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While we are waiting for me to get this up on Facebook,

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does anyone have a win,

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a testimony that they would like to share?

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Susie, you're unmuted. Is that on purpose?

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No.

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I didn't know if you had anything you wanted to share.

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Well, I will share.

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Please do.

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My testimony is,

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I have been practicing my peace, y'all.

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I've had so many mishaps happening in my home.

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I woke up to no internet.

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I'm joining from my phone.

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But I have been so empowered by our Monday nights,

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every gift that the Lord has been giving us through our community prayer,

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through our fellowship together.

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Holy Spirit was just hosing me down with it today.

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When I was tempted to lean into anxiety,

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it's just like, oh, no.

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But Holy Spirit was just hosing me down with

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everything that is God and all of the gifts that we've been receiving.

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Just had to share that,

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that in the midst of it all,

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God is amazing.

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I have one.

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Again, it's very similar to yours, Tamara,

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because it relates back to,

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well, the last few community prayer calls,

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the one where I just lost it and I couldn't stop the tears a couple of weeks ago.

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Right after that, when I spoke,

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Marian had a word,

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a prophetic word about self-protection.

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I knew that it was for me and it may have been for others too.

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But anyway, I've gotten to practice love on a different level.

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You know that term,

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lay it all down, which that song is just like the mantra in my head right now.

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What the Lord showed me was,

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I mean, my ministry is the love of God.

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I mean, it's like the heart,

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unity in the body and forgiveness.

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What I saw was like laying down everything to pick up love.

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That's interesting.

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I'll just get nitty-gritty and personal here,

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but with not too many details.

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But this goes back to you,

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Bobby, months ago and you,

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Lindsay, where you all,

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I mean, we started out this time praying and like,

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no devil, we're going to unhook this.

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It's been a real growing experience for me.

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It was within that arena that self-protection wanted to come up.

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I was like, no,

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I'm going to choose love.

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What just like, I mean,

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it was like that fire coming up, Bobby,

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that you talked about,

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just consumed me and with it came freedom and joy.

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Interestingly enough, I'm recovering from a traumatic injury that I had three years ago.

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It's more on the compensating side of my hip.

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Yesterday, before I'd already said yes to this,

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the act of love that I was going to be doing was going to

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require a lot of service, a lot of steps.

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I was like, I had this piercing,

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it felt like a knife in my groin.

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I was just like, Holy Spirit,

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you're going to be my comfort in this.

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This is bonafide.

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I would much rather lay out on the couch right now.

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That's what feels comfortable, right?

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Yeah. It's just cool.

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It's just so cool how the Lord is moving and doing his thing.

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He's so good.

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I love that. Thank you for sharing, Amy.

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I specifically love the, hey,

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I had to lay something down so that I could be open and free to pick up love.

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Yeah. Which is the exchange that we talk about a lot in Isaiah 61.

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It requires a surrender.

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We can't hold on to the thing,

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we have to be willing to exchange it.

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I love that.

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I know Samara is on her phone,

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so that's why I'm going to have to verbally tell her this because I

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don't think she can see chat if I tried.

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We're not going to be able to stream on Facebook today.

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If there are people on Facebook who are like,

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we have it recorded and you will have access to the recording.

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No one will miss out.

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But if there's people on Facebook that feel lost, Tamera, if you could just

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double check and just tell them to go ahead and get on zoom, um, we're

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going to have to do that today.

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We're just going to roll with it.

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Aren't we guys, Holy spirit will be our comforter in all of that as well.

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So today we're going to, we're going to talk a little bit and then I'm going to,

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I want to leave it really open-ended for Q and a as well, because I feel like this

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is kind of the point where sometimes there's more case-by-case scenarios that

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we want, you know, answers and help with, but we'll just see how, how it flows.

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Um, I've asked Tamera to open us up in prayer.

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I just, I would love the gift of Tamera's prayer to cover us today.

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And you know what?

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I felt like I needed that even before we hit record and we're already

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experiencing some bumps in the way.

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So Tamera is a prayer warrior and she's going to gift us with that gifting right

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now, so go ahead, Tamera, amen, amen.

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Father, we worship you.

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We come with Thanksgiving.

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We come with praise.

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We come with adoration.

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We come with joy, with courage, with wonder, with Thanksgiving, all of the

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gifts that you've given to us, we present back to you right here, right now in the

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midst of it all, in the midst of technical difficulties, in the midst of

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personal things that are happening.

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Oh God, we present our heart to you full of gratitude for who you are to us.

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You are our shield.

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You are our great reward.

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You are our peace.

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You are our healer.

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You are our truth.

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Wow, that we can stand on our strong foundation and though, yes, we might be

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pressed in on every side, we are not cast down.

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We are not destroyed because we have your resurrection power on the inside of us,

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Lord Jesus, and we are thankful.

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We celebrate, we celebrate our identity as joint heirs with you, Christ Jesus.

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We celebrate our identity as the beloved, as your beloved, as your beloved.

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Oh God, thank you.

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Holy spirit, let that saturate through each and every person that will watch this

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session, that will join in this session.

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Oh God, let it saturate.

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Oh God, through the mishaps, through it all, through the ups, the downs, through

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everything that life, the enemy, this flesh can throw at us.

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We are your beloved.

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Ah, you are ours.

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So we thank you, Holy spirit, that you're here.

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You're reviving us, refreshing us.

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Actually, we're already revived.

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You're just helping us to see.

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You're just making it the lens clear again.

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That's all.

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Oh, you're just polishing it.

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That's what I see.

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You just polish a glass just so it can shine a little bit and be a little bit more clear.

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So we thank you for that.

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We welcome you into this session and we bless Lindsay to be able to share and edify

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and equip and all of the, uh, all of my brothers and sisters on the line that we

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can all build up one another in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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And amen.

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Amen.

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Thank you for that.

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So I'm just curious, and this is a little bit off program, but I think we'll all be

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down for it.

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I'm just curious.

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Is anyone feeling something of prophetic significance about today?

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Has anyone had something to marry?

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I'm seeing you shaking your head.

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Yes.

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I don't know what it is.

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I can't quite articulate it, but the Lord has just had me to just kind of come to the

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side with him today.

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Like he's just kind of marked this day where, look, I couldn't do anything else.

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So I was like, okay, Lord, you're up to something.

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And so I wish I had right now, I don't really know what to share, but it's, it's

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just been a, an important day for me too.

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I don't know how to articulate it though.

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So for me, and I'm, and I feel, I feel like it's deeply personal, but I also feel

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like, you know, how you sometimes just feel like, Hey, this could be for others as

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Bobby, I'm going to let you share first before I share, because I see your hand.

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Are you sure?

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Yes, I'm sure.

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Well, today I have this piece that it's like a heavy piece and that doesn't make

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sense.

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I don't know that I've experienced this makes me kind of emotional.

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Because usually peace is so light, but this is like, like I'm so peaceful that it's almost,

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it's just different.

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I don't know how to explain it, but today he kept talking to me a lot about, there was

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just things he was talking to me about this morning that are personal, but it's like this

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communication and that he has like the remedy and, and it was spoken forth this morning

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and I really never really saw this before and I think what I needed to hear from what

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Lindsay just said is maybe it's for many, but I know he put it at one person and I spoke

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that forward from him to them and so, but I too might have this feeling that maybe it's

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for more and I just think it will be revealed here, so I don't know, that's, it was nothing

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major, but major, you know, so all right, love all of you.

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Thank you for sharing.

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Amy, I see your hand.

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Well, so I described to you all the space that I was in, just a space of, of love because

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I had felt kind of a heaviness and that I did recognize is like, okay, there's something

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I need to lay down and it was in the, the performance, in that realm, perfectionism

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performance realm, you know, just something that the Lord and, and so yesterday I just

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really experienced, you know, just a lot of joy, a lot of freedom, a lot of breakthrough.

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And this morning, as I sat down with the Lord, he began to speak to me about the body.

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And so for three years, and I think I've shared this on this call for about three years now,

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at the end of the year, I asked him, you know, like, okay, what, what do you want to give me

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that'll be a lens prophetically to, you know, look into and navigate this year?

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And there's always, you know, at least a key scripture, if not a handful.

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And for about three years, Psalm 85 has, has been one that he has like, had me pray over

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the body of Christ. And that's the one where it says that mercy and truth have married each other

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and righteousness and peace have kissed. And anyway, he, what I saw was this mist,

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like a dew coming down from heaven. And the bride who was sleeping

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was being woken up by this mist. And, and what I saw is that it was the word of God,

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the truth and love, which of course, you know, like mercy has to make a way for, you know,

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I mean, like, it's like hand in hand with love. And I feel like in the spirit realm, something

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was released into the body today. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm feeling too. I mean, everything

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that you guys have shared has been confirming. So we've been talking about this all year long.

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It's a year of breakthrough and the Lord has been, you know, I don't know if anyone else has felt

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like constricted or in a tight space or claustrophobic or something around that when it

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comes to any area of your life, maybe many areas of your life. Maybe you don't know why you feel

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that way. But the Lord gave me the analogy of birth and you know, the birth canal is tight.

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It's a narrow space. And when you get, when you're birthing a baby, you know, you hit transition,

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which is like so close to the end. You are there. You're almost there. But it's when most women

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feel like I cannot do this anymore. Like their body almost just because it's like this overwhelming

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sense of, I cannot go on, you know, women want to go home. They want to stop. They're not even

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sometimes speaking coherently anymore. And that's when the dual of the birth partner, the nurses,

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the doctors say, you are so close and there's no going back. There's no going home. Like the

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process has started. It must end and life will come forth. And it's really right before the

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breakthrough, right? Right before the baby comes through. And so.

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something about today felt like the shift was taking place.

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And it's like, it's so sudden, but not, right?

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Because this is something we have been laboring.

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Like there's maybe things that you guys

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have been going through for years even.

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And sometimes birth feels like it goes on for years, right?

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But there's the nine months, there's the prep,

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there's the, all that stuff.

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And Kandi, are you saying something?

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I'm sorry, no.

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My son's home and he's special.

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And he just ran to the bathroom with his pants down.

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So I was covering my camera,

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so you guys didn't all see his hiding.

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Listen, this is a day of vulnerability.

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This is a day of vulnerability.

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Hey, but you know, while you're on the topic,

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that's something that Lord has ministered to me about a lot

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is concerning my son's restoration for about 10 years now.

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And he's used birthing for me a lot

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because I have four kids.

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when you have a contraction,

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what he described to me is your hardships

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and the struggles that you're going through,

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as a contraction that you're having.

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that he's told me to do.

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in like my birthing room, you know,

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like he showed me the, father's a great physician.

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because they're the ones that's keeping you grounded,

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you know, so you don't like crawl out of your skin.

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or the energy that's pushing, you know,

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that natural component that us women have.

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and he's like, ready or not, I'm pushing, you know?

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I didn't mean to raise my hand, but you know, there you go.

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I'm glad you did, because that was really good.

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about the contraction and circumstances,

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but that is a wonderful connection.

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because I felt like I probably wasn't only one feeling,

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the day is not ending the way it began.

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that's going to be taking place.

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and to lean into that in your own space, in your own sphere.

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in your own context of the Holy Spirit.

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Like life is coming forth.

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Something else that's been stirring for me,

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that we keep these coaching calls.

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I also want to, we're going to do Q&A, by the way,

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if you guys have questions for your,

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so if you have questions,

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like we'll get those answers today for sure.

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that we're talking some mindset stuff.

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that sets us apart

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from just being a regular content creator?

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it's the mindsets that we're taking with us.

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but things will change and social platforms will update.

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because now we've kind of got the skillset

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to even be aware that things change.

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that I really feel like the Lord wants me

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to make sure that I instill in you

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while we're spending time together.

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the truth setting us free.

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and we just, you know, say,

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oh, the truth will set you free.

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The truth will set you free.

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that have no context necessarily.

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of scripture it's kind of this become this proverb of like the truth will set you free

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the truth will set you free and it will set you free but what the scripture says is it's knowing

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the truth that will set you free and that word for knowing and i'm not going to try to pronounce it

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but that word for knowing that's used when jesus says you will know the truth and the truth will

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set you free it's the same word used for like when a man knows a woman it's a very intimate word

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it's speaking to a heart knowledge not a head knowledge it's speaking to knowing something

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through experience and interaction not just knowing something because you've been given

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information about something or about someone and so when we show up online we are not dishing out

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information alone information does not transform people there's a lot of stuff i know that has had

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little to no effect on me doing anything about that knowledge right we sit in in the information

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age especially like again we are born for such a time as this like there is a lot of information

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out there right information that's become villainized information that's become criminalized

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right like no just just information alone has come under scrutiny like is that really real

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because people are searching for what is true and what the deep desire of our hearts is because we

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know we have a creator and we are divinely designed is our our deep desire is not just to know the

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truth it's to experience the truth and so what does that mean for a kingdom messenger because

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sometimes at days it just feels like i'm dishing out information right well part of what we're doing

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when we show up and we're willing to show our face and we're willing to show up consistently

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is we're creating interaction this is why social media is such a powerful tool today not just for

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ministers of the gospel but for business owners and marketers and you know people that are used to

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dishing out information because it has changed what used to be a monologue into a dialogue and

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now there's conversation and and it's expected now some of that interaction will happen through

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our interaction with them through commenting and messaging and engagement like that but i think

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there's a deeper level and i want to set you free today because and i'll go first with the

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vulnerability i have had in a very hard time keeping up with comments and it has bothered me

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to the point where you know i start to question what am i doing should i be doing this like you

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know how those conversations sometimes in your head goes because what happens is it becomes

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something and then it starts to challenge your identity it becomes very personal very quickly

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why can't i get ahead of this i should be doing something differently i should be knowing how to

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like you know do this so that i can teach how to do this right but for whatever reason when it comes

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to the keeping up with the comment section on all of my platforms it's just been difficult to

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keep up with all the comments and it's sad for me because i feel like man that's where like i'm able

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to engage with people and get feedback and it's such a valuable thing and it is a valuable thing

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however we are not mere humans we're sons of god one with christ filled with the holy spirit

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connected to our source the father so what is true for the world which is hey you got to engage

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you got to comment you got to keep up with those things don't let things fall behind

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is not necessarily true for us because we are not in this alone and what the holy spirit has

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been showing me is that even if i'm unable to interact i am creating a seat of interaction

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between them the watcher and the holy spirit when i show up and share truth it's an invitation

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and i i believe that's happening because guys i get okay we had a convert we had a call this

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yesterday bruce had a call with someone who had set up a discovery call we didn't even know where

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they came from they but they had set up our discovery call and it there was this like year

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process of like oh well like i've been listening to lindsey on posture and like i found this link

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for this on-demand workshop but i had never had an interaction with this person other than

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them watching posture podcast right like i don't remember commenting messaging anything like that

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and the transformation that this person shared what that has happened like i i can't even take

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credit for that because i know what the holy spirit did is he and he took the seed

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of what I did and created interaction between him and that person, right?

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to a comment or a message.

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does best, which is leading people and guiding people in truth.

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They may credit you as hero and that is just the grace of Jesus, right?

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I do this with people, you know, with my mentors and friends that have deep, I'm like, they

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are like my, they are my heroes and they are, I sincerely mean that, but I can always trace

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back the heroicness to their connection with the Lord and what they have poured into me

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based off of what they have received from him, right?

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Jesus is the hero of people's stories and he's the hero of your story.

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And it's so important to remember that in the press, in birthing moments, right?

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In tight spaces, in constricted spaces, in spaces where things are expanding and life

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is coming forth, Jesus remains the hero of the story.

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We get to partner.

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And I don't, I don't like the, I don't like self, you guys know this about me.

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This is not about self-deprecation.

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This is not like, well, it's not about me.

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Like it is about, you are the target of God's love.

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You're the focus of God's love.

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You're who he decided to pour his love into from the beginning.

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It's why you were created.

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This isn't about like, you know, you're out of the equation and you're just this lowly

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thing and, you know, you have nothing to offer.

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No, we get to partner in the seed, right?

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There is, there's partnership, but we have to remain because this is where I feel like

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so many ministers of the gospel, myself included, you guys know my story, burn out.

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Is that they feel this sense of responsibility that is not theirs to carry.

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They push beyond the partnership.

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They push beyond the participation into a space where I'm the hero of the story.

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Truly.

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I do believe that, but we become people's saviors and that is not a burden we are able

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to carry.

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It's not when we're supposed to, and it will crush us.

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So the beauty of this is that there is so much life and transformation taking place

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that we may not even be aware of.

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stay free from potential burnout and lies that come against our identity saying I'm

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trash.

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I'm not doing a good job.

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I'm behind.

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And we start to compare and we lose the delight and everything becomes a dread and we get

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to a place like, I don't even want to look at a screen anymore because it is so much

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work and I don't feel like I'll ever be what I need to be.

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So we have to remain free of that.

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It's not just the truth that sets us free.

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It's knowing the truth and it's not a head knowledge.

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It's a heart knowledge.

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It's an intimate experience with the truth and it's something that the Holy Spirit is

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ultimately responsible for.

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But we had the beauty of partnering with him.

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Now, I feel like there's I feel like there's ways that we can sow seed that is actually

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really helpful to people and brings us out of the noise of everyone else who's just sharing

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information.

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And part of one thing and so this is kind of a there's going to be a little bit of homework

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for those of you that are new to the intensive, but I did I think it was like six months ago

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in our membership.

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I did a teaching about sharing your origin story, sharing your testimony, and we so let

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me just show this really quick.

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I'll share my screen.

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Okay, I think I'm doing this right.

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Okay, so in your Kingdom Messenger account under week six, we've already put the recording

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of that teaching quite frankly, guys.

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I just I didn't think that I needed to reteach it.

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This is also a lesson to you to upcycle your content and don't feel like I have to teach

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things over and over again.

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encourage members to rewatch it. If it's been a while since you revisited it, you can watch the

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video and then there's also notes here that have been typed out. But this, and if guys,

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if anyone's struggling with the way that they look on camera and their thumbnails, like just

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please take a look at this thumbnail. Like this is, this is the literal thumbnail that was chosen

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for this video. So there you go. So be set free today. But you can find that under week six.

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I would encourage you to watch it and then work on it. And we, I can always answer questions

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on coaching calls or in the Facebook group. If you want to drop, basically it's a one minute

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origin story. So if you want to drop that, I can review it. And if you've done it before and you

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want to do it again, I'm talking to the members. You're welcome to do that. Just make sure to tag

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me, but sharing our story. We've talked about this before. What God has redeemed in you,

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you have authority to restore in others. And usually the connection point for people is your

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story. What was your breakthrough with the Lord? What was redeemed in you? I don't ever want us to

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overlook the power of this. You know, sometimes it just becomes way too. Oh yeah. My testimony,

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my testimony, my testimony, but do not let overlook the power of this. This is the connection point

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that you typically have with your who that brings them out kind of the noise in the space of this

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is just another person sharing information. But instead of like, Hey, this is someone who

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makes me feel seen, who makes me feel known. And they have a way out of where I currently am.

469
00:31:28.160 --> 00:31:34.000
They're touching on that deep desire I have for transformation. And so, um, I want to encourage

470
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:39.760
everyone this week to kind of revisit that origin story and revisit your testimony.

471
00:31:39.760 --> 00:31:47.200
And also ask yourself, are you sharing enough of yourself in your content? Because vulnerability

472
00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:52.800
is a gift that we can give people that opens up and creates space kind of cuts through the noise

473
00:31:52.800 --> 00:31:58.240
of all the other stuff that's out there on screen. I have found time and time again,

474
00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:03.520
that when I share parts of my story, when I share my experiences with the Lord, like the good, bad,

475
00:32:03.520 --> 00:32:11.760
and ugly people respond really strongly to that. And I think part of it is because people are just

476
00:32:11.760 --> 00:32:23.440
not used to mature authenticity. I think people are used to people never sharing anything and,

477
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:28.080
and kind of showing up as the guru and expert and never, and, you know, it's like, I'm just,

478
00:32:28.080 --> 00:32:32.800
I'm successful and I'm a high achiever and follow me and you'll fulfill your dreams.

479
00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:37.520
There's that end of the spectrum. And that happens in ministry as well, by the way,

480
00:32:37.520 --> 00:32:42.880
people not willing to share real stuff about their struggles and their real breakthroughs,

481
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:48.880
and everything's very whitewashed and put a bow on it. And then the other extreme, which I don't

482
00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:54.480
think is healthy, is people sharing everything. And it goes into this like weird exposure

483
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:58.640
situation where they're exposing themselves, they're exposing other people that they're,

484
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:02.960
you know, surrounded by, and it's just kind of a come sit in the black pit with me and let's be

485
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:09.680
sad together about how hard life is, but there's no, instead, there's no exchange offered. There's

486
00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:15.520
no invitation for breakthrough and redemption. So neither one of those, I think is helpful,

487
00:33:15.520 --> 00:33:22.880
good or biblical or kingdom. What I think is biblical is being able to share from your story,

488
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:28.480
what's authentic to you in a, in a way that is, this is where I have been.

489
00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:35.120
This is where the Lord entered in to my story. This was what the interaction was like.

490
00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:40.080
And then this is where I am now. And here's an invitation. This is where you can be too.

491
00:33:40.080 --> 00:33:44.080
And I go a little bit deeper into this in the origin story video. So you'll be able to see that.

492
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:50.560
But I think, and that's not, it's not just the big testimony. Like, it's not like, Hey,

493
00:33:50.560 --> 00:33:54.800
it's not just your salvation story, or it's not just the big, like, sometimes it's just

494
00:33:54.880 --> 00:34:00.720
circumstances. Like, Hey, like Tamara saying, guys, today I'm practicing my peace because

495
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:04.880
everything seems to be going wrong. And Hey, here's, here's what I'm doing to participate

496
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:08.960
with the promise of peace in the midst of the circumstance. And I just want to encourage anyone

497
00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:13.360
else who might be experiencing this. Like you can experience peace as well in midst of your

498
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:20.239
circumstances, helpful, freeing. Does it make you feel like you're the only idiot in the room

499
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:27.360
who's struggling today? Right. And, Oh, there's an exchange to believe something more to not get

500
00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:32.400
stuck in this pit, to be encouraged, to be filled with hope, to interact with the truth.

501
00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:38.800
That's what our stories do. And so even in 60 seconds or less that can be taking place,

502
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:41.920
but often, you know, especially when we use the time constraint sometime, I'm like, well,

503
00:34:41.920 --> 00:34:48.719
I just got to get in here and share that, share the one highlight, but are we self-protecting

504
00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:56.239
is that our way of staying hidden? Is that our way of kind of preserving ourselves?

505
00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:59.840
Cause it already feels exposing enough that we're on here.

506
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.480
putting our face on social media.

507
00:35:03.340 --> 00:35:06.380
And I understand it's a process you have to learn to do this.

508
00:35:06.380 --> 00:35:10.680
Well, you have to, you have to try it a few times.

509
00:35:10.820 --> 00:35:12.540
I, I share the story with you guys.

510
00:35:12.540 --> 00:35:13.940
There are times I would share podcasts.

511
00:35:13.940 --> 00:35:15.340
I wake up the next day, totally nauseous.

512
00:35:15.340 --> 00:35:18.220
Like, I can't believe I shared that, or is that even going to help anyone?

513
00:35:18.220 --> 00:35:21.900
And always, always, always, there was somebody that was helped through that.

514
00:35:22.740 --> 00:35:23.980
And I'm so grateful.

515
00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:28.140
And so, you know, the Holy spirit is our helper in this truly, because

516
00:35:28.140 --> 00:35:31.360
there's questions I ask him, like when I'm sharing a story about,

517
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:35.220
um, am I exaggerating?

518
00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:44.040
Cause we, we have a tendency when we rehash details to exaggerate how it

519
00:35:44.040 --> 00:35:48.160
happened and how specifically how we showed up in that story, right?

520
00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:52.640
It's easy to kind of whitewash a little bit, our interaction in the story.

521
00:35:53.020 --> 00:35:55.940
Am I exposing others without their permission?

522
00:35:56.420 --> 00:35:59.780
Cause a lot of our stories involve other people, right?

523
00:36:00.820 --> 00:36:05.500
Other relationships, people closest to us, you know, there's the pastor kid

524
00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:09.980
joke, like, oh my gosh, I'm all, I'm all my dad or mom's illustrations.

525
00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:11.220
They always use my stories.

526
00:36:11.220 --> 00:36:11.620
Right.

527
00:36:11.620 --> 00:36:14.620
Cause it's, you know, it's funny, but it's not because it's true sometimes.

528
00:36:14.620 --> 00:36:19.340
So like, am I sharing this in a way that protects other people?

529
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:24.200
Am I sharing this in a way that protects, protects the identity of my enemies,

530
00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:28.560
enemies being the people that we, obviously we know we don't fight against

531
00:36:28.560 --> 00:36:31.880
flesh or blood, but the people who have participated with the enemies

532
00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:36.680
plans towards our lives, that's a hard one because we want to get up there.

533
00:36:36.680 --> 00:36:40.800
And we want to be like, and I don't think I've always, quite honestly, I don't

534
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:44.680
think I've always executed this well, specifically when it comes to church life.

535
00:36:44.680 --> 00:36:51.580
And I try, I have, I have noticed between the last three to four years and now how

536
00:36:51.580 --> 00:36:58.220
less sharp my retelling of my ministry burnout is because it's something that

537
00:36:58.220 --> 00:37:01.020
the Lord has walked me through and matured me in, Hey, when you share

538
00:37:01.020 --> 00:37:03.900
something like this, even if it's not your heart, even if it is your heart,

539
00:37:03.900 --> 00:37:06.340
but even it's not your heart, this is how it comes across.

540
00:37:07.300 --> 00:37:11.340
And people might think that you're saying this about this person or that person,

541
00:37:11.340 --> 00:37:18.200
so how you share it, you know, keep it to as best you can, your participation

542
00:37:18.200 --> 00:37:22.800
in the story and you and the Lord's participation in the story without being

543
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:28.320
like, you know, it was this person, it was that person or it's important.

544
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:35.960
Cause it's honorable and we're people of integrity and it's a way we live our

545
00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:37.800
lives and we're people of integrity.

546
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:43.500
And it's a way we love even our enemies when we retell our testimonies and this

547
00:37:43.500 --> 00:37:52.220
is not modeled very well, um, because when people hurt us, we want to hurt them.

548
00:37:55.020 --> 00:37:57.860
And maybe the way we want to hurt them is just to make sure that they

549
00:37:57.860 --> 00:37:59.140
know how much they've hurt us.

550
00:38:00.420 --> 00:38:05.180
And that conversation is important, but that conversation needs to be between

551
00:38:05.180 --> 00:38:08.640
you and that person, not you in the world or you and your best friend

552
00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:09.920
or you and someone else.

553
00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:10.420
Right.

554
00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:14.480
Maybe between you and a licensed professional, I think that can be helpful.

555
00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:14.980
Right.

556
00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:20.000
But it's for someone who knows how to like hold a situation in confidentiality,

557
00:38:20.080 --> 00:38:25.840
but that is not maybe people that know that person or, you know, so this is

558
00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:31.280
important because I'm seeing a lot of this, um, with content creators when they

559
00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:36.260
start to share their story, it's really easy to identify their villains and it's

560
00:38:36.260 --> 00:38:39.020
not Satan and it should be.

561
00:38:43.020 --> 00:38:44.500
So am I exaggerating?

562
00:38:44.540 --> 00:38:48.380
Am I exposing and am I offering an exchange?

563
00:38:49.220 --> 00:38:51.620
Those are three questions that are always helpful to ask.

564
00:38:51.660 --> 00:38:56.980
Like, am I bringing people into the midst of the worst part of my story and leaving

565
00:38:56.980 --> 00:39:01.720
them there, or am I offering the exchange that the Lord offered me?

566
00:39:01.720 --> 00:39:06.960
And if you're in a place where you might be in a, in the middle of a story right

567
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:11.920
now and the exchange hasn't been made, or it's not obvious to you, like it's not a

568
00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:14.080
story to share publicly yet.

569
00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.000
That is, it's just, it's green fruit.

570
00:39:18.040 --> 00:39:19.120
It needs some ripening.

571
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:24.520
It's a story in the, in the, in the, in the midst of it, it's not a story to share

572
00:39:24.540 --> 00:39:26.860
in the, in the midst of it.

573
00:39:26.860 --> 00:39:28.660
It's not for public consumption.

574
00:39:29.380 --> 00:39:35.820
It's between you, your trusted mentors, your therapist, your counselors, and

575
00:39:35.980 --> 00:39:40.540
hopefully eventually you and that person, if reconciliation or whatever needs to

576
00:39:40.540 --> 00:39:43.700
take place, but that is not for me to get on social media and be like, you will

577
00:39:43.700 --> 00:39:46.500
never believe what so-and-so did to me last week.

578
00:39:49.060 --> 00:39:50.420
That is too recent.

579
00:39:50.460 --> 00:39:50.700
Yeah.

580
00:39:51.200 --> 00:39:56.840
And so this, again, this is, this is the conversation and dialogue and

581
00:39:56.840 --> 00:39:59.680
interaction we should be having with the Holy Spirit in our stories.

582
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.320
And the process cannot be rushed.

583
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:04.680
And there's so many times I want to rush the process.

584
00:40:04.680 --> 00:40:06.880
There's so many times I'm in the middle of something

585
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:12.000
and I'm already visualizing what the sermon is going to be,

586
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:13.000
right?

587
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:16.600
What the teaching is going to be from this story.

588
00:40:16.600 --> 00:40:18.000
And guys, that's too soon.

589
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:24.160
First, I need to pursue healing for myself at all cost

590
00:40:24.160 --> 00:40:27.520
before this becomes something that I can share publicly.

591
00:40:27.520 --> 00:40:30.880
But it doesn't disqualify me from sharing

592
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:33.320
from a place of victory in exchange

593
00:40:33.320 --> 00:40:36.280
of all the other stories that I have with the Lord, right?

594
00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:41.080
So kind of another extreme is if we're struggling in an area,

595
00:40:41.080 --> 00:40:43.120
we immediately disqualify ourselves

596
00:40:43.120 --> 00:40:44.760
from showing up for anything.

597
00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:46.600
And I don't think that's necessarily healthy.

598
00:40:46.600 --> 00:40:48.000
Sometimes that's healthy depending

599
00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:49.400
on how big the crisis is.

600
00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:51.560
Like, you need to tuck in sometimes

601
00:40:51.560 --> 00:40:53.060
and there are seasons of hiddenness

602
00:40:53.060 --> 00:40:54.360
and that's really healthy.

603
00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:57.400
But often, it's this area or it's that area over here

604
00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:59.520
or maybe this one relationship or something

605
00:40:59.520 --> 00:41:02.520
happened here at work and I didn't

606
00:41:02.520 --> 00:41:03.720
respond the way I wanted to.

607
00:41:03.720 --> 00:41:05.480
And now I'm carrying that guilt and shame.

608
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:10.040
And instead of facing that reality and pursuing healing,

609
00:41:10.040 --> 00:41:12.120
I'm just disqualifying myself from everything

610
00:41:12.120 --> 00:41:14.800
and being like, well, I just can't anymore.

611
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:15.880
And that's not who we are.

612
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:17.960
That's not a victorious stance.

613
00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:21.560
So those are things I want us to be

614
00:41:21.560 --> 00:41:25.480
thinking about when we're sharing parts of our story,

615
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:27.000
when we're sharing our origin story.

616
00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:29.440
And I feel like we need to be sharing more stories.

617
00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:31.560
So that's why I want to give you some wisdom points

618
00:41:31.560 --> 00:41:40.080
because I feel like there is a powerful connection

619
00:41:40.080 --> 00:41:44.920
in our story that, honestly, I feel only kingdom people

620
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:48.080
can tap into.

621
00:41:48.080 --> 00:41:51.120
Because everything else, so think about this.

622
00:41:51.120 --> 00:41:53.560
If your story does not involve the transforming power

623
00:41:53.560 --> 00:41:56.480
of Jesus, maybe transformation took place,

624
00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:58.640
but it means that it was the transformation that you

625
00:41:58.640 --> 00:42:01.200
had to make happen, or another human,

626
00:42:01.200 --> 00:42:03.280
or something had to make happen.

627
00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:07.000
And that is not long lasting.

628
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.040
Because eventually, it's going to come up

629
00:42:09.040 --> 00:42:11.200
against some type of resistance that it's not

630
00:42:11.200 --> 00:42:13.960
going to be able to withstand.

631
00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:17.560
Because you can only prop yourself up by yourself,

632
00:42:17.560 --> 00:42:20.800
and somebody else can only prop yourself up for so long.

633
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:23.280
If Jesus is not involved in that equation,

634
00:42:23.280 --> 00:42:25.280
it's not long lasting.

635
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:26.960
And so that's the world, right?

636
00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:28.640
That's the gurus.

637
00:42:28.640 --> 00:42:34.640
That's all the experts out there that have the next best thing.

638
00:42:34.640 --> 00:42:36.440
There's things you can learn.

639
00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:38.240
I do believe.

640
00:42:38.240 --> 00:42:39.960
I learn things from people.

641
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:42.440
I learn some business things and some interesting things

642
00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:45.040
from people who are not Jesus followers.

643
00:42:45.040 --> 00:42:47.520
That's OK.

644
00:42:47.520 --> 00:42:50.960
But I have to be aware that if I'm not processing

645
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:53.440
the information that they're sharing with me

646
00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:57.720
through the lens of Jesus, it's not going to be long lasting.

647
00:42:57.720 --> 00:43:01.040
It will fall short at some point.

648
00:43:01.040 --> 00:43:03.240
And so that is also some wisdom.

649
00:43:03.240 --> 00:43:06.600
Maybe if you're taking in some guru knowledge,

650
00:43:06.600 --> 00:43:07.720
doesn't mean it's all bad.

651
00:43:07.720 --> 00:43:11.040
But you have to take a kingdom lens on it

652
00:43:11.040 --> 00:43:14.560
and purify it through that lens in order for it

653
00:43:14.560 --> 00:43:16.320
to be something long lasting.

654
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:17.320
Jesus, is this for me?

655
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:18.440
Is this for me right now?

656
00:43:18.440 --> 00:43:21.040
And if it is, then how do you see this?

657
00:43:21.040 --> 00:43:22.280
And how would you apply this?

658
00:43:25.120 --> 00:43:29.720
So homework, origin story, watch the video.

659
00:43:29.720 --> 00:43:32.560
If you haven't already, or if you're like, I want to redo,

660
00:43:32.560 --> 00:43:34.360
create your origin story this week.

661
00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:36.800
And there's instructions for that in the video.

662
00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:40.520
And post it into the Facebook group, and I will give feedback.

663
00:43:40.520 --> 00:43:43.120
I'm happy to give feedback and help you with wording,

664
00:43:43.120 --> 00:43:46.120
even if you're like, I'm stuck here, or I can't make it short enough,

665
00:43:46.120 --> 00:43:49.040
or I'm really helpful to workshop that.

666
00:43:49.040 --> 00:43:52.000
I want to give some space for the time we have remaining

667
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:56.000
for any questions that you guys might have about your content,

668
00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:58.840
about what I've been talking about.

669
00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:02.400
You can just raise your hand or unmute yourself.

670
00:44:07.240 --> 00:44:09.240
Hey, Marcella.

671
00:44:09.240 --> 00:44:17.560
Well, it's more of just thanking you for being vulnerable,

672
00:44:17.560 --> 00:44:26.720
and even for Monday, because I kind of got into this space.

673
00:44:26.720 --> 00:44:29.400
It's like a roller coaster ride with me, right?

674
00:44:29.400 --> 00:44:33.360
I get into this space, and I'm excited, and I'm doing it.

675
00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:38.880
And then all of a sudden, it's this perfectionistic mindset,

676
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:41.600
this self-critic, this judging.

677
00:44:41.600 --> 00:44:44.360
And then I feel like this week, I felt like,

678
00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:46.400
what am I doing with these people?

679
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:47.640
I'm not one of these people.

680
00:44:47.640 --> 00:44:49.360
I'm not a kingdom messenger.

681
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:50.280
Get off of here.

682
00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:52.920
Stop now while you're still...

683
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:55.320
Stop here before the numbers jump.

684
00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:58.360
This is a good time to get off this train.

685
00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:00.000
I love that you're in self-denial.

686
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.200
I felt that you're a kingdom messenger, but also you are totally,

687
00:45:03.200 --> 00:45:05.400
you have a lot of faith that it's going to jump. You're going to, you know,

688
00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:09.240
Oh my gosh.

689
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:12.240
Spirit is speaking even in the midst of the swirl.

690
00:45:13.040 --> 00:45:15.880
And it is like that for me. And, um,

691
00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:19.680
you know, I just felt like,

692
00:45:19.720 --> 00:45:24.400
I think a part of what I felt like was because I'm a very feeling person,

693
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:28.040
not that my feelings dominate me, but I'm very, um,

694
00:45:28.120 --> 00:45:31.680
I want to say comfortable and sharing and being vulnerable, um,

695
00:45:31.720 --> 00:45:36.520
not self deprecating or not, um, you know, not doing too much,

696
00:45:36.560 --> 00:45:39.960
but you know, I feel that, but I also,

697
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:44.280
I don't know if it's something that the enemy has made me feel or it's

698
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:46.440
something to me that has come up. Um,

699
00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:48.720
I just felt like it makes people uncomfortable.

700
00:45:48.720 --> 00:45:50.120
So then I don't want to talk about it.

701
00:45:50.120 --> 00:45:54.200
So then I feel like all the stuff that God has given me to talk about is kind of

702
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that yucky stuff that people that make people uncomfortable.

703
00:45:57.000 --> 00:45:59.120
So then I felt this feeling like maybe, you know,

704
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this is just not the right time for me. So I said all that to say,

705
00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:09.280
um, I appreciate the vulnerability on, you know, Monday and, um,

706
00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:13.120
in prayer and today. And, um, cause today,

707
00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:18.360
it's kind of a little difficult day for me. Um, and I won't say difficult.

708
00:46:19.160 --> 00:46:22.520
It's just what it is. It's the process. It's the process of grief.

709
00:46:22.520 --> 00:46:26.200
I'm still walking through it. It's three years today. Um,

710
00:46:26.240 --> 00:46:29.000
and I did a little video today. I forced myself to do a little video today.

711
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:30.800
I didn't put any makeup on. I didn't do anything.

712
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:34.200
I just showed up as me because that's another area too.

713
00:46:34.200 --> 00:46:37.240
And I want to overcome it because at the end of the day,

714
00:46:37.600 --> 00:46:41.640
the truth of the matter is I do believe he called me here and I do believe he

715
00:46:41.640 --> 00:46:45.760
placed me here with, with, um, with all of you.

716
00:46:46.240 --> 00:46:50.680
And I'm so encouraged by all of you, but, um, just keep me in prayer.

717
00:46:51.240 --> 00:46:53.320
You know, I don't even know how to,

718
00:46:57.040 --> 00:46:59.880
get beyond it. Um,

719
00:47:00.120 --> 00:47:04.880
sometimes the war in my mind sometimes is overwhelming because I just

720
00:47:05.040 --> 00:47:09.560
don't feel as put together as I want to be. And, um,

721
00:47:10.720 --> 00:47:13.200
and I know that's a trick of the enemy. I do know that.

722
00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:16.640
I know that without a shadow of a doubt. Um,

723
00:47:17.240 --> 00:47:20.440
and then God always sends me little confirmations. I mean, you know,

724
00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:23.320
I'll share a little tidbits with people that I don't even know.

725
00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:24.920
And then they're like, Oh, I want to follow you.

726
00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:27.680
Like I picked up a follower today who I don't, it's a stranger,

727
00:47:27.680 --> 00:47:32.680
total stranger and just sharing and about what Jesus and what he's done for me.

728
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:37.200
And, um, so I'm here on the journey.

729
00:47:38.080 --> 00:47:38.800
Well, let me pray.

730
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:43.280
Let me pray right now for you because the invitation for this week from the Lord

731
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:47.760
was that we are, we are being given comforted comfort through our comfort and a

732
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:50.240
new awareness of our comfort or the Holy spirit.

733
00:47:51.040 --> 00:47:53.440
So this is on brand if you will.

734
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And so I'm going to pray Marcella because your spirit knows the truth.

735
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:02.520
I hear you saying my spirit knows the truth and you are not led by the flesh,

736
00:48:02.520 --> 00:48:06.000
but you're led by the spirit, just like Romans eight talks about.

737
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:07.240
So that's what's happening right now.

738
00:48:07.560 --> 00:48:11.160
So the conflict I think is happening on a physical level in your body,

739
00:48:11.160 --> 00:48:14.760
your body's remembering the trauma, the grief and your soul,

740
00:48:15.040 --> 00:48:18.000
your mind and your emotions processing all that's taken place.

741
00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:22.160
And that takes time because your body and your soul can believe the spirit

742
00:48:22.160 --> 00:48:25.720
always believes it's the default because your spirit's now one with Christ.

743
00:48:25.720 --> 00:48:29.000
It can't be separated from belief and what's true,

744
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:32.720
but your body and soul are catching up with what's true and they can believe.

745
00:48:33.080 --> 00:48:37.880
But often a lot of us have inherited human DNA that has a record

746
00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:40.160
that set that of unbelief.

747
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:44.840
And part of our process with the Lord is that the spirit is writing a new record.

748
00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:46.160
And so Holy spirit,

749
00:48:46.160 --> 00:48:50.240
we thank you right now that Marcella spirit is one with Christ.

750
00:48:50.520 --> 00:48:55.120
According to your word, not mine. This is what you said.

751
00:48:55.240 --> 00:48:58.680
This is what you designed. This is what you've always purposed and planned.

752
00:48:59.160 --> 00:49:02.240
And that is what we rely on. We believe what you say, Lord.

753
00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:05.000
And so Holy spirit as her comforter,

754
00:49:05.520 --> 00:49:10.360
I pray that you would permeate her soul and her body and

755
00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:14.960
healing would be manifested right now in those spaces and

756
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:17.640
places body.

757
00:49:17.720 --> 00:49:22.440
I speak to you and I recognize that you have felt like you've had to

758
00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:27.040
defend yourself all these years and in kindness and gentleness,

759
00:49:27.040 --> 00:49:28.720
I invite you into the truth.

760
00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:33.680
And that is you do not have to defend yourself any longer because you have a

761
00:49:33.680 --> 00:49:38.040
protector and father God, and he is your source in all things.

762
00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:40.800
And soul. I say the same thing to you right now,

763
00:49:41.520 --> 00:49:46.920
allow the spirit to lead, allow the spirit to write new records.

764
00:49:47.120 --> 00:49:49.080
I pray for redemption of memories.

765
00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:52.400
I pray for redemption of moments and soul.

766
00:49:52.520 --> 00:49:57.240
You will be renewed with the truth and you will be transformed and it

767
00:49:57.240 --> 00:50:00.160
will be gentle and it will be done with kindness.

768
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:08.560
You haven't always experienced kindness, but it's a new day, and the shift is taking place,

769
00:50:08.560 --> 00:50:13.600
and you are in a safe place because you are in Him. And I pray all these things,

770
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not by my own authority, but by the authority that Jesus Christ has given me. And in those

771
00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:24.480
things we say, Amen. And just one more thing, Marcella, because I think this is applicable

772
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:30.880
to everyone. When life feels this way, I don't feel like that's necessarily the truth for Kingdom

773
00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:36.960
people, but I do think that life sometimes is this, and there's a cycle happening because

774
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:42.480
there's opportunities for us to experience increase and upgrades in the Lord. And those

775
00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:49.200
opportunities often happen in reoccurring circumstances because we are discovering

776
00:50:49.200 --> 00:50:53.920
our victory in those places. So if anyone's feeling like, Hey, I'm stuck right now in this

777
00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:58.160
cycle. I feel like I get a little bit ahead, and then I kind of come back to the same thing.

778
00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:03.840
There is an opportunity there that the Lord wants to meet you in that place and give you an upgrade

779
00:51:03.840 --> 00:51:07.760
and an increase, and there will be victory. It doesn't mean you'll be doing this the rest of

780
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:14.800
your life, but this is a place specifically for you to experience His overcoming power. This is

781
00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:19.200
where you're going to become more than a conqueror. So don't take on the shame, the guilt,

782
00:51:19.200 --> 00:51:24.560
the condemnation of, I'm wrong. I've done something wrong, and that's why I keep getting stuck in that

783
00:51:24.560 --> 00:51:29.600
space. Because shame, guilt, regret, remorse, they do not transform you. You can only be transformed

784
00:51:29.600 --> 00:51:34.640
by love, and love has brought you to a place of victory. And so if things are going

785
00:51:34.640 --> 00:51:40.480
like this, remember what Graham talked about? It's from Him, through Him, to Him. That's what's taking

786
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:46.000
place. So look for that and allow the Holy Spirit to help you identify what's taking place and where

787
00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:51.440
the victory, how you're going to receive that victory. So, okay, Denise, I see your hand.

788
00:51:53.040 --> 00:52:00.720
Hi. Hi, Lindsay. Hi, everybody. Hey, thank you so much. Lindsay, every word you spoke was just

789
00:52:00.720 --> 00:52:06.480
dripping with honey. I mean, you have such a teaching gift. It is amazing. Everything spoke

790
00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:10.400
to me, so thank you for what you shared. Oh, I'm grateful. Thank you so much for your encouragement.

791
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:17.600
Yeah, so what I'm struggling with is, I've been listening to your voice in my head, like,

792
00:52:17.600 --> 00:52:24.880
don't say you're behind. Okay, I'm not behind. But I'm in step with the Holy Spirit. But here's the

793
00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:29.840
thing. So I haven't posted in four or five days because I can't seem to have the balance of

794
00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:35.280
my podcast and the TikToks. I can't seem to do both at the same time. And so I just said to God,

795
00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:39.760
well, I'm just in pace with your spirit. I can only do what I can. And then the other thing that's

796
00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:45.680
coming up is, I loved what you said about social media is such a powerful tool. It changes monologue

797
00:52:45.680 --> 00:52:51.520
to dialogue because attachment is what changes people not. It's what transforms, not information,

798
00:52:51.520 --> 00:52:55.760
attachment. And that's all the life model material, which I've been following for eight years, Jim

799
00:52:55.760 --> 00:53:01.200
Wilder, all his people. That's what they teach. And so when you said that, and I never connected

800
00:53:01.200 --> 00:53:06.880
to social media that we've, okay, we've changed a monologue into dialogue. So that really helped

801
00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:12.400
because what I've been feeling is, I have to give up on, I can't just do a one minute thing

802
00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:16.560
because I'm a therapist. I'm used to spending 60 minutes with someone going deep, deep, deep. And

803
00:53:16.560 --> 00:53:23.440
I'm like, how is one minute really helping anybody? And so what I realized, it is creating a platform

804
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:29.600
to really interact. So I think as we plant the seed, and then God gives us a platform where that,

805
00:53:29.600 --> 00:53:35.360
you said that transformation can take place in a relational context with Jesus. It's not,

806
00:53:36.160 --> 00:53:42.240
and that's how people change anyway. So I love that. But my concern is that, should I continue

807
00:53:42.240 --> 00:53:50.480
to, do I just ruin everything if I don't post for five days in a row? Should I just bounce back in?

808
00:53:51.200 --> 00:53:57.200
Yeah, that would be my, so bouncing back in, absolutely. Pick it back up. And if you can

809
00:53:57.200 --> 00:54:03.600
only focus on one or the other, so your longer content or your short form content, I would focus

810
00:54:03.600 --> 00:54:11.760
on short form content right now, because it's the quickest way to organically reach and grow

811
00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:17.440
your tribe. And I feel like that's really important when it comes to building momentum

812
00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:23.920
for your message and your ministry. And I don't think that it negates the long form content,

813
00:54:23.920 --> 00:54:27.920
but this is just how the algorithms are playing out right now. And we talk about leverage all

814
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:34.880
the time. So we need to be aware of what is dominating. So that's why we did video and not

815
00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:39.520
just audio podcasts. That's why I encourage, because video is dominating. And the type of

816
00:54:39.520 --> 00:54:45.120
video that's dominating right now is short form content. And I just, there's something about

817
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:50.160
for you and for your audience, when you're able to find your tribe and start building that

818
00:54:50.160 --> 00:54:54.640
following, again, and it's also a quicker way for you to build those creative reps,

819
00:54:54.640 --> 00:54:59.760
much quicker than doing like one weekly or one every other week episode.

820
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:08.000
That's why I'm like put your energy into short form content right now because I haven't done a long podcast since June.

821
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:09.000
Oh really?

822
00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:18.000
Yeah, because my, and it's killing me a little bit I'll be honest, like, I wish I could be doing that I'm planning to pick that back up in the fall.

823
00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:26.000
But I only have time to kind of focus on one thing or the other. And so I'm just we're just doing daily short form content right now.

824
00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:38.000
Well, this is my problem. I'm very loyal to my audience I feel like I'm leaving them if I don't do that the one of the, there's a group in Connecticut that meets and listens to my podcast and I met them on zoom, and they they just wait for the

825
00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:51.000
next one to come out and they discuss it. And so I feel like I'm leaving them. I don't, it's like I can't it's like my, my conscience won't let me just leave my podcast but I literally I said this is not sustainable I cannot do both.

826
00:55:52.000 --> 00:56:04.000
So, something has to give it to give up a day on my job or something has to happen. So, and then also when do you say go to my website in a tick tock like how does that drive people.

827
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:13.000
I mean I understand they can look me up. But yeah, you never say it right you just never say I've never said, I've never said, go to my website.

828
00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:27.000
There's a lot of prompts that you can do if you want a little bit more like time to engage or time to share so some people you'll see will say, read the caption below and in the caption there's a little bit more context to the 62nd.

829
00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:36.000
Some people will you know do kind of part one part two part three and they'll say follow my account to, you know, hear the rest of the story or follow my account for the next part.

830
00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:51.000
So I like these kind of subtle prompts, but you can try it. It's just this the style I would do it like one every 10 or 15 videos I would not do it every video.

831
00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:52.000
I haven't ever done it.

832
00:56:53.000 --> 00:57:06.000
And then in terms of leaving my audience hanging is that just let them know what's happening. So here, when there's a problem, like maybe there's a solution other than what you've been doing if what you've been doing is not sustainable so like maybe with this

833
00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:07.000
group.

834
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Maybe you offer doing a once a month, live call with them or one time like hey, I would love to connect with you guys right now I'm taking a bit of a sabbatical from doing regular podcast I'm focusing on this.

835
00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:36.000
But I just love like how you know we've connected so is there, would it serve you guys if we could do a live call and how many times, it could be once or maybe it's a couple times but however you think would, I know there's content creators, like

836
00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:39.000
and she's part of this group.

837
00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:53.000
She's done that with a few people like there's just been special groups like in Pennsylvania who have like invited her to come and do like a three day conference at their like facility and then she's also done like calls and stuff and little mini groups so maybe that's something

838
00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:58.000
that would be fulfilling and fun for you and something that would be sustainable for that particular group.

839
00:57:58.000 --> 00:57:59.000
Okay.

840
00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:03.000
Thank you. That's very helpful. Oh good.

841
00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:05.000
I love when I can be helpful. Hey Susie.

842
00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:18.000
I'm thinking Denise also could you present to that group of ladies, this is my dilemma. Do you have any suggestions, because I'm sure they would not want you to be feeling this way.

843
00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:23.000
That overwhelmed thing, and who knows what kind of ideas they could come up with.

844
00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:25.000
Okay, that's a good idea. Thank you.

845
00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:29.000
I've got like four things, Lindsay, this is.

846
00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:44.000
This has been my, my huge burden is I'm processing with the Lord thinking okay how am I going to put this in words and will this work on a tick tock and then when I sit down to do it on a tick tock my mind is blank.

847
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:50.000
And now I realized oh it's because it's, you know, it's not right. It's not time.

848
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:58.000
Again, Lord has given me permission, I know but I needed to hear it from you also.

849
00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:14.000
And I'm almost feeling like the Lord saying will you give me space, you know, will you leave them alone, it's kind of like that thing of, if I'm being if I'm being what I'm not supposed to be, then I can't be what I am supposed to be, you know, that, that kind of thing.

850
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So this is a, this is a huge, huge one for me.

851
00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:37.000
And I'm also realizing I believe that Holy Spirit is at work in every single person, and he's the one doing it and I can speak to them according to that is not that I'm giving them answers is that like you said I love it, you know, I'm just putting that little

852
00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:42.000
finger on the thing that the Holy Spirit's already speaking to them.

853
00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:53.000
And the other thing is I'm really kind of excited because the video, I have one tick tock that's got 5600 views on it.

854
00:59:53.000 --> 01:00:00.000
And this is another one of those okay it's the end of day I'm going to do this Lord, and I was feeling like I was being a little too vulnerable.

855
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.360
well, a little too exposed because I said, Okay, this is a

856
01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:09.000
verse that I have resisted the most. And, and I was thinking,

857
01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:11.880
Okay, is that a little too negative. And when I was looking

858
01:00:11.880 --> 01:00:16.480
for my title, I finally came up, I wasn't gonna say dealing, I

859
01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:19.980
wasn't gonna say overcoming resistance. So the title was

860
01:00:19.980 --> 01:00:26.240
dealing with resistance. And I'm also kind of pleased because I

861
01:00:26.240 --> 01:00:30.640
wasn't giving answers. I was saying, Okay, I didn't know what

862
01:00:30.640 --> 01:00:33.800
to do. This is Romans 12. One, you know, present your body's

863
01:00:33.800 --> 01:00:38.080
living sacrifice, and said, Okay, so I ignored it for

864
01:00:38.120 --> 01:00:41.280
decades. And then I finally asked the Lord what we should

865
01:00:41.280 --> 01:00:46.000
do about it. And we've had a good conversation for years. And

866
01:00:46.040 --> 01:00:49.600
I would love to tell you what I learned, but be much better for

867
01:00:49.600 --> 01:00:54.120
you to ask the Lord yourself. Say yes, Lord, thank you. So I

868
01:00:54.120 --> 01:00:57.360
really didn't give any answers at all.

869
01:00:57.440 --> 01:01:00.280
But you you've led them into an interaction.

870
01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:02.920
Yeah, with the Lord. Yeah.

871
01:01:03.200 --> 01:01:05.800
Because you said this is, this is what I would encourage you to

872
01:01:05.800 --> 01:01:08.080
do. That's a call to action.

873
01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:13.840
Okay. I'm so used to wanting to give like you said, I'm so used

874
01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:18.000
to wanting to give information. Yeah. And I feel like a broken

875
01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:22.640
record saying yes, Lord, thank you. But that's my response to

876
01:01:22.640 --> 01:01:26.480
all of that angst that you've been talking about. I'm over.

877
01:01:26.480 --> 01:01:30.320
Okay, Lord. Yes, Lord, I will rejoice in you. Yes, Lord, I

878
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:35.640
will. Thank you. Yes, I will trust you. And self pity leans

879
01:01:35.720 --> 01:01:39.600
lean looms really big too. And yes, Lord, thank you is the only

880
01:01:39.600 --> 01:01:44.400
answer I know to that. Okay, so I wasn't I guess I was thinking

881
01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:48.880
was I was thinking I was being too transparent to putting

882
01:01:48.880 --> 01:01:54.120
myself out there to say, Hey, I resist this.

883
01:01:55.000 --> 01:01:58.920
No, I think it's an excellent hook, quite honestly. Because

884
01:01:58.920 --> 01:02:02.720
that's what people deal with. And so many people, this is

885
01:02:02.720 --> 01:02:05.200
where this is where like, and I'm not accusing you of this,

886
01:02:05.200 --> 01:02:08.080
Susie. This is I'm just speaking of the overall like elitism in

887
01:02:08.080 --> 01:02:11.920
the church hierarchy in the church. That feeling of less

888
01:02:11.920 --> 01:02:15.800
than in the church. It's all stems from nobody talking about

889
01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:19.880
the fact that hey, I struggle sometimes to believe this. I

890
01:02:19.880 --> 01:02:23.720
struggle sometimes to think this is true. And everything

891
01:02:23.720 --> 01:02:26.840
everything is just shared from the space of this is what's

892
01:02:26.840 --> 01:02:31.560
true. You need to believe it. There's no story. There's no

893
01:02:31.560 --> 01:02:36.040
experience. There's no interaction. So people don't

894
01:02:36.040 --> 01:02:39.520
know what it looks like to believe like what what was the

895
01:02:39.560 --> 01:02:42.000
aha moment for you? What did that look like? What was the

896
01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:47.400
conversation with the Lord? It's not it's not bad to

897
01:02:47.400 --> 01:02:52.400
address negativity. It's when we get stuck there. So you are

898
01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:55.480
offering an exchange, you're saying, Hey, here's where I've

899
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been stuck. And here's how I'm responding to that stuckness.

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01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:02.960
I'm not staying stuck. I'm making a call on his character.

901
01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:07.400
I'm leaning into who he is, even when I don't know, I know him.

902
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And that's enough.

903
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And I think that that I think we all say it. Oh, I saw this. Oh,

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01:03:16.240 --> 01:03:19.680
but it doesn't mean that I've got it all down right now. I'm

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still learning. And I guess that there's a way we don't have to

906
01:03:23.040 --> 01:03:27.920
do that disclaimer thing if we worded in such a way that Oh,

907
01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:31.640
this is an ongoing this is how I'm handling things.

908
01:03:32.240 --> 01:03:33.400
Just tell the truth.

909
01:03:33.760 --> 01:03:36.680
Just tell the truth. If that's the truth, that's the truth.

910
01:03:38.720 --> 01:03:42.720
You know, Marcella being able to just share with her audience

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01:03:42.720 --> 01:03:47.120
like, guys, this is grief, it continues to show up. That's the

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01:03:47.120 --> 01:03:50.400
truth. I know I have the victory. I know you do too.

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01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:52.680
Here's how I'm participating with a victory today in the

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01:03:52.680 --> 01:03:59.360
midst of not feeling victorious. And sometimes it's making it in

915
01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:03.160
all the time it needs to be I'm making a call on his character,

916
01:04:03.560 --> 01:04:10.440
not my own. This is grace. This is the kingdom. This is the

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01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:17.120
gospel is that we don't have to rely on ourselves our behavior

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01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:22.400
anymore. We have been fused with him. And everything that's true

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01:04:22.400 --> 01:04:27.680
about him is now true with us. And greater is he who is in us.

920
01:04:27.680 --> 01:04:31.760
Then he that is in the world, including that old dead self of

921
01:04:31.760 --> 01:04:40.320
ours. We're new. We can make a call on his character. We don't

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01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:47.200
have to make a call on our own. Bridget slash mom I saw that you

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had your hand raised. Did you have a question?

924
01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:52.720
Um, yeah, I was just gonna say this is really helpful. I it's

925
01:04:52.720 --> 01:04:54.640
good to hear the questions because it's the same questions

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that I'm having. But I want to make a comment about the earlier

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you know, with the

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speaking about childbirth.

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And one of the most important things

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that's going through childbirth is breathing.

931
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And I have found that I think breathing

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is what's so important to help the contractions work.

933
01:05:13.580 --> 01:05:16.000
And for me, working to me,

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breathing is getting in line with the Holy Spirit

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01:05:18.280 --> 01:05:19.800
and doing what he wants you to do

936
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and not going off into your own thoughts

937
01:05:23.320 --> 01:05:24.560
and your own compulsions

938
01:05:24.560 --> 01:05:27.960
and maybe following what you feel you should be doing

939
01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:29.360
because that's what the audience wants,

940
01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:31.280
but just getting in line with the Holy Spirit.

941
01:05:31.280 --> 01:05:34.240
And that breathing actually helps us to keep our brain

942
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and the oxygen flowing properly.

943
01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:37.320
That is really good.

944
01:05:37.320 --> 01:05:39.240
I think I just wanted to share that.

945
01:05:39.240 --> 01:05:40.080
That's great.

946
01:05:40.080 --> 01:05:43.200
It opens up the illustration even more.

947
01:05:43.200 --> 01:05:44.920
Exactly, yeah.

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01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:47.760
Any pain that you experience...

949
01:05:47.760 --> 01:05:49.200
So this is kind of a funny story, guys,

950
01:05:49.200 --> 01:05:50.040
and we'll leave it here

951
01:05:50.040 --> 01:05:51.600
unless anyone else has questions, I'm willing to stay.

952
01:05:51.600 --> 01:05:53.760
But I was getting a massage

953
01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:57.640
and I like firm pressure, but not deep pressure

954
01:05:57.640 --> 01:05:59.600
because that hurts, but I like it to be firm.

955
01:05:59.600 --> 01:06:02.880
And so the massage therapist was asking me,

956
01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:05.440
I mean, I thought she was deep.

957
01:06:05.440 --> 01:06:07.200
And she said, let me know if you need me to go deeper.

958
01:06:07.200 --> 01:06:11.040
And I'm like, I mean, this is good.

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I think it's helping.

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And she just kind of chuckled.

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She said, if you can't breathe through it, it's too deep.

962
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It's like, we have to remember to breathe through it.

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01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:26.320
And I love the illustration of, I mean, Holy Spirit,

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01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:27.760
wind, breath of heaven.

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So I love that.

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That's so good.

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01:06:30.160 --> 01:06:31.000
Hey, Bobby.

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01:06:34.280 --> 01:06:36.240
Hey, Bridget, I wanted to tag onto that.

969
01:06:36.240 --> 01:06:39.320
I love that because this is more in the physical sense,

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01:06:39.320 --> 01:06:42.200
but I don't know, several months ago,

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the Lord was literally,

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01:06:43.960 --> 01:06:47.200
he kept saying that we were made from this,

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but he breathed into our nostrils

974
01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:52.240
and he kept giving me like my nostrils, my nostrils.

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01:06:52.240 --> 01:06:55.240
And then I had some things going on.

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And he literally said,

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I want you to breathe in and out of your nose

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01:07:01.680 --> 01:07:05.200
to the point I put tape here and here every night

979
01:07:05.200 --> 01:07:08.720
because I was training myself to breathe out of my nose.

980
01:07:08.720 --> 01:07:11.600
And I cannot tell you the life.

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And because he said, Bobby,

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the only thing that can stop the flow of Holy Spirit

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01:07:15.200 --> 01:07:18.120
through you is you, your little old self.

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01:07:18.120 --> 01:07:20.560
He calls it the self of me that was never meant for me.

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01:07:20.560 --> 01:07:24.120
So I was breathing through my nose.

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01:07:24.120 --> 01:07:26.920
So he usually talks to me in the spirit,

987
01:07:26.920 --> 01:07:29.280
but then in the physical, and then they marry.

988
01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:31.680
And my body so wants to surrender.

989
01:07:31.680 --> 01:07:34.760
It was created to surrender and to be one.

990
01:07:34.760 --> 01:07:38.400
So yeah, if any of you just want to maybe think about,

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ask the Lord about this nose breathing.

992
01:07:41.120 --> 01:07:41.960
I don't know.

993
01:07:41.960 --> 01:07:45.720
I mean, I'm, but.

994
01:07:45.720 --> 01:07:48.240
Deep, like breathing, breath work, breathing,

995
01:07:48.240 --> 01:07:51.680
all that stuff in the natural medical wellness world

996
01:07:51.680 --> 01:07:54.000
is really big because so many of us

997
01:07:54.840 --> 01:07:55.960
have forgotten how to breathe.

998
01:07:55.960 --> 01:07:57.760
I know we're going off, but it's true.

999
01:07:57.760 --> 01:08:00.160
I always have an app that makes,

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01:08:00.160 --> 01:08:02.160
does anybody's iPhone,

1001
01:08:02.160 --> 01:08:03.520
have you ever seen that breathing app?

1002
01:08:03.520 --> 01:08:05.640
I mean, like you can put it on and I mean,

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01:08:05.640 --> 01:08:07.800
I put it off because it was driving me crazy,

1004
01:08:07.800 --> 01:08:09.480
but it would make you stop.

1005
01:08:09.480 --> 01:08:10.320
Oh yeah.

1006
01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:13.920
And breathe through your nose for so, for like.

1007
01:08:13.920 --> 01:08:14.760
A minute.

1008
01:08:14.760 --> 01:08:16.840
Like a whole minute, yeah.

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Okay, sorry.

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I love it.

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Love it.

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01:08:20.319 --> 01:08:24.200
Creation is speaking to the truth, right?

1013
01:08:24.200 --> 01:08:25.800
Like it knows the truth.

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01:08:27.040 --> 01:08:28.760
It knows the truth.

1015
01:08:28.760 --> 01:08:30.520
It's being reminded of the truth.

1016
01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:31.920
The sons of God are here.

1017
01:08:31.920 --> 01:08:33.640
The glory in us is being revealed.

1018
01:08:33.640 --> 01:08:36.080
Creation's being unlocked from its frustration.

1019
01:08:36.080 --> 01:08:39.279
I love that we get to participate in that journey.

1020
01:08:39.279 --> 01:08:40.279
It's so powerful.

1021
01:08:40.279 --> 01:08:41.600
It's so good.

1022
01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:44.080
Well, I have, go ahead, Susie.

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01:08:44.080 --> 01:08:46.680
There was a woman who was talking about an app,

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01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:50.800
an app that she actually put onto her body,

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01:08:50.800 --> 01:08:54.160
that if she didn't breathe in X amount of seconds,

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01:08:54.160 --> 01:08:56.279
it gave her a little vibration.

1027
01:08:57.680 --> 01:08:58.920
It's so important.

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01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:00.439
We hold our breath a lot.

1029
01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:02.399
You'll notice that, especially in stress and in pain,

1030
01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:03.840
we hold our breath.

1031
01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:05.720
And the best thing you can do for your body

1032
01:09:05.720 --> 01:09:08.600
is to give it oxygen, is to breathe.

1033
01:09:08.600 --> 01:09:10.840
So, great example.

1034
01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:13.600
I'm just, I think what the enemy does

1035
01:09:13.600 --> 01:09:16.200
is though he actually restricts our breathing

1036
01:09:16.200 --> 01:09:19.080
and then we can't actually see things clearly.

1037
01:09:19.080 --> 01:09:20.399
And I think that, you know,

1038
01:09:20.399 --> 01:09:23.600
often when my husband and I went through our challenges,

1039
01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:25.520
we listened to Graham over and over again

1040
01:09:25.520 --> 01:09:30.359
and we chose to choose life and peace over our bodies.

1041
01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:32.120
And part of that was just getting in line

1042
01:09:32.120 --> 01:09:33.560
to hearing what the Lord was saying

1043
01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:36.000
and not being muffled by what the enemy was saying to us.

1044
01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:38.279
And I think that's part of the breathing.

1045
01:09:38.279 --> 01:09:41.080
The enemy stops our breathing so we can't think clearly

1046
01:09:41.080 --> 01:09:43.600
and we lose perspective of our circumstances.

1047
01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:44.840
And like you said earlier,

1048
01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:47.399
we have to see everything with the kingdom lens.

1049
01:09:47.399 --> 01:09:49.880
And so when we are breathing properly,

1050
01:09:49.880 --> 01:09:52.680
we can actually see and look at Jesus' lens

1051
01:09:52.680 --> 01:09:55.000
over our situation rather than, you know,

1052
01:09:55.000 --> 01:09:56.800
being all murky with the enemy's lens

1053
01:09:56.800 --> 01:09:58.920
over the situation, I think.

1054
01:09:58.920 --> 01:10:00.240
It's a great technique.

1055
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:06.000
Talk. I know. Talk it into 60 seconds. Hey, you just said in

1056
01:10:06.000 --> 01:10:08.000
60 seconds. There you go.

1057
01:10:08.360 --> 01:10:14.960
And if I can add in, it says giving thanks always in

1058
01:10:14.960 --> 01:10:19.840
everything. And, and for me, I'm really thinking that rejoicing

1059
01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:24.160
the Lord requires some work. I'm still working on that one. But

1060
01:10:24.160 --> 01:10:28.080
thank you. And you know, thank you, Lord for Graham, getting up

1061
01:10:28.080 --> 01:10:30.880
on the stage and saying thank you. Thank you. No, seriously.

1062
01:10:31.080 --> 01:10:35.440
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. To me, I'm thinking that

1063
01:10:35.440 --> 01:10:37.240
saying thank you is kind of like breathing.

1064
01:10:39.440 --> 01:10:43.040
It requires different breath work when we rejoice when we

1065
01:10:43.080 --> 01:10:49.920
sing when we praise when we're still. It requires our bodies to

1066
01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:53.760
do different things than our body probably needs our divine

1067
01:10:54.000 --> 01:11:01.200
design needs. Which is awesome. Hey, Gloria. How are you?

1068
01:11:01.880 --> 01:11:05.080
Everyone bless you guys. I'm doing great. Thank you. And I

1069
01:11:05.080 --> 01:11:08.480
just wanted to share just a few things just of encouragement.

1070
01:11:09.840 --> 01:11:13.520
But there's always a battle because we are in a war. And we

1071
01:11:13.520 --> 01:11:17.120
know that so that there's always that spiritual warfare that

1072
01:11:17.120 --> 01:11:20.600
we're that is happening. If we're if we're pressing in if

1073
01:11:20.600 --> 01:11:23.480
we're pushing back darkness, there's always that spiritual

1074
01:11:23.480 --> 01:11:27.560
warfare. So we just know that. And, you know, we are in that

1075
01:11:27.560 --> 01:11:32.960
season where the glory of God is descending upon the bride. And

1076
01:11:33.040 --> 01:11:36.800
you know, his glory is coming upon us. So there's there is

1077
01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:40.360
that spiritual warfare, but you know, God's glory is descending

1078
01:11:40.360 --> 01:11:45.560
upon us. And it's, it's our job to speak the word. It's his job

1079
01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:52.760
to, to give that revelation of his word. And so I just want to

1080
01:11:52.760 --> 01:11:59.560
encourage you guys, because all it takes is just one word. One

1081
01:11:59.560 --> 01:12:02.880
word to transform somebody's life or to change somebody and

1082
01:12:02.920 --> 01:12:06.520
our job is not to that's not our job. Our job is just to release

1083
01:12:06.520 --> 01:12:11.400
the word. And he watches over his word to perform it. So

1084
01:12:11.400 --> 01:12:14.440
that's, and I just want to encourage you guys with that. I

1085
01:12:14.440 --> 01:12:17.520
mean, we're not here to change everything, anybody, it's it's

1086
01:12:17.520 --> 01:12:21.760
God who's going to do it. And he just uses us as his as his

1087
01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:26.800
vessels. And yeah, so I just want to bless you guys. And

1088
01:12:27.360 --> 01:12:30.080
yeah, everyone. Yeah.

1089
01:12:30.320 --> 01:12:37.280
One word guys. One word. I love that reminder. So press in this

1090
01:12:37.280 --> 01:12:43.680
week. Know that life is flowing and breathe through it if you

1091
01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:50.440
need. There's so much goodness in this call. And we will put it

1092
01:12:50.440 --> 01:12:52.640
up in the kingdom messenger site since it was not streamed

1093
01:12:52.640 --> 01:12:54.400
on Facebook today. So that's where you're going to be able to

1094
01:12:54.400 --> 01:12:57.840
find it. If you want to rewatch anything, and we will see you

1095
01:12:57.840 --> 01:13:00.960
guys. I'll see you guys on Monday for our prayer call. Love

1096
01:13:00.960 --> 01:13:05.680
you all praying for you. See you later. Have a great weekend.