WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.320 We're going to be doing a couple of exercises, and then I think I'm going to open it up for 2 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:08.320 a live Q&A. 3 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:17.680 And then we'll have some more Q&As, but I thought that now might be a good time. 4 00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:23.240 And so, first of all, the first two exercises that we are going to be talking about, these 5 00:00:23.240 --> 00:00:31.800 will all help us learn how to understand that we are actually in control, and that we're 6 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:40.040 not being controlled, that we're not subject to our thoughts, and it will also teach us 7 00:00:40.040 --> 00:00:46.200 how to focus in our intention on something. 8 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:51.680 And the importance of all of that is for a variety of reasons. 9 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:56.280 One, yes, we're going to be talking about intention, like I said, you know, on Sunday. 10 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:01.920 But intention has to be done throughout everything it is that we put our minds to, everything 11 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:06.280 it is that we're deciding, I'm going to do this, I'm going to approach it this way, I'm 12 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:13.920 trying to shift into rest, Lord, I'm choosing your character, I'm choosing faith, whatever. 13 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:19.440 Everything has to be done with very, very solid intention. 14 00:01:19.440 --> 00:01:25.560 But we have to be able to focus in on where that place is in us that is actually intention 15 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:30.080 so that we can grab it and move it somewhere. 16 00:01:30.080 --> 00:01:39.040 But we have filled our lives and our minds are, I don't know, just are filled with a lot 17 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:40.040 of noise. 18 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:42.760 There's a lot of things that we have going on. 19 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:47.720 We thought that we were required to have all of that noise. 20 00:01:47.720 --> 00:01:55.720 Because we were all punished by either, by, you know, in other words, got in trouble by 21 00:01:55.720 --> 00:02:04.320 our authorities, you know, whether it be a Bible teacher, you know, Sunday school teacher 22 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:11.640 or a school teacher or our parents or someone at the church or our college professors or 23 00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:12.640 whatever. 24 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:20.120 So often, so many of us got in trouble for being ourself, got in trouble for not knowing 25 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:21.120 something. 26 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:26.560 So do we see how the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is condemning in both ways? 27 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:31.720 You're condemned if you know something and you don't do it and you're condemned if you 28 00:02:31.720 --> 00:02:35.240 didn't know it and you didn't do it. 29 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:39.680 So you're condemned either way and it's just absolutely exhausting, it's extremely oppressive. 30 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:42.600 There's no way, there's no way to win in that. 31 00:02:42.600 --> 00:02:47.040 So we filled our mind, I don't know about you, this is, I'm a very analytical person, 32 00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:53.120 you can probably tell in how I teach, that I do teach where I will sometimes repeat things 33 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:58.280 over and over because I'm constantly trying to come at it again from another angle so 34 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:04.200 that people can actually own this for themselves and they're not just simply gaining knowledge 35 00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:10.120 or facts to be able to, to be able to, and think, oh, okay, well, I got that, I understood 36 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:11.880 that, now I'll move on. 37 00:03:11.880 --> 00:03:18.800 Can you actually own this so that when you're alone with the Lord, you can, you can problem 38 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:24.120 solve and shift into areas that we don't even talk about in here? 39 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:27.200 Can you do that on your own because you truly own the thing? 40 00:03:27.200 --> 00:03:32.240 So I will, so what I'm doing is I'm trying to, I'm presenting something in 1D and then 41 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:37.280 I'm going to try to expand it by talking about it in a different way so that you now see 42 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:41.360 it's actually two dimensional and then I'll talk about it in a different way to help you 43 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:43.480 understand it's actually three dimensional. 44 00:03:43.480 --> 00:03:49.040 So now you've got a substance that you can, that you can understand, that you, that you 45 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:54.880 truly understand the context of, therefore you can manipulate it, so to speak. 46 00:03:54.880 --> 00:03:59.560 You can take that thing into new situations that we don't talk about here and you know 47 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:03.600 how to apply it because you truly have owned the concept. 48 00:04:03.600 --> 00:04:09.680 So I wanted to point that out, but the, but I have that, I have that analytical brain. 49 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:14.480 I can think of all of the questions, again, this is how I teach, I think, okay, I've just 50 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:20.140 presented that, what are all of the things that someone, that, that all of the reasons 51 00:04:20.140 --> 00:04:23.680 why someone could present to me that it's not true? 52 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:29.200 All of the questions that they have and then I am going to answer all of those before they 53 00:04:29.200 --> 00:04:31.240 even have a chance to ask. 54 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:38.360 Another reason why I belabor points and I have, and I've, and I've been told, I've been 55 00:04:38.400 --> 00:04:41.800 told, but I know that it might bother some people, they're just like, oh my word, let's 56 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:43.840 just get on to the next topic. 57 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:48.720 But for, for so many people, they have told me, Ashley, because their minds have worked 58 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:52.800 so often like mine, where they come up with all these questions of why not? 59 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:57.640 All of these, these aspects of resistance in their own mind that they're requiring to 60 00:04:57.640 --> 00:05:00.000 be overcome before. 61 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.760 they can move on and so they, I've been told before, 62 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:07.300 Ashley, you answer all of my questions before I ask them. 63 00:05:07.300 --> 00:05:10.980 So, that comes from a very analytical mind, being able 64 00:05:10.980 --> 00:05:17.520 to see literally a hundred things at one time and work 65 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:19.280 with all of them. 66 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:22.720 So, that's a strength, but there is a problem in that, 67 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.780 in the fact that that is just, that's an extreme version 68 00:05:25.780 --> 00:05:27.660 of something that we all deal with, 69 00:05:27.660 --> 00:05:33.020 which is it creates a lot of noise, a lot of things 70 00:05:33.020 --> 00:05:34.260 that we're thinking about at once. 71 00:05:34.260 --> 00:05:36.780 Sometimes someone will present a very simple subject to me, 72 00:05:36.780 --> 00:05:39.160 a very simple concept, and I'll look at them like a, 73 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:41.460 with a, you know, a deer in the headlights look, 74 00:05:41.460 --> 00:05:44.940 because they don't understand, because I don't understand how 75 00:05:44.940 --> 00:05:48.180 to receive the one thing that they, that they told me, 76 00:05:48.180 --> 00:05:51.460 because I, all I just saw was a hundred, and I'm trying 77 00:05:51.460 --> 00:05:54.900 to process through it to be able to come to a conclusion of how 78 00:05:54.900 --> 00:05:56.980 to be able to answer someone on something, 79 00:05:56.980 --> 00:05:58.980 and we're just talking about a simple conversation. 80 00:05:58.980 --> 00:06:01.540 We're not even talking about a point where I'm teaching 81 00:06:01.540 --> 00:06:02.860 or I'm coaching or anything. 82 00:06:02.860 --> 00:06:04.860 We're having, I'm simply having a simple conversation 83 00:06:04.860 --> 00:06:06.260 with somebody else about the weather, 84 00:06:06.260 --> 00:06:09.140 and they'll say one thing, and I see a hundred, and so I have 85 00:06:09.140 --> 00:06:11.260 to figure out how to filter all the noise. 86 00:06:11.260 --> 00:06:17.060 So, I, I, I started this practice, and it has, 87 00:06:17.060 --> 00:06:21.860 it really, really helped me to be able to quiet down the noise 88 00:06:21.860 --> 00:06:26.020 and, and come back into control, and it began 89 00:06:26.020 --> 00:06:29.660 to help me identify a quiet place within me 90 00:06:29.660 --> 00:06:34.380 in which I could recognize intention. 91 00:06:34.380 --> 00:06:36.340 And so, it's very important that we realize 92 00:06:36.340 --> 00:06:41.940 that we're not subject to and, and threatened by and need 93 00:06:41.940 --> 00:06:45.140 to be in fear of our thoughts. 94 00:06:45.140 --> 00:06:48.340 So, the first, the first exercise that we're going 95 00:06:48.340 --> 00:06:53.940 to do is we're going to work on, we're going to, 96 00:06:53.980 --> 00:06:58.220 we're going to practice not thinking at all. 97 00:06:58.220 --> 00:07:00.300 So, I'll, I'll walk you through that in just a second. 98 00:07:00.300 --> 00:07:02.300 I know, trust me, I'm like, how do you not do that, 99 00:07:02.300 --> 00:07:04.420 because I'm thinking like a million things at one time, 100 00:07:04.420 --> 00:07:06.820 but this is very fascinating to go through. 101 00:07:06.820 --> 00:07:09.500 And then, the second exercise that we're going to go 102 00:07:09.500 --> 00:07:13.580 through is actually, is actually watching our thoughts 103 00:07:13.580 --> 00:07:17.660 and learning to not judge them, even the bad ones, 104 00:07:17.660 --> 00:07:22.620 even the perverted ones, not judging, because we have 105 00:07:22.660 --> 00:07:25.500 to practice releasing ourself from shame and condemnation. 106 00:07:25.500 --> 00:07:27.820 That is the only place where we can find freedom. 107 00:07:27.820 --> 00:07:31.500 You will not be, you will not find freedom 108 00:07:31.500 --> 00:07:35.300 by judging yourself, not even the bad. 109 00:07:35.300 --> 00:07:38.340 You find freedom in releasing and understanding 110 00:07:38.340 --> 00:07:39.980 that you're released from shame and condemnation, 111 00:07:39.980 --> 00:07:42.420 and it shifts you into a place of rest, and we'll talk 112 00:07:42.420 --> 00:07:45.860 about this tonight, but then it shifts you into your spirit, 113 00:07:45.860 --> 00:07:47.580 which is the place of your identity. 114 00:07:47.580 --> 00:07:49.700 You're sitting in heavenly places, 115 00:07:49.700 --> 00:07:51.940 operating in a particular power and authority, 116 00:07:51.980 --> 00:07:54.180 and from that position of power and authority, 117 00:07:54.180 --> 00:07:58.940 you now have a right and an ability to be able to, 118 00:07:58.940 --> 00:08:01.340 to be able to judge righteously, 119 00:08:01.340 --> 00:08:02.620 but until you're in that place, 120 00:08:02.620 --> 00:08:05.020 you don't have an ability to judge righteously, 121 00:08:05.020 --> 00:08:07.820 so there's no point in trying, so we don't need 122 00:08:07.820 --> 00:08:11.020 to be judging our thoughts, and from a, 123 00:08:11.020 --> 00:08:15.340 from when we're struggling in what I refer to 124 00:08:15.340 --> 00:08:18.860 as the soul realm or the body realm. 125 00:08:18.860 --> 00:08:21.060 We'll be getting into that tonight, but, 126 00:08:21.060 --> 00:08:25.940 so this is going to help us practice actually, 127 00:08:25.940 --> 00:08:30.700 actually being able to let go of all of these areas 128 00:08:30.700 --> 00:08:33.539 in which resistance is manifesting itself, 129 00:08:33.539 --> 00:08:36.179 and there are things that we just don't think of 130 00:08:36.179 --> 00:08:37.260 as resistance. 131 00:08:37.260 --> 00:08:39.820 We think, oh no, this is me, this is me trying. 132 00:08:39.820 --> 00:08:43.020 This is me doing the godly thing, and we don't understand 133 00:08:43.020 --> 00:08:45.620 that if we're trying, we're resisting. 134 00:08:45.620 --> 00:08:48.660 If we're doing what it is that God's telling us to do, 135 00:08:48.660 --> 00:08:52.620 well, it's effortless, and there's no trying involved. 136 00:08:52.620 --> 00:08:55.660 We're operating according to who it is that we truly are, 137 00:08:55.660 --> 00:08:59.140 so if there's trying involved, it's resisting, 138 00:08:59.140 --> 00:09:01.140 and we're actually doing the exact opposite 139 00:09:01.140 --> 00:09:02.660 of what it is that we're wanting to do, 140 00:09:02.660 --> 00:09:04.740 so that's what these two exercises are all about. 141 00:09:04.740 --> 00:09:07.780 So the first one, first of all, 142 00:09:08.700 --> 00:09:11.140 another thing to mention about these exercises 143 00:09:11.140 --> 00:09:13.980 is that another word for it, and don't be scared, 144 00:09:13.980 --> 00:09:16.380 another word for it is meditation. 145 00:09:16.380 --> 00:09:18.600 This is not new agey meditation. 146 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:20.960 We're not inviting spirits. 147 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:22.840 We're not opening ourselves up 148 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:25.000 to a spiritual realm, so to speak. 149 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:29.520 We're seated in heavenly places with Christ. 150 00:09:29.520 --> 00:09:30.960 We feel very safe with Christ. 151 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:33.360 We're going to this place, so to speak. 152 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:35.520 In other words, this feeling, or whatever. 153 00:09:37.160 --> 00:09:39.440 Christ is gonna be with us. 154 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.920 We don't have to be worried that this is the same kind 155 00:09:41.920 --> 00:09:44.840 of thing as some other meditation that we'd be sitting in 156 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:46.400 in some yoga class somewhere. 157 00:09:46.400 --> 00:09:47.640 There's nothing wrong with yoga, 158 00:09:47.640 --> 00:09:52.640 but if yoga, if people are using yoga as a channel 159 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:57.840 by which to invite spirits, that's the problem. 160 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:00.040 If they've built it on a corrupted. 161 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.720 foundation. 162 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:03.560 So the same thing with this meditation. 163 00:10:03.560 --> 00:10:06.880 All that meditation is, is it's actually scientific. 164 00:10:06.880 --> 00:10:09.120 The word meditate is in scripture. 165 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:13.280 Tells us to meditate on God, to meditate on his word. 166 00:10:13.280 --> 00:10:17.000 So scientifically, what does meditation look like? 167 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.920 Meditation is, we've got different brainwaves. 168 00:10:19.920 --> 00:10:22.600 So we've got the alpha brainwaves. 169 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:24.800 Some of y'all may know this already, but we've 170 00:10:24.800 --> 00:10:26.240 got the alpha brainwaves. 171 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:27.880 And these are the highest ones. 172 00:10:27.880 --> 00:10:29.840 So there's, sorry, not alpha. 173 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:34.560 Beta is the highest, beta, alpha, theta, and then delta. 174 00:10:34.560 --> 00:10:38.160 When we sleep, we're in delta. 175 00:10:38.160 --> 00:10:40.680 So we all, but when we're fully awake, 176 00:10:40.680 --> 00:10:43.920 and we're like right now, when y'all are fully engaged, 177 00:10:43.920 --> 00:10:47.360 oh, someone's talking, and this is all brand new, 178 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:50.360 then I'm just going to call this attention. 179 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:53.600 In other words, it's like we're, we 180 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.880 have a heightened sense of attention and of awareness. 181 00:10:56.880 --> 00:10:58.880 If we go down into alpha, there's 182 00:10:58.880 --> 00:11:02.000 still an element of activity and of attention, 183 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.880 but it's at a much slower rate. 184 00:11:04.880 --> 00:11:07.840 And then what we're wanting to do in meditation 185 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:09.880 is to get our brainwaves down to theta. 186 00:11:09.880 --> 00:11:12.680 But we're not wanting to get them to so low 187 00:11:12.680 --> 00:11:14.840 that we're in sleep. 188 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:18.160 If our brainwaves, if we drop ourselves so low, 189 00:11:18.160 --> 00:11:20.200 we'll go, we'll be asleep. 190 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:22.360 So we're going right above sleep. 191 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.000 And the benefit of this, well, let me point real quick. 192 00:11:26.560 --> 00:11:29.240 Like the brainwaves in beta are like this. 193 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:30.520 They're very, very fast. 194 00:11:30.520 --> 00:11:33.920 And then for alpha, it's a bit slower. 195 00:11:33.920 --> 00:11:36.520 And then theta, it's a lot slower. 196 00:11:36.520 --> 00:11:38.280 And then obviously, delta. 197 00:11:38.280 --> 00:11:42.040 The waves, the difference between the crust and the trough, 198 00:11:42.040 --> 00:11:43.840 those of you who remember from science class, 199 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:45.560 it's very, very small. 200 00:11:45.560 --> 00:11:49.520 And the waves are really, really far apart. 201 00:11:49.520 --> 00:11:54.000 So we're trying to lower the frequency 202 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.120 that our brainwaves are passing. 203 00:11:57.280 --> 00:11:59.920 This is the benefit of going into theta. 204 00:11:59.920 --> 00:12:02.840 There's a multitude of benefits. 205 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:05.880 Down here, this is why we're going down there, 206 00:12:05.880 --> 00:12:07.400 there's less resistance. 207 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:12.080 And those who are hypnotists know that. 208 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:14.560 Their idea is to get somebody down here 209 00:12:14.560 --> 00:12:18.080 because you're very suggestible. 210 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:19.600 So no, we're not gonna be talking to you 211 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:20.920 and suggesting things to you. 212 00:12:20.920 --> 00:12:22.120 You're doing it yourself. 213 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:23.560 You're fine. 214 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.240 There's no talking, you're gonna be involved. 215 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.080 But the thing is, this is a very suggestible place. 216 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:30.920 Why? 217 00:12:30.920 --> 00:12:33.120 There's fewer inhibitions. 218 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:38.120 There's less reason that we're trying to apply of why not. 219 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:40.400 And constantly being on the defensive. 220 00:12:40.400 --> 00:12:44.160 This is what it looks like if you're running from a tiger. 221 00:12:44.160 --> 00:12:45.000 This is what it looks like 222 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:46.440 if you're trying to gather information. 223 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:47.680 You're constantly on the defensive. 224 00:12:47.680 --> 00:12:49.840 You're looking out, you know, self-protection. 225 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:52.800 We're trying to bring ourselves down to this point 226 00:12:52.800 --> 00:12:57.800 where we're much more receptive. 227 00:12:57.880 --> 00:13:00.920 We're less likely, meaning we're much more likely 228 00:13:00.920 --> 00:13:03.480 to receive things from the Lord. 229 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:08.680 And yeah, so anyway, that's what we're doing. 230 00:13:08.680 --> 00:13:10.280 I'm gonna mention one more thing, though, 231 00:13:10.280 --> 00:13:13.600 that's very fascinating is scientifically, 232 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:17.120 if you bring yourself down to theta, 233 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:23.120 that is your body actually can heal faster 234 00:13:23.880 --> 00:13:26.160 and more effectively in theta state 235 00:13:26.160 --> 00:13:28.080 than it can while you're asleep. 236 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:30.720 Because your brain and your body, 237 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.280 one of them is always determined to be alert 238 00:13:33.280 --> 00:13:34.960 in order to protect you. 239 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:38.360 So if your brain is asleep, 240 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:40.400 then your body is on the alert. 241 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:46.800 So it's trying to give you something 242 00:13:46.880 --> 00:13:49.280 that if some threat comes at you, 243 00:13:49.280 --> 00:13:52.080 you've got something in you that is alert enough 244 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:54.920 to recognize it and to choose to respond. 245 00:13:54.920 --> 00:13:56.160 So what we're wanting to do 246 00:13:56.160 --> 00:13:58.680 is we're wanting to give our body rest 247 00:13:58.680 --> 00:14:01.440 by just barely elevating our brainwaves enough 248 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:02.680 where they're active. 249 00:14:02.680 --> 00:14:03.920 Well, I mean, they're still active down here, 250 00:14:03.920 --> 00:14:05.920 but they're more attentive. 251 00:14:05.920 --> 00:14:06.760 They're getting closer 252 00:14:06.760 --> 00:14:08.960 to the more attentive side of the scale. 253 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:10.120 They're more attentive, 254 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:12.720 and that means that the body's like, 255 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:15.160 okay, I can rest now. 256 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:16.720 What happens in theta, 257 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:21.720 and they have tested this on very severe PTSD patients, 258 00:14:23.400 --> 00:14:25.240 people who've come back from the military 259 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.720 and have suffered from major PTSD, 260 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:30.840 they've had them go through meditation. 261 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.960 In other words, lower their brainwaves down to theta for, 262 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:34.800 I don't remember, 263 00:14:34.800 --> 00:14:38.160 it's actually a very short amount of time every day. 264 00:14:38.160 --> 00:14:39.640 I thought it was 20 minutes, 265 00:14:39.640 --> 00:14:41.720 but let's just be conservative and say an hour. 266 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.800 An hour for every day for 20 days. 267 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:50.280 They saw significant improvement in their PTSD 268 00:14:50.280 --> 00:14:54.600 just by dropping their brainwaves into theta 269 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:56.840 because their body has stored, 270 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:57.960 and this is one of the things. 271 00:14:57.960 --> 00:14:59.080 Your body can rest, 272 00:14:59.080 --> 00:14:59.920 and your body, 273 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.080 understand when our body is at rest, 274 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:04.760 because all aspects of us need rest, including our body. 275 00:15:04.760 --> 00:15:06.920 When our body is at rest, it finally 276 00:15:06.920 --> 00:15:12.280 is able to release things that it has manifested of what 277 00:15:12.280 --> 00:15:13.600 it is that we've believed. 278 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:15.560 All the stress that you've had in your life 279 00:15:15.560 --> 00:15:20.000 that you have not released is present in your body currently. 280 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.240 And that's why we're all sick. 281 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:23.760 You can hear me. 282 00:15:23.760 --> 00:15:24.560 It's why we're sick. 283 00:15:24.560 --> 00:15:27.880 It's why we're susceptible to illnesses, et cetera. 284 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:34.320 It's why we all are very aware of the fact that it'll 285 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:39.240 add to like, it helps, it increases, 286 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:41.200 stress will increase body fat. 287 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.520 Not just because of how we've eaten, 288 00:15:43.520 --> 00:15:47.600 but the fact of how it actually responds to stress. 289 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:49.720 So it's not just the fact that you eat a lot, 290 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:53.360 it's how your body handles what it is that you've eaten. 291 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:55.600 Because it thinks you're under stress. 292 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:57.120 So anything that we have believed 293 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:59.600 that is an accusation against God, 294 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:02.120 we'll be talking more and giving more context about that 295 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:03.000 this evening. 296 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:04.640 But any aspect of ourselves that we 297 00:16:04.640 --> 00:16:09.120 have believed something about the Lord that's a lie, 298 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:14.320 excuse me, manifests into our body physically in some way. 299 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:20.680 And stress gets stored in our cells in a variety of forms. 300 00:16:20.680 --> 00:16:26.120 And in Theta, they have noticed that your body heals faster 301 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:28.720 than it does in sleep because it's finally 302 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:31.400 able to be at rest because your brain is still active. 303 00:16:31.400 --> 00:16:35.560 And you start releasing stress all the way back 304 00:16:35.560 --> 00:16:38.160 to when you were three years old. 305 00:16:38.160 --> 00:16:41.160 Your body can start finally releasing this stress 306 00:16:41.160 --> 00:16:43.360 that even when you've gone to sleep, 307 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:45.120 it hasn't been able to do. 308 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.880 It hasn't had enough time and low energy 309 00:16:47.880 --> 00:16:52.760 in order to be able to release it and let it go. 310 00:16:52.760 --> 00:16:57.520 So while this is important for our bodies to be at rest 311 00:16:57.520 --> 00:17:01.080 and to begin to start releasing all of that stress, 312 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:03.520 I personally have noticed a physical difference 313 00:17:03.520 --> 00:17:06.560 in doing this in my body being released 314 00:17:06.560 --> 00:17:08.599 from the physical manifestations of stress, which 315 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:10.760 is very fascinating. 316 00:17:10.760 --> 00:17:20.160 But we're using it in order to lower our resistance 317 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:23.800 and to lower the amount of noise. 318 00:17:23.800 --> 00:17:27.359 This here is a lot of noise going on, a lot of thoughts, 319 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.600 a lot of things that we're calculating and analyzing 320 00:17:30.600 --> 00:17:32.920 and measuring in order to make sure that we're provided 321 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:35.480 for, protected, et cetera. 322 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:39.800 But anyway, so down here in Theta, 323 00:17:39.800 --> 00:17:44.600 we're more, we feel, you abandon yourself 324 00:17:44.600 --> 00:17:48.720 and you release yourself to trust that you're safe. 325 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:52.120 So anyway, it's scientific. 326 00:17:52.120 --> 00:17:52.880 It's not scary. 327 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:54.800 If you don't want to do it, you don't have to. 328 00:17:54.800 --> 00:17:56.960 But I promise, you just choose. 329 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:58.240 You know, I'm the Lord. 330 00:17:58.240 --> 00:17:59.480 The Lord created all things. 331 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:01.400 He created my brain to work like this. 332 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:03.000 He even says the word, he even talks 333 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.160 about meditating in the Bible. 334 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:09.760 But just because nonbelievers have taken something 335 00:18:09.760 --> 00:18:14.040 good that our God created does not 336 00:18:14.040 --> 00:18:17.280 mean that the original that God created is corrupt. 337 00:18:17.280 --> 00:18:20.520 It means we shouldn't do it in that way. 338 00:18:20.520 --> 00:18:22.480 I mean, Satan will take anything good of God 339 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:25.240 and will pervert it. 340 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:27.440 But anyway, when I was learning all this, 341 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:32.440 actually, I asked the Lord, OK, God, I can see you in there. 342 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:37.920 But I don't understand how to understand this. 343 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:40.840 The way I'm explaining is how I began to learn it 344 00:18:40.840 --> 00:18:42.360 from a godly perspective. 345 00:18:42.360 --> 00:18:43.840 But when I first was learning this, 346 00:18:43.840 --> 00:18:45.960 I was hearing it from secular teachers. 347 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:47.840 And I said, God, I can hear you in there. 348 00:18:47.840 --> 00:18:49.880 In fact, honestly, God's the one who led me there. 349 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:50.880 He said, Ashley, I'm in there. 350 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:51.760 Go find me. 351 00:18:51.760 --> 00:18:52.280 So I found him. 352 00:18:52.280 --> 00:18:53.880 They're like, oh, my word, Lord, there you are. 353 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:55.760 I can see that you created these things. 354 00:18:55.760 --> 00:18:58.880 The thing is, Lord, all of these teachers don't believe in you. 355 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:01.200 And they're coming at it from a corrupted foundation. 356 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:02.880 And I want no part of that. 357 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:06.160 So will you redeem this for me and show me 358 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:07.880 your original intention for these laws 359 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:08.880 and these principles? 360 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:10.480 Anyway, so I just wanted to give people 361 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:13.440 a scientific explanation of what's really going on here, 362 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:17.600 of what it is that we're doing. 363 00:19:17.600 --> 00:19:21.680 But so here's the exercise. 364 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:25.360 The first one is we're going to learn how to, so to speak, 365 00:19:25.360 --> 00:19:26.360 not think. 366 00:19:26.360 --> 00:19:28.320 We're going to learn how to. 367 00:19:28.320 --> 00:19:29.880 And it's not that we're not thinking. 368 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:34.280 It's that we're zeroing in on a particular focus 369 00:19:34.280 --> 00:19:37.520 because we choose so. 370 00:19:37.520 --> 00:19:41.640 A son of God is propelled through life by his will 371 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:43.960 because he chooses. 372 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:46.920 And we're trying to get back to that place 373 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:49.920 where we are not a victim and we're not allowing ourselves 374 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.560 to just be kind of like hit, hither and yon, 375 00:19:52.560 --> 00:19:57.480 but that the trajectory of our lives, 376 00:19:57.480 --> 00:19:59.960 and I don't mean like, oh, well, what kind of career? 377 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.000 I just mean us together with the Lord. 378 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:04.440 So I'm not talking again, you know, 379 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:05.840 we've emphasized union enough. 380 00:20:05.840 --> 00:20:07.320 I'm not talking about separation. 381 00:20:07.320 --> 00:20:08.720 In union with the Lord, 382 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:11.120 the way that our lives are propelled forward 383 00:20:11.120 --> 00:20:14.720 is our will and God's will together 384 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:17.360 and moving in a particular trajectory. 385 00:20:17.360 --> 00:20:19.420 And yes, our will is involved. 386 00:20:19.420 --> 00:20:21.800 It's not like, you know, God, 387 00:20:21.800 --> 00:20:23.640 we're just, God's doing what he wants 388 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:24.640 and we're along for the ride 389 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:26.240 and we just hope we don't get squashed 390 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:30.560 and, you know, as a result of his decisions. 391 00:20:30.560 --> 00:20:31.960 There's a co-laboring there. 392 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:33.520 He's maturing us into the co-laboring, 393 00:20:33.520 --> 00:20:34.640 but we'll get into that. 394 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:35.960 Anyways, there's a co-laboring there 395 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:37.840 and that's what we're trying to identify 396 00:20:37.840 --> 00:20:39.440 and recognize about ourselves. 397 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:41.820 So in this exercise, what I would recommend, 398 00:20:41.820 --> 00:20:45.380 you can form this however you want to, 399 00:20:45.380 --> 00:20:47.300 but I'll tell you how I do it. 400 00:20:47.300 --> 00:20:49.400 That's been very helpful to me. 401 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:54.400 So is, I go, I close my eyes 402 00:20:55.400 --> 00:21:00.400 and imagine blackness, excuse me. 403 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:03.680 But what I needed is I needed, 404 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:05.880 in order to kind of keep my attention, so to speak, 405 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:07.600 I needed something to focus on. 406 00:21:07.600 --> 00:21:10.800 So I would imagine like a white light in front of me 407 00:21:10.800 --> 00:21:15.040 and then in order to make me feel like Jesus was with me, 408 00:21:15.040 --> 00:21:16.880 as opposed to I'm alone in this blackness 409 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:18.960 and there's all these bad associations 410 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:21.280 that I have with darkness and blackness. 411 00:21:21.280 --> 00:21:22.680 By the way, darkness and blackness 412 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:24.680 in the Bible is a very good thing. 413 00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:27.400 It says that his treasures are found in the darkness. 414 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:29.080 The darkness does not belong to evil 415 00:21:29.080 --> 00:21:30.800 and darkness is not indicative of evil. 416 00:21:30.800 --> 00:21:32.480 Darkness is created by our own God. 417 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:33.960 It's an actual thing. 418 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:35.640 It's not simply the absence of light. 419 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:36.920 It's an actual thing. 420 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:38.960 So anyway, but it's of God. 421 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:40.960 But I have all these associations in my mind 422 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:43.760 of what darkness means and fear and blah, blah, blah. 423 00:21:43.760 --> 00:21:45.900 So I want to know that God is, 424 00:21:45.900 --> 00:21:47.220 but I'm creating blackness 425 00:21:47.220 --> 00:21:50.760 so that my mind can't be distracted. 426 00:21:50.760 --> 00:21:52.520 So I create blackness 427 00:21:52.520 --> 00:21:55.480 and then I create a focal point for myself 428 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:56.480 and I think of it as light 429 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:58.800 and then I just imagine that that's Jesus. 430 00:21:58.800 --> 00:22:00.960 Personally, I don't give him form 431 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:02.640 and I don't, and I just imagine, 432 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:04.400 okay, well, that's Jesus 433 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:07.440 and he's paying attention to me and he loves me, 434 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:08.680 but I let that be it. 435 00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:10.640 I don't focus on all these attributes 436 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:12.460 of who it is that God is and whatever 437 00:22:12.460 --> 00:22:13.680 because that's thinking. 438 00:22:15.120 --> 00:22:16.880 That's thoughts and I don't want that. 439 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:20.260 I just kind of get an idea in my mind. 440 00:22:20.780 --> 00:22:24.140 I focus on that and then what's going to happen 441 00:22:24.140 --> 00:22:25.780 is you just focus on it. 442 00:22:25.780 --> 00:22:29.720 You don't, you so to speak, try not to think, 443 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:31.740 but you're going to think. 444 00:22:31.740 --> 00:22:34.580 You're going to have thoughts and that's not bad. 445 00:22:34.580 --> 00:22:37.020 Here's how you deal with them. 446 00:22:37.020 --> 00:22:39.980 So remember us talking about spiritual warfare 447 00:22:39.980 --> 00:22:43.940 and the fact that it's much more powerful 448 00:22:43.940 --> 00:22:46.020 instead of battling spiritual warfare 449 00:22:46.020 --> 00:22:47.500 because you have to pay attention to it 450 00:22:47.500 --> 00:22:48.780 and whatever you pay attention to, 451 00:22:48.820 --> 00:22:50.700 you feed and you strengthen. 452 00:22:50.700 --> 00:22:52.500 So instead of paying attention to it, 453 00:22:52.500 --> 00:22:53.900 you just neutralize it. 454 00:22:54.940 --> 00:22:55.900 How many power over you? 455 00:22:55.900 --> 00:22:57.420 We're going to do that with our thoughts. 456 00:22:57.420 --> 00:22:58.780 You just neutralize them. 457 00:22:58.780 --> 00:23:01.020 So what we tend to do is, 458 00:23:01.020 --> 00:23:02.700 especially in meditation or anything 459 00:23:02.700 --> 00:23:03.820 in which we're trying to like, 460 00:23:03.820 --> 00:23:05.980 I'm trying to like not have all of these thoughts 461 00:23:05.980 --> 00:23:08.020 is we see thoughts as a threat. 462 00:23:08.020 --> 00:23:09.300 Oh no, I thought again. 463 00:23:09.300 --> 00:23:10.260 Oh no, there's another one. 464 00:23:10.260 --> 00:23:11.380 And I'm going to get us apparently, 465 00:23:11.380 --> 00:23:12.660 I'm really not doing this right. 466 00:23:12.660 --> 00:23:14.340 And oh no, there it is, I'm thinking again. 467 00:23:14.340 --> 00:23:17.740 And we see it as a threat and we have to, 468 00:23:17.740 --> 00:23:19.500 remember the very first thing that we always do 469 00:23:19.500 --> 00:23:21.820 before we try to figure out 470 00:23:21.820 --> 00:23:24.460 how do I deal with something actionably? 471 00:23:24.460 --> 00:23:26.540 Release yourself from shame and condemnation. 472 00:23:26.540 --> 00:23:27.820 What is it that we're doing? 473 00:23:27.820 --> 00:23:30.180 We're neutralizing the power of something. 474 00:23:30.180 --> 00:23:32.700 That's what going back to no shame and no condemnation is. 475 00:23:32.700 --> 00:23:34.340 We're constantly going back to that. 476 00:23:34.340 --> 00:23:37.660 So if you have a thought, think of it kind of like this. 477 00:23:37.660 --> 00:23:41.620 Imagine that you're in a plane and you are, 478 00:23:41.620 --> 00:23:44.180 if you're a kid and you've never been in a plane before 479 00:23:44.180 --> 00:23:46.260 and you don't understand clouds, 480 00:23:46.260 --> 00:23:47.660 then if you're above the clouds 481 00:23:47.660 --> 00:23:50.180 and then the plane starts to descend 482 00:23:50.180 --> 00:23:51.660 to an airport or whatever, 483 00:23:51.660 --> 00:23:54.740 and you as a child see you getting closer and closer 484 00:23:54.740 --> 00:23:56.020 and closer to the cloud and you think, 485 00:23:56.020 --> 00:23:57.980 oh no, we're going to crash. 486 00:23:57.980 --> 00:24:00.580 But then you just move through it, right? 487 00:24:00.580 --> 00:24:02.620 Well, that's what thoughts are. 488 00:24:02.620 --> 00:24:04.180 They're just going to come 489 00:24:04.180 --> 00:24:05.900 and you just let them go through you. 490 00:24:05.900 --> 00:24:06.980 And here's how you do that. 491 00:24:06.980 --> 00:24:08.620 You don't focus on them. 492 00:24:08.620 --> 00:24:09.740 Okay, there's that thought. 493 00:24:09.740 --> 00:24:10.580 Okay, whatever. 494 00:24:10.580 --> 00:24:12.020 There's that thought, whatever. 495 00:24:12.020 --> 00:24:14.100 You're going to think. 496 00:24:14.100 --> 00:24:14.940 So it's fine. 497 00:24:14.940 --> 00:24:17.660 It's not like there's going to be an absence of thought, 498 00:24:17.660 --> 00:24:22.460 but you don't, oh, okay, oh, there's another one. 499 00:24:22.460 --> 00:24:23.500 You don't focus on it. 500 00:24:23.500 --> 00:24:24.980 You're just moving through them. 501 00:24:24.980 --> 00:24:27.220 They're not a threat to you. 502 00:24:27.220 --> 00:24:28.740 You don't have to think about them. 503 00:24:28.740 --> 00:24:30.220 You don't have to pay attention to them. 504 00:24:30.220 --> 00:24:31.260 You don't have to recognize them. 505 00:24:31.260 --> 00:24:33.500 You don't have to acknowledge them. 506 00:24:33.500 --> 00:24:36.540 And so once I got that visual in my head of a cloud, 507 00:24:36.540 --> 00:24:39.420 I was like, all of a sudden I could do this. 508 00:24:39.420 --> 00:24:44.100 All of a sudden, I took control over my thoughts. 509 00:24:44.140 --> 00:24:48.700 I began to discover that I had, that I was not, 510 00:24:48.700 --> 00:24:49.780 and it was so weird. 511 00:24:49.780 --> 00:24:51.340 Just that thing about my thoughts 512 00:24:51.340 --> 00:24:53.060 and going through this exercise 513 00:24:53.060 --> 00:24:57.060 helped me truly solidify more and more for myself, 514 00:24:57.060 --> 00:24:58.580 especially the more that I did it, 515 00:24:58.580 --> 00:25:00.260 that I really was not. 516 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:08.260 a victim to my circumstances. I was not a victim in life. I was not subject to things. 517 00:25:08.260 --> 00:25:14.940 So that is the first exercise. If y'all have any questions, I'll just be walking around. 518 00:25:14.940 --> 00:25:17.940 If you struggle with something, you're wondering, okay, well, what about this and what about 519 00:25:17.940 --> 00:25:26.260 that, just feel free to raise your hand. We'll be doing this for, I think, approximately 520 00:25:26.260 --> 00:25:30.220 ten minutes. I know that that sounds like a long time, but trust me, I usually would 521 00:25:30.220 --> 00:25:38.000 do this for over an hour. And it would feel, once I got good at it, I was so much down 522 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:44.580 into theta that I thought I had been only doing it for ten minutes, and I'd look up 523 00:25:44.580 --> 00:25:50.220 and it'd be an hour and fifteen. And I did that repeatedly. Because my brain waves had 524 00:25:50.220 --> 00:25:56.700 slowed down so much. Anyway, that's just kind of how it works. So it's very fascinating. 525 00:25:56.700 --> 00:26:00.580 But the whole point of this is a practice, and I want to make sure that people really 526 00:26:00.580 --> 00:26:07.740 get a good, solid practice in. I usually do it much longer than this. So that's the first 527 00:26:07.740 --> 00:26:12.180 one, and then after this, we'll talk about the second exercise. So y'all can go ahead 528 00:26:12.180 --> 00:26:40.700 and do that. If y'all have any questions, just feel free to raise your hand, let me 529 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:24.580 We all deserve better. 530 00:30:24.580 --> 00:30:28.420 All the season spent together is precious. 531 00:30:36.420 --> 00:30:39.520 Even with God's help, 532 00:30:39.520 --> 00:30:43.640 We won't ask for money. 533 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:52.420 Sacrifice is God's way. 534 00:30:55.420 --> 00:30:59.420 We will not ask for money. 535 00:31:03.420 --> 00:31:07.420 We will not ask for money. 536 00:31:12.420 --> 00:31:16.420 We will not ask for money. 537 00:31:17.260 --> 00:31:19.640 Sacrifice is God's way. 538 00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:28.100 We will not ask for money. 539 00:31:29.080 --> 00:31:31.040 We will not ask for money. 540 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.440 Sacrifice is God's way. 541 00:31:39.840 --> 00:31:42.440 We will not ask for money. 542 00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:15.440 Sacrifice is God's way. 543 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:18.440 Sacrifice is God's way. 544 00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:21.440 Sacrifice is God's way. 545 00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:24.440 Sacrifice is God's way. 546 00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:27.440 Sacrifice is God's way. 547 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:30.440 Sacrifice is God's way. 548 00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:32.440 Okay. 549 00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:35.440 Before we move on to the next exercise, 550 00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:39.440 did anyone have any questions about that? 551 00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:41.440 Anything that they ran into that they weren't expecting? 552 00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:43.440 Or found it harder than they were expecting? 553 00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:44.440 Or they were wondering, 554 00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:46.440 is this supposed to be this easy? 555 00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:48.440 Does anyone have anything? 556 00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:49.440 I know it's pretty simple, 557 00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:51.440 but for me personally, 558 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:53.440 I didn't have someone to articulate 559 00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:54.440 these things so much for me, 560 00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:57.440 and so I found if I wasn't careful, 561 00:34:57.440 --> 00:34:59.440 I could find it frustrating. 562 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.240 So I had to continually just release it and just like, 563 00:35:02.240 --> 00:35:03.240 it's all okay. 564 00:35:03.240 --> 00:35:04.560 I'll figure it out. 565 00:35:04.560 --> 00:35:05.720 I just shifted to rest. 566 00:35:05.720 --> 00:35:06.560 Yeah, Linda. 567 00:35:06.560 --> 00:35:09.200 So I heard that breathing should go with that. 568 00:35:09.200 --> 00:35:12.640 So do you have a breathing part that goes with it too? 569 00:35:12.640 --> 00:35:13.640 I don't. 570 00:35:13.640 --> 00:35:16.440 I know that there is, and breathing is very, very important. 571 00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:18.880 So God breathed into us the breath of life. 572 00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:21.000 There's so much about ourselves 573 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:23.040 that is connected to our breath. 574 00:35:23.040 --> 00:35:25.600 However, for me, I find when I, 575 00:35:25.600 --> 00:35:29.440 so for so many people, that helps them slow down 576 00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:32.160 and it helps them be able to, you know, 577 00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:35.120 to move down into theta and all of that. 578 00:35:35.120 --> 00:35:37.000 For me, it's been distracting. 579 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.120 I can just move down into theta without the breathing. 580 00:35:39.120 --> 00:35:42.640 If I start trying to, you know, cadence my breathing, 581 00:35:42.640 --> 00:35:44.600 it throws me off. 582 00:35:44.600 --> 00:35:46.440 Now there is such a thing as like starting 583 00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:48.120 a particular cadence with your breathing. 584 00:35:48.120 --> 00:35:49.280 You can do a variety of things, 585 00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:51.560 which I can go through just really quick. 586 00:35:51.560 --> 00:35:54.280 And they can start you and then you just, 587 00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:56.480 and then you don't keep it up. 588 00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:57.800 You just let it go. 589 00:35:57.800 --> 00:35:58.880 You just keep going, 590 00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:01.800 but you keep doing whatever it is you're doing, 591 00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:04.240 but you stop trying to breathe in that cadence. 592 00:36:04.240 --> 00:36:08.120 But it triggers your body to start slowing down, 593 00:36:08.120 --> 00:36:09.720 you know, because your brain is in your body. 594 00:36:09.720 --> 00:36:12.240 So it can help trigger that slow, 595 00:36:12.240 --> 00:36:16.720 that trigger it to slow down. 596 00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:20.200 Me personally, I have found it a hindrance. 597 00:36:20.200 --> 00:36:22.240 I'm not, because now I'm thinking. 598 00:36:22.240 --> 00:36:26.360 And me being me, I'm very triggered by rules. 599 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:30.880 You know, with my background and my tendencies 600 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:35.440 to think that I have to do something 601 00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:36.800 in order to be pleasing to God 602 00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:38.720 or in order for something to be right. 603 00:36:40.080 --> 00:36:43.760 So I try to release myself from rules as much as possible 604 00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:46.320 because they're very triggering for me. 605 00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:49.680 Very easy for me to go into self-condemnation, so. 606 00:36:49.680 --> 00:36:51.800 But yeah, there's, so as for breathing, 607 00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:54.840 if any of y'all, if any, it has worked for y'all, 608 00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:56.560 something that y'all can do. 609 00:36:56.600 --> 00:36:58.240 Like if you found yourself too agitated 610 00:36:58.240 --> 00:37:02.280 or still too attentive, maybe, 611 00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:04.800 and you couldn't get down into a restful state, 612 00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:11.280 you can do things like, you can do different box, 613 00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:13.960 you can do box breathing, which is where, 614 00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:16.320 and by the way, whenever you breathe, 615 00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:18.200 you always start with breathing, I don't know why, 616 00:37:18.200 --> 00:37:20.800 but you start with breathing out, not with breathing in. 617 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:24.440 So you breathe out for four, hold for four, 618 00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:27.120 in for four, hold for four, 619 00:37:27.120 --> 00:37:30.160 out for four, hold for four, et cetera. 620 00:37:30.160 --> 00:37:31.520 So it's called box breathing. 621 00:37:31.520 --> 00:37:33.960 And it's called box because you stop. 622 00:37:33.960 --> 00:37:36.640 You stop at the top and you stop again at the bottom. 623 00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:40.640 There's other things that you can do 624 00:37:40.640 --> 00:37:43.160 where you just breathe, excuse me, 625 00:37:43.160 --> 00:37:46.360 you breathe in for, I'm trying to remember, 626 00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:49.320 you breathe in, really, you can, 627 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:51.360 me personally, my favorite is something 628 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:52.680 that is very easy and simple 629 00:37:53.240 --> 00:37:55.240 and has a repetitive cadence to it, 630 00:37:55.240 --> 00:37:57.240 like as in, it's the same all the way around, 631 00:37:57.240 --> 00:37:58.480 like that box breathing, 632 00:37:58.480 --> 00:37:59.960 but I don't like the stopping and starting. 633 00:37:59.960 --> 00:38:02.320 It throws me off and it gets me to thinking again. 634 00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:04.840 But what you, my favorites are things like, 635 00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:08.880 breathe in for eight and then breathe out for eight. 636 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:12.760 So it's the same, but there's also a benefit 637 00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:15.040 in breathing in quickly, like breathing in 638 00:38:15.040 --> 00:38:20.040 for maybe, say, two or four and then breathing out for eight. 639 00:38:21.040 --> 00:38:25.800 And the reason that you focus on the out in breathing 640 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:28.640 is the same as, because your body is manifesting 641 00:38:28.640 --> 00:38:31.640 the same physical, the same laws in the visible 642 00:38:31.640 --> 00:38:33.920 that are true in the metaphysical and the spiritual, 643 00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:37.280 which is the point is to let go. 644 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:41.080 So you always focus on the breathing out, 645 00:38:41.080 --> 00:38:43.160 not on the breathing, on the breathing out, 646 00:38:43.160 --> 00:38:44.200 not the breathing in. 647 00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:48.640 Anyway, I just found that connection really fascinating. 648 00:38:50.040 --> 00:38:51.360 And those are some ideas. 649 00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:52.560 Yeah, so anyway. 650 00:38:52.560 --> 00:38:55.520 So pick whatever works for you, whatever helps. 651 00:38:55.520 --> 00:38:57.360 This might be a silly question. 652 00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:01.320 So is this meditation mainly to just get you 653 00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:04.120 in the closest state of rest without sleeping 654 00:39:04.120 --> 00:39:06.000 and to let things go? 655 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:09.640 Or is there, because I always felt like a meditation 656 00:39:09.640 --> 00:39:12.320 is more to like focus on something 657 00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:15.920 or to make your brain basically at rest 658 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:19.240 so that you hear the words. 659 00:39:19.240 --> 00:39:20.720 You can do that too. 660 00:39:20.720 --> 00:39:21.560 You can do that too. 661 00:39:21.560 --> 00:39:25.240 So there you can, so for those of you who couldn't hear, 662 00:39:25.240 --> 00:39:28.240 cause I'm sorry, I know I'm the only one with a microphone. 663 00:39:28.240 --> 00:39:31.680 She was asking that she'd heard that meditation. 664 00:39:31.680 --> 00:39:34.240 It is also for us to actually, 665 00:39:34.240 --> 00:39:36.320 where we're supposed to focus on something. 666 00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:37.960 We're supposed to focus on a Bible verse. 667 00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:39.520 We're supposed to focus on the Lord. 668 00:39:39.520 --> 00:39:42.680 We're supposed to, or we're supposed to focus 669 00:39:42.680 --> 00:39:45.220 on hearing something from him. 670 00:39:46.140 --> 00:39:49.300 But, and so you can do that, absolutely. 671 00:39:49.300 --> 00:39:51.860 So there's a variety of ways you can, 672 00:39:53.260 --> 00:39:56.060 there's a variety of things that you can do down here, 673 00:39:56.060 --> 00:39:59.980 but the operating down here, so to speak, is meditation. 674 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.760 You're bringing yourself down here to do something 675 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:08.160 is basically meditation. 676 00:40:08.160 --> 00:40:10.280 I don't want to say that it's so far as whenever 677 00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:12.960 you're in theta, you're necessarily 678 00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:14.240 a meditative state. 679 00:40:14.240 --> 00:40:16.480 I'm just trying to draw a very simple connection. 680 00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:18.960 So you're just down here in the state, 681 00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:20.840 and you can do a variety of things down here. 682 00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:22.720 What we were doing was we were just 683 00:40:22.720 --> 00:40:26.320 learning how to focus on one thing and the fact 684 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:28.840 that we are completely in control 685 00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:31.520 and that we're not threatened by anything 686 00:40:31.520 --> 00:40:35.680 that wants to come at us, Satan, a thought, whatever. 687 00:40:35.680 --> 00:40:42.000 So it was just to help us actually experience 688 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:50.960 being the king in a situation where nothing is a threat to us 689 00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:55.240 because we are neutralizing everything that's coming to us. 690 00:40:55.240 --> 00:40:57.040 It was just practice for that. 691 00:40:57.200 --> 00:40:59.520 The next one we're going to do is also meditation, 692 00:40:59.520 --> 00:41:01.360 but this time we're focusing on something. 693 00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:03.920 So it's all different. 694 00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:05.520 Anybody else have a question before we 695 00:41:05.520 --> 00:41:06.520 go on to the next one? 696 00:41:06.520 --> 00:41:07.520 Uh-huh? 697 00:41:07.520 --> 00:41:09.000 I have a couple of questions. 698 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:14.240 Is theta like the same as being like going into a trance? 699 00:41:14.240 --> 00:41:15.920 No. 700 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:20.480 I honestly am not fully sure what a trance is, 701 00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:21.480 but there is an aspect. 702 00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:23.440 I mean, meaning like I haven't experienced it, 703 00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:25.760 but there is an aspect in which in a trance 704 00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:27.400 you're not in control. 705 00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:31.120 So the Bible, in the Bible, they went into trances. 706 00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:34.760 It says in Peter, when he was given 707 00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:36.960 the vision of the sheep coming down with the animals, 708 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:39.480 it literally says in the Bible it was a trance. 709 00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:42.480 There's an aspect in which in a trance you're not in control. 710 00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:44.480 And now we're talking. 711 00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:46.720 So yes, you can go into a trance where 712 00:41:46.720 --> 00:41:50.520 it's like people are connecting with the bad spiritual side 713 00:41:50.520 --> 00:41:54.840 of things, but then there's also other, I mean, 714 00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:58.240 I've heard of ways, I've heard of other things. 715 00:41:58.240 --> 00:41:59.840 Peter apparently went into a trance, 716 00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:03.520 and that's where he saw his vision. 717 00:42:03.520 --> 00:42:05.760 I don't, I'm not familiar with trances. 718 00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:08.840 I've honestly never seen anybody in a trance. 719 00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:11.560 And I have, I mean, other than like something really weird 720 00:42:11.560 --> 00:42:13.520 that I just flashed across my YouTube sometimes, 721 00:42:13.520 --> 00:42:15.980 like, oh my word, get that away, because that was obviously 722 00:42:15.980 --> 00:42:19.320 somebody who was Hindu or whatever. 723 00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:21.280 Or I don't know if you've seen the whirling 724 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:22.680 dervishes in Turkey. 725 00:42:22.680 --> 00:42:24.160 So I grew up in Turkey. 726 00:42:24.160 --> 00:42:26.440 And you are familiar with the whirling dervishes 727 00:42:26.440 --> 00:42:30.840 where they point one finger to the ground and one to the sky, 728 00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:33.840 and then they twirl for hours in one spot. 729 00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:36.400 The only way you can do, they actually 730 00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:43.080 are doing that using spiritual, like demonic spiritual forces 731 00:42:43.080 --> 00:42:46.200 to be able to stay in one spot and twirl like that. 732 00:42:46.200 --> 00:42:47.600 They're in a trance. 733 00:42:47.640 --> 00:42:49.920 They are out of it. 734 00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.400 But in Theta, no, we're not doing that. 735 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:54.440 You're still fully in control. 736 00:42:54.440 --> 00:42:59.760 So y'all were in Theta, and y'all, 737 00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:01.160 you knew what you were doing. 738 00:43:01.160 --> 00:43:02.360 You knew that you were there. 739 00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:06.120 You might have felt extremely lethargic. 740 00:43:06.120 --> 00:43:08.560 And your brain act, your thoughts 741 00:43:08.560 --> 00:43:11.040 might have slowed down over time, 742 00:43:11.040 --> 00:43:13.320 because like at the beginning, at the beginning, 743 00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:14.840 you might have had a lot of thoughts. 744 00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:16.360 And then you're bringing your, you're 745 00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:18.400 allowing your mind to slow down. 746 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:21.000 So the speed at which those thoughts came, 747 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:23.240 or the speed of your heart rate, slowed down 748 00:43:23.240 --> 00:43:25.720 as you realized that you were fully in control. 749 00:43:25.720 --> 00:43:28.240 But you were still aware. 750 00:43:28.240 --> 00:43:29.360 You were still there. 751 00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:31.600 So it's not the same thing as a trance. 752 00:43:31.600 --> 00:43:33.720 I'm not fully sure what your brain function exactly 753 00:43:33.720 --> 00:43:37.960 is doing in a trance, but it is very different. 754 00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:42.960 And people usually, like Tammy was talking about, 755 00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:46.520 hear the Lord better in Theta than in Beta, 756 00:43:46.520 --> 00:43:50.080 because there's just so much noise, 757 00:43:50.080 --> 00:43:52.360 that you have to be very spiritually sensitive 758 00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:54.520 and very spiritually in tune to be able to hear 759 00:43:54.520 --> 00:43:57.280 the Lord when you're in Beta. 760 00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:00.560 I did not know that until a friend of mine told me that. 761 00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:02.440 And they said, Ashley, I'm so surprised 762 00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:04.120 that you can hear the Lord like you do, 763 00:44:04.120 --> 00:44:06.480 operating like you do in Beta. 764 00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:08.160 I was like, well, I don't know. 765 00:44:08.160 --> 00:44:12.560 But I'm just very spiritually aware in certain areas 766 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:16.400 and there are so many people that I'm around, 767 00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:19.440 they spiritually sense and see all kinds of things. 768 00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:21.400 I'm like, man, that would be nice. 769 00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:25.440 But the point is that we can be sensitive 770 00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:28.160 to the voice of the Lord in Beta. 771 00:44:28.160 --> 00:44:30.000 The problem is we can also be threatened 772 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.080 with a whole bunch of noise that can confuse us 773 00:44:32.080 --> 00:44:33.160 if we're not careful. 774 00:44:34.080 --> 00:44:35.640 So a lot of times when people are learning 775 00:44:35.640 --> 00:44:38.200 how to hear from the Lord, they have to do it in Theta 776 00:44:38.200 --> 00:44:40.680 until they practice and learn enough. 777 00:44:40.680 --> 00:44:41.800 That's what I did. 778 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:43.880 I didn't have anybody to teach me that. 779 00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:45.840 That's how I went from Theta into Beta 780 00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:47.880 and could still hear the Lord 781 00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:51.560 because I became so in tune with what sounded like Him. 782 00:44:51.560 --> 00:44:56.240 But that was also not birthed from a very healthy place. 783 00:44:56.240 --> 00:44:58.080 That was birthed from a place that was, 784 00:44:58.080 --> 00:44:59.520 I mean, it birthed from a heart from the Lord, 785 00:44:59.520 --> 00:45:00.360 but I was also. 786 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.720 driving. I was also driving, so that wasn't really good. But anyway, but yeah, so it is 787 00:45:05.720 --> 00:45:11.140 like Tammy was implying. It's easier to hear the Lord in Theta when we're learning. But 788 00:45:11.140 --> 00:45:18.460 hearing the Lord is our, we are in Him, and therefore we always hear Him. God is always 789 00:45:18.460 --> 00:45:25.380 talking. This is resistance. We're increasing the resistance to being able to hear Him. 790 00:45:25.380 --> 00:45:31.480 But He's always talking. He's never not talking to us, always. If we can't hear Him, then 791 00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:36.200 we've created noise, and we're pushing back, and we're trying to release all of that. So 792 00:45:36.200 --> 00:45:40.800 that's one of the reasons why we do this, is to learn to drop that resistance to being 793 00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:49.040 able to hear the Lord. Yeah. Is there another question, or are we good? Okay, so we'll go 794 00:45:49.040 --> 00:45:55.500 to the next one really quick. So the next one is, we are going to think in this one. 795 00:45:55.500 --> 00:46:03.500 So when you, we're going to do the same exercise, so the same visual. It's, you're in blackness 796 00:46:03.500 --> 00:46:07.940 with a white light, or whatever ended up working for you. Only this time, when your thoughts 797 00:46:07.940 --> 00:46:13.180 come, recognize them, and notice what they are. Notice what they are, and don't judge 798 00:46:13.180 --> 00:46:18.760 them. I mean, it might be a good thought. Don't think well of yourself. It might be 799 00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:24.000 a bad thought. Don't think badly of yourself. Just like, what's there? And that's a me. 800 00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:28.040 And acknowledge that it is you. It's not going to help if you distance yourself from it, 801 00:46:28.040 --> 00:46:32.000 and be like, okay, well that's just a thought, and I'm not going to connect the fact that 802 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:35.660 I'm the one who thought that. You know, I'm not going to connect myself to that. You have 803 00:46:35.660 --> 00:46:42.920 to connect yourself with it. You have to realize, I thought that. I thought that. But don't 804 00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:49.060 create a judgment off of it where you make a determination about something about yourself 805 00:46:49.060 --> 00:46:55.220 as a result of having had that thought. That's what's important. And the reason that we do 806 00:46:55.220 --> 00:47:00.180 this is we're going, we have to do this in very strenuous situations where we have to 807 00:47:00.180 --> 00:47:05.420 shift into rest. We have to choose no shame and no condemnation, especially when we've 808 00:47:05.420 --> 00:47:11.820 just done something wrong. To not shift into shame and condemnation. I mean, it's hard 809 00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:18.200 enough to shift into no shame and no condemnation when we're being verbally abused by someone 810 00:47:18.200 --> 00:47:23.320 who's telling us lies, and it's easier, as hard as it is, to realize, okay, there is 811 00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:29.600 therefore no shame and no condemnation. It's hard for us to do that when we're being threatened 812 00:47:29.600 --> 00:47:34.960 with lies, but at the same time, that is easier than when we have actually done something 813 00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:40.320 wrong. Because with the other, there's a possibility that it's not true. Okay, well they're just 814 00:47:40.340 --> 00:47:45.860 saying that, just as they're saying that doesn't make it true. But what if you did it? And 815 00:47:45.860 --> 00:47:50.060 that's why the shame and the condemnation is going on. So even if you do it before you 816 00:47:50.060 --> 00:47:53.900 deal with this sin, you release yourself from shame and condemnation. What is the first 817 00:47:53.900 --> 00:48:00.900 thing that Jesus told the woman who committed adultery before he told her to repent? And 818 00:48:00.900 --> 00:48:06.020 remember what repentance is. He didn't tell her to bear sackcloth and ashes. He simply 819 00:48:06.040 --> 00:48:12.400 told her, go and sin no more. That's all that repentance is. Stop and do something different. 820 00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:17.080 But what did he tell her even before he told her to repent? He said, neither do I accuse 821 00:48:17.080 --> 00:48:24.080 you. He addressed condemnation first before the repentance. It's that important. So when 822 00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:31.000 you're looking at something, oh my goodness, Lord, I've just done this on my word. I'm 823 00:48:31.020 --> 00:48:37.220 starting to feel this remorse come up. Lord, I'm so sorry. Even before all of that, choose, 824 00:48:37.220 --> 00:48:41.740 God says no shame and no condemnation. It doesn't mean that you didn't just do that. 825 00:48:41.740 --> 00:48:48.740 It means that he does not condemn you for it. Choose that first before you choose repentance. 826 00:48:51.580 --> 00:48:57.060 God takes it that seriously. We've all been taught repentance is the most important thing. 827 00:48:57.060 --> 00:49:02.440 God says no. What it is that I've told you about yourself and to believe what it is that 828 00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:07.360 I've said is the most important thing. And I said that I've declared your identity and 829 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:13.040 part of your identity is no shame and no condemnation. So choose what I have said. Choose my word 830 00:49:13.040 --> 00:49:20.040 first. Here's my word. Here's your belief. Choose that first before and then from that 831 00:49:20.220 --> 00:49:27.220 your actions will, then you'll have, then you'll act. We don't have to drum up action. 832 00:49:28.900 --> 00:49:34.140 If we believe God's word, we're going to automatically act because it's who it is that we are as 833 00:49:34.140 --> 00:49:38.180 opposed to, okay, well, I shouldn't have done that. Okay, I need to try to do something 834 00:49:38.180 --> 00:49:42.420 different. Again, that's work, that's strife, that's effort. We have to shift and know who 835 00:49:42.420 --> 00:49:47.940 does God say that I am, no shame, no condemnation. Now from that point, what a person that knows 836 00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:51.440 who it is that they are in Christ, that finally recognizes their identity, would they have 837 00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:55.240 done something like that? Well, no. So it's very easy to repent because you're not going 838 00:49:55.240 --> 00:49:59.940 to do it anymore, right? So anyway, it's, that's why this 839 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.360 This exercise is another reason why this is very important. 840 00:50:03.360 --> 00:50:06.760 Partly, again, your thoughts are not 841 00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:10.840 things and objects outside of you that you're threatened with. 842 00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:13.800 Oh my word, I can't believe I thought that. 843 00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:14.880 What does it say about me? 844 00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:15.680 Whatever. 845 00:50:15.680 --> 00:50:17.200 They are not a threat. 846 00:50:17.200 --> 00:50:18.480 They're absolutely not. 847 00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:23.040 So we are releasing ourself from shame and condemnation. 848 00:50:23.040 --> 00:50:24.560 So we're practicing that. 849 00:50:24.560 --> 00:50:28.920 We're also practicing, again, just like what we did last time 850 00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:32.880 to realize that thoughts are not a threat, 851 00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:34.600 even when we recognize them. 852 00:50:34.600 --> 00:50:36.560 It was a lot easier in the earlier exercise 853 00:50:36.560 --> 00:50:38.300 to realize that thoughts weren't a threat 854 00:50:38.300 --> 00:50:39.680 because we're not paying attention to them. 855 00:50:39.680 --> 00:50:41.280 We're just moving through them. 856 00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:43.640 Just like, whatever, whatever, I don't know. 857 00:50:43.640 --> 00:50:45.360 I kind of sort of got an idea of what that thought was. 858 00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:47.720 And well, I really got an idea of what that thought was. 859 00:50:47.720 --> 00:50:49.200 And well, I kind of sort of know what that thought was, 860 00:50:49.200 --> 00:50:50.120 but whatever. 861 00:50:50.120 --> 00:50:52.120 But this one, you're acknowledging it 862 00:50:52.120 --> 00:50:54.720 and you're realizing, I thought that. 863 00:50:54.720 --> 00:50:56.440 Make a connection with it. 864 00:50:56.440 --> 00:51:00.240 I'm not saying own it, like taking it into yourself 865 00:51:00.240 --> 00:51:02.400 and take responsibility for it and all of that. 866 00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:04.840 I'm just saying acknowledge the connection 867 00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:06.920 and realize that you're not in condemnation 868 00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.000 because that's going to trigger condemnation. 869 00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:11.640 You're trying to trigger your old condemnation 870 00:51:11.640 --> 00:51:13.720 and you release yourself from it. 871 00:51:13.720 --> 00:51:16.680 So we're putting ourselves into that situation. 872 00:51:16.680 --> 00:51:20.520 Honestly, these are very, very basic things 873 00:51:20.520 --> 00:51:23.320 that will teach us at kind of like a subliminal level 874 00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:25.800 how to do things that we'll be talking about 875 00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:29.200 either tonight or tomorrow morning 876 00:51:29.200 --> 00:51:31.160 about how to actually release things 877 00:51:31.160 --> 00:51:35.040 and shift into rest in a moment 878 00:51:35.040 --> 00:51:37.240 where you were in the middle of a situation 879 00:51:37.240 --> 00:51:39.200 and someone has just said something to you. 880 00:51:39.200 --> 00:51:41.200 Someone is sitting there verbally abusing you. 881 00:51:41.200 --> 00:51:43.800 Someone, you know, something just happened. 882 00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:45.880 You've just been threatened with a, you know, 883 00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:48.400 I don't know, somebody called you 884 00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:50.280 and told you some really bad news or whatever. 885 00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:53.360 And you have to shift into rest in a moment. 886 00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:54.800 You have to release yourself first 887 00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:56.200 from shame and condemnation. 888 00:51:56.200 --> 00:52:00.120 And there's all this other releasing that, 889 00:52:00.120 --> 00:52:00.960 it's not complicated, 890 00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:03.200 but there's some releasing that we need to do. 891 00:52:03.200 --> 00:52:07.320 But the thing that it gives us power, so to speak, 892 00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:10.520 to realize, in other words, empowers us to realize 893 00:52:10.520 --> 00:52:13.360 I can do this and allows us to move into it 894 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:15.440 is if we understand first our identity 895 00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:16.960 and that we're not threatened. 896 00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:19.920 So we're practicing first with our thoughts 897 00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:21.520 because that's where we feel 898 00:52:21.520 --> 00:52:23.240 the majority of the threat from. 899 00:52:24.640 --> 00:52:27.560 Okay, so if, like I said, 900 00:52:27.560 --> 00:52:30.080 the, you know, just think of the blackness again 901 00:52:30.080 --> 00:52:31.920 and the white light, if that helps you, 902 00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:33.920 that helps me because it gives me something to focus on. 903 00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:37.320 And then as thoughts just come to your head, 904 00:52:38.160 --> 00:52:39.480 let them go by you. 905 00:52:39.480 --> 00:52:40.800 Don't hold on to them. 906 00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:42.960 Don't grab a hold of it, take it into you, 907 00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:44.040 think about it. 908 00:52:44.040 --> 00:52:45.520 We're not analyzing it. 909 00:52:45.520 --> 00:52:48.280 We're acknowledging it and realizing it was that thought 910 00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:49.480 and I thought that. 911 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:51.520 And then let's move on to the next one. 912 00:52:51.520 --> 00:52:55.080 You're not thinking about it from every angle. 913 00:52:55.080 --> 00:52:56.720 You're not grabbing hold of anything. 914 00:52:56.720 --> 00:52:58.640 You're letting them still move past you. 915 00:52:58.640 --> 00:53:00.320 Think of kind of like Star Wars, you know? 916 00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:01.600 You know, at the entry, you know, 917 00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:03.360 where you're kind of like moving through the stars? 918 00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:05.000 It's that kind of an idea. 919 00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:06.520 And they're moving by. 920 00:53:06.520 --> 00:53:07.920 Just acknowledge them as they go by, 921 00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:09.160 but let them go by. 922 00:53:09.160 --> 00:53:11.520 Don't ever grab a hold of one 923 00:53:11.520 --> 00:53:12.520 because when you grab a hold of it, 924 00:53:12.520 --> 00:53:14.080 you give it power over you 925 00:53:14.080 --> 00:53:15.840 because you're giving it attention. 926 00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:20.160 So, I think that's it. 927 00:53:20.160 --> 00:53:22.520 Does anyone have any questions before we start? 928 00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:24.960 Good? 929 00:53:24.960 --> 00:53:26.800 Okay, we can go ahead and start then. 930 00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:39.280 ♪♪♪ 931 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:49.280 ♪♪♪ 932 00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:59.280 ♪♪♪ 933 00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:09.280 ♪♪♪ 934 00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:19.280 ♪♪♪ 935 00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:29.280 ♪♪♪ 936 00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:39.280 ♪♪♪ 937 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:49.280 ♪♪♪ 938 00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:59.280 ♪♪♪ 939 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:10.000 ♪♪ 940 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:20.020 ♪♪ 941 00:55:20.020 --> 00:55:30.020 ♪♪ 942 00:55:30.020 --> 00:55:40.040 ♪♪ 943 00:55:40.040 --> 00:55:50.040 ♪♪ 944 00:55:50.040 --> 00:56:00.060 ♪♪ 945 00:56:00.060 --> 00:56:10.060 ♪♪ 946 00:56:10.060 --> 00:56:20.080 ♪♪ 947 00:56:20.080 --> 00:56:30.080 ♪♪ 948 00:56:30.080 --> 00:56:40.100 ♪♪ 949 00:56:40.100 --> 00:56:50.100 ♪♪ 950 00:56:50.100 --> 00:57:00.120 ♪♪ 951 00:57:00.120 --> 00:57:10.120 ♪♪ 952 00:57:10.120 --> 00:57:20.140 ♪♪ 953 00:57:20.140 --> 00:57:30.140 ♪♪ 954 00:57:30.140 --> 00:57:40.160 ♪♪ 955 00:57:40.160 --> 00:57:50.160 ♪♪ 956 00:57:50.160 --> 00:58:00.180 ♪♪ 957 00:58:00.180 --> 00:58:10.180 ♪♪ 958 00:58:10.180 --> 00:58:20.200 ♪♪ 959 00:58:20.200 --> 00:58:30.220 ♪♪ 960 00:58:30.220 --> 00:58:40.220 ♪♪ 961 00:58:40.220 --> 00:58:50.240 ♪♪ 962 00:58:50.240 --> 00:59:00.240 ♪♪ 963 00:59:00.240 --> 00:59:10.260 ♪♪ 964 00:59:10.260 --> 00:59:20.260 ♪♪ 965 00:59:20.260 --> 00:59:30.280 ♪♪ 966 00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:40.280 ♪♪ 967 00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:50.300 ♪♪ 968 00:59:50.300 --> 01:00:00.300 ♪♪ 969 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:10.000 ♪♪ 970 01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:20.020 ♪♪ 971 01:00:20.020 --> 01:00:30.020 ♪♪ 972 01:00:30.020 --> 01:00:40.040 ♪♪ 973 01:00:40.040 --> 01:00:50.040 ♪♪ 974 01:00:50.040 --> 01:01:00.060 ♪♪ 975 01:01:00.060 --> 01:01:10.060 ♪♪ 976 01:01:10.060 --> 01:01:20.080 ♪♪ 977 01:01:20.080 --> 01:01:30.080 ♪♪ 978 01:01:30.080 --> 01:01:40.100 ♪♪ 979 01:01:40.100 --> 01:01:50.100 ♪♪ 980 01:01:50.100 --> 01:02:00.120 ♪♪ 981 01:02:00.120 --> 01:02:10.120 ♪♪ 982 01:02:10.120 --> 01:02:20.140 ♪♪ 983 01:02:20.140 --> 01:02:30.140 ♪♪ 984 01:02:30.140 --> 01:02:40.160 ♪♪ 985 01:02:40.160 --> 01:02:50.160 ♪♪ 986 01:02:50.160 --> 01:03:00.180 ♪♪ 987 01:03:00.180 --> 01:03:10.180 ♪♪ 988 01:03:10.180 --> 01:03:20.200 ♪♪ 989 01:03:20.200 --> 01:03:30.200 ♪♪ 990 01:03:30.200 --> 01:03:35.220 ♪♪ 991 01:03:35.220 --> 01:03:37.220 I always liked doing those exercises. 992 01:03:37.220 --> 01:03:39.220 I don't know what y'all thought about them, 993 01:03:39.220 --> 01:03:41.220 but I always like them. 994 01:03:41.220 --> 01:03:45.220 I get so, my brainwaves get so slow. 995 01:03:45.220 --> 01:03:48.220 I just sit down there and I immediately went into Theta 996 01:03:48.240 --> 01:03:50.240 because I practiced it a lot. 997 01:03:50.240 --> 01:03:56.260 And I love it because I, I don't know, I feel so relaxed. 998 01:03:56.260 --> 01:04:02.260 I feel better in Theta than I do asleep. 999 01:04:02.260 --> 01:04:05.260 There's something in me that's just very, very active. 1000 01:04:05.260 --> 01:04:08.260 You know, when I'm asleep, I feel more relaxed in Theta. 1001 01:04:08.260 --> 01:04:11.260 I feel, different things will happen. 1002 01:04:11.260 --> 01:04:14.240 Sometimes I feel tingly all over. 1003 01:04:14.240 --> 01:04:15.240 I don't know if y'all felt like that. 1004 01:04:15.240 --> 01:04:17.240 You know, if you feel extremely relaxed 1005 01:04:17.260 --> 01:04:18.260 when someone's like, I don't know, 1006 01:04:18.260 --> 01:04:20.260 they're brushing your hair or they're, you know, 1007 01:04:20.260 --> 01:04:21.260 they're doing whatever. 1008 01:04:21.260 --> 01:04:23.260 It can, it can relax you to the point you feel, 1009 01:04:23.260 --> 01:04:24.260 you feel tingles. 1010 01:04:24.260 --> 01:04:28.280 That's what I can feel when I sometimes go into, into Theta. 1011 01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:29.280 So anyway, it doesn't always happen like that, 1012 01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:30.280 but it's very nice. 1013 01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:33.280 So I just enjoyed a moment by myself too. 1014 01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:35.280 I thought, they can't have all the fun. 1015 01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:43.260 But just anyone, one thing I wanted to mention is that 1016 01:04:43.260 --> 01:04:45.260 one of the reasons why we're doing this, 1017 01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:46.280 I've mentioned multiple reasons. 1018 01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:49.280 Another reason is, this is very important. 1019 01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:54.260 These aren't mindless, no pun intended, exercises. 1020 01:04:54.260 --> 01:04:59.260 You are actually taking, you're taking, 1021 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:06.000 God at his word. If he says there's no condemnation, then you're acting on it. So 1022 01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:09.840 you have these thoughts whether you're stopping and thinking about him, or 1023 01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:14.480 you're still doing the dishes, or you're taking care of your children, or you're 1024 01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:18.920 driving to work. So even you stopping and then you know making this kind of like 1025 01:05:18.920 --> 01:05:24.760 this this thing that you're like setting aside time to do, regardless of what's 1026 01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:29.960 going on, what else you're doing, you are actually, you're always thinking those 1027 01:05:29.960 --> 01:05:35.640 thoughts anyway. Only this time you are choosing to take your thoughts captive. 1028 01:05:35.640 --> 01:05:41.800 In other words, you own them. They are, it doesn't mean that you're gonna grab a 1029 01:05:41.800 --> 01:05:45.000 hold of them, and use them, and abuse them, and all this others, and all this 1030 01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:51.120 other stuff. It means you are, you lord over them. You are the king and they're 1031 01:05:51.120 --> 01:05:55.560 subject to you. So you're saying this is like an act of what y'all just went 1032 01:05:55.560 --> 01:06:00.840 through, those two exercises. Those are an act of faith. If God said it, then it's 1033 01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:05.520 true and I'm gonna act on it. God, these, these, so it's not, it's not 1034 01:06:05.520 --> 01:06:11.840 mindless. It's not time wasted. It's not busy work. It, yes, it is practice, but 1035 01:06:11.840 --> 01:06:16.040 you're, it's practice by actually doing the thing. But I'm saying that we're 1036 01:06:16.040 --> 01:06:20.960 practicing for other things because this is easier for us to grab a hold of than 1037 01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:26.320 that other step is that we're about to go to because then, then what it is 1038 01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:31.560 that we're gonna be talking about is how to do what we just did, how to release 1039 01:06:31.560 --> 01:06:37.440 while you're being triggered. And that's harder than when you're sitting there, 1040 01:06:37.440 --> 01:06:43.880 you know, I mean, how do you, how do you release up here? We're learning to 1041 01:06:43.880 --> 01:06:49.040 release down here when we have less resistance than up here when we have all 1042 01:06:49.040 --> 01:06:53.640 of this resistance because this is where God's saying, no, you're not under 1043 01:06:53.640 --> 01:06:59.240 threat. You have full permission to shift into freedom in this moment because it's 1044 01:06:59.240 --> 01:07:05.200 yours. So we're taking him at his word and we're learning to begin to apply it, 1045 01:07:05.200 --> 01:07:10.680 faith, at a, at a, at an easier level so that when it's really hard and it really 1046 01:07:10.680 --> 01:07:16.080 matters to be at rest and to shift into rest, we can do it. So that's why we're 1047 01:07:16.080 --> 01:07:21.960 doing all of that. So we're, we're taking God at his word. You believed him. God 1048 01:07:21.960 --> 01:07:25.320 gave you a word. You thought, okay, if God says that there is therefore now no 1049 01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:29.120 condemnation, when I had that thought, I'm gonna choose there's no, there is therefore 1050 01:07:29.120 --> 01:07:33.320 now no condemnation. Not that I don't, not that I know why there's no condemnation, 1051 01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:38.000 you know. I just, and some of you might be able to think off the top of your head, 1052 01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:42.000 oh, exactly why. But then some of you, you know, at a moment, especially when you're 1053 01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:45.200 like, oh my word, I don't know that. It just felt really bad. We can't think of 1054 01:07:45.200 --> 01:07:49.240 why, why we wouldn't, why we shouldn't feel under no condemnation, but you choose 1055 01:07:49.240 --> 01:07:54.760 it anyway. So God doesn't want us to choose him after we, after we hold him 1056 01:07:54.760 --> 01:08:03.360 hostage to, to, to giving us proof. So he doesn't want us to require proof before 1057 01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:10.280 we choose him. So, just because we are, we're waiting on supper, so I think we're 1058 01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:16.120 gonna go, supper's gonna be delivered at 5.30. So, unless y'all needed to go early, 1059 01:08:16.120 --> 01:08:19.439 do y'alls call it? Okay. So I figured that we would just go till 5.30, unless y'all 1060 01:08:19.439 --> 01:08:22.560 need to leave earlier, and then we can just cut off. Okay. So we, we've got two 1061 01:08:22.560 --> 01:08:25.040 different groups here, if you were doing two different things. So I wanted to make 1062 01:08:25.040 --> 01:08:31.000 sure we were all, I, I honored everybody's schedules. So we have time then, excuse me, 1063 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:38.439 for some Q and A's. So those of you who have, were, maybe had a private 1064 01:08:38.439 --> 01:08:41.359 consultation with me, and you maybe had more questions, and you didn't get to 1065 01:08:41.359 --> 01:08:46.359 finish answering them, and you feel okay asking them in a public setting, or some 1066 01:08:46.359 --> 01:08:51.200 other question that you've, you've had thus far, and feel free to ask it. We'll 1067 01:08:51.200 --> 01:08:56.319 have other opportunities, but I just thought that I would, because we don't 1068 01:08:56.319 --> 01:09:01.880 have very much time to go into the three realms until tonight. Yes. 1069 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:14.120 Yeah, so, really good point. So with the Bible, there's always multiple layers, 1070 01:09:14.120 --> 01:09:18.960 multiple layers. So you can read, you can, you can see it at a Sunday school level, 1071 01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:22.319 and then as God, as God matures us, we see a deeper meaning, and then as God 1072 01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:26.080 matures us even more in the Spirit, we see a deeper meaning. So the Bible has 1073 01:09:26.080 --> 01:09:31.920 multiple layers to it, and as we mature, we see that actually word means, is deeper 1074 01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:38.960 strictly than the Bible word. If God says to meditate on his word, well how do we 1075 01:09:38.960 --> 01:09:44.200 expect people who've never read the Bible to be able to follow that? God says that 1076 01:09:44.200 --> 01:09:50.520 it's a help, and all of that, and the, remember that word is not just spoken, 1077 01:09:50.760 --> 01:09:58.000 it's not written. Word is something that, that emanates from God. It is the way in 1078 01:09:58.000 --> 01:10:02.000 which he chooses an aspect of himself. 1079 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:06.320 a part of himself to be expressed so that the invisible God can be seen. 1080 01:10:06.320 --> 01:10:08.800 The invisible God is seen through word. 1081 01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:14.520 When we think of word, we think of hearing, but the invisible God, in order to present 1082 01:10:14.520 --> 01:10:16.600 himself, presented himself as word. 1083 01:10:16.600 --> 01:10:22.880 So word is more than hearing, it's meant to expand so that we can understand, we can experience 1084 01:10:22.880 --> 01:10:26.760 word in all of our five senses. 1085 01:10:26.760 --> 01:10:30.760 And I know that this is going to sound like really, really esoterical, and like, you know, 1086 01:10:30.760 --> 01:10:36.640 we were talking about ice versus steam, this is very steam, but it's that you can experience 1087 01:10:36.640 --> 01:10:41.480 word in the different five senses, and the fact that word, God does not have a physical 1088 01:10:41.480 --> 01:10:47.280 mouth in which he's speaking physical words, which is a very good thing, because it also 1089 01:10:47.280 --> 01:10:54.200 means that people who are mute are not limited to all of these things that they can't do 1090 01:10:54.200 --> 01:10:57.160 because they can't speak. 1091 01:10:57.160 --> 01:11:02.120 Their word is just as powerful as anybody else's, because word isn't the spoken word, 1092 01:11:02.120 --> 01:11:09.320 that is a visible physical expression of something that originated much further back in themselves. 1093 01:11:09.320 --> 01:11:12.960 Originated either in the soul, or originated, if the soul believes that it's abandoned and 1094 01:11:12.960 --> 01:11:15.740 alone by God, then it originated in the soul. 1095 01:11:15.740 --> 01:11:19.800 If we're abiding in the tree of life, it means that our soul and our spirit are lined up, 1096 01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:23.720 meaning that it originated in the spirit, that what it is that came out eventually originated 1097 01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:27.920 in the spirit, and it was able to bring, and because it originated from heaven, it 1098 01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:28.920 brings life. 1099 01:11:28.920 --> 01:11:33.360 Anything that originates from this earth brings death, anything that originates from heaven 1100 01:11:33.360 --> 01:11:35.720 and manifests down into earth brings life. 1101 01:11:35.720 --> 01:11:44.360 So the word is actually, whether it's God, and remember we were created to look like 1102 01:11:44.360 --> 01:11:46.720 our father, we do the same thing. 1103 01:11:46.720 --> 01:11:52.280 God emanates word of his very essence, that's where our word comes from. 1104 01:11:52.280 --> 01:11:59.320 So when God calls us to speak over things, it's not verbally, he's not talking verbally. 1105 01:11:59.320 --> 01:12:04.960 You can do it verbally, but understand that verbal is simply a trigger for the thing that 1106 01:12:04.960 --> 01:12:08.920 it needs to actually come from. 1107 01:12:08.920 --> 01:12:13.640 Because before you can speak something, you have to intend to speak it. 1108 01:12:13.640 --> 01:12:19.200 You have to have a will and a decision, and that comes from much deeper than the physical 1109 01:12:19.200 --> 01:12:20.800 spoken word. 1110 01:12:20.800 --> 01:12:24.040 So I just wanted to draw the connection of what it was that I was talking about, God, 1111 01:12:24.040 --> 01:12:25.320 that extends into us as well. 1112 01:12:25.320 --> 01:12:30.120 So yeah, word is much deeper, so when we're meditating on the word, we're meditating on 1113 01:12:30.120 --> 01:12:35.720 an aspect of the essence of God that is coming out of him. 1114 01:12:35.720 --> 01:12:42.960 There are all kinds of things that we hear from the Lord that we don't know how to articulate, 1115 01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:48.040 but either we're hearing them in the spirit, or we're sensing them. 1116 01:12:48.040 --> 01:12:53.520 Some people smell in the spirit, I'm not sure if I've ever smelt anything in the spirit 1117 01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:54.520 or not. 1118 01:12:54.520 --> 01:13:03.560 I sometimes see, I sometimes, I don't remember if I've ever felt, I see a lot, and I hear. 1119 01:13:03.560 --> 01:13:04.840 But people feel different things. 1120 01:13:04.840 --> 01:13:08.840 Some people can smell things, but the point is, all of those things, when we're spending 1121 01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:15.360 time with the Lord, when we are not even specifically spending time with the Lord, but we're just 1122 01:13:15.360 --> 01:13:20.400 aware of the fact that God, that there's an aspect of God that's around us, that's 1123 01:13:20.400 --> 01:13:23.560 in us, that we can interact with, that is word. 1124 01:13:23.560 --> 01:13:26.440 That is how God interacts with us, is word. 1125 01:13:26.440 --> 01:13:27.720 Something that comes out of him is word. 1126 01:13:27.720 --> 01:13:32.120 So when we're meditating on it, we don't have to think of a Bible verse. 1127 01:13:32.120 --> 01:13:33.400 We can do that. 1128 01:13:33.400 --> 01:13:41.320 That's very helpful, because obviously that is, that's an expression of his word. 1129 01:13:41.320 --> 01:13:46.480 It's the written word of something that originally came from spirit, but the spirit was a spirit 1130 01:13:46.480 --> 01:13:50.840 word that came out and eventually manifested as written, or it eventually manifested as 1131 01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:51.840 verbal. 1132 01:13:51.840 --> 01:14:00.440 But anyway, so you can focus on that if you want, but just know that what it is that you're 1133 01:14:00.440 --> 01:14:04.320 focusing on is the thing that gave that thing life, which is something, which is a word 1134 01:14:04.320 --> 01:14:08.000 that had to be spoken out of the spirit. 1135 01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:12.600 So yeah, you can focus on the word, you can focus on verses, but I recommend that even 1136 01:14:12.600 --> 01:14:17.160 if you start there, you start backing up, where did that spoken word come from? 1137 01:14:17.160 --> 01:14:18.680 What emanated from God? 1138 01:14:18.680 --> 01:14:22.920 And you start just kind of opening yourself up and exposing yourself to the Lord, and 1139 01:14:22.920 --> 01:14:30.320 you start to encounter things, encounter certain feelings, trying to figure out how to describe 1140 01:14:30.320 --> 01:14:31.320 it. 1141 01:14:31.320 --> 01:14:34.720 Sometimes it's so hard to say in English, you know, what you experience in the spirit, 1142 01:14:34.760 --> 01:14:40.300 I don't know, you just sense things and don't disregard them as natural. 1143 01:14:40.300 --> 01:14:46.440 Oh well, that must just be a, that's just a fluke, that's just a feeling. 1144 01:14:46.440 --> 01:14:48.760 The air conditioner came on so it gave me goosebumps. 1145 01:14:48.760 --> 01:14:53.080 We're constantly trying to disregard things. 1146 01:14:53.080 --> 01:14:54.560 So did that answer your question? 1147 01:14:54.560 --> 01:14:58.060 Okay, does someone have another question? 1148 01:14:58.060 --> 01:14:59.060 Yeah? 1149 01:14:59.060 --> 01:15:00.080 When you say that we have to look at the word, what does that mean? 1150 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:05.000 before we can actually speak at it. 1151 01:15:05.000 --> 01:15:08.000 So, you hear all these things about affirmations now. 1152 01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:11.000 You have to speak at it, and then it comes. 1153 01:15:11.000 --> 01:15:16.000 So, explain how that comes into play with any of this. 1154 01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:18.000 Very good point. Affirmations. 1155 01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:21.000 You might want to repeat the questions for your lecture. 1156 01:15:21.000 --> 01:15:23.000 Okay, yes, thank you. 1157 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:27.000 Okay, so the question was, what about affirmations? 1158 01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:30.000 We're talking about the fact that we have to will and to decide. 1159 01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:34.000 When we speak something, it had to originate as a will and a decision 1160 01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:38.000 and an intention to actually speak the thing. 1161 01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:42.000 Then, if that's the case, what about affirmations and what part do they play? 1162 01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:44.000 So, affirmations, yes, they are powerful, 1163 01:15:44.000 --> 01:15:47.000 but the power is not in the fact that you said something. 1164 01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:51.000 Repeating something over and over is not going to do a dadgum thing. 1165 01:15:51.000 --> 01:15:57.000 There has to be will and intention behind it that's giving it the power. 1166 01:15:57.000 --> 01:15:59.000 The words, we're not subject to words, 1167 01:15:59.000 --> 01:16:02.000 and so we're grabbing a tool and using this tool, 1168 01:16:02.000 --> 01:16:05.000 hoping it's going to serve us and prompt some magic. 1169 01:16:05.000 --> 01:16:09.000 It's a will and a determination that we exert, that we rise up within us, 1170 01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:12.000 and we decide to speak it as an affirmation. 1171 01:16:12.000 --> 01:16:14.000 It is a spoken intention. 1172 01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:19.000 So, that's where the power of affirmations come in. 1173 01:16:19.000 --> 01:16:21.000 Whatever it is that we speak over ourselves, 1174 01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:23.000 whatever it is that we determined and we intend, 1175 01:16:23.000 --> 01:16:25.000 we'll have power over our lives. 1176 01:16:25.000 --> 01:16:31.000 That's why we only want to speak what God has said first. 1177 01:16:31.000 --> 01:16:37.000 Because if we start operating out of fear of like, 1178 01:16:37.000 --> 01:16:38.000 well, I want a million dollars. 1179 01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:39.000 I want a million dollars. 1180 01:16:39.000 --> 01:16:40.000 I want a million dollars. 1181 01:16:40.000 --> 01:16:42.000 Well, if we're not in the heart of God, 1182 01:16:42.000 --> 01:16:46.000 where He and we have decided that that's the route to go, 1183 01:16:46.000 --> 01:16:48.000 we decide this is what it is that I want. 1184 01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:51.000 The reason I use a million dollars is this is something that's very common 1185 01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:54.000 in the law of attraction that's promoted in a lot of the new age, 1186 01:16:54.000 --> 01:16:56.000 or the secret, or whatever. 1187 01:16:56.000 --> 01:16:59.000 To repeat something over and over, and to intend, and to drive it home, 1188 01:16:59.000 --> 01:17:03.000 and to set your will and your determination on something. 1189 01:17:03.000 --> 01:17:08.000 And you can, something will manifest, by the way. 1190 01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:11.000 The law of attraction is attractive because it does work. 1191 01:17:11.000 --> 01:17:14.000 The problem is, it's according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 1192 01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:16.000 and there's nothing but death in it. 1193 01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:18.000 That's why it's wrong. 1194 01:17:18.000 --> 01:17:20.000 That's why it works. 1195 01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:22.000 But it's wrong. 1196 01:17:22.000 --> 01:17:24.000 I mean, meaning like, if you're using it as your source, 1197 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:26.000 it's going to bring forth nothing but death. 1198 01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:33.000 But it is very important that if we're speaking words like positive words 1199 01:17:33.000 --> 01:17:36.000 that God has already said about us, and we use those as affirmations, 1200 01:17:36.000 --> 01:17:39.000 like, oh, well, God declares this about my identity and whatever, 1201 01:17:39.000 --> 01:17:42.000 we can repeat it over and over again. 1202 01:17:42.000 --> 01:17:44.000 And what affirmations are, 1203 01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:48.000 are they simply tools, something we can kind of grab a hold of easier. 1204 01:17:48.000 --> 01:17:53.000 If I see it, if I feel it, if I hear it, it makes it feel more real, 1205 01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:56.000 and it starts to strengthen our belief in it. 1206 01:17:56.000 --> 01:17:58.000 That's what I mean by a tool. 1207 01:17:58.000 --> 01:18:00.000 That's the purpose of an affirmation. 1208 01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:03.000 You can, the power is not in the affirmation. 1209 01:18:03.000 --> 01:18:06.000 It's in the fact that it starts triggering our will. 1210 01:18:06.000 --> 01:18:09.000 And it's, oh, yeah, yeah, I heard it, so therefore I believe it, 1211 01:18:09.000 --> 01:18:11.000 because I'm hearing myself say it. 1212 01:18:11.000 --> 01:18:12.000 So, yeah, I believe it. 1213 01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:13.000 I'm going to say it again. 1214 01:18:13.000 --> 01:18:14.000 That makes me believe it a little more. 1215 01:18:14.000 --> 01:18:15.000 I'm going to say it again. 1216 01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:16.000 That makes me believe it even more. 1217 01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:18.000 We're using it as a tool in order to trigger 1218 01:18:18.000 --> 01:18:20.000 what is actually the powerful thing, 1219 01:18:20.000 --> 01:18:23.000 which is our will, our intention, our determination. 1220 01:18:23.000 --> 01:18:26.000 So, yeah, affirmations can be very good, 1221 01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:29.000 but it all depends on the source. 1222 01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:32.000 Are we in a place where we are shifted into the spirit, 1223 01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:35.000 we're shifted into rest, and it's from the heart of God, 1224 01:18:35.000 --> 01:18:38.000 where our spirit, we're recognizing that our spirit is joined with his spirit, 1225 01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:41.000 and it's the two of us going forward 1226 01:18:41.000 --> 01:18:43.000 so that his will is done on the earth? 1227 01:18:43.000 --> 01:18:47.000 Or do we believe that I'm separated from the Lord, 1228 01:18:47.000 --> 01:18:50.000 and I'm just trying to accomplish something, 1229 01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:52.000 and so I'm going to determine something, 1230 01:18:52.000 --> 01:18:54.000 and I'm going to speak these affirmations, 1231 01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:56.000 and I'm going to drive it home? 1232 01:18:56.000 --> 01:18:59.000 It can happen, but you're giving it nothing but death 1233 01:18:59.000 --> 01:19:02.000 because you believe that you're in separation. 1234 01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:05.000 So remember that the point isn't what it is that we do. 1235 01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:07.000 These people speak affirmations. 1236 01:19:07.000 --> 01:19:09.000 These people could speak affirmations. 1237 01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:12.000 The difference, so in other words, the fruit can look the same, 1238 01:19:12.000 --> 01:19:16.000 but in both of these, people can actually get the results. 1239 01:19:16.000 --> 01:19:18.000 This person can get a million dollars. 1240 01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:20.000 This person can get a million dollars. 1241 01:19:20.000 --> 01:19:25.000 But remember that if you do it from this tree, it has life in it, 1242 01:19:25.000 --> 01:19:29.000 and if you do it from this tree, it has nothing but death in it. 1243 01:19:29.000 --> 01:19:32.000 So, did that answer? 1244 01:19:32.000 --> 01:19:35.000 So, okay, good. 1245 01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:39.000 Does anyone have any other questions? 1246 01:19:39.000 --> 01:19:40.000 Yes? 1247 01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:42.000 So then when it comes to prayer, 1248 01:19:42.000 --> 01:19:49.000 is it more powerful to pray out loud versus just what happened to yourself, 1249 01:19:49.000 --> 01:19:51.000 or is that not? 1250 01:19:51.000 --> 01:19:56.000 Yeah, it doesn't matter because all you're doing by speaking it out loud 1251 01:19:56.000 --> 01:20:00.000 is you are, okay, you're doing a couple of different things. 1252 01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:05.000 You are triggering yourself. In other words, you're prompting. Trigger has a bad connotation. 1253 01:20:05.000 --> 01:20:12.000 It usually means that you're being triggered for trauma. You're being prompted. You're trying to prompt yourself. 1254 01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:20.000 You're speaking it out loud. Sometimes the way that certain people like to express themselves in the world is verbally. 1255 01:20:20.000 --> 01:20:28.000 So they talk more than other people. So if you like to talk because it's the way that the spirit operates through you, 1256 01:20:28.000 --> 01:20:33.000 then just talking is just you being you and talking out loud. 1257 01:20:33.000 --> 01:20:37.000 While somebody else might prefer to pray silently, somebody else might prefer to pray out loud. 1258 01:20:37.000 --> 01:20:44.000 That's perfectly fine. So other than that aspect, what I'm talking about here is the power is not – 1259 01:20:44.000 --> 01:20:48.000 it doesn't make your prayer more powerful to speak it out loud. 1260 01:20:48.000 --> 01:20:57.000 What might help in increasing the power by speaking it out loud is that that increases your faith, your belief, your will, and your intention. 1261 01:20:57.000 --> 01:21:04.000 If you're using it as a prompt to strengthen something within you, that actually is the power, but it itself isn't more powerful. 1262 01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:09.000 It doesn't make something more powerful. You have to choose how you respond to that thing. 1263 01:21:09.000 --> 01:21:17.000 So you could speak something out loud and a prayer out loud and gain more strength. 1264 01:21:17.000 --> 01:21:22.000 It could build up your faith. I could speak the same prayer out loud, and it doesn't build my faith. 1265 01:21:22.000 --> 01:21:26.000 It's all based on how you choose to use that thing and how you choose to respond to it. 1266 01:21:26.000 --> 01:21:32.000 But remember, you are always the more powerful thing. I'm not saying powerful outside of God. 1267 01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:37.000 I'm not trying to say that, oh my goodness, we're gods and all that. 1268 01:21:37.000 --> 01:21:41.000 I'm talking about the power that God says that he gave us. 1269 01:21:41.000 --> 01:21:46.000 Us being in him and being one with Christ, he's in a position of power and authority. 1270 01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:50.000 Someone we're in him, we're in a position of power and authority. I'm talking about that power. 1271 01:21:50.000 --> 01:21:56.000 We're always more powerful than anything else in the universe outside of God and Jesus Christ. 1272 01:21:56.000 --> 01:22:03.000 Any other questions about anything? 1273 01:22:03.000 --> 01:22:10.000 Whether what we're talking about here, or we were talking about being one with the spirit, one in spirit, 1274 01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:18.000 or the two trees, difference between rest versus operating in strife, or the love of the Lord. 1275 01:22:19.000 --> 01:22:28.000 And how he loves us. Anything else? 1276 01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:30.000 All good? Yes? 1277 01:22:30.000 --> 01:22:32.000 I realized that I just got here. 1278 01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:34.000 We're glad to have you. Hello. 1279 01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:43.000 There's something about vibration and resonance and sounds when you're speaking out. 1280 01:22:43.000 --> 01:22:48.000 Let's say you're praying in spirit, and you're just groaning. 1281 01:22:48.000 --> 01:23:00.000 Sometimes if you're praying in spirit in your mind, I'm not sure that has the same value as if you're going into the intent of God. 1282 01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:05.000 And the words, Tom, you're speaking the words of Christ or whatever you're speaking, the words of angels. 1283 01:23:05.000 --> 01:23:11.000 When you're speaking in time, you're speaking a perfect prayer that maybe that resonance that needs to be spoken, 1284 01:23:11.000 --> 01:23:13.000 because it needs to be heard in the universe. 1285 01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:20.000 And I don't think that you were saying that it has more value to not speak. 1286 01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:24.000 I want to make sure I understand what you just said when you answered that question. 1287 01:23:24.000 --> 01:23:29.000 Yeah, so the power isn't in whether it's verbal or not. 1288 01:23:29.000 --> 01:23:34.000 We're not subject to it having to manifest physically in order for it to have power. 1289 01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:36.000 That's all I'm saying. 1290 01:23:36.000 --> 01:23:40.000 But God, and I'm glad that you brought up this question, that subject, 1291 01:23:40.000 --> 01:23:46.000 because that was the other part that I was going to say to answer Laurie's question, and I got sidetracked and forgot. 1292 01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:52.000 One of the benefits, though, of speaking out loud is God created sound. 1293 01:23:52.000 --> 01:23:54.000 He created vibrations. He created frequencies. 1294 01:23:55.000 --> 01:24:01.000 Meaning that vibrations, frequencies, meaning sound waves, energy is in waves, et cetera. 1295 01:24:01.000 --> 01:24:09.000 So God loves, just like he wants us to partner with him, he doesn't want to do it all alone, 1296 01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:12.000 and we stand by the sidelines just kind of watching him do everything, 1297 01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:15.000 and we're just like, well, we're just subject to whatever it is he decides. 1298 01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:17.000 He says, no, I want you to do this with me. 1299 01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:25.000 Then we, being like God, being like our father and looking like him, he desires us to do the same thing with creation. 1300 01:24:25.000 --> 01:24:31.000 And an aspect of creation, things like vibration, frequency, speaking, sound, et cetera, 1301 01:24:31.000 --> 01:24:37.000 he loves when we choose, being over creation, being kings of creation, 1302 01:24:37.000 --> 01:24:43.000 choose to engage with them and allow them to partner with us to do something into the earth, 1303 01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:50.000 including allowing, speaking things verbally so that an actual physical vibration, frequency, 1304 01:24:50.000 --> 01:24:55.000 or even in the metaphysical frequency vibration and sound is emanated. 1305 01:24:55.000 --> 01:24:58.000 It's allowing creation to partner with us. 1306 01:24:58.000 --> 01:25:00.000 But it's us doing it. 1307 01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:04.520 I'm also, you know in the speaking in tongues speaking in tongues can be done in the spirit 1308 01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:10.040 And I'm not just verbally like it we can do it in our head. We can also do it in our stomach 1309 01:25:10.560 --> 01:25:12.560 You know where it doesn't even come out 1310 01:25:13.000 --> 01:25:18.320 so anyway, the the point and the power is in the is in us and as 1311 01:25:18.960 --> 01:25:24.840 Us being in Christ as the source of everything from which everything emanates 1312 01:25:24.840 --> 01:25:29.080 It's not something out here that we need in order to accomplish something 1313 01:25:29.120 --> 01:25:34.640 but the whole reason why God so often talks about hey use this and do this and and 1314 01:25:35.040 --> 01:25:41.320 Put oil on the head and whatever, of course the whole oil on the head in the Old Testament was under the law 1315 01:25:41.320 --> 01:25:47.520 but I'm talking about like say even in the New Testament is to allow creation to be to for us to 1316 01:25:48.720 --> 01:25:52.360 to extend our relationship and our partnership with the Lord down into 1317 01:25:52.560 --> 01:25:57.680 Creation where we're all we all have a partnership and what's going on and we're allowing creation to be part of it 1318 01:25:57.920 --> 01:26:05.360 but not in the fact that oh the only way that I can get something to happen in creation is by using something in creation because 1319 01:26:05.360 --> 01:26:10.440 Then that leaves us subject to and in lack of something that can't that we need 1320 01:26:11.000 --> 01:26:16.200 In order to do something else and God's very serious about that. He says no. No, I am everything that you need 1321 01:26:16.200 --> 01:26:18.200 I'm the source of everything but 1322 01:26:18.960 --> 01:26:22.040 Just like I want you to partner with me and engage with me 1323 01:26:22.520 --> 01:26:31.240 Allow creation to engage to partner partner with creation and allow it to engage with to you to engage with it and 1324 01:26:32.080 --> 01:26:38.840 And you all to actually accomplish something together allow it to be part of your journey your plan 1325 01:26:38.840 --> 01:26:40.800 But you set the intention 1326 01:26:40.800 --> 01:26:42.800 So does that make sense? 1327 01:26:43.120 --> 01:26:49.520 So yeah, so it's asking allowing them creation to be part of what it is that we're doing which is very very good thing 1328 01:26:49.520 --> 01:26:53.040 But we're always the king of it. Where's the governor? We're always the life source 1329 01:27:06.600 --> 01:27:09.760 Yes, so the tree of the knowledge of good and evil there's 1330 01:27:12.200 --> 01:27:13.760 It's just 1331 01:27:13.760 --> 01:27:17.920 There there tools that God created then, you know, there's this is the law, you know 1332 01:27:17.920 --> 01:27:21.400 Think of the law that the Israelites were given or spirits as certain 1333 01:27:22.160 --> 01:27:29.320 Particular laws that that have rules do this. Don't do that. If you do this this thing will happen certain 1334 01:27:29.920 --> 01:27:31.920 formulas and 1335 01:27:32.200 --> 01:27:38.000 We have to know okay. So the easiest trying to think of the easiest way to describe this. Okay. Here's an example 1336 01:27:40.240 --> 01:27:42.240 This is a this isn't the 1337 01:27:42.480 --> 01:27:48.360 Okay, this will help more clearly explain it you remember that when I'm Jesus told the wind and the waves to be quiet 1338 01:27:49.120 --> 01:27:54.560 He didn't tell the wind and the waves to stop being what they were. He told them he said, okay 1339 01:27:54.560 --> 01:27:58.400 I'm here and I'm telling you you're operating according to particular laws 1340 01:27:58.400 --> 01:28:02.480 And I'm telling you in operating according to the laws that you intended to function 1341 01:28:02.480 --> 01:28:08.800 I'm telling you move into the calm state. So still be what you are and operate in the calm state and 1342 01:28:09.320 --> 01:28:17.080 I bring that up because even when Christ is operating as as a king and as the Son of God telling creation 1343 01:28:17.080 --> 01:28:24.000 Hey, look, I need you to change. I need you meaning like I need you to operate differently than the way that you're acting 1344 01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:25.720 We call that a miracle 1345 01:28:25.720 --> 01:28:30.960 But and so we think okay, he overthrew physical laws. No, he didn't 1346 01:28:30.960 --> 01:28:36.880 He just superseded over them and the governor of the physical law didn't change the physical law 1347 01:28:36.920 --> 01:28:40.320 He just guided and told it at how he wanted it to operate 1348 01:28:40.400 --> 01:28:44.520 But he didn't he didn't do away with it and it talks about that with Jesus with the law 1349 01:28:44.520 --> 01:28:51.120 It says Jesus did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. Jesus didn't come to do away with it 1350 01:28:51.160 --> 01:28:56.080 He says it's a good thing. It's a holy thing. There's no reason for it to be destroyed 1351 01:28:56.800 --> 01:28:57.880 and 1352 01:28:57.880 --> 01:29:03.880 So the so we can the law meaning all of these ways that certain things function 1353 01:29:03.880 --> 01:29:07.040 We're talking about and we'll expand it into like physical laws 1354 01:29:07.720 --> 01:29:13.840 Spiritual laws. I don't know just the way that things operate you do this and then you do that and then you always get this 1355 01:29:14.640 --> 01:29:16.640 That's a law. It's a formula and 1356 01:29:17.200 --> 01:29:20.200 We have to understand we're outside of that 1357 01:29:20.360 --> 01:29:24.880 Just like Jesus was outside of the wind and the waves so he could command them what to do 1358 01:29:24.920 --> 01:29:32.000 He wasn't subject like the disciples thought that they were of like whatever it is that the laws are doing I'm subject to them 1359 01:29:32.000 --> 01:29:36.120 It's like no, you're not subject to them. You govern over them. You tell them what to do 1360 01:29:36.120 --> 01:29:40.720 we do the same thing with laws and formulas and like business strategies or 1361 01:29:41.680 --> 01:29:45.920 We're not subject to business strategies. We are over them. We can use them 1362 01:29:46.840 --> 01:29:50.960 God created the business strategies God created the fact that and 1363 01:29:51.520 --> 01:29:58.160 That our bodies work a particular way our bodies digest a particular way and we can know those laws and operate within those laws 1364 01:29:58.160 --> 01:30:00.160 But we're not 1365 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:05.580 to, we're not subject to them, we're not a victim to the fact that they do 1366 01:30:05.580 --> 01:30:09.100 whatever they want to do, and then we just have to deal with the consequences. 1367 01:30:09.100 --> 01:30:13.700 We roll over them, but we still operate within them, but it's much more 1368 01:30:13.700 --> 01:30:18.380 effortless that way. So Jesus, when he was here on earth, you know, he operated 1369 01:30:18.380 --> 01:30:25.900 according to all kinds of laws. He, when he would go across the Sea of Galilee, he 1370 01:30:25.900 --> 01:30:30.100 would usually go in a boat. He's operating according to the laws, but then 1371 01:30:30.100 --> 01:30:34.620 periodically he'd decide, nope, I'm gonna supersede the laws because I govern 1372 01:30:34.620 --> 01:30:39.700 them, so I'm gonna walk on the water. And anyway, there's other things 1373 01:30:39.700 --> 01:30:47.020 like when he ate, Jesus ate in his physical body, and later when he 1374 01:30:47.020 --> 01:30:50.300 resurrected and he was still in a spiritual body, he still ate, but in 1375 01:30:50.300 --> 01:30:54.740 neither place did he believe that he was subject to them, but he 1376 01:30:54.740 --> 01:31:03.100 used them. What else? He slept, but let's see what else. There was something else. 1377 01:31:03.100 --> 01:31:08.320 Oh, and he was a carpenter. So as a carpenter, he knows all he has to do, my 1378 01:31:08.320 --> 01:31:12.700 goodness, if he can turn water into wine on his first miracle, then Jesus knows 1379 01:31:12.700 --> 01:31:20.260 how to build a house without tools, but he used the tools. So he could use the 1380 01:31:20.260 --> 01:31:25.500 laws. The laws are good. It's engaging with creation. It's allowing in creation, 1381 01:31:25.500 --> 01:31:30.060 like what we were just talking about, to be part of the process of us coming down 1382 01:31:30.060 --> 01:31:35.440 into creation and making something. God lets us to partner with him, so we 1383 01:31:35.440 --> 01:31:40.300 allow creation to partner with us. Jesus was enjoying what the 1384 01:31:40.300 --> 01:31:46.340 Father created, but he didn't feel that he was subject and victimized, subject to 1385 01:31:46.340 --> 01:31:51.220 and victimized by it. Does that make sense? That's how he operated according 1386 01:31:51.220 --> 01:31:56.420 to it, and he gave us freedom from being subject to it when he 1387 01:31:56.420 --> 01:32:01.940 died on the cross, but remember that so we have freedom from 1388 01:32:01.940 --> 01:32:05.860 everything. So not everything is permissible, but not everything is 1389 01:32:05.860 --> 01:32:10.620 edifying, but everything is permissible. Also think about like meat offered to 1390 01:32:11.580 --> 01:32:17.100 idols. Before people couldn't eat meat offered to idols, but then 1391 01:32:17.100 --> 01:32:22.420 afterwards they realized, oh, we have the freedom to do it if we want to. Well, the 1392 01:32:22.420 --> 01:32:26.940 laws didn't change. There's reasons why God said not to eat meat offered to 1393 01:32:26.940 --> 01:32:31.020 idols, reasons why God said not to eat shellfish. To tell the Israelites not to 1394 01:32:31.020 --> 01:32:35.420 eat shellfish, he told them not to eat pig, yet we all eat pig. Why? Because we 1395 01:32:35.420 --> 01:32:39.740 realize that we are over the laws. We're not subject to them. Pigs are 1396 01:32:39.740 --> 01:32:44.620 extremely dirty, and I don't just mean inside, I mean like 1397 01:32:44.620 --> 01:32:48.860 outside in the fact that they roll around in the mud. As a meat, it is 1398 01:32:48.860 --> 01:32:53.900 extremely dirty and has higher potential to do harm, and 1399 01:32:53.900 --> 01:32:57.420 there was a reason why he told the Israelites to stay away from it. Those 1400 01:32:57.420 --> 01:33:03.140 laws have not gone away. Science has been able to prove why God gave 1401 01:33:03.140 --> 01:33:05.780 them those laws all of those years ago. They're like, oh my word, now we 1402 01:33:05.780 --> 01:33:08.420 understand because we look at pig and we can kind of see this, that, and the other, 1403 01:33:08.420 --> 01:33:13.340 but God told Peter, everything is permissible for you now. So again, 1404 01:33:13.340 --> 01:33:17.660 when Peter went into the trance and he saw the sheep 1405 01:33:17.660 --> 01:33:22.900 come down, and Peter was struggling with that because he was like, Lord, that's a 1406 01:33:22.900 --> 01:33:28.740 law. I'm not allowed to touch that, and he told Peter, he said, do 1407 01:33:28.740 --> 01:33:33.340 not declare unclean what I have declared clean, and that was the law. 1408 01:33:33.340 --> 01:33:36.900 That was the thing that they were told to not do, and God said, everything is 1409 01:33:36.900 --> 01:33:43.900 permissible for you. So the law is a good thing, but we 1410 01:33:43.900 --> 01:33:47.980 lord over it. When we lord over it, we can use it instead of being threatened by 1411 01:33:47.980 --> 01:33:52.700 anything, any harm that it might be able to do to us, which it could do to us when 1412 01:33:52.700 --> 01:33:56.020 we were subject to it and under the law. 1413 01:33:56.020 --> 01:34:08.980 Yes, yeah, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is law. 1414 01:34:08.980 --> 01:34:16.540 It's not limited to the law of the Israelites. It's just 1415 01:34:16.540 --> 01:34:21.260 law. It's the fact that this is how things work. 1416 01:34:21.260 --> 01:34:26.860 It's predictable, so if you learn the law, if you learn the 1417 01:34:26.860 --> 01:34:30.700 knowledge, you can control it, which is what we like. So we can control the 1418 01:34:30.700 --> 01:34:33.900 outcome. We can control our results. The problem is we're giving it nothing but 1419 01:34:33.900 --> 01:34:38.060 death, and the result results in nothing but death, but we control it, meaning 1420 01:34:38.060 --> 01:34:42.140 that if we believe that we're separated from God, we have some 1421 01:34:42.140 --> 01:34:45.180 semblance of control of ourselves where we're covering ourselves in fig leaves, 1422 01:34:45.180 --> 01:34:49.780 trying to protect for and provide for ourselves. So that's why we like it, but 1423 01:34:49.780 --> 01:34:55.540 yeah, the law is more than just the law that the Israelites had. 1424 01:34:55.540 --> 01:35:01.980 It's law. It's the fact that there's strategies, there's formulas. 1425 01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:05.520 There's predictability. There's principles. That is law. It's a very good thing and a very holy thing 1426 01:35:05.520 --> 01:35:08.220 But God says no you are over the law all laws 1427 01:35:08.880 --> 01:35:10.880 including spiritual laws are 1428 01:35:11.280 --> 01:35:16.280 Subject to us now not spiritual laws that emanate from the very character of God 1429 01:35:16.280 --> 01:35:21.520 That's different because that also, you know, if we're at the character of God is as well. Well, then it emanates from us 1430 01:35:21.520 --> 01:35:25.600 It's an expression of of his essence. So we're not 1431 01:35:26.320 --> 01:35:28.540 We're not over that because it's just kind of like 1432 01:35:29.040 --> 01:35:32.920 It's it's in us because we're in him and and so it's flowing out 1433 01:35:32.920 --> 01:35:38.280 I'm talking about anything that was actually so I'm talking about the spiritual laws that we refer to of like 1434 01:35:38.840 --> 01:35:40.840 Tithing we call that a spiritual law 1435 01:35:40.960 --> 01:35:47.560 Think of it more like a soulish law the the principle of tithing and tithe and offering did not come from the character of God 1436 01:35:47.960 --> 01:35:50.680 It's something it's the principle that he created 1437 01:35:51.640 --> 01:35:58.280 But so we are over those and we tell and even spiritual laws like that things that we call spiritual laws, but it gets very 1438 01:35:59.040 --> 01:36:04.040 Confusing but let's just call on that because we're used to it. Even spiritual laws are subject to us 1439 01:36:05.360 --> 01:36:09.480 Because everything is under Christ's feet. And so if we're in Christ, everything's under our feet 1440 01:36:09.880 --> 01:36:17.560 The only way that we're allowed to have authority though over spiritual laws is if is if we position ourselves in Christ 1441 01:36:17.680 --> 01:36:19.680 so we're not talking about a 1442 01:36:19.800 --> 01:36:22.800 Power that God gave us and then oh my goodness 1443 01:36:23.080 --> 01:36:27.040 It's like, you know, it's like giving a knife to a child, you know 1444 01:36:27.040 --> 01:36:33.720 but you God hasn't done that the only way that we can operate in the way that I'm talking about in having in in in 1445 01:36:34.200 --> 01:36:38.440 Governing laws like that is is understanding is only operating 1446 01:36:39.360 --> 01:36:45.360 In our position of being one with Christ and understanding that we're in that power and authority in Christ 1447 01:36:45.480 --> 01:36:49.640 That's the only thing that enables us to then Lord Lord 1448 01:36:50.040 --> 01:36:55.360 Over it because that's the only position in the universe that is higher than the spiritual laws 1449 01:36:55.960 --> 01:37:01.040 So if we're if we're not positioned in Christ, we think we're abandoned and alone 1450 01:37:01.080 --> 01:37:06.560 Then we don't believe we're positioned in Christ and then no we don't have we don't have a dictation of our spiritual laws 1451 01:37:06.680 --> 01:37:13.160 But if we're in Christ, we do the reason I want to belabor that point is the fact that when we do govern spiritual laws 1452 01:37:13.160 --> 01:37:18.840 It's always gonna be good. We're always gonna do the right thing. We're always going to do it from a righteous vantage point 1453 01:37:18.840 --> 01:37:24.920 We're being matured to that. I'm not there if anybody in the room is there. That's wonderful 1454 01:37:24.920 --> 01:37:26.120 I am NOT there yet 1455 01:37:26.120 --> 01:37:27.840 God's maturing me to that point 1456 01:37:27.840 --> 01:37:32.120 but eventually when I get to that point I can I can govern but 1457 01:37:32.480 --> 01:37:34.880 The nice thing is we're not under threat of oh my goodness 1458 01:37:34.880 --> 01:37:39.560 this is somebody, you know, because they're one with Christ or they can like just learn how to how to 1459 01:37:39.920 --> 01:37:42.320 How to do the magic and then they're gonna make it dark 1460 01:37:43.120 --> 01:37:44.720 It's impossible 1461 01:37:44.720 --> 01:37:47.840 Because you have to be in Christ in order to do it 1462 01:37:47.840 --> 01:37:53.480 and when you're in Christ, you're you're of his character and it's always gonna you're always gonna do good and 1463 01:37:54.320 --> 01:37:59.920 And operate in a righteous way. So I just want to mention that just in case anybody thought oh my bird 1464 01:38:00.560 --> 01:38:05.720 Given somebody too much power, you know, what if they don't what if they reject God what they check for God? 1465 01:38:05.960 --> 01:38:11.240 Then they're then they're outside of Christ and then they're they're not above the spiritual laws anymore. So 1466 01:38:13.040 --> 01:38:18.240 To be able to dictate it that really just got into a very deep subject, but did it answer your question? 1467 01:38:20.240 --> 01:38:26.200 So I don't know if if the if the food is here yet, but I 1468 01:38:27.120 --> 01:38:30.000 figured that unless somebody else has a question we can 1469 01:38:30.720 --> 01:38:32.680 we can go ahead and 1470 01:38:32.680 --> 01:38:34.680 break or 1471 01:38:34.760 --> 01:38:39.720 For dinner. So, all right, so I'll see everybody here at 7 1472 01:38:42.320 --> 01:38:44.320 You