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So, welcome to the Bible-based spiritual equipping call.

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We are on number five on this series, The Four Agreements.

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Been pulling from the book by that title, The Four Agreements, and I've wanted for a

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long time to teach that, to bring in maybe a Judeo-Christian biblical perspective to

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that.

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Not that it needed any adding to it.

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It's so much truth and so much wisdom just as a standalone, but I thought it'd be a very

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amazing one to just really bring to the light as we do this study.

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And so I want to welcome you all to the call that we have each week, and let's just start

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with prayer and invite the Holy Spirit to be our teacher.

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So Spirit of Truth, we just thank you and we invite you to open all of our spiritual

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senses, our spiritual eyes, our spiritual ears, our just every spiritual sense to hear

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what you are saying, what we need to understand, what we need to learn for this next step in

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our journey.

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So we just ask that you will just increase our level of understanding.

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Let the words of my mouth, the meditations of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord

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my God, in Jesus' name, Amen.

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So we've been talking about the four agreements, and the key verse that I've been using from

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scripture for this whole teaching has been Romans 12.

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And it is the idea of not being conformed, and I've given you that word, what it really

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means in the Greek, it's like the jello mold, not letting yourself be shaped into a particular

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mold of the world, in other words of the collective thought process of the general

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matrix that we live in.

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Not allowing that to shape you, but instead scripture says be transformed.

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And it talks about how this transformation happens.

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There is a renewing of the mind, take that word renew, to do it again, re means to do

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it again, new, to make your thinking new again.

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And that's my prayer as we go through this, that some of the thinking that you've had,

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the old thinking that we talked about the process, how you got that old thinking, how

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your beliefs were formed, someone, an authority figure in your life, a parent, a church, a

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pastor, whatever, a teacher, hooked your attention as they were domesticating you, as they were

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teaching you how to dream, how to live, how to think, what is good, what is bad, how you

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should do things, how to do life, how to dream, it hooked your attention.

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And the idea is to now have a level of awareness to realize that that thing that you bought

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into, that attention, they hooked your attention, but hooking your attention has no meaning

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until you come into agreement with it.

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But the power of agreement now begins to change you and your belief system and your mind set,

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mind set, where you have your mind set.

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And so you come into agreement as they hook your attention and now it becomes your own,

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it becomes part of who you are, it becomes your thoughts.

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And the idea is that it's not necessarily based on truth.

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And that's something that if we don't have a level of awareness, we just think that everything

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we think is true.

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Well, of course it's true because I'm thinking it, it must be true.

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And why would it not be true?

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I'm thinking it, it's what I believe, it's how I've done things, how I've always done

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things, that's my worldview, it must be the view of the world, it must be the way things

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are.

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And I gave you some examples in the past from scripture that it's not necessarily, not only

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not based on truth, it might not, and likely may not even be lined up with God and what

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he thinks about things and how life really is.

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And I gave the example from Matthew 15 where they had a whole issue just as an example

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of the way they washed their hands before eating.

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And the Pharisees had, I mean, that's what made you holy or not holy, you did that or

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you were out.

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And here's Jesus' disciples just showing up and eating and they're not doing that.

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And of course, after your attention has been hooked and you come into agreement, now the

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internal judge gets set up inside of you, now you're judging yourself and you're judging

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others.

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And so here comes the Pharisees judging that they must, Jesus' disciples must be less holy

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And so now we begin to have conflict and we begin to have

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this idea my opinion is right yours not I got a proof mine and

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Now we're going to begin even to gather other people and this is how this is how conflict happens

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And the fact of the matter is there's thousands of these agreements that we've made with ourself with others with how we see life

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With God with society with parents with our loved ones

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but the the ones that we're really talking about in this series as you're being transformed by the renewing of your mind and

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As I'm being transformed by the renewing of my mind is to just push the pause button and go. Whoa, okay

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This is the agreements that I've made. I'm going to increase in awareness and begin to see what agreements have I made what what?

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What color glasses have I put on to see how the world operates?

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How am I seeing the people in my life? How am I seeing my life? How am I seeing my circumstances?

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How am I seeing myself? It's like this pause button where you go. Whoa, whoa, whoa

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All this stuff I'm thinking

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It may not be true

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It may not be lined up with God. In fact, you know when Jesus answered he says you make null and void

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the Word of God by your traditions literally you could be nullifying

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the amazing life that God had for you because of these thoughts that we've held on these agreements that we've made and

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We begin that this this shapes our our

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personality this shapes

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Whether life is good or life is bad or I can live the life of my dreams or I'm a I'm a victim or I'm

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A victor or I mean it literally shapes every area of your life

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these agreements that you've made are shaping you've made agreements around money and

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It's shaping how much or how little you have you've made agreements around

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relationships and it's shaping the quality of those relate like literally every

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Aspect of your life can be traced down to these agreements. So it really is worthwhile to

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Stop and push the pause button something that that most people don't do they just go through life

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And and life just does them and it just is and so this whole idea of being

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Renewing the making new of your mind and the way to make it new is you have to be willing to have a clean slate

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You have to be willing to hold every belief system that you have every agreement

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you know, I had a

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Really good friend say to me, you know, make sure everything you're teaching you you hold it lightly

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Well like everything in life hold it lightly hold it with an open hand

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Because all I'm sharing with you today is you know

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What's in in my heart in my mind at this moment and it's a place for you to reflect and maybe increase awareness

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but you're gonna have to search it out and see what you're going to take and

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What you're not going to take out of that and and know that we have to hold ourselves lightly and be willing

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to change

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Be willing to to move freely

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Be willing to not be rigid, you know, if you look at sports

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If you look at swimming in particular swimming is really a demonstration of this, you know

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If you haven't learned how to swim, you know, you get in the water and you're just sinking you're uptight

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you're tense and you're just sinking to the bottom and

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and you fight and you struggle and the more you fight the more you struggle the more you're sinking and

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It's not until you come to this place where you can hold your breath

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Relax and float. I mean the first thing you learn about swimming is learning how to just just float

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How did just be?

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How to be still how how not to resist the water how not to resist

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And and I think this is life the the more that we can move into the state of allowing and less of this resistance

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The smoother and easier we glide and the more fun

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this swimming

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happens and and can become and

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The more we can just lighten up and just kind of glide through it. I'm getting a picture in my mind of

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Dancing it's the same way the more the more rigid and especially if you're dancing with a partner

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You're dancing with God to have your feet so light that wherever your partner goes,

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you can just glide there and go.

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And it takes a surrender, it takes an allowance, it takes a stopping of this thing's struggle.

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And if part of the agreements you've made is that life is a struggle, that's going to

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be really hard for you.

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If part of the agreements you've made is that everything is about hard work and fight and

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push through it and a lot of people I see have an agreement that's like a war agreement.

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You know, we're in a war and we're going to win this war and if that's your agreement

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with life, that's what you're going to get.

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And I'm choosing to see it more as a divine dance that we just dance through this.

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And so there's all these agreements that you've made that make you who you are today.

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And the idea of the four agreements is to hold those lightly and to take on four new

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agreements that may serve you better, that could break thousands of micro-agreements

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that you have and eliminate a lot of suffering, a lot of unnecessary energy leaks, a lot of

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unnecessary mental stress and striving and put joy back into your life.

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And so to live this life, if you want your life to be one of joy, if you want it to be

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one of fulfillment, it's going to require courage.

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You have to find the courage to break those agreements that are not love-based but are

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fear-based and take back your personal power.

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Because those agreements that come from fear are just expending a lot of energy.

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They are a pull on you, they are a drain on you, they're aging you, they're creating dis-ease.

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And so you have to have the courage to be willing to challenge your own thinking, isn't

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that funny?

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To challenge your own belief systems and these belief systems you might have held on to from

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as long as you can remember forever, having the courage to be able to challenge those

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and look at them from a different level.

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This is the renewing of the mind that brings about transformation.

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So we went through the first agreement, which we spent a few weeks on it, be impeccable

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with your word.

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And the word impeccable, of course, means not sin, not sin.

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And so the key, if I summarize what we did with the be impeccable with your word, the

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key is number one, awareness.

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This whole thing begins with awareness, everything that we're doing begins with awareness.

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And so begin to have an awareness of the power that is contained in our words.

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You'll no longer just think of words as something that just happens, words that you can just

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flippantly say, things that can come in and out of your mouth, words that you receive,

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words that you speak.

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You'll no longer look at words as just the stuff that has no meaning, but you'll begin

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to understand so much power in words and so much potential for good with words and healing

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for good and life with words, but also so much potential for damage and destruction.

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And so the key is not sinning with your words and particularly not sinning against yourself,

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not using your words against yourself, not violating yourself with your thoughts or your

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And so number one, when you're dealing with impeccable, the word is just being aware of

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the power of words.

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The entire universe was created by words.

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And so when you understand the power of words, the whole universe was created.

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God, in the beginning, he spoke and he said, let there be light and there was light.

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And we are co-creators and we're made in the image and likeness of God.

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And so our words likewise contain power to create.

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Our words are creating our reality today.

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Much of what you see, all of what you see really, all that you're experiencing right

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now is simply a combination of the thoughts and beliefs that you've held onto, the emotions

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you've attached to that and the words that you've spoken.

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The words manifested the thoughts and emotions that you were holding.

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So when you begin to understand that your word is the power that God gave you to create

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And through your words, you manifest everything.

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You become much more deliberate with your words.

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You become much more strategic.

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You now look at your words as a tool, as a vehicle, not just something that comes mindlessly

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out of your mouth, but you become much more deliberate.

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and you begin to understand that everything has a vocabulary, fear has a

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different vocabulary, different use of words than love does, science has a

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vocabulary, faith has a vocabulary, manifesting has a vocabulary and so you

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begin to learn the vocabulary of that which you desire, you begin to master the

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vocabulary of that which you desire, you meditate on it, you speak it and as you

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understand that your vocabulary is your way of having dominion over a subject,

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language, words gives you dominion. Proverbs 18 25 should be memorized and

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ingrained by now with you. Proverbs 18, I'm sorry 21, Proverbs 18 21 says death,

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think about that death, the end of destruction, death and life, think about

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that birth, creation, death and life are where? In the power, where's the power? Of

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the tongue, the tongue has so much power, scripture compares it to the rudder on

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a ship that takes the direction where the ship goes, little tiny thing that

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turning one direction or another completely changes the direction that

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the boat or the ship goes, so death or life whichever you're experiencing is in

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the power of the tongue and we, scripture says right there in Proverbs 18 21, we

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eat the fruit of it, your life is bearing fruit right now whether you like it or

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not it's bearing fruit and that fruit has everything to do with the thoughts

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you've thought, the emotions you've wrapped around those thoughts and the

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words that you speak, so you see language and words give you dominion, I believe

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this is why the first thing once Adam was created as God got him involved in

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creating and right away God had him start naming as a way of taking dominion,

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start having him name all the animals and all the creatures, this was the way

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for Adam to begin to rule in his environment and have dominion over it, so

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when you think about this impeccability of the words, you understand that your

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words are the way that you commune with God, your thoughts and your words, they

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are the way you grow your spirit, remember you are spirit, soul and body

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and your words are shaping all three, your words are shaping your body, your

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body is very plastic, we now understand neuroplasticity, the brain is plastic, the

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body is plastic, your body is shaping to the thoughts, emotions and words that

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you're speaking and so it's the way you're shaping your body, it's the way

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you're shaping your soul which is your mind, will and emotions and it's the way

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you're shaping your spirit, you can be growing your spirit or shrinking your

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spirit. Tongues, it's so interesting that one of the spiritual gifts is the

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gift of speaking in tongues because tongues allow you to communicate from

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your spirit directly to God's Spirit without the conscious mind getting

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involved, it's kind of like essential oils, it's why I had Dr. Jonathan

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formulate the prosper oil, why the prosper oil is having so much effect

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because it has a similar effect to tongues, instead of dealing with the

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conscious mind and the lies we've been speaking and the agreements we've made

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and where we're stuck, the prosper oil which is the oldest first medicine is

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going directly to your subconscious mind, to your limbic center, your emotional

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center of your brain, in your middle brain and allowing change to happen,

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going to every cell in your body without your conscious mind having anything to

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do with it. Well, it's the same thing with prayer and speaking in tongues, it's

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allowing you to bypass all of these lies and agreements that we've made and just

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commune spirit to spirit and essential oils, there's these ways to do

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this to break out of these agreements, there's these tools and this is why I

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bring these tools to you in literal form like prosper oil and in teaching. So

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your words give you dominion, your words allow you to commune with God to grow

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your body, spirit, soul, your words are the way that you create, your words are the

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way you manifest that which you want in life. I mean the original law of

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attraction, look at what Jesus said, he said whatever you ask, those are words

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for in prayer, having faith, faith is coming into agreement so that your

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belief system becomes faith.

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There's manifesting right there.

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the faith, believing that you will, then you have it.

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That's why when I do the manifesting coaching program that starts in September, this is

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a huge part of manifesting is learning how your words work in the manifestation process.

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Words help you take authority over a situation.

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It is that part of when God said that he made us in his image and in his likeness and he

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told us to go forth and take dominion.

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You have dominion.

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You have authority over that which concerns you.

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You don't have it over other human beings because each human being has that over themselves.

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But you have dominion and authority for your reality, your life, what you're manifesting.

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And when Jesus walked by and cursed that fig tree and the fig tree withered all up down

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to the roots and the disciples were completely shocked like, what in the world?

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It was with words.

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to you, if you have faith, if you don't doubt, because doubt will sabotage this, if you

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have faith, then not only what you'll do, what I did to this fig tree, but even if you

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say, that's words, if you say to this mountain, be taken up and cast into the sea, it'll be

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You can say, that's called taking authority with your words.

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Words allow you to create and manifest.

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Words allow you to take authority over a situation.

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Words allow you to either heal or bring dis-ease.

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We must be careful about sinning with our words.

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missing the mark and all that.

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nonsense that we're putting on ourselves and now beginning to take back our power of understanding

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the gift we have is this tongue and this ability to speak, this ability to heal, this ability

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to bring life, this ability to manifest, this ability to encourage, this ability...

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What if you used your words to appreciate?

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That's something that I've just been really thinking a lot about, appreciating others

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any of their works, when Abraham is speaking, he says that appreciation is as close to source

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energy, as close to God's energy as you can get.

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So when you're walking, I think this is why we have the idea with God of praise, of worship.

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against yourself, what are you appreciating about yourself?

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It just changes everything.

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take anything personally.

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personally, you have to break the belief that this is all about you.

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He calls it in the book personal importance.

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Thinking that whatever you're thinking is truth.

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you have to get to the place where you realize it's your own dream and it's your own mindset and

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it's your own imagination so let's just stop there for a second and have a chance for you guys to

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check in and what's jumping out now as you've heard this for a number of weeks before anything

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just really hitting you any application that you've been making over the past few weeks

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any questions let's just pause right here before i go into the next level

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hi frank it's uh i've been known to speak my mind without thinking as in you know when you're done

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stick your foot in your mouth and feel like a heel or now though i'm still not perfect by any means

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but i have more thought process going before the lips go and that i appreciate personally plus

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like you know the the tongue is a sword and i have been told and i can see back

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through my life i i could really hurt you with just my tonality and the choice of my words

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and it may not even be what my brain's thinking but it's what comes out of my mouth

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in the wrong text and then it takes a lot of time and effort to fix it

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it's really good it really is a form of self-control isn't it

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correct yeah and i've also come to find out when you say self-control i can hardly control myself

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so what makes me even think i can control anybody yeah that's that's an illusion isn't it the fact

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that you could think you could change or control someone i cannot control anybody but i can control

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my reaction to what they say to or think or look yeah talk or walk but that's the challenge the

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biggest challenge is to control myself of whatever it takes that's response or non-response that's

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that's all you have that is that is so good that's good thank you for sharing that i imagine

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how different you know the i i think i saw something on facebook or whatever um and and

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i couldn't i don't think i could even i could even quote it again but it caught my attention about

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be careful what you speak to a child uh because it's very hard to repair as an adult or something

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to that effect and you know um how how how carelessly we can just say things not knowing

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that it could affect um for good or for bad this whole idea of of of the power of life and death

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being in in the tongue and so from all angles the the influence that we can do for good or for evil

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in ourself and in our and others and the ability to create healing or disease and the ability to

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manifest that which you desire and the ability to bring um peace and joy into relationships i i i

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think how much of relationship problems is just the mouth and the tongue and what's spoken you

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know so fascinating thank you thank you anybody else any any questions comments feedbacks before i

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something that you just said was kind of interesting because i i have been known for

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being in my own head quite a bit and overthinking things and the fact that the cost for oil works so

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well with me is because it's passing all of that rubbish and it's allowing me to to be and it's

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something that i'm i'm learning to do more and more and uh you're talking about filming and i had

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a hard time filming and it's because i had a hard time letting go of that control wow so lots of

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aha moments today wow that's that's over my heart and it helped me be able to handle the 12 to 15

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hour days that i did in my conference the last day oh that's that's awesome thank thank you for

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for sharing and and if you could go to the facebook page and share that that would bless a

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lot of people thank you candace um yeah you know i i had that that that vision for so long as i would

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you know as i would lead prosper in all things conferences and i'd look or i'd glance over and

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i'd see the table with you know the information products and things there and i i just kept

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feeling like that was so needed if we're truly going to do this romans 12 of being transformed

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by the renewing of our mind there has to be some help to get past our our mind our conscious mind

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and get into that subconscious to begin to make changes and um so

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Yeah, thank you. Thank you for sharing that. It's just key to get that breakthrough. So I'm

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so thankful every day more and more now, and as the stories are coming in, and it's exactly what

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I envisioned for Prosper Oil, that it just says the stories are coming in to just really allow

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people to have that level of breakthrough to break. It's just, again, part of breaking these

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agreements, and the stronger we are, and you're a strong woman, Candice, and I am too, the stronger

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we are, the harder it is to just by ourselves with no help, just kind of let go of all of that stuff.

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And really, something just fresh in my mind, I happened to be somewhere and I was dancing

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over the weekend, and the person I was dancing with said, and this just has kind of had so many

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layers, he said, just follow my lead. And because I realized, you know, in my life, I haven't

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surrendered at that level to follow anyone's lead. I just follow my own lead, and you just go, you know,

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and it's that same concept with God in this divine dance of can we just be more fluid,

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more fluid to just be able to follow the lead and let go of the stuff that we've been holding onto.

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Unnecessary. The key is if it was working, beautiful. If the agreements you've made are

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producing the health, prosperity, joy, relationships, abundance that you want, then beautiful, by all

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means, hang on to your agreements. But most of the people I meet, the agreements are no longer serving

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them. So we're holding on to these things that are not giving us joy, they're not giving us

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abundance, they're not serving us. In fact, they're causing what we would call suffering or pain,

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right? So how crazy is that? Why are we holding on to something that doesn't even work? That's

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when it becomes really crazy. And so thank you, Candice. It's that ability to let go of that.

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And I think the more that we can let go of this stuff, what I'm realizing for me,

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because my old way of going through and doing all of this, because I've had such a tough life,

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if you call it that, would be to self-protect, which is an illusion you can't, which would be to

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harden my heart. And how can you go through life with that? And I've worked with some amazing

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healers and energy recently that's just pulled that literal metal casing around the heart that

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hardens our heart, trying to protect ourselves, has literally removed that and allows you, again,

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it's that divine dance to go through life with just an open heart. And you're no longer afraid

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that someone's going to hurt you or something's going to hurt you because they can't, because

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that's all based on your agreements. And so it allows you to really dance through life, this

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divine dance with an open heart, which is literally the ultimate of moving from fear-based

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living to love-based living. And that's profound that you can go through life with an open heart.

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How much better would life be if you could go through life with an open heart without this

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constant fear that you're going to be hurt? Does that make sense? Any of you want to check in on

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that? Comments, feedback? Amen. Amen. Any other comments, questions, feedback?

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So biblically, this whole idea of taking things personally, if you were going to do a Bible study

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on it, biblically it's called taking offense. And so what happens when you take things personally

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is you feel offended, you take offense, you feel offended. And so the next step in this process,

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when you feel offended, is to feel like you have a need to defend your beliefs.

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Look at the energy that you spend defending your beliefs. And so then it begins to create conflict

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because you have to be right. Someone else has to be wrong. You have to defend it. It takes strength

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and now it creates conflict. Your need to be right and make everyone else wrong creates conflict.

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And then you try to pull in the teams to come and support you. This is how we get gossip. This is

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how we get parties or factions or divisions or wars or countries for that matter. This whole

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thing can just start from tiny, tiny belief system and the need to pull everyone into that belief

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system or as many rallies, many troops around your belief system.

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And now you create an us, them, a whole thing based on this movie in your head and these agreements.

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We saw that last week in Luke 10 with Mary and Martha.

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If you go back and read the story in Luke 10 40, you got Martha's movie in her head.

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Hospitality, which is cool and a gift, but any gift when it becomes like this can now become a problem.

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And so she became, the scripture says, overly occupied, too busy, distracted with serving.

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Serving now became a distraction.

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She couldn't get truth.

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She couldn't, infinite wisdom, infinite love was in her midst right there with Jesus and she couldn't get it.

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She was worried about the sandwiches and that's cool.

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That's the movie in her head.

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She was worried about the sandwiches, but now she's got to pull people into her movie.

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Part of this becomes the victim that my sisters left me to serve alone.

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You hear the victim all over that?

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Woe is me, slaving away in the kitchen.

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Nobody cares.

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All of this is on me.

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Woe is me, victim.

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My life is hard.

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Let's pull, let's pull Jesus into this mix.

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Let's start pulling people into my opinion.

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And so she says to Jesus, tell her then to come help me and do her part.

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Mary had her dream and Martha had her dream.

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Mary had her dream, not necessarily based on truth or even good or even where God's heart was.

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He says, Martha, Martha, you're anxious and troubled about many things.

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These things cause anxiety.

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These dreams in our head, these agreements are not only energy leaks that are exhausting you, producing dis-ease.

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They cause anxiety.

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Why do you think anxiety and depression medications are the two most prescribed medications?

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Anxiety and depression.

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You would not have anxiety or depression without these taking things personally and making these agreements.

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It just wouldn't exist.

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And so there's the original anxiety story right there.

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Martha, Martha, you're anxious, you're troubled about many things.

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But really there's need of only maybe one or a few things.

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Mary's chosen a good portion, which is to her advantage and it's not going to be taken away.

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You are not going to take away from Mary her joy.

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She's doing her thing.

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She was sitting at Jesus' feet.

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She realized infinite love and infinite wisdom was in the room.

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You're not going to do it.

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And so I mentioned some things last week that if you didn't catch them,

433
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you might want to take notes about this whole idea of taking offense or taking things personally.

434
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Number one, make a note.

435
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These are the keys.

436
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Number one, offense, taking offense, taking things personally keeps you from truly seeing truth.

437
00:38:02.700 --> 00:38:08.300
Offense keeps you from seeing truth.

438
00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:15.800
When they asked about Jesus in Matthew 11, 5 and 6, and they asked,

439
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who is this Jesus?

440
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And he said, just tell them.

441
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Look at the fruit.

442
00:38:21.500 --> 00:38:24.700
Tell them that the blind are receiving their sight.

443
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The lame are walking.

444
00:38:26.700 --> 00:38:28.600
The lepers are cleansed by healing.

445
00:38:28.600 --> 00:38:30.700
The deaf hear.

446
00:38:30.700 --> 00:38:32.800
The dead are raised.

447
00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:36.700
The poor have good news preached.

448
00:38:36.700 --> 00:38:42.500
And then in verse 6, Matthew 11, 6, I'm blessed.

449
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The Amplified says, happy, fortunate to be envied is he who takes no offense at me.

450
00:38:49.900 --> 00:38:51.200
Finds no cause for someone.

451
00:38:51.200 --> 00:38:52.600
They were taking personally.

452
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They were taking offense at Jesus.

453
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And look at how that sentence ends.

454
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And is not hindered from seeing the truth.

455
00:39:04.300 --> 00:39:06.600
You see, taking things personally that Jesus did.

456
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Is this not the carpenter's son?

457
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Isn't this blah, blah, blah's brother?

458
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He's not schooled.

459
00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:13.600
He didn't go to our school.

460
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He's not a Pharisee.

461
00:39:14.600 --> 00:39:16.200
He's not our religion.

462
00:39:16.200 --> 00:39:21.900
They allowed their own belief systems and agreements to have them take things personally

463
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so that when infinite wisdom, infinite love, truth was right in their midst.

464
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It says it hindered them to seeing the truth.

465
00:39:30.500 --> 00:39:34.700
I wonder how much truth we don't see because we're taking things personally.

466
00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:41.900
How much of God's love has he been trying to show you in another person in a circumstance

467
00:39:41.900 --> 00:39:43.400
in the way he made you?

468
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:51.100
How much love is God trying to show you and you totally missed it from taking things personally?

469
00:39:51.100 --> 00:39:58.000
How much wisdom has been screaming from the streets as Proverbs says, trying to allow

470
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.000
you to get wisdom and you miss it?

471
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.080
because you were too busy with your opinions and trying to convince everyone

472
00:40:05.080 --> 00:40:10.360
else and rally up the forces so number one offense keeps us from seeing truth

473
00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:18.600
number two comes from Matthew 13 taking things personally taking offense keeps

474
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away miracles if you're not living a supernatural life because the

475
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supernatural supposed to be natural were born supernatural creatures were

476
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:37.640
born with the ability made in the image of God to live a miraculous supernatural

477
00:40:37.640 --> 00:40:42.960
life and so if you're not experiencing that chances are these agreements you've

478
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:48.400
made are keeping you from the miraculous and so here they are about Jesus taking

479
00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:52.640
things personally in Matthew 13 56 and they say who is this guy don't his

480
00:40:52.640 --> 00:40:58.680
sisters live here amongst us where then did this man get all this what what the

481
00:40:58.680 --> 00:41:06.440
heck is he talking about verse 57 says and they took offense at him they were

482
00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:12.640
repelled and hindered from acknowledging his authority and caused to stumble this

483
00:41:12.640 --> 00:41:17.440
taking offense is taking things personally caused them to stumble Jesus

484
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:21.680
said a prophets not without honor in his country in his own house and here's the

485
00:41:21.680 --> 00:41:29.360
key in verse 58 he did not do many works of power there because of their

486
00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:36.800
unbelief their lack of faith so this taking things personally literally kept

487
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:41.000
away the supernatural the miraculous the works of power I wonder how many

488
00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:47.760
miracles we've missed because we take things personally and so love is the

489
00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:52.960
protection moving from fear-based thinking to love-based thinking love

490
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:58.520
protects us from taking this offense genuine true love not not needy love not

491
00:41:58.520 --> 00:42:04.840
our version a television love you know romantic love but but but true love and

492
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:14.760
and first Peter 4 can someone read first Peter 4 8 first Peter 4 8 can someone

493
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:25.920
read that first Peter 4 8 you guys are still bringing either your phone or your

494
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:29.760
Bible whichever technology you're using right to be able to look up these

495
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:36.320
scriptures anybody got first Peter 4 8

496
00:42:36.320 --> 00:43:02.320
no no that's fine above things have intense unfailing love for one another

497
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:11.160
love covers a multitude of sins the Amplified version says forgives and

498
00:43:11.160 --> 00:43:18.920
disregards the offenses of others you see Jesus would have the ability to hear

499
00:43:18.920 --> 00:43:24.160
things not take it personally not come into agreement with it so it doesn't hook

500
00:43:24.160 --> 00:43:30.120
and get as part of him I remember the story in the Bible where the man had

501
00:43:30.120 --> 00:43:37.760
come and asked Jesus to heal his daughter and and while he's there

502
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:44.120
talking to Jesus asking him to heal his daughter a messenger comes and says why

503
00:43:44.120 --> 00:43:50.760
bother the teacher anymore don't bother him she's she's dead and it's really

504
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:55.160
interesting what it says in the Amplified version and I'm just going off

505
00:43:55.160 --> 00:43:59.160
my head so I can't give you a verse right now but it's it says that Jesus

506
00:43:59.160 --> 00:44:05.320
heard them but he didn't he didn't buy into it it's it's specifically says that

507
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:09.960
he heard so you can hear these things but you have a choice to come into

508
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:14.640
agreement and it says that he didn't he heard and then he quickly spoke to him

509
00:44:14.640 --> 00:44:19.480
and and basically was saying don't let what you're hearing shape you right now

510
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:24.760
don't take it personally don't let that medical report that the doctor gave you

511
00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:28.520
become your truth don't come into agreement with it don't take it

512
00:44:28.520 --> 00:44:36.000
personally hear it and then let it go hear it but don't let it hook you hear

513
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:39.160
the opinions of others that's why I was saying at the beginning it's called dr.

514
00:44:39.160 --> 00:44:43.560
Arlene Taylor I love the way she just it's habit for her I think it's her way

515
00:44:43.560 --> 00:44:48.840
of reminding it's habit for her when whenever dr. Arlene Taylor speaks she'll

516
00:44:48.840 --> 00:44:53.280
say in my brains opinion blah blah blah blah blah see she understands that

517
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:58.200
everything she's saying is just her perspective and when they say something

518
00:44:58.200 --> 00:45:01.960
she says well that's interesting

519
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:06.320
saying that's your brain's opinion so that it doesn't hook you you don't take

520
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:09.840
this thing personally you just understand that everybody's got a movie

521
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:14.680
in their head and they're not the same and they're not necessarily based on

522
00:45:14.680 --> 00:45:20.360
truth and so this love protects us from taking offense and first Peter 4 8 says

523
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:24.360
you you disregard the offenses of others you just don't take them personally you

524
00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:36.160
disregard them Proverbs 17 9 someone want to look up Proverbs 17 9 Proverbs

525
00:45:36.160 --> 00:45:41.120
has a lot to say about this if you turn to Proverbs right about in the middle of

526
00:45:41.120 --> 00:45:45.760
the Bible right after Psalms if you're using a literal Bible now not a computer

527
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:56.000
Proverbs 17 9 someone want to read that right about the middle three-quarters

528
00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:59.680
through your Bible Proverbs it's a small book right after Psalms which is a big

529
00:45:59.680 --> 00:46:05.040
book the wisdom of King Solomon

530
00:46:05.040 --> 00:46:30.560
someone have that one Proverbs 17 9 all right awesome he who covers interesting

531
00:46:30.560 --> 00:46:36.760
to think about covers and forgives and offense seeks love you know there's a

532
00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:47.680
story in the Bible about Noah showing up drunk and and passing out butt-naked and

533
00:46:47.680 --> 00:46:52.120
you could really take offense someone could have really like taking his sins

534
00:46:52.120 --> 00:46:55.400
and made it public and shown what a drunk he is and what an idiot and let

535
00:46:55.400 --> 00:47:00.440
him embarrass himself and everything but the story says that I don't remember

536
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:04.220
his sons or what but a couple a couple of them in order not to see him they

537
00:47:04.220 --> 00:47:08.320
walk in backwards and they put a blanket over him and that's what I think of when

538
00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:12.960
I think of covering rather than exposing and trying to make yourself look good

539
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:17.720
because of someone else's sins or trying to carry gossip that could really hurt

540
00:47:17.720 --> 00:47:25.320
someone he who covers and forgives and offense seeks love but it says he who

541
00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:31.240
repeats or harps on a matter separates even close friends so when instead of

542
00:47:31.240 --> 00:47:34.720
taking something personally and and repeating it and trying to get other

543
00:47:34.720 --> 00:47:37.880
people on your side you just let it go and you cover it and you forgive it you

544
00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:43.200
don't take it personally you don't you don't take offense Proverbs 19 just a

545
00:47:43.200 --> 00:47:49.440
couple more pages over Proverbs 19 11 if you're still there can you turn to that

546
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:59.040
Proverbs 19 11 Proverbs 19 11

547
00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:10.480
say amen if you're there Proverbs 19 11

548
00:48:19.800 --> 00:48:26.200
Wow so here's that self-control that you're talking about a say it it started

549
00:48:26.200 --> 00:48:34.800
with a man's what gives them wisdom what ah so wisdom and patience go together

550
00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:39.280
there a man so you don't jump on and take offense and take things personally

551
00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:45.680
wisdom would be that you have patience and then the second part of that it's

552
00:48:45.680 --> 00:48:52.920
his glory to overlook an offense to just have a level of patience and

553
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:57.240
understanding that everybody is on their journey and everybody is where they are

554
00:48:57.240 --> 00:49:01.720
because that's where they need to be and allowing them the room to grow through

555
00:49:01.720 --> 00:49:06.040
and maybe there's things they need to learn and maybe you're at a higher level

556
00:49:06.040 --> 00:49:09.880
of consciousness and maybe you see things maybe maybe you have such a

557
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:14.160
desire to get them to think like you or change or you know convert or whatever

558
00:49:14.160 --> 00:49:21.000
but but wisdom is to just have patience and the glory to overlook that offense

559
00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:25.800
and and this is how I would kind of bring around this whole idea of taking

560
00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:34.680
things personally I think wisdom or humility understands that we're all on a

561
00:49:34.680 --> 00:49:41.360
journey none of us you know you started Frankie you said you know I'm not

562
00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:48.240
perfect none of us are we are all just fellow so sojourners on this journey

563
00:49:48.240 --> 00:49:54.040
trying to learn and figure it out we're all stumbling we're all making mistakes

564
00:49:54.040 --> 00:49:59.800
we're all doing good things we're I mean and we're it's just this experience that

565
00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:02.120
we're

566
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on called life and so you have a whole lot more grace to not expect perfection

567
00:50:09.200 --> 00:50:13.600
in yourself or others. The harder you are on yourself the more perfection you

568
00:50:13.600 --> 00:50:19.280
expect of yourself and the more critical you are of yourself the more

569
00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:23.280
that you'll be critical of others. So when you see someone that's extremely

570
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:27.320
critical of you or others you understand that first they're critical of

571
00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:34.000
themselves it's just being manifested that way. Same thing with abuse the the

572
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:40.120
more that you abuse yourself the more you will attract and allow abuse outside

573
00:50:40.120 --> 00:50:47.320
of yourself. You will only allow abuse to the level that you abuse yourself so

574
00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:51.560
when someone crosses further than what you abuse yourself you simply won't

575
00:50:51.560 --> 00:50:54.680
tolerate it you'll leave you'll walk away from it you'll shut it down you

576
00:50:54.680 --> 00:50:59.560
won't you will not allow abuse to happen you allow abuse to happen at the level

577
00:50:59.560 --> 00:51:04.640
that you abuse yourself and so humility understands that we are all on this

578
00:51:34.640 --> 00:51:38.680
my head okay I was great I shut my mouth but now I'm judging this person yeah

579
00:51:38.680 --> 00:51:46.320
don't judge that person let it go yeah I get into my own cycle but I'm more

580
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:55.040
conscious of it but then I always seem to be you know shutting on shutting off

581
00:51:55.040 --> 00:52:00.760
opening up closing down not sure how to say it but by myself being patient and

582
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:10.800
aware but judgmental and then I become judgmental of myself for being the judge yeah yeah and and it

583
00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:16.880
sounds to me like you're right in the middle of the growth process and you're

584
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:23.920
simply now you moved Frank from what we talked about the the entry level if you

585
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:29.960
will on levels of awareness you moved from unconscious incompetence where you

586
00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:33.440
don't know what you don't know in other words there was a time when you never

587
00:52:33.440 --> 00:52:36.920
thought about your words your words just came out there was a time when you

588
00:52:36.920 --> 00:52:40.040
thought that you know your thoughts thought you your thoughts you know you

589
00:52:40.040 --> 00:52:43.000
you didn't understand that you had power to control your thoughts you didn't

590
00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:46.360
understand you had power to control your mind you were operating in that level of

591
00:52:46.360 --> 00:52:54.440
unconscious incompetence and so you've moved now to a level of conscious

592
00:52:54.440 --> 00:52:58.640
incompetence if you will meaning you may not always get it right you're still

593
00:52:58.640 --> 00:53:01.880
judging you're still doing this stuff or whatever but now you're conscious of

594
00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:07.840
it at least you're aware and what begins to happen with that self-control and

595
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:11.720
increase in love and increase in awareness that you move to conscious

596
00:53:11.720 --> 00:53:18.240
competence where less and less you'll find a need to judge and more and more

597
00:53:18.240 --> 00:53:25.040
you'll just find the ability to to just kind of just know that it is what it is

598
00:53:25.040 --> 00:53:32.240
and that that person's where they are because it's where they are and if they

599
00:53:32.240 --> 00:53:38.720
have a desire to to grow or ask of you you're there to love and share your

600
00:53:38.720 --> 00:53:42.960
brains opinion with them but if they're not asking and they're not seeking then

601
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:49.120
you just have the grace and the love to love them where they are in that season

602
00:53:49.120 --> 00:53:57.240
and not take it personally you know I have a situation in my life having gone

603
00:53:57.240 --> 00:54:04.440
through a divorce your children have a choice to take that divorce and say well

604
00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:08.520
that's mom and dad and it didn't work for them and I love them both and I'm

605
00:54:08.520 --> 00:54:13.240
just going to move forward I have a son who does that he's choosing not to take

606
00:54:13.240 --> 00:54:16.560
any of that personally and he chooses to love his dad he chooses to love me

607
00:54:16.560 --> 00:54:22.080
chooses to spend time with both of us and he's not going to make this kind of

608
00:54:22.080 --> 00:54:25.960
agreement that's going to make him physically sick I have a daughter that

609
00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:30.240
has chosen to take it incredibly personal and that's translated into

610
00:54:30.240 --> 00:54:37.280
anger judgment condemnation toward me and toward herself and it's you know

611
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:42.560
it's funny it's just same situation the situation is not any different and our

612
00:54:42.560 --> 00:54:47.360
situations are not different the only difference is how we choose to respond

613
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:52.160
you see your situations are never your problem we all have good things bad

614
00:54:52.160 --> 00:54:55.360
things and if you want to even label it is that we all have things coming in

615
00:54:55.360 --> 00:54:59.520
that has nothing to do with it it's what we do with our circumstances

616
00:54:59.520 --> 00:55:02.240
circumstances

617
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.700
or nothing they just are they just are what is but what you choose to do the

618
00:55:07.700 --> 00:55:12.420
emotions you choose to wrap around the agreements you choose to make around it

619
00:55:12.420 --> 00:55:17.700
is what changes the perspective of one person in another so Frank what you're

620
00:55:17.700 --> 00:55:20.980
saying is simply now you're becoming aware of it and it's not to say that

621
00:55:20.980 --> 00:55:24.660
once you reach awareness like wow now I'm never gonna judge again I'm never

622
00:55:24.660 --> 00:55:27.240
gonna play a victim again I'm never gonna criticize I'm never gonna take

623
00:55:27.240 --> 00:55:31.240
offense not the case we're all stumbling through this we you know we

624
00:55:31.240 --> 00:55:36.280
don't achieve mastery in a moment for sure but the very fact that you're aware

625
00:55:36.280 --> 00:55:43.520
Frank is growth powerful growth and I just I'm convinced that you know really

626
00:55:43.520 --> 00:55:47.440
all this transformation and renewal of the mind really begins with awareness

627
00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:51.560
versus just what level of consciousness that we're seeing things with if that

628
00:55:51.560 --> 00:55:55.800
makes sense so thank you for that feedback any any

629
00:55:55.800 --> 00:56:01.200
other questions comments feedbacks here let's take a pause point for a second

630
00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:30.200
and then you get present and when you get like totally present in the now

631
00:56:30.200 --> 00:56:36.440
that's very effective for me it just completely releasing judgment and so

632
00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:40.160
that's really where it starts because until you release that judgment of

633
00:56:40.160 --> 00:56:44.440
yourself you'll never stop judging other people so it starts with you and it

634
00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:49.840
starts with you know how you label things that's so good thank you

635
00:56:49.840 --> 00:56:54.800
Christine look at it's it's really what label you're attaching to whatever it is

636
00:56:54.800 --> 00:57:00.080
it's not the experience it's not the circumstance it is the judgment or label

637
00:57:00.080 --> 00:57:04.440
or whatever you're attaching to that that's that's that's so good Christine

638
00:57:04.440 --> 00:57:11.960
thank you let me say two things in this level of consciousness or in processing

639
00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:19.280
this whole idea really two questions you can really look at and and one question

640
00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:23.120
we got from the last series if you were around in the last series moving from

641
00:57:23.120 --> 00:57:26.640
love-based supernatural living moving from fear-based thinking to love-based

642
00:57:26.640 --> 00:57:30.880
thinking the first question when you're sitting here looking and I'm going to

643
00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:33.800
give you a series of questions today that just increase your level of

644
00:57:33.800 --> 00:57:38.160
consciousness but the question that we got out of the last series I did is to

645
00:57:38.160 --> 00:57:42.560
look at whatever you're thinking whatever you're speaking whatever movie

646
00:57:42.560 --> 00:57:45.760
you're creating or choir is singing in your head or whatever you're learning

647
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:54.320
modality is is this fear-based or is this love-based that's the first thing

648
00:57:54.320 --> 00:58:00.920
that has to be decided is this fear because we know from scripture that fear

649
00:58:00.920 --> 00:58:08.080
produces torment that fear is false evidence appearing real first of all it

650
00:58:08.080 --> 00:58:13.160
doesn't necessarily mean it's going to happen and so the first thing is to say

651
00:58:13.320 --> 00:58:16.920
when I'm looking at this am I looking at this from a fear-based perspective or a

652
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:25.720
love-based perspective secondly is where am I only only on this earth it's not

653
00:58:25.720 --> 00:58:31.800
true with God God is timeless but we live in this time-space continuum so we

654
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have this idea of past present and future and Christine's talking about

655
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Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now which is amazing recording to listen to or

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book to read and an amazing concept because the next thing you have to look

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at that will help you know if it's fear-based or love-based living is am I

658
00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:58.160
reaching into the past and bringing it to the future bringing it to now you've

659
00:58:58.160 --> 00:59:03.880
got now all you have is this moment right now that's all you have is now am I

660
00:59:03.880 --> 00:59:08.440
reaching into the past which usually involves some kind of guilt shame

661
00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:13.560
regret it's usually not positive when we go in the past for the most part and

662
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bringing it into the now so is my now now simply shaped by my past and and

663
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believe me a huge amount of all the decisions and all the things that you're

664
00:59:24.280 --> 00:59:28.840
bringing into the now is not actually the experience of now but it's you

665
00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:34.120
reaching into the past and bringing it here so that's the first thing a second

666
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am I reaching into the future and that's usually where fear anxiety worry and

667
00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:44.720
that kind of stuff comes from fear-based thinking where I reach into the future

668
00:59:44.720 --> 00:59:49.320
and I bring it into now and so you get these what-ifs or you get these

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imaginations of all the fear-based things that can happen and this is a big

670
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journey for me I spend a considerable amount of time about this because I'm so

671
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committed I literally had a vision when I was praying the other day and and I

672
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began to see that you've got this this now you've got this moment you've got

673
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this treasure right here this life that God's given you that you're breathing

674
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:17.840
right here this this moment you have it now and imagine that this bandit comes

675
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up or imagine like an old Western movie and this bandit comes up to you you know

676
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and he's pointing a gun at you and he's saying hand it over right now hand over

677
01:00:28.120 --> 01:00:33.120
your wallet but he's also saying hand over your joy hand over your peace hand

678
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over your ability to experience and enjoy right now hand over your love hand

679
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:42.680
over your bliss hand over just a hand it over right now and so there you just

680
01:00:42.680 --> 01:00:45.560
empty everything you stand there with your hands up in the air and you empty

681
01:00:45.560 --> 01:00:53.760
all that's possible in that moment and hand it over and that bandit is fear

682
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:59.160
that bandit just came from the future of imagining what might be and therefore

683
01:00:59.160 --> 01:01:02.320
you are not going to enjoy the present right now you're not going to have peace

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01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:05.800
that you could have this moment because you're worried you're anxious you're

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troubled your fear-based thinking of what's going to come and in order to

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protect yourself or in order to whatever I think this is why Jesus said can you

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add even one cubit to your height by worrying about tomorrow can you change

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even one hair on your head in other words can worrying about tomorrow can

689
01:01:25.160 --> 01:01:29.720
bring tomorrow's anxiety and today change anything and the fact of the

690
01:01:29.720 --> 01:01:35.160
matter is no it changes absolutely nothing except it's a bandit that robs

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you from enjoying today and I'm I'm right there with you guys I am working

692
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so hard there's situations in my life where I have a choice and it's a

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01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:50.960
moment-by-moment choice that I can step into fear and I can worry about what is

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01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:55.600
coming and I could use my old way of dealing with life which is to harden my

695
01:01:55.600 --> 01:01:59.480
heart self-protect don't allow someone to get close don't allow a circumstance

696
01:01:59.480 --> 01:02:03.360
to affect me just pull in and that's how I've made it through a very hard I'm a

697
01:02:03.360 --> 01:02:10.960
survivor I've made it through a lot but this is not living this is not God's

698
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desire God's desires that every moment literally be bliss I by the way we may

699
01:02:17.160 --> 01:02:22.840
do a Bible study at some point bliss is all the way through Scripture you were

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01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:28.440
created to experience bliss now that might shock you there's a whole Bible

701
01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:35.280
study on bliss and that bliss can only happen that peace that passes all

702
01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:39.520
understanding can only happen if you can stay in the now so it takes tremendous

703
01:02:39.800 --> 01:02:44.160
discipline to stay in the now and stop for a second and say well you know what

704
01:02:44.160 --> 01:02:47.640
that future hasn't come yet I'll deal with that future when it comes here's

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where I am today and today I'm going to enjoy this experience completely I'm

706
01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:59.360
going to enjoy this moment this joy this peace this love I am going to savor this

707
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:05.480
moment think about this have you ever had an amazing meal prepared for you

708
01:03:05.480 --> 01:03:10.760
like a delicious meal in front of you but you got to talking and you were so

709
01:03:10.760 --> 01:03:14.120
stressed about something maybe it was a financial circumstance going on or a

710
01:03:14.120 --> 01:03:17.320
relationship you got busy have you ever had this experience where you were just

711
01:03:17.320 --> 01:03:22.440
talking talking meditating dealing with this stressful situation and all sudden

712
01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:26.000
you finished your whole meal and you realize you'd never even tasted it I'd

713
01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:32.720
love a sound off here have any of you ever experienced that you didn't you had

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01:03:32.720 --> 01:03:35.440
a beautiful meal in front of you and you never even enjoyed it because you were

715
01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:38.720
busy talking feeling thinking about something unpleasant have any of you

716
01:03:38.720 --> 01:03:41.200
ever had that

717
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Wow so you have a beautiful meal you didn't have you didn't get to enjoy

718
01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:04.600
good cuz like what if you just stopped and tasted every bite and and realized

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the joy that God's given us of taste buds and experiencing the tastes and

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01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:15.360
textures and smells of that meal and just really chewed it and enjoyed it and

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01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:18.560
and there was music playing you didn't even enjoy and what if you'd allowed

722
01:04:18.560 --> 01:04:23.280
that music to just soothe your spirit and and fill you that's called what what

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01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:28.920
Christine just brought up the power of now what would our life be like if we

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could truly enjoy every moment every now how amazing I mean have you thought

725
01:04:36.800 --> 01:04:41.560
about how much of life that we haven't lived how much experience that we

726
01:04:41.560 --> 01:04:45.280
haven't experienced how much of love that we haven't loved how much of joy

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01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:51.720
that we haven't enjoyed joy and joy right joy within and within joy how much

728
01:04:51.720 --> 01:04:57.200
joy have we not enjoyed because we didn't take it in because we were in

729
01:04:57.200 --> 01:04:59.880
fear-based thinking living somewhere way out in the future or way in the

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01:04:59.880 --> 01:05:02.000
past

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us and we missed the moment and God was bringing us joy right there in the moment.

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This is something, you guys are hitting me right where I live, I am so committed right

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now to begin to enjoy and live each moment.

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That truly is living.

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01:05:18.120 --> 01:05:25.680
I heard a talk on YouTube or somewhere and he was talking about how the majority of Americans

736
01:05:25.680 --> 01:05:34.360
spend so much time in a living room watching the tube and so they're watching TV in a living

737
01:05:34.360 --> 01:05:37.120
room that is very far from living.

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If we call that living, the living room, is that really living?

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01:05:41.120 --> 01:05:43.440
And I thought, wow, what a metaphor of life.

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How much of what we call living is simply existing and has nothing to do with living?

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What could your life, and again, remember we say these things are not truth and they're

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01:05:54.160 --> 01:05:55.480
not in line with what God.

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01:05:55.480 --> 01:06:00.360
I think God created you to just enjoy bliss.

744
01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:06.240
I believe God wants us experiencing heaven on earth and instead we're experiencing hell

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01:06:06.240 --> 01:06:11.280
on earth because of these things of taking personally and not staying in the moment.

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01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:14.640
So these are two questions, is it fear-based living or love-based living?

747
01:06:14.640 --> 01:06:18.560
Am I in the past or the future or am I in the now?

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01:06:18.560 --> 01:06:22.640
And I'm going to give you another question to ask yourself and it comes from a book by

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01:06:22.640 --> 01:06:26.400
Katie Byron called Loving What Is.

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And there's four questions that Katie, when she does, she'll do public and you could probably

751
01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:35.880
watch her on YouTube or anywhere, but Katie will take anyone in their circumstance and

752
01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:40.600
they will say something like they come to imagine a Dr. Phil show or whatever and the

753
01:06:40.600 --> 01:06:45.680
person is sitting there and says, I hate my husband, I hate having sex with my husband,

754
01:06:45.680 --> 01:06:47.520
I hate blah, blah, blah, blah.

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01:06:47.520 --> 01:06:52.480
And she'll walk them through four questions and completely turn around their experience.

756
01:06:52.480 --> 01:06:56.860
And the four questions, question number one, and this is what you can ask as you're taking

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01:06:56.860 --> 01:07:01.640
things personally and you're doing this whole choir in your head or movie in your head.

758
01:07:01.640 --> 01:07:07.440
The first question, number one is, is it true?

759
01:07:07.440 --> 01:07:12.320
So you say, I hate my husband, you know, is it true?

760
01:07:12.320 --> 01:07:16.160
Okay, that's the first question.

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01:07:16.160 --> 01:07:19.680
Is it even true?

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01:07:19.680 --> 01:07:26.280
Number two, can I absolutely know it's true?

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So you take it a little deeper.

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So whatever it is, I'm so broke.

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01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:36.140
I'm sick and tired of this and that, really, is it true?

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01:07:36.140 --> 01:07:41.480
Can you absolutely know that that's true?

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01:07:41.480 --> 01:07:47.520
Number three, how do you react when you think that thought?

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01:07:47.520 --> 01:07:53.000
So now that you've embraced that thought, what is that producing in you?

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What emotion or feeling is that pulling up in you?

770
01:07:56.760 --> 01:07:57.760
How are you reacting?

771
01:07:57.760 --> 01:08:07.360
If you take that thought, that thought that I'm broke, how do you react when you think

772
01:08:07.360 --> 01:08:10.000
that thought?

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And number four is a question, who would you be without that thought?

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01:08:18.840 --> 01:08:21.200
Or she phrases number four a couple different ways.

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She'll say, can you think of one stress-free reason to keep that thought?

776
01:08:28.960 --> 01:08:35.359
I guess another way I would rephrase that is, is that thought serving you?

777
01:08:35.359 --> 01:08:39.840
When that thought comes into your head, see, we just don't do enough thinking about our

778
01:08:39.840 --> 01:08:41.960
thinking in some sense, right?

779
01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:43.720
Our thoughts just control us.

780
01:08:43.720 --> 01:08:45.479
We don't control our thoughts.

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01:08:45.479 --> 01:08:48.399
So when you can just isolate that thought and say, wait a minute, okay, I just have

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01:08:48.399 --> 01:08:49.399
this thought.

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01:08:49.399 --> 01:08:52.600
First of all, he doesn't love me.

784
01:08:52.600 --> 01:08:55.040
Is it true?

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01:08:55.040 --> 01:08:59.479
Can I absolutely know it's true?

786
01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:00.479
He doesn't love me.

787
01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:01.479
Is it true?

788
01:09:01.479 --> 01:09:02.479
Yeah, it's true.

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01:09:02.479 --> 01:09:03.479
He doesn't love me.

790
01:09:03.479 --> 01:09:05.520
Can I absolutely know it's true?

791
01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:09.600
Well, I guess I can't absolutely know it's true.

792
01:09:10.359 --> 01:09:12.319
How do you react when you think that thought?

793
01:09:12.319 --> 01:09:20.800
Well, I start feeling depressed and victimized and I want to run and I'm afraid.

794
01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:23.080
Can you see a reason to drop that thought?

795
01:09:23.080 --> 01:09:25.160
Can you see a reason to let go of that one?

796
01:09:25.160 --> 01:09:28.399
I mean, who would you be without that thought?

797
01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:33.520
Well, I guess I'd be happier and freer.

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01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:42.800
Can you think of one stress-free reason to keep that thought?

799
01:09:42.800 --> 01:09:44.760
Stress-free reason to keep it?

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01:09:44.760 --> 01:09:45.760
No.

801
01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:48.720
All the thoughts for keeping it cause stress.

802
01:09:48.720 --> 01:09:50.600
So maybe we could let go of it then.

803
01:09:50.600 --> 01:09:55.920
So here becomes that moving to conscious competence level that you have the courage, which is

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01:09:55.920 --> 01:09:57.200
how we open the call.

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We'll close the call the same way we open the call.

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You have.

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01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.920
courage to look at your thoughts and beliefs and the courage and the freedom

808
01:10:04.920 --> 01:10:09.360
to be willing to release those thoughts and beliefs that no longer serve you.

809
01:10:09.360 --> 01:10:26.000
Does that make sense? Feedback from you guys. Feedback. So the freedom to release

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01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:30.240
these thoughts. You see, you do not have to stay in agreement with them.

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This is the beauty. This is the amazing beauty of being human that you can

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01:10:36.020 --> 01:10:41.920
choose your thoughts, you can choose your words, and you can choose which ones to

813
01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:49.160
release because they no longer serve you. Some of the agreements and the belief

814
01:10:49.160 --> 01:10:55.380
systems that you've held on to are no longer serving you. So can you think of a

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01:10:55.380 --> 01:11:00.300
reason to keep hanging on to them if they are no longer serving you? Why?

816
01:11:00.300 --> 01:11:05.660
What's the purpose of still holding on to them?

817
01:11:13.540 --> 01:11:20.420
It's a new freedom, isn't it? You have choice. The beauty of being human is you

818
01:11:20.420 --> 01:11:24.820
have the freedom to choose what you think, what you hold on to, what you come

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01:11:24.820 --> 01:11:31.180
into agreement with, what you experience, what reality you create, how amazing, what

820
01:11:31.180 --> 01:11:37.700
prison this can pull, what pull you out of victimhood and take back your power

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01:11:37.700 --> 01:11:43.780
and create the life that you want to create and enjoy and live each moment.

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01:11:43.780 --> 01:11:48.220
I'm so committed now. I mean, you know what? I crossed the 50 mark, I'll tell you

823
01:11:48.220 --> 01:11:54.660
guys, okay? And for this second half of my life, I am so committed to not wasting

824
01:11:54.900 --> 01:12:02.100
time or energy on thoughts, activities, people that no longer serve my big

825
01:12:02.100 --> 01:12:09.300
purpose for being on the planet. And when I find the activities, the thoughts, the

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01:12:09.300 --> 01:12:15.500
people that do, I plan on drinking it up and enjoying. I plan on drinking that

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01:12:15.500 --> 01:12:21.500
drink, eating that meal, living that life, loving that love. I'm talking, I think

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01:12:21.500 --> 01:12:26.420
that this is what Jesus had in mind all along. I think this is heaven on earth. I

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01:12:26.420 --> 01:12:33.460
think this is the glorious, victorious, abundant life. When Jesus said, I came

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01:12:33.460 --> 01:12:38.620
that they may have life and have it more abundant. I have a feeling that maybe I'm

831
01:12:38.620 --> 01:12:42.300
getting the smallest glimpse and I haven't arrived and I got so much to

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01:12:42.300 --> 01:12:45.940
learn. Don't ever think I'm coming to you as an expert. I'm in this journey with

833
01:12:45.940 --> 01:12:51.380
you. But I think this is the heaven on earth. You see, what we call pain or

834
01:12:51.380 --> 01:12:56.300
suffering, the only time we suffer is when we want reality to be different

835
01:12:56.300 --> 01:13:00.140
what it is and we think it's hopeless and we keep trying to change something

836
01:13:00.140 --> 01:13:04.900
instead. You know, we're arguing with what is. And that's called resistance.

837
01:13:04.900 --> 01:13:11.020
And resistance causes suffering, resisting. And instead of embracing and

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01:13:11.020 --> 01:13:14.820
saying, well, that's what I'm experiencing right now and this is how

839
01:13:14.820 --> 01:13:18.140
I'm going to choose to think about it. This is how I'm going to choose to speak

840
01:13:18.140 --> 01:13:22.700
about it. This is how I'm going to choose to experience it. This is what I'm going

841
01:13:22.700 --> 01:13:27.220
to choose to agree with. This is what I'm going to choose to let go of. That is

842
01:13:27.220 --> 01:13:35.780
called Romans 12 to be transformed. That's being transformed by the renewing

843
01:13:35.780 --> 01:13:44.220
of your mind. So bless you guys. That concludes this call. If you have any

844
01:13:44.220 --> 01:13:49.020
comments or feedback, go ahead and give it now. But I'm going to wrap it up. That's

845
01:13:49.020 --> 01:13:56.700
the session on not taking things personally. I bless you guys all and may

846
01:13:56.700 --> 01:14:03.460
you experience a more beautiful now. May you experience the love, joy, peace that

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01:14:03.460 --> 01:14:08.620
is your birthright and your inheritance. May you take dominion over your

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01:14:08.740 --> 01:14:14.020
environment and circumstances and begin to use the power of thoughts and

849
01:14:14.020 --> 01:14:19.460
emotions and words to create a new reality that is a beautiful reality for

850
01:14:19.460 --> 01:14:24.620
you and for the planet as a whole. I bless you. I bless you.

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01:14:27.660 --> 01:14:28.460
I receive it.

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01:14:30.620 --> 01:14:33.260
Thank you, Brenda. May God continually bless you.

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01:14:34.620 --> 01:14:36.060
Thank you. Goodbye.