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Okay, well, welcome.

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This is the first of a brand new series, something that's been on my mind and heart for, gosh,

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maybe a year, maybe longer.

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Ever since the first time, I read Don Miguel Luis's book called The Four Agreements, and

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I thought, ooh, this would be such a fun one to do a Bible study on, and I've since gone

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on and read it many times, and on my trip here last week, I listened to it on audio,

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and I says, you know, this has just got to be the next study, because I've titled it

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The Four Agreements, A Biblical Perspective, Discovering the Secrets to Transformation.

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And today, in this first part of the study, we're just going to lay a strong foundation,

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understanding what are the four agreements, and where are we going with this study, and

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what it can do for you.

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I know for me, these four agreements and understanding them have just changed everything.

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It removes a tremendous amount of conflict, it gives a tremendous amount of peace, it

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helps you understand things that people do.

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It's phenomenal in family, it's phenomenal in business, it's just, to me, they're just

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some powerful biblical principles that I thought would be amazing to start our new series.

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So let's begin with prayer.

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Father, we just thank you for being able to come together for this study, and we just

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ask, Holy Spirit, you are our teacher, you are our guide, you guide us into all truth,

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and so we just ask you to open our spiritual senses, and allow us to take and glean from

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this what it is that you have for us to go into the next season of our life.

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You've told us that you've created us to go from glory to glory, and I ask that this

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will be part of that, of just living the fullness, the abundant life that you've promised.

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So Holy Spirit, be our teacher, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart

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be pleasing in your sight, in Jesus' name, amen.

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Welcome to the call, a couple more of you have just been pinging in, who just joined

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us?

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This is Judy.

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Hey, Judy, great, glad you're on the line, who else just joined us?

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You're probably on mute, but, and by the way, please, all of you, do mute unless you're

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wanting to say something, just so all background noise doesn't get on the recording.

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Okay, so this is the first of the series in the four agreements of biblical perspective,

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discovering the secret to transformation.

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And anytime I talk about transformation, I can't help but begin in Romans chapter 12,

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kind of a very famous verse on transformation.

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So if you have your Bibles or your phone apps for the Bible or whatever, if someone could

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read and begin this study straight out of Romans 12, I'd like to read the first three

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If you have the amplified version, that's usually what I read from.

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So Romans 12, verses 1 through 3, when we're talking about being transformed, about having

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a transformation experience.

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So if someone could please read that.

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We're at Romans 12, verses 1 through 3.

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Somebody have that?

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Good morning, Cindy.

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We are beginning the four agreements of biblical perspective to transformation, and we're in

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Romans chapter 12, verses 1 through 3, if someone could read that.

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No readers this morning?

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All right, I'll start on this one.

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And you guys have Scripture near you, so you can jump in and read.

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Romans 12, verses 1 through 3 says this, I appeal to you, therefore.

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He's actually making an appeal to every one of us.

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I appeal to you.

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And in fact, he wanted to make it so strong how important this appeal is, he said, I appeal

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to you.

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I beg of you, in view of all the mercies of God.

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So when you understand just the incredible mercies of God,

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the fact that we are alive and we're breathing

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and we have our faculties about us

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and we have all the potential of life in front of us.

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He's basically saying that,

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just know in everything that God has given you.

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He says, I appeal to you therefore, brethren,

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and beg of you in view of all the mercies of God

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to make a decisive dedication of your bodies,

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presenting all your members and faculties.

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So I would say just presenting everything,

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spirit, soul, and body as a living sacrifice,

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holy, devoted, consecrated, pleasing to God,

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which is your reasonable, your rational,

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intelligent service and spiritual worship.

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So he's talking about just take yourself in your life

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while you're still alive, a sacrifice we think of killing,

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killing an animal or killing something

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with sacrifice biblically there,

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but he's saying be a living sacrifice.

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It's a living dedication.

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Make a dedication of your spirit, soul, and body

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in light of everything that God has given you,

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dedicate yourself to him.

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And he goes on to explain what he means by that in verse two

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by saying, don't be conformed to this world, to this age.

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to its external superficial customs.

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If you read this word conformed,

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it's kind of, if you think of a Jell-O mold,

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when you pour the liquid Jell-O into a mold

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and then you put it in the refrigerator

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and you let it harden,

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and then you turn the mold over onto a plate,

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it is now taken on the shape of the mold.

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there's all different Easter ones

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and all that kind of stuff.

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You've got these Jell-O molds that the liquid molds itself

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and shapes itself according to the mold.

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Well, he's talking about that with your life.

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He's saying your life is being molded and shaped.

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You're pouring it into something.

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You're taking on the image of something.

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after the superficial customs all around you.

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So a lot of us have been shaped by the superficial customs.

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And this is what the Four Agreements deals with.

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We've been shaped by the superficial customs

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of the traditions of man,

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of the belief systems that were passed on to you.

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Most of them, before we had any say so about

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or even had a chance to rationally think

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about what things we've adopted,

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what belief systems we have adopted,

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what belief systems were patterning our life,

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they're still governing us.

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Things that happened when we were two, three, four,

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five, six, seven, eight years old,

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that got poured into us that were the customs

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of our family, of our churches,

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of our country, of our nationality,

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all of these things, we just took it on

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and we became conformed to them.

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And most of them we've never even thought about.

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And we've never thought about if they're biblical

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and we've never thought about if they're healthy for us

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and we're still living and operating.

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Your finances are determined by the shaping

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that happened to you.

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The view you took on about money,

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somewhere between ages six and eight, typically,

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that's still shaping how you do your finances

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for most of you, unless you've broken out of that pattern.

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How you view relationships, how you view love,

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how you view the security of the world,

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how you view God, all these things,

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we were poured into that jello mold.

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In Romans 12 here, he's saying,

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don't be conformed to this world.

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Don't be fashioned after and adapted

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to its external superficial customs,

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but, you can circle that, but,

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but be transformed.

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He's talking here about the potential of taking.

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You were poured into a mold.

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You picked up the belief systems of your family,

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your church, all of that, your government,

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all of that, your nationality.

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He's saying you can be transformed.

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You can be changed from that mold

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by, and here's how change happens,

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the entire renewal of your mind.

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So when we talk about the four agreements in this session,

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it's about renewing your mind.

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It's about new ideas.

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It's about new attitudes.

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And in that process, it says you may prove.

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This is where you're gonna prove for yourself.

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He says, so you may prove for yourself.

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This is time to find out which belief systems,

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which agreements that you've made are really for your good.

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Which belief systems that you're holding onto

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are serving you, and which ones are really outdated

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and maybe aren't serving you so well.

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And by the way, these belief systems, these agreements, have nothing to do with the Word of God.

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They have nothing to do with truth.

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They're just simply things that we've come into agreement with in our life.

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They've become our personality.

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They've become who we are.

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We're operating by them.

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And most of us have never even thought about these things.

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And yet, we've come into agreement.

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And this is why, in Prosper and All Things, for me, is I get to experience the beautiful transformation.

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And I see people be completely transformed.

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And as a result, everything changes.

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Their finances change, their health change, their relationship change.

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It begins with awareness.

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And it begins with awareness, first of all, what jello mold did you pour yourself into?

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What agreements have you been hanging on to?

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What have you been belief systems have you been basing on your life?

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And are they serving you?

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You know, Byron Katie, in her book, she asks the question all the time.

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When things come, she says, is this true?

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See, we don't stop to ask the things that we believed if they're true.

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She says, is this true?

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And by the way, how can you know it's true?

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And let's say that the answer is yes, it's true.

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The next question is, what would your life be like if you didn't hold on to this belief?

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What would happen if you let go of this belief?

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So let's say one of those molds that you picked up from childhood is, you just can't do anything right.

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Maybe your parents spoke that over you.

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We're going to talk about the power of words.

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And maybe they say, can you not do anything right?

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Why can't you get it right?

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Maybe you picked up that belief system and you've gone all your life saying, you know, I just can't do things right.

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Well, Byron Katie would say, is that true?

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Is it really true that you can't do anything right?

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I mean, anything? You've never done anything. Is it really true?

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And you might probably with both belief systems say, well, no, I guess it's not totally true, especially all the time.

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And then she asked the question, what would happen if you let go of that belief?

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Well, what we're talking about today with the four agreements and in this series is really that.

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There's a whole lot of belief systems you've held on to that are no longer serving you.

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In fact, they're keeping you in bondage.

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They're keeping you unhappy.

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They're keeping you unhealthy physically.

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They're keeping you unhealthy financially, not having the resources.

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They're keeping you unhealthy emotionally.

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They're keeping you unhealthy in a lot of relationships.

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A lot of you are holding on to belief systems that no longer serve you.

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And that's what this Romans 12 is talking about.

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Don't be conformed to this world.

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Don't just jump into this mold that the world says you have to have,

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but instead be transformed by the entire renewal of your mind.

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And it says by new ideas, new attitudes, it's time for some new ideas,

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some fresh ideas, some fresh revelations,

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some fresh attitudes so that you can prove for yourself.

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From now on you could begin making agreements that you've decided you want to have and prove for yourself.

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What is good? And what is acceptable?

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And what is the perfect will of God?

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What is perfect in his sight for you?

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And it goes on in verse 3 says for this grace,

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this unmerited favor of God that we have,

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he warns everyone don't estimate and think of yourself more highly than you than you ought.

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It talks about in the Amplified. It says not having an exaggerated opinion of your own importance.

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Now one of the four agreements is not taking things personally

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and he talks about this idea of self-importance that we just think that whatever our world is,

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that's everybody else's world.

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It's an exaggerated sense of self-importance that whatever someone's saying to you or doing,

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they're doing because of you, that you are the center of your universe.

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And in Romans 12 here, he's talking about not having an exaggerated opinion of your own importance,

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but instead rate these things with sober judgment,

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according to the faith that God has given you.

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God's given us various degrees of faith.

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And so this kind of opens this Romans 12.

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I encourage you to read that chapter

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and it really sets the stage for what we're talking about here with the four agreements.

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And so today with the four agreements, I'd like to lay a little foundation.

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And then we will spend a couple of weeks on each agreement as we work through this series.

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But let me ask of you, and you can unmute yourself for discussion right now, how many

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of you have read the four agreements, and if so, how long ago, what are your thoughts?

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So let me just hear from you so I know what platform, what foundation we're starting with.

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How many of you have read the four agreements?

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Just say your name and say, yes, I've read it, and how long ago, what it's done for you.

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Or no, I haven't read it.

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This is Dwayne.

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I read it about maybe six or seven years ago.

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All right.

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And do you remember any of it?

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Oh, yeah.

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I've got an audio, so I've listened to it since then.

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Simple, but very profound.

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Simple and profound.

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That's good, Dwayne.

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And I've already read it, I don't know, six, seven times, and hearing it again, listening

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to it on this trip, I said, this is the most simple, but most profound truth that I've

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heard in a long time.

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So that's a good description.

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I felt the same way.

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Thank you.

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Anyone else?

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Anyone else has read the four agreements?

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Are you there?

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This is much more fun if we're interactive.

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Come on, guys.

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Have you read the four...

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A long time ago.

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Huh?

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A long time ago.

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So this is a good refresher.

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Awesome.

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Anybody else?

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Anybody's read the four agreements?

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If you haven't, that helps me too.

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Just say, no, I haven't read it.

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I'd love to hear.

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There's a bunch of you on the call.

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So just pipe in real quick and just say yes or no.

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No, never read it.

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Me neither.

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Awesome.

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So that'll be a fresh start.

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Awesome.

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Anybody else?

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Awesome.

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Thank you.

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Anybody else?

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I'm gonna lay in.

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No, you have not read it?

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I don't know.

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I read it as we did, but I don't remember, so I'd say no for me.

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Yes for her.

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What?

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Well, let me lay a good foundation then, for those of you, it seems like it's been a while

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and for others, you haven't, so this is gonna be real fun.

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So the first thing that I wanna lay the foundation, I desire to lay the foundation is how are

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beliefs formed?

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How did you form the beliefs that you're holding onto?

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And this is where he starts in his introduction.

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He talks about how we get our belief systems, how we even believe what we believe.

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I mean, have you ever thought about that?

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Why do you believe what you believe?

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And you can take this both as far as societal and how you're raised, and there's actually,

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there's a book called The Biology of Belief.

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There's actually a whole biology that happens in your body for your belief systems as well,

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which is very profound.

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But our beliefs, the way that he presents it in this book, begin first of all with attention,

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with attention.

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And I want you to think about this because if you understand how your beliefs are formed,

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you can understand how to change them and you can understand how to form new beliefs.

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If you understand the recipe for baking a dozen cookies, as I always say, you can bake

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12 dozen cookies.

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So when you understand how it is that you came to believe what you believe, then you

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can also make a choice in that awareness to change those beliefs.

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And this is why many, many times in the book of Proverbs in scripture, which is written

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by Solomon and has so much wisdom, many times you'll see the words, pay attention, pay attention

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to what I'm about to say.

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Well, belief begins with what we pay attention to.

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This is part of being human that we can choose to pay attention.

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There's thousands and thousands and millions of things going on all around you every moment.

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Things are happening all around you and yet we can't take it all in.

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It's being going into the subconscious, but consciously we can only focus on a few things

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and that's what we choose to put our attention on.

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And so this whole idea of our beliefs being formed started first with our parents or caregivers

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who raised.

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us and they hooked our attention, is the wording that Don Miguel uses, they hooked our attention.

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And he actually calls it human domestication.

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He talks about that we're domesticated actually, the way that we are raised, we're domesticated

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like we domesticate a cat or a dog.

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And in this domestication, we learned how to live.

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We learned how to dream.

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We learned how to think.

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We began to create a belief system.

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And like I said, a belief system about finances, about relationships, about marriage, about

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God, and most of us are still holding on to that belief system.

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If you've not spent a lot of time in personal development, not given a lot of awareness,

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you haven't really given it much thought.

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In other words, you haven't thought about your thoughts.

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You haven't thought about what it is that you're thinking and what are your predominance

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thoughts.

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In fact, the majority of people don't even think that we can change our thoughts.

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We think our thoughts are something that just happened to us and we just have to succumb

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to them.

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But that's not the case.

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We can become conscious.

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We can become aware of our thoughts and in that process, we can begin to change them.

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And this is why the Bible scripture says, take every thought captive.

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The fact of the matter is thoughts are not meant to run wild.

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And the fact of the matter is either you're controlling your thoughts or your thoughts

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are controlling you.

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And most people, their thoughts are just wild and controlling them and we haven't given

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thoughts to our thoughts.

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Bob Proctor has said, we don't have a problem with an undisciplined life.

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Most of us have a fairly disciplined life.

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We're not just unruly out there, but we do have a problem with an undisciplined mind.

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And the fact of the matter is the thoughts that you're holding onto are producing your

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external reality.

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And the more that you become aware of that, the more you realize the importance of what

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thoughts are you holding onto?

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What thoughts are running your life?

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And we become much more conscious thinking about our thoughts.

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In fact, as you attend the Prosper in All Things workshops, I take you through the level

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of awareness of levels of awareness and how change happens.

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You see, for many of us, we operate in what I call unconscious incompetence.

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In other words, whatever area of your life is kind of what you don't know, you don't

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know what you don't know.

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And so it may be about health, it may be about money, it may be about relationships, but

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you're just going on these belief systems that you inherited, that your parents hooked

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you into, and unconsciously, you're still living your beliefs about money or your beliefs

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about God or whatever.

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You're still living this belief system unconsciously, and so you're very incompetent to change it.

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So you kind of begin with you don't know what you don't know, unconscious incompetence.

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And then what happens is with awareness.

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You might attend a workshop like the two I have this Friday, Meet Dr. God, that really

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helps you become conscious about your health, or the afternoon one on Friday, Think, Feel

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and Speak your way to health and prosperity.

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That's where you begin to understand the mind, heart, mouth connection to what you're experiencing.

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And so as you're sitting there and you're getting all these truths and they're coming

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to you, what happens is you increase your awareness, and so you move from unconscious

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to conscious incompetence.

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In other words, now you know what you don't know.

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You say, I had no idea how my emotions, each emotion has a corresponding neuropeptide that

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is reaching every cell in my body and changing my health.

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For most people, they're totally unaware, and then they learn this science of, for example,

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psychoneuroimmunology or whatever.

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They learn this, and now they become conscious of it.

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They're still incompetent.

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They're not knowing how to control their feelings.

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They're not understanding how to make change in their health, but they're aware now.

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It's conscious incompetence.

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Well then what begins to happen is you begin to apply these things that are taught, and

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as we teach this series about the four agreements, you become conscious of the four agreements,

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and you become aware of how you did make these agreements and how you can change and have

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these new agreements that better serve you, better manifest in your life those things

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that you desire, and so now you become conscious competence, which means you're...

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aware, but you're becoming competent in it, but it's a decision. It's a moment by moment

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decision to take control of your thoughts, to hold on to these agreements. I often use

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the analogy of learning to drive a stick shift car. You know, first you didn't even know

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what you knew. You didn't know which pedal was the brake and which was the gas and which

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gear was where. Was it forward? Was it backward? You were unconscious incompetence. Then you

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had some driving lessons and you became conscious incompetence. In other words, you knew what

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our first gear was, but I'll tell you, you went to do the gas and the clutch and you

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were bouncing all over and rolling down the hill and stalling the car and all of that.

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So you were aware, but you still didn't have the competence. Then you began to be conscious

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competence where you could consciously think about putting it into first gear, putting

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your foot on the gas, releasing the clutch and be able to get by and be able to drive

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without stalling the car constantly, without jerking. And so you became conscious competence.

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Well, you did that long enough and pretty soon you didn't even have to think about it.

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You could just get in the car and you could shift through all four gears, fifth gear if

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it had it, and you could be talking on the phone or thinking in something else. And now

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you were operating in unconscious competence. You were competent in driving a stick shift

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car and it didn't require your constant conscious effort.

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This is how change happens. This is the four stages of awareness that allow you to be transformed.

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Well, the same thing's going to happen as we talk about these four agreements. Most

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of you probably aren't even aware of these agreements. You're going to become aware of

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them. And so you're going to move from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence where

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you're going to go, oh wow, there it is again. I just did that agreement. Oh no, I just took

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something personally. I just made an assumption. So you start to become aware so that now you're

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making choices every day, that these four agreements have the potential to totally turn

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around your health, your finances, your relationships, your peace of mind, the quality of life that

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you're wanting to go into to the point that ultimately the goal is to have it be unconscious

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competence.

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So how these beliefs form through this domestication process where you were taught how to dream,

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you were taught how to live, you were taught what to think. And this was done with a series

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for most of us of rewards and punishments in the same way that you train a dog. I don't

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know for you, if you were, if you had an assortment of ways that you were taught what

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was okay and what was not okay. You know, your mom might have had some fine china sitting

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out on a table or there may have been some musical instruments around your house or there

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may have been some things that were off limits, excuse me, that you learned very quickly as

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you went over there kind of mindlessly exploring. It's like, wow, this is a bright shiny object

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or this has a lot of noise and you walked over and you went to touch it and perhaps

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you got your hand slapped and you were told, no, don't touch. I know I was, I would get

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my hand slapped and you learn very quickly that there was pain associated with touching

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that thing. And in fact, if you were a little bit stubborn in your makeup, you might have

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tested that a number of times and the pain, the harshness of voice that said, no, might

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have gotten stronger or perhaps it was an issue a little bit more serious than touching,

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you know, a piece of china you were taught. Perhaps, usually, you know, for your best

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interest, your parents did it thinking that they were teaching you what they knew and

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what they thought was best and they didn't want you running out into the freeway. So

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when you got near the road, you'd get swooped up really quick, you'd take off running with

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oblivion, you'd be picked up and you might get a big old swat across your diapered butt.

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But it got more serious as this domestication process happened. For me, my dad used the

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belt and I was very soft-spirited so it didn't take too many times of that to get me to conform.

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You know, I got to the place, maybe some of you girls were like that, where all he

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had to do was look like he was unbuckling his belt. I knew I crossed a line and I better

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shape up and I better change real fast. So we were domesticated. But we're also domesticated

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with the tone of voice that's used to teach us what to believe. Maybe it's the look. Maybe

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some of you had parents that all they had to do was give you the look and you knew you

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better change what you were doing and you better change it fast. Maybe some of you.

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Maybe some of you it was with words and maybe some of them were more subtle. You were taught

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that you were a good girl or a bad girl.

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When you did what you were supposed to do, you rinsed your dishes in the sink,

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oh what a good girl, or you said please and thank you, what a good boy, you know,

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and if you were not, you were very naughty, you were a bad girl, you were a

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bad boy, and so this system of rewards and punishment and often it

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involves the giving or the withdrawing of love. You see, I learned that if I

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could get straight A's, that would warrant a smile on my parents, it would

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warrant hugs, it would warrant those things that I perceived as love, and if I

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got a C on my report card, there would be a scowl, there would be a change of the

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voice, what is this C right here? There could be taking away of privileges,

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there could be a withdrawal of love. So do you understand that the first thing

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that had to happen is your parents hooked your attention and they began to

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domesticate you and they began to teach you what to believe, how to live, what was

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good and what was not good and what was bad, and do you

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understand that you bought into this before you had a chance to have a

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filtering system and sort it out to decide that no, you weren't really a bad

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girl, or you weren't really a good girl based on what you do, and yet some of us

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grew up our whole life trying real hard to be a good girl, and this whole system

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of hooking your attention is not necessarily based on truth, and it's not,

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this is why I'm doing a biblical perspective, it's not necessarily based

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on the Word of God. If you have your Bibles open, I want you to see how this

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happens in Mark chapter 7. Mark chapter 7. If you turn to Mark chapter 7, I'd

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like you to see this played out in what Jesus had to say. Mark chapter 7 and

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verse 3. Could someone go ahead and grab a hold of that and read it, and I'll

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tell you when to stop. Mark chapter 7 verses 3, 4, 5. We're going to see this

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being played out in a religious circle at the time of Jesus. Could someone read

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that for me?

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Okay, that's good. Was that the end of verse 5? Okay, so here you have a

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tradition that was passed on on the Pharisees, thank you for reading that, and

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so you have this tradition, and you know, you would wash your hands, you'd

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start at the elbows, and you'd let the water run down. There was a ceremonial

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way of washing, there was a ceremonial way of washing what you ate out of and

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what you drank, and I'll tell you what, if you didn't do that, you were

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unclean. So here was this tradition, this belief system that was passed on. Now

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here's what happens. We begin to associate this attention that we've

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created this belief system, and now we begin to attach judgment to it. So if

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someone around us, we judge others, are they doing what it is that we were

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taught? Are they being a good boy or a good girl? In this case, you see the

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Pharisees questioning Jesus's disciples, and they're saying, why are you not

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disciples ordering their way of living according to the tradition that was

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handed down to us? Why are they eating with hands that are unwashed and

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ceremonially not purified? So what begins to happen when others, and you

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run into them, and they're doing something different, their skirt is a

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different length than your skirt, their hair is a different length than your

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hair, you know, whatever it is, the traditions, these belief systems, they're

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doing things differently than you've done, and now you've got a little bit of

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a conflict. That's how we come to judge other people, and we judge them as being

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good or bad, or we judge them as being religious or not being religious, or we

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judge them as being holy or not being holy. Do you understand? We begin to place

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judgment on these belief systems that we were domesticated to believe,

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without even questioning them.

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and worse yet worse I mean judging others is bad enough but worse yet we

524
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create a judgment system on ourselves and now we have an internal judge that

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is always judging ourselves and always criticizing ourselves and what happens

526
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is we begin to establish a pattern of perfection now I don't know how many of

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you bought into this I did I made some decisions that cost me a lot in this

528
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idea of this internal judge and this internal perfection you see I came from

529
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a very dysfunctional family and I saw all kinds of violence and alcoholism and

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drug abuse and I saw all kinds of craziness and disrespect and dishonor

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and I made some little internal decisions as I got hooked into seeing

532
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these things and I made a decision that I would never raise my kids that way and

533
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I would never have that kind of marriage and even about money my parents were

534
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very wealthy so I decided in my little eight-year-old six-year-old

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subconscious mind that I didn't want any money that money was evil and that it

536
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brought this kind of craziness in the lifestyle well I would long go on living

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those belief systems without questioning them and not understanding why I could

538
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never have money not understanding no matter how I work that something would

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happen in some circumstance and I'd always find myself without the resources

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that I needed and it wasn't until I became aware of these inner vows that I

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had taken these agreements that I had made that kept money far from me and see

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the fact of the matter is we've all made thousands of these agreements and we

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judge others by our agreements and we judge ourselves by these agreements and

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now you get into self-condemnation you get into self-rejection you begin to

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condemn and reject yourself well depending on the strength of how much

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you're rejecting yourself it'll translate into serious health issues

547
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think about them one of the most common health issues that we face in our day

548
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they are auto immune disorders auto means self immune system your immune

549
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system it's where your immune system begins to attack itself and so we have

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these auto immune disorders where the immune system attacks itself well you

551
00:37:46.620 --> 00:37:49.860
have to ask yourself is that just random does the body just begin to

552
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attack itself is that is that normal we assume that somehow yep it's normal

553
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people get autoimmune that's just one of those things just like people just get

554
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cancer well what you'll begin to understand as you rise in level of

555
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awareness of consciousness you'll understand that all your health

556
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conditions are directly tied that's the whole new science of psycho neuro

557
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immunology psycho your thoughts your belief systems neuro connected your

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brain what you're holding on to to your immune system and originally it was

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going to be called psycho neuro endocrinology meaning that your thoughts

560
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are determining what's going on in your body and having a direct manifestation

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and you can find depending what health challenge that you're experiencing based

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on what belief system that you're holding on to and so this is what what

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begins to happen well if part of your belief system has been self criticism

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you're going to see issues around your kidneys and if that self criticism that

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self loathing is so strong where you're attacking yourself so strongly you're

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going to see it turned into an autoimmune disorder where your body buys

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into your own self loathing and begins to attack itself and anyway those are

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things of course I teach in God health in me and in the upcoming health and

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prosperity program so I won't get into that here but my point is that I want

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you to get out of this is our parents hooked our attention we believed it and

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the minute that you believe it it became part of your reality and it moved on to

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become your belief system your personality your traditions and so here

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you see this of the Pharisees saying hey how come your disciples are not doing it

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and as you go down that chapter a little further Jesus starts questioning their

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belief system and their traditions and in verse 8 he says you know you

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disregarded and you give up and you depart from the commandments of God and

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you cling to the traditions of men so in other words the tradition

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even within, these were religious traditions. These were in church, if you

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will. These were in the synagogue. Not all the traditions that you picked up in

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your church and in your religion line up with the true Word of God and Jesus said

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it right here. He's talking to the Pharisees, the religious leaders. These

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were not, you know, pagan, heathen, whatever out there that were non-believers.

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He's talking to the people who were raised up in a religious belief system

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and he's saying, you know what, you've left God's way of thinking and you're

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clinging instead to the traditions of men and the Amplified says you're

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keeping it carefully, you're keeping it faithfully. Some of you have put some

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agreements on yourself, you put some rules on yourself that God never put on

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you and this is what he's saying and in verse 9 he says, you know, you have a fine

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way of rejecting and this is interesting in the Amplified, thus thwarting and

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nullifying, doing away with the commandments of God. He's got a real

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fine way of making null the Word of God, null and void the Word of God in order

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to keep your own traditions. The Amplified says your own human

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regulations. In other words, they were taking not what God thought, they were

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teaching it as what God thought, they were teaching it as what was holy, they

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had a judgment system that they judged themselves and they judged others by if

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they did this, they were judging themselves, they were judging

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others and Jesus is here, the Son of God going, guess what, this is really not

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God's idea, this is your own traditions of men. You got hooked into this

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domestication and you were taught that this is what it's about when in fact he

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now wants to take him to the real issue which he always does, what's the issues

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of the heart and in verse 13 he says you are nullifying and making void, making no

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effect the authority of the Word of God through your tradition and the

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domestication continues, he says, which you in turn hand on and many of these

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things you are doing. I wonder as we go through this 12-week series if you'll

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discover what belief systems that you're holding on to, what thoughts about

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yourselves, about life, about God, about health, about money, what belief systems

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have you been holding on to that maybe are outdated, that have nothing to do

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with God, you call it God, that are keeping you from living the abundant

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life, which one of these belief systems no longer serve you, which ones are

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keeping you from your joy, which ones are keeping you from your financial

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abundance, which ones are keeping you from fully living and fully experiencing

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everything that God designed you to live, that's a question to really think about

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and he calls to them now and he makes a little mental shift, he says there's many

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of these things you're doing and in verse 14 he calls to the people and he

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says listen to me all of you, now he's hooking attention, see we said belief

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systems begin with attention, he says listen to me saying pay attention, all of

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you, get wisdom, pay attention, think about what you're thinking about and he

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says I'm going to tell you a little different paradigm, we're going to do a

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little paradigm shift right here, they were talking about food, they were

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talking about being unclean because they didn't wash their hands, he says I'm

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going to give you a little paradigm, there's not even one thing outside of a

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man which by going into him can pollute and defile him, he's saying you're

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talking about being defiled because you didn't wash your hands, you're looking

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at rules, you're looking at regulations, you're looking at traditions, this is the

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problem that most people have with religion, see the word religion, people

626
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will come up to me when they find out I teach Bible-based spiritual equipping

627
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and they say well I'm not religious and I go good, I'm not either, you see

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Jesus had the most trouble with religious people, do you know the word

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religion, it means back to bondage, religion is bondage, Jesus and it was not

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about religion, he was about relationship, he was about love, he was about loving

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God, loving yourself, loving others, he was about freedom, he was about abundance, he

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was about you being the best version of you, he was about, he would tell you

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peace, he was about peace, he says I come to give you peace, peace that passes all

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understanding, he was about joy, how many religious people do you know that

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experiencing joy, he said I came that you might have joy and you might have it to

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the fullest, he was about abundance, he said I came that you might have life and

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have it to the overflow, to have it to the overflow.

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have abundant life. How many religious people are walking in abundance? You see there's something

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wrong if what he said he came to give and the founder of the of the religion say Christianity

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and and you're not seeing that in life something's wrong. Well we've taken on these agreements is

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what's wrong and and and so here he's saying look it's not what's going into you that's

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making you unclean you've put on some rules that aren't even God's ideas you made your own rules.

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If you look at the history as as God started in scripture talking to us about having a day of rest

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having a sabbath day of rest uh they had gotten it so far that what you could eat and what you

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couldn't eat how many steps you could take whether you could light a fire or not whether you could

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rescue a sheep that was in a ditch they had thousands upon thousands upon thousands of rules

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of how to keep what was supposed to be rest it was no longer rest it became how many rules

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do you understand we've we've taken on these agreements and they've stolen our joy they've

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stolen our prosperity they've stolen our health and so he says in verse 15 there's not even one

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thing outside of man that can go into him and pollute and defile him but it's the things that

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come out of a man that defile him and make him unhallowed and unclean and he goes on to talk

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about the heart about out of the heart flows the abundance of life out of the heart flows what the

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mouth speaks out of the heart are the issues of life and so what begins to happen is you get a

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deeper understanding you stop getting into the external legalism of regulations and of judging

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yourself and of condemning yourself and making yourself sick and stressed and robbing your joy

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and you begin to get to the heart of the issue and that begins by understanding what agreements

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you've made and having the courage to break some of those agreements that no longer serve you

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and this book talks about four new agreements that by keeping these four new agreements you can

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completely be transformed and change your entire life and bring back that peace love joy and things

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that you're looking for so how many of you does that get exciting to think about maybe removing

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some of those things that have been stealing your joy and maybe bringing back some of those things

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that allow you to manifest your goals dreams and desires and live the abundant life that you were

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created to live being the best version of you how many of you listening to this does that sound like

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something that you're interested in for this series

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yes it's good

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just realizing that this single change could could make this i'm i'm looking at a bumper

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sticker that someone gave me and it says the next four hours of your life will be the greatest

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hours of your entire life now i've changed it to read will be the greatest hours of your life so

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far and i read this every new four hours and i can make a conscious choice that the next four

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hours are going to be the best ever that today is going to be a great day that my life is going to

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be a great life and so that's what this that's what this study is really about it's about

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transformation it's about the abundant life so we have this this agreement that we make this is

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how the belief is formed we have this agreement and as soon as we come into agreement with it

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we believe it and we believe it to be truth we believe it to be who we are we believe it to be

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you know the way of life we believe the way to live to dream etc and the more that this happens

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it translates into our faith you see faith is simply just believing unconditionally

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and so we have all of these agreements job 31 one you see an example of this agreement he says

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i in job 31 verse 1 he says i dictated a covenant a covenant is an agreement he says i dictated an

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agreement to my eyes and so he made a decision of what his eyes could could look on and he said

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how then could i look lustfully upon a girl so in this particular case it's just an example i just

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pulled out of the bible you could do the concordance and look up the word agreement it's powerful all

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the way through but he basically made an agreement with his eyes that he wouldn't look lustfully on a

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girl which you know we would probably all agree is is is healthy right but the point is we're making

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these agreements all the time and matthew 18 in matthew 18 jesus gets in and starts talking about

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the power of agreement what it is that we agree and how much it shapes our life so in matthew

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18 verse 18, he goes on to tell you the power that you have. I don't think most

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of us realize as human beings made in the image of God, in the likeness of God,

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with the power of life and death in our tongue, with the same spirit that raised

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Christ from dead in us, I don't think most of us realize just how much power

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we have. In fact, part of what we're going to be learning in this series is how much

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power we have and how much power we've given away. And so he begins to talk

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about the level of power that we have as human beings and he goes on to say,

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truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on

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earth must be what's already forbidden in heaven. Whatever you permit and

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declare proper and lawful on earth must be what's already permitted in heaven. In

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other words, you are so powerful, you are forbidding and declaring things and

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you're making them unlawful and you're permitting and you're declaring proper

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and lawful things, make sure that it's in agreement with heaven. The

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declarations you're making in your body, make sure it's in agreement with heaven.

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You see, in heaven there's no sickness in heaven. So very often when I'm praying

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over someone, I will pray that every cell in their body, every muscle, every

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ligament, every fiber, every tissue comes into alignment with the kingdom of God.

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You see, it's bringing your thinking, your belief systems into alignment with what

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truth is, bring them into alignment with the kingdom of God. And this is

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what Jesus is saying here. He's saying, make sure what you're declaring to be

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good is truly what God declares to be good and what you're declaring to be bad

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and unlawful, make sure that that's what God is declaring. Because we just saw a

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conflict here with Jesus and the Pharisees. What they were declaring to be

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bad and unlawful, Jesus was going, man, this is your own tradition. This isn't the

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word of God. You picked up some belief systems here that are no longer

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serving. That's not the issue. You don't understand what's making you unclean.

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You're kind of clueless. And he's saying here, hey, you know what, make sure

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whatever you're forbidding and declaring to be improper, make sure it really is

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forbidden in the kingdom of God. And make sure that what you are declaring proper

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and lawful, make sure it's also. And in verse 19, he says, again, I tell you,

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pay attention. If two of you on earth agree, here's the power of agreement.

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This is one of the laws of the universe, the power of agreement. If two of you

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agree, if you harmonize and you make a symphony together about anything that you

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ask, it will come to pass and it will be done. You create a belief system and you

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come into agreement, you're going to manifest it and it's going to be your

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life. So if you come into the agreement that someone told you you're fat and you

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come into agreement and you say, I'm fat, now two or more agree, now it's going to

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manifest in your life. You come into agreement that money is the root of all

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evil and that you shouldn't have any, and you've come into agree that, you're going

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to manifest that and you're never going to have any money. So be careful what

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you're coming into agreement with. The power of agreement is how your life is

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being shaped right now. Who or what are you agreeing with? You know, I've shared

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with you a story of Walter in Kansas City and he went to the doctor. Here's an

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example of the power of agreement and whether you choose, you have the ability

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to choose to come into agreement with something or not come into agreement if

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you're conscious. If you're asleep, you're just coming into agreement with

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everything that is told to you. If you're asleep, you're going to turn on the TV

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and it's going to tell you it's flu season. You're going to come

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into agreement that it's flu season. You're going to march down, you're going to

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see a sign at the grocery store that says, get your flu shot now and you're

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going to come into agreement. You're going to walk over and get a flu shot, never

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knowing if it's safe, effective and if it was even flu season and if there was

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such a thing and what's really causing the flu. Do you understand? You're

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coming into agreement all day, every day with things and they're shaping the

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course of your life and so that's called being asleep and so the idea is to rise

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in consciousness that you're awake and even realizing what you're coming into

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agreement. Who or what are you agreeing with? So Walter goes into the doctor's

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office and the doctor points out a wheelchair and says, Walter, that's where

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you're headed. Your arthritis is very severe. You need to put down your paint

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brush. He was a painter and you need to start making preparation in your home

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and the way you set up life because this is where you're going right now.

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You're going into that wheelchair. Well there's an authority figure who went to

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00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:48.800
school for many, many years who knows his profession as a doctor and you get to

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choose to come in agreement and says, my doctor says, my doctor says I have cancer.

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My doctor even tells you how long you're going to live. My doctor tells me I have

751
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.320
six weeks to live. My doctor tells me I'm incurable. I'm curious, are you going to come

752
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:12.520
into agreement with that? Is that going to be your reality that you manifest? Well, Walter

753
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was a little bit different. He walked out that day and he stepped outside the doctor's

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office and he says, Lord, I've heard the doctor's report. Now what do you say? That's called

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a conscious, a conscious man, a man who's choosing to take his belief systems and only

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come into agreement with that which God tells him to come into agreement with. Well, that

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would have tremendous consequences. It would manifest in his life very differently. You

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see, had he come into agreement with the doctor, an entire belief system would have begun to

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shape his emotions, his feelings, the way he viewed everything, and had he come into

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agreement with that doctor, he would probably be in a wheelchair right now. He chose to

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come out of agreement and use his power of agreement in a totally different way and say,

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you know what, God, what's the truth here? Who should I come into agreement with? And

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God said, you know what, you're going to meet people that you don't know yet and they have

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an answer for you. And he ended up meeting us. We ended up sharing our nutritional supplement

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Enterprime with him and he had a total turnaround in his health because he chose to come into

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agreement with something else. So Jesus is saying here, I'll tell you what, if two of

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you agree, whatever it is, when you agree, it's going to be done. That is your power.

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Do you understand the power you have of being a human that you can come into agreement things

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and manifest them in your life? Do you even know how much power you have? Do you know

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how much power you're giving away? Because this is how God made you in the image of God.

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And so what happens is we make these agreements and then we begin to judge. We begin to judge

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ourselves. We began to judge others. And you can read about that in Romans 2 too. Well,

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let me just read a little quote from the four agreements that Don Miguel says. This is what

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he says. He says, there are thousands of agreements you have made with yourself, with other people,

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with your dream of life, with God, with society, with your parents, with your spouse, with

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your children. So there's thousands of these agreements. I pray over these next 12 weeks

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that you'll ask God to open your eyes. In fact, I just pray that right now. Lord, in

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the name of Jesus, I ask that you open our eyes to the agreements that we've been holding

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00:57:41.240 --> 00:57:47.360
on to, perhaps even unconsciously. I ask that this will be a 12 weeks of awareness

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that we begin to look at every single belief system that we have and begin to see, does

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this really what we should be in agreement with? Is it manifesting the life we want?

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Is it truly from God? Is it even truth? Or have we unconsciously bought into these thousands

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of agreements that are shaping our lives? Did you buy into the agreement that you'll

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never have any money? Did you buy into an agreement that everyone in your family has

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heart disease and you're going to have heart disease? Did you buy into agreement that addiction

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runs in your family and that you too are going to struggle with addiction and that you can't

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00:58:22.680 --> 00:58:28.040
take a drink because you're going to be an alcoholic? What agreements? Did you buy into

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agreement of aging? Did you buy into agreement that your sickness is normal? Did you buy

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00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:40.040
into agreement that you're supposed to be on, you know, whatever it is, what agreements

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did you buy into? Because this says, Don Miguel says, there's thousands of agreements you've

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made with yourself, with other people, with your dream of life, with God, with society,

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with your parents, with your spouse, with your children. And it says, but the most important

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agreements are the ones you've made with yourself. You see in these agreements, you tell yourself

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who you are, what you feel, what you believe and how to behave. The result, see we live

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in a cause and effect world, the result. Your results right now that you're experiencing

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are based on these agreements of what to believe, how to behave, what to feel. That's your life.

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If you do not like the way your life is right now, if you do not like your finances, if

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00:59:33.840 --> 00:59:36.920
you do not like your health, if you do not like your relationships, if you do not like

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your peace of mind, understand that we live in a cause and effect world and begin to go

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back and say, what agreements did I make with myself? What belief systems am I holding onto

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00:59:49.680 --> 00:59:56.300
that got me here? You now have the power for transformation by having the courage to look

802
00:59:56.300 --> 00:59:59.940
at these things and change some of these things. The result...

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01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:08.560
what you call your personality. When you say well that's just the way I am, you've

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01:00:08.560 --> 01:00:12.840
come into agreement with this and you've made a decision about who and what you

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01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:18.000
are and what your personality is. He goes on to say in these agreements you say

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01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:25.080
this is what I am, this is what I believe, this is what I can do, I can do certain

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01:00:25.080 --> 01:00:34.840
things and some things I cannot do. We decide this is reality, that's fantasy,

808
01:00:34.840 --> 01:00:43.080
this is possible, that's impossible. Do you understand how we began to shape our

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01:00:43.080 --> 01:00:48.640
entire existence based on these agreements? Now he goes on to say one

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01:00:48.640 --> 01:00:54.400
single agreement is not such a problem but we've made many many agreements that

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make us suffer, we've made agreements that make us fail in life. He says if you

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01:01:01.640 --> 01:01:06.560
want to live a life of joy and fulfillment you're going to have to

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01:01:06.560 --> 01:01:13.000
find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim

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01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:20.800
your personal power. Do you remember that we just got done a series the last 12

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weeks was on supernatural living and it was on moving away from fear-based

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01:01:26.600 --> 01:01:32.240
living and moving toward love-based living. You see everything you're doing,

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01:01:32.240 --> 01:01:35.960
everything you're thinking is either fear-based or it's love-based and part

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01:01:35.960 --> 01:01:39.440
of consciousness, part of awareness is looking at every belief system, every

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01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:44.120
thought that you're having and saying is this fear-based or is this love-based?

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And so he goes on to say right here he says one single agreement is not such a

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problem but we have many agreements that make us suffer, that make us fail in life.

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He says if you want to live a life of joy and fulfillment you have to find the

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courage, this is going to take courage, it's going to take courage, you have to

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01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:12.800
find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim

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01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:20.240
your personal power. The agreements that come from fear require us to expend a

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lot of energy. Some of you are real tired, some of you have been dealing with a lot

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of fatigue. This Friday when I teach meet Dr. God I'm going to teach you all the

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things that lead to energy drain, all the energy leaks, all the things that make

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you tired so that you can change those things and begin to take your energy

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back and he's talking about that here. He's saying the agreements that come

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from fear requires to expend a lot of energy. They're taking your energy, they're

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01:02:50.040 --> 01:02:53.440
robbing you of your energy, you wonder why you're so tired, this is one of the

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01:02:53.440 --> 01:03:00.360
reasons. But the agreements that come from love help us to conserve energy and

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01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:04.720
even gain energy. You see when your agreements are love-based you're going

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to be fired up, you're going to be passionate, you're going to have a

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01:03:08.240 --> 01:03:13.200
whole new energy about life, a whole new excitement about life that you can't

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01:03:13.200 --> 01:03:17.160
wait to get up, you can't wait to experience your day. Every day becomes a

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01:03:17.160 --> 01:03:20.600
holiday, every day becomes Christmas, like this bumper sticker, the next four

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hours of your life become the greatest four hours of your entire life and this

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01:03:25.720 --> 01:03:31.520
is all by choice, this is all by choice. So the agreements that come from fear

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01:03:31.520 --> 01:03:35.040
expend a lot of energy, the agreements that come from love help us to conserve

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01:03:35.120 --> 01:03:41.280
energy and even gain energy. He says each of us is born with a certain amount of

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01:03:41.280 --> 01:03:49.280
personal power that we rebuild every day after we rest. So you have power, you have

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01:03:49.280 --> 01:03:52.840
personal power and you're either claiming it and rebuilding it or you're

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01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:58.040
giving it away. Who are you giving your power to? Are you giving away your power

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01:03:58.040 --> 01:04:02.560
to belief systems that aren't even based on truth, they're not based on the

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01:04:02.560 --> 01:04:05.560
kingdom of God and they're not serving you and you're not hurting and they're

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hurting you and you're still holding on to them. He goes on to say unfortunately

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01:04:10.320 --> 01:04:15.880
we spend all our personal power first to create these agreements and then to keep

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01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:22.640
these agreements and our personal power is dissipated by all the agreements we

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01:04:22.640 --> 01:04:30.720
have created and the result is that we feel powerless. How many people do you

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01:04:30.720 --> 01:04:36.200
know right now that feel powerless? They have no idea how to change, there's a

853
01:04:36.200 --> 01:04:41.480
sense of despair, there's a sense of hopelessness. Why do you think we have

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01:04:41.480 --> 01:04:48.920
such an epidemic of depression? Why do we have this experience when we have

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01:04:48.920 --> 01:04:53.320
everything we need to have this incredible joy-filled, passion-filled,

856
01:04:53.320 --> 01:05:01.800
energy-filled, abundant life? Why do we feel powerless?

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Because we've given away our power by the agreements that we've made.

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So you can see why I'm so excited to teach this study.

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You can see why I'm calling it really the secret to transformation.

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Because when you become aware of the agreements you've made,

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you break those agreements.

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You come into new agreements that better serve you,

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then you totally transform your life.

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We're back to Romans 12, 2 of not being conformed to the traditions of men,

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but being transformed, not being conformed,

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but being transformed by the renewing of your mind.

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It's time to have courage to renew your mind.

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It's time to have courage to decide if the belief systems that you're holding

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onto, the agreements that you've made, if they're still serving you anymore.

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Okay, so what are the four agreements we're going to be covering over the next

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12 weeks?

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The four agreements are this.

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The four agreements are number one, be impeccable with your word.

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Be impeccable with your word.

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That's the first agreement, be impeccable with your word.

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The second agreement, we're going to go through these and really dissect them and

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get the biblical perspective on them and some stories and some applications.

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The second one is don't take anything personally.

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The second agreement is don't take anything personally.

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Don't take anything personally.

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Okay, thank you, Christine.

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By the way, you guys can text me comments, and I'm glad that you feel that this

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study is just for you, because I thought it was just for me too.

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I only teach that which I need to learn, so thank you for that comment.

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Okay, so the second agreement is don't take anything personally.

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The third agreement is don't make assumptions.

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Don't make assumptions.

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This is so big, my gosh, I get myself caught in this all the time.

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The assumptions we make cause so much drama and so much pain.

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And it's nothing what you think.

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Half of the assumptions we make are not even based on truth.

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And once the truth comes, you feel so stupid and you realize, my gosh,

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01:07:11.560 --> 01:07:14.680
that was all a story that I wrote in my head.

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I just wrote a novel, and it had nothing to do with truth,

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01:07:17.560 --> 01:07:18.760
had nothing to do with God.

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01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:23.520
But it caused me an enormous amount of stress and pain and exhaustion and

897
01:07:23.520 --> 01:07:26.840
confusion and all kinds of stuff, and it was all based on an assumption.

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01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:30.640
So the third agreement is don't make assumptions.

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01:07:30.640 --> 01:07:34.840
The fourth agreement is always do your best.

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01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:38.200
Always do your best.

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01:07:38.200 --> 01:07:40.360
So these are the four agreements that we're gonna go through.

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01:07:40.360 --> 01:07:43.600
Be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally,

903
01:07:43.600 --> 01:07:45.720
don't make assumptions, always do your best.

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01:07:45.720 --> 01:07:49.520
You're gonna find out that these four agreements just about cover everything.

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01:07:49.520 --> 01:07:52.360
That if we can just stick to these four agreements,

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01:07:52.360 --> 01:07:55.440
our life will completely transform.

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01:07:55.440 --> 01:08:01.160
So as we kind of launch into be impeccable with your word,

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01:08:01.160 --> 01:08:02.880
this is where we're gonna start.

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01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:07.000
And this is where we're going to really begin our study and

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01:08:07.000 --> 01:08:09.360
spend the next few weeks on.

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01:08:09.360 --> 01:08:14.280
Those of you that have been around me any length of time know I'm

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01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:17.600
super big on what we say.

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01:08:17.600 --> 01:08:21.279
I believe our words is what manifests our harvest.

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01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:22.920
It's what manifests our future.

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01:08:22.920 --> 01:08:25.479
I believe we are constantly creating.

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01:08:26.960 --> 01:08:32.439
If you look up the definition on be impeccable with your word,

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01:08:32.439 --> 01:08:35.760
first of all impeccable is not a word we use that often.

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01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:39.479
So I like to get definitions talking about our words.

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01:08:39.479 --> 01:08:45.279
So impeccable actually is originally a theological word, believe it or not.

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01:08:46.800 --> 01:08:50.640
M, whenever you see M in front of something, it means not.

921
01:08:50.640 --> 01:08:55.920
If you say impossible, the M means not, not possible.

922
01:08:55.920 --> 01:09:01.160
And so in this case, impeccable, it means not peckable.

923
01:09:01.160 --> 01:09:05.640
Well, peckable, interestingly enough,

924
01:09:05.640 --> 01:09:13.880
comes from the Latin word pecare, P-E-C-C-A-R-E, which means to sin.

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01:09:13.880 --> 01:09:18.760
So being impeccable means not sinning.

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01:09:18.760 --> 01:09:25.520
So being impeccable with your words means not sinning with your words.

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01:09:25.520 --> 01:09:29.319
Interesting to think about that being the first agreement.

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01:09:29.319 --> 01:09:34.600
And it's interesting that he chooses to start with the word.

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01:09:34.600 --> 01:09:40.200
And he quotes, this is what he says, he says, why your word?

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01:09:40.200 --> 01:09:42.279
Don Miguel Luis says, why your word?

931
01:09:42.279 --> 01:09:46.120
He says, your word is the power that you have to create.

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See, understand that you are made in the image of God, your co-creator.

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01:09:51.520 --> 01:09:53.880
You're creating your life every moment.

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01:09:53.880 --> 01:09:56.280
And your word is the power that you have to create.

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01:09:56.280 --> 01:10:00.080
The entire universe was created by the power of words.

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God said, let there be light, and there was light.

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01:10:03.100 --> 01:10:05.800
And once Adam and Eve were on the scene,

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the first thing he did is he began

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to teach Adam about the power of words.

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He had him name everything that he could see.

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He takes him out in the Garden of Eden and says, OK, Adam,

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01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:16.400
what are you going to call that?

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01:10:16.400 --> 01:10:17.800
What are you going to call that?

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01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:19.960
He begins to teach him to pay attention

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01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:22.040
to his words and the power.

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01:10:22.040 --> 01:10:25.720
And so he says, your word is the power you have to create.

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01:10:25.720 --> 01:10:29.600
Your word is the gift that comes directly from God.

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01:10:29.600 --> 01:10:31.880
Of course, Jesus is called the word.

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01:10:31.880 --> 01:10:34.440
In John 1, it says, in the beginning was the word.

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01:10:34.440 --> 01:10:35.600
And the word was God.

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01:10:35.600 --> 01:10:37.320
The word was with God.

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01:10:37.320 --> 01:10:40.640
So all things are created by his word.

953
01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:43.760
We begin to see the power of the word.

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01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:47.920
And he says, through the word, you

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01:10:47.920 --> 01:10:50.560
express your creative power.

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01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:55.080
It is through the word that you manifest anything.

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01:10:55.080 --> 01:10:56.680
Well, there's a few verses on this

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to lay the foundation of where we're going.

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One of my favorites is Proverbs 18.

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Proverbs 18, beginning in verse 20 and 21.

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And Proverbs 18, 20, and 21 says,

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a man's self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth.

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So your life is filled with fruit.

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And that fruit comes from your mouth.

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01:11:23.040 --> 01:11:25.700
So if you don't like the fruit of how you're living,

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we need to go back and look at your words.

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01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:30.360
And are you being impeccable with your words?

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He says, if you say all the time, walk around all day long,

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01:11:35.080 --> 01:11:37.840
I'm sick and tired, guess what you're going to be.

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01:11:37.840 --> 01:11:39.080
I'm sick and tired of this.

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01:11:39.080 --> 01:11:40.880
I'm sick and tired of that.

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01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:42.120
Guess what you're going to be.

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01:11:42.120 --> 01:11:45.120
If you walk around all day saying, I'm broke,

974
01:11:45.120 --> 01:11:46.620
guess what you're going to be.

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01:11:46.620 --> 01:11:50.640
This is the origin of dis-ease, what we're thinking,

976
01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:53.640
what we're feeling, and what we're speaking over ourselves.

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01:11:53.640 --> 01:11:56.240
So Proverbs 18 says, a man's self

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01:11:56.240 --> 01:11:58.960
shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth.

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And with the consequence of his words,

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01:12:02.920 --> 01:12:08.600
he must be satisfied, whether good or evil.

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01:12:08.600 --> 01:12:10.800
So your words have fruit, and scripture

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01:12:10.800 --> 01:12:13.680
says you need to be satisfied with the consequence

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01:12:13.680 --> 01:12:14.320
of your words.

984
01:12:14.320 --> 01:12:17.640
Words have consequences, and you get to be satisfied.

985
01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:19.820
If you don't like the consequences, change the words.

986
01:12:19.820 --> 01:12:21.280
You're speaking over yourself.

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01:12:21.280 --> 01:12:23.160
Change the words you're thinking.

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01:12:23.160 --> 01:12:26.120
It says you must be satisfied with the consequences

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01:12:26.160 --> 01:12:29.000
of your words, whether good or evil.

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01:12:29.000 --> 01:12:36.280
And then the famous scripture in verse 21, death and life

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01:12:36.280 --> 01:12:39.560
are in the power of the tongue.

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01:12:39.560 --> 01:12:43.920
And they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it,

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01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:46.800
for death or life.

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01:12:46.800 --> 01:12:49.200
You're either speaking death over yourself,

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01:12:49.200 --> 01:12:51.440
you're either speaking death over your children,

996
01:12:51.440 --> 01:12:53.880
you're speaking death over your finances,

997
01:12:53.880 --> 01:12:55.640
speaking death over your business,

998
01:12:55.640 --> 01:12:59.040
you're speaking death over your body, or you're speaking life.

999
01:12:59.040 --> 01:13:01.480
You're speaking life over your finances.

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01:13:01.480 --> 01:13:04.800
What do you speak when you pay bills?

1001
01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:06.280
What do you speak?

1002
01:13:06.280 --> 01:13:08.680
Do you write a big, happy, smiley face

1003
01:13:08.680 --> 01:13:11.680
and put a check in that bill and say, I thank you,

1004
01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:14.620
God, that I have the infinite purse of the spirit.

1005
01:13:14.620 --> 01:13:16.320
Money goes out, money comes back in.

1006
01:13:16.320 --> 01:13:17.840
I thank you that I have the resources

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01:13:17.840 --> 01:13:19.120
to be able to pay this.

1008
01:13:19.120 --> 01:13:20.320
I thank you that I have.

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I mean, I don't have a TV, but let's just

1010
01:13:22.080 --> 01:13:23.000
say it was a TV bill.

1011
01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:27.120
I thank you that I can pay this cable bill to be

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01:13:27.120 --> 01:13:28.600
blessed to have the resources here.

1013
01:13:28.600 --> 01:13:31.840
I thank you that I can write this check to have this and that.

1014
01:13:31.840 --> 01:13:33.480
I mean, do you bless?

1015
01:13:33.480 --> 01:13:35.640
Do you bless your pocketbook?

1016
01:13:35.640 --> 01:13:37.880
Do you bless your wallet?

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01:13:37.880 --> 01:13:39.080
Do you bless your body?

1018
01:13:39.080 --> 01:13:40.880
Have you learned how to look in the mirror?

1019
01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:43.360
What do you do when you look at yourself?

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01:13:43.360 --> 01:13:47.600
Do you bless yourself, or do you speak death over yourself?

1021
01:13:47.600 --> 01:13:49.520
Do you bless your children?

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01:13:49.520 --> 01:13:52.520
Do you know there's a book called Blessing Your Spirit

1023
01:13:52.520 --> 01:13:55.320
by Arthur Burke?

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01:13:55.320 --> 01:13:58.360
This is a biblical principle of learning how to bless yourself,

1025
01:13:58.360 --> 01:14:00.400
learning how to bless your spirit.

1026
01:14:00.400 --> 01:14:03.040
You actually call your spirit into attention,

1027
01:14:03.040 --> 01:14:04.440
and you speak to it.

1028
01:14:04.440 --> 01:14:10.040
I was very privileged to be on the farm with Rhonda

1029
01:14:10.040 --> 01:14:12.720
that I've talked to you about in Missouri,

1030
01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:15.280
and to see these children that have come out

1031
01:14:15.280 --> 01:14:18.160
of sex trafficking and sexual abuse and all of that,

1032
01:14:18.160 --> 01:14:22.880
and to see them just new and just glowing and transformed.

1033
01:14:22.880 --> 01:14:26.200
And I was privileged to watch Rhonda send them off to school.

1034
01:14:26.200 --> 01:14:27.760
And she took one of the little girls,

1035
01:14:27.760 --> 01:14:30.840
and she said, can I bless your spirit before you go to school?

1036
01:14:30.840 --> 01:14:32.840
And I was so touched.

1037
01:14:32.840 --> 01:14:35.360
The little girl smiled and said yes and stood in front of her.

1038
01:14:35.360 --> 01:14:38.000
And she looked into her left eye,

1039
01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:39.760
which goes to the right part of your brain,

1040
01:14:39.760 --> 01:14:41.160
and into your spirit.

1041
01:14:41.160 --> 01:14:44.280
And she looked in her left eye, and she said her name.

1042
01:14:44.280 --> 01:14:47.080
And she said, I call your spirit into attention.

1043
01:14:47.080 --> 01:14:49.360
And she began to speak life into her spirit

1044
01:14:49.360 --> 01:14:51.800
about how her day was going to go.

1045
01:14:51.800 --> 01:14:54.680
And then sealed it and loved her and gave her a hug

1046
01:14:54.680 --> 01:14:55.760
and sent her off to school.

1047
01:14:55.760 --> 01:14:57.520
I thought, wow.

1048
01:14:57.520 --> 01:14:59.160
I mean, wow.

1049
01:14:59.160 --> 01:15:01.520
I just sat there.

1050
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:05.580
They're just going, wow, what would have happened if someone would have blessed my spirit every

1051
01:15:05.580 --> 01:15:07.800
day before I went to school?

1052
01:15:07.800 --> 01:15:11.680
What would have happened if I looked in the mirror and blessed my spirit every single

1053
01:15:11.680 --> 01:15:12.680
morning?

1054
01:15:12.680 --> 01:15:15.800
How would my life be different if I called my own spirit into attention and blessed my

1055
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:16.800
spirit?

1056
01:15:16.800 --> 01:15:19.920
What would happen if we did that to our loved ones?

1057
01:15:19.920 --> 01:15:25.720
And so it goes on to say there in Proverbs 18, 21, death and life are in the power of

1058
01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:31.800
your tongue and you indulge in it and you eat the fruit of it, either death or life.

1059
01:15:31.800 --> 01:15:36.960
You're either growing in life and godliness or you're growing in dis-ease and death.

1060
01:15:36.960 --> 01:15:39.440
And scripture says you get to choose.

1061
01:15:39.440 --> 01:15:43.160
Scripture says, choose you this day whom you'll serve.

1062
01:15:43.160 --> 01:15:50.360
I would conclude this by saying, choose you this day what you'll come into agreement with.

1063
01:15:50.360 --> 01:15:52.960
Choose you this day what you'll think.

1064
01:15:52.960 --> 01:15:56.040
Choose you this day what feelings you'll hold.

1065
01:15:56.040 --> 01:15:59.520
Choose you this day to be impeccable with your words.

1066
01:15:59.520 --> 01:16:04.480
A couple more verses you can write down and go do a search yourself in studying this week

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01:16:04.480 --> 01:16:06.560
before we come back next week.

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01:16:06.560 --> 01:16:09.200
Proverbs 12, 18.

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01:16:09.200 --> 01:16:14.040
Proverbs 12, 18 says, the tongue of the wise is health.

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01:16:14.040 --> 01:16:21.720
Proverbs 10, 19 and 20 says, in the multitude of words, transgression is not lacking, but

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01:16:21.760 --> 01:16:26.160
he who restrains his lips is prudent.

1072
01:16:26.160 --> 01:16:33.160
Colossians 4, 6 says, let your speech always be with grace.

1073
01:16:33.160 --> 01:16:38.120
I'm curious, does your speech have grace or is it harsh?

1074
01:16:38.120 --> 01:16:44.560
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt that you may know how you ought

1075
01:16:44.560 --> 01:16:47.440
to answer every man.

1076
01:16:47.440 --> 01:16:57.480
Ephesians 4, 29 says, let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth.

1077
01:16:57.480 --> 01:16:59.760
You know, your computer can get corrupted, right?

1078
01:16:59.760 --> 01:17:01.760
It can get a virus.

1079
01:17:01.760 --> 01:17:02.760
So can your mouth.

1080
01:17:02.760 --> 01:17:03.760
So can your mind.

1081
01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:09.880
And it's saying, let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which

1082
01:17:09.880 --> 01:17:15.160
is good to the use of edifying.

1083
01:17:15.160 --> 01:17:18.180
Your mouth is supposed to edify.

1084
01:17:18.180 --> 01:17:21.280
The word edify comes from the word edifice.

1085
01:17:21.280 --> 01:17:25.360
It's when we build a structure, it means to build up.

1086
01:17:25.360 --> 01:17:30.120
So let no corrupt communication, which tears down proceed out of your mouth, but that which

1087
01:17:30.120 --> 01:17:37.040
is good for edifying that it may minister grace to the hearer.

1088
01:17:37.040 --> 01:17:41.400
Your words can actually minister grace to the hearer, and that begins with yourself.

1089
01:17:41.400 --> 01:17:42.860
You hear yourself.

1090
01:17:42.860 --> 01:17:46.560
Your brain responds most powerfully to your own words.

1091
01:17:46.560 --> 01:17:49.240
Have some grace on yourself.

1092
01:17:49.240 --> 01:17:55.080
Minister grace to yourself, and as a natural result, you'll minister grace to others.

1093
01:17:55.080 --> 01:18:02.760
Well, Don Miguel in this book, The Four Agreements, says, now let us see what the word impeccability

1094
01:18:02.760 --> 01:18:05.080
means.

1095
01:18:05.080 --> 01:18:07.280
Impeccability means without sin.

1096
01:18:07.280 --> 01:18:10.640
Impeccable comes from the Latin peccatus, which means sin.

1097
01:18:10.640 --> 01:18:13.040
The M in impeccable means without.

1098
01:18:13.040 --> 01:18:16.600
So impeccable means without sin.

1099
01:18:16.600 --> 01:18:21.200
Religions talk about sin and sinners, but let's understand what it really means to sin.

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01:18:21.200 --> 01:18:26.120
A sin is anything you do which goes against your self.

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01:18:26.120 --> 01:18:32.400
Do you ever have something that you do that you just know you don't feel good, but you

1102
01:18:32.400 --> 01:18:33.880
do it anyway?

1103
01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:37.440
Or you don't desire to do, but you do it anyway?

1104
01:18:37.440 --> 01:18:40.680
Or you don't really believe, but you say it anyway?

1105
01:18:40.680 --> 01:18:42.800
This is an interesting perspective.

1106
01:18:42.800 --> 01:18:48.640
He says a sin is anything you do that goes against your self.

1107
01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:55.080
Everything you feel or believe or say that goes against your self is a sin.

1108
01:18:55.080 --> 01:18:59.640
You go against your self when you judge or blame your self for anything.

1109
01:18:59.640 --> 01:19:03.080
Being without sin is exactly the opposite.

1110
01:19:03.080 --> 01:19:06.640
Being impeccable is not going against your self.

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01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:11.720
When you're impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or

1112
01:19:11.720 --> 01:19:14.000
blame your self.

1113
01:19:14.000 --> 01:19:20.600
Something common sense, sin begins with rejection of your self.

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01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:25.680
Self rejection is the biggest sin that you commit.

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01:19:25.680 --> 01:19:26.920
Why?

1116
01:19:26.920 --> 01:19:28.920
Self rejection is not based on love.

1117
01:19:28.920 --> 01:19:30.840
It's based on fear.

1118
01:19:30.840 --> 01:19:34.080
And anything that's not love is sin, scripture says.

1119
01:19:34.080 --> 01:19:37.960
So self rejection is the biggest sin that you commit.

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01:19:37.960 --> 01:19:43.280
In religious terms, self rejection is a mortal sin which leads to death.

1121
01:19:43.280 --> 01:19:47.460
Impeccability, on the other hand, leads to life.

1122
01:19:47.460 --> 01:19:55.960
Being impeccable with your word is not using your word against yourself.

1123
01:19:55.960 --> 01:19:59.960
So that concludes today's study.

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01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:06.560
Leading us into the four agreements and being impeccable with our words.

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01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:10.080
We'll close out this call with a few comments.

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01:20:10.080 --> 01:20:11.800
I always like to get you involved.

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01:20:11.800 --> 01:20:16.720
So if you wanna share your aha, that always blesses everyone else.

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01:20:16.720 --> 01:20:18.760
What did you learn from this?

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01:20:18.760 --> 01:20:19.720
What jumped out at you?

1130
01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:21.080
What are you gonna do different?

1131
01:20:21.080 --> 01:20:23.120
What was your big aha today?

1132
01:20:23.120 --> 01:20:24.720
I'd love to hear you say that.

1133
01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:37.000
Good morning, my name is Tomi.

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01:20:37.000 --> 01:20:40.000
Oh, go ahead.

1135
01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:43.000
That's okay, go ahead.

1136
01:20:43.000 --> 01:20:45.000
This is Tomi.

1137
01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:46.000
Thank you so much.

1138
01:20:46.000 --> 01:20:48.000
Thank you so much for sharing.

1139
01:20:48.000 --> 01:20:52.000
I just will say that even as you were teaching, and again,

1140
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it could be familiar things that we've kind of heard before,

1141
01:20:55.000 --> 01:20:58.000
but to really go in depth and understand it.

1142
01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:03.000
But even as you were speaking, I just started working on myself immediately

1143
01:21:03.000 --> 01:21:06.000
because I realized that's one of the things that I would do is,

1144
01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:08.000
oh, you know, I'll get to it later.

1145
01:21:08.000 --> 01:21:11.000
Or you take notes and say, oh, I don't know.

1146
01:21:11.000 --> 01:21:15.000
As you were speaking, I began to just really think deeper and say,

1147
01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:18.000
you know what, let me get rid of this right now.

1148
01:21:18.000 --> 01:21:20.000
And I did.

1149
01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:25.000
So I'm mighty grateful for those disciplines that are working in me

1150
01:21:26.000 --> 01:21:28.000
of learning and hearing the right words

1151
01:21:28.000 --> 01:21:32.000
and immediately taking action instead of waiting.

1152
01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:33.000
I love that.

1153
01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:34.000
I love that.

1154
01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:37.000
Thank you so much for sharing that, Tomi.

1155
01:21:37.000 --> 01:21:40.000
Great to have you on the line.

1156
01:21:40.000 --> 01:21:44.000
I was privileged yesterday to get to kind of mentor

1157
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and pour into a young man,

1158
01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:51.000
and I shared with him the things that I share with you guys in Prosper

1159
01:21:51.000 --> 01:21:56.000
and all things that the results we experience are based on three things.

1160
01:21:56.000 --> 01:22:01.000
They're based on our mindset, our skill set, and the actions that we take,

1161
01:22:01.000 --> 01:22:03.000
and that produces our results.

1162
01:22:03.000 --> 01:22:05.000
And so you want to change your results.

1163
01:22:05.000 --> 01:22:08.000
You're changing your mindset, which we've been talking about today.

1164
01:22:08.000 --> 01:22:11.000
If it was business or something, we're changing our skill set.

1165
01:22:11.000 --> 01:22:14.000
But none of it is relevant without action,

1166
01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:17.000
and so you took immediate action.

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01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:19.000
Congratulations on that.

1168
01:22:19.000 --> 01:22:24.000
None of this of what we're reading or talking about means anything if we don't apply it.

1169
01:22:24.000 --> 01:22:28.000
If there's no application, it's completely irrelevant if we put it off.

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01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:30.000
So that's great feedback.

1171
01:22:30.000 --> 01:22:34.000
Thank you.

1172
01:22:34.000 --> 01:22:44.000
Somebody else.

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This is Judy.

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01:22:45.000 --> 01:22:54.000
I think it just points out how much power we have that we give away every day.

1175
01:22:54.000 --> 01:22:56.000
Isn't that amazing?

1176
01:22:56.000 --> 01:22:58.000
Isn't that amazing, Judy, to think about?

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01:22:58.000 --> 01:23:02.000
Most of us don't realize that God made us in His image,

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01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:04.000
and we have so much power.

1179
01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:08.000
And I had someone, when I first heard that phrase,

1180
01:23:08.000 --> 01:23:11.000
and they said, you know, why are you giving away your power?

1181
01:23:11.000 --> 01:23:12.000
You know, we do that.

1182
01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:15.000
When we believe lies, when we believe what others say about us,

1183
01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:17.000
when we allow it to stress us out or whatever,

1184
01:23:17.000 --> 01:23:19.000
we're literally giving away power that we have.

1185
01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:21.000
And when you begin to think about that,

1186
01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:25.000
you begin to conserve your personal power and not give it away so easily.

1187
01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:27.000
So, yeah, thank you, Judy.

1188
01:23:27.000 --> 01:23:29.000
That's powerful.

1189
01:23:29.000 --> 01:23:37.000
Anybody else?

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01:23:37.000 --> 01:23:44.000
I specifically took out certain words in my vocabulary

1191
01:23:44.000 --> 01:23:48.000
so that not to disparage myself.

1192
01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:49.000
Awesome.

1193
01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:51.000
Because of your talk this morning.

1194
01:23:51.000 --> 01:23:52.000
Awesome.

1195
01:23:52.000 --> 01:23:55.000
Well, that's an enormous leap.

1196
01:23:55.000 --> 01:23:57.000
That's huge.

1197
01:23:57.000 --> 01:24:01.000
And it's funny because there's the big obvious ones, you know,

1198
01:24:01.000 --> 01:24:03.000
in the first phase of removing words, you know.

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01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:05.000
It's like, you know, why did I do that?

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01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:06.000
Why am I so stupid?

1201
01:24:06.000 --> 01:24:07.000
You know, whatever it is.

1202
01:24:07.000 --> 01:24:09.000
You know, I'm broke or whatever.

1203
01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:11.000
We use these words.

1204
01:24:11.000 --> 01:24:15.000
But then there's the more subtle ones that we begin to learn.

1205
01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:17.000
And that's, you know, that's where I'm at.

1206
01:24:17.000 --> 01:24:20.000
You'll often hear me correct myself as I'm speaking

1207
01:24:20.000 --> 01:24:23.000
because I'm still struggling with this, still working through it.

1208
01:24:23.000 --> 01:24:28.000
And that is, I'll use the word want.

1209
01:24:28.000 --> 01:24:30.000
The word want, W-A-N-T.

1210
01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:33.000
Want means extreme lack.

1211
01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:37.000
So if you just say, I just want love or whatever,

1212
01:24:37.000 --> 01:24:41.000
you're basically declaring I just have an extreme lack of love.

1213
01:24:41.000 --> 01:24:43.000
I just want to be healthy.

1214
01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:47.000
So I've learned to change the word want to desire.

1215
01:24:47.000 --> 01:24:49.000
And so you'll hear me say that.

1216
01:24:49.000 --> 01:24:51.000
What I want to do, what I desire.

1217
01:24:51.000 --> 01:24:52.000
You hear me kind of self-correcting

1218
01:24:52.000 --> 01:24:54.000
because I'm moving into that conscious competence.

1219
01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:57.000
You know, I went from unconscious incompetence to conscious,

1220
01:24:57.000 --> 01:25:00.000
you know, competence where it's a decision of the will.

1221
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:04.640
but there's there's all these words i mean if you look up the original word of nice

1222
01:25:04.640 --> 01:25:10.160
you know i used to say that i i'm nice or i want to play nice or whatever when you look at the

1223
01:25:10.160 --> 01:25:16.880
original word of nice uh it's not such a great word i no longer want to be nice and so it's

1224
01:25:16.880 --> 01:25:23.360
interesting how much power words have and and part of taking back our our our personal power

1225
01:25:23.360 --> 01:25:29.120
is taking back our vocabulary so that's great feedback thank you anybody else

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01:25:36.880 --> 01:25:38.480
any other ahas today

1227
01:25:38.480 --> 01:25:55.280
could you repeat the four uh assumptions because i was driving and i couldn't write them down

1228
01:25:55.280 --> 01:26:04.000
okay okay the yeah the four agreements are be impeccable with your word number one number two

1229
01:26:04.720 --> 01:26:12.640
don't take anything personally okay number three don't make assumptions

1230
01:26:14.160 --> 01:26:21.120
and number four always do your best and we will be breaking these down over the next 12 weeks

1231
01:26:22.720 --> 01:26:23.600
anybody else

1232
01:26:23.600 --> 01:26:36.240
okay then may the lord just bless you this week and uh may this study be relevant and applied

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01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:42.880
as you look at your words this week may you speak life over yourself and over others

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01:26:42.880 --> 01:26:47.600
may you enjoy the peace that passes all understanding may you be blessed in your

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01:26:47.600 --> 01:26:56.000
coming and in your going and may everything you put your hand to prosper in jesus name amen