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Hey everybody, I hope y'all are doing good tonight. Sorry it is so late. I was,

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it just ended up that this is the time where, because the Lord had been talking

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to me about some stuff today, and it was just that at this time of night was when

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everything kind of came together. And the Lord said, this is what I want you to

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talk about today, because I wasn't planning on talking about this today. So

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but he'd been, I don't know, just been kind of investing in me and over

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a bit, and then the, I don't know, just it started, the last bits of it kind of fell

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into place the last few, I don't know, I think within this past hour. So anyway, I

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just felt all my spirit, this, but because of how everything kind of added

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all up, I realized, oh this is what he wants me to talk about. Because I was

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always operating in this today as well. Looking at, you know, as far as like

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forming a business from a place of rest, this is what I was operating in today. I

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am, God's, was kind of, I was taking a process through with the Lord, walking

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through the process of understanding how I want to build from this point

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in my business. In other words, how I want to change and form it. Because you

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remember that I've only ever done one-on-one clients for all of these

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years. And so when I switched from brick-and-mortar to online, I did the

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same thing. Just one-on-one clients. Then this past, this month, April, I've been

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transitioning to group. So I thought, okay, let's see how this works. Because I thought,

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I don't know how to do this as a group. Because everything just felt so unique

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and individual. But I thought that the Lord had told, had just laid it on my

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heart, that to do a group. And then I was prophesied to by a stranger from

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Switzerland that she just felt that this is what I needed to do. Hey Steph!

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That this is what she felt that she was understanding from the Spirit when she

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and I were visiting, I don't know, maybe two months ago, that I should step into.

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She said, I'm feeling from the Spirit that you should step away from doing

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one-on-one and start doing group. Doing multiple people at one time. But I

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haven't understood how to do that. So, you know, I just jumped right in. Within

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about 15 minutes, I made a decision. You know what? I'm gonna do

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a group program. And I don't quite know what it's gonna look like, but here we go.

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And so I announced it on Facebook within like 15 minutes of basically, so-called,

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coming up with the idea. And I just stepped out in faith and thought, okay,

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Lord, hey! I was like, here we go. And I didn't even know fully what the April

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Intensive would look like. I almost, I don't even think I fully, yeah, I

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basically just had the name, April Intensive, so to speak. And that I'm trying

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to remember how much of a skeleton idea that I had. I don't think that I had much

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of a skeleton idea other than the fact of, well, I'll do some sessions and I'll

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have some teaching and I'll have a Facebook group that everyone will be in

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and that's about it. So, I didn't know about everything else. Oh, and then I had

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how many people would be in it. I had five and that's how many people were

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gonna be in it. And then for a while there, I wasn't even sure if like there

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would be added more. I just knew at the beginning, five. And so, now though, I was

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wondering, okay, where do I go from here? Because you know that this April

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Intensive is start, stop. And I thought, all right, Lord, you know, where do I go from

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here? How do you want this to change and form and evolve? What's the next step for

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me? And I don't really want to think of it as the next step. I just, it's not

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really a step. It's more like, because step also has this idea of you leave one

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thing and start another. And it wasn't like that. It was like, how does this, like,

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how does this kind of shift a little bit? How does this slowly change shape?

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Kind of like, like a rarely word expression, kind of like a goo or

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whatever. How does this kind of like, kind of push in over here and poke out over

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here and then push in here? And so, it's still the same thing, but it just kind of

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slightly looks a little different. But it doesn't ever cut off and start something

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new. So, I was just asking the Lord, okay, Lord, how, what is my business going to

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kind of like, how is it, how's it going to kind of tweak? And he started giving me

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So together, I say he started giving me the stuff he did,

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but understand that I'm partnering with him in this

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because I'm one with him.

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So it's like, okay, in the spirit,

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he and I, thinking about it, resting in that,

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how are we gonna do it?

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How's it gonna tweet?

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How's it gonna move?

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And it doesn't have to,

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I don't have to come up with this concrete idea

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of this is how it's going to be,

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and then this is where we're moving to.

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Anyway, I had,

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in a way, that was on my heart.

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I didn't know that that's what I was gonna be talking

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to y'all about tonight,

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but he keeps reiterating it to me through various people.

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And I was doing it today myself,

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and I thought this just seems to be the theme

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of the past few days, so boom, here we go.

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This is what we're talking about tonight.

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And I'm excited because we've laid a foundation

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for the past few weeks about rest

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so that we have a foundation that we can always go back to.

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So that we have, in other words,

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we have a structure in which we can start talking

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about business and constantly say,

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okay, you remember spirit, soul, and body.

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Okay, this right here, when we're talking about business,

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this is operating from the tree

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of the knowledge of good and evil.

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or from the realm of the body

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or from the realm of the spirit.

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So in other words, we kind of have a structure

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that we're able to understand the things

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that we'll now be talking about a bit more specifically

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in relationship to business.

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We have a structure in which to understand it.

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So, oh, one more thing to mention is remember

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that everything that we have talked about,

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including everything that I'm going to be talking about

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related to business, where I'm gonna be mentioning things

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about using business-specific terms,

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understand that whatever I'm talking about

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can be applied to all areas of life

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because business is strictly a,

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and I want to show this to you real quick,

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business is strictly a,

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I don't know, category,

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a section, an expression of life.

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It's just an extension of life.

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It's as much a part of life as anything else,

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as, let's see, finances, relationships,

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parenting, marriage, anything.

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Self, if you want to refer to it like this,

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self-improvement, our relationship with the Lord,

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our spiritual growth, all of that

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should not be compartmentalized

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and us see them as separated from each other.

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We do that in the world because remember,

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and we've learned that from a worldly perspective

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to categorize things because the world

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only understands things in relationship to formulas,

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in relationship to laws and rules.

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And as such, everything seems to be segregated.

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Everything seems to be different.

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If you start applying formulas

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that are just extremely specific,

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well then a formula that operates in business

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is not the same formula that you'd want to apply to,

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I don't know, parenting or relationships

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or finances or whatever.

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And that's not how it works in the spirit.

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The different areas, say for instance,

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business versus relationships,

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is simply a different expression,

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a different way in which our spirit

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manifests into the earth

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to show a different aspect or facet

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of the same spirit.

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It just evidences itself differently

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but you don't do something different

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in order to get that different result.

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So let me mention all of this stuff though

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before we get into what the main thing

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that we're gonna talk about tonight.

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Sorry, I'm trying to get my markers here.

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And let's see.

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I hope we can see this.

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Do you remember last time when you struggled

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getting me in it at the same time?

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So I'll see if I can draw it kind of small.

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So think of it as kind of,

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think of what is coming from the Lord,

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what is coming from the spirit realm here.

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Think of it as, oh, well it's,

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I just realized that I might be kind of backwards.

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Let me see.

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Yep, I am backwards.

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That's a bummer.

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Let's see if I can switch that really quick

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because I learned how to do that last time.

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Yay, look at me.

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Okay.

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Okay, remember Steph?

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Remember how we learned to do that last time?

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Yay for us.

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Okay, all right, so say for instance, you know, this is operating

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out of the spirit here. Let's see if I can, yeah, appreciate the

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encouragement. Let's do this to here. I think that y'all can see if I

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put it down here. I just preferred, I thought about hanging this on

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the wall and I'll probably eventually do it, but it just feels so stilted and

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unnatural for me to be standing instead of sitting because I have a place

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that I can hang this on the wall, but I would be standing and then I just felt

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so teacherish as opposed to conversational. So when I prefer the

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conversational feel. So let's see if I can just write it, draw it all small

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enough for you to be able to see. There we go. See if we can get it upright. So say

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for instance that this is, you know, that this is God. This is the

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life source of everything, right? And so he is shining light down like this,

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which is the way that the Lord usually pictures himself in the world.

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Oh, total side note that I just find very interesting. You remember that it says

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that out of him was created all things and by him all things consist.

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Well, it's fascinating that God is pictured, is always described as light

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and, you know, in symbolized that light always symbolizes God whenever we see it

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referenced in scripture. And I think that it's really fascinating that that is

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what he chose because light is what literally everything on earth consists

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of. If you break, the scientists say this, scientists say if you

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break down literally everything, every object, everything, if you break everything

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down, it does not matter what it is, it doesn't matter if it's a person, if it's

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an animal, if it's a cup, if it's a rock, whatever. If you break it down

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to the very smallest particle of what it is, it's light. Isn't that fascinating? I just

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think that's very interesting. So, in other words, by him all things consist.

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Light makes up everything. So, again, spiritual laws are being

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manifested and expressed in physical laws. I know, isn't that interesting?

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So, okay, I just found that fascinating and so I just wanted to mention that here.

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There's a lot more that we could say about light and its relationship to word

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which comes out of God, but we won't get into all of that. So, light.

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Light, you remember, just kind of looks like, as we remember from science class,

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just kind of looks like white. It just looks white. White is the

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combination of all of the colors. All of the colors together comes into our eyes

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and we see it just as white. Then you have to have something like a

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prism in order to separate out light into its different parts. So, that is how

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we can think of things like business, relationships, finances, whatever.

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So, let's just take business, relationships, finances. So, here we go.

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I'm having a hard time writing like this. Relationships and then business. Can we

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all see that? Yay! Alright, so when light passes through finances versus when it

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passes through relationships versus when it passes through business, it's going to

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look different. Like, say for instance, that when it passes through business, it

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looks, what comes out the other side looks blue. When it passes through

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relationships, let's say that it looks red and when it passes through finances,

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let's say that it looks pink for you, Steph. Let's say that it looks pink and

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I'm having a hard time writing there. So, you see that light is being passed

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through all of these. So, think of each of these. Let's write this over here.

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Let's think of each of these as filters. Filters of light. In other words, the way

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that that light is being expressed and manifested into the world. So, you're

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putting, you're passing the same spirit into all of these different areas, all of

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these different filters, but as it passes through that particular unique filter on

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the earth, it's going to manifest in something that looks different than this,

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which looks different than what that light looks like if it's passed through

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finances. But, you're passing to and through and operating in the exact same

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thing in every single area. But, when it manifests itself on the other side, it's

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going to look a little different.

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So what the world has done is it has looked strictly, now I'm gonna draw a

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I'm gonna draw an eyeball. I don't know this is not a great eyeball but here we

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go. When the world looks at it and this is

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the world. Can you see that? Yeah. There we go.

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Make it look a little more like a real little eyeball as much as I

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can. There we go. It looks a little creepy and I apologize.

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But we're doing the best we can. Okay so when the world looks at these or looks

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between business and a relationship and finances it's trying to find a formula

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in order for it to be able to get a particular result. Again according to the

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Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. So it's trying to control the

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result that it gets. It's taking control into its own hands as opposed to

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leaving it up to the Lord for allowing Him to provide the increase. We want to

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you know someone who operates according to the Tree of Knowledge of

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Good and Evil which we do. Someone who operates according to the Tree of the

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Knowledge of Good and Evil in a particular area of life. We're looking

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for a particular result and how to get that result. So what we do is we look at

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the result and we try to go backwards. We try to back engineer something. So

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therefore we think that the formulas that have to work to get blue are

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different than the formulas we have to use to get red. Which are different than

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the formulas that we have to use in order to get pink. That is how we've

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come up with this idea that what you do in business has to be totally different

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than what you do in relationships. Which has to be totally different from what

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you input if you're wanting to increase your finances. We

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think that everything is just totally totally different and it's not true.

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Or you know even within relationships you can get subcategories

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that the difference between what you in order to get a particular result in

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marriage is different than a particular result that you are trying to get in

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parenting. Versus a different result that you're trying to get for your own

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parents in your relationship to your own parents. Or your relationship with

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your friends. Or your relationship with authority. Like a pastor or

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whatever. We think that there are different formulas. That there are

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different categories etc. And we have to operate very differently in each one in

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order to get a particular result. And that's incorrect.

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God will provide the results naturally according to the laws that he put into

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place. All we have to do is focus on what we input. And we input the exact same

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thing in the exact same way into all of these. Every single one. So it makes it

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makes it easy. Remember though this is operating according to the tree of life.

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evil. Where you're trying to go up as opposed to trying to go down. So again it

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makes it a lot easier to operate according to the tree of life. But the

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difficult thing for us is the fact that we have to give up control. God's the one

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who provides the increase. We can operate from a place of rest. It's easy. We're not

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responsible for the results. God is. But it also means that we don't get to

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define the exact type of blue that results from our business. Or

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the exact type of red. You know in other words the exact hue of red versus the

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exact hue of pink. Which pink is a hue of red. But we're not going to get that specific.

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So I didn't think about that. I should have been thinking like okay actually

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you pick like one of the main categories of the rainbow. Like like red, orange, and

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yellow or something like that. That are very very different. Anyway but well yeah

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so anyway I'm just being silly. So I just wanted to mention this really quick. To

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know that whatever we talk about from this point forward. Know that even though

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we're talking business specific. I'll probably throw in every now and then. Hey

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by the way this works for works for relationships. And this is how it

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evidences itself in finances. This is how it evidences itself in marriage or

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or parenting or whatever. But generally speaking just just know that whenever

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we're talking business when I'm talking business specific terms. It's the exact

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same thing across all categories. You input it and you operate in relationship

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to those things in the exact same way. The difference is when you put it in

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business it's going to evidence itself differently on the other side. You don't

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have to create that to make it happen. It will naturally happen. Or you put it in

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the exact same thing in finances. It's going to it's going to according to the

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laws that God put in place.

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to place it's going to evidence itself a bit differently. So you wanted to say

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that okay and one other thing so in this will this is the segue into what it is

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that we're going to be talking about very specifically tonight about how to

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start forming your business from a place of rest. You form it by operating

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according to flow so that's one of the things in all in that because remember

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we're putting the exact same thing into all of these different categories and

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the way that you operate in life which will manifest in all as you apply it in

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all these different categories what you're putting into in where you're

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putting into all of them or where all where you begin to frame up how you will

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interact with all of these including how you'll start interacting with

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relationships that maybe you're finding a bit difficult and you're trying to oh

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what should I do what should I do what should I do you hear that the knowledge

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of the tree of good and evil a tree of the knowledge of good and evil what

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should I do sorry my computer thinks I'm talking to it okay I have a version kind

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of like Siri on my computer and she thinks I'm it's Cortana because I have a

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Microsoft anyway she thinks I'm talking to her so I'm gonna turn her off so

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Microsoft stops listening to me and but anyway so again understand what I'm

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about what I'm talking about here is the way that we operate out of all of it way

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I don't get these these artificial intelligence machines to stop listening

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to us and recording everything we're saying whatever all of that is that's

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that big hyphen saying that they're all listening to us being recorded somewhere

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and and so I before I learned about flowing in the spirit which is what we're

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gonna be talking about tonight how to operate from the spirit which is in a

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place of flow instead of rigidity these things right here operating from this

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perspective going up is operating according to rigidity and that's because

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oh it's operating oh no where is it oh I don't have it just to sex stuff this is

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for you if any of you let me know that you have a different favorite color we

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can start using your favorite color and I'll start calling you out I do stuff

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okay um so for these right here whenever you're talking about these you have to

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write it up here formula is rigidity is operating out of rigidity it is um it's

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it's just it's very it feels stable because that's what we're looking for

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we're looking for something that's stable but it's the rigidity that results

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from formulas create stagnation and stagnation leads to death by the way

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rigidity leads to death there's not any life in it but up here light this is

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flow in other words actually let me let me go back let me do this a bit

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different movement which is flow am I getting out yeah I'm getting out so

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we're gonna go down here which is life so you see the difference between

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operating according to the knowledge of good and evil versus operating according

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to the tree of life that whenever you've got formulas and you have rigidity it

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leads to death so in that scientific by the way again spiritual laws are

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reflected in in them are manifested in physical laws and scientists say that

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that physically if something stops moving meaning like at its very very

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core not just like if I stopped moving for just a second you know if I stop

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moving remember my cells are still moving but if something litter it's

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literally at the very very essence and the very nature of something if it

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stops moving if there is no more movement life ceases to exist in that

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thing that is the base that is the scientific definition of death is lack

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and it's very core is the lack of movement so and you remember that

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operating according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

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It's nothing but death. It leads to nothing but death. And it burns.

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This is another thing, and I think that I've mentioned this before, but when the

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Lord talks about this, and when it's passed through the fire,

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when it's passed through the fire, by the way, everything that I'm talking

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about here, this is the foundation of what business is itself. This is why it's

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important. I know, isn't that interesting? So when God

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talks about things passing through the fire, this area here, anything that's a

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formula, anything that's rigidity, anything that leads to death, anything

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that is of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, when it gets passed through

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the fire, it burns as wood, hay, and stubble. Remember that? Remember how it

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talks about things, you know, we'll make sure that we keep our minds on

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heavenly things, not on earthly things, and that wherever our treasure is,

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wherever our heart is, that wherever our treasure is, there will our heart be also.

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And he talks about making sure that we invest ourselves in things that when

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it's passed through the fire, will not burn as wood, hay, and stubble. That's

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anything that operates according to the tree of the knowledge of good and

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evil. And it's rigid, meaning that it leads to death, meaning that when it

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passes through the fire, it can't survive. And the reason that this is the, and

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this is a problem, and God always wants to replace anything of death in us,

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anything that could lead to death, he wants to replace it with

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life because he doesn't want anything in us to be corruptible. He wants every, he

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doesn't want anything within us to be able to die. He wants it all to always be

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eternal and to always live, to always lead to life. So when these things pass

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through the fire, however, remember, that leads to, I'm trying to remember the

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biblical description of it, but basically, you know, it passes through as,

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sorry, I kind of messed up there, gold, hopefully you can see that, as gold and

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gold, I don't remember if it says gold silver in precious stones or something

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like that. Steph, do you remember? Gold something, y'all can remind me, maybe

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somebody can add it in the comments, and precious stones. That is what, hopefully

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you can see that, precious stones, that is what all of this leads to. That is what

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anything that we invest in that contains movement and flow and that

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generates in life, that again operates according to the tree of life, it will,

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when it passes through the fire, it will evidence itself, it will come out the

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other side as gold something, remember, and precious stones. That is what it

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creates when it passes through. So, and in other words, it won't, it'll be

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eternal. Anyway, so the reason I wanted to mention all of this is, again, all related

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to movement. So several, a while back, I don't remember when this was, sometime last

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fall, I think, I was talking with Jesus and he asked me, it was really

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interesting, he asked me, he said, do you know what business is? He asked, do you

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know what business is? And he said, or either that or maybe I asked him, Lord

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Jesus, what is business? Maybe that's what I, I don't remember which direction the

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question was that Jesus asked me and it was a rhetorical question or if I asked

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him, but whichever way, he's the one who gave me the answer. So there was not much

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talking on my part other than just questions, but he asked, he said, Ashley,

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do you know what business is? I said, no, what's business? And he says, everyone

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thinks, he said, the world, world, world thinks that business, or I should say

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that the point of business is money. And he said, it's not. It's like, that's

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interesting. What's the point of business? And so,

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that's the world and let's say spirit. He said, actually, the point of business, and

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this is how he described it to me, and he's expanded my understanding since

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then, but I'm just

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going to give you the first way that he described it to me because it was kind

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of a stepping stone for me to begin to step into this and understand it and he

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said because he was comparing it to what the world thought that business was and

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he like I said he's expanded it and fleshed it out for me since then but he

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said that business he said the point of business is actually the you write it

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down here the movement of money he said that star he said that is the point of

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business so when he created business he says this is the purpose that business

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has in the world see purpose purpose business has in the world purpose of

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business the reason that he created it in other words how the in other words

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the contribution that business has in the world that's another really good way

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to think of it contribution that business has it's the mood it's to

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facilitate the movement of money so it's not the accumulation of money it's to

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facilitate the movement of it so that well that's fascinating and since then

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he's expanded the movement of money to me so that I could understand more fully

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that it's not just the movement of money it's movement of things period so

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there's it's kind of like the movement of goods and services really you know so

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it's not just money is in currency it's the movement of goods and services the

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exchange of helping and facilitating facilitating movement between people at

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a particular level like an agreed-upon exchange we're partnering together very

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intentionally to exchange something that you have that I can benefit you with

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from something with something you have that you can benefit me with so he said

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that is what business is because think about business you know it's not just

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money because there's I mean like as far as like currency you know like paper

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coins all of that it's remember before you know in poor countries or in

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countries where the currency isn't very valuable and it doesn't hold its value

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very well then what they do is they prefer to rely on bargaining and

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exchanging goods and services I've heard that that's what a lot of people are

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doing right now during this during this pandemic when everyone is people don't

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have as much money and people have more time they're actually exchanging goods

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and services so they're not exchanging currency it's hey I'll give you this if

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you help me do this friends of mine said that they had that that there that they

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are okay so my friends that said that they are that that gave me that that

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meet the other day I don't know if y'all all saw that video where I was oh yeah

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it was on the Q&A on Thursday that they had given me and that meat he said in

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fact it was some of the meat that they gave me was beef and and I thought well

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I thought that they told me that they have already that they were to used up

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all their beef well they got some more beef because locally all of the butchers

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are just are slammed for weeks and because people are butchering their own

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cows instead of going out and getting meat and all of that and so they're just

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slammed for weeks so you can't in that area you can't find butchers that have

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the time to be able to and butcher your cow so they're finding my friend and

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they're asking hey if if you help us butcher our cow and show us how to do it

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and help us with it and all of that then we'll give you some of our meat as a

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percentage so he's like sure I'll do that so they're exchanging goods and

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services and either he's doing that with all kinds of stuff he told me and

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they're making some things and you know like food items and so people are

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bartering for that they're I don't know they've got

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Some eggs that they're getting from a neighbor and I haven't found out yet if

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they've started to exchange goods and services for that instead of money, but

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there's food that they're doing. I think ammo. He actually makes his own ammo and

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he's a very serious die-hard hunter. I think he's from, oh he's from Ohio. Yeah

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from Ohio and and so he makes his own ammo and so people are exchanging goods

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and services for his ammo. They all live out in the country and they're

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hunting and they're you know doing whatever and so that's what they're

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doing. They're not exchanging money. They're exchanging goods and services.

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So business, that's business. That's business. It's an agreed-upon exchange of

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something that one person has but that that another person wants to benefit

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from. So this is when we're when we're starting a business, when God lays it on

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our heart and gives us a vision for a business, this is what we're doing. We're

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facilitating the movement and the flow of goods and services. Let me just

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write that. That will benefit other people. Let me actually write that in a

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different color so that we can kind of separate all of that out. Goods and

445
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services for the benefit or I should say for mutual benefit. That's another thing

446
00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:33.840
it has to be for mutual benefit or it's not a business. It's charity. So it

447
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:39.520
because it's a one-way valve. Business is a two-way valve. Yeah I've got enough

448
00:36:39.520 --> 00:36:45.440
room. It's a I keep running to these different colors in order to separate

449
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:56.120
out some of these ideas. It's a two-way valve. So remember that when you're

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creating, when you're thinking of forming your business

451
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and you're thinking of how and by forming it I don't mean forming it from

452
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ground zero. You could be talking about forming it from ground zero or you could

453
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just talk about how do you want to change it over time. Like maybe you

454
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it's already going. It already has momentum and you're looking for how you

455
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want to change it. How you want, like me, how do you want to kind of facilitate

456
00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:28.040
some tweaks? How do you want to form it into something different? Think of a

457
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river. Rivers constantly flowing, constantly changing, always a little bit

458
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different. How do you want it to progress? How do you want it to and to form kind

459
00:37:38.120 --> 00:37:48.080
of to create, to express itself in a slightly different form on the earth?

460
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Because again we don't need things to be rigid. We want things to flow and that's

461
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okay. It's just all a journey. So that is what I wanted to talk about you know to

462
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just kind of lay a foundation of what business is and how we're supposed to

463
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approach it. I wanted to mention that as far as actually starting to form our

464
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business. Sorry, I'm trying to think. As far as actually starting to form our

465
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business, one of the things that hinders us the most actually in forming it is

466
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thinking too much. As we're trying to come up with new ideas, as we're trying

467
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to understand how to allow ourselves to flow instead of creating a business and

468
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generating new ideas from a rigid place of formulas. If we're not

469
00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:52.400
wanting to just operate according to the world's perspective that we need to

470
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operate according to formulas, we have to understand that what we're operating in

471
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is a sense of flow. Understanding that the spirit, in the spirit there's

472
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constant movement. The Lord never is staying still. The very essence of

473
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his being is in constant, constant motion. Constant. It never from one moment looks

474
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the same. From one moment to the next. Now God is always the same. He never changes

475
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:28.800
and yet he's not rigid. He's constantly flowing, constantly moving. Think of a

476
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river. A river never changes the essence of what it is. It's always water and yet

477
00:39:32.860 --> 00:39:36.100
it always looks different from one moment to the next. So you can just kind

478
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of think of it kind of like that. So your business can always be the same but it

479
00:39:41.060 --> 00:39:45.660
can never, but allow it to never be the same from one minute to the next. The

480
00:39:45.660 --> 00:39:48.860
same thing with you and when you're making, when we're making decisions.

481
00:39:48.860 --> 00:39:53.060
Understand we're spirit and it's from the place of spirit that we're wanting

482
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to make decisions and that we're wanting to allow things to flow effortlessly.

483
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Ideas. We don't want to put our...

484
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ourselves, make ourselves so rigid and well it has to be this way. I have to get

485
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to this particular destination. I have to get to this particular goal. We're going

486
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to be talking about that later. I don't know when we'll be talking about that

487
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but talking about how to set goals in your business and what the point of the

488
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goal is and how to start progressing towards that goal. We'll be talking about

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that but this is the foundation for that subject. Anyway, so the thing

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that can hinder us the most in actually knowing what to do next in our business,

491
00:40:41.160 --> 00:40:46.240
coming up with a new idea, knowing the new direction that we need to take,

492
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one of the greatest hindrances to that is thinking. Remember, we're applying the

493
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tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There's nothing wrong with thinking.

494
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Understand, there is nothing wrong with using that tool

495
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because remember, it's our consciousness. God created it. It is a good thing that

496
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we can allow to be part of the decision-making process but

497
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remember that it should not be our source. Remember the difference between

498
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the tree of the knowledge of operating according to the tree of life versus the

499
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tree of the knowledge of good and evil is what is the source. We can use the tools

500
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:36.400
that are down here in the soul and the body such as thinking, consciousness, mind,

501
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:41.320
brain, whatever. We can use those things. They're not bad. God created them and

502
00:41:41.320 --> 00:41:44.280
there's nothing wrong with them. In fact, Jesus used them when he was on the

503
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earth. His brain was fully functioning and he had to learn to, his

504
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little body and his little brain had to learn Hebrew, he had to learn language,

505
00:41:54.520 --> 00:42:00.360
and he had to learn to use his brain, etc. There's nothing wrong with that.

506
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It's not a problem. The problem is that the thing is if we use that as our

507
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source from which one we make all of our decisions is, well, what is

508
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logical? Again, what's a formula? What do I think will work? If we

509
00:42:21.120 --> 00:42:26.960
want to get away from that, we can, you know, again, training wheels.

510
00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:31.120
We can use the training wheels sometimes but what we're doing is

511
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we're trying to learn how to operate from a place of rest which is spirit,

512
00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:44.880
constant flow, constant movement. Instead of thinking, we need to

513
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stop thinking about things so much instead of just letting the

514
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essence of who God is and who we are with him to just effortlessly flow

515
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through us. Just let it flow. So it's a get along with the Lord and it's what

516
00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:13.160
the world sometimes refers to as brainstorming. So if you go to

517
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business courses and they talk to you about the importance of brainstorming,

518
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you know, how to come up with good ideas for your first book or how

519
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to come up with ideas for what you want to do for your business or

520
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:38.080
whatever. They, for a lot of different things, they always talk

521
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about brainstorming and that is a soulish way of understanding that of

522
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what's happening in the spirit. Allowing the creativity and the essence of

523
00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:53.720
who you are in the spirit and who God is in the spirit to just kind of flow

524
00:43:53.720 --> 00:43:58.040
through you and to allow things to flow through you and to throw through your

525
00:43:58.040 --> 00:44:07.160
mind unhindered. Hey Amy! What hinders them is when we stop and we grab

526
00:44:07.160 --> 00:44:12.760
a hold of something too much in thinking about it that we begin to try to control

527
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:17.360
it. We begin to try to grab on to something so we don't forget it

528
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or so that we try to harness it. Harness it like a formula. Nothing wrong

529
00:44:23.200 --> 00:44:26.360
with thinking. There is nothing wrong with taking something that's flowing

530
00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:30.120
through you and do what I won't describe right now but what's

531
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called in quantum physics is popping a quiff where we take something and we

532
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collapse it and we make it reality. Even if it's just reality in our

533
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mind and it hasn't evidenced itself in physical reality yet, there's nothing

534
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wrong with that. That's fine but remember where we need to be, what we need to be

535
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relying on is our life source. We can't allow something to be

536
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flowing through us and stop and we can stop and culminate on and ruminate on

537
00:44:58.040 --> 00:45:01.840
that idea and think about it.

538
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What would that be like if I did that? And what would my business like it be

539
00:45:04.080 --> 00:45:09.640
like if I do that? Remember not to squelch things too quickly and

540
00:45:09.640 --> 00:45:14.400
automatically disregard them like, oops, that won't work. Or I tried that last

541
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time. I tried that ten years ago. I tried that yesterday. You know, don't and there

542
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:24.160
might have been other factors that were involved at that time that didn't allow

543
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it to work. And it could have been that you were operating according to the

544
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tree of knowledge of good and evil instead of operating according to the

545
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tree of life at the time. And that's why it didn't work last time is it had the

546
00:45:36.240 --> 00:45:42.640
wrong source attached to it. So don't immediately stifle something just because

547
00:45:42.640 --> 00:45:46.680
the idea came to you and you're thinking, oh yeah, but I'm gonna filter it through my

548
00:45:46.680 --> 00:45:51.840
logic. I'm like and immediately disregard it. Just let it hang out there for a

549
00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:58.840
while. Okay, well what would my business look like if I added that

550
00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:03.240
element to it or if I added that factor to it? And then kind of like let it hang

551
00:46:03.240 --> 00:46:07.920
out. Think about it as long as you want to. Just kind of massage it. Think of it

552
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:13.040
kind of like it not a static hard object that you're trying to that you're taking

553
00:46:13.040 --> 00:46:16.880
as this solid thing and you're looking at from all kinds of different angles.

554
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:22.720
Allow that thing to be kind of gushy, kind of fluid. Who knows what that might

555
00:46:22.720 --> 00:46:27.680
look like? And and then just kind of once you finish thinking about it just kind

556
00:46:27.680 --> 00:46:32.120
of like okay I'm just kind of kind of put it over here. And then allow other

557
00:46:32.120 --> 00:46:36.680
thoughts to come through. Okay well what about this? What about this? Allow the

558
00:46:36.680 --> 00:46:42.360
process to feel very fluid. To feel like I don't know where I'm going and I don't

559
00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:45.680
feel like I'm going in a straight line. I don't really know what's happening. Just

560
00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:50.720
allow all of that. Let the things flow through you in the spirit. What feels

561
00:46:50.720 --> 00:46:56.080
good? You know what doesn't feel good? Don't create judgments about it. This is

562
00:46:56.080 --> 00:47:02.400
very important. Do not create judgments about about any of those things because

563
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that again is one of those things that's going to stifle the creativity process.

564
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And by judgments I mean like make very definitive

565
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decisions and verdicts about it. You're frustrated. Are you saying that you are

566
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currently frustrated or are you giving me an example of what it feels

567
00:47:29.240 --> 00:47:36.000
like in that moment? Let me know Amy. But yes it does feel like frustration in

568
00:47:36.080 --> 00:47:39.520
other words. You know where you're creating a judgment or you get an

569
00:47:39.520 --> 00:47:42.840
idea early and you just kind of get frustrated because things feel chaotic.

570
00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:48.720
They feel confusing. You can't get anything definitive. Remember anything

571
00:47:48.720 --> 00:47:55.760
that is too definitive. Anything that is too rigid. Don't you know don't mess with

572
00:47:55.760 --> 00:48:02.440
that. Don't stifle ourselves by thinking okay well that's too rigid. Or by

573
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:05.640
thinking you know well that just won't work. You know when we get frustrated

574
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:12.960
is when there is we're insisting that something should not be the way that it

575
00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:17.120
currently is. Oh you're currently frustrated. Okay well you can let me know

576
00:48:17.120 --> 00:48:21.240
why you're currently frustrated and then maybe I can answer you on here or tell

577
00:48:21.240 --> 00:48:26.480
you at least how it can how it operates within what it is we're talking about. Oh

578
00:48:26.480 --> 00:48:30.440
just ignore you. Okay all right will do. Sorry I thought that that you were

579
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:36.960
requiring an interaction there. But yes if you want to reach out to me at some

580
00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:40.240
point and we can absolutely talk about that. If you you might just want to just

581
00:48:40.240 --> 00:48:45.200
be frustrated and not talk about it but if you do just feel free to reach out.

582
00:48:45.200 --> 00:48:52.440
So I just wanted to mention that in the creative process in meaning in the

583
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spiritually creative process where you are processing things with the Lord

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where he is wanting to give you some new ideas. Don't filter them through

585
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something that through those old ways of thinking in which things have to be very

586
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definitive. They have to be very they they have to fit according to a specific

587
00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:26.160
formula. They have to fit according to and and in the end it gets it gets very

588
00:49:26.200 --> 00:49:34.400
rigid. That hinders the ability of forming ideas and allowing yourself to

589
00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:40.160
be flexible enough to flow with the Lord in forming and creating in a business or

590
00:49:40.160 --> 00:49:47.840
for or forming a new expression of your current business. So I wanted to mention

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that. So just allow things to flow through you instead and understand that

592
00:49:53.200 --> 00:49:57.600
thinking about things too much nothing wrong with thinking absolutely apply

593
00:49:57.600 --> 00:50:01.600
your brain but where you're thinking

594
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and over-analyzing, that hinders progress because it's rigid and it is creating,

595
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and anyway, so it is hindering a flow. It is creating an obstacle. So I wanted to mention

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that. What are some other things? Okay. Wanted to also explain something that can feel very,

597
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oh, can feel very frustrating, like what Iggy was talking about. Very frustrating in this process

598
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where we want a definitive answer and we want it fast. We want to make a change in our business

599
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or we want to start a business and we want to know exactly what it looks like, etc. I have

600
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been in this process of trying to understand my business and all of that, and I'm telling you

601
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what, it has been my focus. This and spiritual shifts that the Lord has taken me through,

602
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but it has been one of the strongest physical focuses. I say physical meaning like

603
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manifest into the physical world is what I'm thinking, is what my approach to it has been

604
00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:22.560
for, I don't know, past two years and possibly longer, but anyway, just really focused on it

605
00:51:22.560 --> 00:51:30.640
for the past few years. I don't have a family and meaning like I don't have a husband and

606
00:51:30.640 --> 00:51:38.560
children yet, and so imagine how much of my brain power has been available and emotional and mental

607
00:51:38.560 --> 00:51:44.240
to just focus on it. Now, yes, part of what was hindering it was a lot of trauma and healing that

608
00:51:44.240 --> 00:51:49.600
I was having to go through, relationships and past experience in business. Shifts the

609
00:51:49.600 --> 00:51:56.880
Lord was spiritually taking me through that I now am able to understand and have the words to be

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able to speak into others, which is part of what these teachings are, but still there has been a

611
00:52:04.080 --> 00:52:10.560
tremendous amount of exhaustion. So, I've taken what most people go through over a period of

612
00:52:10.560 --> 00:52:16.720
multiple years, even a few decades, into a shorter amount of time and it has just felt

613
00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:25.040
highly pressurized. One of the things that can feel very frustrating is when you kind of feel

614
00:52:25.040 --> 00:52:30.960
like, here's a picture that might kind of help, where you feel like a piece of a puzzle

615
00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:37.840
that's still in the box or like some idea, like say something in business or how you want the

616
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:43.120
business to change or whatever, and you feel like, I feel like there's this thing that I want to

617
00:52:43.120 --> 00:52:49.840
understand or this thing that I want to get an answer to, a thing that I kind of want to hang

618
00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:58.160
on to and or get a bit more of a definitive idea about and want it to stop being so vague.

619
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I feel like there's this thing spiritually out there that I can't quite grasp a hold of and I

620
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want it to be defined, identified and be able to have a placement. I want to understand where this

621
00:53:09.200 --> 00:53:15.280
the dadgum thing goes, right? It can feel like this piece of a puzzle that's still in the box

622
00:53:16.080 --> 00:53:20.880
and you can't find a place for it yet and it feels like that kind of a frustrating thing,

623
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where something is vague but you have this kind of piece and you have no idea where it goes.

624
00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:31.120
You feel this unsettled aspect of your identity or your spirit or the way that you want your

625
00:53:31.120 --> 00:53:35.600
spirit to manifest. You feel like, I don't feel like I'm living my full life. I don't feel like

626
00:53:35.600 --> 00:53:46.000
I'm living my full self and that state can feel very frustrating. You feel like this

627
00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:54.880
vague sense of unsettledness and restlessness and things can feel very disjointed, etc.

628
00:53:55.920 --> 00:54:02.480
So I wanted to mention that to God, the purpose is not the destination.

629
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The purpose of your business, by the way, is not this beautiful thing that we have that's formed,

630
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:19.520
that's defined, that we call a business. It's not how you serve other people. It is not how you

631
00:54:19.520 --> 00:54:24.720
serve your clients. That is not the purpose of your business. That is a byproduct and it's

632
00:54:24.720 --> 00:54:29.840
wonderful. That is not the purpose of your business. The purpose of your business is the

633
00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:38.320
journey that you take in your relationship with the Lord. That is the purpose of your business.

634
00:54:39.040 --> 00:54:45.600
That's the purpose of the relationships that you have. It's the purpose of when you're a parent

635
00:54:45.600 --> 00:54:55.120
to a child. It's the purpose of your finances. It is not the destination and we have focused,

636
00:54:55.120 --> 00:54:59.840
I am prime example of this, we have focused too long on the idea

637
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.360
of a destination. That God isn't pleased until we arrive at a particular place and he's just

638
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:14.560
enduring us until we get there. That he's just having patience for us, those poor little things,

639
00:55:14.560 --> 00:55:20.000
having patience for us until we get there, until we figure it out, until we finally get that

640
00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:26.720
business idea, until we finally know how to start, how to begin to execute it in a way that

641
00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:32.800
in our minds we interpret it as, oh, things are finally starting to come together. You know,

642
00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:38.960
we have that phrase of things are finally starting to come together. That is not the point.

643
00:55:40.080 --> 00:55:47.040
The point of my business, the thing that God has put on my heart, is not the April Intensive

644
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and it is not what it is that I'm eventually going to go to and how things are going to

645
00:55:54.400 --> 00:56:02.880
look on the outside. The point of all of this is me flowing with the Lord and taking this journey.

646
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The whole point is the journey. The whole point. In fact, one time I asked the Lord,

647
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God, what is written on what's written on my scroll, on my scroll of my life? If you could

648
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show me a picture, Lord. I asked the Lord for a picture. Lord, can you show me what's written

649
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on my scroll? I was hoping he was going to show me more than one page and more than one thing

650
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and he didn't. Jesus opened a scroll and he showed me and all that I had was a road

651
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and it kind of curved. Well, I don't know if it's gonna, yeah, I think hopefully it's

652
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going to show you exactly the way that it occurred for me, but it curves like this.

653
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It had no beginning and no end. He said, actually, that is what is on your scroll.

654
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My first thought was I was disappointed. I was like, okay, Lord, I don't even know where you're

655
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saying that I've come from and I don't even know where it is I'm going. So, in other words,

656
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do you hear my problem? I couldn't measure my progress. How much do I lack and how far have I

657
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gotten? That is a major problem. Hey, Holly. That was a major problem. So, God was showing me,

658
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Ashley, I can show you anything in your book, anything in your scroll and I am showing you

659
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a journey. I'm showing you that what I have with you and I right now, what is written on your

660
00:57:43.120 --> 00:57:52.480
scroll of all things isn't a business. It's not a relationship. It's not a spiritual mature point

661
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to which you can get. It's a journey. It had no beginning and no end. That's all that he showed

662
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me. I asked, Lord, that's so discouraging. Can you show me some hope? Where am I going? At least

663
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show me where one day I'm going to end up. He didn't. He was like, Ashley, this is it.

664
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It was kind of like a dirt road. I don't know if it was dirt, but that's

665
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what it looked like in the picture. It's like this dirt road and it kind of had some edging

666
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to it. I don't know. Maybe it was grass or something on either side, but that was it.

667
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I was so discouraged, but over time, over the next several months, God began to show me, Ashley,

668
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the beauty is in the journey. I always felt that a journey meant I hadn't arrived.

669
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If I was still on a journey, I was in a place of lack. If I was on the journey, I hadn't gotten

670
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there yet. Therefore, I was subpar and I was below a standard measure. God had to say, no,

671
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Ashley, the journey is the point. The journey is you and me dancing together. That is what life is.

672
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That is what informing your business is part of that. It is this journey that we're taking

673
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together. You and I going through the thought process. How are we going to form it? What's

674
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it going to look like? It's going to be constantly changing as the days or weeks or months or years

675
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go by. It's going to always look a little bit different. He said the process, Ashley,

676
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or he said the point of your business, Ashley, is you and I moving together and it evidencing

677
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itself through this model or this filter through which the world refers to as business. By the way,

678
00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:59.920
when you and I dance together, as I flow out of you and you flow out of

679
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and you know into and out of you and you flow into and out of me and sometimes

680
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it's you and sometimes it's me and then sometimes it's you again and it's me but

681
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it's you and it's me but it's you and it's just constant. He said, Ashley,

682
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that's the whole point. That is it. So if you're in the middle of it because

683
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you're still breathing then you're in the middle of the whole point.

684
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You're a terrible dancer. No, you're not. See, that's the thing. We have this standard.

685
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Again, what would make it terrible? The fact that I haven't arrived yet and

686
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God said the point isn't an arrival. He said the arrival is what it is we're

687
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doing. The arrival is the fact that we're willing to participate in the dance with

688
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them. Not that we get somewhere and that we're not there yet. He said it's we're

689
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just participating in the dance. So it doesn't matter if we're still in the

690
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brainstorming process of our business. It doesn't matter if we're still in that

691
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okay well this is what the world would refer to as the first stage. God's like

692
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who ever came up with that dumb idea that this is the first stage? It just is.

693
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There's no first, second, and third with the Lord. There's just now. There's just

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is and so so just know that that's the good thing. That wherever it is you are

695
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is where you're supposed to be and it's good. So it's the fact that we what

696
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God delights in is the fact that we participate with them. That we're

697
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willing to flow in and out. Think of it kind of like a

698
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Rubik's Cube. I talked about earlier about a puzzle. Think of it

699
01:01:36.160 --> 01:01:41.720
kind of like a Rubik's Cube where things are constantly shifting.

700
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Sometimes you shift this way. Sometimes you shift this way. Sometimes

701
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you shift this way again. Sometimes you shift that way. It's just kind of like

702
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this movement. There's like this process to it as opposed to the

703
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idea that well there just is a destination and God is just

704
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enduring and we're just enduring with him until we get there. Absolute bogus.

705
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Oh you're absent in the dance? No not at all because your heart

706
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is there. Your heart is there with him and it's allowing him to

707
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sometimes take the lead and then sometimes you'll take the lead

708
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and sometimes he takes the lead. He just wants us to step into it with him

709
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and not ever abandon him. Total side note but there was a time that I was

710
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frustrated with the Lord and so if any of this rings true for y'all and kind of

711
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resonates with y'all let me know and I can have a lot bigger subject about it

712
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and I can tell you the story that he took me through when I went

713
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through this but when I was battling my very severe chronic depression, anxiety

714
01:02:58.320 --> 01:03:05.240
and PTSD I was so mad at the Lord. I was so mad and that for me is extremely

715
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unusual. Oh my word. I'd never experienced that with the Lord and I

716
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knew and I was finally allowing myself to be mad with him and he told me, he

717
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said, Ashley and I don't I don't think I've mentioned this to y'all in this

718
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group. In fact, I know I haven't. I told him or he told me, he said, Ashley I

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understand that you're struggling and that you're mad at me because you think

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that I've hurt you. He said, whatever you do though, he said,

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Ashley you can be mad at me. You can struggle with the fact that you're mad

722
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at me. You can struggle with the fact that you think I've disappointed you.

723
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That I'm not there. That you can't see me. You can't hear me. You can't whatever and

724
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he said, I said, you can struggle Ashley. That's fine. I understand that. I can hold

725
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space for you to do that and then he said this. He said, however, whatever you do

726
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and he said this very kindly. It wasn't harsh or like you better. It was just

727
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Ashley, whatever you do. This is like a person in a relationship talking to

728
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another person in a relationship. You know, like hey we're in a relationship together

729
01:04:05.560 --> 01:04:13.080
and he said, what I want from you, what I need from you, he said, do not allow or do

730
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not, sorry I'm trying to remember the exact words because the way he said it

731
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was really sweet. He said, you can struggle with me. He said, but whatever

732
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you do, he said, don't shut me out. That's what he said. He said, whatever you do, don't

733
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shut me out of this struggle. Don't be mad. Turn your back on me and deal

734
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with it. He said, let me be there with you while you're struggling with me.

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Don't, in other words, the God of the universe asked me. He said, whatever you

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do, don't abandon me and it was just so sweet and remember and here's another

737
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thing about all of this because I'm talking about this because I know that

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that there's a reason why all of y'all are here in this in this April Intensive.

739
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Really? Oh, that's great. I want to hear this story, Holly. Oh, yeah, so

740
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remember, Jacob, when... remember that Jacob wrestled with God and, you know, he

741
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wrestled with the angel and the angel told him, he said, well, you've wrestled

742
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with God. And here's what was so fascinating about it. So Jacob wrestled

743
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with the angel all night. All night. And the angel told him, you know, touched his

744
01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:42.200
hip, stopped... it stopped Jacob and Jacob... and still Jacob held on to him and

745
01:05:42.200 --> 01:05:49.200
said, I will not let go until you bless me. And the angel said, I... he said... sorry,

746
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I'm trying to remember. He said, you have wrestled with God and... and I think he

747
01:05:56.320 --> 01:06:02.720
said, you've wrestled with God in one. He said, and I want... he said, so therefore

748
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your name will be called... is it will no longer be called Jacob, which is called

749
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deceiver. No longer be called Jacob, but it will be called Israel because you

750
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have wrestled with God in one. You've struggled against God. He named his

751
01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:24.880
firstborn son, which is what he called the nation of Israel, he named his

752
01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:34.680
firstborn son Israel by... which means he who struggles with God. God could have

753
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named his firstborn nation anything. But he named him, he who struggles with God, so

754
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that everybody who said the name Israel, whether it be Israel themselves, whether

755
01:06:48.760 --> 01:06:54.360
it be any other nation that did or did not follow the Lord, which they were all,

756
01:06:54.360 --> 01:06:59.720
you know, were not the firstborn chosen nation of Israel, chosen firstborn

757
01:06:59.720 --> 01:07:05.360
chosen nation of God. Or whenever God said the name Israel, whenever it was

758
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repeated in Scripture, when God called them out, like, you know, he called them by

759
01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:17.640
name, he calls all of us by name. Whenever he calls any of us by name, names are

760
01:07:17.640 --> 01:07:21.440
very, very precious to the Lord. And when he called them by name, he wanted the

761
01:07:21.440 --> 01:07:24.720
name of all the names he could have chosen, of all the things that he could

762
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have declared them to be. Every single time he said their name, he wanted it to

763
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say, he who struggles with God. And what that means is that it was so very

764
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precious to him. Of all of the aspects and characteristics of our

765
01:07:40.600 --> 01:07:45.560
relationship with God, what he wanted to highlight every single time his

766
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firstborn son was called by name, he wanted to highlight the fact that when

767
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they're mad at me, when they believe that I have pained them, they will still

768
01:07:58.040 --> 01:08:06.720
continue to struggle it out with me instead of abandoning me. Of all the

769
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characteristics of their relationship with God, that is what he found to be so

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important, that every single time that their name would be spoken, every single

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time he called out to them and he called them by name, that was the name,

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01:08:22.439 --> 01:08:29.840
he who struggles with God. He could have talked about how

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much he hoped that they would love him, how much he hoped that they would hope

774
01:08:35.720 --> 01:08:41.240
in him, how much he hopes that they would believe him. Remember, we've learned how

775
01:08:41.240 --> 01:08:46.319
important that belief is to God. And of all things that he focused on, he named

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01:08:46.520 --> 01:08:51.600
them, he changed Jacob's name. Instead of just keeping it the same, he changed his

777
01:08:51.600 --> 01:09:00.000
name to he who struggles with God. It's that important to him, that if we are

778
01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:06.760
pained by him, if we believe, God, you have hurt me. I can talk y'all

779
01:09:06.760 --> 01:09:12.160
through that story, if that resonates with any of y'all and y'all

780
01:09:12.319 --> 01:09:17.920
want to hear it, because there's actually multiple stories of that. Anyway, I think

781
01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:21.080
some I've shared with y'all and some I haven't, but anyway, and they're very

782
01:09:21.080 --> 01:09:25.800
extreme, by the way, very extreme situations. I almost walked away from God

783
01:09:25.800 --> 01:09:30.359
many, many years ago. In the space of about 10 minutes, I literally almost just

784
01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:35.040
laid down the gauntlet and was like, so the Lord walked me through that.

785
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But out of all of the things, it was the fact that he says that he

786
01:09:40.520 --> 01:09:45.960
doesn't want us to abandon him. So it's very, very important. So don't

787
01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:53.080
get down on yourself. Don't get frustrated. Don't get disappointed. Don't

788
01:09:53.080 --> 01:09:59.480
get discouraged. Whatever you do, do not judge

789
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yourself.

790
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because you're struggling with the fact that you're mad at God and that you're accusing Him.

791
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The fact that you don't shut Him out and the fact that you're struggling with Him as opposed to

792
01:10:22.720 --> 01:10:29.920
turning your back and just being mad at Him, that hurts God so bad. The fact that you were

793
01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:38.320
still willing to struggle with Him is an element of a dance. He wants you to flow with Him though

794
01:10:38.320 --> 01:10:43.760
instead of struggling with Him, but there's still an element in which you're flowing

795
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and that's very important to Him. So very important where He named the

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01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:54.640
nation of Israel after that and it was not a curse. It was a good thing.

797
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Attribute of someone who stays close in the middle of conflict. Exactly. He's glorified in the struggle

798
01:11:04.960 --> 01:11:10.960
and our relationship with Him is glorified in the struggle. He enjoys that.

799
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I just wanted to point that out just because we're based off of

800
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the comments that seem to be where some people were kind of

801
01:11:22.960 --> 01:11:30.320
struggling and so I can understand that when we feel we're asking God for a result,

802
01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:37.280
we're asking God for an answer, we're asking Him for definitive information or definitive guidance

803
01:11:37.280 --> 01:11:43.440
about our business or what we think of in the world as next step. I just wanted to mention

804
01:11:44.400 --> 01:11:49.760
what God is looking for is He's looking for a process and it's this dance. It's this,

805
01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:56.400
I don't really know what's going on or what's happening now or it may go this way, it may go that

806
01:11:56.400 --> 01:12:02.400
way and not getting frustrated, not looking, not measuring things by how much time has passed.

807
01:12:02.400 --> 01:12:09.440
How long have I been in this dance? How long have I been confused? How long have I been frustrated?

808
01:12:10.800 --> 01:12:15.600
Allow the dance to happen. The frustration is the requirement that it be rigid

809
01:12:16.560 --> 01:12:23.440
and we've got to let go of that rigidity. Again, frustration is resistance. Frustration reveals

810
01:12:23.440 --> 01:12:28.320
a resistance. It reveals that there is something in us that we're not letting go of and it's

811
01:12:28.320 --> 01:12:34.400
requiring release. Then when we finally release, we're able to more effortlessly allow

812
01:12:34.400 --> 01:12:41.680
ourselves to be led in the dance and we can finally start receiving. So anything in

813
01:12:41.760 --> 01:12:50.320
which we start locking down is evidence of some area in which we are creating a resistance

814
01:12:50.320 --> 01:12:57.600
against the Lord. Let's see if there's something else. I think we're about done here.

815
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I was like, what is that word? I have down here, be fluid and let God rearrange constantly.

816
01:13:18.160 --> 01:13:28.160
So we need to allow ourselves to not get married to an idea because God, what's important is that

817
01:13:28.160 --> 01:13:36.960
we're always in relationship with him and we're always keeping our eyes on him. We think that

818
01:13:38.160 --> 01:13:44.560
when something stops moving and it becomes a formula, it becomes, what's the word,

819
01:13:45.440 --> 01:13:49.520
not dependable. There is that element of dependability, but that's the second thing.

820
01:13:50.080 --> 01:13:55.840
There's a step right before dependability where it becomes predictable. There you go. When it

821
01:13:55.840 --> 01:14:01.040
becomes stable, then it becomes predictable, which means that we begin to feel that it's

822
01:14:01.040 --> 01:14:06.880
dependable. Remember, God always wants us to depend on him, not on the fact that, well,

823
01:14:06.880 --> 01:14:14.880
my business has gotten to a particular point where I can now forecast and therefore I can

824
01:14:14.880 --> 01:14:22.640
depend on it. Nothing wrong with being able to forecast, nothing wrong with that. But remember

825
01:14:25.200 --> 01:14:31.200
that too much forecasting means that, or too much dependability on forecasting means that we're

826
01:14:31.280 --> 01:14:38.000
trying to create a formula out of something instead of allowing the spirit to flow through us

827
01:14:39.280 --> 01:14:44.000
and flow through the business and then therefore we don't know what's going to happen. We don't

828
01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:49.120
know where it's going to go and we need to allow that to happen because then there's more life

829
01:14:49.120 --> 01:14:56.160
that'll come out of a business. There's more profit, sometimes monetary profit, but absolutely

830
01:14:56.160 --> 01:14:59.920
more life, more life in yourself, more...

831
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.200
life and that's flowing from the spirit from that's manifesting from heaven into

832
01:15:04.200 --> 01:15:09.760
earth through the business and that will that will manifest as greater life in

833
01:15:09.760 --> 01:15:15.040
the clients as well. Your clients in the benefits that your clients receive and

834
01:15:15.040 --> 01:15:19.560
the benefits that you receive out of a business which are more than just

835
01:15:19.560 --> 01:15:26.080
monetary because remember God's the one who provides for us. Hopefully that

836
01:15:26.080 --> 01:15:29.160
made sense if that did not make sense let me know because I realize it's

837
01:15:29.160 --> 01:15:32.000
really late for some of you on the East Coast it's even later than it is for me

838
01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:36.320
but I think I think that is it.

839
01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:45.560
Okay this was very interesting but let me see it may not even be may not even

840
01:15:45.560 --> 01:15:55.480
be something to mention at this time I think just a second. Okay I don't know if

841
01:15:55.600 --> 01:15:59.400
this is necessary I'm just gonna kind of drop this in here and who knows y'all

842
01:15:59.400 --> 01:16:01.880
might just think well that's just kind of out of the blue but it might resonate

843
01:16:01.880 --> 01:16:09.400
with some of you. Remember that we can mute God we can mute him by believing we

844
01:16:09.400 --> 01:16:16.960
can't bring something to him. We can mute him so if we're looking for an answer

845
01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:27.440
from him if if we are if we're frustrated that he's not answering us

846
01:16:27.440 --> 01:16:31.720
that he's not giving us direction we've cried out to him we felt like God I have

847
01:16:31.720 --> 01:16:37.520
been waiting. God I have been willing. God I have I've sacrificed. I've allowed

848
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myself to be moldable. I have stepped out in faith. I've done X Y & Z and we and

849
01:16:44.360 --> 01:16:47.840
we're not getting information from the Lord and we're not getting maybe an

850
01:16:47.840 --> 01:16:51.000
answer that that we're wanting meaning like we're getting we feel like we're

851
01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:55.440
getting no answer or whatever. We can actually mute God by believing that

852
01:16:55.440 --> 01:17:01.760
there's something that we're not that we can't bring to him. Like we think that

853
01:17:01.760 --> 01:17:05.800
there's this exchange again we were we're falling back into this whole idea

854
01:17:05.800 --> 01:17:10.960
of an exchange program that I have to give God this in other words God I have

855
01:17:10.960 --> 01:17:15.920
been giving you all of these things and you're not following through on your end of the

856
01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:22.840
bargain. You're not you're not what this is not an effective exchange program God.

857
01:17:22.840 --> 01:17:28.720
God's like it's not an exchange program. It's not an exchange program. I will give

858
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to you because I'm a good father and I want you to rest and rely on that that I

859
01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:36.400
am going to give you the direction. I am going to give you the answers that

860
01:17:36.400 --> 01:17:44.000
you're looking for in how to in how to form your business next and I

861
01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:48.200
want you to participate in the ideas. I wanted you to participate in the

862
01:17:48.200 --> 01:17:54.920
decisions so work with allow your spirit to work together with his spirit to co

863
01:17:54.920 --> 01:18:02.080
labor and co create and co decide what that is and that's that's the process

864
01:18:02.320 --> 01:18:09.560
that's how you can begin to form your your business with the Lord. I'm not sure

865
01:18:09.560 --> 01:18:13.040
how all of this is might be hitting y'all I don't know if some of this y'all

866
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are gonna think actually this is just so high-level this is so this is so this is

867
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so contextual that I don't really know exactly how to how to apply it you can

868
01:18:27.480 --> 01:18:32.360
let me know if there are some if there's some ways because it's gonna hit

869
01:18:32.360 --> 01:18:35.440
some of y'all differently some of you you're just gonna go yes that absolutely

870
01:18:35.440 --> 01:18:38.560
resonates I know exactly you know what you're talking about I know exactly how

871
01:18:38.560 --> 01:18:41.520
to apply it now I'm gonna take it with the Lord there's some of you that might

872
01:18:41.520 --> 01:18:46.400
be like I just have no idea so you can you can ask me questions and then that

873
01:18:46.400 --> 01:18:51.120
it's gonna let me know where there might be kind of some some gaps that it felt

874
01:18:51.120 --> 01:18:56.560
like it left in in in your understanding there's nothing wrong with that doesn't

875
01:18:56.560 --> 01:18:59.880
mean that you're less smart than somebody else all it means you because

876
01:18:59.880 --> 01:19:03.400
what understand what we're all taking we're all bringing to the table is our

877
01:19:03.400 --> 01:19:06.680
different perspectives based on our different backgrounds what it is that

878
01:19:06.680 --> 01:19:11.520
the Lord has taught us up to this point etc there there's no there's no lack

879
01:19:11.520 --> 01:19:17.360
there's no problem it just means that this and then also I'm explaining things

880
01:19:17.360 --> 01:19:24.000
to you maybe at a place where I could understand them but maybe I don't know a

881
01:19:24.120 --> 01:19:27.760
while back I wouldn't have been able to understand it like this and I'm

882
01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:31.680
forgetting that I'm forgetting everything that had to transpire and

883
01:19:31.680 --> 01:19:35.640
form in my mind to get me to the point where I can understand the way that I

884
01:19:35.640 --> 01:19:40.080
just explained it but I've forgotten that I actually started from way back

885
01:19:40.080 --> 01:19:44.320
here and it had to be explained to me a bit differently back here before I could

886
01:19:44.320 --> 01:19:48.600
flush it out to the point where now I can understand it up here so if I have

887
01:19:48.600 --> 01:19:53.240
made too far of a leap and you're still trying to understand this back here just

888
01:19:53.280 --> 01:19:57.600
let me know and then I'm asked me some questions and that I can kind of fill in

889
01:19:57.600 --> 01:19:59.880
the gaps

890
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:04.120
I'm sure that other people have that same question. So, it helps me grow as a

891
01:20:04.120 --> 01:20:07.880
as a teacher as well. Helps me understand, okay, you know, how to better explain

892
01:20:07.880 --> 01:20:10.280
this thing to people because everyone's gonna come at it a bit

893
01:20:10.280 --> 01:20:14.640
different. So, I hope all of you have a wonderful night. It was good to get to

894
01:20:14.640 --> 01:20:21.280
see all of y'all and hope to, you know, that y'all sleep well, you rest

895
01:20:21.280 --> 01:20:26.400
well. Remember, total side note, remember that your spirit does a lot while you're

896
01:20:26.400 --> 01:20:32.600
sleeping. An awful lot. Especially because your consciousness and your

897
01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:37.120
meaning like, you know, your soul and your body or especially your body really

898
01:20:37.120 --> 01:20:42.160
it's going to sleep and doesn't require as much focus especially because that's

899
01:20:42.160 --> 01:20:46.560
where we're putting all of our focus during the day. Our spirits actually can

900
01:20:46.560 --> 01:20:52.840
do quite a lot while we're while we're asleep and you can begin to ask the Lord

901
01:20:52.840 --> 01:20:59.960
to reveal to you during your conscious hours what it is that you were doing and

902
01:20:59.960 --> 01:21:06.520
was happening and and how your spirit was changing and and doing things in the

903
01:21:06.520 --> 01:21:10.880
spirit realm while you were asleep. I remember that's where a lot of our

904
01:21:10.880 --> 01:21:16.280
dreams are manifesting of what is what's happening in the spirit manifests in our

905
01:21:16.280 --> 01:21:22.520
consciousness and our soul in what we refer to as dreams. So, anyway, you're

906
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welcome Holly. So, I will talk to you all later. Bye.