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Hello and welcome to this live reading of the science of dreams. My name is

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Benji Alexander and I'm the author of the science of dreams. I'm from New

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Zealand and it's a great honor to have you joining me as we read this book

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together live. So let's jump right in and begin. Chapter one, the struggle is real.

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Extreme ownership. At the age of 14 Marina collected a lethal dose of

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mercury. This would be the day that she would die. She was on her way to finish a

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job that she had already attempted twice before. She was about to drink her lethal

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supply of mercury and end her life. She had done her research. There was no way

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that she could fail this time. On her way to drink the mercury she was interrupted

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by a girl from her school who invited her to come to church. Marina had never

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been to church. She lived in Tajikistan, a Muslim country. Her family was not

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religious. She had no concept of what God might be like and she wasn't

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searching. She had other things on her mind. Specifically she did not want to

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attempt suicide again. She wanted to do the job right. This would be the day that

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she died. For some reason she said yes to the girl thinking that she could kill

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herself after going to church. She doesn't remember very much of the service

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that day. What she remembers is that she had a tangible supernatural encounter

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with the love of God and experienced a love that she had never known before.

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Marina was the oldest of three siblings. Their apartment had one bedroom and one

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other room for everything else. She had a younger brother and a younger sister. Her

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sister was a full sister. Her brother was a half-brother. Her older full sister

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died as a baby. Her real dad had left them when she was very young. She barely

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ever saw him. Her stepdad was not abusive. He was reasonably kind when he was

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present, but that wasn't often. Between his addiction to alcohol and his regular

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trips to prison, she only saw him occasionally before he left for good.

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Her mother worked as a prostitute for the Russian mafia. Her home was a brothel.

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Marina tried to look after her younger brother and sister and keep them feeling

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safe when men were with their mum or other woman in the bedroom next to them.

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It regularly got violent. There were often multiple men in the room. They

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would beat and abuse her mother on a regular basis. Marina's mum turned to

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alcohol as a coping mechanism. She would get very drunk and violent. She beat

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Marina brutally. Marina still has physical scars from her childhood

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beatings. When she left home, she was known as the daughter of a prostitute.

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Her and her siblings were abused, attacked and mocked. She had to fight

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constantly. She had to fight to protect herself. She had to fight to protect her

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siblings. At home, she fought to survive. Out of home, she fought to survive.

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Everywhere she went, there was abuse and chaos. But that day in church, a

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supernatural, divine love, like nothing she had ever experienced or even

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imagined, flooded her heart and launched her on her very first steps of a

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beautiful transformational journey. She cancelled her planned suicide. Instead, she

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slowly began to develop a relationship with this God who was the source of this

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mysterious but wonderful divine love. Eventually, her mum's body gave out on

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her. With no money to go to the hospital, they watched her deteriorate before

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their own eyes. Marina held her own mother as blood flowed from every part

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of her body and she died in her arms. Marina narrowly avoided being raped and

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trafficked. Her brother was unjustly put in prison as a teenager. Traffickers took

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her sister. Her sister eventually escaped, only to be trafficked again and escape

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again. Her biological dad also died several years after her mum. Marina

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battled poverty, doing everything she could to provide for her family.

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Despite the chaos all around her, the hand of God was on Marina and a deep work was taking

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place inside her.

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A truly unexpected adventure with Jesus was about to begin that no one could have imagined.

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The struggle is real.

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Marina's struggles, my struggles, your struggles.

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Some people say, that's just life for you, but that's not life at all.

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That is destruction.

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That is what happens when satanic assignments and the giants of darkness are ruling over

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our lives.

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Life, the divine life that God designed for us, is exceedingly, abundantly, above and

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beyond what we have ever dared to ask, dream, pray, or even imagine.

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The life God has promised us involves ruling and reigning in victory over every scheme

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of Satan and every giant of darkness as we step deeper and deeper into the destiny that

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God orchestrated for us before the foundation of the world.

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What Marina went through, and often times what we go through, is not the life that God

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designed for us.

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Yes, we go through many struggles, trials, and tribulations caused by satanic assignments

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against our lives that seek to rob, kill, and destroy us and our God-given destiny.

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But the divine life that God designed for you and I is a life of victory over every

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struggle.

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In this book, The Science of Dreams, I am going to expose the four satanic assignments

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and the four giants of darkness that brutally and systematically come after every single

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one of us, and I'm going to reveal the four ancient weapons from heaven that will empower

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us to slay these giants, live victoriously, and bring our wildest dreams to life.

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These four weapons from heaven are the four non-negotiable elements in The Science of

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Dreams.

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Any person who masters The Science of Dreams unlocks a world where they not only live in

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victory over the enemy, but they tap into a realm where they can consistently dream

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with God and systematically and consistently bring those dreams to life.

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This is a sacred realm, an ancient biblical way of living that is far higher, more beautiful,

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more exhilarating, more glorious, more impacting, and more significant than most people have

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ever dared to imagine for themselves.

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It is the life that we are called to live in.

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It is our birthright and our inheritance, but it seems these ancient pathways are seldom

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walked in our generation.

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But God is inviting us to travel these ancient pathways once again.

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Jeremiah 6, 16,

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I've got to say, there are a lot of buts in this process.

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Marina had a lot of buts, a lot of excuses, and a lot of justifications that could have

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turned her into a victim for the rest of her life.

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She had every reason to become a person who was focused on what she couldn't control instead

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of focusing on what she could control.

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She did something extremely rare.

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Marina did the most powerful thing that she could possibly have done.

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She took extreme ownership of her own life.

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She refused to play the blame game, blaming everyone in her life for her problems, her

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mom, her dad, her stepdad, her circumstances, her trauma, her past, her...

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She began to focus on any and every tiny thing that she could control.

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Her attitudes, her mindsets, her skill sets, her work ethic, her faith, her health, her

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relationships, her identity, her assignment, her vision, her systems, her finances.

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She implemented the science of dreams.

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And little by little, breakthrough by breakthrough, she redesigned herself.

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and her life, and she has become a giant slayer, living victoriously, bringing massive dreams

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to life and impacting people all over the world.

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The struggle is real, the satanic assignments are real, the giants of darkness are real,

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but what is infinitely more powerful than all of our adversaries and obstacles combined

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is our power to choose.

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To choose whether we will focus on what we can't control and become victims, or to focus

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on what we can control and become giant slayers.

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Practically, taking extreme ownership looks like assessing every area of our lives and

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genuinely asking ourselves if we are truly happy with how things are.

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And if there's anything that we want to see an upgrade on in our lives, we must forget

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everyone else, forget our circumstances and ask ourselves, what can we possibly do to

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begin to see change in this area of our lives?

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Then, with all of our hearts, our strength, our capacity and tenacity, we must do whatever

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it takes to make those changes.

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It's not a popular thing to talk about, it's confronting, which is offensive to a culture

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that has mastered the arts of avoiding pain, justifying bad habits, attitudes, lifestyles

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and living in distraction, procrastination and apathy.

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I started with Marina's story and the topic of extreme ownership because this book is

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not a magic pill.

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Yes, it has mind-blowing, life-changing content, but the content in this book is like a seed

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that must be watered with extreme ownership, hard work, a relentless resolve and great

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courage.

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Regardless of how painful or hard that may be, there is no other road that will awaken

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the giant slayer in you and set you on the ancient path of your destiny.

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Even now, you must choose the wide road of the victim, where you can blame-shift, moan,

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justify, avoid pain, avoid hard work and avoid sacrifice, but ultimately forfeit the wildly

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exciting call of God on your life and live conquered by satanic assignments and giants

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of darkness.

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Or embrace the narrow road, where you take extreme ownership over every area of your

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life, where you embrace the wildly exciting call of God on your life regardless of the

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cost, where you embrace the sacrifice, the hard work, the vulnerable self-reflection,

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the pain and the fire in the process, but where you ultimately emerge like steel forged

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in the flames of heaven, a giant slayer victorious over all the schemes of the enemy and living

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out your wildest dreams.

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If you're not ready for the narrow road, you'll get good information from this book, but you'll

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lack the fortitude to implement it, so you'll never walk in the power of the secrets I'm

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about to reveal.

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If you are ready for the narrow road, then brace yourself to be challenged to the core,

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inspired into a world of the wonders of God and equipped to wield four ancient heavenly

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weapons that are guaranteed to slay giants of darkness and empower you for a life of

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victory and fulfilled dreams.

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If you do not master the art of wielding all four of these heavenly weapons, then you will

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never overcome the satanic assignments against your life and you will never taste the limitless

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possibilities available for you in Christ Jesus.

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This is not the only moment you must make this choice.

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This choice of embracing the cost of the narrow road and the call of God must be made over

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and over again, day after day.

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Matthew 7, 13 to 14.

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Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads

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to destruction, and many enter through it.

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But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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But it always starts with one decision.

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So I ask you and I challenge you, just as God asks me and challenges me over and over

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again, will you say yes to the narrow road?

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Will you embrace

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extreme ownership? Will you do whatever it takes to slay the giants of darkness that are coming

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after you so that you can be victorious over the satanic assignments against your life and step

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into the limitless possibilities available in Christ as you live out a calling more exciting

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than your wildest dreams? I'm not talking about average Christianity that you've seen modeled.

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I'm talking about stepping into a life and a world more glorious, wonderful, powerful,

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and exhilarating than most people would ever dare to ask, dream, pray for, or even imagine.

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If the narrow road is for you, then get ready for a journey that will give you ancient biblical

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keys to a destiny that God saw before time when he unleashed his limitless power to dream the best

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for you. I'll close this chapter with this thought. In over a decade of pastoring and running a

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biblical training school, I've seen few people so completely and so beautifully transformed,

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set ablaze, and unleashed on the world as Marina. Yes, our training, culture, relationship, and love

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were a significant help in the process for her, but some people in the same environment

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experienced little transformation because they were not ready to say yes to the narrow road

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that Jesus was calling them to. What will you choose? If you are ready for the narrow road,

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this next chapter will blow open the doors, gates, and windows into the limitless possibilities

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available in Christ. I look forward to sharing this adventure together, my friend. Let's go.

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Chapter two, the seedbed of dreams, the divine dance.

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One of the most loved Psalms in the Bible is Psalm 37, specifically in verse four,

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delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Everyone likes the

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promise, he will give you the desires of your heart, but there is also a hidden invitation

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from God and the command that beckons us nearer, closer, and deeper into relationship with him.

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Delight yourself in the Lord. Our delight in the Lord is the ceiling on our dreams. The deeper we

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dive into the realms of delight, the more limitless our dreams become. To grasp the power of Psalm 37,

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verse four, we must travel back in time to before time began, back to before the beginning. Before

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time began, there was God. For centuries, church fathers and theologians have used the Greek word

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perichoresis to describe a snapshot of this dynamic reality. Before time began, there was God,

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the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Perichoresis is most simply translated

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and described as the divine dance. Imagine with me if you can. All that exists is the Father,

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the Son, and the Holy Spirit, dancing together in a seamless, harmonious union, infused perfectly

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with the most dynamic, powerful, extravagant, wild, gentle, and exquisite expressions of love

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that have ever and will ever exist. Culminating in the most abundant and glorious demonstrations

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of delight that have ever and will ever be known. Imagine with me, if you will, the fullness of the

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infinite power of God, concentrated into one giant laser cannon of pure, supernatural, divine love,

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so wonderful that words could never hope to articulate even a single percentage of its

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unspeakable, unfathomable goodness, warmth, kindness, wonders, ecstasy, bliss, euphoria, happiness, joy,

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and delight. Now, imagine with me God the Father turning that giant laser cannon of divine love

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on Jesus and blasting him absolutely with everything it had, holding nothing back,

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completely unleashing the entirety of his divine love on his Son. Imagine Jesus being

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hit with this laser cannon of love more powerful than a million bolts.

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of lightning love, except these intense beams of love

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are not actually coming from a cannon,

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rather they are coming from the Father's eyes.

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And every glance of His eyes is like a thousand waterfalls

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of love, like lightning, like fire, like oil,

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like being consumed in an ocean of divine love.

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As Jesus is hit by the Father's gaze,

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everything slows down.

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The love that comes from His eyes

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is softer than silk, but stronger than steel.

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It's the most gentle love there has ever been,

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yet it's the greatest force in existence.

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It is calming and soothing, yet it

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is a raging fire of love that consumes

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every aspect of His entire being.

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It is an intense encounter, yet it

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is in perfect harmony with the most eloquent dance that

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has ever been danced.

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Then Jesus turns His gaze, which is just as intense

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and powerful, on Holy Spirit.

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Holy Spirit turns His equally intense gaze upon Jesus,

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then on the Father, and they relentlessly

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throughout eternity blast each other

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with the purest, most extravagant, most

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overwhelming measures of divine love

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that have ever and will ever exist.

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I am aiming to help you capture the wonder of the divine dance.

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It's an indescribable, unbroken cycle

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of the most flawless and spectacular masterpieces

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of love in all creation and beyond.

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It's perpetual expressions of divine love

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that never flinch, never relent, and never

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reduce in their intensity or consistency.

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Each member of the Trinity receives this divine love

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perfectly and gives perfect expression of this divine love

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to the other members of the Trinity

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in the most creative, the most outrageously abundant,

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and the most excellent ways divinely conceivable.

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is an explosion of the most mind-bending expressions

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of love divinely conceivable.

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Each member of the Trinity pours out

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the fullness of their power.

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They hold absolutely nothing back,

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but spend themselves entirely in their exuberant, extravagant,

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heartfelt expressions of love that they

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lavish on one another.

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that the Trinity conceived one of the most powerful ideas

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that they have ever had.

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That idea was you.

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The original idea that they had was

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that they would create you to be a perfect dance partner.

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Created with the capacity to participate equally

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in the dance, they created you in their image

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so that you would be fully capable of participating

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perfectly in perichoresis.

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I want you to imagine with me again.

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This time, you are the object of the Trinity's affection.

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The gaze of divine love is fixed on you.

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all three of the Trinity unleash the fullness of their love

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and utterly baptize you in the most glorious expression of love

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that you have ever tasted in your life.

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You can literally taste it.

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Supernatural love has entirely consumed you.

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You can see it wrapping around your body like flames

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and arcing bolts of electrical current.

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You can hear it pulsating and reverberating

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through every cell in your being, body, soul, and spirit.

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You can taste it with every cell in your body.

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the entire atmosphere.

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Speechless, you collapse in the most blissful, gentle,

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multidimensional, paradoxical state of your life.

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You never felt so peaceful, yet you

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feel like 1,000 waterfalls of pure love

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are crashing over you every second.

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You feel freedom like never before,

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but you feel the vaults of a million bolts of lightning

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love zinging through your entire being.

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You feel like you're walking with God

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in the cool of the day, except that you've never

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been so ablaze with the fires of love.

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You feel like you're walking on water,

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but at the same time, you feel like you're swimming

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in an ocean of divine love.

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And liquid love is flowing right through you.

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Everything is quiet, but the love of God

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is like thunder in your heart.

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You can't even walk, yet somehow you can dance.

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And carried by the Spirit, you rise and take

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your place that was prepared for you before time began.

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Flowing effortlessly with the rhythms of the Trinity

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as you receive and express divine love.

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timeless realm of intimacy, oneness, ecstasy,

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and unrelenting waves of pure divine love.

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When Psalm 37 verse four talks about

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delighting yourself in the Lord,

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that's a tiny snapshot with plenty of poetic license

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into what it looks like to delight yourself in the Lord.

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Delight is the pinnacle expression of what love looks like.

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The purest expression and definition of love

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can only be beheld in the smiles

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and in the eyes of the Trinity

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as they radiate and blaze divine delight with every gaze

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as they come face to face with each other

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and face to face with us.

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spirit to spirit embrace,

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a supernatural love is found that permeates

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the very fabric of our being.

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It is absolutely critical that we do not dilute

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this definition of delight.

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Regardless of our personal disappointments,

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disconnection, or frustrations,

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we must never allow our experiences

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to pollute our definition of the timeless,

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infinite beauty, intensity, holiness,

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and extravagance of divine love.

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We must not water down it's divinely over the top nature

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or falsely define this loving delight

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as anything less than the mind-blowingly glorious wonder

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that it is because if we do,

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we will shut down our capacity to dream with God.

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Participating seamlessly and effortlessly

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in perichoresis, the divine dance,

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has always been the original design for your life.

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Seamless union in the divine dance

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is the greatest place of alignment

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that you could ever find yourself in.

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The ultimate calling on your life

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far beyond doing things or working for God

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has always been to be perfectly, radically,

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extravagantly, outrageously, wildly,

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crazily loved by the Trinity.

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The ultimate call of God on your life

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is to be loved by the Trinity

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with the exact same intensity

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with which they love each other.

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Delight yourself in the Lord

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looks like participating in the divine dance

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as an equal dance partner.

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That place right there,

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that place of delighting yourself in the Lord

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as you receive divine love perfectly

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and give perfect expression to divine love,

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that is the seedbed of dreams.

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In the context of the divine dance,

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the limitless possibilities available to us in Christ

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are awakened.

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The seeds of greatness and destiny germinate

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and the potential to walk in the fullness

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of God's divine design for our lives

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is conceived and begins to sparkle, breathe, and exhale.

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Jesus always had this longing

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for seamless union and oneness with us.

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He says it best in John 17, 20 to 24.

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My prayer is not for them alone.

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I pray also for those who will believe in me

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through their message,

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that all of them may be one.

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Father, just as you are in me and I am in you,

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may they also be in us

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so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

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I have given them the glory that you gave me

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that they may be one as we are one.

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I in them and you in me

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so that they may be brought to complete unity.

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Then the world will know that you sent me

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and have loved them even as you have loved me.

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Father, I want those you have given me

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to be with me where I am and to see my glory,

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the glory you have given me

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because you love me before the creation of the world.

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This scripture is priceless beyond words.

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It reveals so much of the heart of the Father,

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specifically that he loves us

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with the exact same intensity of love

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that he has for Jesus.

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the Trinity only has one volume

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and it is eternally stuck on maximum.

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There was a long time in my life that I simply could not believe that was possible.

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I had no concept at all of the divine dance.

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Despite growing up in the church, a missionary kid, born on the mission field in the jungle

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of Indonesia, my parents returned home to New Zealand when I was two and they became

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pastors.

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I grew up in the church, my first proper job was working for a church.

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But I had no idea that it was possible to practically and supernaturally experience

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the love of God.

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In fact, I strongly believed that I was unworthy of any such love.

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It was only through the beautiful journey of discovering Sonship that I was able to

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awaken to and begin to participate in the priceless love found in the divine dance

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for myself.

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Sonship is a generic gender neutral term that speaks of our spiritual identity and it applies

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equally to men and women.

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I have extensive training available on Sonship and how to go on your own beautiful journey

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into the bliss of Sonship.

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It is one of the most significant and powerful journeys that any person can ever go on.

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Although it is foundational to participating in the divine dance, it is not the focus of

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this book.

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I have a lot of free resources available for you that will help you go on your own beautiful

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journey into the bliss of Sonship.

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I do recommend the 3 day Royal Challenge as a great place to start.

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That short course is completely free and it even includes a free gift of my $375 School

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of Sonship which will be priceless in the process of discovering how to live in the

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divine dance for yourself.

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Here's the link to click on.

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Just type in www.raisingroyalteecourse.com forward slash jump hyphen on hyphen board.

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That's www.raisingroyalteecourse.com forward slash jump hyphen on hyphen board.

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This passage in Ephesians 3 captures the heart of God beautifully.

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Pay special attention to verse 19.

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In this passage Paul highlights that our whole Christian journey is to be founded and grounded

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on a supernatural, tangible, practical experience of God's love that trumps a theory of God's

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love any day.

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Having lived on both sides of this promise, I know that nothing compares to living in

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the fruition of what Paul is describing here.

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Ephesians 3 17 to 21.

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May Christ through your faith actually dwell, settle down, abide, make his permanent home

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in your hearts.

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May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, that you may have the power

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and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints, God's devoted people, the

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experience of that love.

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What is the breadth and length and height and depth of it?

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This is verse 19.

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That you may really come to know practically through experience for yourselves the love

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of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience.

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That you may be filled through all your being unto all the fullness of God and may have

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the richest measure of the divine presence and become a body wholly filled and flooded

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with God himself.

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Now to him who by and in consequence of the action of his power that is at work within

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us is able to carry out his purpose and do super abundantly far over and above all that

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we dare ask or think infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes

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or dreams.

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To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and

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ever.

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Amen.

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So be it.

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This place of intimacy in the divine dance, receiving and expressing divine love in all

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its fullness, is the seedbed of dreams.

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To the same degree that we dive into this limitless, limitless, limitless, limitless

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world of love.

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love, we will be empowered to dream limitless dreams with God. Our delight in

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To the same degree that we dive into this limitless, limitless, limitless, limitless,

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God is either the ceiling on our dreams or the supernatural key that will unlock

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the capacity within us to step into a limitless realm of dreaming with God.

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Matthew 17 5, the message. This is my Son, marked by my love, focus of my delight.

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Whether you are aware of it or not, you were marked by God's love when he

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conceived the idea of you in his imagination before the foundation of the

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world. You have always been and you will always be the immovable focus of his

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delight. His invitation to you is to take your place and join the Trinity in the

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everlasting divine dance. This has always been their desire and their plan and it

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will always remain God's steadfast longing to share with us the greatest

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expressions of love and intimacy possible. Ephesians 1 4 to 6, and he

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chose us to be his very own, joining us to himself even before he laid the

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foundation of the universe. Because of his great love, he ordained us so that we

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would be seen as holy in his eyes with an unstained innocence. For it was always

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in his perfect plan to adopt us as his delightful children through our union

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with Jesus, the Anointed One, so that his tremendous love that cascades over us

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would glorify his grace for the same love he has for his beloved one Jesus he

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has for us. And this unfolding plan brings him great pleasure. Regardless of

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how this chapter has impacted you, you must now make a decision. Whether it

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frustrated you, brought up painful thoughts, inspired you, or completely set

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you ablaze with exhilarating excitement, or whether it bored you, you must make a

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decision that will shape the rest of your life. Will you dance or not? Maybe

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you have no idea how to dance with the Trinity and that language sounds too

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mysterious for you. Maybe, like me, you grew up with religion and didn't even

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know it was possible to experience the supernatural love of God. Maybe that was

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one of the most beautiful things you've ever heard in your life and you are in

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full swing dancing with the Trinity right now. Maybe you are in your own

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unique space right now. Wherever you are at, you must still decide. Will you dance

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or not? For some that will be effortless, for others it will take the journey of a

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lifetime to get back to what God designed for you before time began. For

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everyone that will be dynamic and as unique as our own fingerprints. If your

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answer is no, you don't want that, then I pray that one day you will reconsider

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because the consequence is that you have just cut yourself off from the

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fullness of your own destiny. The Trinity will be waiting for you with an open

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invitation to dance when the time comes, but don't take too long. As Leonard

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Ravenhill says, the opportunity of a lifetime must be seized within the

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lifetime of the opportunity. Some people reading this will, or hearing this, will

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doubt this type of life is even possible. Some will believe it is actually

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possible for some people, just not for them. If that's you, that's okay, but I

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want to ask you to ask yourself this. Hypothetically speaking, if it was

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possible to experience that type of seamless union and extravagant love in

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your relationship with God, would you want it? Because if there's even a thin

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slice of desire in you for any dream in your future, then this book will be

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absolutely priceless for you as we break the silence on the science of dreams. Get

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ready to discover how to master the four ancient...

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weapons from heaven that will empower you to live victoriously over the four

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satanic assignments against your life so that you can truly start to dream with

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God and start living out your wildest dreams. Chapter 3, Dreaming with God. The

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Enemy in the Shadows. On the 4th of August 1987, Joy White and Carl Tyson

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took their 19 day old daughter, Carlina White, to the Harlem Hospital Center in

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Manhattan with a fever. They were not aware that for the previous three weeks

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a lady named Anne Petway had been disguising herself as a nurse at the

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hospital and looking for an opportunity to meet a desperate need. Several

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miscarriages had deeply scarred Anne Petway and traumatized her with the

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belief that she may never have her own child. This fear produced a desperate

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need that drew her to the Harlem Hospital Center with a dark agenda. On

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the very same night that Joy, Carlina and Carl arrived, Anne was also watching and

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waiting. Sometime between 2.30 a.m. and 3.55 a.m. Anne Petway removed Carlina's

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IV line and abducted her. From that moment the mysterious lady in the

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nurse's uniform and Carlina White simply vanished. There were no clues, there was

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no trail to follow, Carlina was gone and all that was left for Joy and Carl was

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the emotional debris left by the tornado of pain that had just crashed

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through their world. Like Joy and Carl, most of us are unaware that in

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the shadows of our lives, watching our every move, there are evil forces

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commissioned with a satanic assignment designed to abort, abduct and through any

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necessary means possible, destroy the call of God and the divine destiny upon

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our lives. There are four satanic assignments commissioned against every

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person's destiny and calling and four giants of darkness mobilized to enforce

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those satanic assignments. In this book, The Science of Dreams, I will uncover the

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non-negotiable elements to The Science of Dreams, which are in fact four ancient

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weapons from heaven that will enable any person to live victoriously, to dream

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with God and to begin walking in the fruition of their wildest dreams. These

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are not simply good ideas, they are weapons from heaven that have proven

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themselves for millennia. The Science of Dreams is not a scientific theory, it is

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a combination of dynamic, biblical, spiritual, divine facts, principles and

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promises that have shaped the destiny of humanity since before the beginning. In

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fact, whether you are aware of it or not, your understanding and implementation of

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or lack of understanding and implementation of The Science of Dreams

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is exactly what has shaped every detail of the reality that you are living in

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right now. There are absolutely no shortcuts or free passes into the fullness

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of the divine design for your life and to the same degree that you master The

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Science of Dreams, you will walk in the infinite possibilities available in

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Christ Jesus. Any person who discovers, implements and masters these four

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weapons from heaven that combine to form The Science of Dreams will go far beyond

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simply defeating the giants of darkness mobilized against them. They will be

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empowered to live a life where they dream limitless dreams with God and

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consistently redefine normal, reality and possibility as they walk into the

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fruition of dreams that were once beyond their wildest imagination. Just as Joy

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and Carl were blindsided and all their dreams of a life with Carlina were

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ruthlessly stolen, we all face an enemy that wants to abort our capacity to

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dream with God or abduct and destroy any and every dream that we have ever carried.

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enemy is motivated by pure fear. Darkness can't rest for the terror that plagues it

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and causes it to relentlessly harass and abuse you in every way possible. The thought that

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haunts darkness itself is the thought of something infinitely powerful. Something that threatens

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the very existence of the giants of darkness themselves. It's the thought of you. It's

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the thought of you living in the fullness of your destiny. Nothing strikes a greater

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sense of terror into the heart of evil than imagining you living in everything that God

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has promised you. That word destiny is like the word delight and in order to fully understand

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it we must again go back to before the beginning. We already have a picture in our mind now

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of the wonder of the fellowship of the trinity and the divine dance but it's time to see

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something else. Something sacred that is burned in the heart of God since before time

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began. It was in the context of the divine dance that the trinity first conceived the

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idea of you. The ultimate calling on your life was always to be perfectly loved by God

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but it was never intended to just stop there. God always had more in mind for you. In fact

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that was just the beginning of a destiny more phenomenal than any person will ever have

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the capacity to imagine. Before time began in the context of the divine dance motivated

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by the purest love of all, the trinity summoned all their creativity, all their goodness,

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all their love and all their power to complete one of the most sacred and extravagant acts

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that they have ever performed. God unleashed his limitless power to dream the best for

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you and it was in that sacred moment that your destiny was conceived. Yes, your destiny

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is what God saw when he unleashed his limitless power to dream the best for you. There is

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absolutely nothing average or normal about the call of God and the destiny on your life.

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You have a five-star calling, a royal and a sacred destiny that is truly more magnificent

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than you have the power to imagine. No matter how hard you try to imagine the greatest,

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most exceptional, most mind-blowing future that you possibly can, God has already infinitely

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outdreamed you in every way and marked you for a measure of greatness that no eye has

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seen, that no ear has heard, and that no mind has ever dared to imagine. 1 Corinthians 2

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verse 9. This is why the scriptures say, things never discovered or heard of before, things

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beyond our ability to imagine. These are the many things God has in store for all his

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lovers. Now pay close attention again to verse 20 in this passage from Ephesians 3. Ephesians

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3, 17 to 21. May Christ through your faith actually dwell, settle down, abide, make his

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permanent home in your hearts. May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, that

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you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints, God's devoted

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people, the experience of that love. What is the breadth and length and height and depth of it,

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that you may really come to know practically through experience for yourselves the love of

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Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience, that you may be filled

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through all your being unto all the fullness of God, and may have the richest measure of

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the divine presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God himself. Verse 20, now to him.

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By and in consequence of the action of His power that is at work within us, is able to

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carry out His purpose and do super abundantly far over and above all that we dare ask or

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think infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams, to Him

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be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever.

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Amen. So be it.

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Now let's check out verse 20 again in the Passion Translation. That was the Amplified

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Version. Ephesians 3.20 in the Passion Translation.

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Without a doubt, God's mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve

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infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your

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wildest imagination. He will outdo them all for His miraculous power constantly energizes

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you. Our enemies, the giants of darkness who are commissioned to destroy us, are often

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more aware of the significance of our destinies than we are, and it floods them with terror.

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Your greatness fuels their rage and your very existence threatens theirs. Part of the mark

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of greatness that God has placed upon you is that within you is the power to outdream

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darkness. It is the nature of love and the nature of God to outdream darkness. There

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is no expression of evil that love is okay with. There is no expression of abuse, oppression,

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tyranny, or evil that is compatible with love. A vision is the solution to a problem, and

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when God dreams, He outdreams the darkness. He has placed this power inside your imagination.

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You are the light of the world, and darkness cannot withstand you. When you learn to master

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the four ancient weapons from heaven, you will become evil's kryptonite. Whether you

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realized it or not, you are center stage in a cosmic battle of destiny, and truly

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the stakes could not be higher. Will you overcome every satanic assignment against your life?

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Will you live victoriously over the giants of darkness that threaten your existence?

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Will you master the four ancient weapons from heaven and tread sacred pathways where few

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others have gone before you, as you truly step into the sacred calling and the divine

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destiny upon your life? I am not just being dramatic. I hope you are having a faith awakening

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to the greatness that marked your life before the foundations of the earth were laid. I

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hope you are ready to step up and take hold of some giant slaying weapons and begin to

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walk in victory and destiny like never before. Ready or not, those giants of darkness are

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coming for you, and as you read, you may come to realize just how close to home this battle

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is already raging. In fact, most people lose this battle because they don't even realize

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that they are under attack. One of your enemies greatest advantages is stealth, which requires

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invisibility and sabotage. So let's completely expose the first giant of darkness. The first

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giant of darkness that we must face is assigned against us specifically to ensure that we

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never in any way dream with God. If we have dared to dream with God, this giant is already

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planning the abduction and destruction of all of our dreams. This giant of darkness

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is the giant of lack. Its greatest fear is that you learn the art of dreaming with God.

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To cut off your capacity to dream with God, the giant of lack attacks your greatest asset

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in the process of dreaming with God, your imagination. Do not underestimate the power

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of your imagination, nor the lethal side effects of a damaged, defiled, or damaged

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buying imagination. Your imagination is the first ancient heavenly weapon given to you

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to empower you to fulfill a destiny so great that it exceeds your capacity to even imagine.

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Let's take a moment here to appreciate the true power of your imagination and its truly

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sacred origins. Your imagination is not the result of evolution. Your imagination is a

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supernatural communication system designed by God to enable you to experience effortless,

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seamless, moment-by-moment intimacy and telepathic communication with the Spirit of God. It's

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a supernatural prophetic window allowing you to see into multiple dimensions of time and

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space at the same moment. It's the command center that bridges the gap between the natural

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and spiritual realm, rooted and intertwined as much with your physical brain as it is

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with your spirit. And perhaps most significantly, it is the only communication system in the

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cosmos that has the bandwidth and the download capacity that is powerful enough to perform

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one of the rarest functions in all creation, and that is to dream with God.

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Through your imagination, you can receive supernatural downloads of limitless amounts

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of information without a second of time ever passing. A person who learns to harness the

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power of their imagination and to wield it as a weapon rather than to play with it as

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a worthless toy or abuse it, will uncover a power from God that has the capacity to

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redefine reality and write the future of humanity. In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word, Yetzer,

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and in the New Testament, the Greek word, Dianoia, relate to our imagination. There

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are over 90 scriptures relating to the topic of the imagination. However, not every translation

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translates the word directly as imagination. Sometimes it is translated as mind or understanding

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or imagination. Here are just four of the many biblical ways we can use our imagination.

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Number 1. In Matthew 22.37, Mark 12.30, and Luke 1.51, when Jesus instructs us to love

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God with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength, He used the

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word, Dianoia, for imagination or imagination. Number 1. We love God with all of our imagination.

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Number 2. In Ephesians 1.18, the Passion translation, Paul writes, I pray that the light of God

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will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light until you experience

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the full revelation of the hope of His calling that is the wealth of God's glorious inheritances

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that He finds in us, His holy ones. Number 2. We receive revelation through our imagination.

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Number 3. In 1 John 5.20, John uses the word, Dianoia, and it translates here as understanding

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or imagination, insight. Verse 20. And we have seen and know positively that the Son

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of God has actually come to this world and has given us understanding and insight or

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imagination to progressively perceive, recognize, and come to know better and more clearly Him

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who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son, Jesus Christ, the Messiah. Number

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3. We know God through our imagination. And number 4. The word, Dianoia, is translated

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as mind in Hebrews 8.12.8, verse 10. This is the covenant I will establish with the

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people of Israel. After that time, declares the Lord, I will put my laws in their minds

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and write them on their hearts. Number 4. We know the will of God through our imagination.

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This is exactly why Satan has placed a bounty on your imagination and commissioned the giant

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of Lach to destroy it completely at any cost. Our imagination is the first weapon from heaven

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that God has given us to be able to redefine reality, defy impossibility, and bring our

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sacred destiny to fruition. Our imagination is the key to unlocking a world where we dream

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supernatural, limitless dreams with God. Our imagination is the only key that can unlock

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one of the most powerful forces in all creation. It is this force from heaven unlocking our

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by your imagination that the Giant of Lack fears most and it is this force

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that the Giant of Lack will do anything within its power to suppress and

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destroy. How to tell you are under attack. As I mentioned the Giants of Darkness

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prefer to operate through invisibility and sabotage. That way you don't even

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realize you are in a battle. The favorite type of victory for the Giant of Lack is

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when a person doesn't even realize that they have been conquered. The Giant of

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Lack is in full celebration when their victims come to believe that their life

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of defeat and submission is actually the good life. If you are in this place it's

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often very difficult to tell because the systematic conditioning and attack on

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your life has been at work since before you were even born. The Giants of Darkness

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don't just operate through isolated random solo search and destroy missions.

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They have vast networks of satanic entities operating simultaneously

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through multiple generations in order to create deep-rooted cultural mindsets and

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normals that enslave millions of people at a time and the masses often don't

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even realize they are caught under a demonic matrix that has been

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systematically manipulating entire family lines, cultures, regions or even

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nations for generations. P.S. this might be about to get a wee bit confronting so

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you'll need to ask yourself if your destiny is worth fighting for because

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right now we're going to expose some Giants and it might get nasty before it

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gets better. Hold on for the ride though. To say it will be worth it is an

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enormous understatement. Let's start by exposing the evidence that you are

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under attack by the Giant of Lack. The first sign that you are under attack by

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the Giant of Lack is poverty. I'm not just talking about being a little short

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on cash. A lack attack goes deep into your psychology, your spirituality, your

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relationships, emotions, state of being, health, economy, worldview, mindsets,

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attitudes, culture and behaviors. Absolutely all the areas of your life

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are impacted. The Giant of Lack is ruthless and relentless aiming to tear

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down every expression of the divine life promised to you. It brings disappointment

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like a plague. It fosters discouragement, depression and despair. Sometimes the

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approach is more subtle and it tries to seduce you with the treasures of this

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world but it always takes more than it gives. This systematic attack can be so

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stealthy, so long-term and so pervasive that you may still be thinking even as

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you are reading this that it's really not impacting you all that much. Let's go a

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little deeper. Remember the target of the Giant of Lack is actually your

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imagination with the focus of shutting down every trace of the unstoppable

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force from heaven that your imagination has the power to unlock. The Giant of

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Darkness lays out the most subtle siege attack in the world that is so long-term

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and so covert that we don't even realize that the Giant already has the

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victory. I'll have to use a more dramatic test to expose the true impact that the

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Giant of Lack is having on our lives so we'll come at it from a slightly

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different angle. How often do you wake up and before your head has even left the

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pillow your heart is completely ablaze with an inferno of passion to launch

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into your day and do absolutely whatever it takes to bring your wildest dreams to

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life. No challenge is too great, no sacrifice too costly, no mountain is too

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high, no distance is too far, no dream is too impossible, no discipline is too

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demanding, no wake-up time is too early, no Giant is invincible. When you live

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with that type of passion this starts becoming your new normal. You wake up on

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fire and unstoppable every day. The very fact that you have received the gift of

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life for more for one more day and the opportunity to pursue your wildest

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dreams sparks an explosion of delight. Even the tiniest breakthrough and even

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seemingly bad news sends you into a heart and to a flow of heartfelt

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gratitude.

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feet hit the ground, you are undone and overwhelmed by the mind-blowing

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supernatural wonders of the divine dance. Divine love has completely consumed you,

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marinated you, and blasted you with a million bolts of lightning love. You are

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so gripped with passion for the divine assignment on your life that you are

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ready to lay your life down for your cause in a heartbeat. But your consuming

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desire is to live your life for maximum impact and to give the greatest

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expression of divine love possible to the world with every breath that you are

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blessed to breathe. All around you, you are surrounded by the fulfillment of

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your wildest dreams. You are carried by the momentum of heaven. Every day you are

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able to dream with God for greater and more extravagant ways to express divine

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love to both individuals and to multitudes. You have caught the most

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serious case of paranoia in the world. Paranoia is the opposite of paranoia.

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Extreme paranoia believes that everything is conspiring against you for

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evil. Extreme paranoia believes that absolutely everything is conspiring for

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you to bring about the fullness of the divine calling and destiny on your life,

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which is exceedingly, super abundantly above and beyond what you have ever dared

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to ask, dream, pray, or think infinitely beyond your wildest imagining. When you

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dream with God and He speaks to you from a higher dimension and reveals the

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impossible, improbable, and impractical assignments that He has for you, your

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heart leaps with joy knowing He has a plan and that His power that is at work in

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you is able to fulfill every promise that He will ever make you. This is what

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life starts looking like when you start living in victory over the giant of lack.

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Your world will be saturated in divine abundance of every kind. It's a divine

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abundance that flows primarily from the inside out. I'm not speaking about money.

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I'm talking about the divine life that Jesus promised us that will flood every cell in your

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being and permeate everything that surrounds you. John 10.10

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The thief only comes in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life

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and enjoy life and have it in abundance to the full till it overflows. The Greek word for life

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here is the word Zoe. It is the divine life. Jesus Himself defined that word when He said,

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I am the way, the truth, and the life in John 14.6. Zoe is the divine life. Zoe is the exact

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same state of being that the Trinity shared together in the divine dance. The Greek word

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translated as abundance is the word perissos and it means without measure. The giant of lack

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systematically launches a coordinated attack, a multi-generational strategic assault on your

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imagination, hoping to completely crush it through every expression of poverty possible because it

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knows that your imagination is the highway into a limitless overflow of the divine life in your

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life that will enable you to dream with God so beautifully and powerfully that you will be

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empowered to outdream darkness and step into a world where you are living in the fulfillment of

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Ephesians 3.20. A world where you are literally watching the manifestation of dreams on a daily

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basis that were once far beyond your ability to ask, dream, think, or pray. Dreams that used to

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be infinitely beyond your wildest imagination, but now they are your reality. Here's the

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confronting part that is going to require an attitude of extreme ownership. Anything less in

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our lives than the fullness of what God has promised us is evidence that the giant of lack

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already has a measure of victory over our lives. Anything less than the divine life without measure,

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anything less than infinitely beyond our wildest imagination, anything less than the birthright

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and inheritance promised to us is evidence of the giant of lack exerting a degree of victory

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over our lives. We need to be very, very careful here that we don't slip into a victim mindset.

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You see, a victim mindset will start to justify

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and make excuses for why we are not living in the fullness of the promises of God.

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A victim mindset will get us lying to ourselves and get us to convince ourselves that this

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is unrealistic, unreasonable, unattainable.

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The list of excuses and justifications go on and on, but the danger is the giant of

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lack whispers a quiet amen to every excuse, to every justification.

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And after enough excuses and justifications, we'll entrench ourselves in a world of lack.

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A world where every pessimistic thought will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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The danger is that we justify our current normal when the reality is that God has infinitely

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more for us.

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Without taking extreme ownership of this and going all in to do whatever it takes to create

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change, we will blind ourselves to the forever diminishing normal designed for us by the

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giant of lack.

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Without taking extreme ownership of this, we will live conquered by the giant of lack.

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No, what we need here, what we need right now, is an attitude of extreme ownership.

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An attitude that accurately takes stock of exactly where we are at in our lives right now.

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An attitude that assesses the full weight of what God has promised us.

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An attitude that owns up to everything that we are thinking and doing that is fueling

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the fires of lack in our lives.

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And an attitude that weighs it all up honestly and says, I'm going to do whatever it takes

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to slay the giant of lack that is attacking my life.

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And I am going to step into the fullness of my birthright, my inheritance and the promises

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of God for my life.

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So the big question, how do you slay the giant of lack?

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Well, lack produces fear.

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The antidote to fear is always love.

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Perfect love casts out all fear because the nature of love is to supply.

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Love produces a level of abundance that drowns out the influence of the giant of lack and

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that love is found in perisos without measure when we are swallowed up in the divine dance.

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The beautiful journey from lack and a love deficit into the limitlessness of divine love

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is the journey of a lifetime.

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And for me, it was the only made possible by discovering my sonship.

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If you are serious about doing whatever it takes to slay the giant of lack in your life,

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the beautiful journey into the bliss of sonship is not just your next best step.

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It is an absolute non-negotiable part of the process of stepping into your destiny.

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The rest of this book is about to give you some enormous keys.

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But if you want to journey into the bliss of sonship, I have a huge amount of free resources

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available that I would highly recommend you check out.

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The ultimate taster resource is the 3 day royal challenge, so keep an eye out for it.

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Do not think for a moment that defeating the giant of lack is a simple task, it definitely

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is not.

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It will demand everything that you have.

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It will demand that you go all in.

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It will demand that you forsake a casual attitude about your destiny and the sacred call of

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God on your life.

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It will demand that you forsake the status quo.

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Even in Christian circles, this will demand more than most Christians are willing to give.

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But God is not inviting you to live a normal Christian life.

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He has something so much greater in store for you.

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Once again, you are going to have to embrace extreme ownership and ask yourself if you

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are willing to do whatever it takes to walk into your destiny.

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Are you willing to do whatever it takes?

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If so, you are going to have to embark on the adventure of a lifetime that leads you

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into the fires of the divine dance.

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You will face innumerable obstacles and battles.

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But if you refuse to give up, if you embrace the beautiful journey into sonship, you will

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discover a state of being so radically infused with and saturated in divine love that the

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giant of lack will lose all influence in your life.

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This book, The Science of Dreams, is going to cover some of the most vital content required

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to slay the four giants of darkness assigned against your life, but we will not be covering

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how to step into your sonship.

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If you truly are all in, if you are taking extreme ownership of stepping into your sacred

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destiny,

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Then you must also study and master sonship because it is the key that will enable you to take your place in the divine

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dance

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Once you have found your place in the divine dance

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You will be able to partner with the power of the science of dreams with the power of the divine dance

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And you will truly become

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unstoppable for now

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Let us continue with the science of dreams

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But once you have finished this book do whatever it takes to discover and walk in your sonship

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Dreaming with God the process of

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Dreaming with God is an overflow of the divine dance

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It's a process of both hearing the whispers and desires of God and also searching out discovering and engaging with the deepest and most

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Wonderful authentic desires of your own heart. One of the most powerful questions that you can ask yourself to kick start

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This process is what do I want?

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This is one of the most significant and most empowering questions that we can ask in our lives

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But if you only ask yourself the question, it will not benefit for you

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It is the answering of this question, which has the capacity to dramatically upgrade your life

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Remember Psalm 37 verse 4 says delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart

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the process of dreaming with God is a

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Collaborative wonder filled dance that will awaken your yes. I said your wildest dreams

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Vaguely or casually answering this question. What do I want is not enough to empower you to see your dreams fulfilled

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Most people never answer this question with authenticity and precision

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most people never actually engage in the beauty of the process of

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Dreaming with God the end result is millions of people going to their graves without ever seeing their dreams fulfilled

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People are always asking why God allows so much evil and chaos in this world. The answer is because God's

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Solution is to place dreams in our hearts that have the power to fix this world's problems

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And we keep taking those solutions and dreams to the grave

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By the millions if you ever want to walk in the ecstasy of seeing your wildest dreams fulfilled

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then you have to abandon casual immediately a casual attitude is a dreams death sentence a

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Casual attitude is one of the greatest causes of death for dreams in our generation

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It's time to abandon lethal casual attitudes and get passionate about

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Dreaming with God the first step in dreaming with God is to ask yourself

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What do I want?

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And then go on the rollercoaster ride of letting your heart speak freely about your genuine

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desires

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This question needs to be answered

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Diligently and in-depth with precision detail for every area of your life

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answering this question with vulnerability authenticity courage and

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Detailed precision will position you to start the process of bringing your wildest dreams to life

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A lot of people are too afraid to admit to themselves what they really want because they are so afraid

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that what they really want in life is

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not

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Possible a lot of dreams get aborted

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Before they ever had the chance to come alive grow and flourish because some part of us

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Believes that those dreams are not possible

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That is the giant of lack speaking words of death with that will abort our dreams

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We need to change our internal dialogue. Nothing is impossible

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Impossible impossible are dictated by our minds and the minds of those around us to change

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What is possible? We simply have to change our minds. You need to ask yourself

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What do you really want from life?

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You only have one life

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No one else can answer this question for you. What do you want from the smallest desire to the greatest?

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Remember that the question is not what do you think is possible in the context of your current circumstances?

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The question is much deeper than that. What do you really want?

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What are the secret desires of your heart that you really long for if you had limitless resources at your disposal?

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What would you want to do to be to see or to create? This is the only way to dream with God

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without

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limits

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One of the most beautiful things about dreaming with God is that there are no limits

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dreaming with God takes place in your

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imagination where everything and anything is possible in an instant. The

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only way to allow yourself to dream authentically is to allow yourself to

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dream without limits, without restriction, and without listening to the giant of

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lack relentlessly whispering that your dreams are impossible. You have dreams

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and desires inside you that will leave a legacy of blessing for generations to

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come. Will you dare to dream without the illusion of impossibility? I want to give

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you permission to rebel against every thought, every voice, every circumstance,

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and every experience that has ever told you that your dreams are impossible. Now

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is your time to dream authentic and limitless dreams. I challenge you to

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honestly, courageously, and diligently answer this question. What do you want?

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In the process of dreaming with God, reality is not important. What is

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important is desire. If you are distracted by limits and possibilities,

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circumstances, or even your present reality, you will not be able to focus on

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the true burning desires of your own heart. Forget everything to do with

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logistics in the process of dreaming with God. Logistics and details are

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essential, but it is essential that they come at the right time. The dreaming

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phase is the wrong time for logistics and details. If introduced at the wrong

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time, details and logistics will kill your dreams instead of bringing them to

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life. In the dream phase, forget logistics, details, possibility, and reality, and

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focus exclusively on the wild authentic desires of your own heart. The dreaming

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phase is the time to engage with the secret desires of your own heart that

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are so big, so revolutionary, and so radical that they terrify you, evade

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your conscious awareness, and defy both possibility and reality. The dream phase

896
01:22:03.960 --> 01:22:11.320
is not the time to be rational, practical, or realistic. Countless dreams have been

897
01:22:11.320 --> 01:22:18.280
aborted before they ever had the chance to see the light of day, because people

898
01:22:18.280 --> 01:22:23.040
have been trained to be practical at the wrong time. I am all about being

899
01:22:23.040 --> 01:22:26.960
practical at the right time, but during the dreaming phase, being practical is

900
01:22:26.960 --> 01:22:31.520
inappropriate and counterproductive. Being practical at the wrong time will

901
01:22:31.520 --> 01:22:35.880
limit you to the restrictions of your present circumstances. Being practical at

902
01:22:35.880 --> 01:22:41.000
the wrong time will turn you into a liar by causing you to suppress

903
01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:45.720
the genuine desires of your heart, because our dreams are often impractical.

904
01:22:45.720 --> 01:22:52.080
If you allow yourself only to embrace what is practical, then you will suppress

905
01:22:52.080 --> 01:22:57.840
your heart's desires and you will abort your own dreams. Intentionally allowing

906
01:22:57.840 --> 01:23:02.800
yourself to dream impractical and unrealistic dreams allows you to be

907
01:23:02.800 --> 01:23:07.800
completely honest with yourself about the desires in your heart. It also

908
01:23:07.800 --> 01:23:13.760
empowers your imagination to be free to see new possibilities, new ideas, new

909
01:23:13.760 --> 01:23:19.360
creative solutions, and new perspectives that you may never have even considered

910
01:23:19.360 --> 01:23:24.840
before. This is the purpose of dreaming with God, engaging both your imagination

911
01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:30.640
and your conversation with God to see a better, brighter future. The majority of

912
01:23:30.640 --> 01:23:34.760
the process of bringing your dreams to life is about logistics, strategies, and

913
01:23:34.760 --> 01:23:38.560
working out how to take precision actions with precision timing in order

914
01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:44.880
to transition your impossible, practical, and improbable dreams into reality. But

915
01:23:44.880 --> 01:23:49.880
the dreaming phase is all about discovering the authentic desires of

916
01:23:49.880 --> 01:23:54.760
your own heart and allowing God to inspire you with possibilities beyond

917
01:23:54.760 --> 01:24:00.480
your wildest imagination. When you dream with God, you have to be intentional

918
01:24:00.480 --> 01:24:05.880
about being courageous. Your heart's authentic desires and the destiny that

919
01:24:06.000 --> 01:24:12.800
God has in store for you will be so good that they scare you. Your destiny is so

920
01:24:12.800 --> 01:24:17.800
phenomenal that it may cause you to be concerned about what other people will

921
01:24:17.800 --> 01:24:26.080
think. You may think that some people won't like your dream. That this is the

922
01:24:26.080 --> 01:24:31.440
giant of lack speaking again. Insecurity caused by what others think will turn

923
01:24:31.480 --> 01:24:36.240
you into a liar by causing you to reduce your dreams, or avoid your dreams, or

924
01:24:36.240 --> 01:24:40.840
present false dreams that you think are more acceptable in your context. The

925
01:24:40.840 --> 01:24:45.960
dreaming phase is all about desire and having the courage to admit first to

926
01:24:45.960 --> 01:24:50.240
yourself and then to the world what you really want and what you know God has

927
01:24:50.240 --> 01:24:55.680
created you for. In every sphere of human advancement, dreamers have redefined what

928
01:24:55.680 --> 01:25:01.920
is possible. In 1895, Lord Calvin declared the

929
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to the world, heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

930
01:25:05.820 --> 01:25:13.820
On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright did the impossible when they flew the first

931
01:25:13.820 --> 01:25:17.100
successful powered aircraft.

932
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In 1934, Albert Einstein said, there is not the least slightest indication that nuclear

933
01:25:23.060 --> 01:25:26.100
energy will ever be obtainable.

934
01:25:26.100 --> 01:25:33.780
Just before Christmas in 1950, on December 20, in Idaho, USA, four light bulbs were lit

935
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by nuclear-powered electricity.

936
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Einstein's own equation is now at the heart of over 400 nuclear power plants.

937
01:25:44.340 --> 01:25:50.060
Even the concept of light without fire was a huge development for humanity.

938
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Dreamers had already brought humanity a long way before nuclear power came along.

939
01:25:56.140 --> 01:26:01.340
Dreamers brought humanity to the place where we had discovered how to harness electricity.

940
01:26:01.340 --> 01:26:07.560
And dreamers were responsible for inventing light bulbs to power in the first place.

941
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Impossible dreams are constantly becoming tomorrow's brand new normal.

942
01:26:13.260 --> 01:26:18.700
Scientists and doctors had declared that running a mile in under four minutes was impossible.

943
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It was not believed just to be difficult or dangerous.

944
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It was believed by scientists and doctors to be humanly impossible.

945
01:26:27.200 --> 01:26:32.900
Roger Bannister dreamed outside the confines of possibility.

946
01:26:32.900 --> 01:26:37.540
He dreamed of running a mile in under four minutes.

947
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As a part of Roger Bannister's training, he would visualize, he would imagine himself

948
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doing the impossible.

949
01:26:44.580 --> 01:26:50.380
He would imagine himself making history, defying reality, probability, and impossibility as

950
01:26:50.380 --> 01:26:55.380
he imagined himself running a mile in under four minutes.

951
01:26:55.380 --> 01:27:06.100
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister redefined reality, possibility, and normal when he ran

952
01:27:06.100 --> 01:27:15.780
the first mile in under four minutes with a time of three minutes and 59.4 seconds.

953
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He beat the barrier of impossibility by less than a second, but he did it.

954
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He did the impossible, redefined reality, and created a brave new normal for humanity.

955
01:27:28.360 --> 01:27:35.880
The current world record for the fastest mile is now three minutes, 43.13 seconds held

956
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by Hikam al-Guruj.

957
01:27:39.120 --> 01:27:43.360
You must choose to be courageous.

958
01:27:43.360 --> 01:27:46.520
You must choose to be powerful.

959
01:27:46.520 --> 01:27:50.720
You must choose to dream authentic dreams with God.

960
01:27:50.720 --> 01:27:53.920
You can be honest about what you really want.

961
01:27:53.920 --> 01:27:56.640
You can dream without limits.

962
01:27:56.640 --> 01:28:01.660
You can see a better, brighter future.

963
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You can guarantee opposition, regardless of what your dream is, how big it is, how small

964
01:28:06.200 --> 01:28:08.420
it is, or even how brilliant it is.

965
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You can guarantee that someone will stand in opposition to your dream and your destiny.

966
01:28:13.160 --> 01:28:15.960
The giant of lack will make sure of that.

967
01:28:15.960 --> 01:28:18.600
You must choose to dream anyway.

968
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Don't let haters turn you into a liar who never admits, who never truly admits to the

969
01:28:24.500 --> 01:28:27.700
greatness of your own dreams.

970
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Your dreams have the capacity to influence nations and write history, but only you can

971
01:28:34.980 --> 01:28:37.260
dream them.

972
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Stay away from negative people.

973
01:28:39.820 --> 01:28:42.820
They have a problem for every solution.

974
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Albert Einstein.

975
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Many dreams defy what is rational, realistic, normal, achievable, and possible.

976
01:28:51.820 --> 01:28:59.580
At the same time, it is impossible dreams fulfilled which redefine normal, possible,

977
01:28:59.580 --> 01:29:02.100
achievable, realistic, and rational.

978
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The future will be a totally different reality from the reality that we are experiencing

979
01:29:08.180 --> 01:29:16.260
right now, because some individuals have dared to be courageous enough to dream beyond what

980
01:29:16.260 --> 01:29:19.540
is real, possible, achievable, rational, or normal.

981
01:29:19.540 --> 01:29:24.740
It is fulfilled dreams that make the difference between the present and the future.

982
01:29:24.740 --> 01:29:30.180
It is fulfilled dreams that redefine normal, possible, rational, achievable, practical,

983
01:29:30.180 --> 01:29:33.020
and reality itself.

984
01:29:33.020 --> 01:29:38.420
The future belongs to those who dare to dream.

985
01:29:38.420 --> 01:29:41.260
So let your heart speak.

986
01:29:41.260 --> 01:29:44.180
Set your heart free to dream with God.

987
01:29:44.180 --> 01:29:50.260
Do not let your heart's voice be bound and gagged by impossibility, circumstances, reality,

988
01:29:50.260 --> 01:29:52.220
logistics, or details.

989
01:29:52.220 --> 01:29:56.020
Let your heart speak honestly without fear or interruption.

990
01:29:56.020 --> 01:29:59.940
Allow your heart the position of honor that it was designed to have.

991
01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:06.500
Do not treat your heart like a prisoner or a slave which must beg for an opportunity to have a voice.

992
01:30:06.500 --> 01:30:15.000
Give your heart a position of honor and allow it to express its authentic desires whenever it pleases.

993
01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:24.000
By doing so, you will cultivate your capacity to dream with God.

994
01:30:24.000 --> 01:30:31.500
Unlocking the unstoppable force, I believe that if we can learn to dream with God,

995
01:30:31.500 --> 01:30:40.500
we can outdream the darkness in our world and redesign our world in the image of heaven.

996
01:30:40.500 --> 01:30:44.500
That might seem impossible, improbable, or impractical to you,

997
01:30:44.500 --> 01:30:51.500
but it is impossible, improbable, and impractical dreams that have gripped the hearts of humanity since the dawn of time.

998
01:30:51.500 --> 01:30:58.000
Throughout history, it has been the impossible, improbable, and impractical dreams of revolutionaries

999
01:30:58.000 --> 01:31:02.000
that have captured the hearts and hopes of people all over the world,

1000
01:31:02.000 --> 01:31:08.500
causing dreamers to arise from ashes and oppression and forge from the future a brave new normal,

1001
01:31:08.500 --> 01:31:12.500
a brave new normal that only the most courageous hearts could once imagine.

1002
01:31:12.500 --> 01:31:21.000
We see the impossible, improbable, and impractical dreams of technology, sport, architecture, and business come to fruition every day.

1003
01:31:21.000 --> 01:31:27.500
Our normal today would have been absolutely unbelievable to the average person 60 years ago,

1004
01:31:27.500 --> 01:31:34.500
but we have dreamed, imagined, redesigned, and built a whole new world.

1005
01:31:34.500 --> 01:31:39.000
Fulfilled dreams have redefined impossible, normal, and reality itself.

1006
01:31:39.000 --> 01:31:43.500
Yesterday's unbelievable dreams have become today's brand new normal.

1007
01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:49.500
I believe that all of our dreams have the capacity to forge a brave new normal,

1008
01:31:49.500 --> 01:31:52.500
the capacity to redesign our world in the image of heaven.

1009
01:31:52.500 --> 01:32:00.500
I believe that there are dreams inside of you that are more wonderful, more revolutionary, and more powerful than you have yet dared to imagine.

1010
01:32:00.500 --> 01:32:07.500
I believe that inside of you are the type of dreams that are so inspiring, so compelling, and so captivating

1011
01:32:07.500 --> 01:32:12.500
that they have the potential to give a whole new level of hope to our generation.

1012
01:32:12.500 --> 01:32:17.500
These are the types of dreams that I want to inspire, to empower, and to see come alive.

1013
01:32:17.500 --> 01:32:21.500
Dreams that have the capacity to grip a generation by the heart.

1014
01:32:21.500 --> 01:32:28.500
Dreams that evoke the type of passion that writes history, shakes nations, and redefines normal on the face of the earth forever.

1015
01:32:28.500 --> 01:32:32.500
In the movie Braveheart, Mel Gibson's character, William Wallace, said,

1016
01:32:32.500 --> 01:32:38.500
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

1017
01:32:38.500 --> 01:32:49.500
It's only once we have discovered something that we desire so intensely, that we are willing to die for, that we truly come alive.

1018
01:32:49.500 --> 01:33:00.500
The type of desire that will do whatever it takes to see a dream fulfilled is the very same type of exhilarating passion that causes us to truly come alive.

1019
01:33:00.500 --> 01:33:06.500
This is one of the most powerful secrets of our imagination. Lean in close right now to hear this.

1020
01:33:06.500 --> 01:33:12.500
When we engage our imagination to see the fruition of our wildest dreams before they ever come alive,

1021
01:33:12.500 --> 01:33:18.500
we unlock one of the most world-changing forces in the entire cosmos.

1022
01:33:18.500 --> 01:33:22.500
It's definitely not a force that the giant of lack ever wants you to possess.

1023
01:33:22.500 --> 01:33:28.500
The substance, the force, is raw passion.

1024
01:33:28.500 --> 01:33:40.500
Many people are so intimidated by seemingly impossible dreams that have been conceived in their hearts that they abort their own dreams before they ever give them a chance to live.

1025
01:33:40.500 --> 01:33:44.500
That is the best case scenario for the giant of darkness.

1026
01:33:44.500 --> 01:33:48.500
If you abort your own dreams, then you've done his job for him.

1027
01:33:48.500 --> 01:33:55.500
It is this process of dreaming the impossible and meditating deeply on the better, brighter future that you desire,

1028
01:33:55.500 --> 01:34:04.500
which will actually awaken within you the raw passion, which is the very substance that can make the impossible possible.

1029
01:34:04.500 --> 01:34:13.500
By aborting impossible dreams, we simultaneously abort the embryonic passion, which brings impossible dreams to life.

1030
01:34:13.500 --> 01:34:19.500
By allowing ourselves to fully invest in dreams, the impossible dreams that our hearts genuinely long for,

1031
01:34:19.500 --> 01:34:27.500
we awaken and steward a fiery passion inside of ourselves that can accomplish the impossible, write history, and shape nations.

1032
01:34:27.500 --> 01:34:33.500
Pure passion is one of the most valuable substances that we can ever possess.

1033
01:34:34.500 --> 01:34:46.500
It has more value than wealth or power because pure passion and desire can literally redefine reality itself.

1034
01:34:46.500 --> 01:34:50.500
Evidence that you have mastered the first weapon from heaven, your imagination,

1035
01:34:50.500 --> 01:34:58.500
is that you consistently live with such a force of raw passion burning in your chest every day

1036
01:34:58.500 --> 01:35:00.500
that you do not just

1037
01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:05.500
awk about doing whatever it takes to bring your dreams to life, you actually do it.

1038
01:35:05.500 --> 01:35:07.380
And you don't just go through the motions.

1039
01:35:07.380 --> 01:35:11.660
You do whatever it takes and you pour your whole heart into the process.

1040
01:35:11.660 --> 01:35:17.460
Every moment and every action are infused with the blazing fires of desire and raw passion.

1041
01:35:17.460 --> 01:35:22.360
Like William Wallace, you have found a cause worth dying for.

1042
01:35:22.360 --> 01:35:28.060
Your heart and mind have become a blazing furnace of unquenchable desire for the reality

1043
01:35:28.060 --> 01:35:32.760
that you have seen in your imagination to be manifest on the earth.

1044
01:35:32.760 --> 01:35:38.360
There is a secret to unlocking that dimension of passion.

1045
01:35:38.360 --> 01:35:41.720
It goes beyond a surface level imagination.

1046
01:35:41.720 --> 01:35:44.040
It is the realm of Yadah.

1047
01:35:44.040 --> 01:35:50.360
Yadah is the Hebrew word for intimate experiential knowledge.

1048
01:35:50.360 --> 01:35:55.640
It is the greatest form of intimacy possible, so sometimes it is also used in the Bible

1049
01:35:55.640 --> 01:36:05.160
as a word for sex, Genesis 4.1, and Adam knew slash Yadah Eve, his wife, and she conceived.

1050
01:36:05.160 --> 01:36:13.040
Yadah literally means to see, to hear, to smell, to touch, and to taste.

1051
01:36:13.040 --> 01:36:19.600
Not only is it possible to Yadah our wildest dreams in our imagination, to see, to hear,

1052
01:36:19.600 --> 01:36:25.160
to smell, to touch, and to taste them, it is one of the most critical disciplines in

1053
01:36:25.160 --> 01:36:28.960
the process of bringing dreams to life.

1054
01:36:28.960 --> 01:36:34.040
When you take time and create space to go deeper in dreaming with God than just a surface

1055
01:36:34.040 --> 01:36:40.400
level glance at your dreams, when you step into the realm of Yadah and consistently allow

1056
01:36:40.400 --> 01:36:47.440
yourself to see, to hear, to smell, to touch, and to taste your wildest dreams as though

1057
01:36:47.440 --> 01:36:54.680
they were a present reality, you unlock the most priceless vault in the cosmos.

1058
01:36:54.680 --> 01:36:59.840
You unlock the vault of raw passion and burning desire.

1059
01:36:59.840 --> 01:37:05.520
Let me walk you through an activation to help you see what this can practically look like,

1060
01:37:05.520 --> 01:37:09.960
but get ready for an adventure because we are about to dive into the art of dreaming

1061
01:37:09.960 --> 01:37:15.640
with God in your imagination, and anything is possible.

1062
01:37:15.640 --> 01:37:21.160
Now let's slow this right down.

1063
01:37:21.160 --> 01:37:25.760
Don't rush this, something powerful is about to happen.

1064
01:37:25.760 --> 01:37:30.080
I want you to imagine that you are in the future.

1065
01:37:30.080 --> 01:37:35.960
You are walking in the fulfillment of one of your wildest dreams.

1066
01:37:35.960 --> 01:37:42.280
Make sure that the dream that you choose for this activation is one that is deeply significant

1067
01:37:42.280 --> 01:37:45.140
to you.

1068
01:37:45.140 --> 01:37:51.360
This is crucial because insignificant dreams cannot unlock the vaults of passion.

1069
01:37:51.360 --> 01:37:56.700
Only dreams worth dying for have the power to unlock the vaults of passion and burning

1070
01:37:56.700 --> 01:37:58.940
desire.

1071
01:37:58.940 --> 01:38:03.140
Focus now on this dream that you truly desire and long to see fulfilled.

1072
01:38:03.140 --> 01:38:08.300
This dream holds deep significance to you because you know how many lives it will impact,

1073
01:38:08.300 --> 01:38:14.140
you know how desperate the world is for the solution you are dreaming of.

1074
01:38:14.140 --> 01:38:20.580
Imagine now that you just stepped into the future.

1075
01:38:20.580 --> 01:38:23.140
You can see it.

1076
01:38:23.140 --> 01:38:27.100
You can see this dream fully fulfilled.

1077
01:38:27.100 --> 01:38:35.540
The dream is not just alive, it is happening and lives are being changed forever.

1078
01:38:35.540 --> 01:38:42.420
Now I want to go deeper again, so allow yourself to step into a place of your da and begin

1079
01:38:42.500 --> 01:38:47.380
to imagine what does this fulfilled dream look like?

1080
01:38:47.380 --> 01:38:52.920
What does this fulfilled dream sound like?

1081
01:38:52.920 --> 01:38:56.600
What does this fulfilled dream smell like?

1082
01:38:56.600 --> 01:39:01.820
What does this fulfilled dream feel like?

1083
01:39:01.820 --> 01:39:08.320
What does this fulfilled dream taste like?

1084
01:39:08.320 --> 01:39:14.680
Whose lives are going to be impacted by the fulfillment of this dream?

1085
01:39:14.680 --> 01:39:19.280
How is the world a better, brighter place?

1086
01:39:19.280 --> 01:39:27.120
How does the fruition of this dream improve your life?

1087
01:39:27.120 --> 01:39:34.520
How does this fulfilled dream impact the relationships in your life?

1088
01:39:34.520 --> 01:39:40.060
What is the legacy of this dream?

1089
01:39:40.060 --> 01:39:44.800
What do you love about this dream?

1090
01:39:44.800 --> 01:39:49.400
Why is this dream worth fighting for?

1091
01:39:49.400 --> 01:39:55.880
Okay now I want you to ask yourself, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much joy will you feel

1092
01:39:55.880 --> 01:40:00.080
when this dream is fulfilled?

1093
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:03.000
in the earth in all its glory.

1094
01:40:03.000 --> 01:40:09.400
Also, I want you to ask yourself, how painful will it be for you on a 1 to 10 scale if this

1095
01:40:09.400 --> 01:40:12.600
dream never comes true?

1096
01:40:12.600 --> 01:40:19.800
Now I want you to ask yourself, what are you willing to do to bring this dream to life?

1097
01:40:19.800 --> 01:40:26.480
What is your next best step in bringing this dream to fruition?

1098
01:40:26.480 --> 01:40:31.120
What small step can you take today to add momentum to this dream?

1099
01:40:31.120 --> 01:40:34.920
What time today will you action that small step?

1100
01:40:34.920 --> 01:40:42.960
What words of life will you declare over this dream right now?

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01:40:42.960 --> 01:40:48.940
A lifestyle infused with raw passion and blazing desire to live in the sacred destiny that

1102
01:40:48.940 --> 01:40:53.640
God saw when he unleashed his limitless power to dream the best for you is the evidence

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01:40:53.640 --> 01:40:59.920
that you are no longer a victim of the giant of lack, but you have become a giant slayer.

1104
01:40:59.920 --> 01:41:03.940
This is the process of developing intimate experiential knowledge of your dream.

1105
01:41:03.940 --> 01:41:08.720
Not only does it unlock the vaults of raw passion and burning desire that will enable

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01:41:08.720 --> 01:41:13.980
you to slay the giant of lack, it begins the process of building in the spirit, which we're

1107
01:41:13.980 --> 01:41:16.840
going to unpack in the next chapter.

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01:41:16.840 --> 01:41:22.640
Wherever you are at on your spiritual journey right now, your battle against the giant of

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01:41:22.640 --> 01:41:26.120
lack, there is always hope.

1110
01:41:26.120 --> 01:41:30.040
You were created to be part of a movement of giant slayers.

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01:41:30.040 --> 01:41:34.200
Giants of darkness are being toppled all over the earth right now.

1112
01:41:34.200 --> 01:41:37.200
Destinies are being redeemed, restored, and revived right now.

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Aborted, abducted, and long dead dreams are being restored to life right now.

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As I'm writing this, I'm having a vision of a homecoming celebration of the body of Christ

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coming home into the divine destiny that God prepared for us before the foundation

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of the world.

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I believe that there's a promise for you.

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I believe that is a promise for you.

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God is calling you home to live in your destiny the way he designed you to live in your destiny,

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victorious over the giant of lack, and set ablaze with the unstoppable force of raw passion,

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wielding the heavenly weapon of your imagination like a warrior.

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It actually reminds me of Carlina White's story, abducted at 19 days old and gone without

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a trace.

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In some ways, she was taken like many of our dreams.

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She was stolen and placed into a world of deception as Anne Petway weaved a world of

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illusions for her to live inside.

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This world of illusions, tailor-made by Anne's deception, protected them from an alternate

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reality where Joy and Carl searched passionately for their missing daughter who was just 45

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miles away.

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Anne renamed Carlina Nedra, and as the years passed, Nedra became known as Nettie.

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But something inside this young woman was still not at peace.

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Two realities were colliding for her, the reality that she had been told to believe

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her whole life, and an emerging belief that her whole world was a lie.

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She began to have a sense that the narratives she had been told about her origins and her

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identity were, in fact, an illusion.

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As she began to challenge the legitimacy of the fabricated world that Anne had invented,

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Anne's answers became more and more unbelievable.

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The more Anne lied to her, the more convinced she became that the entire story she had believed

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about her origins and her destiny were completely false.

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Hunger for the truth grew inside her until it became a consuming desire.

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Eventually, the years of confusion and suspicion came to an end as Nettie came face-to-face

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with a picture of herself as a baby on a missing person's website.

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In January 2011, at age 23, DNA testing confirmed that Nettie Nance was, in fact, Carlina White.

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For Joy, Tyson, and Nettie, the truth, the news, and the reunion were overwhelming.

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Joy White was an explosion of tears, delight, and gratitude to God that her daughter had

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been found.

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Just as Joy White had the dream of her daughter restored to her, get ready for a wave of dreams

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being restored to you as I reveal how to expose and conquer the three remaining satanic assignments

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that are holding your dreams captive.

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Get ready.

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Get ready.

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Get ready to take that fresh, raw passion and blood.

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blazing desire of yours, and use it as a key to unlock

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and unleash the second heavenly weapon that you need

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in your giant slaying arsenal.

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Here we go.

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Chapter four, building in the spirit.

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Six years of struggle.

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Here we stand, hearts ablaze with desire,

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fueled by raw passion, glistening with hope,

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and our imaginations focused on the significance

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and wonder of our wildest dreams and divine destiny.

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We are poised to unleash a viral outbreak of dreams

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that will shift normal on the face of the earth forever.

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Then, out from the shadows,

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emerges another satanic assignment against our lives

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and another giant of darkness.

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The sinister agenda of this giant

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is to crush every promise that God has ever made you

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and remove every trace of the power of God

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from operating in your life.

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This giant wants to utterly destroy

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the second ancient weapon from heaven

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that unleashes the supernatural power of God in your life

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to bring the promises of God to fruition.

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This second weapon from heaven

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carries the power to birth the wildest dreams

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that you've seen in your imagination

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from the spiritual realm into the natural realm.

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Those who master this weapon master the impossible

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and carry the capacity to redefine reality.

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This giant of darkness and this weapon from heaven

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have been engaged in cosmic warfare for time immemorial.

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The giant of darkness is the giant of unbelief.

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The weapon from heaven is the weapon of faith.

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The giant of unbelief wants to convince you

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that nothing God has ever said is true.

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God is dead.

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Therefore, there are no promises from God.

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There is no power of God.

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There is no reason for hope.

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Faith wants to show you God's system

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for building in the spirit

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so that you can live in the fullness

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of everything God has ever promised you,

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ruling over the impossible

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and redefining reality in the image of heaven.

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The giant of unbelief has two main lies

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that it uses as its two main strategies

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to eliminate faith from your life.

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It uses the same two lies over and over again,

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challenging every promise that God has ever made.

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The lies are, number one,

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the promises of God are not real.

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The giant of unbelief will do whatever it can

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to discredit God and his word

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so that they never develop any hope,

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so that you never develop any hope

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of living in the promises of God for your life.

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If you don't believe that the promises of God exist,

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you will never awaken the faith needed

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to bring the promises of God to life.

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If the giant of unbelief fails to convince you

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that God and his promises are dead,

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then it has a backup lie

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that takes out millions of Christians

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from living in the promises of God.

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The second lie goes like this.

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Oh, yeah, oh, okay, so that promise is actually real

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and it is actually possible for some people to live in.

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It is possible for some people to live in the promises

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of God and for people to live in that promise.

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And that might be the case for some people,

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but it is definitely 100% not possible for you.

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The object of the giant of unbelief

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is to extinguish every trace of faith

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and every promise of God that God has ever made you.

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If the giant of unbelief can't discredit God in your eyes,

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then it will do everything it can to discredit you.

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Wow, did I suck on these lies for way too long.

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Do not underestimate the vast influence

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of the giant of unbelief.

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Hundreds of millions of Christians

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are robbed and destroyed on a moment-by-moment basis

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because of the giant of unbelief.

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This is not a friendly giant.

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It is an insidious, satanic entity

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that wants to bind your family line to a lifeless.

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existence, void of every good thing God has for you, void of hope, and void of God himself.

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This giant will leave you powerless to access your inheritance and your destiny,

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and it will most definitely crush your capacity to participate

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in seamless union with the Trinity and the delight of the divine dance.

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This giant will corner you in an abusive relationship and give you such a verbal

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battering that you will never see yourself worthy of anything ever again, unless you rise up as the

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giant slayer that you were born to be. Growing up in churches where there were next to no

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expressions of supernatural power, I found that the giant of unbelief had a huge stronghold in

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my mind that shut down nearly every trace of the supernatural power of God in my life.

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It was in this process of breaking free from the powerless mindsets imposed by the giant

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of unbelief that I began to discover a whole new way of living that is infused

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with supernatural power that we need to bring our wildest dreams to life.

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I spent six years battling the giant of unbelief just to bring one promise from God to fruition

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in my life. For a season of about six years, I prayed, read my Bible, read books, listened to

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tapes, CDs, watched videos, DVDs, fasted, and cried out to God consistently just to see this one

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promise fulfilled. At every moment, it was the giant of unbelief that held back my destiny and

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starved me of the promises of God for my life. The promise from God that I was going after was

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Mark 16 verse 18, they will lay their hands on the sick and they will be healed. After around

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six years of struggle with next to no results, I was out praying yet again. It was late at night.

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I was outside praying in the dark. Then in that moment, God got right up in my face and exposed

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in my own thinking where I had come into agreement with lies from the giant of unbelief. For the

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first time in my life, I could see how filled my own mind was with the strongholds of the giant

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of unbelief. But now that I could finally see what the problem was, I could fix it. I began to

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aggressively repent and reject every lie that unbelief had sold me. I aggressively took hold

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of the truth and began to declare it over my life. About a week later, the power of God began to flow

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undeniably through my hands for the first time. I was speaking at a youth meeting and among other

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things I talked about praying in tongues. There was an altar call and one young lady came forward

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wanting prayer to receive tongues and also wanting healing. She had a badly injured knee and could

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barely stand on it. She also had bronchitis and was struggling to breathe and was coughing a lot.

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I prayed for her for healing and was not expecting her to get healed.

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I wasn't used to people getting healed. I was preparing to pray for her for a second time for

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healing when she interrupted the unbelief racing through my own mind. I'm healed, she said. From

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what, I asked? From everything, she replied. Her knee was instantly healed, her bronchitis left,

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she went from serious bronchitis systems to just light flu symptoms instantly. Her coughing stopped,

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her airways cleared, her face lit up, then she began praying in tongues for the first time.

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After that, miracles began to flow everywhere I went. The streets, shopping malls, meetings,

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restaurants, jungles, buses, nations, hotels, red light districts, mansions, conferences, villages,

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people's homes, kids' camps, churches, and more. Hundreds and hundreds of miracles. My whole life,

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my calling to walk in the footsteps of Jesus had been locked down by the giant of unbelief.

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Now, I was experiencing a supernatural outpouring beyond what I had imagined. Blind eyes, broken

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bones, paralysis, deafness, creative miracles, cancer, tumors, health challenges of all kinds

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were being healed. I then began to apply a similar process of faith to other promises and desires

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that I was burning to see fulfilled in my life. One after the other, promises from God

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that I had previously believed could never happen for me began happening.

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dreams, desires, and destiny beyond what I had imagined broke out around my life.

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Through this whole process, I have discovered that there's a simple four-step blueprint

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from heaven for how to use faith to build in the spirit in order to defeat the giant

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of unbelief and to bring our wildest dreams to life.

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Phase one, a burning desire.

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It all starts where we ended our last chapter, having raw passion and a burning desire.

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We just uncovered that when we intimately and intentionally yada our wildest dreams

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in our imagination, we open up the vaults of raw passion and unleash the type of burning

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desire that can literally redefine impossible and reality itself.

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Unlocking this burning desire is the first of four phases in the process of building

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in the spirit.

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Those who master the process of building in the spirit, master the process of birthing

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the promises of God into their lives.

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If you master the process of building in the spirit, you can basically walk into the kitchen

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in heaven and help yourself to the limitless inheritance that God has prepared for you.

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Ephesians 1, 18 to 20, the Passion Translation, I pray that the light of God will illuminate

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the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light until you experience the full revelation

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of the hope of his calling.

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That is the wealth of God's glorious inheritances that he finds in us, his Holy One.

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I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God's power

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made available to you through faith.

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Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you.

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This is the mighty power that was released when God raised Christ from the dead and exalted

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him to the place of highest honor and supreme authority in the heavenly realm.

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Phase two, assurance of faith.

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After you have unlocked a burning desire, you must seek God for an assurance of faith.

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An assurance of faith is important for two really significant reasons.

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Reason number one, you need to know that this burning desire really is in alignment with

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God's will for your life.

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Even Jesus sought his father for an assurance of faith in the Garden of Gethsemane.

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Luke 22, 42, Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me, yet not my will, but

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yours be done.

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The father said no to this desire and Jesus was fine with that and walked his road to

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the cross for us.

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Reason number two, second reason that you want and need an assurance of faith is that

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if God is saying yes to go after this burning desire, it is extremely powerful to have a

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confirmation from God that you are moving in the right direction.

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An assurance of faith will give us great confidence as the storms of unbelief attack God's promises

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for our lives.

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Years ago, as a single man, I sought God for an assurance of faith that he had me covered

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for a wife and a family.

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In response, God gave me a vision of a little girl in a dress running through a grassy field.

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It was just what I needed as an assurance of faith that God would provide for my dream

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of a wife and family.

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Quite a few years passed before I got married, but I was content that whole time simply because

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of one assurance of faith.

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I now have two beautiful daughters.

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Genesis 15, 1-5.

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After this, the word of the Lord came to Abraham in a vision.

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Do not be afraid, Abraham.

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I am your shield, your very great reward.

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But Abraham said, Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the

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one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?

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And Abraham said, You have given me no children, so a servant in my household will be my heir.

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The word of the Lord came to him,

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this man will not be your heir,

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02:00:04.840 --> 02:00:09.440
but a son who is your own flesh and blood

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02:00:09.440 --> 02:00:12.000
will be your heir.

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02:00:12.000 --> 02:00:14.520
He took him outside and said,

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02:00:14.520 --> 02:00:17.920
look up at the sky and count the stars,

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02:00:17.920 --> 02:00:20.120
if indeed you can count them.

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02:00:20.120 --> 02:00:24.800
Then he said to him, so shall your offspring be.

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02:00:25.800 --> 02:00:30.480
God gave Abraham both his word as a promise

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02:00:30.480 --> 02:00:34.400
and also the stars as an assurance of the promise

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02:00:34.400 --> 02:00:37.200
so that every time Abraham looked at the stars,

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02:00:37.200 --> 02:00:41.240
a picture of his descendants would flood his imagination

1349
02:00:41.240 --> 02:00:44.520
and light him up with a raw passion

1350
02:00:44.520 --> 02:00:48.920
and a burning desire for the promise of God over his life.

1351
02:00:48.920 --> 02:00:53.120
Verse six also says, Abraham believed the Lord

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02:00:53.120 --> 02:00:57.240
and he credited it to him as righteousness.

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02:00:57.240 --> 02:01:00.000
Once you have received an assurance of faith from God

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02:01:00.000 --> 02:01:04.920
that this burning desire is fully sanctioned from heaven,

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02:01:04.920 --> 02:01:07.160
then you really get to put your faith to work.

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02:01:07.160 --> 02:01:09.480
At this point, it's like your dream

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02:01:09.480 --> 02:01:12.400
has been conceived in the spirit.

1358
02:01:12.400 --> 02:01:17.400
It's no longer a possibility, it's a spiritual reality.

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02:01:18.160 --> 02:01:21.280
This requires a real mindset shift.

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02:01:21.320 --> 02:01:24.360
From now on, you must perceive your dream

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02:01:24.360 --> 02:01:27.240
as a living reality.

1362
02:01:27.240 --> 02:01:30.680
Like any living reality, it requires nurture.

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02:01:30.680 --> 02:01:33.160
If you forget about it for a few months,

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02:01:33.160 --> 02:01:35.400
there's a good chance it will die.

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02:01:35.400 --> 02:01:37.120
This happens all the time.

1366
02:01:37.120 --> 02:01:39.160
People get excited about their destiny,

1367
02:01:39.160 --> 02:01:40.600
they start going all in,

1368
02:01:40.600 --> 02:01:45.360
then they get distracted and their dream dies.

1369
02:01:45.360 --> 02:01:48.080
This sacred aspect of your destiny

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02:01:48.080 --> 02:01:51.120
cannot be treated as a pet or a hobby.

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02:01:51.960 --> 02:01:54.160
It has much greater value than a pet or a hobby.

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02:01:54.160 --> 02:01:57.840
It must be honored and treated as sacred.

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02:01:57.840 --> 02:02:01.040
Pets and hobbies get daily attention,

1374
02:02:01.040 --> 02:02:03.040
but it is a rare thing to meet a person

1375
02:02:03.040 --> 02:02:05.440
who gives more attention to their dreams

1376
02:02:05.440 --> 02:02:07.240
that they are building in the spirit

1377
02:02:07.240 --> 02:02:10.000
than they give to their pets or hobbies.

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02:02:10.000 --> 02:02:11.760
Once you have an assurance of faith

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02:02:12.840 --> 02:02:14.600
for this burning desire

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02:02:14.600 --> 02:02:17.720
and God has given it his seal of approval,

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02:02:17.720 --> 02:02:22.400
then you become responsible for a living, sacred dream

1382
02:02:22.400 --> 02:02:25.280
that is as real in the spiritual realm

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02:02:25.280 --> 02:02:28.360
as you are in the natural realm.

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02:02:28.360 --> 02:02:32.240
Don't think that the giant of unbelief will just give up.

1385
02:02:32.240 --> 02:02:34.680
The giant of unbelief will stalk

1386
02:02:34.680 --> 02:02:37.000
all of your dreams ruthlessly,

1387
02:02:37.000 --> 02:02:41.640
especially when they are in this vulnerable embryonic state.

1388
02:02:41.640 --> 02:02:44.760
The giant of unbelief will mobilize a death squad

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02:02:44.760 --> 02:02:46.720
against your vulnerable dream.

1390
02:02:46.720 --> 02:02:50.520
Watch out for verbal attacks on yourself and your dream.

1391
02:02:50.520 --> 02:02:54.000
Expect that your enemy will be launching a death squad.

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02:02:54.000 --> 02:02:56.200
Don't just sit and wait for it to come.

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02:02:56.200 --> 02:02:59.560
Set up spiritual defenses with your declarations

1394
02:02:59.560 --> 02:03:02.160
over your life, your destiny, and your dreams.

1395
02:03:02.160 --> 02:03:04.680
This is one of my favorite scriptures to declare

1396
02:03:04.680 --> 02:03:09.680
in the midst of an enemy attack, Isaiah 54, 17.

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02:03:10.000 --> 02:03:15.000
But in that day, no weapon turned against you will succeed.

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02:03:15.920 --> 02:03:20.240
You will silence every voice raised up to accuse you.

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02:03:20.240 --> 02:03:23.560
These benefits are enjoyed by the servants of the Lord.

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02:03:23.560 --> 02:03:26.200
Their vindication will come from me.

1401
02:03:26.200 --> 02:03:28.400
I, the Lord, have spoken.

1402
02:03:29.880 --> 02:03:32.760
But my favorite defense is offense

1403
02:03:32.760 --> 02:03:34.800
and that's what phase three is all about.

1404
02:03:34.800 --> 02:03:39.800
I absolutely love the third phase of building in the spirit.

1405
02:03:40.560 --> 02:03:42.920
Phase three, framing your future.

1406
02:03:45.920 --> 02:03:49.360
In the third phase of building in the spirit,

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02:03:49.360 --> 02:03:52.840
major changes and developments unfold

1408
02:03:52.840 --> 02:03:55.680
in our relationship with our dream.

1409
02:03:55.680 --> 02:03:58.640
Once God gives us an assurance of faith

1410
02:03:58.640 --> 02:04:01.520
that now is the time to pursue this dream

1411
02:04:01.520 --> 02:04:05.680
and our burning desire is fused with God's stamp of approval,

1412
02:04:05.680 --> 02:04:07.560
everything is different.

1413
02:04:08.080 --> 02:04:10.280
Everything is different.

1414
02:04:10.280 --> 02:04:13.760
This is a significant coming of age moment

1415
02:04:13.760 --> 02:04:17.040
when our dream transitions from merely being an idea

1416
02:04:17.040 --> 02:04:20.160
in our imagination to being conceived

1417
02:04:20.160 --> 02:04:23.600
as a living spiritual reality.

1418
02:04:23.600 --> 02:04:27.040
We too must change in how we relate to our dream.

1419
02:04:27.040 --> 02:04:30.200
We must go through a transition from seeing our dream

1420
02:04:30.200 --> 02:04:32.880
merely through the eyes of our imagination

1421
02:04:32.880 --> 02:04:37.280
to seeing our dream through the eyes of faith.

1422
02:04:37.640 --> 02:04:39.680
2 Corinthians 5 verse seven,

1423
02:04:39.680 --> 02:04:43.840
for we live by faith, not by sight.

1424
02:04:44.800 --> 02:04:48.120
Faith perceives spiritual realities

1425
02:04:48.120 --> 02:04:52.000
as present tense fact.

1426
02:04:52.000 --> 02:04:55.720
Faith sees differently to our everyday imaginings

1427
02:04:55.720 --> 02:04:58.080
and we must transition to seeing our dream

1428
02:04:58.080 --> 02:04:59.640
through a lens of faith.

1429
02:05:00.000 --> 02:05:03.360
This is also a process.

1430
02:05:03.360 --> 02:05:07.460
Building in the spirit first builds up our faith,

1431
02:05:07.460 --> 02:05:11.620
and then our dream matures as our faith matures.

1432
02:05:11.620 --> 02:05:13.080
Matthew 9, 29.

1433
02:05:14.460 --> 02:05:17.220
Then he touched their eyes, saying,

1434
02:05:17.220 --> 02:05:21.100
"'It shall be done to you according to your faith.'"

1435
02:05:22.100 --> 02:05:27.100
In this process, our faith solidifies and grows

1436
02:05:27.100 --> 02:05:30.660
as we begin to embrace the transition.

1437
02:05:30.660 --> 02:05:32.900
How we think about the dream changes.

1438
02:05:32.900 --> 02:05:34.960
How we talk about it changes.

1439
02:05:34.960 --> 02:05:37.180
How we see the dream changes.

1440
02:05:37.180 --> 02:05:41.140
Even our responsibility to the dream changes.

1441
02:05:41.140 --> 02:05:44.220
An idea that used to just once bounce around our heads

1442
02:05:44.220 --> 02:05:46.460
is now alive.

1443
02:05:46.460 --> 02:05:49.500
God now entrusts us with this dream

1444
02:05:49.500 --> 02:05:52.380
as though it were a beloved child

1445
02:05:52.380 --> 02:05:55.660
that he was giving us to raise for him.

1446
02:05:55.660 --> 02:05:57.760
There's nothing casual about this.

1447
02:05:57.760 --> 02:05:59.260
It is a sacred calling

1448
02:05:59.260 --> 02:06:02.320
with significant responsibility attached to it.

1449
02:06:02.320 --> 02:06:05.860
How you steward this dream will significantly impact

1450
02:06:05.860 --> 02:06:08.160
the favor of God on your life.

1451
02:06:08.160 --> 02:06:09.420
If you steward this dream

1452
02:06:09.420 --> 02:06:12.140
as a precious and sacred gift from God,

1453
02:06:12.140 --> 02:06:14.620
you will experience an increase

1454
02:06:14.620 --> 02:06:17.900
in the favor of God on your life.

1455
02:06:17.900 --> 02:06:20.760
Just as the faithful servants in the parables

1456
02:06:20.760 --> 02:06:22.400
of the talents and the minors,

1457
02:06:22.400 --> 02:06:27.320
your faithfulness will be rewarded with increase.

1458
02:06:27.320 --> 02:06:31.520
The spiritual momentum on your destiny will increase.

1459
02:06:31.520 --> 02:06:34.120
Our dream from God,

1460
02:06:34.120 --> 02:06:37.080
our cause worth dying for,

1461
02:06:37.080 --> 02:06:40.320
our burning heart's desire

1462
02:06:40.320 --> 02:06:42.600
has received an assurance of faith from God

1463
02:06:42.600 --> 02:06:45.240
and it is now alive in the spiritual realm.

1464
02:06:45.240 --> 02:06:47.440
It is as alive in the spiritual realm

1465
02:06:47.440 --> 02:06:50.320
as we are in the natural realm.

1466
02:06:50.320 --> 02:06:52.800
We continue leaning into God for deeper insights

1467
02:06:52.800 --> 02:06:54.600
into the significance of this dream

1468
02:06:54.600 --> 02:06:57.220
and he continues to reveal deeper layers

1469
02:06:57.220 --> 02:07:00.080
of the significance and the destiny of this dream.

1470
02:07:00.080 --> 02:07:04.500
As the picture of destiny of this dream gets even clearer,

1471
02:07:04.500 --> 02:07:07.500
we are able to increase the level of precision

1472
02:07:07.500 --> 02:07:09.920
with which we frame our future.

1473
02:07:11.560 --> 02:07:14.980
With preciously chosen declarations,

1474
02:07:14.980 --> 02:07:17.400
blessings, and words of life,

1475
02:07:17.400 --> 02:07:20.680
we speak life over our dreams

1476
02:07:20.680 --> 02:07:22.580
and we call out our dream

1477
02:07:22.580 --> 02:07:26.120
that does not yet have any natural substance

1478
02:07:26.120 --> 02:07:29.940
as though it is a present tense reality.

1479
02:07:29.940 --> 02:07:31.520
This is faith at work,

1480
02:07:31.520 --> 02:07:36.520
calling out unseen promises as present tense realities.

1481
02:07:37.280 --> 02:07:40.640
Faith is not faking it,

1482
02:07:40.640 --> 02:07:44.280
but in its infancy, it's hard to tell the difference.

1483
02:07:44.280 --> 02:07:49.280
At first, faith may be as tiny as a mustard seed.

1484
02:07:49.340 --> 02:07:53.400
Building in the spirit will turn that tiny mustard seed

1485
02:07:53.400 --> 02:07:56.040
level of faith into something huge.

1486
02:07:56.040 --> 02:07:58.360
Faith in action does not look like a few words

1487
02:07:58.360 --> 02:08:02.080
casually mumbled in a half-hearted prayer.

1488
02:08:02.080 --> 02:08:05.320
We daily declare the richest, most powerful,

1489
02:08:05.320 --> 02:08:08.560
most limitless, most abundant, most life-giving,

1490
02:08:08.560 --> 02:08:10.880
nurturing, and wildly exciting words

1491
02:08:10.880 --> 02:08:13.960
that we are able to as we frame the future

1492
02:08:14.600 --> 02:08:15.440
of this dream.

1493
02:08:15.440 --> 02:08:17.120
You may wish to write these declarations down

1494
02:08:17.120 --> 02:08:20.440
in a very serious and official way.

1495
02:08:20.440 --> 02:08:25.000
I have 12 royal daily declarations

1496
02:08:25.000 --> 02:08:27.500
that I take very seriously,

1497
02:08:27.500 --> 02:08:30.760
that I use to frame my future for my life,

1498
02:08:30.760 --> 02:08:33.360
my family, my destiny, my dream team,

1499
02:08:33.360 --> 02:08:34.760
and my wildest dreams.

1500
02:08:35.920 --> 02:08:38.840
This is not the limit of my declarations of faith.

1501
02:08:38.840 --> 02:08:41.120
It is the foundation of my daily process

1502
02:08:41.120 --> 02:08:46.120
of building in the spirit and stewarding my sacred destiny.

1503
02:08:46.760 --> 02:08:48.300
Proverbs 18, 21.

1504
02:08:49.140 --> 02:08:54.140
The tongue has the power of life and death,

1505
02:08:54.160 --> 02:08:57.460
and those who love it will eat its fruits.

1506
02:08:58.600 --> 02:09:01.760
Building in the spirit is a process.

1507
02:09:01.760 --> 02:09:06.560
Through this process, our convictions of faith grow.

1508
02:09:06.560 --> 02:09:08.760
The spiritual substance, the reality,

1509
02:09:08.760 --> 02:09:13.120
and the momentum of the dream itself grows.

1510
02:09:13.120 --> 02:09:16.360
Over time, our relationship starts to change again

1511
02:09:16.360 --> 02:09:18.840
as we become even more pregnant

1512
02:09:18.840 --> 02:09:20.920
with the imminent expectation

1513
02:09:20.920 --> 02:09:23.120
that this dream is about to be birthed

1514
02:09:23.120 --> 02:09:24.720
into the natural realm.

1515
02:09:24.720 --> 02:09:26.280
Hebrews 11, 1.

1516
02:09:26.280 --> 02:09:28.920
Now, faith is the assurance,

1517
02:09:28.920 --> 02:09:33.360
the title deed confirmation of things hoped for,

1518
02:09:33.360 --> 02:09:35.600
divinely guaranteed,

1519
02:09:35.600 --> 02:09:38.100
and the evidence of things not seen,

1520
02:09:38.440 --> 02:09:40.460
the conviction of their reality.

1521
02:09:40.460 --> 02:09:45.300
Faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced

1522
02:09:45.300 --> 02:09:47.520
by the physical senses.

1523
02:09:49.660 --> 02:09:54.100
As the sense that this dream really is about to happen

1524
02:09:54.100 --> 02:09:58.280
and our expectation quietly builds, we start nesting.

1525
02:09:58.280 --> 02:10:00.480
We start doing absolutely everything possible.

1526
02:10:00.000 --> 02:10:02.420
possible in the natural and in the spiritual

1527
02:10:02.420 --> 02:10:04.940
to prepare for the day of its arrival.

1528
02:10:04.940 --> 02:10:08.900
For Abraham, this process of building in the spirit

1529
02:10:08.900 --> 02:10:12.980
and framing his future took 40 years.

1530
02:10:12.980 --> 02:10:16.260
The process of birthing dreams and promises from God

1531
02:10:16.260 --> 02:10:19.940
is a true adventure, whereby we partner with God

1532
02:10:19.940 --> 02:10:23.340
and with faith to call into being impossible dreams,

1533
02:10:23.340 --> 02:10:26.700
birthing them into the natural through faith.

1534
02:10:26.700 --> 02:10:30.100
Fortunately for Abraham, during this 40 years

1535
02:10:30.100 --> 02:10:35.100
of the birthing process, he had an assurance of faith.

1536
02:10:36.580 --> 02:10:38.540
Every time he looked up into the stars,

1537
02:10:38.540 --> 02:10:41.380
he was reminded of God's assurance of faith

1538
02:10:41.380 --> 02:10:43.900
that he would have a son and his descendants

1539
02:10:43.900 --> 02:10:46.300
would outnumber the stars.

1540
02:10:46.300 --> 02:10:51.220
Romans 4, 17 to 19, that's what the scripture means

1541
02:10:51.220 --> 02:10:55.860
when it says, I have made you the father of many nations.

1542
02:10:55.860 --> 02:10:58.300
He is our example and father.

1543
02:10:58.300 --> 02:11:01.780
For in God's presence, he believed that God

1544
02:11:01.780 --> 02:11:06.540
can raise the dead and call into being

1545
02:11:06.540 --> 02:11:10.940
things that don't even exist yet.

1546
02:11:10.940 --> 02:11:14.420
Against all odds, when it looked hopeless,

1547
02:11:14.420 --> 02:11:17.900
Abraham believed the promise

1548
02:11:17.900 --> 02:11:20.940
and expected God to fulfill it.

1549
02:11:20.940 --> 02:11:24.460
He took God at his word and as a result,

1550
02:11:24.460 --> 02:11:28.060
he became the father of many nations.

1551
02:11:28.060 --> 02:11:31.820
God's declaration over him came to pass.

1552
02:11:31.820 --> 02:11:34.660
Your descendants will be so many

1553
02:11:34.660 --> 02:11:37.700
that they will be impossible to count.

1554
02:11:39.460 --> 02:11:42.660
At this point in the process of building in the spirit,

1555
02:11:42.660 --> 02:11:45.020
our faith has now matured to the point

1556
02:11:45.020 --> 02:11:46.940
that we are fully persuaded that this dream

1557
02:11:46.940 --> 02:11:49.660
is about to come crashing out of the spiritual realm

1558
02:11:49.660 --> 02:11:53.140
at any moment because we have taken the time

1559
02:11:53.140 --> 02:11:56.740
to frame the future of this dream and to nurture it.

1560
02:11:56.740 --> 02:11:58.980
It has grown strong and healthy.

1561
02:11:58.980 --> 02:12:00.940
We can see by faith that this dream

1562
02:12:00.940 --> 02:12:04.820
has already exceeded our wildest imaginings.

1563
02:12:04.820 --> 02:12:07.340
There's one more absolutely vital aspect

1564
02:12:07.340 --> 02:12:10.540
to building in the spirit that we must now focus on

1565
02:12:10.540 --> 02:12:12.820
to ensure that we remain in a constant state

1566
02:12:12.820 --> 02:12:17.820
of victory and faith, regardless of the attacks of the enemy.

1567
02:12:19.260 --> 02:12:22.260
Phase four, extreme gratitude.

1568
02:12:24.140 --> 02:12:26.020
One day I was walking along in the sun

1569
02:12:27.460 --> 02:12:28.660
and God whispered to me,

1570
02:12:31.620 --> 02:12:35.980
live every day like all your wildest dreams

1571
02:12:35.980 --> 02:12:37.820
have already come true.

1572
02:12:37.820 --> 02:12:41.460
That is exactly how we live when we have faith

1573
02:12:41.460 --> 02:12:43.820
that our God-given dreams already exist

1574
02:12:43.820 --> 02:12:46.020
as spiritual realities.

1575
02:12:46.020 --> 02:12:48.980
This is the final key to building in the spirit.

1576
02:12:48.980 --> 02:12:52.300
As you meditate on the dreams that God has promised you,

1577
02:12:52.300 --> 02:12:55.460
as you see those dreams fulfilled in all their glory

1578
02:12:55.460 --> 02:12:57.620
by faith in the present tense,

1579
02:12:57.620 --> 02:13:01.140
practice allowing the greatest, most extreme expressions

1580
02:13:01.140 --> 02:13:04.380
of gratitude to God that you've ever expressed

1581
02:13:04.380 --> 02:13:07.020
flood your heart and rise up as incense

1582
02:13:07.020 --> 02:13:08.500
before the throne of God.

1583
02:13:08.500 --> 02:13:11.380
Through your faith, you are able to express

1584
02:13:11.380 --> 02:13:15.900
extreme gratitude right now for spiritual realities

1585
02:13:15.900 --> 02:13:19.980
that you know will one day be established in the natural.

1586
02:13:19.980 --> 02:13:22.380
This is one of the most powerful expressions of faith

1587
02:13:22.380 --> 02:13:25.820
and spiritual practices that we can ever engage in.

1588
02:13:25.820 --> 02:13:28.900
Extreme gratitude is always in perfect harmony

1589
02:13:28.900 --> 02:13:30.340
with the divine dance.

1590
02:13:30.340 --> 02:13:32.500
As you practice extreme gratitude,

1591
02:13:32.500 --> 02:13:35.900
there's a good chance that you will find yourself

1592
02:13:35.900 --> 02:13:37.700
being pulled into the divine dance

1593
02:13:37.700 --> 02:13:40.540
and becoming so overwhelmed by the love of God

1594
02:13:40.540 --> 02:13:44.940
that you and your faith become as invincible as Abraham.

1595
02:13:44.940 --> 02:13:48.380
Abraham was such a master of faith

1596
02:13:48.380 --> 02:13:52.100
that even when all the facts did their best

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to defy the promises of God for his life,

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his faith did not flinch.

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02:13:56.940 --> 02:13:59.740
Instead of reacting in unbelief,

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Abraham's faith only grew stronger.

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02:14:03.420 --> 02:14:05.740
The more impossible the promise looked,

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02:14:05.740 --> 02:14:09.780
the more Abraham rejoiced and the more his faith grew.

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02:14:09.780 --> 02:14:13.460
Until at last, the son that Abraham had seen by faith

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02:14:13.460 --> 02:14:15.420
for 40 years in the spiritual realm

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02:14:15.460 --> 02:14:18.620
was conceived in Sarah's long dead womb.

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02:14:18.620 --> 02:14:21.140
Wow, pause on that for a moment.

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02:14:21.140 --> 02:14:25.180
Wow, what Abraham saw in the spirit for 40 years

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02:14:25.180 --> 02:14:29.420
finally came crashing out of heaven into Sarah's womb.

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02:14:30.340 --> 02:14:33.580
Can you imagine the joy, the laughter,

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02:14:33.580 --> 02:14:35.940
and the delight that they experienced

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02:14:35.940 --> 02:14:38.940
as they finally held their son in their arms?

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02:14:38.940 --> 02:14:43.580
Tears of extreme gratitude rolling down their cheeks,

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02:14:43.580 --> 02:14:46.020
absolutely speechless in wonder,

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02:14:46.020 --> 02:14:49.740
overwhelmed with the faithfulness and the goodness of God

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02:14:49.740 --> 02:14:52.660
and completely undone with bliss.

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02:14:52.660 --> 02:14:56.380
No wonder they named him Isaac, which means laughter.

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02:14:56.380 --> 02:14:58.860
He laughs and he will laugh,

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02:14:58.860 --> 02:15:00.060
which is exactly what.

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02:15:00.000 --> 02:15:08.040
they did over and over again as they held Isaac, their long-awaited son, and their promise

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02:15:08.040 --> 02:15:10.120
from God.

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02:15:10.120 --> 02:15:15.520
Well, that is what extreme gratitude looks like.

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02:15:15.520 --> 02:15:21.960
And by faith, that's what our prayer life can look like as we behold spiritual realities

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02:15:21.960 --> 02:15:25.040
as present tense realities.

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02:15:25.040 --> 02:15:29.820
By faith, we perceive our dreams not as maybes, but as facts.

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02:15:29.820 --> 02:15:36.360
As we yadaa those dreams by faith, we can experience the joy of that final day of breakthrough

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02:15:36.360 --> 02:15:43.840
a thousand times or more before the day comes that it actually comes to pass in the natural.

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02:15:43.840 --> 02:15:48.040
Romans 4, 19-21.

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02:15:48.040 --> 02:15:54.960
Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead.

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02:15:54.960 --> 02:16:00.440
Since he was about a hundred years old, and that Sarah's womb was also dead, yet he did

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02:16:00.440 --> 02:16:06.480
not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith

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02:16:06.480 --> 02:16:14.920
and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.

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02:16:14.920 --> 02:16:20.440
To have faith is to be fully persuaded.

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02:16:20.440 --> 02:16:27.360
When you are fully persuaded that promises, like Ephesians 3, 20, are a fact for you,

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02:16:27.360 --> 02:16:33.879
a certainty and a done deal, then a lifestyle of extreme gratitude is the only way to live.

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02:16:33.879 --> 02:16:36.240
Ephesians 3, 20.

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02:16:36.240 --> 02:16:41.360
Never doubt God's mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this.

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02:16:41.360 --> 02:16:46.760
He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream,

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02:16:46.760 --> 02:16:50.000
and exceed your wildest imagination.

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02:16:50.000 --> 02:16:57.480
He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.

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02:16:57.480 --> 02:17:01.600
As you know, there are many other spiritual disciplines that will build your faith, and

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02:17:01.600 --> 02:17:07.440
I encourage you to pursue them all, especially reading your Bible, but there are few disciplines

1642
02:17:07.440 --> 02:17:13.320
as powerful as the practice of extreme gratitude.

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02:17:13.320 --> 02:17:18.959
Extreme gratitude really is the pinnacle of building in the spirit.

1644
02:17:18.959 --> 02:17:25.719
Extreme gratitude is one of the highest and most powerful spiritual disciplines.

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02:17:25.719 --> 02:17:30.200
Extreme gratitude for the things that you perceive by faith is evidence that you are

1646
02:17:30.200 --> 02:17:35.520
beginning to master the ancient heavenly weapon of faith, and it is evidence that you have

1647
02:17:35.520 --> 02:17:38.600
slain the giant of unbelief.

1648
02:17:38.600 --> 02:17:46.559
The sound of extreme gratitude for the things that you perceive by faith will produce supernatural

1649
02:17:46.559 --> 02:17:53.000
momentum in the spiritual realm that releases two mind-blowing side effects, one for you

1650
02:17:53.000 --> 02:17:55.000
and one for your dream.

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02:17:55.000 --> 02:17:59.920
Extreme gratitude will position you to joyfully rule and reign in power and love over every

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02:17:59.920 --> 02:18:02.799
challenge that comes your way.

1653
02:18:02.799 --> 02:18:04.299
Philippians 3, 1.

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02:18:04.299 --> 02:18:08.799
The conclusion of your faith is extreme gladness in the Lord.

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02:18:08.799 --> 02:18:11.959
He is your constant reference to bliss.

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02:18:11.959 --> 02:18:14.440
I'm not just saying this to be repetitive.

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02:18:14.440 --> 02:18:16.680
Joy is your fortress.

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02:18:16.680 --> 02:18:22.719
There is no safer place to be but to be ecstatically happy.

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02:18:22.719 --> 02:18:26.480
When you practice extreme gratitude, your attention is set on God.

1660
02:18:26.480 --> 02:18:30.799
The sound of extreme gratitude is filling the atmosphere.

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02:18:30.799 --> 02:18:34.959
Delight is flooding your heart and flooding the atmosphere all around you.

1662
02:18:34.959 --> 02:18:40.480
There are few ways to position yourself more effectively to be overwhelmed by the bliss

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02:18:40.480 --> 02:18:48.400
and the ecstasy of the presence of God than to regularly practice extreme gratitude.

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02:18:48.400 --> 02:18:50.559
Philippians 4, 4.

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02:18:50.559 --> 02:18:54.920
Joy is not a luxury option.

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02:18:54.920 --> 02:18:57.160
Joy is your constant.

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02:18:57.160 --> 02:19:01.080
Your union in the Lord is your permanent source of delight.

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02:19:01.080 --> 02:19:06.299
So I might as well say it again, rejoice in the Lord always.

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02:19:06.299 --> 02:19:10.900
We were designed by God to live overwhelmed by His presence and love.

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02:19:10.900 --> 02:19:16.420
When we are overwhelmed by God's glory, nothing else in this world can overwhelm us.

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02:19:16.420 --> 02:19:21.459
We can live above every circumstance and rule over every situation regardless of the chaos

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02:19:21.459 --> 02:19:23.100
unfolding around us.

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02:19:23.100 --> 02:19:28.540
When we are overwhelmed by the love and glory of God, we are positioned to rule and reign

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02:19:28.540 --> 02:19:33.100
in power and love over every challenge that comes our way.

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02:19:33.100 --> 02:19:37.740
The regular practice of extreme gratitude, especially for things that we perceive by

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02:19:37.740 --> 02:19:44.059
faith, has always been one of the most effective ways to create an atmosphere where we find

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02:19:44.059 --> 02:19:51.420
ourselves consistently overwhelmed by the glory of God and invincible in the face of

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02:19:51.420 --> 02:19:52.420
our enemies.

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02:19:52.420 --> 02:19:54.500
Psalm 27, verse 1 to 3.

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02:19:54.500 --> 02:19:58.260
The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?

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02:19:58.260 --> 02:20:00.020
The Lord is the stronghold of my life.

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02:20:00.000 --> 02:20:02.000
Life of whom shall I be afraid?

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02:20:02.000 --> 02:20:04.880
When the wicked advance against me to devour me,

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02:20:04.880 --> 02:20:08.120
it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall.

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02:20:08.120 --> 02:20:11.120
Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear.

1686
02:20:11.120 --> 02:20:12.600
Though war break out against me,

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02:20:12.600 --> 02:20:16.000
even then I will be confident.

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02:20:16.000 --> 02:20:18.520
The place of extreme gratitude

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02:20:18.520 --> 02:20:21.120
unlocks deep intimacy with the Trinity,

1690
02:20:21.120 --> 02:20:25.880
and intimacy with God always releases amazing dreams,

1691
02:20:25.880 --> 02:20:29.520
insight, creativity, ideas, strategies, and vision.

1692
02:20:29.560 --> 02:20:32.560
This will position you to refine

1693
02:20:32.560 --> 02:20:34.800
your declarations over your dream.

1694
02:20:34.800 --> 02:20:36.200
It will fuel your faith.

1695
02:20:36.200 --> 02:20:37.960
It will set you up for victory

1696
02:20:37.960 --> 02:20:40.880
over the third satanic assignment and giant of darkness

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02:20:40.880 --> 02:20:44.760
that have been commissioned against your life and destiny.

1698
02:20:46.080 --> 02:20:49.040
When it comes to how your dream will be blessed

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02:20:49.040 --> 02:20:51.080
by the sound of extreme gratitude,

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02:20:51.080 --> 02:20:54.080
you need to imagine that extreme gratitude

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02:20:54.080 --> 02:20:57.000
is like a heat-seeking missile.

1702
02:20:57.000 --> 02:21:00.120
When you pour yourself out in extreme delight,

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02:21:00.120 --> 02:21:03.080
God mobilizes heaven on your behalf

1704
02:21:03.080 --> 02:21:05.600
to release victory over your enemies,

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02:21:05.600 --> 02:21:08.840
to set up divine appointments and divine timing,

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02:21:08.840 --> 02:21:13.080
to literally rearrange reality on your behalf,

1707
02:21:13.080 --> 02:21:16.720
constructing the circumstances and sequences of events

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02:21:16.720 --> 02:21:20.560
that will divinely orchestrate the fruition of your dreams

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02:21:20.560 --> 02:21:22.840
and the desires of your heart.

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02:21:22.840 --> 02:21:26.480
Wow, extreme gratitude is a form of delight.

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02:21:26.520 --> 02:21:29.920
We know that as we release the sound of delight,

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02:21:29.920 --> 02:21:32.400
God fulfills the desires of our hearts,

1713
02:21:32.400 --> 02:21:36.360
but he also does that by mobilizing heaven on our behalf

1714
02:21:36.360 --> 02:21:39.200
as we worship and give thanks.

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02:21:39.200 --> 02:21:40.600
Psalm 37 verse four,

1716
02:21:40.600 --> 02:21:41.840
delight yourself in the Lord

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02:21:41.840 --> 02:21:44.600
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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02:21:44.600 --> 02:21:48.760
This is exactly what King Jehoshaphat experienced

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02:21:48.760 --> 02:21:52.480
when he was surrounded by three great armies

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02:21:52.520 --> 02:21:57.000
that were coming to completely destroy his kingdom.

1721
02:21:57.000 --> 02:22:00.120
He made his focus extreme gratitude

1722
02:22:00.120 --> 02:22:03.520
for a salvation that he had perceived by faith.

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02:22:03.520 --> 02:22:05.560
Despite the fact that the enemy armies

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02:22:05.560 --> 02:22:08.240
were already marching to the battle lines,

1725
02:22:08.240 --> 02:22:09.960
King Jehoshaphat's strategy

1726
02:22:09.960 --> 02:22:13.360
was to place the worship team in front of the army

1727
02:22:13.360 --> 02:22:18.360
to delight in God, to be bold and to have faith.

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02:22:18.480 --> 02:22:23.480
Two Chronicles chapter 20, verse 20 to 25.

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02:22:23.680 --> 02:22:26.520
Early in the morning, they left for the desert of Tekoa.

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02:22:26.520 --> 02:22:29.120
As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said,

1731
02:22:29.120 --> 02:22:31.680
listen to me, Judah and people of Israel,

1732
02:22:31.680 --> 02:22:36.400
have faith in the Lord your God and you will be upheld.

1733
02:22:36.400 --> 02:22:40.680
Have faith in his prophets and you will be successful.

1734
02:22:40.680 --> 02:22:43.280
After consulting the people,

1735
02:22:43.280 --> 02:22:47.920
Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing praises of God

1736
02:22:48.000 --> 02:22:50.120
and to sing to the Lord and praise him

1737
02:22:50.120 --> 02:22:52.640
for the splendor of his holiness

1738
02:22:52.640 --> 02:22:55.560
as they went out at the head of the army saying,

1739
02:22:55.560 --> 02:22:58.600
give thanks to the Lord, his love endures forever.

1740
02:22:58.600 --> 02:23:00.480
As they began to sing and praise,

1741
02:23:00.480 --> 02:23:03.920
the Lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab

1742
02:23:03.920 --> 02:23:06.560
and Mount Seir who were invading Judah.

1743
02:23:06.560 --> 02:23:08.760
Then they were defeated.

1744
02:23:08.760 --> 02:23:10.440
The Ammonites and the Moabites

1745
02:23:10.440 --> 02:23:12.280
rose up against the men from Mount Seir

1746
02:23:12.280 --> 02:23:14.040
to destroy and annihilate them.

1747
02:23:14.040 --> 02:23:17.160
After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir,

1748
02:23:17.160 --> 02:23:20.120
they helped to destroy one another.

1749
02:23:20.120 --> 02:23:22.520
When the men of Judah came to the place

1750
02:23:22.520 --> 02:23:27.440
that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army,

1751
02:23:27.440 --> 02:23:31.640
they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground.

1752
02:23:31.640 --> 02:23:33.320
No one had escaped.

1753
02:23:33.320 --> 02:23:38.320
So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder

1754
02:23:39.200 --> 02:23:42.440
and they found among them a great amount of equipment

1755
02:23:42.440 --> 02:23:45.360
and clothing and also articles of value

1756
02:23:45.360 --> 02:23:47.000
more than they could take away.

1757
02:23:47.840 --> 02:23:48.680
There was so much plunder

1758
02:23:48.680 --> 02:23:50.720
that it took three days to collect it.

1759
02:23:50.720 --> 02:23:52.440
An insight that I received from the Lord

1760
02:23:52.440 --> 02:23:53.720
through this passage is that

1761
02:23:53.720 --> 02:23:56.480
there is always a blessing in the blind side.

1762
02:23:56.480 --> 02:23:58.720
Every time the enemy blindsides us,

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02:23:58.720 --> 02:24:00.600
if we position ourselves in faith,

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02:24:00.600 --> 02:24:02.320
the light and extreme attitude,

1765
02:24:02.320 --> 02:24:05.240
even while the enemy is marching to the battle lines,

1766
02:24:05.240 --> 02:24:07.960
believing that there is a blessing in the blind side,

1767
02:24:07.960 --> 02:24:10.280
we can experience what Jehoshaphat experienced

1768
02:24:10.280 --> 02:24:11.960
and what Joseph experienced.

1769
02:24:11.960 --> 02:24:15.520
One Genesis 5.20, Joseph said,

1770
02:24:15.560 --> 02:24:17.320
you intended to harm me,

1771
02:24:17.320 --> 02:24:19.280
but God intended it for good

1772
02:24:19.280 --> 02:24:22.000
to accomplish what is now being done,

1773
02:24:22.000 --> 02:24:24.680
the saving of many lives.

1774
02:24:24.680 --> 02:24:27.640
Here's a quick recap on how to master

1775
02:24:27.640 --> 02:24:31.600
the four phases of building in the spirit.

1776
02:24:31.600 --> 02:24:35.480
One, you must have a burning desire.

1777
02:24:35.480 --> 02:24:40.000
Two, you must seek God for an assurance of faith.

1778
02:24:41.000 --> 02:24:46.000
Three, you must frame your future with declarations.

1779
02:24:46.240 --> 02:24:49.920
This phase includes solidifying your faith,

1780
02:24:49.920 --> 02:24:52.120
taking ownership of your dream,

1781
02:24:52.120 --> 02:24:55.000
and holding fast as you birth your dream

1782
02:24:55.000 --> 02:24:58.080
into the natural realm through faith.

1783
02:24:58.080 --> 02:25:00.280
Number four, you must live.

1784
02:25:00.000 --> 02:25:07.060
Live in a place of extreme gratitude for the dreams that you perceive by faith, giving

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02:25:07.060 --> 02:25:15.780
thanks for future realities like Abraham and Sarah as they held Isaac in their arms.

1786
02:25:15.780 --> 02:25:22.060
Living by faith and not by sight looks like living from another dimension.

1787
02:25:22.060 --> 02:25:27.400
Everyone around you is looking at your facts, but you are living by faith and the facts

1788
02:25:27.400 --> 02:25:30.880
are irrelevant in your decision-making process.

1789
02:25:30.880 --> 02:25:36.960
Living by faith and not by sight happens when your faith in God's promise eclipses the

1790
02:25:36.960 --> 02:25:43.080
facts that defy that God is able to fulfill His word to you.

1791
02:25:43.080 --> 02:25:50.080
The impossibilities that were once giants in your eyes become as grasshoppers.

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02:25:50.080 --> 02:25:56.580
When this happens, everything changes, but it often happens little by little.

1793
02:25:56.580 --> 02:26:01.900
Through this process of building in the Spirit, it's literally like taking possession of

1794
02:26:01.900 --> 02:26:08.220
spiritual real estate and building your wildest dreams in the spiritual realm.

1795
02:26:08.220 --> 02:26:13.580
As you steward your burning desire and your assurance of faith and begin to declare the

1796
02:26:13.580 --> 02:26:20.620
promises of God over your life, calling what is unseen as seen and practicing extreme gratitude

1797
02:26:20.780 --> 02:26:28.020
as though all your wildest dreams have already come true, something priceless happens.

1798
02:26:28.020 --> 02:26:34.140
The spiritual bare land that you acquired through an assurance of faith starts to have

1799
02:26:34.140 --> 02:26:40.340
a building appearing on it, perhaps just a tent to begin with.

1800
02:26:40.340 --> 02:26:47.620
But as you build in the Spirit, your wildest dreams become masterpieces and mansions like

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02:26:47.620 --> 02:26:54.460
the fathers of the faith, you too move in and take up residence and you start to live

1802
02:26:54.460 --> 02:27:00.620
from the conviction that the promise of God is a present reality.

1803
02:27:00.620 --> 02:27:05.900
It just hasn't been revealed to the eyes of those around you yet.

1804
02:27:05.900 --> 02:27:07.700
Michelangelo once said,

1805
02:27:08.580 --> 02:27:14.100
I saw an angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.

1806
02:27:14.100 --> 02:27:25.460
From 1494 to 1495, Michelangelo transformed a block of granite into one of the greatest

1807
02:27:25.460 --> 02:27:32.020
sculptures and most magnificent artistic masterpieces ever created.

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02:27:32.020 --> 02:27:33.020
He said,

1809
02:27:33.020 --> 02:27:41.060
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped

1810
02:27:41.060 --> 02:27:44.700
and perfect in attitude and action.

1811
02:27:44.700 --> 02:27:51.820
I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it

1812
02:27:51.820 --> 02:27:56.460
to the other eyes as mine see it.

1813
02:27:56.460 --> 02:27:59.220
Living by faith is similar.

1814
02:27:59.220 --> 02:28:06.580
Just as Michelangelo carved his angel out with every action of his hammer and chisel,

1815
02:28:06.580 --> 02:28:13.620
so too we carve out our destiny, our wildest dreams, our promises from God with every faith-based

1816
02:28:13.620 --> 02:28:16.380
action and declaration.

1817
02:28:16.380 --> 02:28:22.140
As we build in the Spirit, we are literally framing our future.

1818
02:28:22.140 --> 02:28:28.260
Everything that we yada in our imagination, the burning desires of our heart, the unyielding

1819
02:28:28.340 --> 02:28:34.500
declarations that we stand firmly on and the extreme gratitude that we are expressing for

1820
02:28:34.500 --> 02:28:43.900
future realities, all works together to literally frame our future and redesign our world.

1821
02:28:43.900 --> 02:28:49.920
How we frame our future, how we are building in the Spirit, literally frames up and determines

1822
02:28:49.920 --> 02:28:55.700
the potential of the life and dreams that we will live in the natural.

1823
02:28:55.700 --> 02:29:02.060
Living by faith and not by sight requires us to actually move in and take up residence

1824
02:29:02.060 --> 02:29:04.220
in another dimension.

1825
02:29:04.220 --> 02:29:10.900
Our attention becomes fixed on the higher realm of faith that has the power to redefine

1826
02:29:10.900 --> 02:29:14.420
the natural facts and impossibilities.

1827
02:29:14.420 --> 02:29:20.300
How crazy must Noah have looked, building the ark in a paddock at a time in history

1828
02:29:20.300 --> 02:29:23.580
before the earth even experienced rain?

1829
02:29:23.580 --> 02:29:26.900
He was living by faith and not by sight.

1830
02:29:26.900 --> 02:29:32.380
Abraham must have looked crazy, believing his descendants would outnumber the stars

1831
02:29:32.380 --> 02:29:36.500
in the sky when he and his wife were barren.

1832
02:29:36.500 --> 02:29:40.360
He was living by faith and not by sight.

1833
02:29:40.360 --> 02:29:48.740
Living from a higher dimension that has the capacity to redefine natural realities.

1834
02:29:48.740 --> 02:29:55.060
Living in the Spirit is being like Michelangelo in carving out your angel, your promises,

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your destiny, your wildest dreams in the spiritual realm by faith.

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order to eventually reveal it in the natural.

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What's the angel that you will carve that will be appreciated by generations to come?

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What's your angel, your cause, your wildest dream that's worth dying for, that's worth

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building in the spirit, and that's worth investing years of carving out by faith

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just as Michelangelo carved his angel?

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Our next chapter exposes a giant of darkness that has never besieged any generation with

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a greater onslaught than this generation is experiencing right now.

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I guarantee you can relate, and you've almost certainly faced off with this giant

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multiple times already today.

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James Hudson Taylor said,

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Then it is difficult, then it is done.

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Throughout history, war has been one of the most dramatic contexts to highlight the extreme

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significance of strategy.

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Entire nations and empires have fallen as a direct result of strategy.

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One example is the Battle of Galgamela, which saw the rising of one empire and the falling

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of another.

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The Battle of Galgamela was one of the most epic battles in world history.

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It took place on the 1st of October, 331 BC in present-day Iraq.

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Darius, the emperor of Persia and the commander of the largest army on earth, came head-to-head

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with Alexander, the commander of the army of Greece, in a battle that would set the

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course of history.

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The fate of two kingdoms would be determined by this single battle.

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Alexander was risking everything to bring the fight to Darius.

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If Alexander was conquered, Greece stood open for a Persian invasion.

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If Alexander could conquer Darius in this battle, the entire Persian empire would be

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his.

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Sources vary regarding the exact size of the Persian army that day, but to quote Colonel

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Lance Petros, military history instructor, USMA West Point, Darius's army was between

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200,000 to 250,000 veteran soldiers.

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It was one of the largest armies assembled in history up to that time.

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In contrast, Alexander had approximately 40,000 infantry and 7,000 cavalry.

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These seem to be impossible odds.

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Alexander was outnumbered by 150,000 to 200,000 veteran soldiers.

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Darius chose the battlefield and prepared it for his advantage.

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He had parts of it flattened and placed traps throughout it for Alexander and his men.

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He created the perfect conditions for his army.

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However, Alexander was secretly observing Darius's preparations and managed to capture

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some of Darius's men and find out important information, including where Darius had

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positioned the traps.

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Darius expected Alexander to attack by night.

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He ordered his men to stay up all night in preparation for an attack that never came.

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While the Persian army stood at the ready for battle the entire night, it was rumored

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that Alexander slept in on the morning of battle.

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His troops were well-rested, well-fed, and ready for war.

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The Persian army's front line stretched out for over four kilometers.

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They outnumbered the Greeks by 150,000 to 200,000 battle-hardened warriors.

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Defeat seemed inevitable.

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Victory seemed impossible.

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If Alexander had attacked with a regular strategy on that day, it is likely that none of us

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would even know his name.

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The Persian army were battle-hardened veterans who had just successfully created one of the

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greatest empires in world history.

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But Alexander was set apart by the wisdom of his strategies.

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Alexander's understanding and value of strategy caused him to consider every option and every

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before the battle. He worked harder than anyone else on mastering the wisdom of

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strategy before his battles so that his battles could be easy. It was this

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intense focus and attention to detail that enabled him to come up with the

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type of wisdom and strategies that could effortlessly neutralize an army's

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greatest weapon in minutes, as he did with the feared scythe chariots.

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Alexander had been thinking about every strength, weakness, opportunity and threat

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of the enemy in order to know how he could exploit them. Then he trained his

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men how to defeat the enemy well in advance of the battle day. One of the

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Persians most feared weapons of war were their infamous scythe chariots. Darius

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had 200 scythe chariots which had large blades sticking out from the hubs of the

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chariot wheels. These chariots were notorious for massive destruction as

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they rode through the enemy cutting people down with the blades. During the

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battle Darius released his 200 scythe chariots. What he didn't see coming was

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Alexander's superior strategy. Some of Alexander's infantry units were

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assembled in what was called a phalanx. A phalanx was a unit of men positioned

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16 men wide and 16 men deep. These soldiers carried spears that were 16 to

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18 feet long and small shields. When the chariots charged at the phalanx hoping

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to cut the men to pieces, the soldiers moved to create a long and wide path

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for the chariots to run into. The blades did not touch anyone and the horses

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stopped their charge when faced with a wall of spears. Then the spearmen, either

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side of the chariots, took out the drivers. Within minutes the 200 notorious

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scythe chariots of the Persian army were completely eliminated without having any

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impact on Alexander's troops. Nearly everything that Darius tried that day

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failed as he came face to face with the superior wisdom and strategies of

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Alexander. Alexander had a precision strategy. Every detail had been considered.

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Every possible scenario that could kill his dream of conquering the greatest

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kingdom on earth had been meticulously analyzed and counter strategies had been

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developed. It was Alexander's wisdom, focus, planning and his ability to

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develop strategy that empowered him to conquer the greatest empire on the

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planet with an army of approximately 47,000 men. When faced with the

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impossible, Alexander did not just win, he absolutely crushed the Persians. He

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dominated them completely. He made the impossible look easy because he took the

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time to focus and he did the hard work of planning and developing strategy

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well in advance of the battle. In a single battle Alexander's men against

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the Persian Empire killed approximately 50,000 Persians while losing only a

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thousand of their own troops. Being outnumbered by a hundred and fifty

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thousand to two hundred thousand veteran soldiers facing an army up to five times

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their size and facing some of the most notorious weapons of the day on the

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enemy's home turf was no match for superior wisdom, focus, planning and

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strategy. Even when faced with the impossible, Alexander demonstrated that a

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great strategy can empower an impossible dream to come to fruition. It was

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after the Battle of Galgamela that Alexander received the title Alexander

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the Great. Another exceptional point to note is that Alexander was only 26 years

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old when he led Greece to victory at Galgamela over the greatest empire on

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earth. Alexander died at age 32 and in that time he had conquered the whole

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known world. Alexander the Great never lost a single battle. He was victorious

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in every campaign. In fact he won the most impossible battles like Galgamela

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in style. He made the impossible look easy because he understood the value of

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taking precision actions with precision timing for precision results. One of

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Alexander's great keys to victory was having the wisdom to focus, focus, focus.

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He focused meticulously on creating superior strategies to his enemy before every battle.

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Once he had mastered a superior strategy, everything else fell into place.

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His superior strategy gave him precision clarity so that at every point he could take precision

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actions with precision timing for precision results.

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Such confidence in his strategies allowed him and his army to implement the strategies

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with surgical precision and ferocious boldness.

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A less obvious key that positioned Alexander the Great to be victorious in every battle

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was that he was fully persuaded that absolutely nothing was impossible.

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He had such conviction that nothing was impossible that fear never clouded or restricted his

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creativity in the process of creating strategy.

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Fear will shut you down, especially your creative capacity.

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Alexander the Great never once backed down from a battle.

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Regardless of the odds, he was fully persuaded that he would be victorious, but he knew the

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only way to ensure that victory was to focus, focus, focus.

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He understood that any battle could be won with the right strategy, so he made certain

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before every single battle that he had done absolutely everything possible to focus and

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to prepare a superior strategy that would guarantee their victory.

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There are a lot of thoughts on the cause of Alexander's death.

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Some say he was poisoned, others say he died of a fever.

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Colonel Lance Betros said that if he had to arrange a list of the top 10 commanders of

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all time, the undefeated master of strategy, Alexander the Great, would be his number one

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commander of all time.

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The secret poison.

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You can be more spiritual than an angel and have greater faith in Abraham and still be

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completely taken out by the third giant of darkness that is brazen enough to hunt you

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down anywhere and at any time, day or night.

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This giant may appear as an angel of light.

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It may even seem completely innocent.

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This particular satanic assignment against your life is cunning, deceptive, and tailor-made.

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It has a poison crafted to be administered in small doses that are seldom lethal in the

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moment.

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It often tastes delicious, so you never suspect it was designed to kill you.

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This poison is administered directly to you, openly, in broad daylight, and often times

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you welcome it and drink it with a smile, not realising that long term it is absolutely

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lethal to your destiny and calling.

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You drink down the poison, not realising that with every sip you are tricked into becoming

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your own enemy and betraying your own dreams.

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Meanwhile, this giant of darkness goes undetected, sneaking around your house, your workplace,

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shadowing your every move, waiting to administer more tiny doses of its poison as many times

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a day as possible.

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This giant is the giant of distraction.

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The satanic assignment that it has been commissioned to carry out against your life is to ensure

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that you are busy doing anything, nothing, and everything except focusing on the most

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strategic thing.

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The third ancient heavenly weapon given to you to defeat the giants of darkness is wisdom.

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In our current digital world, surrounded by notifications, updates, downloads, cool videos,

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global news, lockdowns and pop-ups, we are being assaulted by the giant of distraction

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like never before as it relentlessly pursues one of our most precious commodities, our

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attention.

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Wisdom and distraction both aggressively compete for our attention with two completely different

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agendas.

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The giant of darkness is focused on smothering the life out of you in every way.

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It wants to smother your connection with God, smother your daily schedule with busyness,

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smother your rest time, smother your work time, smother your relationships, smother

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your down time, smother your day time, smother your night time.

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The giant of distraction is trying to get you so busy and so distracted, so engaged

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with anything, nothing, and everything.

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and everything that you are run, ragged, stretched too thin, burning the candle at both ends,

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overworked, burnt out, run down and jacked up to the point that you never do the most strategic

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things. The worst thing that the giant of distraction can imagine is you stopping,

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listening and hearing the voice of wisdom. Wisdom.

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Let me take a little poetic license once again. Wisdom is like a beautiful headmistress

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of heaven's royal academy of giant slayers. She is stunning. She effortlessly captivates

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every space that she enters. Her perfume is an ever-changing symphony of the finest fragrances

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of every season. She radiates warmth, kindness, strength, gentleness, boldness and an atmosphere

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of invincibility. Literal waves of translucent light seem to shimmer off her and dance almost

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invisibly in her wake. Intrigue, honor, awe, power and reverence encircle her and silently

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herald her approach as they permeate a room before she enters. Her full-sleeved, full-length

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dress is breathtaking. She made it herself, as she does with all her garments. It took over

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a hundred years of Tuesday evening dressmaking. It is as much a piece of jewelry as it is a dress.

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It is a one-of-a-kind, light silver and white dress embedded with an ocean of dazzling precious

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stones. Her hair is so blonde it could be white or it could be blonde with pulses of light

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occasionally passing through it. It is tied up elegantly. Long diamond earrings match her

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diamond necklace and the jewels themselves sing heavenly melodies as quietly as the sound of

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breathing, harmonizing with every jewel on her dress. Thousands of barely audible heavenly voices

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release the sound of delight and rise as an incense of worship. As they sing, their colors

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morph almost unnoticeably in a slow motion dance, softly sparkling and swirling in a cadence with

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glory. Nothing about her is more entrancing than her aqua blue eyes that carry the very heartbeat

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of heaven in every glance. Her eyes are like a double-edged sword because as you look into them,

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they capture you entirely and an invisible force pulls your focus nearer. You feel as if you could

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swim in them and discover all the mysteries of eternity, but when wisdom engages you with full

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eye contact, nothing you've experienced has ever been more penetrating. When wisdom looks

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into your eyes, she reads your entire story. Nothing is hidden to her. You are fully exposed

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and simultaneously fully embraced. With a single silent glance, she has become perfectly acquainted

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with every moment of your journey. The silence deepens. Even her acapella jewelry and the dancing

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beams of light around her still themselves. The silence is perfect stillness. Not even your

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thoughts can move as everything holds its breath with intrigue. Now that wisdom knows your entire

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destiny, your past, your present, your strengths, weaknesses, and every detail of your story,

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what will wisdom say? Proverbs 8 1 to 5 verse 12 and verses 32 to 36.

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Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice? At the highest point along the

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way where the paths meet, she takes her stand. Beside the gate leading into the city, at the

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entrance, she cries aloud. To you, O people, I call out. I raise my voice to all mankind.

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I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence. I possess knowledge and discretion.

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Now then, my children, listen to me.

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Blessed are those who keep my ways, listen to my instruction and be wise, do not disregard it.

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Blessed are those who listen to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.

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For those who find me, find life and receive favour from the Lord.

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But those who fail to find me, harm themselves. All who hate me, love death.

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What would wisdom say to you? If you broke free from the distractions,

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what would wisdom say to you? Here's a few ideas.

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Wisdom assesses all the information, past, present and future.

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Before wisdom looks into the future, to the moment where you give account for your life,

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wisdom looks back to the beginning and considers the full extravagance of the

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sacred destiny and calling that the Trinity has entrusted to you.

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Then wisdom pierces the deepest recesses of your heart and captures your most authentic,

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extravagant and precious desires. Specifically, wisdom considers what you want the most on the

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most important moment of your existence to look like. The moment that you have to give account to God.

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That moment that you stand face to face with your maker and give account for every breath you breathed,

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every action that you took or didn't take, for every word you spoke, for every resource that

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you stewarded for the life that you lived, and most significantly, how you stewarded the

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limitless and sacred destiny that was entrusted to you. Psalm 139 verse 16.

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Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book

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before one of them came to be. In a moment, wisdom weighs on a balance, the sacred destiny

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that was entrusted to you, the current trajectory of your life, your deepest hopes and desires for

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the moment that you must give account of your life to your maker and then sits you down for

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some real talk. There's no small talk with wisdom, no excuses, no justifications, no waste, no mucking

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around. She tolerates no fools. There's in-your-face reality, brutal honesty, extreme ownership, crystal

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clear clarity, and high stakes consequences and rewards. Her focus is to raise up royal giant

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slayers who will do whatever it takes to walk the narrow path, the ancient highways, and to walk

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into the infinite possibilities available in Christ. Wisdom will test your heart to determine

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whether or not you are good company for her. If you are, she will challenge you like you've never

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been challenged before in order to equip and empower you for your sacred destiny. If you are

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not good company for her, she will quietly move on and leave you to your own self-destructive

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dysfunction. Wisdom's role is not to be a rescuer. If wisdom deems you as good company, she will

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communicate with you clearly, captivating your focus and attention completely. This is what she

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will reveal. Number one, here's the limitless sacred destiny that God has entrusted to you.

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Number two, here's how you are stewarding it. Number three, here's where that will lead if you continue

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on your current trajectory. Number four, if you want to change the destination that you

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are heading for, then this is exactly what you must do. If you responded well to that feedback

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at a heart level, because wisdom would see right through your words and thoughts and into your heart,

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then wisdom might take you a little deeper. Before she revealed even another word to you,

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she would demand a commitment from you of the highest levels of focus and extreme ownership

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that you have ever summoned. Her price tag is not silver and gold. She's already rich beyond measure.

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Her currency is the highest levels of focus and extreme ownership that you have ever summoned.

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Her price tag is not silver and gold. She already has

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riches beyond measure, her currency is the highest level, let me say it again, of focus

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and extreme ownership.

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She will demand all that you have and more.

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Once you have given her a solemn oath, vowing to supply the highest quality of focus and

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extreme ownership that you have ever attained, she will then, and only then, take you deeper.

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If wisdom was convinced by your vows, she would begin.

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She would begin by demanding her first payment of your focus immediately.

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She would then begin to work with you to create a tailor-made precision vision plan, detailing

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exactly how to steward your sacred destiny and dreams into complete fruition.

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The precision vision plan would show you how to dream with God and how to set yourself

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on fire with passion for the types of dreams worth dying for.

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She would caution you not to touch any dream that does not set you ablaze with desire.

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She would walk you through the process of building in the spirit.

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Wisdom would teach you how to partner with God to create a personalized precision vision

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plan that will provide you with the infrastructure you need to steward your sacred destiny and

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dreams on a daily basis.

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She would uncover every detail of how to mature the dreams that you have birthed through faith

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into the fullness of the world-changing, history-making, planet-shaking dreams that God saw when He

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unleashed His limitless power to dream the best for you before the foundation of the world.

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She would break it all down for you into achievable bite-sized goals that revealed how you could

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systematically bring your wildest dreams to life.

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She would highlight the power of knowing and achieving each day's priority tasks.

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She would show you the massive, consistent, and strategic actions that your sacred destiny

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required on a daily basis.

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Then, she would get really intense.

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She would demand from you the second part of her payment, extreme ownership.

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At this point, she would get through to you on the deepest, most soul-trembling level

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that anyone has ever spoken to you on and bring a reality check of where you are right

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now and the changes you need to make in order to get where you want to go.

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She would then line up for you the high-stakes consequences and rewards attached to your

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calling and reveal how your success or failure will influence multitudes for generations

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to come.

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Once she has your focus and your motivation at a record high, she will confront you with

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the cost and require an immediate commitment from you.

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The cost will be great.

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It will cost you every thought, every behavior, every distraction that is causing you to betray

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your own destiny and dreams.

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You may love some of these things that cause you to betray your own dreams, but for the

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sake of your sacred calling, wisdom will ask you to surrender them.

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Luke 9, 23-25, Jesus said to all his followers, if you truly desire to be my disciple, you

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must disown your life completely, embrace my cross as your own and surrender to my ways.

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For if you choose self-sacrifice, giving up your lives for my glory, you will embark on

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a discovery of more and more true life.

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But if you choose to keep your lives for yourselves, you will lose what you try to keep.

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Even if you gained all the wealth and power of the world, everything it could offer you,

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yet lost your own soul in the process, what good is that?

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Wisdom does not require a vow of poverty, but she does require a vow of loyalty.

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A vow that you will no longer betray your own dreams by drinking the poisons of lack,

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unbelief, distraction and apathy.

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A vow that you will not be a victim and focus on what you cannot control.

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Wisdom requires that you vow loyalty to your own dreams by vowing to take extreme ownership

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of your sacred destiny and focusing only on yourself.

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on what you can control. Vowing to dream with God, vowing to build in the spirit,

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vowing to maintain your focus on your sacred destiny and dreams, vowing to take massive,

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consistent and strategic action on a daily basis. If wisdom is convinced that your vows are sincere

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and you maintain your vows, she will walk with you all the days of your life. Finally,

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wisdom would give you a gift. This gift is the key to revolutionizing your personal world

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and the world that you live in. It is a key to overcoming every impossible barrier and to

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redesigning earth in the image of heaven. The single key that wisdom would give you as her

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parting gift would be knowing that you are about to enter a battle, knowing that the giant of

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distraction is stalking you every minute of every day, knowing the significance of your sacred

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destiny on the future of humanity. The key that wisdom would give you is focus. Without intentional

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focus it is impossible to steward the sacred destiny upon your life. Focus is one of the

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rarest but most powerful forces in the world. It is a force so powerful that it can unleash

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divine destiny and set such a fire on one person that multitudes and nations and history itself

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will be marked forever through the power of focus operating through the life of a single person.

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The power of focus is what set Alexander the Great apart from every other military commander

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in world history as the single greatest commander the world has ever seen.

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Alexander the Great was convinced that no dream wasn't possible if you gave it the focus that it

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required. His focus gave him wisdom and strategies that shaped history time and time again. At the

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age of 26 he conquered the greatest empire in the world. By the age of 32 he had conquered the whole

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known world. If you master the third heavenly weapon of wisdom truly nothing will be impossible

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for you. Proverbs chapter 21 verse 22. One who is wise can go up against the city of the mighty

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and pull down the stronghold in which they trust. Wielding the weapon of wisdom makes all things

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possible but you will have to count the cost and decide for yourself if you are willing to pay the

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price required to walk in the fruition of your wildest dreams. If the answer is yes you must

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begin by embracing wisdom's gift of focus. What could focus produce in your life? Is it possible

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that the single most important ingredient to bringing your wildest dreams to life is focus?

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What if your level of focus was the most important thing that you needed to do right now

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in order to make Ephesians 3 20 your daily reality? Ephesians 3 20. Never doubt God's

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mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your

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greatest request, your most unbelievable dream and exceed your wildest imagination. He will

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outdo them all for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.

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Three things you can do to immediately help upgrade your focus.

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Don't be distracted by the giant of distraction. Forget about that guy. Nothing drives the giant

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of distraction more crazy than being ignored. Instead give your attention to wisdom's gift,

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focus. When you focus on your sacred destiny all the other facets of wisdom will naturally

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follow along. The critical question is how can you increase your focus when the giant of

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distraction is stalking you day and night? Here's three things that you can do to immediately

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upgrade your focus. Number one create a personalized precision vision plan. You need

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to write down your vision. It's very difficult to focus on a vision that you have not written down.

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Habakkuk 2.2 Then the Lord answered me write down this vision.

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and clearly inscribe it on tablets so that a herald may run with it.

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For over a decade, I have travelled throughout New Zealand and internationally, teaching

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on vision.

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When I ask audiences who has actually taken the time to write down their vision and create

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a strategic plan for how they are going to bring their wildest dreams to life and steward

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their sacred destiny, almost no one in the audience has ever done it.

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Sometimes you get some people who have written down some goals, but creating a comprehensive,

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personalised precision vision plan is extremely rare.

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I think if people realised how much it was costing them not to have a precision vision

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plan, they would create one immediately.

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One of the big prices you will pay for not having a precision vision plan is that you

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are extremely vulnerable to the giant of distraction.

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A precision vision plan gives you a massive, crystal clear, YES!

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Without a massive YES, you are vulnerable to a massive distraction.

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Most people are easily conquered for the giant of distraction.

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To completely knock you off track from your destiny, the giant of distraction doesn't

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even have to convince you to do anything bad.

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Perhaps all the giant of distraction needs to do is convince you to take on another little

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hobby, or serve and help out in another ministry, or start another project, or, or, or, and,

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and, and, plus, plus, plus, all of a sudden you find yourself doing something, nothing

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and everything apart from the one thing that you were truly born for.

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If you have said a massive YES to your dreams and taken the time to clearly write down your

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vision, your strategic plan, your goals, plus the precise priority actions that you

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need to take to make those goals happen, it becomes so much easier and clearer to recognize

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when you need to say a massive NO.

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Without a personalized precision vision plan, you could be distracted until the day you

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die and then have the most terrible experience of regret.

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As you face your maker and discover just how much of your limitless destiny you wasted.

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Nehemiah had such a massive YES to the assignment on his life that it was easy to recognize

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when he needed to say a massive NO.

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Nehemiah chapter 6 verse 3, and I sent messengers to them saying, I am doing a great work and

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I cannot come down.

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Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?

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I think one of the main reasons why people don't create a personalized precision vision

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plan is because we often don't know where to start.

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I totally get that.

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Even as someone who has taught and written about vision for years, and even as a life

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coach, I could get lost if you told me just to grab a pen and paper and write down my

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vision and create a personalized precision vision plan.

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It really is quite a complicated process if you want to do it well and it's very easy

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to get lost in.

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Because this process is so difficult for most people, I invested a colossal amount of time

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and energy into creating a series of simplified, systematic templates and training videos called

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the 40 Day Focus Package.

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In the 40 Day Focus Package, I walk people through an in-depth, step-by-step process

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that provides all the templates and coaching a person needs to create their very own personalized

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precision vision plan.

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I recommend it as a 40 day process, but it's entirely self-paced.

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The feedback I'm receiving is truly life-changing for people and there's few things more gratifying

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for me than to watch people walk into their long-standing dreams quickly once they get

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focused.

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I'm not trying to do a hard sales pitch here at all, but I am fully persuaded that this

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resource will add enormous value to your life.

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Normally, the 40 Day Focus Package is a $997 life coaching package, but I really want to

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make this available to people.

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So right now, I'm doing something pretty crazy and basically giving it away for just $37

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New Zealand dollars.

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Also, if you buy it, I'm happy for you to share access with your whole family for no

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extra charge.

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There's absolutely no pressure to take me up on this offer, but I honestly don't know

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where else people could get a priceless resource like this.

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It is the culmination of over a decade of training condensed down into a seven-step

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process that covers my seven sacred systems for success, which either work for us or against

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us in life, and they will make or break our wildest dreams.

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Imagine there's seven handbrakes holding up the fruition of your dreams.

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In the Focus Package, we systematically remove each handbrake in order to release unprecedented

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momentum for your dreams.

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You get lifetime access to an entire online platform dedicated to the 40-day Focus Package,

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plus all the templates you need for every step of the process of bringing your wildest

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dreams to life.

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If you have access already to another systematic approach to developing a personalized precision

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vision plan already, that's great!

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I created this resource for people that need help with that process, and you can access

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the 40-day Focus Package by clicking on this link.

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So here's the link, www.thescienceofdreams.com forward slash focus.

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That's www.thescienceofdreams.com forward slash focus.

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I don't want people to have to keep on struggling with the process of creating a personalized

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precision vision plan, so I hope this resource can be as helpful to you and your family as

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it has been to so many others.

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My aim is not to sell a package.

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My aim is to see you take extreme ownership for the level of focus in your life.

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I don't believe that a person can honestly say to themselves that they have taken extreme

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ownership for their wildest dreams and the sacred call of God on their lives if they

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haven't even created a personalized precision vision plan.

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The opportunity at hand here is huge.

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By creating a personalized precision vision plan, slaying the giant of distraction becomes

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incomparably easier than ever before, and you will find that lost dreams, dead dreams,

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stuck dreams, and new dreams start coming to life one after the other as soon as you

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master wisdom's gift, focus.

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Okay, so to recap that, the first way to immediately upgrade your focus levels is to write down

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your vision and create an in-depth personalized precision vision plan.

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Benjamin Franklin said, if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.

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Number two, create a priority to-do list.

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Once you have written down your vision and you have created a strategic plan, the next

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step will always be to take massive, consistent, strategic action.

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Having a priority to-do list is a great way to keep you focused on your priority tasks

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for the day, week, or month.

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It's also a fantastic way to eliminate time-wasting and build a strong sense of momentum every

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time you tick off a job from the list.

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In 1906, an Italian man named Vilfredo Pareto recognized and coined the 80-20 principle.

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He realized that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by about 20% of the population.

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He began to discover other places that the 80-20 principle also applied.

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One area that the 80-20 principle often applies is in our daily to-do lists.

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20% of our activity often produces 80% of our returns.

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Pareto referred to the 20% as the vital few and the 80% as the trivial many.

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Will you engage in the 20%, the vital few activities that will bring you success?

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Or will you be distracted by the 80%, the trivial many, which will ultimately rob you

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of your dreams?

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If you have 10 tasks on your to-do list for the day, it is often true that two of those

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tasks will bring you the greatest reward for your effort.

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Keto refers to those tasks as the vital few.

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One of the keys to bringing your dreams to life is being able to identify the vital few

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tasks that you need to accomplish on a daily basis if your vision, strategy and goals are

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out of focus, your priorities will be too.

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P.S.

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I have templates, videos and step-by-step training in the 40-day focus package that

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walks you through the entire process of putting all these things in place as a part of your

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own personalised precision vision plan.

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If you are creating your own personalised precision vision plan, make sure to include

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these elements in the process.

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People with vague goals end up with vague to-do lists.

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A vague to-do list will betray your dreams by causing you to engage with the trivial

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many at the expense of the vital few.

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Over time, this can kill any dream.

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A person with vague goals might get 8 of the lowest priority jobs done each day and feel

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like they've really achieved something.

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Unfortunately, engaging with the trivial many at the expense of the vital few results in

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a lifestyle of maximum effort for minimal reward.

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In contrast, a person who is focused on their personalised precision vision plan will have

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a clear understanding of which vital few tasks they need to accomplish each day.

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They might spend 80% of their time on the vital few tasks for the day and only get 2,

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3 or 4 things on their list done.

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However, engaging with the vital few rather than the trivial many is a system for success

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which produces a lifestyle of maximum reward for maximum effort.

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Because they consistently choose the highest priority objectives, their productivity will

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be far greater than the person with vague goals who is busy all day long accomplishing

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low value objectives.

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Over a week, this makes a big difference.

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Over a month, it makes a huge difference.

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Over a period of years, it is the difference between the life or death of our wildest dreams.

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Setting specific and measurable goals consistently over a lifetime can literally be the difference

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between the life or death of your wildest dreams.

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So when you make your priority to-do list, identify the vital few tasks which will give

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you the highest return.

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Often, the highest reward tasks are the hardest, so people avoid them not realising how much

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it will cost them in the long term in more ways than one.

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One of the first things you can put on your to-do list is fast distraction feast on focus.

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Where are the really easy opportunities for you to substitute a distraction for focus?

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Having tasks of all sizes on your to-do list will mean that if you only have a few minutes

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between tasks, you can grab a really small job off your to-do list instead of wasting

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that time on a distraction.

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Just the fact that you have a priority to-do list causes you to refocus on your vision

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every time you look at the list.

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Another simple option is post-it notes.

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Put post-it notes in strategic spots that are going to help you refocus on your wildest

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dreams and your sacred destiny multiple times a day.

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God would have given the Israelites the same idea if they had post-it notes back then.

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Check out what he said in Deuteronomy 11, 18-21.

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so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to

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give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.

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Number three, create community.

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Like-minded people on the same journey are always priceless.

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Here's a few ideas for how you can create community to help you upgrade your focus.

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levels. Share this free book with a friend and use it as a conversation

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starter to talk about your sacred destiny and your wildest dreams

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together. People can get quite chatty when you ask them what their wildest

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dreams are and these deep conversations can spark a very powerful and fresh

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momentum on your dreams. Do the 40-day focus package with a few friends or

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your home group or your church. I don't even mind if you buy it once and share

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access with your whole crew or do something vision related with your crew.

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Now not everyone is fortunate enough to have a group of people around them who

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want to increase their focus levels. You could join a group online. If you

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haven't got many ideas or options we do have the online School of Sonship where

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hundreds of like-minded people are gathered together. We pray, do training

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and chase after our dreams together. This does have a cost to it as well. It's

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normally $1,497 New Zealand dollars for lifetime access and we're

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the value of what you get is absolutely wild even at full price. Again I'm not

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trying to be all salesy but I am trying to give you some ideas, options and a

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forward slash sonship hyphen online. What would wisdom say to you? Let's bring it

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in tight as we wrap up this chapter. Proverbs 8 10 to 11. Choose my

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instruction instead of silver knowledge rather than choice gold for wisdom is

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more precious than rubies and nothing you desire can compare with her. If

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wisdom's vibrant aqua blue eyes pierced your soul completely exposing you and

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embracing you to the core of your being while she searched out your sacred

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destiny your deepest desires the trajectory of your life and then weighed

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them all in the balance if she held you silently face to face in her timeless

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gaze when she eventually broke the silence what priority actions would

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wisdom say you need to take right now chapter 6 the distance between dreams a

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final giant to slay you've been dreaming with God and your heart is ablaze with a

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vision worth dying for you've been building in the spirit and by faith you

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are birthing your wildest dreams into the natural realm you have embraced

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wisdom's call to focus focus focus and you have created a phenomenal

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personalized precision vision plan and you are supremely confident in your next

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best steps you have been slaying the giants of lack unbelief and distraction

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as you train with the ancient heavenly weapons of imagination faith and wisdom

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only one brutish giant of darkness stands between you and becoming a master

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of the science of dreams this is the ugliest dumbest rudest laziest scabbiest

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nastiest most bad-mannered most selfish self-absorbed most foolish most

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unhealthy most casual messiest trashiest sweatiest graceiest greasiest dirtiest

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most ignorant deplorable slobbish disgusting slime-covered stench-infected

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giant of all let me say that again this is the ugliest dumbest rudest laziest

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scabbiest nastiest most bad-mannered most selfish and self-absorbed most

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foolish most unhealthy most casual messiest trashiest sweatiest greasiest

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dirtiest most ignorant deplorable slobbish disgusting slime-covered

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stench-infected giant of all this giant is absolutely horrible it has the worst

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attitude, the worst temper, the worst language, the worst smell, the worst hygiene, the worst

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punctuality, the worst everything and absolutely nobody, not even the other giants of darkness

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want to be anywhere near this vile creature.

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The only thing this giant of darkness does well is oppress, suppress, depress and repress

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any person, any atmosphere and anything that it comes close to.

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It's like an enormous cloud of sludge that oozes its way into a room and releases its

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misty putrid essence onto everything in its proximity.

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This giant of darkness has crawled out of the darkest, most filthy, scum infested pits

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of hell and has been commissioned to fulfill the fourth and the grossest satanic assignment

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against your life, which is to give you and your whole world an extreme makeover in its

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own disgusting image.

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This giant is the giant of apathy and it has been commissioned to make you weak willed,

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lazy and stupid.

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The ancient heavenly weapon designed to slay this giant is the weapon of boldness.

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The giant of apathy wants to come upon your life and make you weak willed, lazy and stupid,

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but boldness will make you mighty to take massive, consistent and strategic actions

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that redesign your world in the image of heaven and bring your wildest dreams to life.

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The only way that the giant of apathy has any chance at influencing anyone to become

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as gross as it is, is by applying a very deceptive, very long term, very long range strategy and

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coding its specialised slow release poison with all sorts of sugary delicacies and false

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promises.

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No one in a healthy mental, physical or spiritual state of being would ever choose or desire

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or agree to become like the giant of apathy, even the thought of it is so repulsive it

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could make you sick.

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Therefore the giant of apathy attacks people's mental, physical and spiritual state of being

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with a maniacally twisted scheme that it hatched in one of hell's darkest corners.

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A plot so evil but so genius that it has created one of the biggest cult followings

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in our modern world.

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The dark strategy of the giant of apathy relies entirely on bringing its victims into the

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most broken state of degradation, despair and desperation imaginable, until ultimately

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its victims even give up on life itself.

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The giant of apathy has developed its hideous craft slowly over thousands of years, refining

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every aspect of its traps, poison, weapons, bait, false promises and every kind of trauma,

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dysfunction, chaos and perversion it can lay its hands on.

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At this point we need a brave volunteer, someone strong, young and full of life and

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hope.

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We need to use their name for the sake of the illustration, thanks I see that hand,

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we will take the name Chelsea as our volunteer.

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Thanks for being our imaginary volunteer today Chelsea.

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The pretend audience gives a little clap.

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One of the leading and foundational lies that the giant of apathy starts out with is the

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idea that truth is not absolute, truth is relative, my truth is true for me and your

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truth can be true for you.

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It wasn't too difficult for the giant of apathy to get the lovely Chelsea to believe that,

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but unbeknown to the beautiful Chelsea, the moment that she came into agreement with that

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lie she took on a major aspect of the giant of apathy's stomach churning image.

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After Chelsea came to believe that truth is relative, the awful sluggish beast, the giant

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of apathy convinced her that her feelings defined truth, so she began to let her feelings

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lead her in her life decisions.

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At this moment.

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The Giant of Apathy knew he had his victim right where he wanted her.

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As long as Chelsea let her feelings define her reality, she would be the Giant of Apathy's

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slave.

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Chelsea's only hope was to tell her feelings the truth.

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But the Giant of Apathy would ensure that never happened.

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He would seduce her with poisonous lies and supply a thousand voices to echo a twisted

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amen to her delusion.

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As far as the Giant of Apathy was concerned, Chelsea was another run on the board.

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When really hard challenges started coming up with friendships, at work, in family and

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with money, the Giant of Apathy suggested that it would feel better if she avoided dealing

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with those hard situations.

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That felt like a good and a better option than the really hard choice of dealing with

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some big issues.

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Then some painful circumstances from her past came up and apathy encouraged her to avoid

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that too.

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The Giant of Apathy promised her that life would be better if she went for instant gratification

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a little more often, because that would definitely make her feel a lot happier.

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She thought that seemed like a good idea too.

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After a few years of avoiding hardship and pain and embracing instant gratification,

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she was so weak-willed that it was almost impossible for her to commit to anything.

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Facing anything that was difficult, challenging, painful or uncomfortable became an unbearable

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feeling.

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Quitting and avoiding painful and hard things became her status quo.

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She started avoiding disappointment by not getting her hopes up too much.

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Discipline was definitely too much hard work.

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Another thing that she also mastered was avoiding correction.

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Wow, that was a nasty feeling.

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As Chelsea looked at herself in the mirror, it was impossible for her to see anything

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that reminded her of the strong, young, vibrant, full of life and hope young lady that she

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had been just a few short years ago.

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She didn't know when, but at some point in the last couple of years, her feelings that

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had been leading her life decisions had now turned against her.

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She constantly felt like something was intrinsically wrong with her.

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Her sense of loneliness was growing deeper and more constant.

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She finally acknowledged that she was starting to hate being herself and the first waves

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of depression were beginning to lap at her feet.

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That's when the giant of apathy came to her rescue again.

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He offered her just a small amount of something special, a drug that he knew was perfect for

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her that would just take the edge off that pain.

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The chemicals exploded through her bloodstream and from that very first taste, she knew she

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was hooked.

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At last, she was happy again, for a moment anyway.

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Her happiness was expensive, she was broke, her growing depression began to be eclipsed

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by her desperation.

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The giant of apathy had waited years for this moment.

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She was nearly where he wanted her.

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She still had a few dregs of hope and self-respect remaining, but he knew there was no way that

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she could survive what he had coming up next.

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It was like Chelsea no longer existed.

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It seemed like there was nothing left of who she had been.

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As everything about her was now eclipsed by a raging addiction and no way to fund her

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cravings, the giant of apathy came to her rescue again.

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He ran a few ideas past her of how to raise some quick cash.

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It would be a secret and just a one-off to help her get back on her feet.

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For the first time, she disagreed with this voice that seemed to appear in her mind every

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time things got hard or painful.

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She wasn't interested this time, but it was too late for Chelsea.

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She was now so weak-willed and had so little self-respect left, that there was no way she

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could resist the storm of abuse that the giant of apathy had brought upon her.

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of apathy rained down on her for rejecting his well-intentioned ideas.

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Chelsea was now a world of chaos. Psychologically she crossed a line when

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she reluctantly said yes to the quick cash idea. Her depression evolved to

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despair and she knew that she could not live any longer with this unending pain

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that was gnawing at her soul from the inside out. With the cash in hand, walking

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down the busy street, with nightlife buzzing around her, she hit rock bottom.

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She raced to get her fix. On the way she saw something that haunted her. A young

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lady caught her eye. She was strong, vibrant and full of life and hope. For

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the first time in a long time she remembered what hope felt like and it

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seemed for a fleeting moment like a beautiful dream. But as soon as she felt

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the cash in her pocket, her overbearingly painful reality crashed

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over her again. Against all the odds somehow a tiny seed of hope remained

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like a lone star on a cloudless night. The giant of apathy was always watching

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from the shadows and he saw the glint of hope appear in her eye. His jaw dropped

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in amazement. He had not seen hope like that in her for years and this was

2503
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supposed to be the worst and possibly the last night of her life. He looked

2504
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again and there it was, plain as day, something wasn't right and he wouldn't

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stand for it. He began to craft something special for Chelsea. Right then, Chelsea

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heard a sound that seemed to jump right inside her heart and instantly pull her

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into a cafe music gig. Her feet started walking before her brain had even

2508
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realized what was happening. It was warm inside, she was immediately offered a

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free coffee and as she sat in a comfy couch with a warm mug in her hands, the

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music seemed to wash her cleaner than she had ever felt in her whole life. She

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was so captivated by this music that she wasn't even aware that her craving had

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vanished. Almost in a trance, she closed her eyes and let the music wash right

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through her. Silent tears streamed beautifully down her face. She had no

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03:38:15.960 --> 03:38:21.800
words for what was happening but it was the most wonderful experience of her

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life. After a long time, the music transitioned and someone began to speak

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about a God who loved her. Every word was absorbed straight into her spirit

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03:38:36.240 --> 03:38:44.760
like water on thirsty ground. As they spoke, she listened with her eyes closed

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and this loving Father in heaven that they spoke about made himself and his

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love more real to her than anything she had ever known. Chelsea knew there was no

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going back. For the first time in her life, she had come home and she would

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never turn back. Her beautiful journey into the bliss of sonship had begun in

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the most spectacular way. When she opened her eyes to see who was speaking, she saw

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something that surprised everyone. The speaker was you. There you were, walking

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03:39:31.240 --> 03:39:38.040
in your sacred destiny. You were a pure explosion of love. The presence of God

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rested on you so powerfully that you seemed to radiate like wisdom herself.

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There wasn't a dry eye in the room as the tangible love of God had baptized every

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heart in heaven's finest love. You flowed so effortlessly as you spoke that you

2528
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seemed to be carried along by the divine dance.

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He wasn't the only person who unexpectedly walked themselves into the cafe that night.

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Miracles, signs and wonders were a regular occurrence around your life. Dozens of people

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had walked in off the streets and the encounters that they had with the love of God in that moment

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marked them for the rest of their lives. Miracles flowed all through the room without a prayer being

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prayed. Heaven's weighty atmosphere of love, peace and joy filled every corner of the room.

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The presence of God that rested on your life turned up like this everywhere God sent you.

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You were a walking revival. Thousands of lives had been set ablaze with the love of God

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as people chatted with you, hung out with you, bumped into you in the street,

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shared a conversation at a dinner table or heard you speak somewhere. As you left the cafe that

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night you wept silently too. You cried the same tears of extreme gratitude that Abraham and Sarah

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had cried thousands of years ago. You wept for joy because of every life that God had touched that

2540
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night. You wept for joy because at one point you did not believe that your wildest dreams really

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03:41:20.880 --> 03:41:27.040
could come true but as you surveyed your life in that moment you were living in a world overflowing

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with fulfilled dreams that you could previously never have imagined. The impact of the fruition

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of your dreams on your life, your family and the lives of those close to you meant more to you all

2544
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than you could ever put in words. The tears of joy continued sliding down your face. Beyond that

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your fulfilled dreams were impacting lives all over the world every single day. It was now

2546
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impossible to quantify the impact of all your fulfilled dreams. At every stage in the process

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God expanded your capacity to outdream darkness and the dreams you are now dreaming for truly were

2548
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infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream and exceeded your wildest

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imagination. The tears of joy mixed with a gentle laughter and your lips curled up into a smile

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as another wave of extreme gratitude flared up like a bonfire in your heart. The distance

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the distance between dreams. The distance between where you are right now and the fulfillment of

2552
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your wildest dreams is measured in action. Take the wrong actions right now

2553
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and you could become your worst enemy and never walk in the dreams and calling you were born for.

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Take the right actions right now and you can step into the infinite possibilities available

2555
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in Christ Jesus. Right now is the time to take extreme ownership of every single action that

2556
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you are taking or failing to take because your sacred destiny literally hangs in the balance.

2557
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Four satanic assignments have been commissioned against your life.

2558
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Four ruthless calculated giants of darkness are scheming and plotting lethal attacks against you

2559
03:43:43.920 --> 03:43:48.880
at every turn. The cosmic struggle over your destiny is real.

2560
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Your success or your failure will impact more lives than you can imagine.

2561
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All of hell is terrified of you walking into your destiny and they are raging against you. All of

2562
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heaven knows the limitless power that burns inside you and they champion you towards victory. The

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time to decide if you will front up with whatever it takes to bring your wildest dreams to life

2564
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is now. The time to decide if you will devote yourself wholeheartedly to mastering the four

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ancient heavenly weapons is now. You were born for this moment. You are on the verge of your

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greatest breakthrough. Now is your time to arise. You are now only one weapon away from completing

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the science of dreams, the weapon of boldness. You have grasped the weapon of imagination that

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enables you to dream with God. You have stepped into a faith that enables you to build in the

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spirit. You have embraced wisdom's call to focus, focus, focus and create a personalized precision

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vision plan. You are now ready to wield the weapon of boldness and to take massive consistent

2571
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and strategic actions that build in the natural what you've birthed.

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from the spiritual. As you learn the art of mastering boldness and taking massive consistent

2573
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strategic actions, you will eliminate every trace of the influence of the giant of apathy

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in your life. This giant is so low and so despicable that victory over all its schemes

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in your life tastes extra sweet.

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Time to slay a nasty giant. Before we go forwards from here, we must go back and check the foundations

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of focus. Because if they aren't right, you risk betraying your own destiny. Random actions

2578
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betray your dreams. They build momentum in the wrong direction. Engaging in random actions

2579
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is like playing Russian roulette with your own dreams. Random actions are the opposite

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of precision actions. Precision actions breathe life into your dreams and build momentum towards

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03:46:06.520 --> 03:46:10.500
the better brighter future that you have been dreaming of.

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Most people live counterproductive lifestyles. They have dreams, which they are working hard

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for, but at the same time, they betray their own dreams as they are distracted by random

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activity. Random action is a betrayal of your own dream. Random action is taking a step

2585
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in the opposite direction of your own destiny. For most people, random action is their default

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03:46:38.780 --> 03:46:45.900
setting. How do I know this? Because random action comes from random planning, and precision

2587
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action comes from precision planning. Do a survey of all the people in your world, family

2588
03:46:52.300 --> 03:46:58.220
members, people you went to school with, friends in your sports team or from social contexts,

2589
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and ask them if they have ever taken the time to sit down and spend hours investing themselves

2590
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in developing a personalised precision vision plan detailing exactly how they plan to bring

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03:47:13.460 --> 03:47:19.060
their wildest dreams to life. You will find that even a lot of people who you consider

2592
03:47:19.060 --> 03:47:26.060
are very successful have never done this. But, imagine if they had. What could have

2593
03:47:27.940 --> 03:47:34.380
been possible if their lives have been lived with precision planning that produced precision

2594
03:47:34.380 --> 03:47:40.380
actions with precision timing producing precision results day after day, month after month,

2595
03:47:40.660 --> 03:47:46.820
year after year? I guarantee you the world could have been a better, brighter place.

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Every dream that dies has collateral damage. Let me say that again. Every dream that dies

2597
03:47:54.180 --> 03:48:01.180
has collateral damage. There are always people like our imaginary friend Chelsea or my good

2598
03:48:01.420 --> 03:48:07.700
friend Marina in desperate need at the other end of our God-given dreams. The reason there

2599
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are so many people like Chelsea in desperate need in this world is because so few people

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have developed the focus required to create a personalised precision vision plan. As a

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03:48:19.220 --> 03:48:25.420
result, they are easily distracted by anything, nothing and everything except the one thing

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03:48:25.420 --> 03:48:30.300
most vital to bringing their dreams to life. People don't engage in strategic planning

2603
03:48:30.300 --> 03:48:37.300
because they can survive without it. You could survive without strategic planning too. But

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03:48:37.300 --> 03:48:43.300
the world has waited too long already for a generation of Christians to step out of

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03:48:43.300 --> 03:48:49.900
survival and step into their sacred destiny and calling. Of all the hundreds of millions

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03:48:49.900 --> 03:48:54.940
of Christians in the world, if we had 10,000 truly walking in their destiny, we would set

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03:48:54.940 --> 03:49:00.460
the world on fire and turn it upside down for Jesus in next to no time at all. This

2608
03:49:00.460 --> 03:49:06.540
is not a book about how to survive and live an average life without ever tasting your

2609
03:49:06.540 --> 03:49:12.700
destiny written by everyone ever who settled for average. The science of dreams is about

2610
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conquering every satanic assignment against your life. It's about mastering heavenly weapons

2611
03:49:17.820 --> 03:49:22.900
of warfare and completely dominating every giant of darkness that is coming at you seeking

2612
03:49:22.900 --> 03:49:28.420
your destruction. It's about going way beyond what anyone has ever said is possible and

2613
03:49:28.420 --> 03:49:34.380
unleashing the limitless possibilities available in Christ as you walk in the sacred destiny

2614
03:49:34.380 --> 03:49:39.980
that God saw when he unleashed his limitless power to dream the best for you. In the words

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of Paul, Philippians 3, 12-14,

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Not that I have now attained this ideal, or have already been made perfect, but I press

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03:49:51.740 --> 03:49:59.020
on to lay hold of, grasp, and make my own that for which Christ Jesus the Messiah has

2618
03:49:59.020 --> 03:50:00.060
laid hold.

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of me and made me his own. I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own

2620
03:50:06.160 --> 03:50:13.360
yet, but one thing I do, it is my one aspiration. Forgetting what lies behind and straining toward

2621
03:50:13.360 --> 03:50:19.760
what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the supreme and heavenly prize to which God

2622
03:50:19.760 --> 03:50:26.480
and Christ Jesus is calling us upward. The Chinese bamboo tree germinates from a seed

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03:50:27.440 --> 03:50:35.120
and then requires a great level of nurture in order for it to become what it was created to

2624
03:50:35.120 --> 03:50:42.160
be. It must have a constant supply of food and water. After a whole year of watering and

2625
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fertilizing, it would appear that the Chinese bamboo tree is doing nothing but consuming

2626
03:50:49.600 --> 03:50:53.200
resources. After a second year of devoted cultivation,

2627
03:50:54.560 --> 03:51:00.720
the bamboo tree still does not even break the surface of the soil. A third year passes,

2628
03:51:02.880 --> 03:51:07.920
and it still appears that this bamboo is simply a colossal source of resource consumption.

2629
03:51:08.800 --> 03:51:16.400
Yet another year of attentive watering and nurturing passes, and this plant still

2630
03:51:16.400 --> 03:51:23.920
has not even broken through the soil. For five years, the Chinese bamboo tree

2631
03:51:24.640 --> 03:51:33.600
invests itself in developing the infrastructure for massive exponential growth. For five years,

2632
03:51:33.600 --> 03:51:40.720
the Chinese bamboo tree develops its root system and builds its energy reserves in preparation

2633
03:51:41.440 --> 03:51:50.800
of massive action. After five years of hidden development, the bamboo tree finally breaks

2634
03:51:50.800 --> 03:52:00.240
through the surface of the soil, and within six weeks it grows 90 feet or 27.4 meters.

2635
03:52:00.800 --> 03:52:10.800
On average, that is over two feet of growth a day. But did it grow 90 feet, 27.4 meters in

2636
03:52:10.800 --> 03:52:18.640
six weeks, or five years? Realistically, it took five years, but the five years of preparation

2637
03:52:18.640 --> 03:52:24.800
allowed for exceptional exponential growth. Like the Chinese bamboo tree,

2638
03:52:25.600 --> 03:52:33.440
you will first have to engage in developing a secret system for success. Initially, it may

2639
03:52:33.440 --> 03:52:39.280
look like you are not getting much done, as you invest yourself in a season of strategic planning

2640
03:52:39.280 --> 03:52:46.000
and preparation. But this season of developing your own personalized precision vision plan

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03:52:46.880 --> 03:52:53.520
is preparing you for massive exponential growth. You will have to take great care

2642
03:52:53.520 --> 03:52:59.840
in this time of hidden development to nurture the strategic planning process. That will need

2643
03:52:59.840 --> 03:53:05.120
water and nutrients every day. You will have to be relentless and extremely attentive

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03:53:05.120 --> 03:53:11.600
to the details involved in the strategic planning process. But it is worth it.

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Every moment of preparation is worth it for the Chinese bamboo tree. When all of a sudden,

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out of nowhere, this giant bamboo tree explodes onto the scene and almost instantaneously becomes

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03:53:27.200 --> 03:53:33.840
a giant on the landscape. It will be worth it when your strategic planning empowers you to step into

2648
03:53:33.840 --> 03:53:40.080
your wildest dreams. It will be worth it when you start to see your dreams coming to life

2649
03:53:40.080 --> 03:53:49.200
at an exponential rate. The Chinese bamboo tree prepares itself for five years so that everything

2650
03:53:49.200 --> 03:53:56.480
is ready for its moment of massive action. When it finally takes action, that action

2651
03:53:56.480 --> 03:54:06.800
is precision action. There is absolutely nothing random about it. This is its moment. Every detail

2652
03:54:06.800 --> 03:54:13.760
is taken care of. The root system to sustain 90 foot, 27.4 meters of growth is in place.

2653
03:54:13.760 --> 03:54:18.320
The energy reserves and all the resources required are in place. The plan is in place.

2654
03:54:18.320 --> 03:54:24.080
The objective is clear. The focus is precise. The moment that it is time for action, that action is

2655
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passionate, precise, powerful and massive. Within six weeks of breaking through the soil, the Chinese

2656
03:54:31.040 --> 03:54:40.160
bamboo tree stands as a giant on the horizon. Investing yourself into the fine details of

2657
03:54:40.160 --> 03:54:47.920
developing your personalized precision vision plan prepares you to master the weapon of boldness

2658
03:54:47.920 --> 03:54:55.440
as you launch into massive, consistent and strategic action. Your strategic action plan

2659
03:54:55.440 --> 03:54:59.920
will clarify your priorities. It will focus your attention. It will unlock

2660
03:55:00.000 --> 03:55:05.920
your passion. It will help you avoid significant hazards and setbacks. It will help you critically

2661
03:55:05.920 --> 03:55:11.600
analyze your plans and results and it will direct your focused energy into the highest priority

2662
03:55:11.600 --> 03:55:19.040
tasks at hand. Developing a precision vision plan will fast track you on your journey towards the

2663
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fulfillment of your dreams by empowering you to take precision actions with precision timing

2664
03:55:25.600 --> 03:55:32.720
for precision results on a daily basis. Whatever you have to do to create a personalized precision

2665
03:55:32.720 --> 03:55:38.800
vision plan, do it. You cannot honestly say to yourself that you are taking extreme ownership

2666
03:55:38.800 --> 03:55:45.600
for your destiny if you don't even have a plan. I know that it's not normal to have a personalized

2667
03:55:45.600 --> 03:55:51.600
precision vision plan but it's also not normal to live out your wildest dreams. It's time for

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a brave new normal that produces a viral outbreak of fulfilled dreams that redesign earth in the

2669
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image of heaven. You know that I have all the templates and training available to walk you step

2670
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by step through an in-depth process of creating a personalized precision vision plan in the 40-day

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focus package. It's available at our website www.thescienceofdreams.com. I don't know

2672
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where else you can get a resource like the 40-day focus package but it doesn't matter where or how,

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what matters is actually investing some serious time, effort and resources into creating a

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personalized precision vision plan so that you are perfectly set up for success when the moment comes

2675
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for you to be like the Chinese bamboo tree and explode into action. The difference between life

2676
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with a brilliant strategic plan and life without a strategic plan is the life or death of your

2677
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wildest dreams. Developing a strategic plan is hard work so if you only want to do what is easy

2678
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in life then there's no option but to give up on your destiny. Hard work is the air that your

2679
03:57:16.480 --> 03:57:25.520
destiny breathes. If you want your life to be hard then just do what is easy. A life full of regrets,

2680
03:57:25.520 --> 03:57:31.840
full of average, full of normal, full of more of the same old status quo, full of unfulfilled dreams,

2681
03:57:31.920 --> 03:57:38.160
disappointment, addictions, broken relationships, wasted talent and potential is easy to accomplish.

2682
03:57:38.160 --> 03:57:43.840
Just do what is easy and you can shack up with the giant of apathy and have all of those things

2683
03:57:43.840 --> 03:57:53.120
in abundance. But if you know you are truly ready to draw a line in the sand and end your days of

2684
03:57:53.120 --> 03:57:58.480
oppression under the influence of the giant of apathy, it's time to make a personalized precision

2685
03:57:58.480 --> 03:58:05.680
vision plan. It is hard work to develop a strategic plan. It will take you hours and hours of soul

2686
03:58:05.680 --> 03:58:12.400
searching, invulnerability, planning, research, resources and straight hard work. But putting in

2687
03:58:12.400 --> 03:58:18.320
the hard work to develop a strategic plan is a system for success that can empower you to see

2688
03:58:18.320 --> 03:58:27.040
your wildest dreams come alive. Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and

2689
03:58:27.040 --> 03:58:35.360
your life will become easy. Les Brown. Once you have a plan, it's time for massive, consistent,

2690
03:58:35.360 --> 03:58:44.640
strategic action. A personalized precision vision plan is required to activate the full power of the

2691
03:58:44.640 --> 03:58:52.720
fourth ancient heavenly weapon, boldness. Once you have that in place, it is game on. You have

2692
03:58:52.720 --> 03:58:58.000
eliminated every influence of the giant of distraction and the pathway into the call of God

2693
03:58:58.000 --> 03:59:04.880
now stands clearly open before you. You are ready to take your next best steps into the call of God

2694
03:59:04.880 --> 03:59:12.240
with precision and with an unstoppable boldness. Proverbs 28.1. The wicked flee though no one

2695
03:59:12.240 --> 03:59:19.120
pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. Taking massive action.

2696
03:59:19.520 --> 03:59:29.040
The road to your destiny is fraught with enemies, challenge, hard work, pain, disappointment,

2697
03:59:29.040 --> 03:59:36.560
betrayal, frustration, risk and battle after battle. The only chance you have of bringing

2698
03:59:36.560 --> 03:59:44.000
your wildest dreams to fruition is to boldly, wholeheartedly go all in with the type of passion

2699
03:59:44.080 --> 03:59:50.800
all in with the type of passion sparked by someone who has discovered a cause worth dying for. This

2700
03:59:50.800 --> 03:59:57.680
is the narrow path and it is not for the faint-hearted. Those who have only a casual

2701
03:59:58.320 --> 03:59:59.840
value or a casual approach.

2702
04:00:00.000 --> 04:00:06.080
to their calling will be completely destroyed by the force of their enemies.

2703
04:00:06.080 --> 04:00:12.200
A casual attitude doesn't stand a chance before the giants of lack, unbelief, distraction

2704
04:00:12.200 --> 04:00:13.480
and apathy.

2705
04:00:13.480 --> 04:00:17.280
For the giants of darkness, a casual person is their favourite victim.

2706
04:00:17.280 --> 04:00:21.960
They can effortlessly ruin the dreams of a casual person to the point that they end up

2707
04:00:21.960 --> 04:00:26.640
living under so much deception that they don't even realise they are completely conquered

2708
04:00:26.640 --> 04:00:31.840
by the enemy and missing out on the purpose that they were born for.

2709
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The only hope of slaying these giants is to unleash the fire.

2710
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When God forged you before the foundation of the world, He placed seeds of greatness

2711
04:00:45.760 --> 04:00:52.520
in you that would empower you to overcome every obstacle and enemy that would ever stand

2712
04:00:52.520 --> 04:00:53.920
before you.

2713
04:00:53.920 --> 04:00:59.880
But those seeds of greatness can only be germinated and activated to their full potential by a

2714
04:00:59.880 --> 04:01:04.280
certain type of fire.

2715
04:01:04.280 --> 04:01:10.360
That is the fire that comes when you cross a threshold in your own mind and become fully

2716
04:01:10.360 --> 04:01:15.880
persuaded that you are ready and willing to do absolutely whatever it takes to follow

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04:01:15.880 --> 04:01:19.720
Jesus into the fruition of your destiny.

2718
04:01:19.720 --> 04:01:25.080
At that point, a fire begins to burn in the deepest part of your soul and it awakens the

2719
04:01:25.080 --> 04:01:30.600
power of the seeds of greatness within you, causing an unstoppable force of boldness to

2720
04:01:30.600 --> 04:01:32.880
explode to life within you.

2721
04:01:32.880 --> 04:01:35.080
You become the storm.

2722
04:01:35.080 --> 04:01:40.280
No longer will it be you running from the giants of darkness, but such a furious momentum

2723
04:01:40.280 --> 04:01:45.600
will infuse everything that you do that the giants of darkness will scatter before you.

2724
04:01:45.600 --> 04:01:50.680
The lifestyle, the world, and the powerlessness of a casual attitude will become a distant

2725
04:01:50.680 --> 04:01:51.680
memory.

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04:01:51.680 --> 04:01:57.320
The oppressive influence of the giant of apathy will become completely shattered off your

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04:01:57.320 --> 04:02:03.480
life and out of the ashes of casual will arise a warrior baptized in fire, weaponized with

2728
04:02:03.480 --> 04:02:09.360
the four ancient heavenly weapons of imagination, faith, wisdom, and boldness.

2729
04:02:09.360 --> 04:02:15.000
As you step back onto the battleground of destiny, with furious boldness ready and willing

2730
04:02:15.000 --> 04:02:20.040
to do whatever it takes, pay any price, slay any giant, move any mountain, and overcome

2731
04:02:20.040 --> 04:02:25.160
any adversity, heaven and earth will shake, giants will fall, captives and prisoners will

2732
04:02:25.160 --> 04:02:29.760
be set free, darkness will be decimated, heaven will come.

2733
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This is the realm of boldness.

2734
04:02:32.760 --> 04:02:41.400
Matthew 16, 24, then Jesus said to his disciples, if any of you wants to be my follower, you

2735
04:02:41.400 --> 04:02:47.120
must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me.

2736
04:02:47.120 --> 04:02:54.240
Being a follower of Jesus is not about avoiding pain, avoiding hard work, avoiding risk, or

2737
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avoiding persecution.

2738
04:02:56.100 --> 04:03:01.320
Being a follower of Jesus is about following him into our destiny, into the fight, into

2739
04:03:01.320 --> 04:03:07.160
the pain, into the hard work, the risk, the persecution, into the midst of every impossibility

2740
04:03:07.160 --> 04:03:12.680
and every giant of darkness that rages against us and defies the promises of God, and boldly

2741
04:03:12.680 --> 04:03:17.960
taking our stand on the word of God, and in faith, decreeing and declaring that every

2742
04:03:17.960 --> 04:03:23.320
possibility and every enemy will bow the knee to the name of Jesus.

2743
04:03:23.320 --> 04:03:27.920
Following Jesus is about taking a stand in a world where chaos is running rampant.

2744
04:03:27.920 --> 04:03:31.720
It's about dreaming with God for a better, brighter future.

2745
04:03:31.720 --> 04:03:36.960
It's about being like Abraham and looking beyond the facts and impossibilities and believing

2746
04:03:36.960 --> 04:03:42.880
the promises of God above the contradictions and holding fast to our faith as we birth

2747
04:03:42.880 --> 04:03:48.200
spiritual realities into the natural realm.

2748
04:03:48.200 --> 04:03:55.840
It's about rising above the noise of distraction, embracing wisdom and putting all our focus

2749
04:03:55.840 --> 04:04:00.960
on the assignment, the purpose, and the call of God on our lives so that we can prepare

2750
04:04:00.960 --> 04:04:07.120
ourselves to boldly take massive, consistent, and strategic action.

2751
04:04:07.120 --> 04:04:12.520
It's about slaying giants of darkness and tearing down whole armies of impossibility.

2752
04:04:12.520 --> 04:04:18.800
Romans 8, 37, Yet even in the midst of all these things, we triumph over them all.

2753
04:04:18.800 --> 04:04:23.800
For God has made us to be more than conquerors, and his demonstrated love is our glorious

2754
04:04:23.800 --> 04:04:26.480
victory over everything.

2755
04:04:26.480 --> 04:04:30.920
The way of Christ is the way of the warriors, the way of the giant slayers, the way of heroes,

2756
04:04:30.920 --> 04:04:35.560
of faith, the way of those who partner with God to outdream darkness, the way of those

2757
04:04:35.560 --> 04:04:39.200
who rule and reign over the impossible.

2758
04:04:39.200 --> 04:04:46.160
Joshua 1, 5-7 No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life.

2759
04:04:46.160 --> 04:04:48.920
As I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

2760
04:04:48.920 --> 04:04:51.360
I will never leave you nor forsake you.

2761
04:04:51.360 --> 04:04:56.800
Be strong and courageous because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore

2762
04:04:56.800 --> 04:04:58.960
to their ancestors to give them.

2763
04:04:58.960 --> 04:04:59.800
Be strong.

2764
04:05:00.000 --> 04:05:02.620
and very courageous.

2765
04:05:02.620 --> 04:05:06.300
You are destined for greatness, for victory,

2766
04:05:06.300 --> 04:05:08.800
to be mighty in faith, to be pure in heart,

2767
04:05:08.800 --> 04:05:10.220
to be of great courage,

2768
04:05:10.220 --> 04:05:15.140
but none of these things can be attained without struggle.

2769
04:05:15.140 --> 04:05:19.640
There can be no giant slayers without giants to slay.

2770
04:05:19.640 --> 04:05:21.820
There can be no heroes of faith

2771
04:05:21.820 --> 04:05:24.600
without great resistance to God's promises.

2772
04:05:24.600 --> 04:05:28.160
There can be no miracles without impossibilities.

2773
04:05:28.280 --> 04:05:32.320
We were purpose-built to be victorious over the struggle,

2774
04:05:32.320 --> 04:05:34.200
Matthew 19, 26.

2775
04:05:34.200 --> 04:05:35.960
Jesus looked at them and said,

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with man this is impossible,

2777
04:05:38.280 --> 04:05:42.120
but with God all things are possible.

2778
04:05:43.260 --> 04:05:47.180
There is divine purpose in the struggle.

2779
04:05:47.180 --> 04:05:51.480
Your sacred destiny is not just about achieving something,

2780
04:05:51.480 --> 04:05:55.360
it is also about becoming something.

2781
04:05:55.360 --> 04:05:57.960
This is the highway of the cross.

2782
04:05:57.980 --> 04:05:59.820
It's the highway of becoming love,

2783
04:05:59.820 --> 04:06:02.080
and nothing is more beautiful, more priceless,

2784
04:06:02.080 --> 04:06:05.460
or more painful because the full force of love

2785
04:06:05.460 --> 04:06:08.080
can only ever be revealed in the face

2786
04:06:08.080 --> 04:06:10.800
of pure hatred and evil.

2787
04:06:10.800 --> 04:06:13.420
Jesus revealed the fullness of the Father's love

2788
04:06:13.420 --> 04:06:17.640
for humanity on the cross and gave us the purest example

2789
04:06:17.640 --> 04:06:22.320
of what love looks like that humanity has ever seen.

2790
04:06:22.320 --> 04:06:25.780
Through every stage of the journey to the grave and back,

2791
04:06:25.820 --> 04:06:28.800
Jesus demonstrated the full force of love.

2792
04:06:28.800 --> 04:06:31.460
When he was betrayed, he kept his love on.

2793
04:06:31.460 --> 04:06:33.780
When he was mocked, he kept his love on.

2794
04:06:33.780 --> 04:06:36.060
When he was tortured, he kept his love on.

2795
04:06:36.060 --> 04:06:38.640
When he was crucified, he kept his love on.

2796
04:06:38.640 --> 04:06:43.140
Through it all, Jesus never avoided hard things or pain.

2797
04:06:43.140 --> 04:06:44.780
He did whatever it would take

2798
04:06:44.780 --> 04:06:47.100
to reveal the Father's love to us,

2799
04:06:47.100 --> 04:06:50.400
and the only way to reveal such a pure, unconditional,

2800
04:06:50.400 --> 04:06:52.580
and wildly extravagant love

2801
04:06:52.580 --> 04:06:54.540
that could not be compromised or conquered

2802
04:06:54.540 --> 04:06:57.100
was to go to hell and back.

2803
04:06:57.100 --> 04:07:00.500
Through it all, his love never flinched.

2804
04:07:00.500 --> 04:07:02.220
1 John 3, 16.

2805
04:07:03.660 --> 04:07:06.700
This is how we know what love is.

2806
04:07:06.700 --> 04:07:09.620
Jesus Christ laid down his life for us,

2807
04:07:09.620 --> 04:07:11.940
and we ought to lay down our lives

2808
04:07:11.940 --> 04:07:13.480
for our brothers and sisters.

2809
04:07:14.940 --> 04:07:18.300
I call betrayal the beauty of betrayal

2810
04:07:18.300 --> 04:07:21.340
because it is a mandatory part of the process

2811
04:07:21.340 --> 04:07:25.900
of becoming a perfect expression of love.

2812
04:07:25.900 --> 04:07:30.900
You must be betrayed, persecuted, hated,

2813
04:07:30.900 --> 04:07:35.900
and rejected to have the opportunity to love your enemies.

2814
04:07:36.660 --> 04:07:40.100
It is only in this space that the scene is set

2815
04:07:40.100 --> 04:07:41.860
to demonstrate to the world

2816
04:07:41.860 --> 04:07:46.420
the true nature of the love of God.

2817
04:07:47.260 --> 04:07:50.580
This means that carrying our cross

2818
04:07:51.820 --> 04:07:56.820
will demand that we do hard things, painful things,

2819
04:07:57.900 --> 04:08:01.840
in order to achieve what we were created to achieve,

2820
04:08:01.840 --> 04:08:06.840
but also in order to become who we were created to become.

2821
04:08:08.400 --> 04:08:11.700
Jesus said, Matthew 16, 24,

2822
04:08:11.700 --> 04:08:14.600
if anyone of you wants to be my follower,

2823
04:08:14.600 --> 04:08:16.800
you must give up your own way,

2824
04:08:16.800 --> 04:08:19.620
take up your cross, and follow me.

2825
04:08:20.760 --> 04:08:23.940
This requires a mindset that is committed

2826
04:08:23.940 --> 04:08:26.320
to doing whatever it takes.

2827
04:08:26.320 --> 04:08:29.560
If we follow in Jesus' footsteps,

2828
04:08:30.680 --> 04:08:33.800
it could literally mean a journey to hell and back.

2829
04:08:34.840 --> 04:08:36.640
One thing is certain,

2830
04:08:36.640 --> 04:08:39.160
the standard for biblical Christianity

2831
04:08:39.160 --> 04:08:44.160
is a 100% all-in commitment to do whatever it takes

2832
04:08:44.920 --> 04:08:46.680
to follow Christ.

2833
04:08:47.920 --> 04:08:49.640
When God unleashed His limitless power

2834
04:08:49.640 --> 04:08:53.040
to dream the best for you before you were even born,

2835
04:08:53.040 --> 04:08:56.400
He included the struggle.

2836
04:08:56.400 --> 04:09:00.200
He knew the struggle was necessary to reveal the greatness,

2837
04:09:00.200 --> 04:09:02.600
the courage, the love, the faith, the light,

2838
04:09:02.600 --> 04:09:04.840
and the power that He placed in you

2839
04:09:04.840 --> 04:09:07.180
before the foundation of the world.

2840
04:09:07.180 --> 04:09:09.860
The call of God on our lives

2841
04:09:09.860 --> 04:09:13.560
was not just designed to be hard, challenging, painful,

2842
04:09:13.600 --> 04:09:14.880
fought with danger,

2843
04:09:14.880 --> 04:09:17.800
demanding, and surrounded by the giants of darkness.

2844
04:09:17.800 --> 04:09:22.720
It was designed by God to be absolutely impossible.

2845
04:09:23.640 --> 04:09:26.480
It was designed to bring us to a place

2846
04:09:26.480 --> 04:09:28.840
of complete surrender and dependence on God.

2847
04:09:28.840 --> 04:09:30.720
Just like Abraham and Sarah,

2848
04:09:30.720 --> 04:09:33.200
their destiny was completely impossible,

2849
04:09:33.200 --> 04:09:35.640
and they could only step into the impossibility

2850
04:09:35.640 --> 04:09:37.820
of their destiny and the promises of God

2851
04:09:37.820 --> 04:09:40.340
for their lives by going all-in.

2852
04:09:40.340 --> 04:09:43.280
They were plunged into an impossible calling,

2853
04:09:44.040 --> 04:09:45.480
but every time they looked at the stars,

2854
04:09:45.480 --> 04:09:47.640
they were surrounded by promises

2855
04:09:47.640 --> 04:09:49.720
from the God of the impossible.

2856
04:09:49.720 --> 04:09:52.960
2 Corinthians 1.20,

2857
04:09:52.960 --> 04:09:56.520
for no matter how many promises God has made,

2858
04:09:56.520 --> 04:09:59.520
they are yes in Christ.

2859
04:09:59.520 --> 04:10:00.360
And so.

2860
04:10:00.000 --> 04:10:05.000
Through Him, the Amen is spoken by us to the glory of God.

2861
04:10:05.920 --> 04:10:10.200
Casual action is certain defeat.

2862
04:10:10.200 --> 04:10:14.040
Massive actions inspired by a heart ablaze

2863
04:10:14.040 --> 04:10:16.040
with a cause worth dying for

2864
04:10:16.040 --> 04:10:18.560
and a resolution to do whatever it takes

2865
04:10:19.760 --> 04:10:22.600
unleashes an unstoppable boldness

2866
04:10:22.600 --> 04:10:25.480
that produces the type of massive action

2867
04:10:25.480 --> 04:10:28.960
that will bring your wildest dreams to life.

2868
04:10:30.240 --> 04:10:32.240
Romans 8, 31.

2869
04:10:32.240 --> 04:10:34.480
So what does all this mean?

2870
04:10:34.480 --> 04:10:37.520
If God has determined to stand with us,

2871
04:10:37.520 --> 04:10:42.360
tell me, who then could ever stand against us?

2872
04:10:43.720 --> 04:10:47.480
Taking massive, consistent action.

2873
04:10:48.400 --> 04:10:53.400
It can't just be a one-off short burst of intensity.

2874
04:10:56.800 --> 04:10:59.080
The giants of darkness are used to that.

2875
04:10:59.080 --> 04:11:00.840
They'll just step aside for a moment,

2876
04:11:00.840 --> 04:11:03.960
watch you burn yourself out, and then finish you off.

2877
04:11:03.960 --> 04:11:07.680
It's easier for them to deal with a victim of burnout

2878
04:11:07.680 --> 04:11:10.080
than it is to deal with a casual attitude.

2879
04:11:11.520 --> 04:11:15.920
Your massive actions must be calculated

2880
04:11:15.920 --> 04:11:19.920
to allow for long-term consistency.

2881
04:11:20.760 --> 04:11:25.320
By ensuring that your actions are long-term and consistent,

2882
04:11:25.360 --> 04:11:29.680
you will receive two major benefits.

2883
04:11:29.680 --> 04:11:32.720
Benefit number one, willpower.

2884
04:11:33.880 --> 04:11:37.400
Massive action embraces every difficult task,

2885
04:11:37.400 --> 04:11:39.760
every discipline, every early morning,

2886
04:11:39.760 --> 04:11:43.600
every sacrifice, and it never avoids pain.

2887
04:11:43.600 --> 04:11:45.120
It confronts disappointments

2888
04:11:45.120 --> 04:11:47.480
and runs into every challenging circumstance

2889
04:11:47.480 --> 04:11:51.200
with a resolute will to do whatever it takes.

2890
04:11:51.200 --> 04:11:52.480
Over a long period of time,

2891
04:11:52.480 --> 04:11:54.680
this develops a strength of will

2892
04:11:54.680 --> 04:11:57.600
that can be produced no other way.

2893
04:11:57.600 --> 04:12:00.680
This willpower or tenacity,

2894
04:12:00.680 --> 04:12:03.480
character, testicular fortitude, or endurance

2895
04:12:03.480 --> 04:12:06.440
grows in the trenches of relentlessly turning up

2896
04:12:06.440 --> 04:12:09.480
day after day to do whatever it takes

2897
04:12:09.480 --> 04:12:12.960
to make your dreams happen.

2898
04:12:12.960 --> 04:12:14.600
It's not glamorous,

2899
04:12:14.600 --> 04:12:17.840
but it's one of the most powerful attributes

2900
04:12:17.840 --> 04:12:20.360
that anyone can ever develop,

2901
04:12:20.360 --> 04:12:23.080
and it will benefit you in every way,

2902
04:12:23.080 --> 04:12:25.160
in every area of your life,

2903
04:12:25.160 --> 04:12:28.960
and especially in the area of the science of dreams

2904
04:12:28.960 --> 04:12:32.800
and mastering the four ancient weapons from heaven.

2905
04:12:34.120 --> 04:12:35.440
Having been deeply involved

2906
04:12:35.440 --> 04:12:37.880
in the process of personal transformation,

2907
04:12:37.880 --> 04:12:40.400
pastoring, life coaching, and vision training,

2908
04:12:40.400 --> 04:12:43.600
I have observed many different people's journeys,

2909
04:12:43.600 --> 04:12:45.760
their struggles and failures.

2910
04:12:45.760 --> 04:12:48.800
Through a desire to understand how to help people

2911
04:12:48.800 --> 04:12:50.840
to get the change they are looking for,

2912
04:12:50.840 --> 04:12:52.880
I've done a huge amount of research

2913
04:12:52.880 --> 04:12:55.800
and also self-reflection.

2914
04:12:55.800 --> 04:12:59.640
One question I've had for years has been,

2915
04:12:59.640 --> 04:13:01.560
why does so many people in our generation

2916
04:13:01.560 --> 04:13:04.560
fail so consistently to perform tasks,

2917
04:13:04.560 --> 04:13:08.000
disciplines, and actions that I personally found

2918
04:13:08.000 --> 04:13:09.640
almost effortless to achieve?

2919
04:13:10.560 --> 04:13:12.680
After a long time of journeying with people,

2920
04:13:12.680 --> 04:13:15.200
I made a surprising discovery.

2921
04:13:15.200 --> 04:13:18.000
As a child and through my teenage years,

2922
04:13:18.000 --> 04:13:21.000
I grew up on an organic market garden.

2923
04:13:21.000 --> 04:13:22.800
My parents were pastors,

2924
04:13:22.800 --> 04:13:25.320
but the farm was the family business.

2925
04:13:25.320 --> 04:13:29.200
Being organic, we didn't use chemical sprays on weeds.

2926
04:13:29.200 --> 04:13:32.080
That meant that on top of all the other jobs

2927
04:13:32.080 --> 04:13:33.920
involved in running the farm,

2928
04:13:33.920 --> 04:13:36.360
we had about seven acres of crops

2929
04:13:36.360 --> 04:13:40.600
that had to be continuously weeded all year round.

2930
04:13:40.600 --> 04:13:43.760
That's a lot of weeds,

2931
04:13:43.760 --> 04:13:46.160
especially when you are doing everything you can

2932
04:13:46.160 --> 04:13:48.160
to create optimum growth conditions

2933
04:13:48.160 --> 04:13:50.080
and everything is flourishing.

2934
04:13:50.080 --> 04:13:52.200
That meant that my entire childhood,

2935
04:13:52.200 --> 04:13:54.360
I was never short of having the opportunity

2936
04:13:54.360 --> 04:13:55.880
to do hard things.

2937
04:13:55.880 --> 04:13:57.480
From the time I was six years old,

2938
04:13:57.480 --> 04:13:59.360
I was spending hours at a time

2939
04:13:59.360 --> 04:14:01.240
weeding and working on the farm.

2940
04:14:01.240 --> 04:14:04.040
Rain or shine, burning hot or freezing cold,

2941
04:14:04.040 --> 04:14:06.760
early morning or late at night on the farm,

2942
04:14:06.760 --> 04:14:10.720
we just had to do whatever it took to get jobs done

2943
04:14:10.720 --> 04:14:15.240
all year round, year after year.

2944
04:14:15.240 --> 04:14:16.680
Sometimes I regretted it.

2945
04:14:17.720 --> 04:14:19.560
I didn't always enjoy it.

2946
04:14:19.560 --> 04:14:21.440
It was definitely hard and often painful

2947
04:14:21.440 --> 04:14:23.320
doing everything by hand,

2948
04:14:23.320 --> 04:14:25.480
bending over for hours at a time,

2949
04:14:25.480 --> 04:14:27.160
washing vegetables at dawn

2950
04:14:27.160 --> 04:14:29.040
and finger numbing near freezing water.

2951
04:14:29.040 --> 04:14:30.760
The list of jobs were endless,

2952
04:14:30.760 --> 04:14:34.680
but now I couldn't possibly be more grateful

2953
04:14:34.680 --> 04:14:38.520
because I realize now that developing a great work ethic

2954
04:14:38.520 --> 04:14:42.000
and doing hard things repeatedly as a child and teenager

2955
04:14:42.000 --> 04:14:46.080
helped me to overcome the giant of apathy as an adult.

2956
04:14:46.080 --> 04:14:48.440
Now, when counseling or training people

2957
04:14:48.440 --> 04:14:50.400
on how to bring their dreams to life,

2958
04:14:50.400 --> 04:14:52.320
one of the most crucial recommendations

2959
04:14:52.320 --> 04:14:55.600
that I have for people is do hard things.

2960
04:14:55.600 --> 04:14:58.280
Do hard things as hard as possible

2961
04:14:58.280 --> 04:14:59.840
and as often as possible.

2962
04:15:00.000 --> 04:15:04.560
Embrace hard things, embrace pain, and in the process you will develop the power of

2963
04:15:04.560 --> 04:15:06.720
an unshakable will.

2964
04:15:06.720 --> 04:15:11.780
The giant of apathy is ruining a generation right now by constantly leading people to

2965
04:15:11.780 --> 04:15:17.460
avoid hard things and to avoid pain, knowing that if they live like that, they will become

2966
04:15:17.460 --> 04:15:23.120
easy victims with weak willpower and no self-control.

2967
04:15:23.120 --> 04:15:30.240
2 Timothy 1.7 For the spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love,

2968
04:15:30.240 --> 04:15:31.240
and self-discipline.

2969
04:15:31.240 --> 04:15:36.720
I see this so much in this generation.

2970
04:15:36.720 --> 04:15:43.440
As they face addictions to drugs, porn, eating disorders, self-harm, the list of self-destructive

2971
04:15:43.440 --> 04:15:50.040
behaviours goes on and because our culture and specifically the giant of apathy encourages

2972
04:15:50.040 --> 04:15:55.360
people to avoid hard things and avoid pain, people often have very little willpower or

2973
04:15:55.360 --> 04:15:58.880
self-discipline when they need it the most.

2974
04:15:58.880 --> 04:16:03.640
I see it in Christian couples trying to protect their purity and values before marriage.

2975
04:16:03.640 --> 04:16:06.040
Those with willpower achieve this easily.

2976
04:16:06.040 --> 04:16:09.300
Those without willpower fail continuously.

2977
04:16:09.300 --> 04:16:16.280
As a parent, now I understand the value of getting my kids to do hard things as often

2978
04:16:16.280 --> 04:16:18.320
as possible.

2979
04:16:18.320 --> 04:16:23.920
As an adult, I now appreciate all the countless opportunities to do hard things that I received

2980
04:16:23.920 --> 04:16:25.560
as a child.

2981
04:16:25.560 --> 04:16:30.560
One of the best ways to train yourself as a giant slayer is to get out there and embrace

2982
04:16:30.560 --> 04:16:32.800
doing hard things.

2983
04:16:32.800 --> 04:16:38.240
If you fail in this one area of willpower alone, the giant of apathy can destroy your

2984
04:16:38.240 --> 04:16:39.800
entire destiny.

2985
04:16:39.800 --> 04:16:44.640
Millions, more like billions of dreams in this generation are heading straight for the

2986
04:16:44.640 --> 04:16:51.400
grave right now because people have underestimated the vital necessity of developing an unshakable

2987
04:16:51.400 --> 04:16:52.520
will.

2988
04:16:52.520 --> 04:16:57.560
If all you had was an unshakable will, that would be enough to make all the other changes

2989
04:16:57.560 --> 04:17:01.960
required in your life to start bringing your wildest dreams to life.

2990
04:17:01.960 --> 04:17:06.800
But if an unshakable will is the only thing you are missing, you don't stand a chance

2991
04:17:06.800 --> 04:17:09.920
against the giants of darkness.

2992
04:17:09.920 --> 04:17:15.440
If you truly are all in on bringing your wildest dreams to life and running in your

2993
04:17:15.440 --> 04:17:22.520
sacred destiny, then you must fight with everything you've got to develop an unshakable will.

2994
04:17:22.520 --> 04:17:24.560
It starts now.

2995
04:17:24.560 --> 04:17:26.740
It starts with embracing pain.

2996
04:17:26.740 --> 04:17:29.000
It starts with embracing hard things.

2997
04:17:29.000 --> 04:17:36.240
It starts with you deciding that you are going to do whatever it takes.

2998
04:17:36.240 --> 04:17:40.800
Step number two, sustainability.

2999
04:17:40.800 --> 04:17:49.080
Massive action must be consistent action to ensure that your success is sustainable.

3000
04:17:49.080 --> 04:17:55.960
The objective of your massive action is always to produce change of some sort.

3001
04:17:55.960 --> 04:18:00.240
When you are planning your massive actions, you need to consider sustainability.

3002
04:18:01.040 --> 04:18:07.720
If your actions are not consistent, the change will not be sustainable.

3003
04:18:07.720 --> 04:18:14.960
Break your massive actions down into an army of incremental, sustainable changes to ensure

3004
04:18:14.960 --> 04:18:17.920
that your gains are long term.

3005
04:18:17.920 --> 04:18:20.800
Think big and think long term.

3006
04:18:20.800 --> 04:18:27.020
By thinking incremental and sustainable, for example, like many good wives, my wife got

3007
04:18:27.020 --> 04:18:29.680
busy changing our family's diet around.

3008
04:18:29.680 --> 04:18:32.800
She especially wanted to reduce our sugar consumption.

3009
04:18:32.800 --> 04:18:37.320
I'm thankful she didn't just throw all the sugar out in an instant because it wouldn't

3010
04:18:37.320 --> 04:18:40.960
have lasted and I would have gone on a sugar binge.

3011
04:18:40.960 --> 04:18:46.120
But little by little, we have embraced a reduced sugar diet.

3012
04:18:46.120 --> 04:18:50.920
It's been incremental, little baby steps, but we have been able to consistently and

3013
04:18:50.920 --> 04:18:58.120
majorly reduce our sugar intake over the last 10 years, little by little.

3014
04:18:58.120 --> 04:19:06.360
As you go out and smash tiny goals, it will eventually produce dramatic changes.

3015
04:19:06.360 --> 04:19:16.120
Exodus 23, 29 to 30, but I will not drive them out in a single year because the land

3016
04:19:16.120 --> 04:19:21.480
would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.

3017
04:19:21.480 --> 04:19:28.760
Little by little, I will drive them out before you until you have increased enough to take

3018
04:19:28.760 --> 04:19:32.680
possession of the land.

3019
04:19:32.680 --> 04:19:39.720
Something that really helped me when embracing incremental change is micro commitments.

3020
04:19:39.720 --> 04:19:46.160
That often looks like starting with just five minutes a day and expanding from there.

3021
04:19:46.160 --> 04:19:50.120
What new disciplines or habits do you need slash want to form?

3022
04:19:50.120 --> 04:19:54.920
Could you make a micro commitment of five minutes a day to this discipline that has

3023
04:19:54.920 --> 04:19:58.600
the power to redesign your entire reality?

3024
04:19:58.600 --> 04:20:00.040
A practice becomes a habit.

3025
04:20:00.000 --> 04:20:06.920
habit, a habit becomes a reflex, a reflex becomes a lifestyle, a lifestyle becomes a

3026
04:20:06.920 --> 04:20:09.080
state of being.

3027
04:20:09.080 --> 04:20:15.520
This is an area where we must take extreme ownership of our own mindsets, behaviours,

3028
04:20:15.520 --> 04:20:17.800
results and lifestyles.

3029
04:20:17.800 --> 04:20:22.780
I have one empowering question for you to consider.

3030
04:20:22.780 --> 04:20:44.780
What action that you know will take you closer to your dreams are you unwilling to initiate?

3031
04:20:44.780 --> 04:20:50.060
A victim mindset will justify all the reasons why you aren't, can't and shan't take action.

3032
04:20:50.060 --> 04:20:55.620
Extreme ownership, like Nike says, will just do it.

3033
04:20:55.620 --> 04:21:03.020
An anonymous quote says, imagine with all your mind, believe with all your heart, achieve

3034
04:21:03.020 --> 04:21:06.140
with all your mind.

3035
04:21:06.140 --> 04:21:11.100
An example of how a victim mindset responds to being confronted about not doing what it

3036
04:21:11.100 --> 04:21:15.820
takes to bring their wildest dreams to life is, I'm too busy.

3037
04:21:15.820 --> 04:21:21.140
This is just lying to yourself that leads to procrastination and no progress.

3038
04:21:21.140 --> 04:21:25.680
An example of how extreme ownership responds to being confronted about not doing what it

3039
04:21:25.680 --> 04:21:30.580
takes to bring their wildest dreams to life is, I haven't made that a priority in my life

3040
04:21:30.580 --> 04:21:31.580
yet.

3041
04:21:31.580 --> 04:21:36.700
Then extreme ownership follows through by making a commitment to change, even if it's

3042
04:21:36.700 --> 04:21:39.380
a micro commitment.

3043
04:21:39.380 --> 04:21:42.740
Extreme ownership takes action.

3044
04:21:42.740 --> 04:21:48.660
Advances conditions permit, if conditions do not permit, create those conditions.

3045
04:21:48.660 --> 04:21:52.580
Quote from an anonymous general.

3046
04:21:52.580 --> 04:21:57.780
Taking massive strategic action.

3047
04:21:57.780 --> 04:22:05.180
American President Dwight Eisenhower once said, plans are worthless, but planning is

3048
04:22:05.180 --> 04:22:06.180
everything.

3049
04:22:06.180 --> 04:22:12.380
This saying has everything to do with timing and the unexpected dynamic nature of life.

3050
04:22:13.060 --> 04:22:18.140
The value of planning is priceless and critical, but goals, strategies and plans need to work

3051
04:22:18.140 --> 04:22:20.380
for you and not against you.

3052
04:22:20.380 --> 04:22:26.700
When your circumstances change unexpectedly, you may find that your original plan is ineffective

3053
04:22:26.700 --> 04:22:29.620
or even counterproductive at this time.

3054
04:22:29.620 --> 04:22:35.300
What was a brilliant strategy yesterday could be a recipe for disaster today.

3055
04:22:35.300 --> 04:22:39.100
This does not mean that you should forget about planning.

3056
04:22:39.100 --> 04:22:43.900
If you forget about planning, then the giants of distraction and apathy will take you out

3057
04:22:43.900 --> 04:22:46.260
of the game in no time.

3058
04:22:46.260 --> 04:22:51.740
When circumstances change, significant pieces of your vision, strategy, goals and action

3059
04:22:51.740 --> 04:22:55.340
plans may have to change in a single moment.

3060
04:22:55.340 --> 04:23:01.740
I set my vision in jelly, not concrete, because your vision is there to serve you, not oppress

3061
04:23:01.740 --> 04:23:08.100
you, and if the world changes, you may have to change with it in a hurry.

3062
04:23:08.100 --> 04:23:11.700
I'm writing this in December 2020.

3063
04:23:11.700 --> 04:23:18.020
This year the world has shifted like never before with global lockdowns, border closures

3064
04:23:18.020 --> 04:23:21.700
and more changes than anyone could have imagined possible.

3065
04:23:21.700 --> 04:23:28.180
Nearly every person, business and organisation in the world has had to pivot in some way

3066
04:23:28.180 --> 04:23:34.020
in order to survive in the context of dramatic global changes.

3067
04:23:34.020 --> 04:23:37.700
Those who can't adapt may not survive.

3068
04:23:37.700 --> 04:23:41.860
Mike Tyson, a world champion boxer, said it like this,

3069
04:23:41.860 --> 04:23:46.020
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

3070
04:23:46.020 --> 04:23:52.500
When that happens, you must collect yourself, take stock of the situation you are in and

3071
04:23:52.500 --> 04:23:58.260
immediately pivot your strategy to ensure that you are not engaging in random actions

3072
04:23:58.260 --> 04:24:01.660
that will take you even further away from your dreams.

3073
04:24:01.660 --> 04:24:06.980
Jesus had a simple, powerful system for doing this on a moment by moment basis.

3074
04:24:07.140 --> 04:24:10.900
John 5, 19, Jesus gave them this answer,

3075
04:24:10.900 --> 04:24:16.580
Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself, he can do only what he sees his

3076
04:24:16.580 --> 04:24:21.700
Father doing, because whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

3077
04:24:21.700 --> 04:24:27.860
When we participate in the divine dance, like Jesus, we can receive moment by moment strategy

3078
04:24:27.860 --> 04:24:29.540
updates from the Trinity.

3079
04:24:29.540 --> 04:24:37.700
My whole life revolves around this dynamic of doing only what I see the Father doing.

3080
04:24:37.700 --> 04:24:43.060
I take my vision, my goals, my strategy, my action plans, my priority to do list from

3081
04:24:43.060 --> 04:24:46.260
the Trinity on a moment by moment basis.

3082
04:24:46.260 --> 04:24:51.380
The wonderful thing about that is that they give me prophetic strategy updates.

3083
04:24:51.380 --> 04:24:58.340
And around June 2019 the Trinity said to me, clear the decks or I'll clear them for you.

3084
04:24:58.340 --> 04:25:00.180
They were specifically speaking about

3085
04:25:00.000 --> 04:25:04.800
all ministry conferences and missions trips that we had planned for this year

3086
04:25:04.800 --> 04:25:12.240
2020. We cancelled everything. Things we'd been running for years, everything for

3087
04:25:12.240 --> 04:25:18.400
2020 got cancelled in 2019. All mission trips, all schools, all conferences, we

3088
04:25:18.400 --> 04:25:22.200
cancelled events and programs that had been in motion for well over a decade

3089
04:25:22.200 --> 04:25:29.960
based off a whisper from the Trinity. Then they even told us to leave the

3090
04:25:29.960 --> 04:25:34.000
church we had helped to plant, the ministry we had been building for over a

3091
04:25:34.000 --> 04:25:38.720
decade, the town we lived in to sell our property and just like Abraham our

3092
04:25:38.720 --> 04:25:44.280
family was sent out with no specific directions as to where he was sending us.

3093
04:25:44.280 --> 04:25:49.480
Nothing in our world made sense except that we knew we were walking in

3094
04:25:49.480 --> 04:25:57.720
obedience. He also led us to transition everything online, ministry, business, it

3095
04:25:57.720 --> 04:26:03.480
all went online before the end of 2019. Because we had no idea where we were

3096
04:26:03.480 --> 04:26:08.040
going we homeschooled our two oldest kids. It wasn't until the lockdown hit

3097
04:26:08.040 --> 04:26:12.800
that our world finally made sense and we were perfectly positioned to thrive in

3098
04:26:12.800 --> 04:26:17.360
the midst of it all. When we participate in the beauty of the divine dance then

3099
04:26:17.360 --> 04:26:22.880
just like Jesus we have the capacity to receive moment-by-moment strategy reports

3100
04:26:22.880 --> 04:26:27.320
from heaven that can lead us through every storm, every blindside, every

3101
04:26:27.320 --> 04:26:33.360
tragedy and every unexpected circumstance that we face in life. During

3102
04:26:33.360 --> 04:26:37.720
the World Series baseball game between Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco

3103
04:26:37.720 --> 04:26:45.560
Giants at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1989, an earthquake with a

3104
04:26:45.600 --> 04:26:53.320
magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale struck the city. Because of the media

3105
04:26:53.320 --> 04:26:58.600
coverage around the city for the baseball game it was the first earthquake

3106
04:26:58.600 --> 04:27:05.480
to be caught on live TV. The Loma Prieta earthquake also known as the World

3107
04:27:05.480 --> 04:27:15.520
Series quake struck at 5.04 p.m. on October the 17th. It caused 63 deaths,

3108
04:27:15.520 --> 04:27:23.640
3,757 injuries, over 8,000 people became homeless and US 5.6 to 6 billion

3109
04:27:23.640 --> 04:27:29.080
dollars worth of damages were caused. It was a total disaster and it immediately

3110
04:27:29.200 --> 04:27:35.320
changed everyone's priorities to survival for themselves and others. If

3111
04:27:35.320 --> 04:27:39.200
your plan was keeping your shop or your restaurant open and doing some great

3112
04:27:39.200 --> 04:27:43.720
business after the game then what was initially a great plan is now

3113
04:27:43.720 --> 04:27:48.960
a life-threatening activity. Buildings had collapsed, fires were breaking out,

3114
04:27:48.960 --> 04:27:54.360
many fires were being fueled by gas leaks, road infrastructure had collapsed

3115
04:27:54.360 --> 04:27:59.000
and if you were there you had quite possibly just lost your home. If your

3116
04:27:59.000 --> 04:28:04.520
priorities, your plans, your strategies and your actions don't shift with your

3117
04:28:04.520 --> 04:28:09.240
changing life experiences your excellent plan could become the source of your own

3118
04:28:09.240 --> 04:28:15.560
demise. Instead of a great weekend of business for people it was time to shut

3119
04:28:15.560 --> 04:28:19.000
up what was left of the business, it was time to start making a new plan

3120
04:28:19.000 --> 04:28:23.320
regarding immediate safety, getting water and finding somewhere to sleep if you

3121
04:28:23.320 --> 04:28:29.240
or your family were among the 8,000 people who had instantly become homeless.

3122
04:28:29.240 --> 04:28:34.480
If you didn't adapt your plans to the situation then your survival was in

3123
04:28:34.480 --> 04:28:39.760
great danger. Many people's dreams die for this very reason. They develop a

3124
04:28:39.760 --> 04:28:44.080
great vision with a great strategy, great goals and excellent planning before they

3125
04:28:44.080 --> 04:28:48.440
launch into massive action but all your plans become worthless if your

3126
04:28:48.440 --> 04:28:53.000
circumstances change. Your planning however remains priceless. When your

3127
04:28:53.000 --> 04:28:57.280
circumstances change it is time to adapt your plan. You may only need to

3128
04:28:57.280 --> 04:29:01.760
make a slight adjustment to the plan but the plan and the value of the plan is

3129
04:29:01.760 --> 04:29:08.160
determined by how effectively it serves your dream. The Loma Prieta earthquake

3130
04:29:08.160 --> 04:29:16.480
caused US 5.5 to 6 billion dollars worth of damages. Is it possible for anyone to

3131
04:29:16.480 --> 04:29:21.680
use the momentum of an earthquake that devastating to their own advantage? Yes

3132
04:29:21.680 --> 04:29:27.320
absolutely. Get into construction or supplying materials for the rebuild.

3133
04:29:27.320 --> 04:29:32.680
Sometimes a circumstance which we think will destroy us may actually only

3134
04:29:32.680 --> 04:29:38.200
destroy our plan in its current form. A slight adjustment to your plan at the

3135
04:29:38.200 --> 04:29:45.080
right time can turn a tragedy into a triumph. When we make a plan we set key

3136
04:29:45.080 --> 04:29:51.640
priority tasks but these priority tasks must remain flexible because we have to

3137
04:29:51.720 --> 04:29:56.320
balance our priority tasks with the circumstances around us. If our priority

3138
04:29:56.320 --> 04:30:01.960
tasks are not flexible it can be to our disadvantage.

3139
04:30:00.000 --> 04:30:06.240
Our priorities must revolve around our changing circumstances because the timing of our actions

3140
04:30:06.240 --> 04:30:08.360
dictates their success.

3141
04:30:08.360 --> 04:30:13.960
Having said that, maintaining flexible priorities is not an encouragement to neglect the vital

3142
04:30:13.960 --> 04:30:16.820
few priorities at hand.

3143
04:30:16.820 --> 04:30:23.640
Mastering strategy requires us to master the ability to evaluate all of our dreams, goals,

3144
04:30:23.640 --> 04:30:30.600
strategies and tasks at hand, while simultaneously closely monitoring our changing circumstances.

3145
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By doing this we are able to accurately assess which are the genuine priorities of the day,

3146
04:30:36.920 --> 04:30:42.960
and then boldly launch into massive strategic action and complete those tasks.

3147
04:30:42.960 --> 04:30:48.480
Mastering strategy is not just about avoiding disaster, but also making the most of opportunities

3148
04:30:48.480 --> 04:30:53.800
presented in the midst of change, chaos and blindsides.

3149
04:30:53.800 --> 04:30:57.400
Every strategy must revolve around precision timing.

3150
04:30:57.400 --> 04:31:02.680
It's possible for the timing of your actions to have more influence on your success than

3151
04:31:02.680 --> 04:31:05.480
the actions themselves.

3152
04:31:05.480 --> 04:31:10.880
One area that this is clearly showcased is financial investments.

3153
04:31:10.880 --> 04:31:14.600
Timing is the biggest influence in any investment.

3154
04:31:14.600 --> 04:31:21.640
I want to share a historical story about timing that is surrounded by mystery.

3155
04:31:21.640 --> 04:31:28.600
As I have researched this story, I have found seemingly reputable sources claiming facts

3156
04:31:28.600 --> 04:31:31.640
which are in direct contradiction to one another.

3157
04:31:31.640 --> 04:31:35.460
I have found some claims which are obviously not true regarding possibly the shrewdest

3158
04:31:35.460 --> 04:31:37.560
investment in history.

3159
04:31:37.560 --> 04:31:41.800
I'll share some of the perspectives and let you make up your own mind, or do further research

3160
04:31:41.800 --> 04:31:44.080
if the story interests you.

3161
04:31:44.080 --> 04:31:48.600
We will start with some of the undisputed facts of this story, which began in a Jewish

3162
04:31:48.600 --> 04:31:57.640
ghetto in 1744 Frankfurt, Germany with the birth of Meyer Amschel Rothschild.

3163
04:31:57.640 --> 04:32:02.520
Meyer became a banker with a vision to expand his banking empire, which he accomplished

3164
04:32:02.520 --> 04:32:08.880
through his five sons, whom he stationed in five of the most influential financial centres

3165
04:32:08.880 --> 04:32:10.080
in Europe.

3166
04:32:10.080 --> 04:32:18.040
His sons were Amschel, stationed in Frankfurt, Salomon, stationed in Vienna, Nathan, stationed

3167
04:32:18.040 --> 04:32:25.160
in London, Kalman, stationed in Naples, and the youngest, Jacob, stationed in Paris.

3168
04:32:25.160 --> 04:32:32.240
Between them, they developed the most advanced postal and transport system in Europe.

3169
04:32:32.240 --> 04:32:36.280
Through this system of couriers, they were able to transport goods, information, and

3170
04:32:36.280 --> 04:32:40.400
gold across the continent with great efficiency.

3171
04:32:40.400 --> 04:32:45.480
Nathan moved to London in 1798.

3172
04:32:45.480 --> 04:32:52.760
Not long after this, in 1802, the Napoleonic Wars broke out, which lasted intermittently

3173
04:32:52.760 --> 04:32:56.920
until November 20, 1815.

3174
04:32:56.920 --> 04:33:01.840
The Rothschilds were heavily invested in the Napoleonic Wars.

3175
04:33:01.840 --> 04:33:06.560
They provided finance to nations to fund war campaigns.

3176
04:33:06.560 --> 04:33:14.360
Nathan financed Britain, while simultaneously Jacob, who was based in Paris, was discreetly

3177
04:33:14.360 --> 04:33:17.279
funding Napoleon.

3178
04:33:17.279 --> 04:33:23.640
Nathan was contracted by the British government to take gold to the British troops under the

3179
04:33:23.640 --> 04:33:26.880
control of the Duke of Wellington.

3180
04:33:26.960 --> 04:33:32.360
Exporting gold during war was a great risk, but they received generous commissions for

3181
04:33:32.360 --> 04:33:37.279
the work and their courier system worked very efficiently.

3182
04:33:37.279 --> 04:33:48.320
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present Belgium.

3183
04:33:48.320 --> 04:33:52.119
Napoleon versus Britain and the Prussian army.

3184
04:33:52.119 --> 04:33:58.560
In a closely contended battle, Britain and Prussia defeated Napoleon.

3185
04:33:58.560 --> 04:34:02.080
Here is the part of the story surrounded by some mystery.

3186
04:34:02.080 --> 04:34:05.880
Some people claim that Nathan Rothschilds was at the battle watching, and once he saw

3187
04:34:05.880 --> 04:34:09.800
that Napoleon was defeated, raced back to London.

3188
04:34:09.800 --> 04:34:12.840
This version is almost certainly a fabrication.

3189
04:34:12.840 --> 04:34:19.200
A more likely version of events is that one of Nathan's couriers, named Rothworth, was

3190
04:34:19.200 --> 04:34:24.400
stationed at the battle to see the outcome and then report back to London as quickly

3191
04:34:24.400 --> 04:34:28.000
as possible.

3192
04:34:28.000 --> 04:34:35.960
Some people claim that Rothworth made it back to London a full 48 hours before Wellington's

3193
04:34:35.960 --> 04:34:36.960
courier.

3194
04:34:36.960 --> 04:34:38.680
Others claim it was 24 hours.

3195
04:34:38.680 --> 04:34:43.560
Either way, the majority of sources that I can find claim that Nathan's courier was at

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04:34:43.560 --> 04:34:48.320
least 24 hours ahead of Wellington's courier.

3197
04:34:48.320 --> 04:34:54.160
Here's where the story gets even more mysterious.

3198
04:34:54.160 --> 04:34:59.520
Multiple places claiming to be reputable historical sources completely contradict each

3199
04:34:59.520 --> 04:35:00.000
other.

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04:35:00.000 --> 04:35:06.160
On aspects of this part of the story, some claim that with the news of Wellington's victory,

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04:35:06.160 --> 04:35:09.200
Nathan began to sell all his bonds on the stock exchange.

3202
04:35:09.919 --> 04:35:16.880
These bonds were fixed loan contracts with the British government, with contractual returns.

3203
04:35:16.880 --> 04:35:22.880
They were worth astronomical fortunes and whoever controlled the majority of these bonds

3204
04:35:22.880 --> 04:35:27.200
or government debt would have enormous control in the government itself.

3205
04:35:28.160 --> 04:35:34.720
If Napoleon conquered London, he would not honour any of these contracts and they would

3206
04:35:34.720 --> 04:35:40.240
not be worth the paper they were printed on. When people realised that Nathan was selling

3207
04:35:40.240 --> 04:35:45.040
his priceless bonds, they assumed that his networks had supplied him with information

3208
04:35:45.040 --> 04:35:50.400
from the battle and the aristocracy of England began to sell their bonds in the fear that

3209
04:35:50.400 --> 04:35:56.080
Napoleon was about to march on London and they were about to lose generations worth of family

3210
04:35:56.080 --> 04:36:03.279
fortunes. Once the price of bonds hit rock bottom, Nathan bought all the bonds that he could,

3211
04:36:03.279 --> 04:36:10.000
entire family fortunes at a fraction of their original value. Other sources claim that Nathan

3212
04:36:10.000 --> 04:36:16.080
didn't cause a crash in the market. What is certain is that at this time, Nathan spent a

3213
04:36:16.080 --> 04:36:22.560
fortune on bonds at rock bottom prices and later sold them for an enormous profit.

3214
04:36:23.360 --> 04:36:28.160
This quote from Nathan Rothschilds in 1810, five years before Waterloo,

3215
04:36:28.720 --> 04:36:34.320
Buy on the sound of cannons, sell on the sound of trumpets, highlights his investment philosophy.

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04:36:34.960 --> 04:36:42.000
For Nathan Rothschilds, the most influential factor for investing was timing. Having researched a range

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04:36:42.000 --> 04:36:48.160
of conflicting perspectives, it is hard to be certain of exactly what happened in the 48 hours

3218
04:36:48.160 --> 04:36:54.080
after the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Every source that I viewed claimed a monopoly on the

3219
04:36:54.080 --> 04:37:01.439
truth of the subject. I want to highlight that Nathan Rothschild went to London with 20,000

3220
04:37:01.439 --> 04:37:09.279
pounds of investment capital in 1798. By the mid-1800s, the Rothschilds were the wealthiest

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04:37:09.279 --> 04:37:16.080
family in the world and some sources claim that at that point in time they controlled up to half

3222
04:37:16.080 --> 04:37:20.480
of the wealth of the world through their international banks and other portfolios.

3223
04:37:21.279 --> 04:37:25.520
They were happy to fund both sides of wars and made immense profit from war.

3224
04:37:26.800 --> 04:37:32.240
I don't endorse what seems to be shady methods but a principle that Nathan Rothschild understood

3225
04:37:32.240 --> 04:37:39.119
well is the timing of your actions can often have more influence than the actions themselves.

3226
04:37:39.759 --> 04:37:48.720
Once you are convinced of your strategy, it is time to go all in to do whatever it takes

3227
04:37:48.720 --> 04:37:57.919
to boldly take massive action. Operation Thunderbolt. Please note a range of sources,

3228
04:37:57.919 --> 04:38:03.520
all claiming to be legitimate, give slightly varied numbers and information on some of the

3229
04:38:03.520 --> 04:38:08.000
details mentioned below. I have attempted to find the most trusted accounts

3230
04:38:08.000 --> 04:38:11.520
where multiple sources provide slightly conflicting numbers and details.

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04:38:14.000 --> 04:38:26.320
On Sunday, the 27th of June, 1976, Air France Flight 139 departed Tel Aviv for Paris via Athens

3232
04:38:26.400 --> 04:38:34.000
with 188 passengers on board and 12 crew. At Athens, a further 58 passengers boarded

3233
04:38:34.000 --> 04:38:42.880
the A300B Airbus. Shortly after takeoff, four armed hijackers who boarded the flight in Athens

3234
04:38:42.880 --> 04:38:49.520
took control of the plane and 254 hostages, they forced the plane to change its course

3235
04:38:49.520 --> 04:38:57.759
and head for Africa. While refueling in Benghazi, Libya, the passengers faced extreme heat

3236
04:38:58.320 --> 04:39:03.919
in the plane on the tarmac. A young lady named Patricia Martel pretended to be pregnant and

3237
04:39:03.919 --> 04:39:09.599
pleaded with the hijackers to let her go as she feared a miscarriage. They agreed and released

3238
04:39:09.599 --> 04:39:15.599
her in Libya. They continued on and landed in the middle of the night at Entebbe Airport,

3239
04:39:15.599 --> 04:39:22.000
Uganda. At that time, Uganda was under the control of military dictator and notorious

3240
04:39:22.000 --> 04:39:27.840
mass murderer and tyrant, President Edie Amin. The hostages were moved to the old

3241
04:39:28.480 --> 04:39:34.400
out-of-use airport terminal building kept under armed guard. The hijackers made their demand,

3242
04:39:35.040 --> 04:39:42.720
$5 million and the release of over 50 Palestinian militants held around the world. If their demands

3243
04:39:42.720 --> 04:39:50.000
were not met, the hostages would receive severe and immediate repercussions. The deadline for

3244
04:39:50.000 --> 04:39:58.080
their demands was 2pm on Thursday, the 1st of July. People all around the world feared for

3245
04:39:58.080 --> 04:39:59.840
their survival. On Monday, the

3246
04:40:00.000 --> 04:40:07.560
The 28th of June international efforts to negotiate appeared to be failing.

3247
04:40:07.560 --> 04:40:14.520
On Tuesday the 29th of June all the hostages with Israeli citizenship or dual citizenship

3248
04:40:14.520 --> 04:40:16.920
were separated from the other passengers.

3249
04:40:16.920 --> 04:40:21.560
The French captain and crew chose to remain with the Israelis.

3250
04:40:21.560 --> 04:40:28.320
On Wednesday the 30th of June the hijackers released 47 non-Israeli hostages.

3251
04:40:28.320 --> 04:40:32.800
They were immediately flown to France and were interviewed by Mossad, the Israeli secret

3252
04:40:32.800 --> 04:40:34.880
service.

3253
04:40:34.880 --> 04:40:42.840
In Israel anxious relatives of the hostages invaded Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's private

3254
04:40:42.840 --> 04:40:45.520
residence to urge him to negotiate.

3255
04:40:45.520 --> 04:40:51.880
On the deadline of Thursday the 1st of July Israel entered into negotiations and received

3256
04:40:51.880 --> 04:41:00.000
an extension until Sunday the 4th of July and 101 non-Israeli hostages were released.

3257
04:41:00.000 --> 04:41:04.100
105 hostages remained under armed guard.

3258
04:41:04.100 --> 04:41:10.320
The families were terrified and the whole world was watching the unfolding emergency.

3259
04:41:10.320 --> 04:41:15.200
From the moment the news of the hijacking was received the Israeli Defence Force, the

3260
04:41:15.200 --> 04:41:19.640
IDF, began planning possible military options.

3261
04:41:19.640 --> 04:41:25.100
With the extremely short timeline and the huge logistical challenges involved in a precision

3262
04:41:25.100 --> 04:41:28.160
military action was not an option.

3263
04:41:28.160 --> 04:41:35.720
In Tebe airport in Uganda was approximately 2,500 miles or 4,000 kilometers from Israel

3264
04:41:35.720 --> 04:41:43.000
and to get there they would have to fly through large areas of enemy airspace.

3265
04:41:43.000 --> 04:41:48.640
Considering the time frame, the formulation and execution of a precision military option,

3266
04:41:48.640 --> 04:41:50.840
it just was not realistic.

3267
04:41:50.840 --> 04:41:56.400
However, the moment that the time extension was granted an extremely high risk military

3268
04:41:56.400 --> 04:41:58.640
action became an option.

3269
04:41:58.640 --> 04:42:01.280
The IDF had developed a rescue plan.

3270
04:42:01.280 --> 04:42:06.580
It seemed impossible, irresponsible and reckless but they believed it was the best course of

3271
04:42:06.580 --> 04:42:08.400
action available.

3272
04:42:08.400 --> 04:42:13.440
It was to be led by Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan or Yoni Netanyahu.

3273
04:42:13.440 --> 04:42:17.640
The IDF shared their plan with the government and waited for the verdict.

3274
04:42:17.640 --> 04:42:24.000
The nation's leaders began to discuss, debate and deliberate on the best course of action.

3275
04:42:24.000 --> 04:42:29.720
This was not just considered a military decision but a moral decision.

3276
04:42:29.720 --> 04:42:35.120
Finally on Saturday, the 3rd of July, the cabinet approved Operation Thunderbolt.

3277
04:42:35.120 --> 04:42:37.760
Within a few hours, planes were in the air.

3278
04:42:37.760 --> 04:42:45.440
The IDF dispatched four Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport vehicles, transporters carrying

3279
04:42:45.440 --> 04:42:49.480
vehicles, soldiers and a large medical team.

3280
04:42:49.480 --> 04:42:55.720
They flew at an average of 30 metres above the ground to avoid radar detection as they

3281
04:42:55.720 --> 04:42:58.120
passed through enemy airspace.

3282
04:42:58.120 --> 04:43:05.440
At 2300 hours, on Saturday, July 3rd, under the cover of darkness, the first Hercules

3283
04:43:05.440 --> 04:43:11.600
approached Entebbe Airport like a regular commercial aircraft.

3284
04:43:11.600 --> 04:43:14.320
It landed without raising any suspicions.

3285
04:43:14.320 --> 04:43:19.520
As it moved down the runway, troops discreetly leapt out with beacons to light the runway

3286
04:43:19.520 --> 04:43:23.880
for remaining planes in case the runway lights were turned off.

3287
04:43:23.880 --> 04:43:29.320
The Hercules continued to drive down the old runway before turning around.

3288
04:43:29.320 --> 04:43:36.360
Once the Hercules had turned around and opened its rear door, two Land Rovers and a Mercedes-Benz

3289
04:43:36.360 --> 04:43:38.040
drove out of the plane.

3290
04:43:38.040 --> 04:43:44.200
They were exact replicas of the Ugandan presidential motorcade.

3291
04:43:44.200 --> 04:43:49.720
Inside the three vehicles were 29 commandos from the Sayeret Matkal Division.

3292
04:43:49.720 --> 04:43:55.960
The Sayeret Matkal Division is the equivalent of the US Delta Force or the British Special

3293
04:43:55.960 --> 04:43:57.600
Air Service.

3294
04:43:57.600 --> 04:44:02.920
As they approached the old terminal building where the hostages were held, two armed Ugandan

3295
04:44:02.920 --> 04:44:05.080
guards challenged the motorcade.

3296
04:44:05.080 --> 04:44:07.560
They were immediately shot with silenced pistols.

3297
04:44:07.560 --> 04:44:11.920
However, one of them got up, an order was given and he was shot again with a machine

3298
04:44:11.920 --> 04:44:12.920
gun.

3299
04:44:12.920 --> 04:44:17.080
As the sound of the machine gun rang out across the airport, the element of surprise

3300
04:44:17.080 --> 04:44:22.360
was gone, but the Sayeret Matkal commandos proceeded to storm the terminal building under

3301
04:44:22.360 --> 04:44:25.200
heavy gunfire from the Ugandan army.

3302
04:44:25.200 --> 04:44:29.880
One unit assigned to the rescue of the hostages burst into the building where the hostages

3303
04:44:29.880 --> 04:44:30.880
were held.

3304
04:44:30.880 --> 04:44:33.440
The gunfight with the terrorists lasted only minutes.

3305
04:44:33.440 --> 04:44:35.480
Seven of the terrorists were killed.

3306
04:44:35.480 --> 04:44:36.880
Three others escaped.

3307
04:44:36.880 --> 04:44:40.960
Three of the hostages were caught in the crossfire and died during the assault.

3308
04:44:41.000 --> 04:44:46.400
Lieutenant Colonel Yoni Netanyahu was also shot and killed.

3309
04:44:46.400 --> 04:44:51.320
One hundred and one hostages were set free.

3310
04:44:51.320 --> 04:44:57.280
One other hostage, Dora Block, aged 74, fell sick during the hostage situation and was

3311
04:44:57.280 --> 04:44:58.880
taken to a hospital.

3312
04:44:58.880 --> 04:45:00.040
She was left behind.

3313
04:45:00.000 --> 04:45:05.000
When President Idi Amin heard of the rescue, he ordered her execution.

3314
04:45:05.000 --> 04:45:12.000
Years later, her family returned to Uganda and took her body home to be buried beside her husband.

3315
04:45:12.000 --> 04:45:22.000
Only seven minutes after the Hercules landed and the raid had begun, two more of the Hercules planes landed.

3316
04:45:22.000 --> 04:45:25.000
As they anticipated, the runway had been shut down.

3317
04:45:25.000 --> 04:45:28.000
They activated their beacons and guided the planes in.

3318
04:45:28.000 --> 04:45:36.000
Once they landed, each Hercules opened its back door and out drove two armored personnel carriers.

3319
04:45:36.000 --> 04:45:43.000
The four armored personnel carriers positioned themselves to prevent further Ugandan troops arriving.

3320
04:45:43.000 --> 04:45:52.000
Once the area was secure, some of these units proceeded to another part of the airport where the Ugandan MiG fighter jets were parked.

3321
04:45:52.000 --> 04:45:58.000
I saw several different reports on the actual number of MiG fighter jets that were stationed at Entebbe.

3322
04:45:58.000 --> 04:46:01.000
It seemed that there were approximately 11.

3323
04:46:01.000 --> 04:46:05.000
To prevent an aerial counter-attack, they destroyed them all.

3324
04:46:05.000 --> 04:46:09.000
The Israeli soldiers eventually overcame the Ugandan forces.

3325
04:46:09.000 --> 04:46:15.000
Then the fourth Hercules landed and pulled up outside the old airport terminal building.

3326
04:46:15.000 --> 04:46:18.000
The hostages were rushed onto the plane.

3327
04:46:18.000 --> 04:46:24.000
The other three planes were waiting at the end of the tarmac, engines running and ready to take off.

3328
04:46:24.000 --> 04:46:29.000
They began to refuel for the flight home, but they were running out of time to escape.

3329
04:46:29.000 --> 04:46:31.000
Ugandan reinforcements were on their way.

3330
04:46:31.000 --> 04:46:42.000
At the very last moment, the Kenyan government gave permission for the Israeli planes to refuel in Nairobi, so they departed Entebbe immediately.

3331
04:46:42.000 --> 04:46:47.000
All the hostages and all the vehicles loaded up and took to the skies.

3332
04:46:47.000 --> 04:46:54.000
57 minutes from the time the first plane landed, they were all airborne and on their way home.

3333
04:46:54.000 --> 04:47:03.000
They refueled in Nairobi, Kenya, where a number of the wounded were treated by the medical team before departing for Israel.

3334
04:47:03.000 --> 04:47:11.000
They all arrived safely back in Tel Aviv just after midday on Sunday, the 14th of July.

3335
04:47:11.000 --> 04:47:15.000
Spontaneous celebrations erupted all over Israel.

3336
04:47:15.000 --> 04:47:23.000
The IDF had successfully conducted the most logistically challenging and daring hostage rescue in history.

3337
04:47:23.000 --> 04:47:32.000
Operation Thunderbolt was renamed Operation Yonatan in honor of Yoni Netanyahu, their commander who died during the rescue.

3338
04:47:32.000 --> 04:47:37.000
Yoni was the older brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

3339
04:47:37.000 --> 04:47:49.000
Operation Yonatan is an extreme example of taking massive strategic action which empowers a seemingly impossible dream to become reality.

3340
04:47:49.000 --> 04:47:59.000
The massive strategic actions of the IDF saved the lives of 101 hostages who many believed were going to be executed.

3341
04:47:59.000 --> 04:48:08.000
Only two years beforehand, a similar hostage situation in Ma'alot in Israel, terrorists killed 25 hostages,

3342
04:48:08.000 --> 04:48:15.000
including 22 children with guns and grenades, and injured another 68 people.

3343
04:48:15.000 --> 04:48:20.000
Many feared that the hostages taken to Entebbe would never survive.

3344
04:48:20.000 --> 04:48:26.000
The seemingly impossible dream was that mothers and fathers would see their children again.

3345
04:48:26.000 --> 04:48:29.000
That husbands and wives would be reunited.

3346
04:48:29.000 --> 04:48:33.000
The dream was that loved ones would return home safely.

3347
04:48:33.000 --> 04:48:41.000
But simply dreaming would not save these lives, reunite these loved ones, or bring this seemingly impossible dream to pass.

3348
04:48:41.000 --> 04:48:45.000
What they needed was massive strategic action.

3349
04:48:45.000 --> 04:48:55.000
The life of your wildest dreams is also at stake right now, hanging precariously in the balance.

3350
04:48:55.000 --> 04:49:02.000
All of heaven is on the edge of their seats watching with great anticipation their only chance at survival.

3351
04:49:02.000 --> 04:49:14.000
What they desperately need right now, what your dreams depend on, is for you to master the science of dreams and take massive, consistent, strategic action.

3352
04:49:14.000 --> 04:49:19.000
The distance between your dreams and reality is action.

3353
04:49:19.000 --> 04:49:21.000
An anonymous quote.

3354
04:49:21.000 --> 04:49:24.000
Conclusion. Choose this day.

3355
04:49:24.000 --> 04:49:27.000
God gave me this poem when I was 19.

3356
04:49:27.000 --> 04:49:32.000
In the same way that he gave me this book, it was just in me and I had to get it out.

3357
04:49:32.000 --> 04:49:37.000
I wrote this poem in about half an hour because it was in me.

3358
04:49:37.000 --> 04:49:42.000
I wrote the first draft of this book in five days because it was in me.

3359
04:49:42.000 --> 04:49:49.000
But I want to share this poem with you because it has been a source of courage to me all these years.

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I have found that every single season of my life has demanded great courage.

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And often times the demand for courage has been greater than the level of courage I seek.

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themed to possess. This poem has helped bridge that gap for me. I pray that it does the same

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for you as you step into a season that is demanding intense courage, bold enough to

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lead them.

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As from a fetus seed I grow, my mystery unwinds, in caverns of the soul one seeks but seldom

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finds. Burning coals and ashes to kindle to a blaze, a brightness bold enough to lead

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them through the maze. In caverns of the soul I sought and now have found. Tongue of fire

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in the deep is with heart and limb entwined, aloft the torch to carry, shedding light upon

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the blind. Forging from the future, a road since light from man concealed, although the

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journey's never ending, it has come. The blaze must be revealed.

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Right now I'm thinking of all the lives like our pretend friend Chelsea. The people like

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Marina at 14 years old who haven't yet discovered that they are as loved as love can be and

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whose lives are under full-scale assault. I'm thinking of the people that haven't had

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the opportunity to experience the love of God, whose lives and families and destinies

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are being robbed, killed and destroyed by satanic assignments and by relentless attacks

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from the giants of darkness, the giants of lack, unbelief, distraction and apathy.

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I'm also thinking of you. I'm thinking of your calling to be swallowed up in the most

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wonderful love of the divine dance. I'm thinking of your calling to dream with God and to outdream

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the darkness in this world. I'm wondering what will you do with the science of dreams?

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I'm wondering what will you do with the four ancient heavenly weapons of imagination, faith,

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wisdom and boldness? I'm wondering if you'll be one of the many that God is raising up

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in our generation to redesign their lives and our world in the image of heaven.

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I'm wondering how many people just like Marina will never be the same because you choose

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the narrow path of extreme ownership. I'm wondering how future generations will be impacted

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by the legacy you leave as you begin to unlock the infinite possibilities available in Christ

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Jesus as you step into your wildest dreams and the sacred destiny upon your life.

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I'm wondering how you will respond to the challenge to embrace hard things, to embrace

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pain, to carry your cross and to do whatever it takes, because it all rests on a choice.

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And most of all, I'm wondering what choice you will make, Joshua 24, 15. But if serving

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the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve,

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whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites

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in whose land you are now living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.

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My prayer is that you will discover the love of God in a deeper, wider, more beautifully

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consuming way than ever before. My prayer is that you will have the courage to take

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extreme ownership over every area of your life. My prayer is that you will be empowered

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to dream with God and yada your dreams that are worth dying for in a way that awakens

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an unstoppable force of passion that will burn in your heart night and day. My prayer

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is that your faith will grow beyond measure as you conquer impossibilities, just like

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Abraham and Sarah, by building your wildest dreams in the spirit. My prayer is that wisdom

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will walk with you all the days of your life and that as you focus on your personalized

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precision vision plan, you will have unprecedented clarity that enables you to complete the vital

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few tasks every day that are guaranteed to unleash your sacred destiny. My prayer is

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that you will become such a force of boldness, taking such massive, consistent and strategic

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action that the giants of darkness will fall before you as you advance relentlessly into

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the life that God saw when he unleashed his limitless power to dream the best for you.

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It has been an honor to share this journey with you.

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with you and I look forward to seeing the impact you will have on generations to come.

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Deep love and Shalom to you my friend, from myself Benji Alexander.

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Philippians 3, 12-14 Not that I have now attained this ideal or

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have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of, to grasp and make my own,

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that for which Christ Jesus the Messiah has laid hold of me and made me his own.

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I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own yet, but one thing I do,

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it is my one aspiration, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies

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ahead.

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I press on toward the goal to win the supreme and heavenly prize to which God in Christ

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Jesus is calling us upward.

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One last thing.

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Here's some resources to help you on your beautiful journey.

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Here's a summary of the resources I have to help you going forward.

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Number one, the 3 day Royal Challenge is a great place to start.

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This short course is free and includes a free gift of my $375 School of Sonship, which

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will be priceless in the process of discovering how to live in the divine dance for yourself.

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Here's the link www.raisingroyalteecourse.com jump-on-board I'll repeat that.

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The website is www.raisingroyalteecourse.com jump-on-board The 40 day focus package is

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usually a $997 life coaching package that gives you lifetime access to my Systems for

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through in-depth videos, training and systematic templates.

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The 40 day focus package will walk you step-by-step through the exact process of how to create

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a personalized precision vision plan, focused specifically on discovering your wildest dreams

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and bringing them to fruition.

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Grab it now for only $37.

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Here's the link www.thescienceofdreams.com slash focus www.thescienceofdreams.com slash

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focus.

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If you are looking for a community to share your beautiful journey with, that loves the

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dreams.

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Here's the link to get $1,300 off right now.

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Just copy and paste this link to get access www.thescienceofdreams.com forward slash sonship-online.

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That's www.thescienceofdreams.com forward slash sonship-online.

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These offers really are outrageously cheap, I'm offering them out of my own generosity

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but they aren't the normal prices so I won't be able to guarantee that the price will stay

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this low.

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So if you're interested, definitely grab them while you can, get them at a fraction of their

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normal cost and to contact us at any time for any support, simply email support at raisingroyalty.com.

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Thanks for joining me on this wonderful adventure, lots and lots of love to you and I look forward

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to connecting with you really, really soon.

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Bless you.