WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.720 4 of 6 and I am I've been having a blast I've been great seeing the feedback 2 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:16.079 coming in from you guys as well so let me do my classic here as I just jump on 3 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:21.240 board and make sure that we're streaming everywhere that we're supposed to be 4 00:00:21.240 --> 00:00:28.240 streaming and as you're jumping on board it's just I just want to say thanks for 5 00:00:28.240 --> 00:00:37.000 joining the adventure thanks for yeah just being a part of what is happening 6 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:43.840 we're very very excited and this session we get to get really practical and start 7 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:48.840 uncovering some of the rhythms of the divine life so whether you're joining 8 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:54.840 live or whether you're joining for the replay feel free just to drop look at 9 00:00:54.840 --> 00:01:00.640 that there we go we are live it's happening and just drop live if you're 10 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:08.640 in for the live drop replay if you're joining us for the replay and one or 11 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:12.960 just one more place for me to check in make sure it's all ticking along yeah 12 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:20.800 beautiful cool fan well that's the tech side sorted and stoked to be here with 13 00:01:20.800 --> 00:01:27.840 you let's do a quick little just check in with you be great to hear from you 14 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:32.000 what has been valuable that you've picked up so far just drop that in the 15 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.840 comments things that you've picked up that you've been like yeah that's been 16 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:40.640 really good so far so I think I'm gonna have a little have a little drink here 17 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:51.320 bottoms up and then we're gonna get into this session for the rhythms of 18 00:01:51.320 --> 00:01:56.800 divine life and how we can start actually laying some systems and putting 19 00:01:56.800 --> 00:02:04.120 some things in place for setting ourselves up for exponential growth 20 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:11.720 which I know you guys are excited about so gonna pray and then we are gonna 21 00:02:11.720 --> 00:02:24.680 launch right in all right pray with me Jesus Papa Holy Spirit we love you and 22 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:33.120 we welcome you and we welcome you right now Holy Spirit to unpack for us the 23 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:38.920 richness of your word Holy Spirit I thank you for coming right now and 24 00:02:38.920 --> 00:02:46.080 unlocking the depths of the wisdom of the Word of God for us I thank you for 25 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:56.160 bringing it to life in and in a rain away Lord where your word lights up on 26 00:02:56.160 --> 00:03:03.920 the inside of us like a flame Lord I thank you that as we share this session 27 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:10.480 today Lord I thank you that it will be more than just words but that your 28 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:16.160 presence will be here Lord that there this these will be words of spirit and 29 00:03:16.160 --> 00:03:25.240 light and so Holy Spirit we welcome you we welcome you we welcome you to come 30 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:32.440 and rest on us we welcome the richness of your glory to flood right through us 31 00:03:32.440 --> 00:03:41.880 body soul and spirit Jesus we honor you King of Kings and Lord of Lords we give 32 00:03:41.880 --> 00:03:49.680 you all the glory and all the honor we say take your place and as we gather 33 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:56.280 together as we set this time aside Jesus I thank you for speaking into our 34 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:02.160 hearts and speaking into our lives I thank you for just all the words of all 35 00:04:02.160 --> 00:04:07.320 the other sessions coming alive and I thank you for breathing on us I thank 36 00:04:07.320 --> 00:04:17.279 you for awakening faith awakening hope awakening dreams in Jesus name Amen 37 00:04:17.320 --> 00:04:24.120 fantastic man hey this is going to be a really good session and in this session 38 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:31.240 we're going to start unpacking what has really taken well over a decade in 39 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:38.520 ministry to discover and then to help people implement in their lives and it's 40 00:04:38.520 --> 00:04:46.040 now seeing it's now achieving transformations at a rate that we 41 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:49.960 couldn't have we couldn't have achieved in the past now that we know this and 42 00:04:49.960 --> 00:04:54.400 we've implemented it it is working exceptionally well to produce 43 00:04:54.400 --> 00:05:01.760 exponential growth in people's lives all around the world so let's jump into 44 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:11.360 this session and it is called Rhythms of Divine Life. So there's five pillars 45 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.280 that we've been talking about in this series so far in the 46 00:05:15.280 --> 00:05:21.920 Rite of Passage Challenge. The five pillars of what God is releasing in this 47 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:28.960 move where he's taking us. The pillars are the divine life, divine 48 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:33.680 relationships, divine health, divine abundance and divine assignments. So 49 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:39.440 those are the what. Those are the what. The what God is doing but there's 50 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:46.160 also the how. So there's two pillars of how God is actually accomplishing 51 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.880 and achieving this. It's really in this Rite of Passage Challenge we're really 52 00:05:49.880 --> 00:05:54.480 talking about seven pillars. Five pillars are the what God is doing and then 53 00:05:54.480 --> 00:06:01.360 there's two pillars which are the how God is doing it. So any guesses 54 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:06.880 in the comments of what the two pillars are of the how? How is God achieving this 55 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:11.240 massive transition? How is God achieving this? We've looked at 56 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:17.000 the four pieces to this process of Reformation, of moves of the 57 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:22.280 Spirit. Step one is that God releases revelation. It produces 58 00:06:22.280 --> 00:06:27.840 the renewing of our minds. It leads to a reformation in how we how we act. And 59 00:06:27.840 --> 00:06:33.400 then number four is it produces restoration of something. So the question 60 00:06:33.400 --> 00:06:40.400 is how is God now starting to actually restore these five pillars of divine 61 00:06:40.400 --> 00:06:44.800 life, divine relationships, divine health, divine abundance and divine assignments 62 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:49.840 back to us? That's our big question. So that's what we're looking at today is 63 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:55.520 how we're going to get really practical on how you can start actually 64 00:06:55.520 --> 00:07:01.120 setting yourself up for fast-tracking the alignment process and the growth 65 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:07.960 process and setting yourself up to live perpetually in and outpouring of the 66 00:07:07.960 --> 00:07:16.120 Spirit. So the two pillars of the how, get ready for them. The two 67 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:22.720 pillars of the how are number one, work ethic and number two, willpower. 68 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:27.640 Let me say that again. The hows. This is the how of how you're actually going to 69 00:07:27.640 --> 00:07:35.640 step into a lifestyle of the rhythms of the divine life that will produce this 70 00:07:35.640 --> 00:07:41.400 exponential growth in you. So the two pillars are work ethic and willpower. 71 00:07:41.400 --> 00:07:49.920 And they're both so important that they are complete deal-breakers, right? 72 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:54.080 For any dream you have, for any goal that you have, for anything that you want to 73 00:07:54.080 --> 00:08:01.120 achieve in life, without the adequate level of willpower and work ethic 74 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:06.720 your dream won't happen, your goal won't happen. So these are the most 75 00:08:06.760 --> 00:08:12.400 foundational and most powerful attributes that you need in the process 76 00:08:12.400 --> 00:08:16.400 of actually bringing dreams to life and aligning with God and experiencing 77 00:08:16.400 --> 00:08:23.040 exponential growth. The key one though, I want to say that one that is just, of 78 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:26.160 all of these seven pillars, right, that we've been talking about, right, if you 79 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:30.160 could, if I could choose one of these to have mastered, right, if I could choose 80 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:35.880 okay to have divine life mastered or divine relationships or divine health or 81 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:39.919 divine abundance or divine assignments mastered or if I could choose to have 82 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.919 work ethic mastered or willpower mastered, the thing that I would choose 83 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:51.320 to have mastered above anything else is willpower. All right, so we're gonna, we're 84 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:56.000 gonna go deeper on willpower in this section now. I'm gonna cover work ethic 85 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:01.960 briefly and then we're gonna do a deep dive on willpower and why willpower is 86 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:06.920 so essential, how you develop it and have a really good look in the Word of God at 87 00:09:06.920 --> 00:09:11.880 willpower and what the Word of God says to us about willpower. All right, so say 88 00:09:11.880 --> 00:09:15.920 work ethic with me right now. Say work ethic, this is the first one that we're 89 00:09:15.920 --> 00:09:22.400 hitting, work ethic. All right, work ethic, I think most people kind of understand 90 00:09:22.400 --> 00:09:26.880 work ethic, it's pretty self-explanatory almost, you know, with work ethic and if 91 00:09:26.880 --> 00:09:30.680 you've got good work ethic, you'll work hard and you'll be focused and you'll be 92 00:09:30.680 --> 00:09:34.800 willing to do whatever it takes, you'll work smart as well, which is you'll 93 00:09:34.800 --> 00:09:40.000 always be looking to improve the end result by improving the systems and 94 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:44.560 processes and you'll get great results and you'll get the job done and you'll 95 00:09:44.560 --> 00:09:47.720 get it done well. All right, so that's work ethic, I think you guys understand 96 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:53.840 that and God really is looking to actually see us really develop work 97 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:59.280 ethic and I think that what God's gonna, what He's releasing to us more and more, 98 00:09:59.280 --> 00:10:02.000 He's already... 99 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.200 done now but more and more these heavenly blueprints being released genius systems being 100 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:11.360 released that are increasing our capacity for work ethic. All right, so willpower. 101 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:21.440 Stay with me, willpower. All right, your capacity in life, all right, your capacity to achieve 102 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:25.520 whatever it is you want to achieve, your capacity to live in the divine assignment in your life, 103 00:10:25.520 --> 00:10:32.080 or your capacity to see growth in the divine life, or see growth in any of the five pillars 104 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:41.280 we've talked about, your capacity in life to do, to achieve, it is determined by your willpower. 105 00:10:41.280 --> 00:10:47.280 All right, and willpower, here's a good way to measure willpower. All right, your willpower 106 00:10:47.280 --> 00:10:56.080 can be measured by how much pressure you can handle before you give up. Now who's had a dream, 107 00:10:57.040 --> 00:11:02.960 who's had a dream that they have, they've given up on, or who's had a challenge that has just 108 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:08.480 gotten too much, or a relationship that's just gotten too much, who's reached breaking point 109 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:15.040 out there on something. Maybe it was something that, who knows, but I think that most of us can 110 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:21.760 relate to this, can understand this concept, right, that your willpower, really what your willpower is, 111 00:11:21.760 --> 00:11:31.360 your willpower is your capacity to achieve. And you can really tell our work, sorry, our willpower 112 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:37.680 at the end of the day is ultimately determined by how much pressure we can handle before we give up 113 00:11:37.680 --> 00:11:44.720 on whatever it is, the task that we're doing. Oftentimes when God gives us an assignment, 114 00:11:45.280 --> 00:11:50.800 divine assignment comes on your life, it's not easy. Let's talk about someone who had some pretty 115 00:11:50.800 --> 00:11:58.720 exceptional willpower, a guy named Noah. All right, now Noah, the willpower that Noah had was just 116 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:04.400 phenomenal, right. He got asked by God to build a boat, no one knew what boats were, so the whole 117 00:12:04.400 --> 00:12:10.240 concept of a boat was a blueprint from heaven. God told him, gave him the exact blueprints from 118 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:14.880 heaven, all the details of what he needed to build. So no one had heard of a boat before, it 119 00:12:14.880 --> 00:12:19.920 wasn't a time, and Genesis says this really clearly, that they didn't have rain in those days that, 120 00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:25.600 you know, water came up from the earth and watered everything. So it was before the days of rain, 121 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:31.360 before the days of boats, Noah got a blueprint from heaven for something that no one understood 122 00:12:31.920 --> 00:12:38.480 and it took him a hundred years to build it, right. So how much pressure do you think would 123 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:45.200 have been on that assignment from heaven? How much pressure do you think is going to come on us 124 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:51.360 as we embrace this call right now to disciple nations? How much pressure do you think is going 125 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:57.360 to come on our children, right? You know, as our children grow, it depends what age your children 126 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:04.480 are. I've got one still in the womb, due in just a couple of months, and I've got a four-year-old 127 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:11.280 and a seven-year-old and a nine-year-old. So how much pressure do you think is going to come 128 00:13:11.280 --> 00:13:17.440 on them in the process of them growing up and increasing levels of hostility towards Christianity 129 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:21.440 and the earth? How much pressure is going to come on them in the process of fulfilling the divine 130 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:28.000 assignments that is on their lives, the divine assignments to disciple nations? We are going to 131 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:33.840 experience a massive amount of pressure, and how much pressure are you going to experience just, 132 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:39.120 you know, sometimes it's not even accomplishing any more than actually just following Jesus in a 133 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:45.280 difficult context. Maybe it's a context of persecution, and it's going to require enormous 134 00:13:45.280 --> 00:13:51.920 levels of willpower in the face of persecution just to hold fast unto Jesus. So your willpower, 135 00:13:53.040 --> 00:14:00.080 okay, your willpower is your capacity to carry on despite pressure, and you can measure your 136 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:06.080 willpower by how much pressure you can handle before everything kind of falls going. You just 137 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:15.120 can't take it anymore. Right, so next thing, like, I mean, willpower, you know, it gives you great 138 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:23.120 resilience. It empowers your determination, and let me say this, like, desire, right? A desire or a 139 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:31.360 dream without willpower is like a bird with one wing, but if you couple desire with the adequate 140 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:37.760 willpower, nothing will be impossible, right? If you couple whatever it is that you're 141 00:14:37.760 --> 00:14:43.840 wanting to achieve, if you achieve, if you attach that relevant level, the adequate level of willpower 142 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:51.280 to that desire or that dream, it will happen. The willpower will make it happen. So I've got 143 00:14:51.280 --> 00:14:55.280 another question for you. This is a question a lot of you will have heard me ask before. It's 144 00:14:55.280 --> 00:14:59.840 a question that my friend asks often in conferences that he's running, and the 145 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:07.360 Question is, is this, who would like to know the secret to getting whatever you want in life? 146 00:15:08.560 --> 00:15:15.360 Let me know, let me know that. Would you like to know the secret to getting whatever you want in 147 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:21.920 life? All right, think about that for a moment. Would you like to know the secret to getting 148 00:15:21.920 --> 00:15:26.160 whatever you want from life? And when my friend asks that at the start of conferences, you'll 149 00:15:26.160 --> 00:15:29.280 find that people are on the edge of their seat. They're like, oh yes, of course, like I want to 150 00:15:29.280 --> 00:15:34.240 know the secret to getting whatever I want. So they're leaning in, they're engaged. He teases 151 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:38.400 them a little bit. They're kind of like frothing at the mouth a little bit with like, okay, what's 152 00:15:38.400 --> 00:15:46.080 the secret? And then he says, the secret to getting whatever you want in life is to do whatever it 153 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:51.200 takes. And what I've watched and what I've noticed multiple times in these events when he's done 154 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:59.760 that is it's almost like this sigh enters the room and people go, oh, because what secretly I 155 00:15:59.760 --> 00:16:06.400 believe is happening for people in that moment is they were all excited that they were going to get 156 00:16:06.400 --> 00:16:13.440 this pill or some magical potion that was going to give them their wildest dreams, right? They're 157 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:20.080 all like, yes, give me the quick fix. Yes, give me the potion. Yes, give me the magic recipe to 158 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:25.120 fulfilling my wildest dreams. And then he said, the secret to getting whatever you want in life 159 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:32.320 is to do whatever it takes. And at that moment, a lot of people almost, it's kind of like this 160 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:37.840 disappointing sigh or this sense of disappointment enters the room because a lot of people realize 161 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:46.880 in that moment that they don't have what it takes to do whatever it takes to bring their wildest 162 00:16:46.880 --> 00:16:52.880 dreams to life. In other words, there's a realization there that they can't, they don't 163 00:16:52.880 --> 00:16:58.800 have enough willpower to afford their wildest dreams. And let me ask you that question. Do you 164 00:16:58.800 --> 00:17:08.079 have enough willpower, right? It's only those who have adequate willpower that can afford 165 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:13.520 their wildest dreams. It doesn't matter what else it is, right? For example, in all of these five 166 00:17:13.520 --> 00:17:18.880 pillars that we've talked about, you know, divine health, sorry, divine life, divine relationships, 167 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:24.800 divine health, divine abundance, divine assignments, those five pillars, and then the 168 00:17:24.800 --> 00:17:29.760 two pillars as well of work ethic and willpower. If I had to choose one to have mastered, I would 169 00:17:29.760 --> 00:17:36.080 choose willpower, right? Because if you've got adequate willpower, you can, and you attach your 170 00:17:36.080 --> 00:17:40.880 desire and your willpower together, you can afford anything you like. And you can afford what no one 171 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:46.000 else can afford if you've got willpower, because willpower will actually enable you to go out and 172 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:59.200 accomplish everything that your heart desires. Oh, right. So whatever you want in life, you can have 173 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:06.800 it. But the price tag is that you must be willing to do whatever it takes to get it. And only someone 174 00:18:06.800 --> 00:18:12.800 with willpower can afford their wildest dreams. Let's have a deep dive now into some scriptures 175 00:18:12.800 --> 00:18:18.720 that talk about willpower. And let's see a little bit more about what the Bible is talking about in 176 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:27.680 the area of willpower. All right. Proverbs 25, verse 28. This is a massive proverb in the 177 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:32.880 area of willpower. Now, willpower in the Bible, it's often called self-control. So it's the same 178 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:38.320 thing. Willpower, self-control, self-discipline. People use different words to describe the same 179 00:18:38.320 --> 00:18:45.600 thing. Tenacity, determination, chutzpah. It's all pretty similar meaning. So Proverbs 25, verse 28 180 00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:57.760 says this. Like a city whose walls are broken down is a person who lacks self-control. Like a city, 181 00:18:57.760 --> 00:19:05.280 I'll say it again. Like a city whose walls are broken down is a person who lacks self-control. 182 00:19:08.080 --> 00:19:14.080 Almost needs no explanation, really. But you get the picture, right? That without willpower, 183 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:21.760 you are setting yourself up to be desolate. But through willpower, you're going to thrive. You're 184 00:19:21.760 --> 00:19:26.400 going to come alive. You can fulfill your divine assignment. Let's keep going on some of these 185 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:33.920 verses on willpower. 2 Timothy 1, 7 says, For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, 186 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:39.360 power, and self-control. Remember, self-control, self-discipline, willpower, they're all the same 187 00:19:39.360 --> 00:19:46.880 thing. Galatians 5, 22 to 23. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, 188 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:54.480 kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control or willpower. So it's a fruit of the 189 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:59.920 spirit as well. Against such things, there is no law. 190 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:08.160 Proverbs 16 verse 32 says better a patient person than a warrior, one with 191 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:14.440 self-control than one who takes a city. Titus 1.8 says rather, and this is 192 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:17.560 talking about you know a list of qualifications for elders, he must be 193 00:20:17.560 --> 00:20:23.960 hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and 194 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:30.800 disciplined. So the Bible puts this massive value on willpower and 195 00:20:30.800 --> 00:20:35.320 basically says that if you don't have willpower you're going to self-destruct 196 00:20:35.320 --> 00:20:40.360 your own life. That's another way of interpreting Proverbs 25.28. Like a 197 00:20:40.360 --> 00:20:45.080 city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control or lacks 198 00:20:45.080 --> 00:20:55.400 willpower. There's a, in a sense you become your own worst enemy without 199 00:20:55.400 --> 00:21:00.960 willpower. What you have you will lose and you won't ever be able to go out and 200 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:07.760 get that which God has for you without willpower. It's a secret ingredient. So 201 00:21:07.760 --> 00:21:12.360 question for you, question for you is okay Bible emphasizes willpower. It's 202 00:21:12.360 --> 00:21:16.800 pretty obvious that we need willpower but how do you actually go out and get 203 00:21:16.800 --> 00:21:22.240 willpower? You can't buy willpower. How does it, how does it work? So let me go 204 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:28.200 back and just tell a bit of a story. So I set up, I founded a school in New Zealand 205 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:32.280 called Revival School Aotearoa New Zealand and it ran for over a decade 206 00:21:32.280 --> 00:21:37.000 until God said hey time to transition and we we started this new journey which 207 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:43.840 led us to setting up Raising Royalty. After over a decade of leading that 208 00:21:43.840 --> 00:21:49.080 school and seeing lots of different fruit in people's lives right so we'd 209 00:21:49.080 --> 00:21:52.240 see some people who would come and they'd grow really fast and then they'd 210 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.240 stop growing. You see some people who just wouldn't grow at all and you see 211 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:00.760 some people who just continually, continually growing in this place of 212 00:22:00.760 --> 00:22:06.960 continual growth and exponential growth always. And so I really spent a bunch of 213 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:11.640 time analyzing that and also analyzing myself because I noticed for myself that 214 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:17.400 out of anyone in the school who had, who had growth I grew more than anyone. So I 215 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:22.320 was like okay God what's the secret? What's, how, how is it that one person can 216 00:22:22.320 --> 00:22:26.600 be in a room where you're doing something you know they can be in the 217 00:22:26.600 --> 00:22:29.840 midst of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. There's amazing miracles 218 00:22:29.840 --> 00:22:33.480 happening all around. We've even had plenty of testimonies of the Shekinah 219 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:38.320 glory of God turning up. So you've got glory, you've got miracles, you've got 220 00:22:38.320 --> 00:22:42.400 testimonies of angels turning up. There's so much stuff happening in this space 221 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:48.040 right here God and what determines whether one person grows or one person 222 00:22:48.040 --> 00:22:51.640 doesn't grow at all or one person just sets themselves up for massive 223 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:55.400 exponential growth. I was like God what's really going on? What's the secret here 224 00:22:55.400 --> 00:23:03.360 to, to seeing growth? And I spent a lot of time psychoanalyzing my students and 225 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:08.040 psychoanalyzing myself all the way back to my childhood. I had the benefit of 226 00:23:08.040 --> 00:23:11.040 being able to do that on myself and so one of the things that I realized is 227 00:23:11.040 --> 00:23:17.680 that through, that set me up to have a higher level of willpower than most of 228 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:22.360 my peers even in the terms, in the context of following Jesus. A lot of my 229 00:23:22.360 --> 00:23:26.800 peers they fell away from following Jesus but I was able to keep on going 230 00:23:26.800 --> 00:23:32.400 and keep on growing and, and actually not just in survival mode but, but year 231 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:37.160 after year being a space of exponential growth and consistently hitting exciting 232 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:40.720 growth curves and feeling like wow we're just living constantly in a move of the 233 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:45.240 spirit. I was like God what is the key that's actually enabled this? And he, and 234 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:48.560 so he took me back, he started really unpacking this for me. It started in my 235 00:23:48.560 --> 00:23:54.200 childhood. So if you don't know I grew up on an organic market garden. My, my 236 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:59.560 parents were pastors, they'd been missionaries but they also ran a farm, 237 00:23:59.560 --> 00:24:04.520 an analyst's farm. It was an organic market garden. Now I don't know if you know much 238 00:24:04.520 --> 00:24:09.080 about organic market gardens but even a regular farm that's a conventional farm 239 00:24:09.080 --> 00:24:12.160 that uses lots of chemicals there's still a ton of work to be done. On the 240 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:17.000 farm the work never ends but on an organic market garden the level of work 241 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:22.280 goes to a whole, just goes to a whole new level. You've got to plant everything and 242 00:24:22.280 --> 00:24:27.880 we planted pretty much everything by hand. We weeded everything by hand, we 243 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:32.880 harvested everything by hand and it was just a constant amount of work and work 244 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:37.880 had to be done right. It didn't matter what the temperature was, was like and it 245 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:42.000 didn't matter if, if it was late at night. It didn't matter if it was early in the 246 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:46.480 morning. If there were jobs to be done you just had to do them. So what I was 247 00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:52.000 actually raised on was I was raised on a diet of constantly having to do hard 248 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:56.280 things. I want you to say this with me, say we do hard things right. We do hard 249 00:24:56.280 --> 00:25:02.040 things. That's like an anthem with raising royalty. 250 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:08.160 do hard things. And one of the beauties of doing hard things is that that's the secret to developing 251 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:16.800 willpower. So probably one of my greatest discipleship methods, secrets, tools, 252 00:25:17.600 --> 00:25:22.560 life hacks that I could give to you, and it's not just for discipleship, it's just for success in 253 00:25:22.560 --> 00:25:27.920 general, for bringing any dream to life, for achieving anything that you want, is build 254 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:32.800 willpower into your life. Build that into your life. And the way that you build willpower 255 00:25:33.520 --> 00:25:39.040 is you build it by doing hard things. So how many hard things should you do? You should do as many 256 00:25:39.040 --> 00:25:44.800 hard things as possible, as often as possible. And what you will find is that in the process 257 00:25:44.800 --> 00:25:50.240 of doing hard things, it builds resilience, it builds willpower, it builds determination 258 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:55.760 in you. But you don't want to just go around randomly doing hard things, okay? If you just 259 00:25:55.760 --> 00:25:59.760 go around randomly doing hard things without having work ethic, right? Now, this is where 260 00:25:59.760 --> 00:26:06.160 work ethic comes in really as a key ingredient, a key component of our system, is that you want 261 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:10.720 to ensure that you're doing, you're working really hard, you're doing hard things, but you have a 262 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:18.480 genius level system that is ensuring that you're working hard and working smart, and that your 263 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:23.920 effort is going to produce an exponential return. And you want to ensure that the way that you're 264 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:29.200 doing and what you're doing is going to produce the results that you want it to produce. And this 265 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:35.600 is where the pillar of work ethic really comes into the rite of passage system. So I'm going to 266 00:26:35.600 --> 00:26:44.160 talk to you now about a little bit of a change tack here, okay? And then after I tell you this 267 00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:49.200 story about the parable of the soul, which most of you will know very well, after I've told you 268 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:55.120 that story, we're going to bring it back and talk a little bit more about work ethic. All right, 269 00:26:55.760 --> 00:27:03.520 jump with me. If you've got your Bibles, come with me to Matthew chapter 13, and this is the parable 270 00:27:03.520 --> 00:27:15.520 of the sower. Verse one. That same day, Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 271 00:27:16.320 --> 00:27:20.560 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, 272 00:27:21.120 --> 00:27:25.200 while all the people stood on the shore. Then he told them many things in parable, saying, 273 00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:33.120 a farmer went out to sow his seed, and as he scattered the seeds, some fell along the path, 274 00:27:33.120 --> 00:27:40.640 and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. 275 00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:46.240 It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow, but when the sun came up, the plants 276 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:51.440 were scorched, and they withered, because they had no root. Other seed fell among the thorns, 277 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:59.760 which grew up and choked the plants. Still, other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop 278 00:27:59.840 --> 00:28:09.280 a hundred, sixty, or thirty times that what was sown. Whoever has ears, let them hear. 279 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:16.800 Okay, I love this parable, and I want to take a moment to look at this parable. Jesus is going 280 00:28:16.800 --> 00:28:22.320 out sowing the seed, all right, and yeah, it's important to understand what that seed is. That 281 00:28:22.320 --> 00:28:27.520 seed is the divine life, right? That seed is the word of God. He explains it later. That seed is 282 00:28:27.520 --> 00:28:32.320 the word of God. It's the gospel. If you connect that with John 8, 32, Jesus said, you will know 283 00:28:32.320 --> 00:28:36.880 the truth, which is the word, the gospel. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free, 284 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:42.960 and that freedom looks like something. That freedom looks like the divine life, all right. 285 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:49.920 How can you tell that? You look at John 8, 12. Jesus said, I am the light of the world. Whoever 286 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:56.800 follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. That's Jesus' promise to 287 00:28:56.800 --> 00:29:01.120 us. So, the seed, it's really important to understand that the seed that Jesus is throwing 288 00:29:01.120 --> 00:29:08.960 out in this parable is the seed that produces the divine life. Now, there's never anything wrong with 289 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:12.720 the seed. That's something that's really important to see with this parable, okay. There's never 290 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:21.120 anything wrong with the seed. The issue is always with the soil, okay. The issue is never with the 291 00:29:21.120 --> 00:29:28.400 seed. That's important, okay. The seed is just doing fine, okay. It's important to say that. 292 00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:34.080 There's no problem with the seed. Just say that with me. There's no problem with the seed, okay, 293 00:29:34.080 --> 00:29:42.080 but there is often a problem with the soil. Jesus had stony soil that the seed couldn't even 294 00:29:42.080 --> 00:29:47.520 penetrate, and birds came and ate it up. Jesus had soil that was rocky ground. Jesus had soil that 295 00:29:47.520 --> 00:29:55.120 had all sorts of weeds in it, and then Jesus found one patch of soil where the seed could 296 00:29:55.120 --> 00:29:59.840 grow exponentially and produce the fruit that it was designed to produce. 297 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.840 And so I want to say this off the back of that. I want to say this right the this the soil 298 00:30:06.360 --> 00:30:13.460 Represents your heart and if you take care of the soil the seed will take care of itself 299 00:30:14.840 --> 00:30:21.800 Let me say that again. If you take care of the soil the seed will take care of itself and 300 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:25.480 Just like Jesus said you're in John 8 32 301 00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:31.920 You will know the truth and the truth will set you free. You can tell if you don't that gives us a really good indication 302 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:34.120 Okay, right if I'm living in freedom, right? 303 00:30:34.600 --> 00:30:36.000 My heart is full of truth 304 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:42.440 If I'm not living in freedom, then I'm believing a line you need to trace face and replace to get that freedom. So 305 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:46.480 When it comes to 306 00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:54.000 The soil this soil represents the soil of your heart and you can tell if you're doing a good job 307 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:59.040 Of stewarding the soil because you will have the fruit of the divine line 308 00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:02.840 All right. Now I want to talk a little bit more about 309 00:31:04.080 --> 00:31:06.080 I 310 00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:08.760 Want to talk a little bit more about work ethic here 311 00:31:08.760 --> 00:31:15.000 Okay, because it's not enough just to have lots of willpower and to go out randomly 312 00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:23.240 Doing stuff you need to attach willpower and work ethic together so that you're really really systematic and you've got a genius 313 00:31:23.600 --> 00:31:28.160 Strategy on how you're actually going to go out and apply all your hard work 314 00:31:28.840 --> 00:31:31.280 And it's at this point, right? 315 00:31:31.280 --> 00:31:36.960 It's at this point that I want to introduce you to the raising royalty right of passage 316 00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:42.600 Okay, the raising royalty right of passage. It has there's quite a few components to a few phases to it 317 00:31:42.600 --> 00:31:45.880 I'm going to share more on those with you tomorrow 318 00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:49.320 But what we're going to start with today is we're going to start with phase one 319 00:31:49.320 --> 00:31:55.320 I'm going to unpack phase one for you of the raising royalty right of passage in phase one is the 320 00:31:57.320 --> 00:32:04.560 It is the daily hard things challenge, okay now get ready because I'm gonna unpack to you the 321 00:32:06.120 --> 00:32:13.800 Simplicity of it and the genius dynamic of it and how it actually works to produce exponential growth 322 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:18.840 First of all, the daily hard things challenge is a 323 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:26.720 21 day challenge now we looked before let me hit screen share over here and 324 00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:30.680 Let me pull this fella up 325 00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:34.200 Oh 326 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:36.160 Here we go. I'll make it big for you 327 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:42.480 We looked in our last session at this the science of transformation. Okay, we looked at the science of 328 00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:46.600 Transformation. Okay. We looked at this little whiteboard kind of moment 329 00:32:46.600 --> 00:32:50.560 I just drew this up for you guys earlier and we looked at the brain 330 00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:57.080 all right, and we looked at how the brain has a huge part to play in the process of 331 00:32:58.360 --> 00:33:04.440 Renewing our mind so the brain has a part to play here the rhythm of your life has a part to play here 332 00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:10.100 This dynamic of a practice creates a habit creates a reflex creates a lifestyle 333 00:33:10.220 --> 00:33:18.100 Creates a state of being that is at play here your belief systems are at play here and then you're a and 334 00:33:19.660 --> 00:33:25.420 Revelation is at play here revelation is you know, it's one of the sources that's going to change your belief systems up 335 00:33:25.660 --> 00:33:33.020 There's so many other things going on here, right? There's feelings in these the neuroplasticity of your brain chemical reactions emotions 336 00:33:33.180 --> 00:33:34.820 There's a lot going on here 337 00:33:35.220 --> 00:33:42.460 The rhythm of your life is really important and we're going to explore now how the rhythm of life that we have 338 00:33:42.460 --> 00:33:49.580 Right that we can actually implement a rhythm that produces the divine life. We can create a rhythm in our life that 339 00:33:50.700 --> 00:33:57.580 Enhances the neuroplasticity of our brain we can create a rhythm in our life that accelerates revelation 340 00:33:57.580 --> 00:34:00.540 We can create a rhythm in our life. That is specifically 341 00:34:01.340 --> 00:34:03.020 Creating a practice 342 00:34:03.020 --> 00:34:10.300 Practices and habits and reflexes and lifestyles that are ultimately shifting our state of being into the divine light 343 00:34:12.100 --> 00:34:15.100 All right, it's in that screen share for now 344 00:34:18.860 --> 00:34:21.060 Okay, so the 345 00:34:23.900 --> 00:34:25.900 This concept right of a 346 00:34:26.820 --> 00:34:29.420 Practice creates a habit creates a lifestyle 347 00:34:29.940 --> 00:34:36.540 Creates a practice habit reflex lifestyle state of being that's really important. Think about that for a minute practice 348 00:34:37.620 --> 00:34:41.500 There could be anything that you really want to change or grow. Let me think it 349 00:34:41.500 --> 00:34:46.620 Let me talk about one that we incorporate in there. What about the practice of the presence of God? 350 00:34:46.980 --> 00:34:49.860 Let me know chuck your hands up or you just say yes 351 00:34:49.860 --> 00:34:54.699 that's me if you would like to experience a greater level of 352 00:34:54.699 --> 00:34:59.940 awareness of the presence of God in your life if you would be if you'd like to be more aware of 353 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.560 of the presence of God constantly with you, or if you would like to have a greater experience, 354 00:35:06.560 --> 00:35:11.360 so whatever your current experience is, you would like to increase that experience, increase 355 00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:17.520 your participation of intimacy with God, your experience of the tangible presence of God. 356 00:35:17.520 --> 00:35:20.200 You'd like to see that increased on a daily basis. 357 00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:21.200 All right. 358 00:35:21.200 --> 00:35:26.120 So one thing that you can do to increase that level of experience with the tangible presence 359 00:35:26.120 --> 00:35:29.280 of God is to practice the presence. 360 00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:30.280 All right. 361 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:35.920 I'm going to bring this in and tie this into your brain, neuroplasticity, and the renewed 362 00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:38.640 mind all in a moment. 363 00:35:38.640 --> 00:35:43.640 A practice creates a habit, a habit creates a reflex, a reflex creates a lifestyle, and 364 00:35:43.640 --> 00:35:45.320 a lifestyle creates a state of being. 365 00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:50.120 Now you might notice this, that when you're actually trying to grow and you're implementing 366 00:35:50.120 --> 00:35:52.240 some practices, you're, oh yeah, I should do that. 367 00:35:52.240 --> 00:35:54.320 I should go and practice the presence. 368 00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:58.600 I should stop and I should put my attention on the presence of God and I should enjoy 369 00:35:58.600 --> 00:35:59.600 that. 370 00:35:59.600 --> 00:36:06.520 Well, here's a little element to, you know, the brain function, how your brain function 371 00:36:06.520 --> 00:36:09.400 actually is involved in this process. 372 00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:14.760 It takes 21 days to create a new neurological pathway in your brain. 373 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:15.760 All right. 374 00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:21.280 So that 21 days, it takes 21 days to create a new neurological pathway in your brain. 375 00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:24.640 So if you want to increase the presence of God, if you want to practice something, if 376 00:36:24.640 --> 00:36:29.400 you want to shift something, you should practice it for 21 days, okay, because that's going 377 00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:32.160 to create a brand new neurological pathway. 378 00:36:32.160 --> 00:36:39.120 If you do a brain scan on someone at day one and then a brain scan at day 21, you will 379 00:36:39.120 --> 00:36:45.600 find that, listen, a physical neurological pathway will be created in your brain after 380 00:36:45.600 --> 00:36:47.320 practicing something for 21 days. 381 00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:52.440 It's been proven over and over and over again with brain scans and brain scientists. 382 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:54.160 They love that stuff. 383 00:36:54.160 --> 00:37:00.920 Now 21 days is great, but the ultimate consolidation is three sets of 21 days, right? 384 00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:06.520 If you want to deeply embed something into your brain, create a really deeply entrenched 385 00:37:06.520 --> 00:37:11.440 neurological pathway rather than one that's just going to kind of flitter away or wither 386 00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:12.440 away. 387 00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:18.200 You want to create a deeply entrenched neurological pathway by practicing something for 21 days 388 00:37:18.200 --> 00:37:19.200 three times. 389 00:37:19.200 --> 00:37:20.400 So three sets of 21 days. 390 00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:28.120 So as I'm introducing to you the daily hard things challenge, this is the first phase 391 00:37:28.120 --> 00:37:29.680 of the rite of passage program. 392 00:37:29.680 --> 00:37:30.680 All right. 393 00:37:30.680 --> 00:37:31.680 Say that with me. 394 00:37:31.680 --> 00:37:32.680 Say hard things. 395 00:37:32.680 --> 00:37:33.680 All right. 396 00:37:33.680 --> 00:37:35.440 It's the 21 day hard things challenge. 397 00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:37.720 And we repeat this challenge three times. 398 00:37:37.720 --> 00:37:38.720 All right. 399 00:37:38.720 --> 00:37:42.480 So there's a level one, level two, level three. 400 00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:44.560 They're all really, really similar. 401 00:37:44.560 --> 00:37:50.880 We just increase them incrementally, ever so slightly, we increase the intensity at 402 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:51.880 each stage. 403 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:57.680 Let me add a couple of other things in here. 404 00:37:57.680 --> 00:38:03.720 When you're going after transformation, it's really important to consider a couple of things. 405 00:38:03.720 --> 00:38:08.840 I would recommend consistency over intensity. 406 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:12.960 If you're a person who loves going to conferences, fantastic. 407 00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:14.840 I love going to conferences too. 408 00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:17.520 But some people, that's their only growth strategy. 409 00:38:17.520 --> 00:38:22.200 So they go to these conferences, have a massive blowout, but then they go back home and they 410 00:38:22.200 --> 00:38:28.440 haven't got any type of rhythm that's actually producing the divine life in there. 411 00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:31.480 And then they have to just kind of wait till the next conference and then boom, they hit 412 00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:36.520 the next conference like, yeah, they had a new conference and they have a spike in 413 00:38:36.520 --> 00:38:37.520 growth. 414 00:38:37.520 --> 00:38:41.480 But then the next day, Monday comes, whatever, they're back home and then they slump because 415 00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:44.120 they don't have a rhythm. 416 00:38:44.120 --> 00:38:50.440 Whereas it's a little bit like the tortoise and the hare in this sense of growth is that 417 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:56.600 it's better to embrace consistency over intensity. 418 00:38:56.600 --> 00:39:01.240 Now there's nothing wrong with doing both, but I want to encourage you with consistency 419 00:39:01.240 --> 00:39:04.800 is going to be the key for your personal transformation. 420 00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.440 It's going to be the key to taking care of the soil. 421 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:13.480 It's going to be the key to producing the divine life, consistency over intensity. 422 00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:16.600 And one of the reasons why we start this, and I'm going to show you and share an image 423 00:39:16.600 --> 00:39:22.040 with you in a moment that actually is a breakdown of the 21 day hard things. 424 00:39:22.040 --> 00:39:24.640 We're going to check that image out in a moment. 425 00:39:24.680 --> 00:39:31.200 So with the 21 day hard things, we usually start at something that's really, really achievable, 426 00:39:31.200 --> 00:39:32.200 right? 427 00:39:32.200 --> 00:39:35.560 So it doesn't, well, even though it's called the 21 day hard things challenge, it doesn't 428 00:39:35.560 --> 00:39:41.720 seem like it's actually that difficult, but it's very, very scientific. 429 00:39:41.720 --> 00:39:42.920 It's very, very precise. 430 00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.520 It's based on the science of transformation. 431 00:39:45.520 --> 00:39:47.000 And I'm going to pull that up for you now. 432 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:51.040 So get ready, drum roll, please, ladies and gentlemen. 433 00:39:52.040 --> 00:39:55.240 Okay, that was my own drum roll for you. 434 00:39:55.240 --> 00:39:58.720 I just thought I'd add that little treat in there for you. 435 00:39:58.720 --> 00:39:59.920 And let me pull up. 436 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:06.220 for you. We've got, this is the, you can see that one, that's the one that we've been looking 437 00:40:06.220 --> 00:40:14.620 at. So the brain, belief systems, the rhythm of life, neuroplasticity, chemicals, access 438 00:40:14.620 --> 00:40:23.500 to revelation, all these things, very, very critical. But let me pull up this bad boy. 439 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:32.500 This is the 21 Day Hard Things Daily Challenge. I'm going to, I'm going to break this down 440 00:40:32.500 --> 00:40:36.540 for you over two sessions. So I'm going to do a few of these now. We'll see, we might 441 00:40:36.540 --> 00:40:41.980 get five done now. We might just get four. I think we'll probably just go for four of 442 00:40:41.980 --> 00:40:50.060 these today and then we'll cover the rest in our first session tomorrow. Okay. So the 443 00:40:50.060 --> 00:40:54.460 first, but I'm going to, what I'm going to do is I will run through these 12 Daily Hard 444 00:40:54.460 --> 00:40:59.300 Things and I want you to tell me if you think they are achievable or not. And then I'm going 445 00:40:59.300 --> 00:41:04.220 to, what I'm going to do is after I've run through these quickly, I'll stop the screen 446 00:41:04.220 --> 00:41:08.380 share and we'll come back and we'll bring it back to how these all implement with the 447 00:41:08.380 --> 00:41:13.340 science of transformation. So I'm going to ask you right now, do you think this is achievable 448 00:41:13.340 --> 00:41:17.660 or not achievable? Okay. Because I'm, what I'm wanting to do is I'm wanting you to join 449 00:41:17.660 --> 00:41:23.540 me in participating in this Hard Things Challenge for 21 days. What I'm actually going to, what 450 00:41:23.540 --> 00:41:30.020 I'm actually inviting you into is a 63 days of challenging, of challenging yourself to 451 00:41:30.020 --> 00:41:37.020 do these on a daily basis. So we have a level one, level two, level three, and each level 452 00:41:37.020 --> 00:41:43.340 it has a slight change, but they're all designed to, you know, like not to be too hard to help 453 00:41:43.340 --> 00:41:50.580 you actually create some momentum and to, by making it incremental, not too big, not 454 00:41:50.580 --> 00:41:55.220 too hard, not too intense. It makes it more sustainable. So here we go. Is, do you think 455 00:41:55.220 --> 00:42:00.380 this is possible? Number one, praying for five minutes in the spirit. Yes. Achievable 456 00:42:00.380 --> 00:42:05.100 or not achievable? You let me know. That's number one. Number two, and this is the level 457 00:42:05.100 --> 00:42:12.220 one, right? Each level is slightly different. Level number two is reading one chapter of 458 00:42:12.220 --> 00:42:17.100 Proverbs from the book of Proverbs. Do you think that's achievable or not achievable? 459 00:42:17.100 --> 00:42:23.700 Challenge number three is to record your favorite verse from that proverb that you read that 460 00:42:23.700 --> 00:42:28.140 day. So your favorite verse from the chapter, just write that down somewhere, record it. 461 00:42:28.140 --> 00:42:33.180 If you're doing it on your phone, just copy and paste it onto some list somewhere. Number, 462 00:42:33.180 --> 00:42:38.540 so achievable or not achievable? You let me know. Number four, list three things that 463 00:42:38.540 --> 00:42:43.460 you are grateful for. Is that achievable or not achievable? Number five is complete 464 00:42:43.460 --> 00:42:50.300 your daily declarations. Now I'm going to unpack that tomorrow in more depth and share 465 00:42:50.300 --> 00:42:57.260 with you what that means, what that looks like, how you do it. But very quickly, the 466 00:42:57.260 --> 00:43:03.980 overview of it is, is that your daily declarations are connected to your dreams. I have got a 467 00:43:04.060 --> 00:43:12.300 whole stack. This, this is what they look like on paper. I've got on paper here, but I mainly 468 00:43:12.300 --> 00:43:17.740 use my phone for that. And so when I make my daily declarations, I'm also adding to them 469 00:43:17.740 --> 00:43:23.660 all the time because my daily declarations are connected to my wildest dreams. So it's up here 470 00:43:23.660 --> 00:43:28.300 because I'm going through this on a daily basis. I don't know how well you'll be able to see that, 471 00:43:28.300 --> 00:43:34.220 but let me just flick through it. Anyway, it grew so much and I still love adding to it, 472 00:43:34.220 --> 00:43:40.780 but I also want to really not do it superficially. So I really love to really get in there and, 473 00:43:40.780 --> 00:43:45.180 and really declare these things and really meditate on them because they're connected 474 00:43:45.180 --> 00:43:54.140 to my wildest dreams. Because they're growing so much, I split it into two. It was 12 daily 475 00:43:54.140 --> 00:43:58.780 declarations initially, but now there's so many declarations in there. It's heaps. So I split it 476 00:43:58.780 --> 00:44:04.060 into two and I just go through each day. I do half and then just kind of in that type of rhythm. So 477 00:44:04.060 --> 00:44:10.940 I'm going to talk through tomorrow, what your daily declarations are, how you can frame them 478 00:44:10.940 --> 00:44:16.140 up. It could be just as simple as one sentence for each of the seven pillars that we're talking 479 00:44:16.140 --> 00:44:22.060 about. You might want to make one, a one sentence declaration around what your dream is for the 480 00:44:22.060 --> 00:44:27.260 future of divine life, divine relationships, divine health, divine abundance, divine assignments, 481 00:44:27.260 --> 00:44:33.180 your work ethic, and your willpower. There's no limit to it, but those are just some good 482 00:44:33.180 --> 00:44:37.180 starting points. We'll cover that more tomorrow. So what do you think? Achievable or not achievable? 483 00:44:37.180 --> 00:44:44.140 Making seven sentences into declarations and making them on a daily 484 00:44:44.140 --> 00:44:49.660 basis? You let me know. Achievable or not achievable? Number six, move your body for at least five 485 00:44:49.660 --> 00:44:55.020 minutes. Is that achievable or not achievable? It could be a work, it could be just a nice walk 486 00:44:55.020 --> 00:44:59.980 somewhere, or you might want to do some stretching, or you might go into 487 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.720 do a full-on two hours in the gym whatever it's it's just simply move your 488 00:45:04.720 --> 00:45:07.680 body for at least five minutes and you can make up what that looks like 489 00:45:07.680 --> 00:45:10.680 achievable or not achievable drop that in the comments 490 00:45:10.680 --> 00:45:15.400 all right number seven most people like this eat something awesome is that 491 00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:21.960 achievable or not achievable I think it's achievable today I haven't really 492 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:28.680 come maybe I've had some vitamins today but today I'm doing a cleanse day and 493 00:45:28.680 --> 00:45:33.960 that's actually quite an awesome thing in itself because how it really helps 494 00:45:33.960 --> 00:45:38.840 my body on a whole bunch of different levels next thing is drink three so 495 00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:42.040 achieve something awesome is that achievable or not achievable to eat 496 00:45:42.040 --> 00:45:47.680 something awesome each day I think it is I think you'll love that one number eight 497 00:45:47.680 --> 00:45:53.080 is drink three liters of water now some people struggle with doing the full 498 00:45:53.080 --> 00:45:57.880 three liters of water so we can we kind of say hey if it's two liters no 499 00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:02.560 worries but be aiming for two to three liters of water a day you will love it 500 00:46:02.560 --> 00:46:08.200 your body will love it and so you think that's achievable or not achievable some 501 00:46:08.200 --> 00:46:12.840 people I've talked to barely ever drank water when they started this challenge 502 00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:16.720 it was a real challenge for them the concept of actually drinking water but 503 00:46:16.720 --> 00:46:20.200 they started drinking water and started seeing all sorts of things shift in their 504 00:46:20.200 --> 00:46:25.120 body which is fantastic number nine here's a good one do you think this is 505 00:46:25.120 --> 00:46:31.120 achievable intentionally love on one person achievable or not achievable let 506 00:46:31.120 --> 00:46:35.560 me know and then number ten practice your trigger people always like what does 507 00:46:35.560 --> 00:46:40.880 that mean what is practice your trigger and it's people often think oh is that 508 00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:46.320 like a negative thing you mean like having like wow like freaking out no we 509 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:49.560 kind of use that language just to make it stand out but practicing your trigger 510 00:46:49.560 --> 00:46:54.280 is actually about creating a trigger of some sort now the trigger could be that 511 00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:59.640 you set an alarm or the trigger could be I've got I've got one just here under 512 00:46:59.640 --> 00:47:04.880 my computer let me grab it without knocking anything over this just as a 513 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:09.640 little piece of paper that says trigger and I used to have that on my drink 514 00:47:09.640 --> 00:47:14.560 bottle the idea with the trigger is that you put a post-it note somewhere or you 515 00:47:14.560 --> 00:47:18.440 set an alarm somewhere and maybe somewhere that you're gonna see it 516 00:47:18.440 --> 00:47:22.600 several times a day or it's gonna go off several times a day and you just in that 517 00:47:22.600 --> 00:47:26.560 one moment what you do is in that one moment you put your attention on the 518 00:47:26.560 --> 00:47:35.520 presence of God and it might be as simple and as short as that is just 519 00:47:35.520 --> 00:47:39.920 putting your attention on the presence of God just for a moment or so and just 520 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:45.800 inviting the presence of God into your daily space all right let me know if you 521 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:49.800 think that's achievable or not achievable right number 11 is make a 522 00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:54.600 genius financial move we'll talk about that more again in the next session of 523 00:47:54.600 --> 00:47:59.200 what what do we mean by make a genius financial move but in general all of us 524 00:47:59.200 --> 00:48:05.040 are attached to an economy right we have expenses every day maybe you have income 525 00:48:05.040 --> 00:48:10.320 every day but you have an economy that revolves around your life every day and 526 00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:16.120 this part is about you know it's connected to the whole idea of divine 527 00:48:16.120 --> 00:48:20.840 abundance all of these 12 daily challenges are about being amazing 528 00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:26.160 stewards of what God has given us so make a genius financial move that could 529 00:48:26.160 --> 00:48:29.380 look like you know maybe it looks like making some money that day or maybe it 530 00:48:29.380 --> 00:48:32.080 looks like saving some money that day or maybe it looks like being really 531 00:48:32.080 --> 00:48:36.120 generous and blessing someone that day maybe it looks like buying something 532 00:48:36.120 --> 00:48:39.640 that's a little bit higher quality because you know it's gonna last longer 533 00:48:39.640 --> 00:48:43.120 and ultimately because it's not gonna break down it's gonna actually save you 534 00:48:43.120 --> 00:48:47.760 money might be shopping around or it might be investing into something that 535 00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:51.680 day so that your money's gonna make money for you it could be anything it 536 00:48:51.680 --> 00:48:54.720 could be something really simple it could be something really big but each 537 00:48:54.720 --> 00:48:59.320 day we want everyone just to be conscious of being a great steward with 538 00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:03.320 the economy that revolves around right so let me know is that achievable or not 539 00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:06.960 achievable you know it could be as simple as going hey I'm gonna skip the 540 00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:10.320 coffee today I've had I normally have two I'll just have one and I'm gonna do 541 00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:13.680 something brilliant with that other you know five bucks or whatever it is that 542 00:49:13.680 --> 00:49:18.120 you spend on your coffee or your drinks or your treats number 12 post an 543 00:49:18.120 --> 00:49:23.200 accountability photo that this part's pretty fun we will have a group where 544 00:49:23.200 --> 00:49:26.200 we're all in for everyone who's doing the 21 day hard things we'll have a 545 00:49:26.200 --> 00:49:31.920 group and you can post an accountability photo from that day in that group it 546 00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:36.120 could be anything you might just you know I took a photo this morning I might 547 00:49:36.120 --> 00:49:41.320 use this one I might not but when I was out and doing my prayer walk this 548 00:49:41.320 --> 00:49:49.380 morning I took this lovely photo of a boat in the sunset sunrise here you go 549 00:49:49.380 --> 00:49:53.400 give you a little look so I took that photo just while I was out having a 550 00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:57.280 prayer walk in the morning maybe you're going to take a photo of something maybe 551 00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:02.280 you're going to take a photo of your food or something 552 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.180 Like that and you just post an accountability photo and let everyone know. Hey guys, I just got my stuff done for today 553 00:50:05.180 --> 00:50:09.200 Right. So what do you think is that achievable or not achievable? There's our 12 554 00:50:11.200 --> 00:50:18.080 There's the 12 challenges in the 21 day daily hard things challenge escape there and I'm gonna end this screen share 555 00:50:19.240 --> 00:50:21.240 Sweet. Okay 556 00:50:21.700 --> 00:50:26.320 Let me know what you thought about those with a achievable or not achievable 557 00:50:27.160 --> 00:50:28.760 Now 558 00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:30.760 Let me connect 559 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:32.800 these two 560 00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:39.080 Players together. I might actually do a quick screen share for you again here 561 00:50:41.240 --> 00:50:43.240 Now 562 00:50:43.720 --> 00:50:46.600 How we looking we need to get rid of that fella 563 00:50:48.280 --> 00:50:52.760 Okay, so I'll just hold this up here for a moment not for too long 564 00:50:53.640 --> 00:50:59.680 But what you can see if you actually look at these and I've got the links to both of these image in the description of 565 00:50:59.680 --> 00:51:04.560 This video and also being sent out in the email so you can have a look at them in your own time 566 00:51:04.640 --> 00:51:07.440 but each of these elements of the 12 567 00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:14.960 These 12 daily challenges are connected in with this process of the science of transformation 568 00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:18.560 Even you know from 11. Oh, how's that in there? 569 00:51:18.560 --> 00:51:25.560 Well, it's practice crates a habit crates a reflex crates a lifestyle crates a state of being. All right, so practicing a genius financial move 570 00:51:27.200 --> 00:51:33.680 Praying in the spirit. Where's that helpful? Well praying in the spirits gonna produce it's gonna unlock revelation 571 00:51:33.720 --> 00:51:37.000 Now when you pray in the spirit, it will unlock revelation 572 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:41.120 So here in your belief systems what it's going to do is it's going to start bubbling up 573 00:51:41.120 --> 00:51:43.600 The Holy Spirit is going to start bubbling up and releasing 574 00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:45.920 Revelation on the inside of you 575 00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:51.000 another thing is that people have done brain scans on people who pray in the spirit a whole bunch and 576 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:55.720 What do you know is it increases the neuroplasticity of the brain? 577 00:51:55.720 --> 00:52:02.440 It lights the brain up it releases great chemicals as well. All right, so really we praying in the spirit releases great chemicals 578 00:52:02.440 --> 00:52:07.000 It helps your brain function and releases revelation into your spirit 579 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:11.240 So it's really setting you up for fast tracking the renewing of your mind 580 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:17.280 Reading a chapter of Proverbs. Well, it's a good mental stimulus stimulus for your brain as well 581 00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:22.800 But you're also putting truth into your belief system, which is extremely powerful 582 00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:28.280 Next one number three record your favorite verse. Okay, you record your favorite verse 583 00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:34.160 What's that? It's a that's just another spiritual practice over here. Well, you've recorded your favorite verse 584 00:52:34.160 --> 00:52:39.280 It's just a deeper level of meditation that is coming into the process 585 00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:47.440 And then number three, sorry number four lists three things that you were grateful for now gratitude is one of the 586 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:51.920 Most powerful practices. All right, you can call it a spiritual practice if you want 587 00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:59.520 But gratitude is one of the most powerful practices available for actually increasing the neuroplasticity of your brain 588 00:52:59.520 --> 00:53:03.960 There's a gratitude really is one of the single most beneficial 589 00:53:04.600 --> 00:53:06.960 exercises that you can do for your brain health and 590 00:53:07.080 --> 00:53:09.600 Like we've like we've been talking about right the more 591 00:53:10.240 --> 00:53:13.360 Neuroplasticity your brain has the easier it is 592 00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:18.360 To learn the easier it is to actually renew your mind because you can learn better 593 00:53:18.360 --> 00:53:24.920 the easier it is for you to create a practice that leads to a habit a reflex a lifestyle a state of being because 594 00:53:25.240 --> 00:53:31.920 Your brain matter is actually softer and more malleable more pliable creating neurological pathways is easier 595 00:53:32.160 --> 00:53:35.200 When you have higher levels of neuroplasticity 596 00:53:35.240 --> 00:53:40.480 Higher levels of neuroplasticity, which basically means your brain is healthy. It's it's 597 00:53:41.480 --> 00:53:44.680 Malleable it's easy for those things to grow in a sense 598 00:53:44.720 --> 00:53:49.800 You're tending the garden of your brain when you steward it with 599 00:53:51.160 --> 00:53:56.400 Gratitude cool. I will end that screen share there and 600 00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:03.920 Bring this in for a landing. Oh don't need that one. Need this one 601 00:54:05.600 --> 00:54:07.600 Okay, stop in that screen share 602 00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:13.120 Sweet fam. Well, that is the gist of our session for today. That's session four 603 00:54:13.120 --> 00:54:20.800 So that brings us to the end of day two day three is going to be fantastic. We're gonna finish off going through 604 00:54:22.080 --> 00:54:26.600 The list tomorrow. I've got a bunch of really cool stuff in there 605 00:54:26.600 --> 00:54:31.040 We're gonna be talking about the government of God. We're gonna be talking about a whole bunch more of 606 00:54:31.520 --> 00:54:36.280 The science of transformations, so we're gonna break that down for you tomorrow finish that off and 607 00:54:37.520 --> 00:54:44.520 You'll understand the 21 day hard things challenge really well by the end of tomorrow and then our last session 608 00:54:44.520 --> 00:54:52.200 I've got clear who's coming in gonna be great having clear Harris with us for part of our last session and 609 00:54:53.160 --> 00:54:56.000 Really? What we'll do is we'll unpack the whole rite of passage 610 00:54:56.640 --> 00:55:00.080 Process what it looks like and how you can jump on board and how we can 611 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.680 go for an adventure over an extended period of time that will produce accelerated transformation. 612 00:55:09.040 --> 00:55:12.480 One testimony that I received just before Christmas, it's great to get testimonies like 613 00:55:12.480 --> 00:55:18.240 this back, but they just said, hey, I just wanted to thank you for the Rider Passage program. I've 614 00:55:18.240 --> 00:55:23.840 grown more in the last six months than I have in over a decade in church. And it's really, 615 00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:28.640 really cool hearing those testimonies and those transformations. So I'm excited about going on a 616 00:55:28.640 --> 00:55:35.920 journey together on that, but tomorrow we'll talk more. We'll finish off that list and then we will 617 00:55:35.920 --> 00:55:42.240 get into actually looking more at the full Rider Passage program and what's involved in that. So 618 00:55:42.240 --> 00:55:49.120 thank you for joining me today and lots and lots of love, whether you're live now or whether you're 619 00:55:49.120 --> 00:55:53.680 one of the beautiful people going to be joining us in the future for a replay. Thanks for joining 620 00:55:53.680 --> 00:55:59.120 and I look forward to sharing a beautiful adventure together going forward. Lots of 621 00:55:59.120 --> 00:56:07.040 love to you. Actually, let me pray for you. Let me pray for you as we wrap up. Jesus, Holy Spirit, 622 00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:15.200 Papa, I thank you for John 14.12 that says anyone who has faith in me 623 00:56:16.160 --> 00:56:20.720 will do what I have been doing and they will do even greater things than these. 624 00:56:21.680 --> 00:56:28.480 Holy Spirit, I thank you that this process of daily hard things, this process of renewing our 625 00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:36.640 mind is the process of building faith that produces the fruit of the greater things in our lives. 626 00:56:36.640 --> 00:56:40.800 Holy Spirit, I thank you for every person that's here and I thank you for every person that 627 00:56:41.520 --> 00:56:47.280 will hear this in the future. Holy Spirit, I thank you for 628 00:56:49.520 --> 00:56:58.720 putting a faith in us, a belief in us that yes, it is possible for us to step into the greater 629 00:56:58.720 --> 00:57:06.000 works and it is possible for us to step into the fullness of the divine life, the fullness of 630 00:57:06.560 --> 00:57:11.840 divine relationships, the fullness of divine health, the fullness of divine abundance and 631 00:57:11.840 --> 00:57:18.800 the fullness of divine assignments. Lord, I thank you for a release on us of wisdom and strategies 632 00:57:18.800 --> 00:57:24.880 and encouragement and motivation and impartation from heaven and the fruits of the Spirit, 633 00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:29.920 especially willpower. I thank you for releasing that as a fruit. I thank you, Lord, for taking 634 00:57:30.720 --> 00:57:39.760 us on this journey of alignment into all that you have for us in this great coming move of the 635 00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:48.080 Spirit in your beautiful name. Amen. All right, fam, bless you and I'll see you tomorrow for 636 00:57:48.080 --> 00:57:53.840 session five and six and that will be the end of the challenge. Day two is done, one day to go 637 00:57:53.840 --> 00:58:00.240 and then it's going to be a great adventure together. See you. Bye-bye.