about it well what do you think

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of the politics you know at a time of voting I'll go sit down with the Lord

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we'll figure out and I'll vote don't go back to focusing on what I do because I

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can't have an opinion unless God's called me to politics then I'm all in

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how do I know God's called me to politics how do I know God's called me

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to this area and I'm going to give you some indications of how you can know so

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it comes down to finding your fight and what I have found is when you find out

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what your fight is then you know how to be with the people you call to serve you

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know we've often heard the expression if you find your people you find your

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purpose you've heard that before I'm sure right what if it's not quite

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accurate what if actually is if you find your freedom you find your purpose

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you see that place there's a field there's a territory God is giving you

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and when you step into it you go this is my space I was born to do this you cut

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it shiny eyes you light up you go oh my goodness so I know he has a couple of

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ways you can know it's your fight when you do that thing you have more energy

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afterwards than before so let's say you're let's say you love to teach

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after you finish teaching you'll have you'll be more energized than you did

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before why because grace flowed through you so grace was flowing in the correct

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direction right from you to the people you serve when grace flows in the wrong

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direction like if I let worship then they will say please shut him down I can

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hear him they would have to be showing me grace just to get through it right

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so which way is the grace flowing right yeah you know Rebecca can attest to this

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but sometimes you know I'll get on like either a coaching right so sales and

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marketing mentorship some of those go three hours and sometimes I'm coming on

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and I'm just like yeah I'm kind of dragging a little energy and by the time

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the three hours pass like I can't get to sleep like I'm so fired up and excited

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and so I've just I've just realized like I love coaching people I just I just

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love it and you know I used to like I don't know avoid that or something but I

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just realized man I really enjoy it and so I try to set up more you know free to

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the public you know coaching kind of stuff and I just I just

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I just love it. But yeah, how many times Rebecca, have you seen me drag in here and, but by

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the end I got way more energy.

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And by the end we're going, Hey, you really found it there in the middle. Like you seem

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so much more alert and awake now.

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Yeah. It's like the guy who gets up at nine and wakes up at 11. Yeah. So, you know, it's

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the, yeah, but that's a good point though. What Ray's raising here is, is actually a

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very natural thing. Start, make a list, keep it, keep a list of those moments when you,

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you so come alive, what's happening. You're in your yoke, you're in your partnership,

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you're doing the thing you were designed to do. See, God wired you a certain way because

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he knew how he wanted to partner with you. He wired you in such a way that when you're

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in Christ, when you're in your partnership, then you walk in all the things he's prepared

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beforehand for you to do. We are his workmanship, means he worked it in us to do what? We were

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created for good works, which he prepared beforehand for us to do. Now it says we are

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his workmanship in Christ. He didn't wire you on your own to go and do something for

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him. That's the great lie. Because you'll always fail. And therefore you can always

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be accused. Yep, there goes Kerry again, you know, messed it all up again, there goes down,

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look what he did. But in in Jesus, that's not how it works. He doesn't deal with an accusation.

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So it's very interesting. Number one, where's the energy flowing, i.e. where's the grace

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flowing is the more kingdom word. See what grace is an energy, grace is an enabling presence.

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If you want our definition of grace, please don't say unmerited favor, because then Jesus

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didn't have any. So that's like a terrible definition. But not that I'm against the guy

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who wrote the book, because that was actually a very helpful book. But what I am saying is that

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grace is an enabling power and enabling presence whose presence Jesus in you. So there's the minute

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you align, you feel it's like, you know, if you have a valve, and you have all the things closed,

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but the minute you line them up all the all the gaps, how am I doing this, all the gaps liner,

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and now you can flow through the water can flow through, but the minute you get it out of line,

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it locks. So it's the same thing when you've dialed in a certain way in a certain space,

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and it could be serving with need, you know, people who are in need or homeless,

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dealing with homelessness, or maybe you have such a passion for, you know, single moms,

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whatever it is, you know, because you come alive when you do it. Why? Because grace,

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the enabling presence of Jesus in you is being ignited, you've aligned it, and you've touched

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heaven, you've actually what you've done is become a touchpoint for heaven. So now suddenly,

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there's a channel for heaven for that's what it means to bring the kingdom. You can walk around

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declare all you like, but until you become a touchpoint for heaven, nothing flows. So yes,

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it can be declaration. So when you find your freedom, you find your purpose. When you when

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you find your people, you find your focus. That's the difference. So a lot of people,

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well, I don't know, I should serve, I don't know where, and often it's start with what's in your

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hand. Very simple, very practical, what's in my hand right now. Because sometimes while that not

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might not be your quote, ultimate fight, it will lead you to your fight. And so a lot of people

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say, I won't try that. I won't try that. But there's something in that, then when you feel

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that, just start walking that direction with the Lord, Lord, show me help me understand.

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But this idea that you don't have to have an opinion on everyone else's fight, you only need

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to have his opinion on your fight. This is a beautiful, beautiful people ask us all the time,

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they'll send me stuff, hey, have you watched this video and heard speakers answer and pastor

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ministries of this and ministry that. And I'm sure they're wonderful. I have no opinion,

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even if I've heard their stuff, and I've processed some of the things. It's, it's not my position to

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have an opinion. It's not my right to have an opinion because it's not my fight. How do I know

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that? Because I don't have a kingdom narrative for the problem they're, they're describing.

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So, you know, I was speaking to some leaders last year, and they were telling me about this

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negative problem, you need to understand that it was absolutely horrific around some of the things

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going on in human trafficking. And I was struggling even just to listen to it. It was so bad. But it's

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the reality of the world. I get it. But they wanted to explain this to me. And they said,

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you know, we got it. And it was basically brilliant should do something about this

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was sort of the bottom line message. And I said, Well, I can tell it's not your fight.

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And they go, No, no, we're really passionate about this. I said,

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Yeah, you might be passionate downstairs, but this is not your fight. I can tell immediately. Well, how do you know?

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I haven't heard a single kingdom narrative out of your mouth in the hour. You've been talking not one

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All of it was you regurgitating the enemy's negative stuff. So all you were doing is just an echo chamber for the enemy

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That's all I heard this terrible thing that terrible thing that terrible thing you can say these are the terrible things

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But here's the kingdom solution. Here's the kingdom narrative. This is what God's put on my what if we did this?

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This is the possibility in the kingdom with every problem. God's already attached a possibility. So what's the possibility here?

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What is it we can do? How can we bring peace into this situation?

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How can we bring this while I was talking to the Lord and we said, you know, maybe we can do this

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Maybe we can do that in that what happens is kingdom narratives by nature are beautiful and attractive

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Anyone else who's who hears that will be pulled in. I

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Few years ago and he said well, the problem is that we haven't grown our church because we just don't have the money and

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I thought oh my goodness. I said to him. Well, what's the vision that would attract the money?

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Well, you know, we have all these rich people in our church, but you know, they just don't give I said

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What would they give to well, you know to the church for what?

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To what end to have nicer seats?

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What well, what are they giving to and you think well, that's rather obvious and I said no

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It's not that you're not casting a vision that will attract money. That's not the plan. That's a downstairs manipulative thing

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I said what's the fight in you that when you start talking you can't stop like you were saying right three hours later

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You're still going strong. Why?

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Because life is flowing through you. It's so energizing to you

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It's life giving to the people around you back to that verse

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You know delay hold of the eternal life to which you were called. There's an eternal life in you

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That when you express it to others it brings the kingdom

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Let's get really practical a little more practical. So number one people get caught up in

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Ideologies that resist the kingdom. I can't tell you how many believers do this

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They are literally caught up in all sorts of things that nothing at all to do with the kingdom and the beautiful thing is two

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Corinthians gives us a weapon against this to Corinthians 10 for for the weapons of our warfare not carnal

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But mighty in God for doing what?

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Pulling down strongholds

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Casting down arguments and every high thing

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It's interesting that the enemy always tries to make it look like a high thing the big thing that you don't care unless you do

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They care about this high thing. The only thing you have to wholly care about

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fully devoted to is

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Your fight you can be gracious. You can give pray for others. So what do I do about the other fights? I pray about them

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But I can't give myself to every fight

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It's a clever strategy that has been very effective against the body of Christ because we're so busy trying to figure out what our fight

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Is we're so busy

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Really engaged in things that have nothing to do with us, but they take our time. They take our attention

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They suck our resources. And so we learn to live this very low-grade space because we just never

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experience the eternal life flowing through us

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Because once you taste that talk about addictive

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That's the most addictive thing in the kingdom because once you've figured out how that partnership works, you never want to go back

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Here's it easy couple of things you can stop doing while you're figuring out what to start doing number one stop assisting the enemy

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You know in your own world just stop assisting the enemy don't be gracious to the enemy don't give it rent free thoughts in your

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All right, just don't give it don't help be an echo chamber for that. That's an easy thing. Just stop. Just don't say anything

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Just stop talking. This is a fantastic thing

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I learned this in a business meeting and I was running a tech firm at the time and

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Appointed a president you've been there a few months and I walked in and it looked to me like we were in a bit of

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A mess situation and I was gonna jump in and do all this other stuff and the Lord said up

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Why don't we do this together and I go? Yeah Lord, just show me everything is wrong and I'll straighten it all out

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He said no. No, we're not doing that. So the Lord said so I said well Lord

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How do you want me to be with you? You know, one of my favorite questions

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How do you want me to be with you in this and he said I want you to say absolutely

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And I said like for 10 minutes he said no for the whole meeting say nothing. Oh

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My talk about grace, but then once I got over my ego and my own self

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I started to see the Lord teach the team started to figure it out and

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And I didn't say anything and I just waited and at the end I know I said, well, I'm glad you guys are God

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It sounds like a good plan

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and I could leave. So what did he do there? He was showing me that when we're in our yoke,

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it doesn't mean I'm always doing stuff. Sometimes I'm doing nothing, absolutely nothing. So

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when you focus on, you know, reaching the world God has given you, you're not trying

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to reach everyone. So I remember one of the first times I came to Brilliant and I was

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just stepping in as the leader of the team about five or six years ago, and I got up

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and I said, okay, the church is not called, I said, we are not called to the world. And

440
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you could have thought I spat in someone's soup, because I said, no, no, no, we're called,

441
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our message is for everyone. And I said, the church is called to the world, the whole church,

442
00:30:48.460 --> 00:30:54.060
but we are called to our world, not the world. The question is, what's your world specifically?

443
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And when you know what your world is, that sudden, and it starts super simply, where

444
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do I live? Because the scripture says you're a planting of the Lord. What if you don't

445
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:07.960
live where you live accidentally? What if your kids don't go to the school they go to?

446
00:31:08.280 --> 00:31:12.600
That's not accidental. What if every aspect of you, you're a planting of the Lord? And

447
00:31:12.600 --> 00:31:17.040
even if it's not perfect, He'll move you, because once it starts moving, He's not, He

448
00:31:17.040 --> 00:31:22.020
can make up even if we've made a few mistakes along the way. But what if, just as you are

449
00:31:22.020 --> 00:31:27.580
right now, there's something in your hand, that's your starting point. So one of the

450
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most practical things you can do is find somebody who's doing something in that area. It's amazing

451
00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:40.980
to me, especially in the charismatic, prophetic movement, we think that when we get a word

452
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from the Lord, we're going to be the initiator and the CEO and the leader. And now it's all

453
00:31:45.020 --> 00:31:51.040
up to us. And we're going to be the, you know, we're going to be the main person. What if

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that's not your starting place? You might be, but what if your first job is to go and

455
00:31:56.580 --> 00:32:07.420
help someone else? So Lord, who should I help? As Ray just put, join our movement. Why? Is

456
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our movement for everyone? No, it's for people who want to move and who want to invest in

457
00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:15.700
their own growth and development. Well, you know, and so for some people, they're not

458
00:32:15.700 --> 00:32:21.240
going to like that. You say, well, don't all believers want to move? Not in my nearly

459
00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:25.860
50 years experience. They pretty much like the way it is. They just want some more teaching

460
00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:30.480
because we think knowledge fixes something. I don't know what. Pursuit of knowledge got

461
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:35.940
us kicked out of the garden, just saying it's the pursuit of life that we're meant to do.

462
00:32:36.380 --> 00:32:45.680
So here's the thing. In this place, as we're developing a positive narrative, what we're

463
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saying is, Lord, what's your heart towards this problem? So let's say it's as simple

464
00:32:48.980 --> 00:32:53.380
as the Lord says, you know what I don't like about your neighborhood? I don't like the

465
00:32:53.380 --> 00:32:57.760
single moms and how they struggle in your neighborhood. Well, Lord, we have 30 homes

466
00:32:57.760 --> 00:33:05.040
in our neighborhood. Okay, what's your heart towards them? So start. So the way, the one

467
00:33:05.040 --> 00:33:09.680
practical way that I've seen this done, you don't have to do it this way, but you might

468
00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:15.460
go on drives with the Lord and chat about your neighborhood, your city. Well, what are

469
00:33:15.460 --> 00:33:19.760
you seeing? Because if the church doesn't leave the building, if the church is not

470
00:33:19.760 --> 00:33:24.580
impacting and transforming the city in which it's in, it's just a club. It's just a teaching

471
00:33:25.280 --> 00:33:30.280
club. And so the issue would be, well, we're taking authority over the heavenlies and well,

472
00:33:30.280 --> 00:33:36.180
that's fine. But whose lives are changing? Are there homeless people in your city? Why?

473
00:33:37.080 --> 00:33:42.200
How come this? So we go, Lord, help us with the human trafficking in our city. Well, Lord,

474
00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:47.200
why is the human trafficking in our city? I think if you heard from heaven, you'd probably

475
00:33:47.300 --> 00:33:54.380
hear. So Dion, why is the human trafficking in Atlanta? You're there. If that's my fight,

476
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I'm saying, right? Then I go, yeah, Lord, this is this. We're not having this. I do

477
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:06.160
not authorize this in Jesus name. Right. What are we doing? Well, I don't know anyone. Well,

478
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:09.920
Lord, could you introduce me the right people? Then I find out there's this whole group of

479
00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:16.340
10 churches doing stuff. Well, go and help them. So it doesn't have to be on our brand.

480
00:34:16.600 --> 00:34:22.580
It doesn't have to be if it's truly from God. It's just, you know, me and the Lord. I've

481
00:34:22.580 --> 00:34:29.920
seen so much of the solo delusional, grandiose stuff that doesn't do anything because there's

482
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not humility in it. So the humility is, Lord, I don't know how to get to my fight, but I

483
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:41.920
know you do. And I know I'm created for good works and I'm created to walk with you in

484
00:34:41.739 --> 00:34:50.460
this. So I'm going to join somebody else's deal. Third big idea is give to the thing

485
00:34:50.460 --> 00:34:57.180
God's calling you to. So I don't even know where to give to. Then start building a storehouse

486
00:34:57.180 --> 00:34:59.700
so that you can give when the opportunity arises.

487
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:04.560
You know, we hear this worldly thing in the church.

488
00:35:04.680 --> 00:35:07.120
Well, I don't have a heart for it, so I don't give to it.

489
00:35:08.520 --> 00:35:12.080
Well, we're not worldly people, we're kingdom people, which works on father.

490
00:35:12.120 --> 00:35:13.680
Are we doing that? Are we doing that?

491
00:35:14.120 --> 00:35:15.620
OK, we're going to sow into that.

492
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:18.620
I'm going to sow finance, my talent, my time.

493
00:35:18.620 --> 00:35:21.380
I'm going to give of myself to that thing.

494
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Because Jesus said, where your treasure is there, your heart will be also.

495
00:35:26.020 --> 00:35:27.900
What an easy way to lead your heart.

496
00:35:28.540 --> 00:35:30.880
Just give to the thing God's giving permission to.

497
00:35:31.940 --> 00:35:34.720
So I don't know how to get to the human trafficking.

498
00:35:35.100 --> 00:35:39.140
Atlanta's, I think, one of the top number two or number three

499
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human trafficking cities in North America.

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I think Houston is another big one.

501
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:48.300
So we started working on that as a church.

502
00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:51.300
And, you know, I don't tell that whole story,

503
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but we had no idea where to even start.

504
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:55.400
We didn't know who was doing what.

505
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But we did know we were going to start sowing to it.

506
00:35:59.080 --> 00:36:01.520
So we started a little fund as a church.

507
00:36:01.700 --> 00:36:05.400
We started and then we started once a month just going to the Lord and praying,

508
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:07.860
said, Father, show us your heart on this matter.

509
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:09.600
So it doesn't have to happen in one session.

510
00:36:09.600 --> 00:36:13.360
This can be a growth and a partnership and a walking together with him.

511
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:16.520
And then slowly we met this person and we met this person.

512
00:36:16.520 --> 00:36:19.840
Then we found out this is organization and we found out that organization

513
00:36:20.020 --> 00:36:22.040
actually is working with a number of churches.

514
00:36:22.200 --> 00:36:23.880
So what is the first thing we did?

515
00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:24.960
Wrote them a check.

516
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And we said, yeah, we go, what else can we do?

517
00:36:29.720 --> 00:36:33.940
So in our last church, the well, two churches ago,

518
00:36:34.240 --> 00:36:36.420
the church that was planted in my home,

519
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:40.400
that church started, grew, bought the building, did the thing.

520
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And then the Lord gave us this thing.

521
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I want you to go against an orphan spirit in the body of Christ.

522
00:36:48.340 --> 00:36:53.220
So as I 49 restoring desolate inheritances became all consuming.

523
00:36:53.220 --> 00:36:56.900
How do we get the bride into fullness and out of this orphan mindset that,

524
00:36:57.380 --> 00:36:58.080
you know,

525
00:36:58.500 --> 00:37:01.940
nobody wants to be in a marriage where the husband comes once on Sundays,

526
00:37:02.340 --> 00:37:05.060
maybe. And if you really behave and clean the house nicely,

527
00:37:05.080 --> 00:37:09.020
he might talk to you, you know. But yeah, we talked to the church that way.

528
00:37:09.820 --> 00:37:13.160
Jesus may pitch up on Sunday and if you're good, he might talk to you. Right.

529
00:37:13.160 --> 00:37:16.740
So we don't live in this orphan thing. So guess what we got to do.

530
00:37:16.740 --> 00:37:20.140
We got to partner with at that time,

531
00:37:20.140 --> 00:37:24.760
the CDC and key people to deal with helping

532
00:37:25.680 --> 00:37:26.960
orphans get adopted.

533
00:37:28.520 --> 00:37:30.820
And then we started running an annual conference.

534
00:37:31.120 --> 00:37:34.100
There was one lady who was actually adopted the CDC. She,

535
00:37:34.180 --> 00:37:37.700
she had two children of her own. She one day was out on the front yard.

536
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She actually had three.

537
00:37:38.520 --> 00:37:41.840
She was in the front yard and a little boy ran out into the street and was

538
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:45.580
killed by a car right in front of her. He was like seven or eight years old.

539
00:37:46.260 --> 00:37:50.340
And after some years, the Lord started speaking to her, said this,

540
00:37:50.900 --> 00:37:53.920
this awful tragedy I'm going to turn into.

541
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And they actually be created the fun in that young boy's name.

542
00:37:57.380 --> 00:38:01.820
So that was started something and she ended up adopting eight

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00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:06.520
kids. Then we found out, well, there are 1600 orphans in Atlanta.

544
00:38:06.660 --> 00:38:09.620
What if, what if we clear out the orphanages? Well,

545
00:38:09.620 --> 00:38:13.940
this woman in particular was very impressive because she wasn't only just a

546
00:38:14.100 --> 00:38:18.120
doctor, but she advised governments, world governments on behalf of the CDC.

547
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It was also fluent in seven languages. So she got on,

548
00:38:23.020 --> 00:38:27.300
she was on Ukrainian national TV and she challenged the church in Ukraine.

549
00:38:28.380 --> 00:38:30.880
What if in two years we can close every,

550
00:38:31.120 --> 00:38:35.160
every orphanage in the Ukraine because the church adopted people.

551
00:38:36.120 --> 00:38:40.040
We said, well, she was just a doctor at the CDC. What can she do about that?

552
00:38:40.080 --> 00:38:41.560
It turns out quite a bit.

553
00:38:41.560 --> 00:38:45.420
She ended up talking to the minister of education in Russia about,

554
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:50.520
and because there was a huge bad feeling about all these American families

555
00:38:50.520 --> 00:38:51.780
adopting Russian kids.

556
00:38:52.380 --> 00:38:56.920
So they put a strategy together and they ran a first woman's conference in

557
00:38:56.920 --> 00:38:57.780
Russia. Bridget,

558
00:38:57.860 --> 00:39:01.060
my wife was there and our little church in Atlanta,

559
00:39:01.100 --> 00:39:04.720
Georgia hosted the whole thing in Russia.

560
00:39:05.300 --> 00:39:07.920
You got to just laugh at God's like, Lord,

561
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:12.040
if you told us two years before that you guys are going to be like, no,

562
00:39:12.040 --> 00:39:13.420
we're not doing that. You know,

563
00:39:13.600 --> 00:39:17.720
we end up planting a church and we end up running this up with the first ever

564
00:39:19.540 --> 00:39:22.380
conference of its kind in, in, in Russia.

565
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:28.300
All I'm saying is God doesn't mind small beginnings because that's where you're

566
00:39:28.300 --> 00:39:30.160
learning his heart, that you're learning his ways.

567
00:39:30.160 --> 00:39:31.840
He's getting you acclimated.

568
00:39:32.240 --> 00:39:36.300
And then the last and fourth practical point I want to share with you is the,

569
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is the idea of acclimation.

570
00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:43.620
The best analogy of this is, you know,

571
00:39:45.080 --> 00:39:49.340
if you were, if you were doing, I've never tried to climb Mount Everest,

572
00:39:49.500 --> 00:39:51.960
but evidently those who have say,

573
00:39:52.040 --> 00:39:55.500
you have to go to different base camps and stay there for several days to

574
00:39:55.500 --> 00:39:59.820
acclimate to the atmosphere. You know, your heart has to get used to the oxygen.

575
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.660
You have to get, you know, and then you go to the next level and then some of the fat

576
00:40:04.660 --> 00:40:09.320
cats come flying in on their business helicopters and get dropped right off.

577
00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:14.700
Those people get sick immediately, one or two of them even die because they're not acclimated.

578
00:40:15.220 --> 00:40:20.680
So money and machinery doesn't take you up there, acclimation does.

579
00:40:21.020 --> 00:40:25.180
So often what happens is the Lord starts speaking to you about a thing, not so that you can

580
00:40:25.180 --> 00:40:28.100
actually take it and run with it, so that you can acclimate.

581
00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:35.660
Oh, I see Lord, you're getting me used to the idea of this conversation, yep, so I need

582
00:40:35.660 --> 00:40:36.420
to act on it?

583
00:40:36.420 --> 00:40:37.360
No, no, not yet.

584
00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:42.240
Let's just, let's just not rush up the mountain yet, because we don't want to kill ourselves.

585
00:40:42.260 --> 00:40:48.020
Let's just, let's settle here, because there is something in our spirit that has to acclimate

586
00:40:48.020 --> 00:40:54.180
to the bigness of God, to the goodness of God, of how to be with Him, how He's leading

587
00:40:54.180 --> 00:40:55.360
us through this process.

588
00:40:55.940 --> 00:41:00.240
In that space, what's happening is taking you up a level, and then He lets you stay

589
00:41:00.240 --> 00:41:03.400
there for a bit, then He takes you up a level, then He lets you stay there.

590
00:41:03.540 --> 00:41:07.960
So it's not just give me instructions, run, give me instructions, run, because the problem

591
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:11.100
with that is that you will kill yourself in the process.

592
00:41:13.340 --> 00:41:18.160
So I love that when the Lord says something, I say, are we, are we having an acclimation

593
00:41:18.460 --> 00:41:18.940
conversation?

594
00:41:19.300 --> 00:41:22.220
He says, we are, we are, we're having an acclimation conversation.

595
00:41:22.220 --> 00:41:25.720
I said, oh, so this is going to be a whole lot bigger than I'm thinking now, because

596
00:41:25.720 --> 00:41:27.540
this is just like the introduction, right?

597
00:41:27.980 --> 00:41:30.700
Oh, yeah, but you're not thinking these thoughts yet.

598
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:33.420
You're not thinking my thoughts yet, but, but you will.

599
00:41:34.020 --> 00:41:37.680
I've already put it in you to do that, I've put a desire in you to do it, and we're going

600
00:41:37.680 --> 00:41:38.220
to get there.

601
00:41:38.240 --> 00:41:39.120
I got you.

602
00:41:39.140 --> 00:41:39.780
I got you.

603
00:41:39.820 --> 00:41:40.440
You'll get there.

604
00:41:40.600 --> 00:41:42.280
And so we can relax in that.

605
00:41:42.300 --> 00:41:43.600
There's no nervousness.

606
00:41:43.620 --> 00:41:45.860
I don't want to miss God, all that stuff.

607
00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:53.940
Because here's whatever God puts in your heart, it will have his heart in its expression.

608
00:41:54.160 --> 00:41:59.460
What I mean by that is the way we are with people will reflect God's heart.

609
00:41:59.700 --> 00:42:05.140
I've seen more damage done by poor church governance than any other thing in the church.

610
00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:10.620
And yet I've seen more health, you know, being produced by good church governance.

611
00:42:10.620 --> 00:42:12.180
What do I mean by that?

612
00:42:13.200 --> 00:42:17.720
Leaders who are anointed have gifting, but they're hard with people.

613
00:42:18.520 --> 00:42:21.960
They manipulate, they manipulate the bride, they manhandle the bride.

614
00:42:22.040 --> 00:42:26.800
You don't, we don't need any of that, because God doesn't do that to us, right?

615
00:42:27.080 --> 00:42:28.920
So what happens, that's not his heart.

616
00:42:28.980 --> 00:42:31.260
That's not how he is, you know.

617
00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:35.320
So I'm going to leave it there.

618
00:42:35.460 --> 00:42:40.580
I have a lot more to say, but I thought it would be fun if I put it in a little bit of

619
00:42:40.580 --> 00:42:42.360
a first-person lesson.

620
00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:44.100
We always talk about direct learning, right?

621
00:42:44.100 --> 00:42:44.760
Learn from me.

622
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:49.960
So I asked the Lord, if you were teaching us, Lord, what would that sound like, right?

623
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:53.800
So here's my attempt at that.

624
00:42:57.320 --> 00:43:04.960
So the Father says, Jesus fought the ultimate fight and won, and you are guaranteed victory

625
00:43:05.080 --> 00:43:07.660
because he has already overcome the world.

626
00:43:08.620 --> 00:43:14.560
That is why I give you permission to be of good cheer in the midst of a fight.

627
00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:20.740
You and I will talk continually about the prophecies and promises I've given you.

628
00:43:21.420 --> 00:43:24.740
I am acclimating you to this new level.

629
00:43:25.100 --> 00:43:29.720
I will teach you how to use them and how to fight the fight of faith.

630
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:35.700
But I want you to stir up my gifts that I've given you, bring them into full flame.

631
00:43:35.700 --> 00:43:42.180
I want it to be white-hot focused on the fight and ignore all other fights.

632
00:43:43.460 --> 00:43:44.160
Don't be distracted.

633
00:43:45.080 --> 00:43:47.500
Don't be distracted by the fights around you.

634
00:43:47.900 --> 00:43:49.800
Focus on what's in front of you.

635
00:43:50.340 --> 00:43:53.660
I'm teaching you how to be victorious in battle.

636
00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:58.380
Now the resistance you're facing will increase your persistence.

637
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:04.760
The enemy is always facing a losing battle because no matter what weapon he forms against

638
00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:07.280
you, it will not stand.

639
00:44:09.140 --> 00:44:10.780
Every curse I turn into a blessing.

640
00:44:11.080 --> 00:44:12.900
Every challenge I turn into an upgrade.

641
00:44:13.260 --> 00:44:18.380
Every problem I turn into new possibilities for your advancement in Jesus.

642
00:44:18.880 --> 00:44:22.000
I am with you in this fight.

643
00:44:22.120 --> 00:44:25.880
I am training you and teaching you in this fight.

644
00:44:26.540 --> 00:44:29.700
It is time for you to see what I can do.

645
00:44:29.700 --> 00:44:37.220
It is time for you to cross the threshold of opposition and step into the joy of breakthrough.

646
00:44:38.460 --> 00:44:41.880
Now is the time to be joyfully expectant.

647
00:44:43.020 --> 00:44:46.680
Allow yourself to be filled with expectation and anticipation.

648
00:44:47.820 --> 00:44:49.240
It is time to be confident.

649
00:44:49.780 --> 00:44:54.780
Not because I do everything the way you think I will, but because we're in this together.

650
00:44:55.780 --> 00:44:57.620
Ask me what I'm doing.

651
00:44:57.620 --> 00:44:58.900
I will tell you.

652
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:08.020
from me, anchor yourself in my promises, and soon you'll see the fruit of what I've already

653
00:45:08.020 --> 00:45:14.960
put in action behind the scenes, and you will be astounded at the victory I am releasing,

654
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:23.240
and you're going to be pleasantly bewildered by the way I will bring these things to pass. Amen.

655
00:45:24.700 --> 00:45:25.220
Amen.

656
00:45:29.140 --> 00:45:30.480
Questions, thoughts?

657
00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:33.780
I'm just going to say, wow.

658
00:45:35.160 --> 00:45:37.920
Yeah, Lisa, you want to, you got questions you want to add?

659
00:45:38.240 --> 00:45:44.640
I don't have any questions. I just, it was, it was awesome. I've been

660
00:45:45.120 --> 00:45:50.200
being tested over the past few weeks over decisions I've made in the past, and it's,

661
00:45:50.380 --> 00:45:58.500
it's been a challenge, and I ironically had, not ironically, that's not the right word.

662
00:45:59.900 --> 00:46:04.420
Thankfully, I felt peace in the challenge,

663
00:46:07.900 --> 00:46:16.620
and it was scary. I'm still fearful in a lot of ways, but deep in my heart, I know

664
00:46:18.020 --> 00:46:25.660
that he's got something, and it's okay, because I, every morning, I say to myself,

665
00:46:25.720 --> 00:46:31.980
and I even say to my kittens to help me remind them, to remind myself that, one, it's okay,

666
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:35.740
two, I'm safe, and three, I'm loved.

667
00:46:38.040 --> 00:46:43.640
Yeah, it's a great question to ask the Lord, Lisa. How do you want me to be in this? That

668
00:46:43.640 --> 00:46:48.960
is a great question. Two is, what are you opening up for me right now in this circumstance that is

669
00:46:48.860 --> 00:47:01.880
difficult? I was speaking to a guy I've known for many years on Friday, and the Lord reminded me

670
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:07.060
that he had put a large amount of money into a program, and it didn't work out, not for him

671
00:47:06.980 --> 00:47:13.260
anyway. And, and so I said, you know, the Lord just reminded me about that. You did that, right?

672
00:47:13.260 --> 00:47:16.660
Yeah, yeah, and he told me the amount. I mean, it was several hundred thousand dollars,

673
00:47:18.080 --> 00:47:22.660
and, and I said, oh, well, you know that he considers that seed, right?

674
00:47:23.300 --> 00:47:29.760
That's where you sowed it from. You, whatever's of, you know, whatever's not of faith is sin,

675
00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:34.140
but what, of course, what is of faith is life-giving. So I said, there was,

676
00:47:34.620 --> 00:47:39.080
you sowed that in faith. Yeah, but it didn't work out. I said, not yet.

677
00:47:41.040 --> 00:47:46.360
So I said, so I've said to him, I would, I feel like the Lord's asking you to come talk to me

678
00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:54.240
about that and ask me, how can we partner in that? In other words, Lord, that's got to go somewhere.

679
00:47:54.880 --> 00:48:01.260
That seed is lying in the ground. And I can tell you the times that Lord has got me put seed in

680
00:48:01.260 --> 00:48:07.080
the ground, because he said, this is where we're going. And I remember when the Lord asked me to

681
00:48:07.080 --> 00:48:14.100
help Graham in 2014 and said, I want you to sow. And we're like, Lord, we're busy. We have a whole

682
00:48:14.100 --> 00:48:17.520
ministry. We're doing this. Graham was there. He was helping us out with our deal. We had our own

683
00:48:17.520 --> 00:48:23.320
leadership company, but we sowed into that. And then years later, the Lord reminded me and he

684
00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:29.280
said, remember, you put seed in the ground. And here I am with Brilliant logo on my screen.

685
00:48:31.680 --> 00:48:39.340
So it works out in that the Lord is often getting you to sow and then you acclimate. And a lot of

686
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times what we do is we write it off. Oh, that didn't work. Because what are we measuring?

687
00:48:43.560 --> 00:48:48.600
We're measuring downstairs outcomes. What is God measuring? How much life was put in you?

688
00:48:49.180 --> 00:48:53.940
How much upgrade was there in you? Are you learning to partner with him? How he can,

689
00:48:53.940 --> 00:48:59.560
how you're learning about his heart, his kindness, his goodness, all that is what you're learning.

690
00:48:59.700 --> 00:49:06.460
And so that seed, you know, that's kingdom. That's a kingdom approach to money and time.

691
00:49:06.640 --> 00:49:10.500
But I gave three years of my life to that thing. Uh huh. Good seed.

692
00:49:11.720 --> 00:49:21.040
Quick question. I have been doing my best to spend a minimum of 30 minutes with God

693
00:49:21.680 --> 00:49:26.400
every day. I do my best to do it first thing in the morning because that's when I know I'm,

694
00:49:26.980 --> 00:49:29.800
my brain is fresh and more relaxed and focused on him.

695
00:49:34.520 --> 00:49:43.240
And I, I have to, to, I guess I'm not sure how to do it because I just go off and start thinking

696
00:49:43.240 --> 00:49:48.400
of other things and I have to redirect and redirect. Do you have any tips or suggestions

697
00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:55.600
on how I can make it happen faster? Because I feel like I'm, I'm not hearing him because I'm

698
00:49:56.500 --> 00:49:59.980
often something else in my head. I'm going to give you

699
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.600
Very unconventional wisdom.

700
00:50:05.180 --> 00:50:08.880
How about we exchange a devotional time for a devotional life?

701
00:50:11.020 --> 00:50:13.740
Forget the time, forget the morning devotional thing for a bit.

702
00:50:14.060 --> 00:50:16.680
You can always spend time in the Word. Who doesn't love to do that?

703
00:50:17.740 --> 00:50:20.100
Bridget always reminds me that I was her youth pastor.

704
00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:22.800
She was a senior in high school, so that's a while ago.

705
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:25.040
And that was the first advice. I'd forgotten.

706
00:50:25.140 --> 00:50:27.000
She said, I came to you. She had this problem.

707
00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:31.200
She grew up in a Christian home, three generations of missionaries, the whole deal.

708
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:35.540
Huge heritage, but just struggling, mind-wandering.

709
00:50:36.460 --> 00:50:39.380
What was she trying to do? She was trying to make it a spiritual discipline.

710
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:42.480
That's an old covenant idea.

711
00:50:43.020 --> 00:50:45.640
In the new covenant, delight leads to discipline.

712
00:50:46.920 --> 00:50:48.080
Delight yourself in the Lord.

713
00:50:48.720 --> 00:50:52.220
So why don't you say, why don't we just go through every day

714
00:50:52.220 --> 00:50:54.760
and just tune into Him throughout the day?

715
00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:57.160
Lord, what are you delighting in now?

716
00:50:57.900 --> 00:50:59.140
Lord, what do you see about this?

717
00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:01.780
Just make it all relational, like you would a friend.

718
00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:07.980
Thank you, because I've heard something recently about relationships,

719
00:51:08.500 --> 00:51:14.240
and that's what I want to do, is build stronger relationships with the right people.

720
00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:19.380
It was all about how to build those relationships,

721
00:51:19.560 --> 00:51:23.340
and I love how Brilliant is all about relationships with God.

722
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:28.300
Well, Jesus made a fantastic proclamation of you.

723
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He says, I no longer call you a servant, I call you a friend.

724
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:35.260
Because servants don't know their master's business, He said,

725
00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:38.200
but I will teach you everything the Father taught me.

726
00:51:38.520 --> 00:51:41.660
You see, what worked for Jesus is designed to work for you.

727
00:51:41.780 --> 00:51:44.020
The way Jesus walks is the way you get to walk.

728
00:51:44.340 --> 00:51:45.440
Why? Because He's with you.

729
00:51:45.580 --> 00:51:48.360
You're not doing it on your own, you're one with Him.

730
00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:51.600
You're practicing, so why don't you spend every moment of the day,

731
00:51:51.600 --> 00:51:53.960
whenever you're, just tune your heart back into the Lord,

732
00:51:54.080 --> 00:51:55.020
and just practice your oneness.

733
00:51:55.140 --> 00:51:57.800
Say, Lord, I'm practicing my oneness, I don't even know what that means,

734
00:51:57.880 --> 00:51:59.040
but I'm practicing it anyway.

735
00:51:59.960 --> 00:52:05.980
He loves the sheer sweetness and simplicity, the child-likeness of that.

736
00:52:06.240 --> 00:52:09.760
We don't have to make it theological or complex or heady,

737
00:52:09.900 --> 00:52:12.160
we just have to be like children.

738
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And so He wants our friendship.

739
00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:21.540
He's intensely relational, intensely relational.

740
00:52:23.100 --> 00:52:27.220
So just, hey, and then what you'll find is you'll find yourself like,

741
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:29.200
oh, I've got half an hour, I want to get in the Word,

742
00:52:29.300 --> 00:52:30.980
I just want to just enjoy this.

743
00:52:31.140 --> 00:52:33.220
Because now delight leads to discipline.

744
00:52:34.060 --> 00:52:37.040
But if you try to discipline yourself, my goodness,

745
00:52:37.040 --> 00:52:38.180
that's the hard way around.

746
00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:40.920
Yes, thank you.

747
00:52:41.260 --> 00:52:44.160
Yeah, when I use spiritual disciplines, I'm already leaving,

748
00:52:44.160 --> 00:52:45.460
I'm running down the road.

749
00:52:46.580 --> 00:52:48.000
I don't want that kind of relation.

750
00:52:48.780 --> 00:52:50.960
Imagine if my wife came and said, okay,

751
00:52:50.960 --> 00:52:53.040
I've got five new disciplines in our marriage.

752
00:52:53.100 --> 00:52:56.300
Number one, I'm going to cook for thee, and then thou shalt,

753
00:52:56.500 --> 00:52:58.820
and I'm like, go away, where's my wife?

754
00:52:58.900 --> 00:52:59.820
What have you done with her?

755
00:53:00.100 --> 00:53:02.140
I don't want a marriage like that.

756
00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:04.060
Neither does he, by the way.

757
00:53:06.580 --> 00:53:07.360
I get it.

758
00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:10.900
And I want to make life more fun and in that childlike mindset,

759
00:53:10.900 --> 00:53:14.040
because I've gotten away from it, and I've got this,

760
00:53:14.340 --> 00:53:15.940
oh, I've got to be this, and I've got to be this,

761
00:53:16.020 --> 00:53:17.340
and I've got to be like this person.

762
00:53:17.980 --> 00:53:21.300
And I'm getting to the point where God's telling me why.

763
00:53:21.680 --> 00:53:23.200
I made you unique.

764
00:53:23.780 --> 00:53:25.420
Yeah, go shopping with the Lord.

765
00:53:25.500 --> 00:53:26.120
It's a lot of fun.

766
00:53:26.220 --> 00:53:28.040
You'll spend stuff on things you never imagined.

767
00:53:30.380 --> 00:53:33.060
Well, I'm very pragmatic, so hold on.

768
00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:38.820
Well, you know, Graham tells a fantastic story of when he was going

769
00:53:38.820 --> 00:53:40.620
through a very tough financial time.

770
00:53:40.680 --> 00:53:44.620
It's actually when he wrote The Nature of Freedom and Nudist Advantage.

771
00:53:44.760 --> 00:53:48.380
But when he was writing that, somebody came, you know,

772
00:53:48.380 --> 00:53:49.420
went to this church.

773
00:53:49.780 --> 00:53:53.040
They gave him the sonorarium, and he was like, great,

774
00:53:53.040 --> 00:53:56.560
now I can get a table and a plate and a knife and a fork and a chair.

775
00:53:57.240 --> 00:53:59.240
And the Lord said, let's go shopping together.

776
00:53:59.300 --> 00:54:01.560
You know how the Spirit gets all excited and he's like bouncy

777
00:54:01.560 --> 00:54:02.980
and he's excited like he does.

778
00:54:03.300 --> 00:54:05.920
And then they went out and he came back with three pieces of art

779
00:54:07.620 --> 00:54:10.380
for the walls because this one means this to us,

780
00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:11.320
and this one means that.

781
00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:13.580
And Graham, remember when we talked about this?

782
00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:15.360
That's the picture we're going to look at.

783
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:17.500
Every time we look, we're going to think about that.

784
00:54:17.780 --> 00:54:20.480
And I think a day later somebody said, hey, we're moving,

785
00:54:20.580 --> 00:54:22.340
and you just come take what you want.

786
00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:24.820
And he got a whole lot of stuff he didn't even pay for.

787
00:54:25.160 --> 00:54:28.540
But Jesus, the Lord was more interested in their friendship.

788
00:54:28.620 --> 00:54:30.160
And he said, oh, you need stuff?

789
00:54:30.220 --> 00:54:32.120
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Father knows you need all that.

790
00:54:33.760 --> 00:54:38.540
You know, birds of the air and all that, downstairs, blah, blah, blah.

791
00:54:39.180 --> 00:54:40.600
Oh, you need money and stuff?

792
00:54:40.680 --> 00:54:41.640
Oh, yeah, yeah, no, no.

793
00:54:41.720 --> 00:54:42.700
But get the picture.

794
00:54:42.860 --> 00:54:44.040
That's a gorgeous picture.

795
00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:48.680
So if you go into Graham's office, I should actually do a video of it.

796
00:54:49.200 --> 00:54:52.420
If you have Brilliant Plus app, go and watch Sacred Spaces.

797
00:54:52.700 --> 00:54:56.180
It's a series he did walking around the art pieces in his office.

798
00:54:56.520 --> 00:54:57.820
Each one is a story.

799
00:54:58.080 --> 00:54:59.460
Man, each one is a story.

800
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.540
Hmm. It's great. What do you what you're seeing there is and sometimes you'll just go in there

801
00:55:05.540 --> 00:55:11.040
and and then he'll just sit down and say, you know, then this happened. And so we bought this

802
00:55:11.200 --> 00:55:16.940
or somebody gave him, you know, this painting. You know, the big I don't know, for a while,

803
00:55:16.940 --> 00:55:21.420
he had a picture of a big woman, a young lady looking over his shoulder. It was quite confusing

804
00:55:21.420 --> 00:55:25.640
for the zoom calls. I went there one day and rearranged his office, because it looks a bit

805
00:55:25.640 --> 00:55:29.600
odd on the camera. But I knew that I knew why he had it there. And I know him well enough,

806
00:55:29.740 --> 00:55:35.960
nothing with Graham is unintentional. So, you know, and it was because of the woman that we

807
00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:41.140
helped rescue in the program we're involved with in the Netherlands, we're rescuing girls out of

808
00:55:41.140 --> 00:55:46.600
sex trafficking. And there was a group there that that got gave them taught them how to be in

809
00:55:46.600 --> 00:55:50.700
restaurants. And then they end up with ownership in the restaurants. And to the restaurants

810
00:55:50.900 --> 00:55:54.720
actually were voted, I think was voted the number one restaurant in the whole of Rotterdam, which

811
00:55:54.720 --> 00:55:59.360
is a massive city in the Netherlands. And if you've ever been there, it's not quite as big as

812
00:55:59.500 --> 00:56:04.040
Amsterdam. I think they were number two or three in Amsterdam. And they just started to set up all

813
00:56:04.040 --> 00:56:08.440
these was actually a guy from Silicon Valley, a private equity guy, an American guy went there.

814
00:56:08.600 --> 00:56:13.140
And he just did this. What's my fight Lord, the Lord said, human trafficking said, Lord,

815
00:56:13.140 --> 00:56:16.720
I don't know how to do that. Well, he had the resource, they said, Lord, just tell me where

816
00:56:16.720 --> 00:56:23.460
to go. So he said, I want you to go the red light district in Amsterdam, you know, explain that to

817
00:56:23.460 --> 00:56:29.260
your wife, you know, honey, no, no, it's for the ministry. It's for the Lord. And, you know, but

818
00:56:29.640 --> 00:56:34.920
she knew him. And they they went and they started to get to know the people that got to know these

819
00:56:34.820 --> 00:56:40.840
girls. And so he said, and he tells a really funny story of walking down the street, and he had some

820
00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:46.680
guest pastors with him. And all these ladies who clearly, you know, were employed, shall we say,

821
00:56:46.860 --> 00:56:50.840
and they all go, Hey, john, how's it going, john? Hey, john, good to see you, john.

822
00:56:51.600 --> 00:56:56.900
And he's trying to explain how come he knows all of them. And, and then when they found out what

823
00:56:56.900 --> 00:57:01.540
he was doing, and he started this restaurant, and then they hired a good chef, and they started

824
00:57:01.540 --> 00:57:06.200
employing these girls, and they rescued them out of sex trafficking. And then they gave them

825
00:57:07.060 --> 00:57:12.540
ownership in in the in the restaurant. And then they started, you know, all this stuff. And

826
00:57:13.240 --> 00:57:16.800
it's an incredible story. And so the ministry was called not for sale.

827
00:57:18.460 --> 00:57:25.800
And so there's so what I'm saying is, we always make it out like we have to find the end purpose,

828
00:57:25.800 --> 00:57:30.840
what if you just have to find the purpose for today? Maybe you're maybe right now learning to

829
00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:37.340
go shopping with the Lord is step one, learning friendship. He's okay with that. But he'll already

830
00:57:37.340 --> 00:57:42.080
start with you on, you'll be out shopping, and you'll see something and this is that bothers

831
00:57:42.080 --> 00:57:46.780
you, doesn't it? That breaks your heart, doesn't it? Let's talk about that. And then he'll point

832
00:57:46.780 --> 00:57:52.360
you where you need to go. There are certain movies I can't watch, I cannot watch anything to do

833
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:58.300
about women or children being abused, or I can't, that's not entertainment. I don't care who the

834
00:57:58.840 --> 00:58:03.320
director or what the movie is supposed to be, or how Oh, wow, I just turned it off. I, I am not

835
00:58:03.320 --> 00:58:08.480
willing to open my heart, my spirit to that and excuse that in so that I can have this weak thing

836
00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:12.560
called entertainment. Now that's just me. So other people can do whatever they want. I'm not judging

837
00:58:12.560 --> 00:58:20.960
them. But that would offend my spiritual sensibilities. And we're saying that because

838
00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:27.200
today when I was in a scrolling moment, something offended me and I went black done. Not gonna see

839
00:58:27.200 --> 00:58:32.020
that again. And that's what we need to do. Like you said, you can also ask the Lord about that,

840
00:58:32.640 --> 00:58:37.400
though. Was there a reason I'm offended by that? Could be your could be your fight isn't there?

841
00:58:38.100 --> 00:58:43.640
Hmm. Okay. Good point. The thing that breaks your heart is because you're sensing his heartbreaking.

842
00:58:45.140 --> 00:58:51.740
He's profoundly affects he is profoundly affected by what goes on in our world.

843
00:58:52.640 --> 00:58:57.220
He gets profoundly affected by what goes in your world. It's just his capacity for relationship

844
00:58:57.220 --> 00:59:03.960
is so enormous. He can absorb that. Hmm. He's not sterile. He's not sitting there going,

845
00:59:03.960 --> 00:59:06.380
well, you know, I'm God, I didn't get touched by that stuff.

846
00:59:08.140 --> 00:59:11.420
And it was awesome to know. So thank you. Yeah.

847
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:18.280
Very cool. Terry, did you do you have any questions or anything?

848
00:59:19.020 --> 00:59:22.560
Well, I mean, grab my microphone if you can, unless you can hear me.

849
00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:30.600
So number one, actually, would you be willing to share that? That God response?

850
00:59:34.020 --> 00:59:40.260
The last the last thing you read? Oh, of course. Yes. You mean the if God were teaching us?

851
00:59:40.220 --> 00:59:46.200
Yep. Absolutely. I'll drop that right. Yeah, that'd be awesome. Yeah. I'll just yeah, I think

852
00:59:46.200 --> 00:59:59.080
it'll go. Yeah, I think it'll go in the Yeah, here we go. Let me see. Oh, it says it's too big. I'm

853
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.920
first five points

854
01:00:02.620 --> 01:00:04.060
Still says it's to be

855
01:00:04.860 --> 01:00:09.660
All right, that's like a thousand characters at bankers. Yeah, it's on the earth. Yeah, it's very small

856
01:00:10.140 --> 01:00:16.320
Okay, there's the first few and by the way, what's nice also is I had the scriptures. I didn't read them to you

857
01:00:16.680 --> 01:00:20.860
What did I do a and B? Let's do see if it'll do CD

858
01:00:22.240 --> 01:00:22.760
Yeah

859
01:00:25.120 --> 01:00:26.160
For me

860
01:00:27.120 --> 01:00:31.760
This is a good exercise you can do by the way for yourself Kerry or for you

861
01:00:32.760 --> 01:00:36.160
When the Lord is teaching you something do this in reverse

862
01:00:36.540 --> 01:00:42.200
Write it to yourself as though he's writing it to you and ask his for his help. I

863
01:00:42.200 --> 01:00:44.080
Do that then the Lord says read it to me

864
01:00:45.140 --> 01:00:49.400
And now the Lord says remember that one we did on that that one called because mine have names

865
01:00:49.940 --> 01:00:52.880
so I have about I don't know a couple of hundred of these and

866
01:00:52.980 --> 01:01:01.140
And so I read them to our and the one I read to the Lord this morning I have an entire group of them

867
01:01:01.980 --> 01:01:03.280
so I have

868
01:01:04.100 --> 01:01:06.940
So the Lord will say read me the one about this

869
01:01:07.740 --> 01:01:13.380
You know reading the one about trust read me the one about that and then I've sometimes the Lord said let me read to you

870
01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:21.240
That's so beautiful, you know, so let me read let me read it to you and then you just hear it in his voice to

871
01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:22.960
you and

872
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:27.200
If you're learning this an easy way to learn and start is do this with scripture

873
01:01:28.420 --> 01:01:35.480
You know take one of the Psalms and then and then say, you know, Lord, would you read this to me?

874
01:01:36.900 --> 01:01:40.760
And and then read it to him and you read it to him. You know how we get all

875
01:01:42.180 --> 01:01:44.080
spiritual and not relational

876
01:01:44.820 --> 01:01:49.980
The listen no, no, no, not like that. That's not how I would say that I wouldn't say it with that tone

877
01:01:49.980 --> 01:01:55.480
Well, what tone would you use? Oh, I'd say it for joyfully. All right say it back to me joyfully

878
01:01:56.760 --> 01:02:02.780
So, okay, let's do that. Joyfully. So for instance on this one, there were several points

879
01:02:03.500 --> 01:02:07.020
By the way, I learned this from Graham in case you know want to know where I got this from

880
01:02:07.540 --> 01:02:12.160
I was once one breakfast morning. Hey, we're a few minutes over. Is that okay, right?

881
01:02:13.960 --> 01:02:17.000
Yeah, as long as it's okay with you. Yeah. Oh, yeah for sure

882
01:02:18.040 --> 01:02:18.460
so

883
01:02:18.460 --> 01:02:21.120
One one morning

884
01:02:22.160 --> 01:02:22.640
I

885
01:02:22.640 --> 01:02:27.900
Spent I spent a week every month in Santa Barbara for about five years. And so I'd fly from Atlanta there and

886
01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:32.220
we'd always have breakfast in the mornings and then we'd go about our day and

887
01:02:33.020 --> 01:02:40.440
we were sitting having breakfast and we were doing a three-day challenge and it was it was the morning of day three on the

888
01:02:40.640 --> 01:02:46.260
Challenge and Graham walks in and he sits down and I know that look on his face. It's kind of

889
01:02:46.940 --> 01:02:49.740
No, but he doesn't get frustrated in this in that way

890
01:02:49.740 --> 01:02:55.760
But that's about as frustrated as Greg gets and he goes I said, okay, what's up? And he said I can't

891
01:02:57.040 --> 01:03:01.920
Seriously, I've been doing this for the Lord for 50 years. You think I'd know I said, what did you do Graham?

892
01:03:02.420 --> 01:03:05.060
he said I prepared this prophetic word and

893
01:03:07.580 --> 01:03:09.720
He said, you know how it goes I

894
01:03:09.720 --> 01:03:14.400
Prepared the word and I was about to present it and the Lord said but Graham that's not the way we do it

895
01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:17.840
The word itself is only one-third of the work

896
01:03:19.060 --> 01:03:24.700
I've written there. I've just written a word for you, right? That's one-third of the work. Do you know what the other two-thirds are?

897
01:03:25.320 --> 01:03:32.320
What's the tone I could say? Hey stir up my gifts in you bring them to full flame you ugly thing

898
01:03:33.200 --> 01:03:39.840
Right the inference or I could say joyfully or peacefully or patiently. Hey, it's okay

899
01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:42.540
You know stir up the gifts I have for you

900
01:03:43.160 --> 01:03:44.800
Bring them to full flame

901
01:03:45.240 --> 01:03:48.700
Can you the difference right so tone so father?

902
01:03:48.940 --> 01:03:53.040
What's your tone and by the way, sometimes the tone changes depending on the point, but let's just say first

903
01:03:53.040 --> 01:03:57.980
Where we learning it's one tone for the story. Okay, that's part two. What's part three then?

904
01:03:58.900 --> 01:04:03.940
What's the assignment every word comes with an assignment to bring you a gift?

905
01:04:04.900 --> 01:04:07.100
This word has a gift in it for you

906
01:04:07.700 --> 01:04:09.620
so father, what's

907
01:04:09.620 --> 01:04:12.220
What's the gift here's the coolest thing

908
01:04:12.280 --> 01:04:18.160
There's many gifts in this one word and I bet you if you read it once a week for a year

909
01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:21.100
You'd pull out ten or more gifts out of that word

910
01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:27.900
Because the gift could be today we're just focusing on this phrase let's talk about that

911
01:04:28.780 --> 01:04:29.220
right

912
01:04:29.820 --> 01:04:35.580
What about hey what I'm about to do. It's gonna blow you away. It's time for your Giants to fall

913
01:04:37.540 --> 01:04:43.320
Which what Giants you're talking about Lord, oh now we got a giant slaying gift in the middle of the word

914
01:04:43.320 --> 01:04:46.900
Well, we could work on that for a month then we come back and then we get to the next

915
01:04:48.200 --> 01:04:54.780
That's why head learning is is so destructive in the kingdom because I can read that now. I know that no, you don't know anything

916
01:04:56.060 --> 01:04:59.980
You just you just you just walk past you walk past the entire kingdom

917
01:04:59.960 --> 01:04:59.980
You

918
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:06.840
a toy store and didn't get a single gift. So that's what I would do. I would take that

919
01:05:06.840 --> 01:05:12.520
one I just gave you, step by step, walk it through with the Lord. And then the last part,

920
01:05:13.980 --> 01:05:20.320
ask me what I'm doing and I will tell you. Learn from me. He's not angry. He's not frustrated

921
01:05:20.320 --> 01:05:27.140
in that. You know, anchor yourself in my promises. Okay, well, let's have a three week conversation

922
01:05:27.140 --> 01:05:34.720
about promises and how to anchor myself in that. Can you see how it works? Yeah, so you

923
01:05:34.720 --> 01:05:40.800
could take that word, you're welcome to have that one, make up your own as you go. So this

924
01:05:40.800 --> 01:05:47.860
is called a crafted Thanksgiving. Right, right, right. But it's the Lord speaking to you in

925
01:05:47.860 --> 01:05:52.600
the way you you think he's speaking to you. And then you learn to do this better and better.

926
01:05:52.600 --> 01:06:00.540
And eventually, I wrote one about six months ago. The Lord said to me, first, he had to

927
01:06:00.540 --> 01:06:04.140
extract various things out of me had to give me up for it. I had to go to that new base

928
01:06:04.140 --> 01:06:09.640
camp level. And he said, there have to be things that I share with you, that stay with

929
01:06:09.500 --> 01:06:15.020
you. There has to be a sacred space in our friendship, that not everything I share is

930
01:06:15.020 --> 01:06:19.780
to be shared. I want stuff you and I talking about, because you're always talking about

931
01:06:19.780 --> 01:06:22.680
what's on your heart, but I want to talk to you what's on my heart that doesn't actually

932
01:06:22.680 --> 01:06:25.860
tie into what you're doing. I just want to tell you what I'm thinking the world what

933
01:06:25.860 --> 01:06:30.460
I'm doing. So I said, Well, Lord, do you want to do that? He said, Yep. But it's got to

934
01:06:30.460 --> 01:06:33.600
stay here. So obviously, I'm not going to get into the detail of that. Just he said,

935
01:06:33.600 --> 01:06:38.740
I want to tell you what friendship means to me. I cried, I cannot even talk about it.

936
01:06:38.720 --> 01:06:44.860
Now. I've read that thing so many times. And I'd load it. I want to be that friend. As

937
01:06:44.860 --> 01:06:50.700
I know, you are that friend. I said, Really? You see me that way? And I'm just mind blown

938
01:06:50.700 --> 01:06:58.480
by his goodness. He is so, so kind, you know, so all this performance stuff and what we're

939
01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:05.680
not doing and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's so trivial to him. It's like, you're

940
01:07:05.680 --> 01:07:08.940
worried about no, you don't need to worry about that. And he's not even annoyed by it.

941
01:07:08.940 --> 01:07:15.180
He's not frustrated. He says, I got all the stuff I want to talk to you about. You know, so.

942
01:07:16.300 --> 01:07:21.940
So good. So good. Yeah, I appreciate that. Because I feel like that's that is exactly

943
01:07:21.940 --> 01:07:31.180
where I'm at. Because I can get I can I can fall into the temptation of getting very

944
01:07:33.080 --> 01:07:39.500
down on whether or not I am performing, whether or not I am accomplishing whether or not I'm,

945
01:07:40.260 --> 01:07:47.840
I'm progressing the way that I think I should be progressing in whatever area. And, and yet,

946
01:07:48.320 --> 01:07:52.620
the truth is, is, you know, I had mentioned this, you know, I think to Ray, I'd mentioned in the

947
01:07:52.620 --> 01:08:00.180
Boxer, you know, literally, the Lord has had me on Psalm three, three, since the tail end of last

948
01:08:00.060 --> 01:08:07.120
month. And just, Lord, you are my shield. You're my glory and the lifter of my head, you know?

949
01:08:07.600 --> 01:08:13.760
And what does that mean? You know? What does it mean to you? How do you want to be with that?

950
01:08:14.140 --> 01:08:20.020
How does that open up your that's a that's a multi year conversation. Right? So think of all

951
01:08:20.020 --> 01:08:25.620
the scriptures they are. Let's say that Psalm three, three takes you three to five years.

952
01:08:26.040 --> 01:08:30.380
For one day you read and go, that's my life. Then you know, you've become the verse,

953
01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:34.760
not just learned about the verse. Right? So how many of those you're going to do in your lifetime?

954
01:08:35.420 --> 01:08:39.040
So where did we get the idea reading through the Bible in a year is going to do what?

955
01:08:39.620 --> 01:08:42.979
Now, just give overview and some appreciation. Of course,

956
01:08:43.140 --> 01:08:46.920
that's more academic than it is anything else, right? That's okay.

957
01:08:49.080 --> 01:08:52.859
Newsflash, there are no skulk, there are no report cards in the kingdom.

958
01:08:55.140 --> 01:08:57.560
You already got an A, you know why? You're in Jesus.

959
01:09:00.040 --> 01:09:04.979
And you can't fail because he'll just stay with you until you get where you need to be.

960
01:09:06.100 --> 01:09:10.740
God isn't giving you an A and a B and a C. He's not working. He doesn't even think in those terms.

961
01:09:11.800 --> 01:09:16.899
He loves who you are. He loves you becoming and he knows exactly the plans he has for you.

962
01:09:16.920 --> 01:09:21.140
Where you're going together. So be present.

963
01:09:21.600 --> 01:09:30.060
I think it was you that had given me the plans are my kind intentions. I can't tell you the

964
01:09:30.060 --> 01:09:38.640
number of times that I have said that again, just in the context of what I do outside of

965
01:09:38.640 --> 01:09:44.520
my business. And that is being on the radio over and over just, you know, understand

966
01:09:44.520 --> 01:09:50.460
these are God's kind intentions towards you. It's not your, you know, I know the duty that I have,

967
01:09:50.460 --> 01:09:55.380
you know, established for you to accomplish. It's the kind intentions that I have for you.

968
01:09:57.200 --> 01:09:58.940
Yeah, no, you're most welcome.

969
01:09:59.380 --> 01:09:59.380


970
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.200
Well, that's the cool thing about just having a small group and we can chat like this.

971
01:10:04.580 --> 01:10:06.080
Yeah, for sure.

972
01:10:06.260 --> 01:10:08.600
Well, Dion, thank you so much, as always.

973
01:10:09.120 --> 01:10:11.440
So, so much wisdom, just so good.

974
01:10:12.240 --> 01:10:14.060
So give Dion a big thank you.

975
01:10:14.360 --> 01:10:15.100
Thank you, Dion.

976
01:10:15.380 --> 01:10:15.840
Thank you, guys.

977
01:10:16.160 --> 01:10:16.760
Appreciate it.

978
01:10:16.820 --> 01:10:18.400
I'll give you the rest of the evening back.

979
01:10:18.640 --> 01:10:18.880
Yeah.

980
01:10:18.880 --> 01:10:19.240
Yeah.

981
01:10:19.240 --> 01:10:20.400
Thanks for having me.

982
01:10:20.400 --> 01:10:21.020
Thank you so much.

983
01:10:21.240 --> 01:10:21.340
Appreciate you.

984
01:10:21.440 --> 01:10:22.140
Thanks so much.

985
01:10:23.480 --> 01:10:23.680
Awesome.

986
01:10:24.980 --> 01:10:25.460
Awesome.

987
01:10:25.740 --> 01:10:26.220
Yeah.

988
01:10:26.220 --> 01:10:27.060
Good stuff.

989
01:10:27.060 --> 01:10:30.420
Here, I'll take you off the spotlight unless you want it.

990
01:10:32.360 --> 01:10:32.360


991
01:10:33.180 --> 01:10:33.540
Yeah.

992
01:10:33.740 --> 01:10:40.180
That's, that's, you know, lately I've just been getting, he's been pointing out more

993
01:10:40.180 --> 01:10:50.340
and more things that I was oppressing on myself.

994
01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:57.740
And so, you know, this weekend was Jess's birthday.

995
01:10:58.080 --> 01:11:05.080
And so, you know, I read about it, got the idea to do a little staycation right down

996
01:11:05.080 --> 01:11:06.320
right down the road at the Ritz.

997
01:11:07.080 --> 01:11:09.340
And so, so me and her, we've got a nanny.

998
01:11:10.460 --> 01:11:11.120
She's with the kids.

999
01:11:11.260 --> 01:11:13.040
So me and her went, you know, Friday night.

1000
01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:26.240
And I, I, you know, I haven't had any, anything to drink and since December, I think I had

1001
01:11:26.240 --> 01:11:29.580
one little bit of champagne, I've had one little bit of champagne, right?

1002
01:11:30.040 --> 01:11:32.020
Since December, right?

1003
01:11:32.520 --> 01:11:37.200
And that was just a, I felt like the Lord was calling me to stop drinking, not that

1004
01:11:37.200 --> 01:11:38.980
I've had a problem with it or anything.

1005
01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:42.160
And so it's, you know, it's her birthday.

1006
01:11:42.160 --> 01:11:46.600
We're having this really nice dinner and, you know, she's, she wants to have a drink.

1007
01:11:46.700 --> 01:11:48.880
So I'm like, yeah, I'll have a drink, I'll have a drink.

1008
01:11:49.040 --> 01:11:53.880
And so I have a couple of margaritas, which is what kind of what I used to do.

1009
01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:56.880
And I haven't, I just, I just haven't done any of that.

1010
01:11:57.880 --> 01:12:00.740
And we're in the Uber back to the, to the hotel.

1011
01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:04.980
We actually went from one Ritz to the other Ritz, so the beach Ritz to the golf Ritz.

1012
01:12:05.540 --> 01:12:11.360
And we get into this conversation and we are just cracking up.

1013
01:12:11.700 --> 01:12:14.300
I mean, it was just, it was such a funny conversation.

1014
01:12:14.500 --> 01:12:22.520
We had this debate because there was a pianist there and I am fairly certain she

1015
01:12:22.520 --> 01:12:29.840
was playing a space oddity by David Bowie and she swears that that is not the song

1016
01:12:29.840 --> 01:12:35.380
and that it is the Midnight Sonata by Mozart or something.

1017
01:12:35.480 --> 01:12:39.360
I forget, I forget who, and I'm like, no, that is not the song.

1018
01:12:39.920 --> 01:12:44.940
And, and, and she's, so she's, she goes to her phone and she's like, do, do, do, like

1019
01:12:44.940 --> 01:12:48.780
she's trying to like, make the, I'm like, what are you doing?

1020
01:12:48.780 --> 01:12:50.220
Like, it's going to pick that up.

1021
01:12:50.220 --> 01:12:51.260
She's like, no, no, it's grok.

1022
01:12:51.580 --> 01:12:54.800
And she's like, do, do, do, do, it was just, we just cracked up.

1023
01:12:54.800 --> 01:12:56.020
We just had such a good time.

1024
01:12:56.020 --> 01:13:04.640
And, you know, I just think that, you know, the Lord is, uh, telling me, Hey, chill out,

1025
01:13:05.160 --> 01:13:07.800
buddy, you don't, you don't gotta be so strict yet.

1026
01:13:07.800 --> 01:13:10.960
You don't have to be so, you know, iron, iron tight here.

1027
01:13:11.500 --> 01:13:14.140
And, um, and so it was just, it was just really cool.

1028
01:13:14.220 --> 01:13:19.680
So I'm, I'm finding more and more parts of my life that over the last year or so, I've

1029
01:13:19.680 --> 01:13:23.840
just been so super strict or so super disciplined or whatever.

1030
01:13:24.440 --> 01:13:28.180
And, um, you know, we're just, we're just having a blast, you know?

1031
01:13:28.420 --> 01:13:33.680
And, and so I feel like he is so much easier on me than I am.

1032
01:13:34.420 --> 01:13:41.640
And, and he's letting me, you know, he's, he's gently led me to learn this and, and,

1033
01:13:41.660 --> 01:13:43.280
and, and get out of that whole stuff.

1034
01:13:44.100 --> 01:13:48.540
And, you know, and he, he revealed to me, I wish I got my journal in the other room,

1035
01:13:48.540 --> 01:13:58.520
but he revealed to me that, um, in the past I would accumulate things or records

1036
01:13:59.740 --> 01:14:03.000
or, uh, bragging points to impress others.

1037
01:14:03.840 --> 01:14:06.360
And now I just don't care about that.

1038
01:14:06.360 --> 01:14:09.300
I only care about expanding the kingdom.

1039
01:14:09.380 --> 01:14:10.260
That's all I care about.

1040
01:14:11.080 --> 01:14:17.300
And, you know, um, so I just, just know that his, he's gentle.

1041
01:14:17.780 --> 01:14:18.660
He's so gentle.

1042
01:14:18.760 --> 01:14:21.720
He's so much better and gentle than we are to us.

1043
01:14:22.260 --> 01:14:25.320
And, and so just let that, right.

1044
01:14:25.520 --> 01:14:27.980
Let, let that be play with that.

1045
01:14:29.700 --> 01:14:31.380
Cause he's just, he's just so gentle.

1046
01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:35.020
And so Rebecca, would you, would you pray us out?

1047
01:14:35.060 --> 01:14:37.640
And then of course, if you guys have anything, you can feel free to box me.

1048
01:14:37.880 --> 01:14:39.300
Of course, I'm going to be on the road.

1049
01:14:39.420 --> 01:14:41.560
I it's a crazy two weeks.

1050
01:14:41.560 --> 01:14:47.220
Um, but, uh, I'm going to be on the road tomorrow going to, uh, some gifted me a

1051
01:14:47.220 --> 01:14:48.740
ticket to the Patrick bet David thing.

1052
01:14:48.800 --> 01:14:51.660
So I'm going to go check that out in Orlando for a few days.

1053
01:14:51.700 --> 01:14:53.240
Then I'm off to speak in Dallas.

1054
01:14:53.400 --> 01:14:58.520
And then we got our sales workshop the weekend after, uh, here in Fort Myers.

1055
01:14:59.340 --> 01:14:59.980
Um, but.

1056
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:02.900
But yeah, if you guys got something, feel free to vox me.

1057
01:15:03.040 --> 01:15:04.160
And Rebecca, would you pray this out?

1058
01:15:05.220 --> 01:15:05.900
Yeah, sure.

1059
01:15:05.980 --> 01:15:06.600
Let's do it.

1060
01:15:07.500 --> 01:15:11.200
Father God, thank You, Lord, for preparing good works in advance for us, Lord.

1061
01:15:11.280 --> 01:15:16.920
Thank You for the fight that each of us get to figure out with You and participate with

1062
01:15:16.920 --> 01:15:17.320
You, Lord.

1063
01:15:17.340 --> 01:15:19.700
Thank You for the invitation to partner with You.

1064
01:15:20.240 --> 01:15:23.660
Thank You that we get to enter into joy and experience Your grace.

1065
01:15:23.820 --> 01:15:24.900
We're so grateful, Lord.

1066
01:15:24.900 --> 01:15:27.800
We're excited for what it is You have in store for us.

1067
01:15:27.800 --> 01:15:31.780
So I want to just pray, Lord, that You would help us with discernment and wisdom to help

1068
01:15:32.500 --> 01:15:36.380
us really maximize the fullness of what it is You want us to experience here.

1069
01:15:36.380 --> 01:15:37.940
You came so we would have life to the full.

1070
01:15:38.200 --> 01:15:40.560
And that means we can have it right here, right now, Lord.

1071
01:15:40.580 --> 01:15:41.180
So we're grateful.

1072
01:15:41.300 --> 01:15:44.800
We give You praise and glory for everything that You're at work doing on our behalf.

1073
01:15:45.280 --> 01:15:45.940
We love You.

1074
01:15:45.980 --> 01:15:47.100
And thank You for this time tonight.

1075
01:15:47.140 --> 01:15:47.880
In Jesus' name.

1076
01:15:48.480 --> 01:15:48.840
Amen.

1077
01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:49.340
Amen.

1078
01:15:49.700 --> 01:15:50.160
All right.

1079
01:15:50.440 --> 01:15:51.040
Love you guys.

1080
01:15:51.460 --> 01:15:51.820
God bless.

1081
01:15:52.140 --> 01:15:52.600
Love you, too.

1082
01:15:53.120 --> 01:15:53.740
Bye, guys.