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Hello, beautiful people. How are you? Welcome, welcome, welcome. I see so many of you just

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logging on, clicking on. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Kingdom Creative Chat. Hi.

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Hi. Hello, hello. How are you? Good. Good to see you.

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Can you hear me?

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We can hear you. Okay, awesome.

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Beautiful. Hi, everyone. How are you?

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Hey, Dana, what's up? Hey. How's it going in India?

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Ah, it's crazy pandemic here, man. The streets are, yeah, it's again, it's kind of,

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there are a lot of cases, every people who test like one in two people actually having positive.

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So the government said, you don't have to go and check it out, you know,

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if you have some symptoms, you know, just stay at home, don't get out.

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Everyone was like, contact tracing and all this stuff, stay home for two weeks. Now they're like

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to stay home. We don't have enough tests. You've got some big deal. Like, oh, my word, Jesus,

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help us all. It's crazy. But the symptoms are so much less. And so a lot of my friends are a lot

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of my friends are quarantining. And yeah, yeah, most of them, a lot of them are actually tested

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positive. Okay. And they're doing okay. Yeah, it's kind of a normal day. Yeah. We are so used to it.

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Yeah, totally. Yeah. Oh, it's good. Well, hello, I see Matthew and Rosalina and Dorcas.

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And we've got iPhone seven plus, I think your name is Wendy. So good to see you beautiful people.

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Thank you for coming on. We're kind of probably just wait a few more minutes before we get started

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just to see if some more people join us. But really good to see your faces. So glad that

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you're here with us. Would this be helpful for writers? Absolutely. Yeah. So basically,

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what we're wanting to do is foster just dialogue and connection and community for anybody with

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artistic expression. So whether you're a writer, you're an architect, maybe you so you do fashion,

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you do painting, you do music, you sing, you're in poetry, you do anything with your creative

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expression, you're in architecture, you draw things for you're in digital design, you're

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anything that would be expressive with creativity. We're just wanting to create connection community.

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And we talk about different topics and themes each month that just help us kind of unlock our

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heart a little bit more understand more of our identity, more of who God is giving different

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tools, different things that we can embrace in our life practices, habits, really getting to know more

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of who God's created us to be and really growing in our relationship with him. And then growing in

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awareness of how to grow in our craft. That sounds really good. Yeah, that's lovely. So do you do

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writing for I've self published, I've self published 70 books. Wow. Oh, my goodness. That's

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amazing. What is God God supernaturally supplied me with finances, through doing prophecies for a

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donation, and people donating money to my website. And I was writing one book a month for four years,

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by publishing one book a month for four years. Wow, it's slowed down now. But I've published

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about 50 books in four years. Wow. What are your books primarily on? What's your topic or theme?

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Are they just on a whole bunch of different things? I've got about 20 books with interviews

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with saints from heaven. Okay. So I interviewed Michael Jackson a couple of times and Princess

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Diana a couple of times. And they're for non Christians, that they're really gospel centered.

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So if non Christians find them, it's a witness to them. But a lot of biblical characters like

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Mary Magdalene and

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King David and Enoch and and different characters out of the Bible. I've got whole books on

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interviews with them. Oh, cool. Okay. And they talk about their life and they talk about

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their life in heaven and they talk about obeying Jesus, you know? Wow. Amazing. Powerful. Right

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on. Okay. Well, I've got six books on the prophetic. Okay. Six, six different books on

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different aspects of the prophetic. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's kept me pretty busy.

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Yeah. Well, good for you. I mean, to write that much, you've just had this creative flow

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that you've tapped in. Yeah. It's really powerful. Just just each of them are inspired, you know?

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I can't write a book without inspiration. Yeah, of course. Yeah. So, I can understand

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musicians. They get inspired to write a song. They they they just hear it. They hear the

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music and they hear the lyrics. Mm hmm. And they just hear it and it's possible for both

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sides. The enemy to inspire music and and for for god to inspire music but so many musicians

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that tapped into the Holy Spirit but they don't know that they are. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

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Totally. That's awesome. Well, thanks, Matthew. So, I'll just let everyone know. Hi, I just see

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different ones of you that are signing in and saying hello. Hi. Usually, kind of what we do

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is we take the first five, ten minutes and just say hi to one another and just kind of welcome

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and then we kind of go from there where Zylan, myself, and sometimes Fee, we will just kind of

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share on different parts of the content and so we'll just kind of have everyone on mute

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and we'll just kind of share a little bit and then we will open it up for some question and

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answers and want to hear from you guys and dialogue what you guys are thinking and feeling

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and we'll just kind of have an open discussion. So, I just see here.

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Yeah. So, today, we were going to kind of like look at the topic of owning your identity

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and your personal artistic expression and yeah, it's kind of a big subject. It's kind of a big

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topic. I was kind of thinking in myself where where my journey has come from and where I've

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kind of gone on and where I'm currently at right now and I think one of the things that I wanted

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to speak to, I just took some notes. I'm just going to grab my little notes here, but I think

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one of the things that we're constantly doing as people is we are coming home to the authentic

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expression of who we are and I think in our journey, we all are born and we're all born

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we all are born and we have nature and nurture. So, there's some things that God has created us

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for and to do and he's given us different gifts and skills and things that are unique to us,

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our dreams, our desires, our different makeup. So, some people might just from a little boy or

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a little girl just love animals and they want to work with animals or other people love numbers or

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other people. I want to be a policeman or I want to be a dancer. You know, we have these God-given

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things that we're born with and there's things that are in our nature and then there's things

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that are in our nurture based on the parents that you were born to, based on the culture,

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the time of history, the environment, the atmosphere, the different conditions

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that you were in actually nurtured who you were and sometimes what happens is we actually

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have this combo of the nature and the nurture and as we grow, we're constantly on this discovery of

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who really am I, who has God created me to be, who do I want to choose to be and how do I continue

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to be the authentic version of myself because as I've learned throughout different years and decades

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there has been almost letting go of the conditioned self, the conditioned self of who I thought I had

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to be for these people, for this organization, for this church, for this family. I had to become this

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person and so different aspects of my personality, you know, your personality is your personal

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reality, you know, different aspects of my personality took shape because of needs, because of

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things that were going on in my life, different expectations, requirements, who I thought I needed

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to be and maybe different traumas, different events, different circumstances, different

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relationships in my life and I think the beautiful thing about

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as we grow in relationship with God and with the father

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is the more we spend time with him

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and we allow his voice to define who we are,

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we actually continue to come home to our true authentic self

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and all of the conditioned self, the ego,

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the people that we think we need to be,

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the different aspects of what I think I need to be

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in order to fit in, in order to belong,

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all the motivations of what is actually motivating me,

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is it actually who God's created me to be

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and coming from this beautiful place of self-acceptance

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and love and identity in Christ

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and awareness to who he's made me to be

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or is it actually this thing of this need for acceptance

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from society or fame or money

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or to try to get an audience

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or am I actually growing in confidence

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to live before an audience of one

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and I'm actually growing in more and more awareness

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of who I've been made to be

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and something too that they've done a lot of study on

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is our conscious mind and our unconscious mind

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and we all know that we have both of those realities

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and they've done a lot of studies

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that we actually only live out of 20% of our conscious mind

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and 80% of our unconscious mind

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and why does this matter at all?

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Well, our unconscious mind actually is rooted in beliefs

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and our behavior is actually determined by our beliefs

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and so what we need to constantly do as individuals,

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as humans, as sons and daughters, as men and women

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is as we continue to grow in our relationship with God

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and become aware of our consciousness

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and our unconscious mind,

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we look at our patterns and we look at our behavior

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and we look at our lifestyle

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because that is determined by our behavior

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and our behavior is determined by our beliefs

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and so what we want to continue to do

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is grow in self-awareness

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and they've also done a massive study

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that 90% of people are actually living unaware,

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they're not tuned into themselves, they're not self-aware,

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they're not aware of why they do what they do

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or why they think what they think,

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they're not aware of how they affect people around them,

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their behaviors, their attitudes, the energy, the vibe,

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the frequency they carry, a lot of people are unaware

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and so what we want to do as people

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is we want to constantly grow in self-awareness,

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what's happening on the inside of me,

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what is going on in my internal world

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because my internal world

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radically affects everything in my external world,

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my internal world governs every part of my life

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so I want to become aware, what are the thought patterns,

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what are the mindsets, what are the behaviors,

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what are the different aspects of the things that move me,

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my feelings, my emotions, my relationships,

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how am I showing up, am I hiding

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or am I being my true authentic self, am I connected,

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is my mind and my heart and my soul connected to one another

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or are they not?

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These are really important questions to ask

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and not that we get critical of ourselves

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or we become too self-aware or like too self-conscious,

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self-aware and self-consciousness are two different things,

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we don't want to move into the insecure

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and the negative spiral

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but we do want to grow in self-consciousness

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and so self-awareness, sorry, I keep getting my mind,

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I woke up really early in the morning,

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I didn't sleep so good so my brain is like.

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So bringing it back to why does this matter

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for owning our identity,

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why does this matter in our personal artistic expression?

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Well, it matters massively

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because if you are living out of a false sense of self

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and you are living out of a conditioned self

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and you're living out of who you think you need to be,

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you're not actually gonna be the true authentic self

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to create, you're not actually gonna be in alignment

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to your sound, to your flavor, to your personal genius,

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to your gift that you are meant to be on the earth

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as a personal revelation of who the father is.

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Each one of us have unique fingerprints,

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we have unique vocal cords that nobody sounds like us,

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we have our features, our heart, our soul,

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who you are is a personal revelation,

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a personal reflection of who the father is,

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you're unique, there is no one like you

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and so if we are trying to be something

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that we think we are,

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think we need to be rather than who we truly are.

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owning our identity who God's made us to be

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because we're comparing and we're thinking we need to be

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like, or sound like, or write like,

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or live like someone else.

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And so then that anointing, that freshness,

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that authenticity, that beauty that we might bring

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to the earth that nobody's thought of,

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nobody's brought that perspective or that writing

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or that genius brilliance, but we sometimes get scared

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because we're motivated by other things

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or we want acceptance or we want love or celebration,

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which are all good things.

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All of those needs need to be met in us.

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We need to be celebrated and loved, championed.

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We need to feel like who we are is amazing and is a gift.

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And we find that in the father's voice

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when we are in his presence and we get those needs met

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and by safe friends and family.

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But when we have those needs met

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and we're able to be confident sons and daughters

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who know who we are, who are aligned to the spirit of God,

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we get to like own who he's made us to be,

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our gifts, skills, purpose, calling, destiny.

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Then we walk in a measure of confidence and bravery

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and courage to release our personal expression of art,

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our personal expression of who God is in and through us

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that brings something of beauty to the world

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that nobody's seen before.

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And it's vulnerable and it's scary, right?

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Like it's way easier to be a copycat

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if we find something that's working for someone else

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and we just hop on that train and do what they're doing.

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It takes a lot of vulnerability.

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It takes a lot of courage to create something

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and put it out there even to one friend

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and be like, do you like this song?

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Or do you like this book that I've written?

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Or do you like this piece of clothing that I made?

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Or I drew this and, or I organized the room

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and I did interior design this way.

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Or I created this digital thing.

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Whatever it is that you're creating.

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I wrote this poem.

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It's vulnerable to put a piece of yourself out there.

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and wonderful and powerful in that place of vulnerability,

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in the place of creating.

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When we're able to confidently go,

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my identity isn't defined by what I create.

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It's actually just a product of creativity.

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That I am a confident son and daughter

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who knows who I am before God,

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who Jesus has made me to be.

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And I get to create from that place

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and things might be really beautiful and successful

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and thriving and other things might go,

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oh yeah, I could work on that.

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Or that wasn't so good,

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but that's actually not a reflection of who I am.

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You know, we have to like separate that

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where we don't get our self-worth by that.

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We actually already know who we are

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and we can create from that beautiful place.

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So I just wanted to highlight that,

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the authentic self and the conditioned self,

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the conscious mind, the subconscious mind,

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and actually really growing in the gift of self-awareness

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and the motivation of why do I create?

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What is my motivation to create?

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Why do I love this?

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Well, a lot of it is because you've been created to do that.

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Like God's wired you for that.

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He's specifically made you for that.

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And what we want as sons and daughters,

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what the earth is longing for,

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what creation's groaning for,

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is sons and daughters to take their place,

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to live as wild, abandoned, confident worshipers

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that are expressing who they are

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and the spirit of God that is on the inside of them,

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expressing that to the world, releasing heaven on earth.

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Because we all know when we've been impacted

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by someone's creativity, we go, wow.

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Like there is more substance and energy and spirit to that

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than just that painting or just that book.

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It's like the spirit of God touches us

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or we see something beautiful and we're like, wow.

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So we all have the opportunity, we have the gift,

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we have the potential to do that.

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And what will help us do that,

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what will serve us in that is us growing

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in awareness of who we truly are, what's motivating us,

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growing in the courage and the bravery to own who we are,

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to grow in our relationship with Jesus and the Father,

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allowing his voice to define us,

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letting go of the comparison,

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letting go of all of the ego

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and the things that we're trying to do for other things

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and live before an audience of one

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and then create from that place

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and combine it with a spirit of excellence to go,

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how can I create something that's beautiful and worthy

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that will honor the Lord,

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but that will bring beauty to the earth,

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that will bring strength, that will bring vitality,

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that will bring something of substance

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that could change someone's life,

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that will hold healing and transformation and bring.

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through and inspiration in whatever artistic expression that is.

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So I haven't looked at my notes, let me just see if there's anything else that I could

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You know what I think I'm going to leave it there and if I think of anything else, I will

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mention it later but wanted to pass it on to Zylan and see really want to hear from

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him.

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Zylan is this incredible digital designer, he is a songwriter, he is a musician, he is

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an artist, he's got music videos out there, he's had artistic expression in so many different

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ways and I learned so much from this beautiful friend and so I'm so looking forward to hearing

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how he's owned his identity and how that's affected his personal artistic expression.

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Thank you Dana and I think Dana covered all the major points and that's really incredible.

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One of the things that really changed my life is I met this person, he's a prophetic worship

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leader.

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I was in this YWAM discipleship program like back in 2009 so I met this person, he actually

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came to our school to teach us about worship for a week and this dude was like a James

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Lupton type guy, you know, those times James Lupton just came to the worship scene, you

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know, talking singing about fathers and intimacy and for me those kind of words was pretty

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like new to me, like it was like a very fresh, very organic worship leading thing.

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This guy put his keyboard on his friend and, you know, he was actually singing and teaching

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and everything was very organic and, you know, it was like really amazing and this dude is

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so much into presence, you know, all his songs and, you know, everything was very, very beautiful

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and I got a chance to talk to him personally and I asked him, you know, what should I do,

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you know, if I wanted to do something that you do and he said that for the last 37 years

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I've been praying one thing, that is, Lord, I want to know you more.

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So for me that was a big thing for me because it literally actually, you know, there are

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some, what is that, some impartation or whatever, you know, it just happened, it was like a

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very divine moment and this word actually came to me and actually rested in my spirit

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that, you know, I want to know you more.

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So I started to pray that thing, you know, since I started to sing about it, pray about

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it and, you know, and the more that I've encountered God, you know, my image of God

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and my idea of God, you know, when the moment it grew, first thing happened to me is it

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actually gave me an understanding of myself, you know, and there's a scripture, you know,

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when Isaiah had this majestic vision about, you know, God in Isaiah chapter 6, right?

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And, you know, the first thing Isaiah realized that how bad he is, you know, when you are

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in that moment of seeing the glory, the majesty of God, you know, just going to that light,

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you know, it eliminate us, you know, it expose who we really are, you know, and it's a place

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it of, in a way, kind of uncomfort because nobody wants to see themselves, you know,

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what a bad person I am, right?

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So I think that the more we go to God, the more we exposed.

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So for me, owning my identity, and I'm not saying that, you know, I'm just reached like,

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you know, a place where that, you know, I own my artist, I'm still growing.

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I think for me, another thing that I believe is it's a journey.

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It's a process never happens in one day, you know, and we all grew up with this biblical

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characters like Moses, David, Joseph, you know, they all these people had a divine call in their

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lives. And, and they had a journey, a process. And they had a moment.

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a season of owning their purpose, their identity. I think it's a process, it's a journey. For me,

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it's a journey because I grew up in a very artistic family. All my cousins and my parents,

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everybody's got some sort of artistic skills. They sing and paint and all those kinds of stuff. So

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I grew up with a natural talent towards music and painting and drawing and all those kind of stuff.

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I realized that it takes conscious choice because I believe that internal growth is nothing to do

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with age. Like Dana said, you need to consciously condition yourself. There are a lot of humility,

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dying to yourself and surrendering to the truth of God, to the light of God. It's a process.

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The moment we consciously come to a place of humility and surrender to the love of God,

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everything changes as an artist, as a person, because each art actually defines the artist.

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Literally, if you listen to a song, you can see what kind of man or woman who wrote that song,

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a painting, anything. Each artist will define the person, the artist. So growing to be a good

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human being and a son of God, it's a conscious choice. It takes so much humility and it's a

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process. For me, I can easily say that my understanding of music or the way I

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even edit a picture, because I remember how our personality changes the way we see colors and

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textures and everything. It's actually really crazy. I used to be into this dark, more dark

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tone kind of guy. Right now, I am more drawn to the warm colors and stuff, just because I think

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it's the internal freedom that I have experienced over these years, because the light that actually

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came into my heart and my internal being actually reflects in my thinking, in my art and all.

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I think it takes so much humility and I thank God for all the people who actually

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spend their time on me and the Spirit of God who guide me. It's a big algorithm,

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right? Just to guide us to the right people, to the right YouTube videos, to the right songs,

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to the right art, to the right talks and to the right places over these years. It's actually

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literally, it's a beautiful journey. So I won't encourage everyone that if you're struggling,

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if you're still thinking about what's my identity, I think they say that every people have

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this thing called shadowing, right? Because the process is you have this raw talent and this is

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where that you need to go and own your identity, being original, let's say. From here to here,

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it's a long journey, actually. Some people, when they start, they might have some sort of unique

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expressions and stuff, but still they need to imitate somebody. There's a musician here,

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he's very big in India. Actually, the guy who actually did music for Slumdog Millionaire,

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the Oscar movie. So his name is A.R. Rahman. He said that if you want to achieve a really

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unique sound, for singers, he was actually saying that. Just imitate 90 singers.

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just imitated, blindly imitated 90 or 100 singers

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and eventually you will land in your own sound.

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I found it's like, yeah, that's it.

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Because originality, it actually comes

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from your trying and literally imitating.

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That's it, it's shadowing, you know?

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Because that order is actually in the nature, you know?

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Because when we born here,

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we always actually follow our parents' footstep.

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You know, we emitted them.

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That's how actually the growth happens, you know?

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And eventually every animal learn to hunt for themselves

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and find their food and stuff, you know?

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sometimes we have to imitate our favorite artists

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and then in a moment, in a season,

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we will find out who we are

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and we'll step down from that shadow of this thing

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and we eventually own ourself as an artist

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and it takes time, it takes time.

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And yeah, it's a really beautiful journey.

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If we consciously like have this kind of thing in mind,

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we can just avoid a lot of disappointments

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because or else like, you know, it's a process.

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It's emotional rollercoaster.

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There'll be dark seasons.

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There'll be times and seasons you feel that you're nothing,

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you're stupid, you don't know anything, you know?

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And that's all good, you know?

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It's a, what is that?

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It's a circular motion, you know?

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It's not a linear process.

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Growth is not linear, by the way.

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Growth is not linear.

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It's always circular, you know?

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Sometimes you will come down to the place that you,

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like you will revisit all the place

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that you think that you understood, you learned it.

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So yeah, it's a journey.

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Just embrace it.

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And yeah, I think for me,

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these are the things like comes to my mind, you know?

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And yeah, I'll just listen to Fee.

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Fee is here.

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Oh, he's here.

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Great, Fee.

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I just wanted to add to what you were saying.

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I was really feeling, I was looking at my notes.

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I was like, oh yeah, that's what I want to say.

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You just said it.

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It was feeling the permission to be bold

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and take risks in your creative expression.

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But so much of that comes through shadowing.

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So much of that comes through,

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the tension is that we actually learn by one another.

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We go to the painting classes or we go to the schools

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or we look at our favorite artists and we mimic them.

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We love what they do.

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And something about their artistic expression draws us in.

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And then we begin to learn from them.

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We begin to copy them.

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But then in that, just as what you say,

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like kind of have 90 different people that you learn from.

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The beautiful thing is that once kind of all the greats,

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they had the different expressions,

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but then they kind of tried something new.

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They were bold and brave enough to try something new.

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And then that's where the genius came in.

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That's where something like sparked.

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And it was like, oh my gosh, yeah, I've been doing this.

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And that's what so many people talk about,

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even within the 10,000 hours,

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to become good at anything, to become excellent at anything,

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you study or you learn for 10,000 hours.

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But they say, even with songwriting,

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it's like learn the structure

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of what does a really good song,

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but then go off the page.

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Then actually break the rules.

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But in order to be a good artist,

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it's like, you've got to know with your craft,

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what are the rules?

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What is the structure?

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What creates a good paragraph and a good chapter in a book?

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Or what are the key things within architecture?

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Or what are the key things within making garments

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or a song or poetry to learn the structure,

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learn the craft, but then break the rules

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and get outside of the box.

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And that's one thing I really felt like

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the Lord has constantly been saying to me

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that I want to say over you guys is be permissioned.

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Be permissioned to be bold and be creative

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and to break the box.

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Be permissioned to just give things a go.

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And if it fails and if it's not good,

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then you cry, you laugh, you like pick yourself up

466
00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:37.400
and then you try it again.

467
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:40.840
Because every day is a gift from the Lord.

468
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:43.159
Every day holds endless possibilities.

469
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:45.600
And it's our mindsets that are really the thing

470
00:34:45.600 --> 00:34:46.440
that holds us back.

471
00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:47.920
But we are limitless.

472
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:50.199
We are limitless where our minds can go,

473
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:53.840
where our imagination can go, how God can inspire us.

474
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:57.400
And then how we can take responsibility

475
00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:00.080
and go and find inspiration from one.

476
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.800
another. And just as you said, Zailin, to originality, it's like one of my mentors was

477
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:11.080
talking about a book and I can't remember the author, but it the phrase is steal like

478
00:35:11.080 --> 00:35:16.880
an artist. And it's basically, I think that's actually a quotation from Picasso. I was going

479
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:24.400
to say he was Picasso. Yes. And that it was like his artistry was like he would be inspired

480
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:28.440
and he would paint like them. But then he took theirs and then he went to the next level

481
00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:34.800
and made it his original, his personal flair on that. And nothing's original that we all

482
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:41.600
are taking from one another and putting our personal flair to it. And then you go.

483
00:35:41.600 --> 00:35:48.960
Yeah, originality is a mirage. Yeah. That's what we call original, you know, all unique

484
00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:57.720
combinations actually. Picasso said good artists copy, great artists steal. Yes. When you steal,

485
00:35:57.720 --> 00:36:04.160
nobody knows. Yeah, totally. Totally. And then and then it just brings a humility because

486
00:36:04.160 --> 00:36:08.240
of course, you're going to put your blood, sweat and tears into your craft and you want

487
00:36:08.240 --> 00:36:13.880
to feel proud of what you've created. But you have millions of hours of things that

488
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:21.040
you've seen, heard, been taught, been cultivated by hundreds of people. And so it's not like,

489
00:36:21.040 --> 00:36:25.880
oh, well, I just came up with this, you know, all by myself. I've never been inspired or

490
00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:31.120
taught by anybody. I have literally countries and hundreds and thousands of people that

491
00:36:31.120 --> 00:36:35.000
have inspired me that you get all these bits of pieces. But the beautiful thing is then

492
00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:42.160
it's all this creative wonder. And then you birth something that is yours and it's personal

493
00:36:42.160 --> 00:36:50.080
to you. And it is kind of something that you've birthed. It is a reflection or part of you.

494
00:36:50.080 --> 00:36:55.600
And then the beautiful thing of humility is allowing that to inspire someone else. And

495
00:36:56.320 --> 00:37:00.120
you've stolen like an artist and you've been inspired by other people. Other people can

496
00:37:00.120 --> 00:37:05.280
be inspired what you do and then take that and then allow inspiration. And so there's

497
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:10.080
this humility, I think, as artists that we put our blood, sweat and tears into it, but

498
00:37:10.080 --> 00:37:17.440
then we offer it as a gift to bless, to serve, to awaken, to inspire and for others in this

499
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:21.160
next generation to go, oh, I'm going to take that. I'm going to steal that and then do

500
00:37:21.200 --> 00:37:27.280
something original from that, you know, and then the domino effect. Where is our beautiful

501
00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:31.840
brother Fee? Is he here? I can't see. Oh, yeah, there he is. Fee, are you able to come

502
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:41.840
on video and unmute? We'd love to see you, brother. So Fee is our beautiful friend as

503
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:48.120
well. Our brother who if any of you were part of Raising Royalty last year, we know, you

504
00:37:48.120 --> 00:37:54.680
know that we do a talent quest and we had hundreds of people come in and we do this

505
00:37:54.680 --> 00:37:59.560
incredible talent quest of anything that's artistic expression. And Fee was our winner.

506
00:37:59.560 --> 00:38:06.040
Fee was our incredible singer-songwriter winner. And so he's part of our Raising Royalty family.

507
00:38:06.040 --> 00:38:10.840
He's an artist that is supported by Raising Royalty now. He's in Madagascar. He has a

508
00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:16.440
beautiful wife and new baby. But Madagascar has actually gone under massive flooding this

509
00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:21.080
last week or two. And so we were unsure if he was going to be able to join us just with

510
00:38:21.080 --> 00:38:28.760
Wi-Fi issues. But he's here. We're just I'm just trying to find. I don't know if his.

511
00:38:29.640 --> 00:38:38.680
Yeah, I think he'll come. I just want to add something with Diana. What you said that,

512
00:38:38.680 --> 00:38:44.680
you know, it's really funny before you break any rules, learn the rules.

513
00:38:44.680 --> 00:38:54.120
Yes. I mean, I think that's really good, you know, because once you know all the rules and

514
00:38:54.120 --> 00:39:00.440
just just, you know, there are some some directors who say that, you know, just have a script. But

515
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:09.160
before the shoot, just yes, you know, totally. And there's another really great quote that Graham

516
00:39:09.240 --> 00:39:16.120
Cook says. And he said, spontaneity is the reward of preparation. And he was saying that in regards

517
00:39:16.120 --> 00:39:21.320
to worship and to singer songwriters that sometimes want this amazing, spontaneous

518
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:27.240
chorus or a moment where the Holy Spirit comes in this worship or as a writer or anything within

519
00:39:27.240 --> 00:39:32.840
your craft, whatever it is that you're called to do and you put your hands to. But there is that

520
00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:40.520
thing of preparation, doing the work, putting in the time and then having that moment of inspiration,

521
00:39:40.520 --> 00:39:45.560
having that spontaneous moment. But if you're just hoping that that is going to come and you've not

522
00:39:45.560 --> 00:39:52.440
done any foundational work to prepare whatever it is for your like, if we didn't prepare for the

523
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:55.880
zoom and we just showed up and we're like, oh, hopefully the Holy Spirit just inspires us and

524
00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:59.800
fills our mouth with something to speak like that, those things happen. But the.

525
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.400
Beautiful thing I think in anything in life is when we're intentional, we put a foundation,

526
00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:08.740
we put time and intentionality into what we're doing.

527
00:40:08.740 --> 00:40:15.480
And then in the midst of that preparation, in the midst of that building towards something,

528
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:18.080
there are these moments of inspiration.

529
00:40:18.080 --> 00:40:22.760
And so just like that too, when you do the work of learning the structure, learning the

530
00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:27.920
rules, learning, you know, if you wanted to build this amazing new house that was going

531
00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:33.560
to be mind-blowing, it's going to be design of the century, but you didn't actually like

532
00:40:33.560 --> 00:40:42.600
hold to the baseline of a foundation for what needs to be in the structure of a home and

533
00:40:42.600 --> 00:40:47.120
you wanted to do something that's totally out there and amazing for design, but it didn't

534
00:40:47.120 --> 00:40:52.920
hold the structure of plumbing and foundation and with the storms and the weather, I mean,

535
00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:54.600
it's not going to go well.

536
00:40:54.600 --> 00:41:00.320
Or if you try to write something and you try to be so artistic, so different, so unique,

537
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:04.320
but you don't hold to the actual foundation.

538
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:08.520
It's just, it's going to be out there and nobody's, it's not going to be useful to anyone.

539
00:41:08.520 --> 00:41:09.760
It won't serve anyone.

540
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:17.640
So yeah, maybe we can open this up for a time if anybody has any questions or thoughts,

541
00:41:17.640 --> 00:41:21.120
if we just want to open it up, if you want to just kind of wave your hand or if you want

542
00:41:21.120 --> 00:41:25.440
to unmute yourself and just say, Hey, I've got a question or I've got a thought that

543
00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:28.080
I want to add to the table.

544
00:41:28.080 --> 00:41:31.760
I want to add something to Zion.

545
00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:40.120
He said to emulate 90 artists, I heard this musicians getting interviewed once, and they

546
00:41:40.120 --> 00:41:46.680
said they did an album where they didn't, they made sure that they didn't have any of

547
00:41:46.680 --> 00:41:50.360
their influences influencing them.

548
00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:56.440
All musicians have influences, people that they listen to, and they made a concerted

549
00:41:56.440 --> 00:42:03.000
effort to make an album where they weren't relying on any of the influences.

550
00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:07.920
And they said the album was a total dud and no one bought it.

551
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:17.320
And it wasn't popular because all good art has influences and they proved it, they actually

552
00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:24.400
made an album and it was a dud and no one liked it because they dropped their influences.

553
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:31.520
So we're just all micro expressions of someone else.

554
00:42:31.520 --> 00:42:32.520
That's amazing.

555
00:42:32.520 --> 00:42:33.600
That's awesome.

556
00:42:33.600 --> 00:42:36.560
Thank you so much for sharing that, Matthew.

557
00:42:36.560 --> 00:42:37.560
That's so great.

558
00:42:38.200 --> 00:42:39.200
Does anyone else have any thoughts?

559
00:42:39.200 --> 00:42:45.120
I see that Fee is here, so we would love to hear from Fee, but if anyone has any questions

560
00:42:45.120 --> 00:42:50.120
before we hear from Fee, we'd love to hear from you.

561
00:42:50.120 --> 00:42:56.120
Hi, my name is Angelique.

562
00:42:56.120 --> 00:42:59.120
Hi, Angelique.

563
00:42:59.120 --> 00:43:05.120
Good to see you.

564
00:43:05.680 --> 00:43:10.680
Just a quick question.

565
00:43:10.680 --> 00:43:14.680
I'm struggling to get my son into a normal academic school.

566
00:43:14.680 --> 00:43:16.680
He is quite creative.

567
00:43:16.680 --> 00:43:22.680
I didn't apply for him to go to high school last year because I was planning to move down,

568
00:43:22.680 --> 00:43:29.680
but things changed and the only school available is a technical and creative school.

569
00:43:30.240 --> 00:43:42.240
Is it advisable to send your child into a creative school at such a young age or should

570
00:43:42.240 --> 00:43:51.240
he rather just follow an academic road where he can choose to become what he wants?

571
00:43:51.240 --> 00:43:58.240
I'm just scared of sending him into a direction and at the end of the day, it might not be

572
00:43:58.240 --> 00:43:59.240
for him.

573
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:05.800
He's very into music, very into art and stuff like that, but I don't want to make a mistake

574
00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:09.800
with his future, so I'm just a bit skeptical.

575
00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:11.800
Oh, you're so beautiful.

576
00:44:11.800 --> 00:44:18.800
What a precious mom you are to be so thoughtful about his heart and his future.

577
00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:25.800
Just as you speak, I was just like, Holy Spirit, just listening to what you were saying.

578
00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:34.360
Because you're saying he is so artistic and he loves music and he loves design and art,

579
00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:41.360
I think schools that have the ability to have that environment and atmosphere to foster

580
00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:44.360
that is an incredible gift.

581
00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:49.360
So from just what you're hearing, I can't tell you what to do, but just hearing what

582
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:55.360
you're saying, I think it would be actually a gift that could open him up to possibilities

583
00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:59.920
It could open him up to tutors and teachers and classes.

584
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.080
that wouldn't be available just in a technical academic school.

585
00:45:04.080 --> 00:45:07.360
If there's technical academic with creative,

586
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:10.560
that's not going to pressure him to become a certain artist.

587
00:45:10.560 --> 00:45:12.960
It's actually going to open him up to,

588
00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:17.120
oh mom, I'm in this class and I was learning about this

589
00:45:17.120 --> 00:45:19.840
and this is so cool or I'm learning about this

590
00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:20.800
and that's not my thing.

591
00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:22.240
I don't want to be in photography

592
00:45:22.240 --> 00:45:23.600
or I don't want to do painting,

593
00:45:23.600 --> 00:45:25.680
but I really love music, mom.

594
00:45:25.680 --> 00:45:29.040
And it will open him up to classes

595
00:45:29.040 --> 00:45:30.960
and opportunities that he wouldn't get

596
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:33.360
in just a technical and academic school.

597
00:45:33.360 --> 00:45:35.280
So from what I'm hearing,

598
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:36.800
I would kind of put on the table,

599
00:45:37.520 --> 00:45:40.800
looking at what does this open up for my son?

600
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:43.040
What are the possibilities

601
00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:46.160
that actually are afforded to him

602
00:45:46.160 --> 00:45:47.600
that are given to him

603
00:45:47.600 --> 00:45:49.680
that he wouldn't have in this other school?

604
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:51.760
So I don't know if that helps,

605
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:55.520
but I see it as an incredible gift

606
00:45:55.520 --> 00:45:57.520
if he could be a part of that.

607
00:45:57.520 --> 00:45:58.880
For me as a creative,

608
00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:00.640
if I had that as a young girl,

609
00:46:00.640 --> 00:46:02.320
like I love dancing, I love singing,

610
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:03.680
I love musical theater

611
00:46:03.680 --> 00:46:05.680
and we did have a drama class

612
00:46:05.680 --> 00:46:08.080
and I did have a choir class.

613
00:46:08.080 --> 00:46:10.960
Those two opportunities carried me through

614
00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:12.800
because I was terrible at academics,

615
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:14.560
terrible at science, math.

616
00:46:14.560 --> 00:46:16.240
I just was like, oh my gosh.

617
00:46:16.240 --> 00:46:19.920
But knowing I had a class that I could be dramatic

618
00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:22.720
and I could sing and knowing I had choir,

619
00:46:22.720 --> 00:46:25.600
that brought so much life to me

620
00:46:25.600 --> 00:46:28.560
and it helped me endure all the subjects

621
00:46:28.560 --> 00:46:30.720
that I hated, that I was terrible at.

622
00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:34.560
So I think if your son is able to be at a school

623
00:46:34.560 --> 00:46:36.560
where there is creativity fostered

624
00:46:36.560 --> 00:46:38.640
and there's classes or things that he could do

625
00:46:38.640 --> 00:46:39.840
that spark his interest,

626
00:46:40.560 --> 00:46:43.760
oh, what a gift, what an incredible gift.

627
00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:45.440
So those are my thoughts.

628
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:48.160
I mean, thank you.

629
00:46:48.160 --> 00:46:51.120
At the moment, the doors for academic is closed

630
00:46:51.120 --> 00:46:53.040
because it's quite a small town.

631
00:46:53.120 --> 00:46:57.360
So we've been waiting at home now for two weeks

632
00:46:57.360 --> 00:47:00.480
to be accepted and nothing has happened.

633
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:02.000
So you said to me,

634
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:04.240
mommy will actually go to the school.

635
00:47:04.240 --> 00:47:05.600
It sounds quite cool.

636
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:08.160
Oh yeah.

637
00:47:08.160 --> 00:47:10.000
It sounds amazing, Angelique.

638
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:12.480
I feel so much joy in it.

639
00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:14.800
I feel like, wow, God, you're in this.

640
00:47:15.520 --> 00:47:17.120
There might not be the ability to do this

641
00:47:17.120 --> 00:47:18.720
because God's actually leading you to this.

642
00:47:18.720 --> 00:47:22.000
So follow your peace, follow the favor.

643
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:24.400
That's things that mentors and leaders and pastors

644
00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:26.720
have always taught me is follow your peace.

645
00:47:26.720 --> 00:47:27.920
Like, what does it feel like?

646
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:29.840
Is there a sense of peace on it

647
00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:32.960
and excitement and opportunity and favor?

648
00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:34.480
I just think follow that.

649
00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:35.680
That's an incredible gift.

650
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:38.880
Amen, thank you so much.

651
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:39.520
No worries.

652
00:47:40.160 --> 00:47:42.000
Okay, so Fi is here.

653
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:43.680
So we're gonna hear from him again.

654
00:47:43.680 --> 00:47:44.880
The power might cut

655
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:47.440
just because of what's happening in Madagascar,

656
00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:49.280
but we just wanna make space to hear

657
00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:51.200
from our beautiful brother, Fi.

658
00:47:51.200 --> 00:47:52.080
So hi, Fi.

659
00:47:52.720 --> 00:47:53.840
Do you wanna say hi to us?

660
00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:56.480
And we'd love to just hear any thoughts you have

661
00:47:56.480 --> 00:47:58.960
on owning your personal identity,

662
00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:03.360
expressing your personal artistic flavor

663
00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:05.440
and yeah, unique expression.

664
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:08.640
Hi, everyone.

665
00:48:10.640 --> 00:48:14.080
Yeah, sorry about me being in and out

666
00:48:14.080 --> 00:48:16.880
because we have power cut all the time.

667
00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:18.160
It's like eight hours a day.

668
00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:21.520
So it's gonna cut soon again.

669
00:48:22.240 --> 00:48:25.920
I hope it's not gonna cut, but you never know.

670
00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:31.040
Anyway, I see you guys are on fire.

671
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:35.520
So good.

672
00:48:37.200 --> 00:48:42.800
So sure, identity and all those stuff,

673
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:45.120
it's kind of a big topic, eh?

674
00:48:45.200 --> 00:48:49.040
And most of us struggle with it

675
00:48:49.040 --> 00:48:50.960
as an artist or not an artist.

676
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:53.360
I would say everybody's an artist,

677
00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:56.880
but yeah, anyway, we all struggle about it.

678
00:48:58.640 --> 00:49:02.800
Me personally, I struggle also as everyone,

679
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:07.760
but I guess part of my uniqueness

680
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:11.360
is also the story I have,

681
00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:12.880
the story of my life,

682
00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:16.720
the story, the life I've been through.

683
00:49:17.520 --> 00:49:20.000
And I think everyone is unique in that way.

684
00:49:20.640 --> 00:49:22.000
We may have similar stories,

685
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:23.360
but not exactly the same.

686
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:27.840
So those things shapes our identity also.

687
00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:32.000
And we shouldn't never be ashamed of our past

688
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:33.760
or our lives because those things

689
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:37.040
brings glory to God when it's redeemed.

690
00:49:37.600 --> 00:49:45.120
So, yeah, there are, sometimes we want to,

691
00:49:45.680 --> 00:49:48.160
we are ashamed of our past

692
00:49:48.160 --> 00:49:50.480
and we want to be someone else

693
00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:56.160
or we want to pretend to be cooler, nicer.

694
00:49:56.160 --> 00:49:57.920
We put masks and, you know.

695
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:08.400
try to be someone else but you know God is in relationship in the you now today

696
00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:15.080
not in the you you want to what you want to be so he is in relationship with you

697
00:50:15.080 --> 00:50:21.880
now your failures your struggle identity struggle is in relation he's okay with

698
00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:29.000
that he's okay with whatever you may feel about your identity today and he is

699
00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:40.480
in relationship with you that you today and you know the you you want to be is

700
00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:54.760
this is how they said I would say doesn't exist what existence is you you

701
00:50:55.040 --> 00:51:02.720
you exist today and and embrace it I know it's it might not fit the patterns

702
00:51:02.720 --> 00:51:08.800
of whatever the standard of good or whatever but you know you are perfectly

703
00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:18.040
loved and and no matter what you do can make God love you more or less because

704
00:51:18.040 --> 00:51:26.880
you are loved with a perfect love and that nothing can change that that's a

705
00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:35.960
yeah so I guess for me that helps me a lot to step out of my comfort zone and

706
00:51:35.960 --> 00:51:44.480
to embrace myself more and to breast embrace the me today and I know that God

707
00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:50.680
who starts the good work in me will finish but he started to see so faithful

708
00:51:50.680 --> 00:52:02.120
and so yeah identity I write my story in my music I write my doubts my questions

709
00:52:02.120 --> 00:52:11.920
my struggles my my joy my pain everything and that makes us unique

710
00:52:12.680 --> 00:52:17.080
that makes you unique when you write about your story when you paint your story

711
00:52:17.080 --> 00:52:24.600
when you sing your story and you know somebody will always be touched by because

712
00:52:24.600 --> 00:52:33.400
we are somehow different but at the same time we are all the same also somewhere

713
00:52:33.560 --> 00:52:42.960
so your struggle is not only yours it might be somebody else's struggle too so

714
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:52.040
don't don't try to be cool all the time or awesome all the time you can be you

715
00:52:52.040 --> 00:52:58.920
you can be you can be you and embrace the you today that's I guess that's

716
00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:05.720
that's part of what I want to say today yeah I don't know if that's

717
00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:15.720
that is amazing I'm literally like oh my gosh just like hearing what you say it is so profound

718
00:53:15.720 --> 00:53:21.720
and simple and it's like I think everybody can relate like it's like hitting the heart it is so

719
00:53:22.520 --> 00:53:29.080
liberating what you are saying be the you today that God is with you in the midst of your pain

720
00:53:29.080 --> 00:53:33.800
your struggle whatever it is that you're facing he's not trying to bless bless what you think

721
00:53:33.800 --> 00:53:40.040
you should be for him he's actually wanting to be who you really are and we were talking about that

722
00:53:40.040 --> 00:53:46.360
at the beginning being our authentic self not the conditioned self not who we think we have to be or

723
00:53:46.360 --> 00:53:51.640
you know that's what religion does right we think well let me get all cleaned up and perfect and

724
00:53:51.640 --> 00:53:56.520
offer this image of who I think I need to be for God and God's like I don't want all that

725
00:53:57.400 --> 00:54:05.160
actually the real authentic you because that's the real you that's the real art creative expression

726
00:54:05.160 --> 00:54:10.440
that's the real person underneath all the conditioned self of who we think we need to be

727
00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:16.120
and I love how you just talked about owning your story we often want to think that we would be

728
00:54:16.120 --> 00:54:24.680
like this or we get ashamed or feel guilt or pain about our story but our stories are so beautiful

729
00:54:24.680 --> 00:54:32.120
and unique and that's the beauty of healing and redemption and restoration and that actually fuels

730
00:54:32.120 --> 00:54:39.400
the beauty of artistic expression is when God's love comes and lights us that up and we actually

731
00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:46.520
can own our humanity because everyone's human and everyone can relate to being a human and

732
00:54:46.520 --> 00:54:53.000
it's when we like take off this polished perfect version of ourself but we're actually able to just

733
00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:59.800
be us that was so profound fee like I'm like sitting here just like oh I'm getting set free all over again

734
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:08.200
Dorcas just has a question so would love to hear Dorcas and then Fee, Zylan if you want

735
00:55:08.200 --> 00:55:09.200
to answer.

736
00:55:09.200 --> 00:55:14.720
I just see that Dorcas says, I love to paint but I'm not a super great at it.

737
00:55:14.720 --> 00:55:18.400
I see so many artists who are much better than me and I struggle with feeling guilty

738
00:55:18.400 --> 00:55:20.240
for wasting my time.

739
00:55:20.240 --> 00:55:23.320
Is it okay to paint even if I'm not that good?

740
00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:28.120
I have so many thoughts on that but Fee, Zylan would love to hear from you first.

741
00:55:28.120 --> 00:55:33.960
It's actually kind of let's fall into the same stuff that we are talking about.

742
00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:39.680
Now one of the things that really kills us as an artist is comparing ourselves you know.

743
00:55:39.680 --> 00:55:49.200
Most of the time when we start it takes so much hours of practice and you know doing

744
00:55:49.200 --> 00:55:52.480
the same stuff over and over again for years.

745
00:55:52.480 --> 00:55:54.680
That's how you get better at it you know.

746
00:55:54.680 --> 00:56:00.160
When we started this is what one of the somebody said it.

747
00:56:00.160 --> 00:56:07.360
It says that you know don't compare your seed with a tree you know.

748
00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:13.040
You're just starting and they actually grow and you know they become a big tree and it

749
00:56:13.040 --> 00:56:17.520
takes time for a seed to grow and become a tree like that.

750
00:56:17.520 --> 00:56:23.280
So Dorcas I would say that please paint you know.

751
00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:24.280
We actually do.

752
00:56:24.280 --> 00:56:31.600
We paint, we sing and we do our artistic thing not to like you know show to somebody you

753
00:56:31.600 --> 00:56:32.600
know.

754
00:56:32.600 --> 00:56:34.520
We just do it because we have to do it you know.

755
00:56:34.520 --> 00:56:43.680
There is no other way just what is that an expression you know of who you are and when

756
00:56:43.680 --> 00:56:49.760
you keep doing it that thing and without comparing yourself it doesn't matter if there is so

757
00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:57.400
many Michael you know great painters out there you know just do your thing and keep

758
00:56:57.400 --> 00:57:01.400
doing it and you'll become better so keep painting.

759
00:57:01.400 --> 00:57:05.280
That's my encouragement to you Dorcas.

760
00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:12.760
Do you have anything that you want to add to that?

761
00:57:12.760 --> 00:57:21.200
I would say you are awesome and you know art is art.

762
00:57:21.200 --> 00:57:22.760
Art is art.

763
00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:31.760
Your art is your art and it's beautiful and as much as it's authentic pure and wild and

764
00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:37.960
you know it's your art and people will always be touched by it somewhere in the world.

765
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:41.440
You know you are not made for everyone.

766
00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:50.400
You weren't made for somebody and just release yourself, paint, enjoy yourself, show your

767
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:57.160
painting to the people you love and you know just keep painting.

768
00:57:57.160 --> 00:58:00.480
You'll get better as you keep doing it.

769
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:02.520
Yes, so good.

770
00:58:02.520 --> 00:58:04.880
I just want to like high five that too.

771
00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:11.000
I love to paint as well but I'm not a painter like it won't be something that I ever maybe

772
00:58:11.560 --> 00:58:16.280
ascribed to do but I have always loved painting and I've always wanted to do abstract art

773
00:58:16.280 --> 00:58:20.800
and put it up on my walls or things like that and I just have to like so I just want to

774
00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:25.720
encourage you there is something that gets unlocked in me when I put some music on I

775
00:58:25.720 --> 00:58:30.280
get a white canvas and I just paint and I'm like most people would probably look at it

776
00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:35.960
and be like you know what I mean but the beautiful thing of what gets unlocked in me and I'm

777
00:58:35.960 --> 00:58:41.720
like oh my gosh you know and like you know when you look at your children or your nieces

778
00:58:41.720 --> 00:58:45.240
or nephews or your friends kids and they come home and they're three years old and they

779
00:58:45.240 --> 00:58:50.080
show you the painting that they did at preschool or whatever and they're so excited because

780
00:58:50.080 --> 00:58:54.760
they express themselves and they had color and texture and there was something that got

781
00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:56.480
unlocked in them.

782
00:58:56.480 --> 00:59:01.040
Allow that to be what happens in you and if there is something that you go oh I actually

783
00:59:01.120 --> 00:59:06.120
want to grow in the art of painting and I want to learn the different structures and

784
00:59:06.120 --> 00:59:11.360
rules that create good art awesome allow that to be something that you give time and attention

785
00:59:11.360 --> 00:59:19.440
to but don't ever let your self-judgment or self-criticism crush the beauty and the child

786
00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:23.960
likeness the wonder you know of who you've been created to be and that is for all of

787
00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:30.880
us I know I have to daily repent from self-judgment and criticism and that thing and just go oh

788
00:59:31.520 --> 00:59:36.440
I don't want that a part of me I actually want celebration and love and championing

789
00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:42.840
and delight and I want the little girl the little Dana in me to feel celebrated to express

790
00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:49.000
herself in whatever art form that is because it's your soul it's your heart it's your spirit

791
00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:54.400
being able to communicate through this body this physical body that we've been given so

792
00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:59.640
I just want to speak over you and all like all of you people allow

793
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:05.000
allow your hearts to come alive and be permissioned,

794
01:00:05.680 --> 01:00:07.420
be permissioned to be childlike.

795
01:00:07.420 --> 01:00:09.880
We come into the kingdom as little children

796
01:00:09.880 --> 01:00:12.280
and we get celebrated by our father

797
01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:14.940
and we don't judge what we create.

798
01:00:14.940 --> 01:00:18.080
I mean, there is room as we grow in a craft

799
01:00:18.080 --> 01:00:20.520
where we want to bring excellence to something

800
01:00:20.520 --> 01:00:23.200
that we do bring some healthy critique,

801
01:00:23.200 --> 01:00:25.880
but don't just say no to judgment

802
01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:29.380
and say no to the criticism that shuts down

803
01:00:29.380 --> 01:00:31.580
something in seed form.

804
01:00:31.580 --> 01:00:34.700
Nobody ever looks at a child that's learning to walk

805
01:00:34.700 --> 01:00:37.540
and be like, oh, you idiot, you took like two steps

806
01:00:37.540 --> 01:00:38.620
and then you fell on your knees.

807
01:00:38.620 --> 01:00:42.740
No, the way that they learn to walk is come on,

808
01:00:42.740 --> 01:00:44.900
up you get, come to mommy, come to the,

809
01:00:44.900 --> 01:00:47.500
it's celebration, it's affirmation.

810
01:00:47.500 --> 01:00:49.860
And so be your biggest cheerleader,

811
01:00:49.860 --> 01:00:53.020
affirm yourself, celebrate yourself,

812
01:00:53.020 --> 01:00:56.020
allow yourself to get giddy as you would

813
01:00:56.020 --> 01:00:59.100
over a small child and watch and see

814
01:00:59.780 --> 01:01:03.620
what happens, the power of our words create our world

815
01:01:03.620 --> 01:01:06.420
and our tongue either speaks life or death.

816
01:01:06.420 --> 01:01:09.080
So speak life of yourself, encourage yourself,

817
01:01:09.080 --> 01:01:10.380
strengthen yourself in the Lord,

818
01:01:10.380 --> 01:01:14.620
be your biggest cheerleader, be your own soul's best friend,

819
01:01:14.620 --> 01:01:17.780
speak to yourself like you would speak to your best friend.

820
01:01:17.780 --> 01:01:19.700
And if they were to come and show you something

821
01:01:19.700 --> 01:01:21.660
and be like, wow, you know?

822
01:01:21.660 --> 01:01:24.060
So I see that Rosalina has her hand up,

823
01:01:24.060 --> 01:01:27.380
would love to hear your question, beautiful Rosalina.

824
01:01:28.380 --> 01:01:30.540
Hi, I don't have a question,

825
01:01:30.540 --> 01:01:34.940
but we have a group in Canada here in Ottawa.

826
01:01:34.940 --> 01:01:38.020
We just started, anyway, it's called Kingdom Arts

827
01:01:38.020 --> 01:01:42.580
and we have about 12 people and can grow up to 20

828
01:01:42.580 --> 01:01:45.220
and it's growing, but people have a chance

829
01:01:45.220 --> 01:01:48.600
to express themselves in any kind of creative arts

830
01:01:48.600 --> 01:01:49.820
for the kingdom.

831
01:01:49.820 --> 01:01:54.540
So it's all about what is God saying to you today?

832
01:01:54.580 --> 01:01:59.580
So it's really fun and we've, I've put out,

833
01:02:00.900 --> 01:02:03.700
we just started last December

834
01:02:03.700 --> 01:02:06.940
and we're having another event coming soon.

835
01:02:06.940 --> 01:02:10.900
The theme is love, of course it's about God's love.

836
01:02:10.900 --> 01:02:14.380
And we sent out, I sent out a scripture

837
01:02:14.380 --> 01:02:16.780
for them to read the song of songs.

838
01:02:16.780 --> 01:02:21.020
And that's my point here is the song of songs says,

839
01:02:21.020 --> 01:02:25.180
the shepherd King says to us, the Shulamite,

840
01:02:25.180 --> 01:02:27.340
yet you are so lovely,

841
01:02:28.540 --> 01:02:33.100
like fine linen tapestry hanging in the holy place.

842
01:02:33.100 --> 01:02:34.860
That's how God sees us.

843
01:02:34.860 --> 01:02:36.700
You know, the Shulamite, us,

844
01:02:36.700 --> 01:02:39.140
we talk about all this stuff that we go through,

845
01:02:39.140 --> 01:02:44.140
yet our shepherd King, our bridegroom King

846
01:02:45.500 --> 01:02:48.980
says we are so lovely and we're to continue.

847
01:02:48.980 --> 01:02:53.660
So I've encouraged our group to read the song of songs,

848
01:02:53.660 --> 01:02:57.020
especially in the passion translation.

849
01:02:57.020 --> 01:02:58.060
Yeah, it is.

850
01:02:58.060 --> 01:02:58.900
I love it.

851
01:02:59.980 --> 01:03:04.900
It is of his passion and his love for us, the church,

852
01:03:04.900 --> 01:03:06.820
the church, the bride.

853
01:03:06.820 --> 01:03:09.700
So enjoy yourselves in that.

854
01:03:09.700 --> 01:03:11.500
And I think as we read this,

855
01:03:11.500 --> 01:03:13.660
I mean, this is my bedtime story at night

856
01:03:13.660 --> 01:03:16.820
to get rid of all the stuff on my mind

857
01:03:16.820 --> 01:03:18.940
and just think about what he thinks about me.

858
01:03:19.780 --> 01:03:21.740
And then he gives me nice thoughts as I sleep.

859
01:03:21.740 --> 01:03:25.060
You know, I wake up in nice thoughts.

860
01:03:25.060 --> 01:03:28.380
So to know who we really are with him

861
01:03:28.380 --> 01:03:31.740
and also with the arts,

862
01:03:31.740 --> 01:03:35.060
what we've asked them to do is give a title to your art,

863
01:03:36.740 --> 01:03:40.580
give what prophetic message you wanna share

864
01:03:40.580 --> 01:03:44.980
in that art piece and also add a scripture to it

865
01:03:44.980 --> 01:03:47.620
because then the focus remains on God

866
01:03:47.620 --> 01:03:48.900
as they're doing their work.

867
01:03:48.900 --> 01:03:50.500
And you wouldn't believe some people,

868
01:03:50.500 --> 01:03:53.460
they're so excited like kids.

869
01:03:53.460 --> 01:03:55.220
You know, I have these people,

870
01:03:55.220 --> 01:03:58.740
they're 75 years old, 80 some years old,

871
01:03:58.740 --> 01:04:01.780
and they're emailing me and they're contacting me.

872
01:04:01.780 --> 01:04:03.540
I've just written some poetry

873
01:04:03.540 --> 01:04:06.340
and they can't wait to read it to me over the phone.

874
01:04:06.340 --> 01:04:09.580
They're so excited before an event happens.

875
01:04:09.580 --> 01:04:13.900
So it just creative, creativity,

876
01:04:13.900 --> 01:04:15.620
just, you know, God created the earth.

877
01:04:15.620 --> 01:04:17.900
Of course we are creative people, right?

878
01:04:17.900 --> 01:04:18.980
We're creative beings.

879
01:04:18.980 --> 01:04:23.300
So in each one of us, like this gentleman said,

880
01:04:23.300 --> 01:04:26.540
you know, he said, you know, we each have our own journeys

881
01:04:26.540 --> 01:04:28.340
but we're touching people,

882
01:04:28.340 --> 01:04:31.220
even if they come to my home and they're not believers.

883
01:04:31.220 --> 01:04:33.940
I have a lot of people, Remy, they're not believers

884
01:04:33.940 --> 01:04:36.980
but they're wondering what I'm doing, you know?

885
01:04:36.980 --> 01:04:41.380
And I will take that time and I connect with God first

886
01:04:41.380 --> 01:04:43.860
but I take the time to explain to him

887
01:04:43.860 --> 01:04:45.540
why I painted something

888
01:04:46.460 --> 01:04:48.500
because something can touch their heart

889
01:04:48.500 --> 01:04:49.740
and it can be a seed,

890
01:04:49.740 --> 01:04:51.660
even if they don't get it right away, right?

891
01:04:51.660 --> 01:04:54.460
It builds, we build and that's what our journey is.

892
01:04:54.460 --> 01:04:59.460
So a friend of mine encouraged me to log on and she said,

893
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.920
to I don't know if you know her name is Jill. She might have been on in the past. But she's

894
01:05:05.920 --> 01:05:12.320
also from Canada, of course. And I was really impressed with this whole thing you've got

895
01:05:12.320 --> 01:05:18.520
going here. I don't know how long it's been here. But it's really interesting and inspiring.

896
01:05:18.520 --> 01:05:24.720
And I've encouraged everybody to come and see you. So maybe they'll be on next time.

897
01:05:24.720 --> 01:05:30.600
Yeah, great. Thank you. Thank you for the invite. Yeah, thank you so much for sharing

898
01:05:30.600 --> 01:05:36.520
and amazing to hear what you're doing and just cultivating that freedom and exclusion

899
01:05:36.520 --> 01:05:44.960
and celebration within your group. Like amazing. That is so beautiful. And just I just so wholeheartedly

900
01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:50.600
agree with the passion translation being just yeah, poetic, and the song of song of just

901
01:05:50.600 --> 01:05:57.760
allowing that that romance of the lover of our soul being King Jesus with his people

902
01:05:57.760 --> 01:06:03.120
and allow that because there's something that unlocks our heart with love, right? Love unlocks

903
01:06:03.120 --> 01:06:07.240
the heart like nothing else. So yeah, thank you for sharing that Rosalina. Yeah, we really

904
01:06:07.240 --> 01:06:12.920
hope you keep coming. We do this once a month. And so we mail out within our raising royalty

905
01:06:12.920 --> 01:06:19.640
community. And so if you're part of the raising royalty community, you just or you can email

906
01:06:19.640 --> 01:06:25.520
us after I can put my email in the chat. And if any of you aren't getting the emails

907
01:06:25.520 --> 01:06:31.240
or you were just sent this link by someone else, you can get on our our kind of daily

908
01:06:31.240 --> 01:06:36.960
weekly emails. And we do this once a month. So this is our fourth kingdom creative chat.

909
01:06:36.960 --> 01:06:42.160
And so we just go through different theme or topic every month just to kind of foster

910
01:06:42.160 --> 01:06:50.960
this dialogue together. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much. Don't worry. Thank you.

911
01:06:50.960 --> 01:06:58.480
Is there anyone else that has a question? Oh, yeah. I see. Is it real? And Christine?

912
01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:03.440
I'm just gonna get you to unmute my love.

913
01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:14.160
Hi, I'm from Canada, close to Ottawa as well. So this is really fun. Hearing the lady speak.

914
01:07:14.160 --> 01:07:19.280
But I missed the last four. So do you know where we could listen to the other ones that

915
01:07:19.280 --> 01:07:28.360
you had? Yes. So on our Facebook page, also on our raising royalty platform, we're actually

916
01:07:28.360 --> 01:07:33.120
creating that just this weekend. And next, probably by Monday, just putting all of the

917
01:07:33.120 --> 01:07:39.120
zoom. So we record the zooms. And then they go on. But I'll put the link in. Did you get

918
01:07:39.120 --> 01:07:44.680
the email for this? Yes. Yes, I did. If you go back to the email, you'll see at the bottom

919
01:07:44.680 --> 01:07:49.960
and it says if you can't watch this live, and want to watch the replay, click this link.

920
01:07:49.960 --> 01:07:57.280
So there's a link to the Facebook creative page. So I I download this zoom recording

921
01:07:57.360 --> 01:08:02.720
and I upload it to that Facebook page. So you can see all of the different ones that

922
01:08:02.720 --> 01:08:09.760
we've done each, each month. Yeah. So and then they are a new platform, they'll be easier

923
01:08:09.760 --> 01:08:15.040
to find. They'll actually just be like the kingdom creative zooms. And then it'll be

924
01:08:15.040 --> 01:08:19.240
like, boop, boop, boop, boop, kind of like all of them right there. So yeah, we'll email

925
01:08:19.240 --> 01:08:24.359
that out. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, but glad you're here. I'm loving all the fellow Canadians.

926
01:08:24.359 --> 01:08:33.319
I'm in Vancouver. So it's amazing. It's so great. And yeah, just amazing to see you guys

927
01:08:33.319 --> 01:08:41.640
here. So thank you for for being here. Does anybody else have any questions? Or anything

928
01:08:41.640 --> 01:08:51.720
that they'd like to share? Add to the conversation. So good to see all you beautiful people.

929
01:08:52.680 --> 01:09:02.279
Dana. Yes. I would love to see it's so exciting to see, you know, silent, I guess is his name.

930
01:09:02.279 --> 01:09:09.319
He's from India. Yeah, yeah. He's from Madagascar. I would love to see when they put in their

931
01:09:09.319 --> 01:09:15.120
name, they put where they're from, because it's so exciting. You know, that God can connect

932
01:09:15.120 --> 01:09:21.080
us throughout the whole world. Yeah, you know, and this may grow, right? Yeah, things

933
01:09:21.080 --> 01:09:27.880
grow. So in the kingdom, and it's just, it's our way of connecting with God together. It's

934
01:09:27.880 --> 01:09:35.120
the unity thing, right? Totally. It's very powerful. It's very, God's glory will pour

935
01:09:35.120 --> 01:09:41.359
into this and pour into each one of us as we connect, right? I would love to see, you

936
01:09:41.359 --> 01:09:48.600
know, Matthew, where are you from? You know, Karen, where are you from? Yeah, yeah. And

937
01:09:48.600 --> 01:09:52.920
again, if you don't feel like you want to share that personal information, there's no

938
01:09:52.920 --> 01:09:58.600
pressure, but if you would like to, so you add your location, basically, if you go, you

939
01:09:58.600 --> 01:09:59.880
can do it through your

940
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:16.680
name, either you can just, you can just put in the chat. Oh, this is where I'm from, or if you ever want it with your name, you can go up to the settings. And you can actually, I think it is just looking at if you go to zoom dot us like up at the top.

941
01:10:18.040 --> 01:10:22.440
I'm, I believe you go through preferences and then you can change your name.

942
01:10:22.440 --> 01:10:52.280
I yeah we'll figure it out, or you can just put in put in the chat where you're from that might be easier than renaming on the zoom yeah yeah but yeah it is so great to hear from everyone where everyone's at in different chats sometimes we've had 50 people sometimes we've had 30 people in the chat this one's a little bit smaller, I know, with the different times that we do it sometimes people are all at work, and so they can live and they'll watch later, sometimes we do it on the weekend, sometimes it's been just on a Friday.

943
01:10:52.440 --> 01:11:00.440
So, it's really great to see so many people from around the world, come and just be part of this community that it is such a gift.

944
01:11:03.440 --> 01:11:04.440
Very nice.

945
01:11:06.440 --> 01:11:10.440
So does anybody else have any thoughts or anything that they want to add.

946
01:11:15.440 --> 01:11:18.440
Just so good to see you Janice and Helen and Jamie.

947
01:11:19.440 --> 01:11:32.440
Surely so good to see these familiar faces and names, all the rest of you, Heidi, Karen Casey Deborah Joe dare all the ones.

948
01:11:33.440 --> 01:11:34.440
So amazing to see you all.

949
01:11:36.440 --> 01:11:41.440
Hi, I'll just introduce myself. Yeah, Joe from New Zealand. Hello everyone.

950
01:11:42.440 --> 01:12:03.440
This is my first going on the, you know, your creative creatives lives. Yeah, I do get the, the kingdom emails so this is yeah this is the first one I just woke up and check my emails and saw a creative one so here I am.

951
01:12:04.440 --> 01:12:11.440
I'm an artist, and I'm also part of running workshops at my local church.

952
01:12:12.440 --> 01:12:22.440
Yeah, so we were around all sorts of different creative workshops around, you know, painting different types of painting that type of thing.

953
01:12:22.440 --> 01:12:34.440
Sometimes, you know, jewelry and painting and all sorts. So yeah, it's just, I'm just in a small town in New Zealand and, and that's part of what we do for the community.

954
01:12:35.440 --> 01:12:48.440
Yeah, so I thought I'd just introduce myself and I love what Rosalina had to say about, you know, you know your workshops and, you know, having a scripture and, you know, that that's really good.

955
01:12:48.440 --> 01:12:52.440
So, yeah, it was really good to hear that and good to hear.

956
01:12:53.440 --> 01:13:00.440
So, yeah, awesome what you said. So yeah, I just want to share that.

957
01:13:00.440 --> 01:13:02.440
Hello everyone.

958
01:13:02.440 --> 01:13:17.440
Hi, I'm so glad that you came on and said hi it's so good to see you here with us it just love it I love New Zealand I lived in New Zealand for probably eight or 10 years, I lived there just before the global lockdown so I have much love for.

959
01:13:17.440 --> 01:13:26.440
I have so much fun out there and I just, oh, I love the accent I just love New Zealand so much so it's so good to see you and hear you.

960
01:13:26.440 --> 01:13:42.440
I don't have a pure New Zealand accent because I lived in Australia a long time so there's a bit of Aussie in there. Yeah, I can actually hear the intonation I can hear but I lived in Australia for four years as well so I just South Pacific I just love that whole region

961
01:13:43.440 --> 01:13:50.440
was like my second home like New Zealand truly actually I've got like 90% of my belongings that are still in New Zealand.

962
01:13:50.440 --> 01:14:01.440
Because when I came back in the global lockdown I had to leave everything and just take a bag of clothes. So I left my guitars, everything.

963
01:14:01.440 --> 01:14:07.440
I love New Zealand so so good to see you and hear your voice thanks for saying hi.

964
01:14:07.440 --> 01:14:12.440
Thank you.

965
01:14:12.440 --> 01:14:22.440
Anyone else that would like to say a word or two or share something that inspired you that you've heard.

966
01:14:23.440 --> 01:14:36.440
I just want to say, just one more thing we do with what we've done with the art and poetry is we the church allowed us to hang these things up on the walls.

967
01:14:36.440 --> 01:14:53.440
So the church decorated with the art. And what I've also done is interviewed each of the artists and put a little explanation of what the art means, because not everybody in the church attends the events, but we feel that there's messages in the art

968
01:14:53.440 --> 01:15:00.440
pieces that God has given us to help other people. So that's what we've also done I just wanted to share that.

969
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:03.080
Oh, the church is very old. Yeah.

970
01:15:03.440 --> 01:15:09.040
Oh, that's so good. Um, I also just had just a private message,

971
01:15:09.040 --> 01:15:11.720
just wanting to explain a little bit more about raising royalty

972
01:15:11.720 --> 01:15:14.920
and what we're doing. So for those of you that might not be

973
01:15:14.920 --> 01:15:18.680
totally familiar with raising royalty, just to give a quick 30

974
01:15:18.680 --> 01:15:22.080
second kind of cap on what it is raising royalties, this

975
01:15:22.080 --> 01:15:24.960
incredible movement led by our beautiful friend and leader

976
01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:30.800
Benji Alexander. And it's a movement of seeing sons and

977
01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:34.240
daughters awaken to who they really are and fulfilling the

978
01:15:34.240 --> 01:15:37.840
Great Commission through fulfilled dreams. How do we

979
01:15:37.840 --> 01:15:43.400
change the world through walking and dreams fulfilled and, and

980
01:15:43.400 --> 01:15:46.400
really becoming awakened to who we are sons and daughters

981
01:15:46.480 --> 01:15:49.800
growing in the revelation of who the father is, what it means to

982
01:15:49.800 --> 01:15:53.880
walk in our identity, and then to change the world through

983
01:15:53.880 --> 01:15:57.240
living out our fulfilled dreams and desires. We want to outdream

984
01:15:57.240 --> 01:16:01.360
darkness, we actually want to train and equip and empower the

985
01:16:01.360 --> 01:16:05.720
body of Christ to live radically empowered in the grace of God,

986
01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:10.840
anointing and teaching. And so we have so many masterclasses

987
01:16:10.840 --> 01:16:14.600
and summits and coaching and mentoring and theological

988
01:16:14.800 --> 01:16:19.160
training. We've got so many different staff members that are

989
01:16:19.160 --> 01:16:22.720
around the world that are, that's where we've got Fi, we've

990
01:16:22.720 --> 01:16:25.680
got Zion, we've got myself, we're in different places in the

991
01:16:25.680 --> 01:16:29.240
world that are kind of bringing different things to our

992
01:16:29.240 --> 01:16:34.200
movement. And within the kingdom creatives, what our heart is to

993
01:16:34.200 --> 01:16:37.920
do is to foster connection and community. But the beautiful

994
01:16:37.920 --> 01:16:41.440
thing about what the pandemic has actually kind of highlighted

995
01:16:41.440 --> 01:16:45.440
to a whole greater degree is the ability to connect over

996
01:16:45.640 --> 01:16:49.320
technology. Now we were doing that before Zoom was happening,

997
01:16:49.360 --> 01:16:52.600
FaceTimes, WhatsApp, all the social media, but it went

998
01:16:52.640 --> 01:16:55.080
through the roof, because all of a sudden we were isolated, and

999
01:16:55.080 --> 01:16:58.840
we weren't able to travel, we weren't able to gather. And so

1000
01:16:59.280 --> 01:17:04.280
how do we cultivate belonging and family and tribe and a

1001
01:17:04.280 --> 01:17:08.360
movement? How do we go, hey, you are seen, you're known, you're

1002
01:17:08.360 --> 01:17:12.000
loved, hey, come be part of this. We're a movement of sons

1003
01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:14.960
and daughters that are walking in the fullness of who we are

1004
01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:18.440
and discovering who are we, who really is God, what really is

1005
01:17:18.480 --> 01:17:21.520
the kingdom of heaven? How do we express that on the earth? How

1006
01:17:21.520 --> 01:17:24.400
do we find, bye Dorcas, bye everyone that's messaging

1007
01:17:24.440 --> 01:17:29.120
goodbye, hope you have a great day. And so again, cultivating

1008
01:17:29.120 --> 01:17:33.200
these places where there's connection, where you can come

1009
01:17:33.200 --> 01:17:36.640
and feel part of the tribe, part of the family, there's content,

1010
01:17:36.640 --> 01:17:39.800
there's encouragement, there's championing, there's tools,

1011
01:17:39.800 --> 01:17:43.560
there's equipping happening to, we really want to serve you, our

1012
01:17:43.560 --> 01:17:46.360
whole heart is to go, how do we love you? How do we serve you?

1013
01:17:46.520 --> 01:17:49.720
Wherever you are in the world, whatever life looks like, for

1014
01:17:49.720 --> 01:17:54.800
you, how do we just create a space where you can be part of

1015
01:17:54.800 --> 01:17:58.520
the family and you can grow in the authentic truest version of

1016
01:17:58.520 --> 01:18:01.720
you, you can grow in your relationship with God, you can

1017
01:18:01.880 --> 01:18:04.760
grow in your understanding of the nature and character of God,

1018
01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:08.920
you can become awakened and liberated and free in your

1019
01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:12.600
personal expression, knowing that as you grow in that,

1020
01:18:13.040 --> 01:18:15.040
you're going to change the world around you, you're actually

1021
01:18:15.040 --> 01:18:17.160
going to shift, you're going to release light, you're going to

1022
01:18:17.160 --> 01:18:19.560
release truth, you're going to release anointing, you're going

1023
01:18:19.560 --> 01:18:22.920
to release your personal revelation of who the Father is

1024
01:18:22.960 --> 01:18:26.120
in and through you. And just like Fi was saying, you get to

1025
01:18:26.120 --> 01:18:30.400
own your story, you get to be true to who you are right now,

1026
01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:33.720
not trying to be something you're not, you just get to be

1027
01:18:33.720 --> 01:18:39.400
loved right where you're at. And so we want to have that place of

1028
01:18:39.400 --> 01:18:43.120
safety that this is a non judgment zone, this is free and

1029
01:18:43.120 --> 01:18:46.760
safe to be you, wherever you're at in your journey, that you're

1030
01:18:46.760 --> 01:18:50.280
loved, you're seen, you're known, you're championed. And

1031
01:18:50.280 --> 01:18:57.640
we're just wanting to come in with as much content and

1032
01:18:57.640 --> 01:19:00.520
personal development and mentoring and coaching to the

1033
01:19:00.520 --> 01:19:04.560
degree that we can to create inspiration for you in your

1034
01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:07.840
journey. So that is who we are. If you're interested to learn

1035
01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:12.920
more about raising royalty, we have a free Facebook page where

1036
01:19:12.920 --> 01:19:16.840
we've got heaps of coaching and masterclasses and a really

1037
01:19:16.840 --> 01:19:21.040
encouraging community of like 50 60,000 people that are posting

1038
01:19:21.040 --> 01:19:25.280
and sharing different things. Benji has amazing content on

1039
01:19:25.280 --> 01:19:29.040
there. We've got different group settings. So you've got stuff

1040
01:19:29.040 --> 01:19:32.360
that Zylan I mean, what Zylan is doing with the creative kingdom

1041
01:19:32.360 --> 01:19:35.960
creatives is amazing, the content, the information, the

1042
01:19:35.960 --> 01:19:39.160
inspiration that he's posting, you've got stuff that Fi's doing

1043
01:19:39.160 --> 01:19:42.880
on there you we have so many different leaders and people

1044
01:19:42.920 --> 01:19:47.640
bringing free amazing content on our Facebook page. We also have

1045
01:19:47.640 --> 01:19:50.720
a new platform we've created that you can have free basic

1046
01:19:50.720 --> 01:19:55.440
access to it's a Christian library of videos, content

1047
01:19:55.440 --> 01:19:58.920
curation, all of the masterclasses, the content, the

1048
01:19:58.920 --> 01:19:59.640
training.

1049
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:03.360
theology that Benji has created, it's mind-blowing.

1050
01:20:03.360 --> 01:20:05.440
And then we're also content curating,

1051
01:20:06.440 --> 01:20:10.040
pulling in different YouTube videos and free things,

1052
01:20:10.040 --> 01:20:12.520
but curating it in subjects and themes

1053
01:20:12.520 --> 01:20:13.480
that are gonna serve you.

1054
01:20:13.480 --> 01:20:17.920
So our goal is to have the largest Christian online library.

1055
01:20:17.920 --> 01:20:19.360
So you can have free access to that,

1056
01:20:19.360 --> 01:20:23.200
but then there's also an option to spend $37,

1057
01:20:23.200 --> 01:20:26.940
one-time lifetime access fee, and you get premium access.

1058
01:20:26.940 --> 01:20:29.820
You get all of these different abilities

1059
01:20:29.820 --> 01:20:32.480
to even host your own groups, to communicate.

1060
01:20:32.480 --> 01:20:34.420
So again, if you want more information,

1061
01:20:34.420 --> 01:20:36.780
I can put that link in the chat,

1062
01:20:36.780 --> 01:20:40.300
but just wanted to give a little update on raising royalty.

1063
01:20:41.460 --> 01:20:44.940
Zylan and Fi, are there any thoughts, final thoughts

1064
01:20:44.940 --> 01:20:47.380
that you wanna share, my beautiful brothers?

1065
01:20:50.460 --> 01:20:53.420
Just wanna say that you're awesome, Diana.

1066
01:20:53.420 --> 01:20:58.340
Thank you for, yeah, thank you for facilitating this.

1067
01:20:58.340 --> 01:20:59.300
You're awesome.

1068
01:21:00.740 --> 01:21:02.540
Thanks, brother.

1069
01:21:02.540 --> 01:21:03.380
Yes.

1070
01:21:03.380 --> 01:21:05.020
It's such a joy to do it together

1071
01:21:05.020 --> 01:21:07.020
because we're family and we're crew.

1072
01:21:07.020 --> 01:21:10.020
We're in this whole beautiful thing together.

1073
01:21:10.020 --> 01:21:13.720
So I'm just so grateful to be partnering with you guys.

1074
01:21:13.720 --> 01:21:16.860
Just love you guys heaps, so love it.

1075
01:21:18.860 --> 01:21:19.700
Yes.

1076
01:21:19.780 --> 01:21:23.580
Is there a Facebook page on the bottom of that email

1077
01:21:23.580 --> 01:21:25.300
that we got this link from?

1078
01:21:25.300 --> 01:21:28.940
Yes, I will just open it up right now and I'll click,

1079
01:21:28.940 --> 01:21:30.900
I'll copy the link just for those of you

1080
01:21:30.900 --> 01:21:32.600
that maybe didn't get the email.

1081
01:21:36.060 --> 01:21:38.140
I'll do that right now as we talk.

1082
01:21:38.140 --> 01:21:42.100
Zylan, I wanna hear another gold nugget from you

1083
01:21:42.100 --> 01:21:45.100
because you're brilliant and genius and I just love,

1084
01:21:45.100 --> 01:21:47.340
oh, I'm so sorry, I just saw Janice.

1085
01:21:47.340 --> 01:21:49.320
Do you have your hand up?

1086
01:21:50.700 --> 01:21:52.100
Yes, yes.

1087
01:21:52.100 --> 01:21:52.940
Okay.

1088
01:21:52.940 --> 01:21:56.140
I was just gonna, I just,

1089
01:21:56.140 --> 01:21:58.020
I'm sorry for hopping on so late.

1090
01:21:58.020 --> 01:22:00.740
I had a surprise, my sister stepped over,

1091
01:22:00.740 --> 01:22:02.460
surprised me unexpectedly,

1092
01:22:02.460 --> 01:22:06.460
but I did want to share another resource

1093
01:22:07.820 --> 01:22:12.820
that I am associated with for musicians and songwriters

1094
01:22:13.060 --> 01:22:15.900
and it's called Full Circle Music.

1095
01:22:16.780 --> 01:22:20.900
And we have a, they have a group called Song Chasers

1096
01:22:20.900 --> 01:22:24.300
where I've been co-writing songs

1097
01:22:24.300 --> 01:22:27.460
with people now all over the world.

1098
01:22:27.460 --> 01:22:29.300
I just had a co-write yesterday

1099
01:22:29.300 --> 01:22:34.180
with a brother in South Africa

1100
01:22:34.180 --> 01:22:36.780
and just everywhere, it's the same.

1101
01:22:36.780 --> 01:22:39.700
It's all focused on some artists on there.

1102
01:22:39.700 --> 01:22:44.700
A live event actually in March in Nashville, Tennessee

1103
01:22:44.900 --> 01:22:47.500
in the home of Making Music

1104
01:22:47.500 --> 01:22:52.500
and that's called Music Makers Bootcamp.

1105
01:22:53.420 --> 01:22:56.300
So if anybody is interested in that,

1106
01:22:56.300 --> 01:22:59.860
you can, I can send you more information about it.

1107
01:23:01.500 --> 01:23:03.420
Awesome, that's great.

1108
01:23:03.420 --> 01:23:05.300
Yeah, maybe you can just put in the chat

1109
01:23:05.300 --> 01:23:08.900
the Music Makers Bootcamp and then if it's in the chat,

1110
01:23:08.900 --> 01:23:11.780
then when people watch the replay, they can know it.

1111
01:23:11.780 --> 01:23:13.140
So maybe you can put that in the chat.

1112
01:23:13.140 --> 01:23:14.660
That would be great.

1113
01:23:15.460 --> 01:23:16.820
Excellent, love that.

1114
01:23:18.700 --> 01:23:19.740
I've just put the link in

1115
01:23:19.740 --> 01:23:21.620
for the Raising Royalty Facebook page

1116
01:23:22.580 --> 01:23:24.260
for the Kingdom Creatives.

1117
01:23:25.900 --> 01:23:28.540
If you go to Raising Royalty Masterclasses,

1118
01:23:28.540 --> 01:23:32.620
I'll also put the link in there just for the main page

1119
01:23:32.620 --> 01:23:34.740
just so you can know that as well.

1120
01:23:37.460 --> 01:23:40.740
It says the content isn't available right now.

1121
01:23:41.740 --> 01:23:43.900
Okay, so maybe Matthew,

1122
01:23:43.900 --> 01:23:46.340
are you part of the Raising Royalty page yet?

1123
01:23:46.340 --> 01:23:48.020
Are you part of that group?

1124
01:23:48.020 --> 01:23:48.860
So what-

1125
01:23:48.860 --> 01:23:49.860
No, I don't think so.

1126
01:23:49.860 --> 01:23:54.380
Okay, so what I'll do is I'll just copy and paste the,

1127
01:23:55.660 --> 01:23:58.220
or like I'll put the title of what the group is

1128
01:23:58.220 --> 01:24:01.180
because it's free to join, but you do need to be accepted.

1129
01:24:01.180 --> 01:24:04.140
So our support team evaluates every person and goes,

1130
01:24:04.140 --> 01:24:06.540
okay, this isn't some kind of crazy robot

1131
01:24:06.540 --> 01:24:10.180
or this isn't some person that isn't wanting to be part.

1132
01:24:10.620 --> 01:24:12.580
We just have a process of just accepting people,

1133
01:24:12.580 --> 01:24:15.900
but it's free and we would love to accept you.

1134
01:24:15.900 --> 01:24:18.700
So I will do that now.

1135
01:24:18.700 --> 01:24:22.620
Maybe if there's any final thoughts,

1136
01:24:22.620 --> 01:24:25.100
Phi and Zylin,

1137
01:24:25.100 --> 01:24:27.820
that you wanna just kind of recap different things,

1138
01:24:27.820 --> 01:24:32.820
maybe one final thought while I put the Facebook link in,

1139
01:24:32.980 --> 01:24:36.020
and then I'll kind of finish it up and we can pray.

1140
01:24:36.020 --> 01:24:39.660
Yeah, I think today we actually spoke about a lot of things

1141
01:24:39.740 --> 01:24:44.260
and it was actually on sync.

1142
01:24:44.260 --> 01:24:46.700
We were discussing about owning

1143
01:24:46.700 --> 01:24:48.940
our creative identity and expression.

1144
01:24:48.940 --> 01:24:53.940
And Dana was actually talking about the conscious,

1145
01:24:54.660 --> 01:24:59.660
the conditional self and all the conscious.

1146
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:06.880
mind, unconscious mind, a little bit technical. And, and Phi was actually talking about the

1147
01:25:06.880 --> 01:25:11.680
heart thing, you know, wherever you are in the journey, just own yourself, you know,

1148
01:25:11.680 --> 01:25:19.280
so that's really beautiful. And God love, I mean, that's a profound thing that Phi shared.

1149
01:25:20.400 --> 01:25:24.480
And I was actually talking about, you know, just it's a, it's a, it's a journey, you know,

1150
01:25:24.480 --> 01:25:31.360
and this thing is nothing to do with age, you know, we, we are keep on evolving and our growth

1151
01:25:31.360 --> 01:25:40.240
is a, it's a circular motion, you know, so we, we are actually evolving just to, just to be wherever

1152
01:25:40.240 --> 01:25:47.200
you are and believe that God is with you and he's in that process. And whatever that you are doing

1153
01:25:47.200 --> 01:25:53.920
as a creative person, just keep creating, you know, keep creating, keep creating. And that's

1154
01:25:53.920 --> 01:26:02.080
the beautiful thing. And yeah, and there are a lot of things that we are planning to do. This is

1155
01:26:02.080 --> 01:26:08.880
basically, we are actually building a, a tribe, a group of creative people from all around the world,

1156
01:26:08.880 --> 01:26:16.080
you know, just to have fellowship and this Zoom thing, we actually do it every month. And we just

1157
01:26:16.080 --> 01:26:20.960
basic idea of this Zoom call is to just to hang out and connect with similar

1158
01:26:21.600 --> 01:26:27.520
creative people like you guys. And it's so beautiful to see a lot of people actually,

1159
01:26:28.240 --> 01:26:33.680
I mean, every day, every time that we do this call, I mean, we see new phases, you know, and

1160
01:26:34.640 --> 01:26:43.760
it's, it's, it's really amazing. So yeah, we are actually planning our new talent,

1161
01:26:44.240 --> 01:26:54.640
talent awards, raising royalty talent awards. The first one, Phi was the winner. And we are

1162
01:26:54.640 --> 01:27:03.200
actually planning a lot of, I think twice this year. So the official announcement will be

1163
01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:10.160
there in our Facebook group. So please connect with our Facebook group and our new platform

1164
01:27:10.800 --> 01:27:17.040
for our, for our updates. And there are great things that are coming. We are just starting

1165
01:27:17.040 --> 01:27:26.880
up just building in a creative, kinder creatives, this, this tribe. So yeah, we are so excited.

1166
01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:39.280
Yes, Dana. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Dana. You're awesome.

1167
01:27:41.120 --> 01:27:47.280
Thank you, Dana. Guys, keep creating. Keep being yourself.

1168
01:27:53.920 --> 01:27:59.920
Hey, Phi, how's the, how is Madagascar now, Phi?

1169
01:28:00.880 --> 01:28:11.280
Yo, guys, it's, it is crazy. We've been floated. It was a cycle. And it was crazy because

1170
01:28:12.400 --> 01:28:19.760
it actually, one of our source of power here exploded, was exploding. So

1171
01:28:23.840 --> 01:28:27.120
it's actually a blessing that I can be here with you guys. It's a miracle.

1172
01:28:27.440 --> 01:28:37.360
Because normally, normally the power would be, there'd be power cut. We have power cuts like

1173
01:28:37.360 --> 01:28:45.200
eight hours a day, at least. And they say that it will take them like six to eight

1174
01:28:45.200 --> 01:28:54.960
months to fix it. So sure, it's crazy. And yeah, there will be another cyclone next week.

1175
01:28:54.960 --> 01:29:01.360
So please keep us in your prayer. Because people are, you know, most like a lot of people

1176
01:29:03.120 --> 01:29:09.840
lost their home. And yeah, many people are on the street. So we're trying to help one another. But

1177
01:29:10.480 --> 01:29:18.000
you know, yeah, please keep us in your prayer. We are safe, me and my family for now.

1178
01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:28.880
And I hope we will stay safe like this. But other people are safe. So our heart goes to them also.

1179
01:29:31.600 --> 01:29:40.320
Yeah. So that's, that's, that's, that's something we can pray about Madagascar.

1180
01:29:40.880 --> 01:29:48.960
But in all that, keep being creative. Enjoy yourself. Enjoy the, the, the, the actual self,

1181
01:29:48.960 --> 01:29:56.640
your actual self. And yeah, I actually

1182
01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:10.680
Thank you, Janice. Actually, like in this season, we are, God really inspires me with

1183
01:30:10.680 --> 01:30:21.600
like songs and all those things. And, you know, that is one of our sound as well as

1184
01:30:21.600 --> 01:30:28.080
Christian as sons and daughters, you know, like in season, whatever season we are at,

1185
01:30:28.080 --> 01:30:36.000
we are God's messenger. And we just need to be open. We just need to open up our hearts

1186
01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:45.640
and allow God to speak to people through us in every season and enjoy every season. Enjoy

1187
01:30:45.640 --> 01:30:57.220
every season. For us, this is a season difficult to enjoy, but we can still enjoy. So there's

1188
01:30:57.220 --> 01:31:08.500
always something to celebrate. Love your attitude, Faheem. Await, thank you. Yes, the attitude

1189
01:31:08.500 --> 01:31:15.180
of gratitude. It changes everything, living thankful. It actually, you know, they've done

1190
01:31:15.180 --> 01:31:20.980
neurological studies that say that when you are grateful, you cannot be grateful and anxious

1191
01:31:20.980 --> 01:31:27.940
at the same time. And so the power of shifting out of fear, anxiety, worry, spiral, depression,

1192
01:31:27.940 --> 01:31:34.500
negativity is actually just to practice gratitude, to practice, to put thanksgiving on your lips.

1193
01:31:34.500 --> 01:31:38.300
Even if it's just like, God, thank you for clean water today. Thank you for this clothing

1194
01:31:38.300 --> 01:31:42.500
that I have on. Thank you for the food. Thank you for the sunshine, whatever it is, just

1195
01:31:42.500 --> 01:31:48.020
then going bigger, but actually just shifting the energy, shifting the perspective, allowing

1196
01:31:48.020 --> 01:31:52.660
that thankfulness and that gratitude, even in the midst of difficulty. So Faheem, we're

1197
01:31:52.660 --> 01:31:57.260
going to be praying for you and your family and your friends and for Madagascar. We're

1198
01:31:57.260 --> 01:32:02.980
going to just take time now to pray for that as well. I'm going to pray for Helen and pray

1199
01:32:02.980 --> 01:32:09.900
for all of you. She was just asking that there would be more courage from God to try out

1200
01:32:09.900 --> 01:32:17.500
more creativity, that we would have an empowering and an enabling within us to take the steps

1201
01:32:17.500 --> 01:32:21.700
just to be courageous. Like it takes a lot of courage to be human. It takes a lot of

1202
01:32:21.700 --> 01:32:27.300
courage and bravery to step out of what we've known into something new, into new territory.

1203
01:32:27.300 --> 01:32:32.060
But this is where we can be confident. We can be strong and courageous and to say no

1204
01:32:32.060 --> 01:32:37.500
to fear and yes to love because perfect love casts out all fear. And sometimes it's good

1205
01:32:37.500 --> 01:32:45.060
to note, okay, what is coming up in me? What is the resistance? What are the fears that

1206
01:32:45.060 --> 01:32:49.900
are coming up and then taking those and putting them before the father? And again, I've said

1207
01:32:49.900 --> 01:32:55.300
this, I think on every one of our Zooms, but something that changes my life and has changed

1208
01:32:55.300 --> 01:33:01.100
my life and something I try to practice every day, if not every day, every other day is

1209
01:33:01.100 --> 01:33:07.820
asking the father, God, who is it that you want to be for me today? Because God is always

1210
01:33:07.820 --> 01:33:15.100
wanting to be something for you. In every circumstance, in every situation, we feel

1211
01:33:15.100 --> 01:33:18.220
like we've got to muster up and we've got to be independent and strong and we've got

1212
01:33:18.220 --> 01:33:23.860
to take it on. But God is our everything. And God knows exactly the situation that you

1213
01:33:23.860 --> 01:33:31.300
find yourself in. So father, who is it that you want to be for me today? And what is it

1214
01:33:31.300 --> 01:33:35.620
that you want to give to me today? Who is it that you want to be for me in this circumstance

1215
01:33:35.620 --> 01:33:40.860
in this situation? And whether it's creativity, God, I give you this fear. I give you this

1216
01:33:40.860 --> 01:33:45.220
blockage or this opposition or this mindset. God, what is the new mindset that you want

1217
01:33:45.220 --> 01:33:50.340
to give me? Give me lenses of love, lenses of freedom, lenses of creativity, lenses of

1218
01:33:50.340 --> 01:33:56.060
boldness, give shift, shift something on the inside. Again, what I was saying at the beginning

1219
01:33:56.060 --> 01:34:01.300
is our behavior is an echo of our belief. So if there's fearful things, if there's anxieties,

1220
01:34:01.500 --> 01:34:05.300
if there's these things, okay, it's coming from a belief. What is that belief? Is there

1221
01:34:05.300 --> 01:34:10.300
a lie that I'm believing that I need to exchange that lie for the truth? Because when you know

1222
01:34:10.300 --> 01:34:15.100
the truth, the truth will set you free. So God, what do you say about this? Who do you

1223
01:34:15.100 --> 01:34:20.100
say I am? What do you say about this situation? You know, the other day I'm in the shower.

1224
01:34:20.100 --> 01:34:24.180
When I'm in the shower, I'm like singing to God. I'm talking to him and I'm washing my

1225
01:34:24.180 --> 01:34:28.180
hair and I'm saying, father, who do you want to be for me today? And he just said, you're

1226
01:34:28.180 --> 01:34:33.780
a deliverer. And I was like, awesome. What do you want to deliver me from? And he said,

1227
01:34:33.780 --> 01:34:39.220
fear. And I said, what fear are you wanting to deliver me from? The fear of not being

1228
01:34:39.220 --> 01:34:48.740
enough. And I was like, oh wow, that's still in me. That old, dumb, stupid lie of the fear

1229
01:34:48.740 --> 01:34:55.780
of not being enough. And it's a universal thing. It is one of the biggest universal

1230
01:34:55.780 --> 01:34:59.860
lies and struggles of humanity is I'm too much or I'm not enough in whatever.

1231
01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:02.640
for that looks like for in your life.

1232
01:35:02.640 --> 01:35:04.680
And so again, that is just a daily practice.

1233
01:35:04.680 --> 01:35:06.160
God, who do you want to be for me today?

1234
01:35:06.160 --> 01:35:07.920
And he's like your champion.

1235
01:35:07.920 --> 01:35:09.340
What do you want to champion in me today?

1236
01:35:09.340 --> 01:35:10.840
Like, I want to be your victory.

1237
01:35:10.840 --> 01:35:12.200
I want to be your triumph.

1238
01:35:12.200 --> 01:35:13.680
I want to be your comfort.

1239
01:35:13.680 --> 01:35:14.640
I want to be your lover.

1240
01:35:14.640 --> 01:35:15.880
I want to be your best friend.

1241
01:35:15.880 --> 01:35:18.240
I want to be your father, your shepherd, your Lord.

1242
01:35:18.240 --> 01:35:20.840
He's going to speak to your unique moment

1243
01:35:20.840 --> 01:35:24.120
in the story that you find yourself in today.

1244
01:35:24.120 --> 01:35:26.760
Not like my conditioned self of look,

1245
01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:28.040
God, I've got it all together

1246
01:35:28.040 --> 01:35:30.080
and I'm going to perform my way to you.

1247
01:35:30.080 --> 01:35:32.880
No, right where I'm at, with my anxieties and fears,

1248
01:35:32.880 --> 01:35:35.040
with my mindsets, with my circumstances,

1249
01:35:35.040 --> 01:35:37.240
who do you want to be for me today?

1250
01:35:37.240 --> 01:35:39.840
So we're going to pray for that over you,

1251
01:35:39.840 --> 01:35:42.220
that there would be bravery, there would be courage,

1252
01:35:42.220 --> 01:35:44.740
there would be the intimate voice of the Lord

1253
01:35:44.740 --> 01:35:47.560
that would speak to you right now, today,

1254
01:35:47.560 --> 01:35:50.700
that the Holy Spirit would fill wherever you are,

1255
01:35:50.700 --> 01:35:53.300
your car, your bedroom, your living room,

1256
01:35:53.300 --> 01:35:54.560
wherever you find yourself,

1257
01:35:54.560 --> 01:35:59.040
we're going to ask for the tangible manifest presence of God

1258
01:36:00.040 --> 01:36:03.040
for him to come, for him to speak to you,

1259
01:36:03.040 --> 01:36:06.680
for him to fill you up with grace

1260
01:36:06.680 --> 01:36:09.720
that empowers you to be everything he sees

1261
01:36:09.720 --> 01:36:13.040
when he looks at you, to release all the blockages,

1262
01:36:13.040 --> 01:36:15.640
to split the Red Sea so you can cross it,

1263
01:36:15.640 --> 01:36:17.080
you can enter into breakthrough,

1264
01:36:17.080 --> 01:36:18.640
you can enter into freedom,

1265
01:36:18.640 --> 01:36:20.640
you can enter into the fullness

1266
01:36:20.640 --> 01:36:22.280
of who you've been created to be.

1267
01:36:23.160 --> 01:36:25.280
We're going to pray protection and provision,

1268
01:36:25.280 --> 01:36:27.240
divine alignment, divine assignment,

1269
01:36:27.240 --> 01:36:31.320
divine networking, connections, dreams and visions,

1270
01:36:31.320 --> 01:36:35.200
downloads, prophetic understanding, new lenses of love.

1271
01:36:35.200 --> 01:36:36.400
We're going to pray for all of this now.

1272
01:36:36.400 --> 01:36:39.840
So is there anything else that we can pray for?

1273
01:36:39.840 --> 01:36:40.960
If you want to put in the chat

1274
01:36:40.960 --> 01:36:43.920
that we can be specific about,

1275
01:36:43.920 --> 01:36:47.820
we would love to pray for anything else specifically.

1276
01:36:53.120 --> 01:36:58.120
Beat, do you have anything to say or Zylan,

1277
01:37:02.200 --> 01:37:03.040
do you have anything else

1278
01:37:03.040 --> 01:37:04.760
that we can pray for specifically?

1279
01:37:04.760 --> 01:37:07.240
If there's anybody that has a specific prayer request,

1280
01:37:07.240 --> 01:37:08.400
we'd love to pray for that

1281
01:37:08.400 --> 01:37:10.240
and then we'll end our time together.

1282
01:37:11.720 --> 01:37:14.200
Yeah, I just want to talk to Ellen.

1283
01:37:14.200 --> 01:37:15.040
Ellen?

1284
01:37:15.040 --> 01:37:15.880
Yeah.

1285
01:37:15.880 --> 01:37:17.720
You there, yeah.

1286
01:37:17.760 --> 01:37:22.360
So one thing that I do before, you know,

1287
01:37:22.360 --> 01:37:23.920
before the prayer, sorry, Ellen,

1288
01:37:23.920 --> 01:37:26.920
but like one thing that I did and I keep doing

1289
01:37:26.920 --> 01:37:29.600
is that I speak to myself in the mirror

1290
01:37:30.760 --> 01:37:33.400
and keep telling the truth.

1291
01:37:33.400 --> 01:37:34.240
Yes.

1292
01:37:34.240 --> 01:37:35.880
Speaking truth over myself,

1293
01:37:35.880 --> 01:37:39.080
reminding myself of who I am, who I am in God.

1294
01:37:40.560 --> 01:37:43.160
I do that before I leave my house

1295
01:37:43.160 --> 01:37:45.720
or before, you know, when I feel low,

1296
01:37:45.720 --> 01:37:48.480
when I'm feeling low or when I'm feeling discouraged,

1297
01:37:48.480 --> 01:37:52.320
I keep reminding myself, I look to myself in my own eyes

1298
01:37:53.640 --> 01:37:56.080
and I speak truth over myself.

1299
01:37:56.080 --> 01:38:00.840
And you know, the truth is God is already pleased with you.

1300
01:38:00.840 --> 01:38:02.960
And what else do you need?

1301
01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:05.360
What else, what more do you need?

1302
01:38:05.360 --> 01:38:08.320
He's pleased with you.

1303
01:38:08.320 --> 01:38:13.320
And, you know, you are loved

1304
01:38:13.920 --> 01:38:18.920
and all I want to say is that just release,

1305
01:38:22.560 --> 01:38:25.040
release what is in you

1306
01:38:25.040 --> 01:38:29.160
and refuse to listen to the lies of the enemy

1307
01:38:29.160 --> 01:38:33.960
and keep speaking truth over yourself.

1308
01:38:35.800 --> 01:38:39.400
I don't know if that might help you.

1309
01:38:39.400 --> 01:38:42.200
If you can do that, it sounds weird

1310
01:38:42.200 --> 01:38:45.040
and it feels weird in the beginning

1311
01:38:45.040 --> 01:38:47.360
when I started to do it back then,

1312
01:38:47.360 --> 01:38:52.360
but then it helps a lot.

1313
01:38:52.400 --> 01:38:54.440
It helped me a lot.

1314
01:38:54.440 --> 01:38:58.520
And, you know, we all have our moments

1315
01:38:58.520 --> 01:39:02.360
of feeling low and insecurities,

1316
01:39:02.360 --> 01:39:05.680
but, you know, when we face the truth,

1317
01:39:05.680 --> 01:39:08.560
as God said, it sets us free.

1318
01:39:08.600 --> 01:39:13.600
You know, when we speak truth over ourselves

1319
01:39:14.480 --> 01:39:18.640
and yeah, anyway, that's all I want to say.

1320
01:39:18.640 --> 01:39:19.960
Thank you so much,

1321
01:39:19.960 --> 01:39:22.040
because I really feel Holy Spirit when you're sharing

1322
01:39:22.040 --> 01:39:24.160
and Dana was sharing, I was just receiving.

1323
01:39:24.160 --> 01:39:25.720
So thank you guys so much

1324
01:39:25.720 --> 01:39:28.440
for sharing from your victory experience.

1325
01:39:28.440 --> 01:39:31.000
And I actually practiced something

1326
01:39:31.000 --> 01:39:32.240
because I read it from the book,

1327
01:39:32.240 --> 01:39:35.320
like speak yourself and look into your eyes.

1328
01:39:35.320 --> 01:39:37.280
And it was really powerful.

1329
01:39:37.280 --> 01:39:38.560
But as you were talking,

1330
01:39:38.560 --> 01:39:40.280
I was like, oh, I just did it once

1331
01:39:40.280 --> 01:39:42.040
and I experienced like really good,

1332
01:39:42.040 --> 01:39:44.160
but I didn't continue to do it.

1333
01:39:44.160 --> 01:39:45.640
And I need to do it.

1334
01:39:45.640 --> 01:39:49.760
I actually received a list of my God-given traits

1335
01:39:49.760 --> 01:39:51.560
from a Christian workshop.

1336
01:39:51.560 --> 01:39:54.120
And I was amazed about some traits

1337
01:39:54.120 --> 01:39:56.800
God was telling me about who I am.

1338
01:39:56.800 --> 01:39:58.680
So yes, I need to do it more.

1339
01:39:58.680 --> 01:40:00.280
Thank you so much for sharing.

1340
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:08.040
right? Helen, you're just such a delight. We just love you. Oh,

1341
01:40:08.080 --> 01:40:10.880
I'm just so glad you're part of this. And it's so good to meet

1342
01:40:10.880 --> 01:40:13.440
you. I think it was two times ago. And then you've been part

1343
01:40:13.440 --> 01:40:17.200
of it. Or just one last time. Yeah, I was here. And I hear you

1344
01:40:17.200 --> 01:40:18.120
guys talking. I was like,

1345
01:40:20.120 --> 01:40:23.320
Oh, good. This is why we love this is what we love to do is

1346
01:40:23.320 --> 01:40:25.360
connect with beautiful people all around the world and be

1347
01:40:25.360 --> 01:40:28.000
like, we're in this together. And we get to be vulnerable and

1348
01:40:28.000 --> 01:40:31.120
real and transparent in our process and be like, we're not

1349
01:40:31.120 --> 01:40:35.440
alone. Or you're not crazy for feeling insecure or confused. Or

1350
01:40:35.440 --> 01:40:39.200
like, how do I do this? Or I'm feeling vulnerable or tender. Or

1351
01:40:39.240 --> 01:40:41.880
this is where we want to celebrate each other's wins to

1352
01:40:41.880 --> 01:40:44.760
like when Matthew came on was like, I've self published 70

1353
01:40:44.760 --> 01:40:48.360
books. It's like, go brother. That's freaking awesome. Like,

1354
01:40:48.640 --> 01:40:51.440
you know, Rosalina sharing about her community that she's

1355
01:40:51.440 --> 01:40:54.800
pioneered and champion on these people. Janice is talking about

1356
01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:57.440
the workshop she just did. I mean, we just want to champion

1357
01:40:57.440 --> 01:41:00.400
and celebrate you in your journey and in your process

1358
01:41:00.400 --> 01:41:06.800
because we need that we need belonging community that we need

1359
01:41:06.800 --> 01:41:09.920
that especially in this season, man, we have never been more

1360
01:41:09.920 --> 01:41:14.320
isolated with a stupid COVID thing. So we're just like COVID

1361
01:41:14.320 --> 01:41:18.960
go back to hell where you came from a be gone. And it's just

1362
01:41:18.960 --> 01:41:23.720
like, it's real. And so we just, you know, we want to create the

1363
01:41:23.720 --> 01:41:27.360
safety of being seen and known and celebrated. And just to be

1364
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real, like, it's so empowering to me when I look at my heroes,

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01:41:31.320 --> 01:41:33.920
and they're vulnerable and real with their stories. I'm like, Oh

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01:41:33.920 --> 01:41:36.240
my god, I think you're superhuman. Why do we do that?

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01:41:36.240 --> 01:41:38.920
Why do we put people on a pedestal thinking that they are

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01:41:39.120 --> 01:41:41.800
Superman or superwoman, or they just don't struggle with that

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01:41:41.800 --> 01:41:44.560
anymore. And then they can be really real and vulnerable. And

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then you see their greatness. And then you see their real

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humanity. And you're like, right, we're all in this

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01:41:50.360 --> 01:41:55.120
together. And just like the was saying mirror declarations have

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changed my life. I speak to myself morning, noon and night

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01:41:59.600 --> 01:42:01.960
in the mirror, brushing my teeth, getting out of the

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shower, going to the bathroom. And I'm like, Hey, girl, what's

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01:42:04.280 --> 01:42:06.560
up? I love you. I believe in you. Oh, you're looking good

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01:42:06.560 --> 01:42:10.080
today. Yes, today's gonna be a good day. We're gonna crush it.

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01:42:10.080 --> 01:42:12.880
We're gonna kill it. And I could be feeling like, I just slept

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three hours. I am so tired. I can barely open my eyes. I'm

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01:42:16.080 --> 01:42:18.560
puffy face. I'm feeling insecure. I'm feeling swirly.

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01:42:18.680 --> 01:42:21.520
I'm feeling like 1000 emotions. And I'm like, hey, buttercup

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01:42:21.520 --> 01:42:25.440
right here. Hey, baby, right here. This is who we are. And I

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01:42:25.440 --> 01:42:30.560
speak to the destiny. I speak to the divine design. I call myself

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01:42:30.600 --> 01:42:34.040
everything that God has called me to be. You are a queen you

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are fill in the blanks. And it shifts something on the inside.

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And then I walk out of that bathroom. I'm like, yes, come

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into this little room. And I'm like, girl, we're owning today.

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We are owning it. You shift the energy and we need to do it

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01:42:47.800 --> 01:42:52.760
every day. And David, that's so cool. David talks about

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strengthening yourself in the Lord, we need to strengthen

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01:42:56.440 --> 01:42:59.040
ourself in the Lord, we get into the scriptures and into the

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01:42:59.040 --> 01:43:02.520
secret place. But it doesn't have to be over spiritualized.

1393
01:43:02.520 --> 01:43:05.480
Like there are real spiritual disciplines and practices of

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01:43:05.480 --> 01:43:13.760
soaking of prayer of worship of journaling of meditation. But

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01:43:13.760 --> 01:43:16.640
there can also be strengthening yourself in the Lord of doing

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01:43:16.640 --> 01:43:20.400
things that just bring life to your soul. And like looking in

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01:43:20.400 --> 01:43:24.080
the mirror and declaring that or yesterday, I had to get up off

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01:43:24.080 --> 01:43:26.360
this couch, I was working and I was like, I got to put on some

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01:43:26.360 --> 01:43:29.560
music and I got to start dancing around this living room. I got

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01:43:29.560 --> 01:43:33.640
to strengthen myself. I'm alone all the time. And as a creative

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01:43:33.680 --> 01:43:38.320
who is introverted, but also very extroverted. It stunts my

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01:43:38.320 --> 01:43:42.040
creative process when I'm just alone 24 seven. It literally I'm

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01:43:42.040 --> 01:43:46.880
like, I'm dying. I need human connection. And I'm dying. I'm a

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01:43:46.880 --> 01:43:49.880
dancer. And I'm like, I can't go to dance classes. I can't go to

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01:43:49.880 --> 01:43:52.920
the gym. There's so many restrictions with COVID vaccine

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01:43:52.920 --> 01:43:55.600
passwords, all this stuff. And I'm like, okay, I want to shift

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01:43:55.600 --> 01:43:57.560
the energy. I'm going to get up off this couch. I'm going to

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01:43:57.560 --> 01:44:01.560
play some music. I'm like, hey, hey, and just start dancing by

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01:44:01.560 --> 01:44:06.240
myself. To what to release creative energy, strengthen

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01:44:06.240 --> 01:44:09.960
myself in the Lord. So whatever that looks like for you to do

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01:44:09.960 --> 01:44:14.000
the things that spark energy in you. So we're going to land this

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we're going to come into pray. Janice, I saw you quickly lift

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01:44:17.520 --> 01:44:19.800
your hand. Do you have something quickly to say before we pray?

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I just wanted to say amen to what you were saying, because it

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made me think of when we eat three times a day, you know, or

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01:44:28.800 --> 01:44:32.080
we're throughout the day, or we take medicine, take three, take

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01:44:32.080 --> 01:44:34.280
it three times a day or whatever. So that is like the

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01:44:34.280 --> 01:44:36.920
perfect medicine and food for our souls of that looking in the

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01:44:36.920 --> 01:44:39.240
mirror three times a day, like you were talking about, it just

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made me think of that. Those little things, Benji talks about

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01:44:44.320 --> 01:44:49.120
this, which is just brilliant. Steps to transformation, five

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01:44:49.120 --> 01:44:51.840
steps to transformation, anything that you begin as a

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01:44:51.840 --> 01:44:55.160
practice becomes a habit, anything that you have as a

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01:44:55.160 --> 01:44:58.920
habit, then becomes a reflex, it becomes second nature, then what

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01:44:58.920 --> 01:45:00.120
becomes a reflex.

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01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:04.200
Flex becomes a lifestyle and what becomes a lifestyle becomes a state of being.

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So in your journey of, I want to be patient or creative, or, I mean, this

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01:45:10.360 --> 01:45:13.480
could be your emotional life, your spiritual life, your physical life,

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01:45:13.480 --> 01:45:17.560
your finances, your relationship, anything that you want to see part of

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01:45:17.560 --> 01:45:22.720
your life, part of your being part of your lifestyle, it needs to start

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01:45:22.720 --> 01:45:27.600
small and incremental for anything to be sustained for anything

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01:45:27.600 --> 01:45:29.520
to actually take root in you.

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So what's something small you can do one small practice.

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Okay.

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Every time you wash your hands after going to the bathroom, look at yourself

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01:45:36.720 --> 01:45:41.320
for 10 seconds and tell yourself one thing, remind yourself one thing of your

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01:45:41.320 --> 01:45:45.840
identity, and then just that one small practice then becomes a habit that every

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01:45:45.840 --> 01:45:49.040
time you're in the bathroom, you're like speaking to the mirror and then it

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01:45:49.040 --> 01:45:52.880
becomes a reflex every time you see your, your reflection, you're like, Hey girl.

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01:45:53.120 --> 01:45:54.480
Hey dude, what's up?

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01:45:54.640 --> 01:45:56.680
Hey, you know, or you do that.

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01:45:56.680 --> 01:45:58.440
And then it becomes part of your lifestyle.

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01:45:58.480 --> 01:46:03.280
You just are like, Oh yeah, I'm totally speaking truth and identity over myself.

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01:46:03.280 --> 01:46:04.160
This is just who I am.

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01:46:04.320 --> 01:46:05.760
Then it's a state of being.

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01:46:05.960 --> 01:46:10.400
You actually are so convinced you are so deeply rooted in your identity

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01:46:10.400 --> 01:46:11.480
and you know who you are.

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01:46:12.200 --> 01:46:13.560
That's just who you've become.

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01:46:13.600 --> 01:46:18.280
So anything that starts as a practice can become a habit, can become a

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01:46:18.280 --> 01:46:23.800
reflex, can become a lifestyle that becomes a state of being so that can be

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01:46:23.800 --> 01:46:25.240
applied to every area of your life.

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01:46:25.360 --> 01:46:26.680
And it's a game changer.

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01:46:27.080 --> 01:46:30.080
So we are going to pray my beautiful friends.

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01:46:30.720 --> 01:46:34.720
Um, we're going to pray for bravery and courage.

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01:46:34.800 --> 01:46:36.480
We're going to pray for creative expression.

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01:46:36.480 --> 01:46:39.080
We're going to pray that we would grow in our relationship with the

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01:46:39.080 --> 01:46:40.560
Lord, that we'd have fresh encounter.

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01:46:40.560 --> 01:46:42.920
We're going to pray for Janice's trip.

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01:46:43.640 --> 01:46:46.600
Um, we are going to pray, just trying to look here in the

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01:46:46.600 --> 01:46:48.280
chat, if there's anything else.

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01:46:48.320 --> 01:46:51.200
We're going to pray for Joe dare when praying for open doors, for

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01:46:51.200 --> 01:46:54.640
creative connections between the churches and our local communities.

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01:46:55.440 --> 01:46:57.400
Um, yeah.

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So, um, B and silent, do you want to just take one minute and pray for

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01:47:04.080 --> 01:47:07.400
something different and then I'll, I'll pray and kind of wrap it up.

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01:47:09.600 --> 01:47:13.400
And if any of you want to just take 30 seconds, um, we want to

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01:47:13.440 --> 01:47:14.760
not make this go too long.

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01:47:14.760 --> 01:47:18.640
So if there's something that you want to prepare 30 seconds, you can chime in

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01:47:18.640 --> 01:47:20.920
after silent and I'll end it.

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Yes.

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God, let's pray.

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Thank you for the, thank you for this amazing time we had show it's so, so

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01:47:35.280 --> 01:47:37.960
good to be with our brothers and sisters.

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01:47:39.400 --> 01:47:43.200
So today I just want to pray that you'll keep speaking to us or spirit

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01:47:43.200 --> 01:47:49.960
about who we truly are in you and that we will learn to enjoy every moment.

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01:47:50.120 --> 01:47:57.920
To enjoy every moment with you, every step of our journey that we will learn

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01:47:57.960 --> 01:48:04.160
to enjoy it with you, Lord, and that you are with us, you are in relationship

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01:48:04.200 --> 01:48:11.800
with the us now, and, um, I pray that, that you will empower us always spirit.

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01:48:11.800 --> 01:48:18.800
Also, as we grow every day, as we get closer to you, I pray that your light

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01:48:18.800 --> 01:48:27.160
will shine and will heal our wounds, our insecurity or whatever it is in us.

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01:48:27.240 --> 01:48:35.040
And yeah, I know you started a good work inside of all of us and you are so

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01:48:35.040 --> 01:48:37.640
faithful that you will finish it till the end.

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01:48:39.680 --> 01:48:42.920
And one day we will be with you and we will talk about all this.

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01:48:43.280 --> 01:48:48.000
We'll see you face to face and we will draw and paint and laugh and

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01:48:48.000 --> 01:48:57.960
sing and yeah, but I pray that as we are here on earth, that everything we

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01:48:57.960 --> 01:49:06.360
are will be an expression of, of, of who you are, of your goodness.

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01:49:06.360 --> 01:49:08.560
Also your beauty, your glory.

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01:49:09.040 --> 01:49:11.440
I pray that when they see us, they will see you.

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They will see your beauty.

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01:49:12.840 --> 01:49:20.320
They will see your, your mercy, your joy, your, your peace as people hangs out with

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01:49:20.320 --> 01:49:25.680
us, if we are the church, I pray that they will meet with you when they meet with us.

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Amen.

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01:49:30.720 --> 01:49:36.600
Father, we thank you for this beautiful time and, um, yes, Lord, we are so blessed

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01:49:36.600 --> 01:49:39.360
and encouraged by each of our lives.

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01:49:39.400 --> 01:49:48.080
And, um, father, God, we, uh, uh, pray that God, let the spirit of God help us to, to

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01:49:48.080 --> 01:49:55.800
see things as it is and, uh, um, help us to evolve Lord and surrender ourselves.

1497
01:49:56.680 --> 01:49:59.800
I don't know which part of, um.

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01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:08.160
which phase of the life we are in, but I know that Lord, you are in control of everything,

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01:50:08.160 --> 01:50:15.760
Father God, and I pray for each people who are present here, Father God, and I pray for your

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01:50:15.760 --> 01:50:23.120
shalom, your grace, and your guidance to come upon their lives, Father God. Every spirit of confusion

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01:50:23.120 --> 01:50:30.480
be removed by the blood of Yeshua. We speak clarity. We speak grace in Jesus' mighty name.

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01:50:30.480 --> 01:50:37.920
Oh, hallelujah. Father, we pray for your spirit of wisdom to guide us, Father God,

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01:50:37.920 --> 01:50:43.120
a spirit of wisdom to guide us, Father God. Every spirit of fear, we break it in Jesus' name.

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01:50:43.120 --> 01:50:50.640
Let us not fall into superiority complex or inferiority complex. Father God, help us to own

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01:50:50.640 --> 01:50:57.600
our identity, our creative expression, Father God. Is there anything that is not aligning with

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01:50:57.600 --> 01:51:02.800
your will, with your love, with your truth, Father God? Help us to surrender ourselves, to have

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01:51:03.440 --> 01:51:13.040
a posture of humility, Father God, and evolve ourselves, and through this journey,

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01:51:13.040 --> 01:51:19.120
through this process, help us to love ourselves the way you love ourselves, Father God, and

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01:51:21.600 --> 01:51:27.280
the way you love us, Father God. Help us to see things in clarity, Father God. I pray for divine

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01:51:27.280 --> 01:51:35.360
vision, divine skills, and divine sensibility in Jesus' mighty name, Father God, and I pray for,

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01:51:35.360 --> 01:51:42.160
especially for Fi and all the people in Madagascar, Father God, we pray for your grace and your

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01:51:42.160 --> 01:51:49.360
comfort, Father God, and there are people who are struggling there and lost their homes and families,

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01:51:49.360 --> 01:51:54.880
and Father, we pray for your grace to come and visit that nation, heal that nation, and restore

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01:51:54.880 --> 01:51:59.840
that nation, Father God. Thank you for protecting Fi and his family and friends, Father God. We pray

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01:51:59.840 --> 01:52:05.440
for your grace to come upon Madagascar, Father God, and all the people from all over the world,

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01:52:05.440 --> 01:52:12.400
Father, wherever they are, we speak shalom, we speak grace upon their lives, Father God, and

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01:52:12.960 --> 01:52:19.200
help us, help us to grow in you, Father God, in your love and your light and your

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01:52:19.200 --> 01:52:22.960
life. We give all the glory and honor to you, Jesus. Amen.

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01:52:32.160 --> 01:52:39.040
Yeah, Father, we just, we just take a breath now. I just want to invite you guys just to take a

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01:52:39.040 --> 01:52:43.120
breath in, just take a few deep breaths in. We just breathe you in, Father.

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01:52:47.600 --> 01:52:52.480
We acknowledge your presence, Holy Spirit, that lives on the inside of us. We acknowledge you,

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01:52:52.480 --> 01:53:01.280
Jesus. We want to live from a place of rest. We want to live from a place of abiding in you.

1523
01:53:01.440 --> 01:53:04.480
John 15, we abide in you.

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01:53:07.280 --> 01:53:13.360
Apart from you, we can do nothing. So we want to find our rest and our connection and our abiding

1525
01:53:13.360 --> 01:53:21.280
in the Father, in Jesus. And I just ask that that nutrients, that nurture from your voice,

1526
01:53:21.280 --> 01:53:26.720
from your presence, from your love, would fill us and it would bear fruit in us. It would release

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01:53:27.120 --> 01:53:34.080
flourishing and blossoming and confidence and bravery and courage. Father, right now, in the

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01:53:34.080 --> 01:53:39.440
name of Jesus, I ask that you would release your voice and your presence and your manifest

1529
01:53:40.320 --> 01:53:47.360
goodness, your tangible presence in each one of us right now. You see us, you know us, you know

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01:53:47.360 --> 01:53:52.400
our stories, you know our journeys, you know what we're wrestling through, you know our process.

1531
01:53:52.480 --> 01:53:58.240
You know what we're wrestling through, you know our process. And I ask for every spiritual

1532
01:53:58.240 --> 01:54:05.120
blessing in Christ to be released to every man and woman who is watching live and who is watching on

1533
01:54:05.120 --> 01:54:10.640
the replay. Father, would you release your glory, your goodness, your healing, your deliverance,

1534
01:54:11.280 --> 01:54:18.240
your empowering presence, your grace, your mercy, your creativity, your prospering, your resources,

1535
01:54:18.240 --> 01:54:24.960
your strengthening. God, would you come upon us, would you, like a fountain of joy on the inside,

1536
01:54:24.960 --> 01:54:30.720
would you bubble up within us fresh joy, the joy that renews us, that strengthens us,

1537
01:54:31.920 --> 01:54:38.320
that gives us new clarity. God, we just thank you for each person. I ask for divine connections

1538
01:54:38.320 --> 01:54:45.680
in this season, amazing strategic friends, connections online, offline, and new inspiration,

1539
01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:52.400
dreams and visions, fresh download, prophetic awakening. God, would you do something supernatural,

1540
01:54:52.400 --> 01:54:59.920
something sweet and spiritual in our lives. God, powerful. Would you continue to awaken us from our

1541
01:55:00.000 --> 01:55:07.600
Conditioned self and lead us into our true authentic version of ourself lead us into our promised land lead us into flourishing

1542
01:55:08.480 --> 01:55:15.760
God, I I ask for there to be such a shift that we would be brought from death into life from darkness into light

1543
01:55:16.160 --> 01:55:22.320
With where there's confusion where there's been spiraling where there's been depression and anxiety and fear where there's been mental

1544
01:55:22.720 --> 01:55:27.360
And emotional spiritual battles. We just declare the battle belongs to the lord

1545
01:55:27.840 --> 01:55:34.400
I ask that you would release spirits and ministering spirits angels god release angels to ascend and descend

1546
01:55:35.120 --> 01:55:41.120
God with fresh impartation. We just say yes to a fresh impartation from the lord

1547
01:55:42.320 --> 01:55:49.760
We receive from you. We open up to you god. We receive you we come like little children and we run to our father

1548
01:55:50.880 --> 01:55:52.880
We run to our father

1549
01:55:53.280 --> 01:55:55.440
Come and be everything that we need you to be

1550
01:55:57.600 --> 01:56:01.120
Yeah, come and cover us thinking that love covers that there's

1551
01:56:01.760 --> 01:56:07.120
Perfect love that casts out of fear that there's nothing we could do that would make you love us more or less

1552
01:56:07.680 --> 01:56:12.080
And the one who knows us best is the one who loves us the most

1553
01:56:12.880 --> 01:56:17.520
The one who knows us best is the one who loves us the most so we just say

1554
01:56:18.160 --> 01:56:20.900
Would you pour out your love? Would you give us awareness?

1555
01:56:21.680 --> 01:56:26.880
Of your love of your presence with us in the mundane in every moment in every detail

1556
01:56:27.600 --> 01:56:32.560
Would we feel the favor of god the favor of man increase in our life?

1557
01:56:32.560 --> 01:56:36.480
Would we feel you awaken something beautiful in us today?

1558
01:56:36.960 --> 01:56:40.000
Every good and perfect gift comes from the father of light

1559
01:56:40.080 --> 01:56:45.840
So we just say father of lights come release gifts and surprises come release. Um

1560
01:56:46.720 --> 01:56:53.780
Gifts to us god today set your children up for success lead us into our promised land lead us into awakening

1561
01:56:54.740 --> 01:56:59.860
Yeah, and I just want to pray over you janice we just say uh father would you

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01:57:00.660 --> 01:57:03.300
Bless her as she goes on this. Um

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01:57:04.100 --> 01:57:08.900
I think it's a trip that you're going on right? Yeah your trip to nashville in in march father

1564
01:57:08.900 --> 01:57:15.540
Would you go before her? Would you prepare the way would you bring alignment, uh to this divine assignment and joe?

1565
01:57:15.540 --> 01:57:19.860
We just we just declare over you connections open doors

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01:57:20.260 --> 01:57:26.500
Um between the churches and your local communities that there would be friendship there would be family there would be tribe there would be an openness

1567
01:57:26.980 --> 01:57:31.060
Um, there would be open hearts to receive from one another to connect with one another

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01:57:31.860 --> 01:57:33.860
Yeah

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01:57:33.860 --> 01:57:38.980
And we just say yes to being courageous and brave in every part of our life and god

1570
01:57:38.980 --> 01:57:42.360
Thank you for fresh anointing to own our personal identity

1571
01:57:42.980 --> 01:57:48.740
And to walk out our personal artistic expression. Would you release fresh creativity in jesus name?

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01:57:49.540 --> 01:57:53.460
Yeah liberation awakening and freedom to every part of our being

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01:57:54.100 --> 01:57:59.140
We just say yes to love in jesus name. Amen. Wow. Amen

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01:58:00.260 --> 01:58:02.260
Yeah, thank you guys so much

1575
01:58:02.340 --> 01:58:04.340
Oh, we love you so much

1576
01:58:04.420 --> 01:58:09.620
We love you. We love you. We love you. We're so glad you're here such a gift to do this together

1577
01:58:10.500 --> 01:58:11.540
Yay

1578
01:58:11.540 --> 01:58:13.540
Yeah, so bless you

1579
01:58:13.700 --> 01:58:19.300
Much love to you. We'll be emailing you and letting you know when our next chat is in february. Um

1580
01:58:20.260 --> 01:58:21.300
Yeah

1581
01:58:21.300 --> 01:58:24.740
We just hope and pray you have an amazing weekend wherever you are in the world

1582
01:58:26.020 --> 01:58:29.780
And to you to continue to dance with the lord even you're living

1583
01:58:31.780 --> 01:58:33.780
So crazy

1584
01:58:38.260 --> 01:58:40.580
Um, bye guys, love you, bye guys

1585
01:58:43.700 --> 01:58:48.500
Bye darling. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye everyone. Have a great day. Bye

1586
01:58:49.540 --> 01:58:51.540
Bye, bro. Take care

1587
01:58:52.340 --> 01:58:53.860
Bye

1588
01:58:53.860 --> 01:58:55.540
Hi janice

1589
01:58:55.540 --> 01:58:57.540
There are a lot of

1590
01:58:57.860 --> 01:59:00.180
New people are here. We just want to say yes

1591
01:59:00.740 --> 01:59:04.740
Yeah, bye. Bye everyone. Yes, all the people that have joined us. We love you

1592
01:59:05.460 --> 01:59:07.460
Yeah, i'm glad to be here

1593
01:59:08.340 --> 01:59:10.340
Come join us

1594
01:59:10.340 --> 01:59:12.340
Bye bye

1595
01:59:12.340 --> 01:59:16.740
Bye. Bye everyone. Bye. Bye. Bye

1596
01:59:17.780 --> 01:59:19.780
everyone

1597
01:59:20.740 --> 01:59:22.740
Again bye. Bye