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We're talking about the actual steps that we can take to shift into rest, the actual

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practical things that you can do, like tools that you can grab a hold of that we're not

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subject to, that we do not need, but they are things that kind of like a child would

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use in order to help themselves figure out how to do something so that they eventually

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no longer need the tool because they understand how to do it themselves.

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They understand it's who it is that they are, and then they can operate out of that place.

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So that's what these tools are.

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There's nothing magical about them.

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What they're doing is they are triggering something within us that we have a choice

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of how we want to respond to it, and it helps us figure out how to set our intention towards

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something and actually choose to shift into rest, actually help ourselves walk through

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the steps of, okay, if I'm not believing God, how do I move myself to the point where

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I actually choose?

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There are going to be six things, and I think that we're going to be talking about five

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of them.

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Then we're going to have a break.

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Then we're going to talk about the last one because that one's going to get into healing

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the soul and the body effortlessly from a place of rest, including being able to talk

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to other people and other people's bodies.

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I've done this myself, and there's been healing.

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I've talked to my own body, and there's been healing.

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So we'll do that, and then we will break for lunch.

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So I hope y'all can't hear me rattling this around in my teeth.

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I'll just try to keep it off to the side.

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So when we go through this, by the way, and we're starting to use these tools, understand—

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Sorry, I think it's hitting something.

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Maybe it's mine.

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Just a second.

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Let me take off my necklace.

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We've been concerned about my hair and concerned about my necklaces, so hopefully it'll be

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fine.

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I suppose that this collar isn't as stable as some of the other collars.

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Okay.

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Thanks, Jonathan.

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Appreciate it.

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Okay.

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He's my cheerleader back there.

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Okay, Ashley, you're doing a good thing.

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Every now and then, I have to go back and check.

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Am I being a good guest speaker, or am I making art on you?

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Okay.

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So before we go into this, understand that when we're using all of these tools, they're

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tools, and they do make it easier to kind of grab a hold of a concept and use, but we

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still have to do the thing.

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We still have to choose, and it's still hard.

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Now hopefully it'll make it easier, but we still have to make the intentional choice

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that we are going to leave what basically is making it simple.

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The way that we've been operating in a particular area of our lives, according to the tree of

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the knowledge of good and evil, trying to provide for, protect ourselves, trying to

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drum up our own environment of safety and this thing that we're using to try to protect

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ourselves, and we're now having to risk that if we jump out in faith that God is actually

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going to protect us and that we're actually going to be safe and that we're going to have

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a safety net.

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So we still have to make that choice, and there's a reason why we've all gotten to whatever

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age that we are and we've been saying no.

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There's a reason it's hard, and that pain is the letting go of something that we don't

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want to let go of because we think that's our savior.

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We think that's our saving grace.

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We think that that, in a manner of speaking, is what is holding body and soul together.

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It's that desperate, and so we have to actually let go of that, and it depends on what areas

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that we'll be taking this into, deeper and deeper areas of our lives, and I can tell

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you from experience that when I, the Lord began to teach me about this, I guess like

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seven, six, seven years ago, and I was driving down the highway.

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I was going to work in the morning, and it was dark.

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It was probably like 6.30 in the morning or something like that, and I was driving along

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I was in the middle of a very miserable time in my life.

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I had already come out of depression and PTSD and anxiety

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and all of that.

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But I had plummeted.

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And so it took me a long time to realize

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that I needed medication to help me,

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because I resisted it for so long.

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No, surely a son of God wouldn't need that and all of that.

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And I didn't believe the gospel the way that I do now.

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And I still back then thought, well, no.

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Surely it would be wrong to take depression medication.

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Surely it would be wrong to do that.

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It would be denying who it is that I am

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and what it is that God said.

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But finally, I realized that my faith

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was down in the body realm.

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I didn't know how to articulate it like that.

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But that is where I couldn't figure out how to.

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I wasn't making the choice to believe what God

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said to the fullest extent.

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So I had to grab one of the tools and one

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of the very good gifts that he's given us

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by giving us something in the medical field

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that I could use as a tool to kind of leverage myself

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and get myself up and out of it.

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So it took me a while to get to the point

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where I was OK with that.

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It took me a while to get to the point

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where I was OK with counseling.

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Ended up that I ended up only going to one counseling

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session.

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But all of those things were very hard for me to admit.

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I thought, oh, well, this is weakness.

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This is whatever.

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And I felt a lot of shame and a lot of condemnation.

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So anyway, what it is that I chose is like, OK, Lord,

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I'm just going to choose that.

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Nothing else has worked.

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Hopefully, this will.

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So I had already been off of the medication,

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and I had gotten better.

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But then some things had happened.

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I'd been triggered, and I went down into a slump again.

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So even though I think I was going through depression,

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in fact, I know I was going through very major depression

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again, it wasn't to the point where I was taking medication.

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But I knew this time that my issue wasn't, oh, you know,

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my life is just like this, and this is so sad,

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and I don't like it.

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It was that feeling.

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But I knew deep down, OK, this time

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I know that the root is spiritual.

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I've got something.

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I'm mad at God, and I am so mad at Him.

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And it takes a lot for me to have gotten mad at God.

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So I was so very mad at Him, and I just did.

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I felt abandoned and alone, but I'm still talking to Him

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because I can still sense Him in my spirit.

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So I still talk to Him, so I'm driving down the road.

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And I am just in this terrible depression,

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and asking God where He is in my life.

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And I don't remember.

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I was probably like, I think I was 29, 30, no, 30, 31

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at the time.

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In other words, I had lived a good bit by then.

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I had gone through a lot of experiences.

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All of these affirmations of these lies

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that were going on in my head, I'd

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had a good amount of time to build all of those up.

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So I had a lot to overcome.

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So I'm driving down the road, and I

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don't know how to describe to you how bad it got.

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But think of your worst moments and your worst depressions.

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It was that.

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So I'm driving down the road, and I

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knew what God was telling me to do.

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God said, Ashley, let go.

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You're holding me accountable to something.

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So back then, that was years ago,

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I still have the same reminder on my phone.

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I began to write to the Lord.

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I began to write to myself a reminder every single day,

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stop holding God accountable to your dictations.

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And I still have that reminder that pops up

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on my phone every now and then.

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It used to pop up every day.

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I then moved it once a week.

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It's now probably like once every month

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or every quarter or something like that,

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just kind of like remind myself.

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It's right.

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Hold no accusation against the Lord.

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But I knew that that's what was going on.

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So I'm driving down the road, and I

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knew He wanted me to give it up.

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Here's my point of telling you this story,

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is that I knew, and I felt it physically in my body.

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Because remember what we were talking about yesterday.

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Spirit, soul, and body are unified.

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And your body is going to visibly manifest,

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including physically how it feels,

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along with your soul and your emotions and how they feel.

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It's going to reflect what it is that we actually believe.

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So my body began to physically manifest the fact.

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It went into panic.

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And it thought it was literally, not figuratively.

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Literally, my body thought it was about to die.

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And so because God is having me make a choice.

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And of course, He's having me make the choice in my soul.

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Because my spirit's one with the Lord.

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My spirit's the new man.

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But my soul is in contention.

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And my soul is in disagreement, and out of agreement

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and out of alignment.

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So anyway, I knew what the Lord was asking me to do,

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to stop holding Him accountable.

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having caused certain things in my life and not allowed others.

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And I had to release him of that.

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I had to absolve him of that.

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My body, like I said, physically felt like it was going to die.

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I thought, if I do that, then I felt

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like I was going to suffocate.

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It felt like I was drowning.

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And I thought, as soon as I give it up,

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I'm literally going to die.

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And so my brain started thinking, oh my goodness.

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I mean, it went so far that my brain starts thinking,

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I'm driving down the middle of the road.

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I'm driving down a four-lane highway.

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What's going to happen to my car?

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Well, I've seen those movies about the raptures.

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I mean, if someone is a Christian and left behind or whatever,

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and then their clothes are left behind in the driver's seat,

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and all of these cars crash, and it causes all these collisions.

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And these left-behind movies always present the rapture

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in such a dramatic way.

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And anyway, I thought that was going to happen.

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So in my mind, I'm thinking, oh my goodness.

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Am I going to actually cause other people destruction

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because I'm making this choice?

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I am recklessly abandoning.

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I'm going to die.

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And then I'm going to cause other people's death.

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Because I thought, as soon as I make this choice,

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I'm going to die.

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I'm not going to be controlling my car.

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And who knows what it's going to do?

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I'm not.

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I caught myself in the middle of thinking this.

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I didn't force myself to go through this.

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My soul and my body are reacting.

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And they're one.

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And it thinks it's going to die.

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And I caught myself in the middle of the thought.

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So it's all automatic.

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And I thought, OK, I'm going to make the choice anyway.

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Again, reckless abandon.

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Complete reckless abandon.

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So I did.

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I made the choice.

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And all of the sudden, everything within me stilled.

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It was all gone.

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So I didn't know it then.

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This was, like I said, maybe seven years ago.

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But I shifted into rest because I chose him.

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I didn't even believe it.

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I didn't believe he was going to be there.

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I didn't believe he was going to be my safety net.

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But I chose.

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And when I chose, then everything within me stilled.

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There was complete peace.

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And it was like a light had turned on in my head

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because I had removed all of that noise, all

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of the reasons why not.

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And I would shift a bit more, so to speak, into my identity.

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I was completely at rest because I'd chosen him.

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I wasn't matured enough in the spirit

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to be able to understand what it was that was going on.

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But that's what had happened.

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So I tell you that story to let you know,

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sometimes, depending on what it is that you're shifting,

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what situation that you're finding yourself in,

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what accusation in your life that you're

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holding up against the Lord, depending on what it is,

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it can actually feel like you're dying.

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It will always feel, in a way, like you're dying.

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But it depends on how important that thing is to you

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and how much you think that it's actually your life source,

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not something that makes you comfortable, actually giving

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you life, allowing you to continue to breathe

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and to exist.

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on that thing as to how much it's

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going to actually feel like you're going to die,

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reckless, abandoned.

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So this is not a Sunday school lesson for five-year-olds.

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This is very serious, very, very serious.

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So when I talk about all of these things, it's not easy.

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It's not gentle.

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But it works.

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Because whenever our God says something, he's always true.

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It's always right.

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And you can take that to the nth degree, no matter how extreme.

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So the things that we're going to talk about

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can sound very simple.

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It's like, that's all I have to do to shift into rest?

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Are you sure?

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Yes.

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That's all you have to do.

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You will actually learn here, everything

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in this conference, in a very short amount of time

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that you need in order to shift into rest in literally

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every single area of your life.

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So if you are struggling with a particular area,

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if you're like, OK, well, I've been

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using these tools to shift into rest this far

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and all these other areas.

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But oh my word, this one's different.

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This one's harder.

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Surely this one needs a different explanation.

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None of them do.

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I promise you, they all go back to the same simple things.

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Because God's principles are always the same.

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God doesn't have easy.

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It's not like, oh, well, yeah, this

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is a simple solution for really simple issues.

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But oh my goodness, you get into something bigger and more

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intense.

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more personal, then we have to make it complicated.

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Then we have to add, okay, well, yeah, I'm sorry, Ashley,

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yeah, I forgot to mention that one to you,

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that one's an exception.

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Yeah, so that one we're gonna have to do a bit more,

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we're gonna, absolutely not.

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God is very simple.

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The gospel is very simple.

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His laws are very simple.

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We have made them complex.

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We have made them hard in efforts to try to avoid

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doing the thing that we have to do.

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It's very simple to do everything it is

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that God has told us to do.

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And we create this complex religious system

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of all of these things that we can do, tools, whatever,

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in order to try to avoid having to do the thing.

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But actually, what it is that we have to do

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that actually works is extremely simple.

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So just wanted to help everyone understand

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how to view your situations

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when you're applying these tools,

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and know, so that you basically,

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so that you have context, so that you're prepared.

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I'm not trying to scare you, I'm trying to let you know,

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you can apply this wherever.

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So don't limit it, don't think,

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oh, that's really simple, you know,

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and think that you've missed something somewhere

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because there's an area of your life that,

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oh, yeah, but that one's especially hard,

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and so, I guess Ashley didn't have time to cover that one.

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Mm-mm, it's all the same.

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So, excuse me.

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Also, okay, another thing I'll mention

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is in, you know, talking about the increased levels,

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and talking about the fact

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that we always use the same simple principles,

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if you will run into areas of your life,

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you know, we're all very familiar with this feeling

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where it feels like,

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God, haven't I already learned this lesson?

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Why am I here again?

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You did learn that lesson.

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This is a deeper measure of the same thing.

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It's a deeper measure of the amount of accusation

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that you have against God,

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and so, he's going deeper, and deeper, and deeper,

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but he doesn't overwhelm us by giving us the whole thing,

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and saying, okay, deal with this area.

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He's like, no, no, no, okay, just deal with this one,

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because he's a loving father,

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and there's no condemnation for all of this.

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You say, let's just work on this,

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and then, after that's removed,

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well, then, now this is exposed,

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and so, the next time that something comes up,

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we're like, wait a minute, this feels very familiar.

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Yes, but it's a deeper layer,

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deeper layer revealing the level of accusation

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that we have against the Lord.

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So, when you're using these tools,

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you use them to move into deeper and deeper measures of rest.

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So, just in the same areas.

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Okay, so the first thing is,

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so, like I said, there's gonna be six of them,

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but we're gonna just, well, I'll say six of them.

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Let me just word it this way.

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Let's just say five, five practical shifting tools,

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and then, we're gonna talk about that other one in a minute.

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Okay, so the first one is

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to, when you get to a place, let me actually set up.

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This doesn't look like one word.

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So, imagine that you're in a situation,

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and I always like to use this example,

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that you're in a relationship with someone.

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It could be a friend, it could be a spouse.

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Let's use a spouse because that really hits emotions.

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I say your spouse has just said something to you,

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and then they leave, and they go to work,

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and either you're a wife, and you're staying at home,

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or you're a wife or husband, or you're a husband,

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and you're going to work.

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You're going your separate ways.

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Point is, they're in a meeting all day.

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You can't get ahold of them to reconcile the issue.

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They just said something to you that really, really hurts.

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Really hurts, and God wants us to know that we can always,

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that we have a right to live in rest,

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and we can shift into rest without needing something else,

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including reconciliation with the other person.

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So, so often when it feels like we have a rift

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or an issue in a relationship, especially in a marriage,

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you know, you're one flesh.

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We feel, wait a minute, I can't resolve this.

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We have to work this out,

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and yes, the relationship needs to work it out,

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but you as the son of God have a right to always be in rest,

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and you shift into rest between you and your God,

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and you do not need the other person.

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Remember, true to the knowledge of good and evil,

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we don't need something outside of us

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in order to give us something that God says that we are

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and that we already have.

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It's very important.

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So, so let's use that kind of scenario in the example.

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The very first thing that we do

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whenever we're running into any type of any,

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where we realize that we're in unrest in any area,

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The first thing that we do is choose that what God says is true and he says that we are under no shame and no condemnation.

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There is therefore, Romans 8, 1, there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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There's no shame, there's no condemnation.

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Now, let's explain both of these real quick.

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Shame. Guilt is the idea of when you've done something wrong and how you feel about it.

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Shame is the belief, I am intrinsically wrong.

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Something is intrinsically wrong with me.

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And we have to release ourselves from that because we're the new man.

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There's nothing intrinsically wrong with anybody.

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And then there's no condemnation.

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Meaning that there's, remember there's no consequence as in like a spiritual death that is required for payment.

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There's no requirement, there's no payment that's needed for what it is that you just did.

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You're completely absolved from it.

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It doesn't mean that you didn't just do that.

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It doesn't mean that you didn't just do the thing.

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It means that God has, you're choosing that Jesus said that he bore all of our sins on the cross.

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Everything's already been paid for.

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There's nothing left to pay.

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He didn't tell the adulteress, and this is even before Jesus died.

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He didn't tell the adulteress, you know, go and make restitution and do this and do that.

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He just told her stop. That's it.

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He didn't tell her to pay moving backwards.

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He didn't even tell her, you know, go reconcile with anybody or whatever.

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It is important to do all those things.

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But the reason that that's important is, like we were talking about with husbands and wives a while ago,

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is for relationship, for the health of a relationship.

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But between you and the Lord, as far as sin, as far as holiness, and shame, condemnation, all of that stuff,

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it's just between you and the Lord.

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And there is therefore no shame, there's no condemnation.

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And we have to release ourselves from that.

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That's that practice that we were doing yesterday.

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Practicing learning how to do that when, remember how we had beta and delta,

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and how I was saying that it's easier when our brainwaves are slower and we're more suggestible.

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In other words, we more readily receive things in that state and don't hold so much things in resistance.

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It's easier to learn how to release shame and condemnation down here than when we're in beta state

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and we're thinking of all the reasons why not.

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But when you're being triggered, you're in beta state.

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So we practice when it's easier because it's hard enough.

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It's hard enough, you know, when you're in beta state,

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and it's really hard when you're in beta state and you're triggered.

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So that's why we were practicing that other thing.

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Okay, so yeah, no shame and no condemnation is the most important thing

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because you're choosing union with God.

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Remember that that's the most important thing to the Lord.

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I'm choosing union, I'm choosing identity,

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according to who it is that God has declared himself to be and who God has declared me to be.

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That is what I am choosing.

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You choose that first before you think about what it is that I should do,

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especially if you're feeling shame or condemnation and unrest because you did do something, because you sinned.

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Yeah?

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I have a question.

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I think you were talking about this other type of thing.

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Can you speak to the diversity thing in my mind about how,

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if you were to go to a community that talks about similar interests,

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you can't really tell if you're not together as husband and wife.

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Can you speak to that and kind of explain how that works right now?

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Yeah, so the question was, for those joining virtually,

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so the question was if, you know, with husbands and wives talking about the fact that they should always reconcile

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whenever there's a major rift or anything, that prayers are being hindered.

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God makes it very, very, very clear that, I mean, for one thing, we misunderstand what prayers are actually.

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And another thing, God doesn't allow anything to separate us from the love of the Lord.

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So the prayers being hindered is an act of, I'm trying to think how to word this really simply,

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is an act of spiritual, is one of the, kind of like a spiritual law.

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So spiritual laws are still spiritual laws.

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The problem is we govern over them.

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So if we choose that we are who it is that we are, who God says that we are,

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the spiritual laws are underneath us.

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That always supersedes everything.

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But if we are operating mostly, which usually is what's happening when we're in a, well, it is what's happening.

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If there's a major rift and we're both mad at each other

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and we're not viewing each other in light of the Lord

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and all of that, we believe that we are abandoned and alone

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and we're in the soul or the body realm.

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So therefore, we're subject to the law

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of prayers are hindered

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because we framed up our world that way.

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We said, this is where I am

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and therefore I'm subject to them.

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But if we choose, no, God says that I'm not that,

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God chose that my identity,

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God told me that my identity is in my spirit.

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We can choose to shift into that place,

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operate from that place and declare something.

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I don't wanna say different,

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but something that supersedes it.

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Just like when Jesus commanded the wind

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and the waves to die down,

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he didn't change the laws,

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he didn't change the laws by which they worked,

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but he did govern over them

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and then give them a new instruction

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of how to act or how to operate.

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So that is a spiritual law.

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Just like we're not,

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if when we shift into our identity

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and choose that we're operating

499
00:25:59.840 --> 00:26:02.420
in the identity of our spirit,

500
00:26:02.420 --> 00:26:06.020
we're not subject to the laws of sowing and reaping.

501
00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:08.960
That was a really big thing for me to learn.

502
00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:11.400
It doesn't mean that the law of sowing and reaping,

503
00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:13.520
it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

504
00:26:13.520 --> 00:26:14.620
It's still in effect,

505
00:26:14.620 --> 00:26:18.400
but if we're making ourselves subject to that law,

506
00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:22.320
then we place ourselves under an aspect of condemnation

507
00:26:22.320 --> 00:26:26.080
and the fact that we're damned if we do

508
00:26:26.080 --> 00:26:27.380
and damned if we don't.

509
00:26:28.760 --> 00:26:32.560
But if we understand, no, I actually govern laws,

510
00:26:32.560 --> 00:26:34.320
now I can use them.

511
00:26:34.320 --> 00:26:36.620
But God, because remember, God didn't come,

512
00:26:36.620 --> 00:26:41.560
Jesus didn't come to abolish the law,

513
00:26:41.560 --> 00:26:43.680
but he did come to fulfill it.

514
00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:47.800
So if we choose that he said that he came to fulfill it

515
00:26:47.800 --> 00:26:49.040
and we are in him,

516
00:26:49.040 --> 00:26:50.960
then we have already fulfilled the law

517
00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:51.880
because we were in Christ,

518
00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:53.900
it says when he died on the cross,

519
00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:57.000
that we've already fulfilled the law

520
00:26:57.000 --> 00:26:59.120
and therefore we now have the right

521
00:26:59.120 --> 00:27:01.560
and we're currently in the process of being matured

522
00:27:01.560 --> 00:27:03.600
into the point where we can govern it.

523
00:27:05.360 --> 00:27:07.560
So the laws don't go away,

524
00:27:07.560 --> 00:27:11.000
they still are in existence, they're still true,

525
00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:12.700
but we govern over them.

526
00:27:12.700 --> 00:27:15.600
But if obviously husband and wife are having major issues,

527
00:27:15.600 --> 00:27:18.440
usually it's a two-way street

528
00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:19.880
and they're in the soul or the body

529
00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:22.060
and therefore they've chosen,

530
00:27:22.060 --> 00:27:24.520
oh, I'm a victim and I'm subject to these types of laws.

531
00:27:24.520 --> 00:27:26.100
And there's a lot that comes with that realm

532
00:27:26.100 --> 00:27:27.700
that we don't understand subconsciously,

533
00:27:27.700 --> 00:27:29.300
we're agreeing to.

534
00:27:29.300 --> 00:27:31.100
Does that make sense?

535
00:27:31.100 --> 00:27:31.940
So that's what it is.

536
00:27:31.940 --> 00:27:35.060
So remember, the Bible doesn't contradict itself

537
00:27:35.060 --> 00:27:37.740
and if the Bible says it, it's absolutely true.

538
00:27:37.740 --> 00:27:40.740
And yeah, so anyways,

539
00:27:40.740 --> 00:27:42.020
what else are you gonna say about that bit?

540
00:27:42.020 --> 00:27:42.860
There we go.

541
00:27:42.860 --> 00:27:46.660
So after that, no shame and no condemnation,

542
00:27:46.660 --> 00:27:48.020
it's the most important thing,

543
00:27:48.020 --> 00:27:50.260
oh, that's where I was going.

544
00:27:50.260 --> 00:27:54.300
So you handle that first before you handle

545
00:27:54.300 --> 00:27:56.540
how it is that I should,

546
00:27:56.540 --> 00:27:58.980
how it is that I should resolve or reconcile

547
00:27:58.980 --> 00:28:00.800
what it is that I just did,

548
00:28:00.800 --> 00:28:02.060
especially if you're feeling, like I said,

549
00:28:02.060 --> 00:28:04.260
shame and condemnation for something you did.

550
00:28:04.260 --> 00:28:05.820
Okay, how should I fix this?

551
00:28:05.820 --> 00:28:07.300
What action should I take?

552
00:28:07.300 --> 00:28:10.480
The problem is we're triggered by what should I do?

553
00:28:12.260 --> 00:28:15.780
That's like, no, always choose union first.

554
00:28:15.780 --> 00:28:18.380
Always choose identity first.

555
00:28:18.380 --> 00:28:21.220
What is it that I have said?

556
00:28:21.220 --> 00:28:24.540
Then after that, after you shifted into rest,

557
00:28:24.540 --> 00:28:27.380
you're now, I wish I had the,

558
00:28:27.380 --> 00:28:28.620
I keep wanting to point to it,

559
00:28:28.620 --> 00:28:30.180
so I'm just gonna write it down.

560
00:28:33.660 --> 00:28:35.180
But it's on the other side, so.

561
00:28:36.420 --> 00:28:39.180
Spirit, soul, and body.

562
00:28:39.180 --> 00:28:40.460
So after we shift into it,

563
00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:42.140
after we shift and choosing that,

564
00:28:42.140 --> 00:28:43.840
okay, God says that my identity is in my spirit,

565
00:28:43.840 --> 00:28:46.640
I'm gonna choose that my identity isn't,

566
00:28:48.020 --> 00:28:50.040
excuse me, is in my spirit,

567
00:28:50.040 --> 00:28:55.040
then we require for our soul and our body to come into,

568
00:28:57.680 --> 00:28:58.520
excuse me.

569
00:29:03.520 --> 00:29:04.360
Goodness sakes.

570
00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:07.400
I was starting to get a sore throat last night,

571
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:10.080
and I was like, no you don't, no you don't.

572
00:29:10.080 --> 00:29:10.920
No.

573
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.000
Thankfully I woke up without one today.

574
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:17.360
So, that,

575
00:29:18.360 --> 00:29:20.680
I lost my train of thought.

576
00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:27.280
Oh well, if I remember, I'll come back to it.

577
00:29:27.280 --> 00:29:28.760
Yeah, because I'm sure I will.

578
00:29:28.760 --> 00:29:30.440
Because all of this stuff is just,

579
00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:31.960
is talking about the same thing

580
00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:33.880
just from multiple points of view.

581
00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:36.920
So, after the no shame and no condemnation,

582
00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:40.320
and choosing that we are who God says that we are,

583
00:29:40.320 --> 00:29:41.160
then,

584
00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:48.560
sorry, I've been,

585
00:29:48.560 --> 00:29:49.400
I am,

586
00:29:50.800 --> 00:29:53.240
I'm not a preacher, I'm a teacher.

587
00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:55.080
And so there's a particular method

588
00:29:55.080 --> 00:29:56.240
in which I always like to teach,

589
00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:57.960
and I'm always trying to think and figure out,

590
00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:00.160
okay, what is the easiest way to explain this?

591
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.120
People all get it, just the fastest and the simplest.

592
00:30:04.120 --> 00:30:07.560
All of these steps that I'm going to be talking about,

593
00:30:07.560 --> 00:30:11.000
it's actually, you can use them one of two ways.

594
00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:12.520
Well, really, it's the same thing.

595
00:30:12.520 --> 00:30:19.400
But we're going to progress into greater tools that

596
00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:22.440
help you at a greater and greater intensity level.

597
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:23.720
That's what I'm trying to say.

598
00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:25.240
This is where you start.

599
00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:28.440
And then if that either doesn't work,

600
00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:30.360
if you don't shift into rest, or if you only

601
00:30:30.360 --> 00:30:33.640
shift into rest to a certain percentage, certain amount,

602
00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:35.480
you go to the next one.

603
00:30:35.480 --> 00:30:36.600
You go to the next one.

604
00:30:36.600 --> 00:30:39.360
Or, and the reason why I said that there's a second thing,

605
00:30:39.360 --> 00:30:41.360
or what you can do is the same thing

606
00:30:41.360 --> 00:30:43.720
that I do because I've been doing this so long.

607
00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:45.400
And then my clients as well, they

608
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:47.680
started doing this as well.

609
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:50.680
They've been going through this so long that they can just

610
00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:53.000
kind of know, this is the one I need to deal with.

611
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:54.360
So boom, they go right there.

612
00:30:54.360 --> 00:30:56.920
So you don't have to go through all six steps.

613
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.960
But they're all six tools that you can use.

614
00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:03.920
And if you don't know which one that you need,

615
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:06.440
just start somewhere.

616
00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:07.400
Always start here.

617
00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:08.880
Always start here.

618
00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:11.320
But then after that, you can just,

619
00:31:11.320 --> 00:31:13.000
sometimes this is all that you need.

620
00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:17.040
But then after that, you would just kind of either grab one,

621
00:31:17.040 --> 00:31:18.760
or you would just kind of like start.

622
00:31:18.760 --> 00:31:20.320
OK, well, then now I'm going to go to the next one.

623
00:31:20.320 --> 00:31:22.080
OK, well, that only got rid of part of it.

624
00:31:22.080 --> 00:31:23.920
So I've shifted into rest a little bit more.

625
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:25.000
So I'm going to go to the next one.

626
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:26.560
OK, I shifted into rest all the way.

627
00:31:26.560 --> 00:31:28.040
OK, that's as far as I got.

628
00:31:28.040 --> 00:31:29.120
That's as far as I needed.

629
00:31:29.120 --> 00:31:31.160
The next time, which might be five minutes later,

630
00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:33.680
might be five days later, whatever, where you realize,

631
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:35.040
oh my goodness, I'm out of rest.

632
00:31:35.040 --> 00:31:38.000
I need to shift into rest.

633
00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:40.440
So I can begin to live and operate from that place.

634
00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:43.320
Well, then you might only need no shame and no condemnation

635
00:31:43.320 --> 00:31:44.200
on that one.

636
00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:45.480
There you go.

637
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:48.560
You might run into that exact same problem tomorrow.

638
00:31:48.560 --> 00:31:53.080
But this time, no shame and no condemnation doesn't work.

639
00:31:53.080 --> 00:31:55.560
It's revealing an accusation that you

640
00:31:56.560 --> 00:31:58.400
have against God.

641
00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:03.800
And it's coming to light stronger and at a deeper level

642
00:32:03.800 --> 00:32:05.240
today than it did yesterday.

643
00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:07.200
So no shame, no condemnation.

644
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:09.840
OK, well, that kind of sort of worked, but not really.

645
00:32:09.840 --> 00:32:11.720
So I'm going to go to the next one.

646
00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:14.920
And then you just keep going.

647
00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:18.600
So that's what it is that we're drawing out here.

648
00:32:18.600 --> 00:32:22.200
So after this one, let me draw these in different colors.

649
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.320
I think it'll be easier to note.

650
00:32:25.360 --> 00:32:27.800
After the no shame and no condemnation,

651
00:32:27.800 --> 00:32:32.760
we're going to go to, just to update my notes here,

652
00:32:32.760 --> 00:32:37.960
we're going to go to stop.

653
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:38.680
It's very simple.

654
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:41.400
All of these are very, very simple.

655
00:32:41.400 --> 00:32:42.080
You just stop.

656
00:32:42.080 --> 00:32:43.960
You just tell yourself, OK, but you

657
00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:46.160
remember how we were talking about the body and soul

658
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:47.520
and talking to the body and soul?

659
00:32:47.520 --> 00:32:50.280
We'll be talking more about that in the second session.

660
00:32:50.280 --> 00:32:54.120
But you just talk to your soul.

661
00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:58.000
And you just tell it, hey, I don't know why you're anxious.

662
00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:59.360
I don't know why you're stressed.

663
00:32:59.360 --> 00:33:00.360
I'm feeling this.

664
00:33:00.360 --> 00:33:01.560
I don't know what's going on.

665
00:33:01.560 --> 00:33:05.800
But whatever it is that you're doing, stop.

666
00:33:05.800 --> 00:33:09.480
The only way that this works, in talking to your soul like this,

667
00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:13.000
is if you are having to, that you're choosing,

668
00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:14.920
I am who God says that I am.

669
00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:17.800
And you're standing in that authority and in that position.

670
00:33:17.800 --> 00:33:20.360
Because the soul is having to, it

671
00:33:20.360 --> 00:33:23.680
needs to respond to a son of God standing in authority.

672
00:33:24.360 --> 00:33:26.000
It needs to respond to authority.

673
00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:28.000
And it needs to hear your voice.

674
00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:29.720
And I don't mean like out loud.

675
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:31.400
It needs to hear your inner voice,

676
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:32.960
who it is that you are.

677
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:34.200
Because you are the king.

678
00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:36.360
Your spirit is the king over your own soul.

679
00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:41.240
And so you don't have to know.

680
00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:44.080
We're going to talk about this more in the second session,

681
00:33:44.080 --> 00:33:46.240
which I really, really enjoy, about the fact

682
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:51.120
that the soul and the spirit know how to heal themselves.

683
00:33:51.120 --> 00:33:53.120
So your soul knows what to do.

684
00:33:53.120 --> 00:33:55.680
It's an aspect of creation that God created

685
00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:58.360
that knows how to be what it is.

686
00:33:58.360 --> 00:33:59.200
It already knows it.

687
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:00.200
You don't have to know.

688
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:01.520
You don't have to micromanage.

689
00:34:01.520 --> 00:34:03.020
You don't have to figure it all out.

690
00:34:03.020 --> 00:34:04.240
You don't have to judge it.

691
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:05.480
Give it direction.

692
00:34:05.480 --> 00:34:06.360
Give it instruction.

693
00:34:06.360 --> 00:34:08.239
You just tell it, OK, you know what to do.

694
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:09.719
I'm telling you as your king, I want

695
00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:11.520
you to do how you know how to function, how

696
00:34:11.520 --> 00:34:13.080
you were created to function.

697
00:34:13.080 --> 00:34:16.480
And I want you, whatever it is that you're grabbing a hold of,

698
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:18.600
you don't even have to know what it is.

699
00:34:18.600 --> 00:34:21.040
Just tell your soul, I don't know what it is.

700
00:34:21.040 --> 00:34:22.560
I don't know what has triggered you.

701
00:34:22.560 --> 00:34:25.960
But whatever it is, I'm telling you, stop.

702
00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:29.639
And again, I know I keep going back to this.

703
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:32.239
And we're not even going to talk about it until tomorrow.

704
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:35.560
But intention, that focus, that's

705
00:34:35.560 --> 00:34:37.320
why we were practicing that yesterday,

706
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:41.040
learning how to actually zero in on something

707
00:34:41.040 --> 00:34:44.480
because we choose so, as opposed to, OK, well, I want to do this.

708
00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:46.400
But oh my goodness, other things keep coming.

709
00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:47.679
And they won't let me.

710
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:49.960
They won't, absolutely not.

711
00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:51.239
You're a son of God.

712
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:52.440
And you can choose.

713
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:56.960
And you and the father, like I've said before,

714
00:34:56.960 --> 00:35:01.000
are propelled through your life by the.

715
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.240
and propelled by your will.

716
00:35:03.240 --> 00:35:06.680
You decide, you determine, and therefore you do.

717
00:35:06.680 --> 00:35:09.200
And it actually moves you forward.

718
00:35:09.200 --> 00:35:11.320
So it's the same thing for this.

719
00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:15.400
You decide, OK, soul, this is what it is that I want you to do.

720
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:21.240
As if you're talking to a child, be very kind to yourself.

721
00:35:21.240 --> 00:35:24.120
Because if someone, including your soul,

722
00:35:24.120 --> 00:35:25.960
your soul is afraid of your spirit.

723
00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:29.480
So if you come to it, if you come to it,

724
00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:31.600
so remember why the soul is afraid of the spirit.

725
00:35:31.600 --> 00:35:32.800
I want to clarify that.

726
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:34.520
The reason the soul is afraid of the spirit

727
00:35:34.520 --> 00:35:36.880
is it's afraid of God, which is why it's out of rest.

728
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:39.000
And your spirit is in agreement with God.

729
00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:45.680
So it's afraid of the same thing that the spirit believes,

730
00:35:45.680 --> 00:35:49.540
it's the same thing that God has said that makes it feel unsafe.

731
00:35:49.540 --> 00:35:50.920
So it's afraid of its own spirit.

732
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:53.760
So if the spirit's not coming to it, giving it direction,

733
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:56.000
it's going to respond to it kind of like it does God.

734
00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:58.080
It's like, wait a minute, you're saying the same word.

735
00:35:58.080 --> 00:35:58.800
And I don't like that.

736
00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:00.320
I don't want to receive that word.

737
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:02.120
So if the spirit's coming, it needs

738
00:36:02.120 --> 00:36:06.640
to provide a safe place for the soul

739
00:36:06.640 --> 00:36:08.800
to have the courage to make the hard decision

740
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:11.160
that it needs to make.

741
00:36:11.160 --> 00:36:13.720
So talk kindly to it.

742
00:36:13.720 --> 00:36:15.640
Remember, talking kindly does not

743
00:36:15.640 --> 00:36:18.680
mean like talking to a child.

744
00:36:18.680 --> 00:36:20.440
That's not the authority of a king.

745
00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:24.160
But the authority of the king also doesn't talk like this.

746
00:36:24.160 --> 00:36:25.440
And this is how it should be.

747
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:27.840
This is how someone talks who has authority

748
00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:31.080
and feels it's threatened to be taken away.

749
00:36:31.080 --> 00:36:32.540
If we are who God says that we are,

750
00:36:32.540 --> 00:36:35.040
we know that we're not threatened.

751
00:36:35.040 --> 00:36:37.080
So do we see the difference?

752
00:36:37.080 --> 00:36:40.880
So it's very important.

753
00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:43.080
And I'm just going to mention this just

754
00:36:43.080 --> 00:36:44.640
because it came to mind.

755
00:36:44.640 --> 00:36:46.640
So I'm just going to throw it randomly in here.

756
00:36:46.640 --> 00:36:48.560
It's important when you're talking to yourself

757
00:36:48.560 --> 00:36:50.520
about things like also other things

758
00:36:50.520 --> 00:36:52.640
that you want your body or your soul to do, like,

759
00:36:52.640 --> 00:36:54.720
for instance, I was talking to a client about this

760
00:36:54.720 --> 00:36:57.720
the other day, losing weight.

761
00:36:57.720 --> 00:37:03.280
Talk kindly to your body, in authority, but kindly.

762
00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:07.360
And your body will start losing weight.

763
00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:09.680
But anyway, you have to do it kindly,

764
00:37:09.680 --> 00:37:12.960
as opposed to thinking that your body is bad,

765
00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:14.880
that it is your enemy, that it's not

766
00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:17.760
doing what you want it to do.

767
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:19.280
Your body is not an enemy.

768
00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:23.440
No wonder it feels that it's unprotected and unprovided for.

769
00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:25.720
We think it's an enemy, and it's not.

770
00:37:26.520 --> 00:37:29.640
So that's why I talk about how important it is

771
00:37:29.640 --> 00:37:32.600
in how we're telling it to stop.

772
00:37:32.600 --> 00:37:34.720
It's a particular type of authority

773
00:37:34.720 --> 00:37:36.320
that knows who it is, that doesn't feel

774
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:37.840
threatened by its position.

775
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.160
I mean, meaning like that its position can be taken away

776
00:37:40.160 --> 00:37:42.540
or that it could be stripped of its position or whatever.

777
00:37:42.540 --> 00:37:43.440
It knows who it is.

778
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:44.840
And so from that place, it doesn't

779
00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:46.840
have to feel threatened, so it can speak kindly.

780
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:48.920
But it is in a position of authority,

781
00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:51.640
not in a position of, will you please do this for me?

782
00:37:51.640 --> 00:37:53.040
I'm trying to convince you.

783
00:37:53.040 --> 00:37:54.400
It's a king.

784
00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:55.480
I've given you direction.

785
00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:56.320
You have free will.

786
00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:57.880
You can choose, soul, whether or not

787
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:00.000
you want to respond to the spirit.

788
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.040
But I am telling you as a king, with authority,

789
00:38:02.040 --> 00:38:03.920
this is what it is that I want you to do.

790
00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:06.720
That is the way in which you talk to your soul

791
00:38:06.720 --> 00:38:07.800
with this whole stop thing.

792
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:09.880
Otherwise, stop can sound like you're supposed

793
00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:11.720
to get mad at yourself.

794
00:38:11.720 --> 00:38:12.340
Absolutely not.

795
00:38:12.340 --> 00:38:13.000
That won't help.

796
00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:13.840
That won't work.

797
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:15.120
So just tell yourself to stop.

798
00:38:15.120 --> 00:38:17.200
And you would be shocked at the number of times.

799
00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:20.400
All I have to do is just tell myself, OK, stop.

800
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:24.120
Whatever it is you're doing, stop.

801
00:38:24.120 --> 00:38:25.360
I don't say it out loud.

802
00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:26.520
I mean, you can if you want.

803
00:38:26.520 --> 00:38:27.880
I've done that, too.

804
00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:29.640
Once you find that place of intention,

805
00:38:29.640 --> 00:38:31.520
you just turn into that place of intention.

806
00:38:31.520 --> 00:38:33.160
And then you focus it on your soul.

807
00:38:33.160 --> 00:38:35.160
And you just say, let that thing go.

808
00:38:35.160 --> 00:38:37.320
I don't know what it is, but let it go.

809
00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:38.480
And it lets it go.

810
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:39.320
It's wild.

811
00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:41.640
You don't even know what triggered you.

812
00:38:41.640 --> 00:38:42.880
But it listened.

813
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:45.040
And it said, oh, there's nothing to fear.

814
00:38:45.040 --> 00:38:46.360
There's nothing to be afraid of.

815
00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:48.160
OK, my king has spoken.

816
00:38:51.240 --> 00:38:52.800
So again, everything is effortless.

817
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:55.880
You don't even have to know what it is.

818
00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:58.680
And our bodies and souls, all of it

819
00:38:58.680 --> 00:39:05.720
was created as its own sort of entity with its own functions.

820
00:39:05.720 --> 00:39:08.320
And it knows how to function according

821
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:09.480
to the way it was created.

822
00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:10.440
So let it do that.

823
00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:13.680
Let yourself be more than your conscious mind.

824
00:39:13.680 --> 00:39:16.640
And allow the other parts of you to be involved in your life.

825
00:39:19.640 --> 00:39:22.400
OK, so after stop, if that doesn't work,

826
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:27.800
or if it works partway, this next one I go to a lot.

827
00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:30.880
So maybe you're like, OK, well, I felt a little bit better,

828
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:31.800
but not all the way.

829
00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:33.680
Or it didn't work at all.

830
00:39:33.680 --> 00:39:42.720
The next one is no judgment.

831
00:39:42.720 --> 00:39:44.600
We were talking about yesterday.

832
00:39:44.600 --> 00:39:47.560
No judgment.

833
00:39:47.560 --> 00:39:49.160
I really, really like this one.

834
00:39:49.200 --> 00:39:52.480
I go to this one probably more than,

835
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:55.680
I definitely do this more than stop.

836
00:39:55.680 --> 00:39:56.560
I don't know why.

837
00:39:56.560 --> 00:39:58.760
I think it's because I've realized over time,

838
00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:00.600
I can recognize.

839
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.800
I'm holding a tremendous amount of judgment against myself.

840
00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:05.920
Again, that whole shame and no condemnation thing.

841
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:07.880
And what I mean by no judgment is we've already

842
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:11.040
dealt with the no shame and condemnation about ourselves.

843
00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:16.180
This judgment is about the situation, and it's about God.

844
00:40:16.180 --> 00:40:17.920
It shouldn't be like this.

845
00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:20.320
It should be different.

846
00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:22.120
We've made a judgment about it.

847
00:40:22.120 --> 00:40:23.240
Here's the problem.

848
00:40:23.240 --> 00:40:26.200
If we're in unrest, we're down in our soul or in our body.

849
00:40:26.200 --> 00:40:28.800
In other words, we're not down in there.

850
00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:32.400
We think our identity is down in there.

851
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:34.600
That's what it is.

852
00:40:34.600 --> 00:40:36.600
Our identity is always in our spirit,

853
00:40:36.600 --> 00:40:38.600
but we think it's down here.

854
00:40:38.600 --> 00:40:41.560
So whatever it is that we think, whatever it is we believe,

855
00:40:41.560 --> 00:40:43.520
we have been given authorization and power

856
00:40:43.520 --> 00:40:50.280
by the Lord for that to be true in our lives.

857
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:53.040
So anyway, if we believe that our identity is in our soul

858
00:40:53.040 --> 00:40:55.160
and our body and that we're subject to earthly laws,

859
00:40:55.160 --> 00:40:58.560
we're subject to spiritual laws, that we need them,

860
00:40:59.100 --> 00:41:02.560
that we're in lack, et cetera, then we're

861
00:41:02.560 --> 00:41:10.600
going to think that we're not in a righteous position

862
00:41:10.600 --> 00:41:13.400
in order to make a righteous judgment.

863
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:17.080
We're not in a place to be able to judge the situation.

864
00:41:17.080 --> 00:41:19.240
The only way that you can judge a situation

865
00:41:19.240 --> 00:41:21.760
by the soul or the body is according

866
00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:23.680
to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

867
00:41:23.680 --> 00:41:25.520
and we're trying to avoid operating by this tree.

868
00:41:25.520 --> 00:41:26.980
Because according to this tree, how

869
00:41:26.980 --> 00:41:28.660
do I know what's good and evil?

870
00:41:28.660 --> 00:41:31.540
How do I know if I should allow them to treat me like that?

871
00:41:31.540 --> 00:41:33.820
How should I know if that was OK for them to do,

872
00:41:33.820 --> 00:41:36.320
or if that's OK for me to do, or if that's the right decision

873
00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:37.620
that I should make, or whatever?

874
00:41:37.620 --> 00:41:38.960
OK, well, what is it that I've learned?

875
00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:40.420
What did I learn in Sunday school?

876
00:41:40.420 --> 00:41:41.180
How old am I?

877
00:41:41.180 --> 00:41:44.220
How many years of learning do I have in church,

878
00:41:44.220 --> 00:41:46.620
in school, university?

879
00:41:46.620 --> 00:41:48.420
What have I learned in my career, whatever?

880
00:41:48.420 --> 00:41:49.660
We're going through this list.

881
00:41:49.660 --> 00:41:51.420
We're analyzing really quickly, going

882
00:41:51.420 --> 00:41:53.960
through all these calculations and all of these measurements.

883
00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:56.620
OK, what's good, what's evil, under what circumstances

884
00:41:56.660 --> 00:41:57.340
were those?

885
00:41:57.340 --> 00:41:59.020
And it gets more complicated the older

886
00:41:59.020 --> 00:42:02.540
we get, because while children learn and operate

887
00:42:02.540 --> 00:42:04.700
in their world very black and white, as adults,

888
00:42:04.700 --> 00:42:06.540
we have a huge gray area.

889
00:42:06.540 --> 00:42:08.700
Very, very, very confusing.

890
00:42:08.700 --> 00:42:11.380
So we're not in a place to be able to make

891
00:42:11.380 --> 00:42:16.940
a righteous judgment, so release yourself of the responsibility.

892
00:42:16.940 --> 00:42:20.820
You don't have to judge what just happened

893
00:42:20.820 --> 00:42:23.780
or what is going on, including, and I only

894
00:42:23.780 --> 00:42:26.300
bring this up because I've been in these situations,

895
00:42:26.300 --> 00:42:28.940
including an abusive situation.

896
00:42:28.940 --> 00:42:33.380
So I've been in emotional and verbal abusive situations,

897
00:42:33.380 --> 00:42:34.780
and they were extreme.

898
00:42:34.780 --> 00:42:36.140
They were very extreme.

899
00:42:36.140 --> 00:42:40.100
And so I'm telling you because I've lived it,

900
00:42:40.100 --> 00:42:47.740
and I've lived it multiple times over very long periods of time,

901
00:42:47.740 --> 00:42:50.260
and that wears you down.

902
00:42:50.260 --> 00:42:52.380
And I've had to make these choices.

903
00:42:52.380 --> 00:42:56.740
So anyway, even in, say, an emotionally or verbally abusive

904
00:42:56.740 --> 00:42:59.620
situation, you're in a situation like that,

905
00:42:59.620 --> 00:43:03.540
and you're thinking, it shouldn't be like this.

906
00:43:03.540 --> 00:43:06.740
So the issue isn't, honestly, in this situation,

907
00:43:06.740 --> 00:43:09.100
because we're trying to shift into rest,

908
00:43:09.100 --> 00:43:11.820
that the issue isn't actually whether or not

909
00:43:11.820 --> 00:43:13.940
they should be treating us like that.

910
00:43:13.940 --> 00:43:15.100
That's not the issue.

911
00:43:15.100 --> 00:43:17.180
The issue is the Son of God is feeling threatened,

912
00:43:17.180 --> 00:43:19.060
and that's a problem, because the Son of God

913
00:43:19.060 --> 00:43:21.220
is not threatened.

914
00:43:21.220 --> 00:43:22.420
That's the problem.

915
00:43:22.420 --> 00:43:24.860
We have to shift ourselves out of that understanding,

916
00:43:24.860 --> 00:43:28.220
because that then neutralizes the power of what's going on

917
00:43:28.220 --> 00:43:29.700
and how it can affect us.

918
00:43:29.700 --> 00:43:31.540
They might still be saying those things,

919
00:43:31.540 --> 00:43:33.500
because trust me, I've shifted into rest,

920
00:43:33.500 --> 00:43:37.460
and I would still be in that emotionally abusive situation,

921
00:43:37.460 --> 00:43:39.500
that verbally abusive situation.

922
00:43:39.500 --> 00:43:42.740
They're not stopping.

923
00:43:42.740 --> 00:43:47.500
But I have chosen, I don't have control over the other person.

924
00:43:47.500 --> 00:43:49.140
Yeah, there's certain things you can do,

925
00:43:49.140 --> 00:43:50.660
especially if it's a work situation.

926
00:43:50.660 --> 00:43:51.660
You can try to go to HR.

927
00:43:51.660 --> 00:43:54.580
You can try to use tools, again, to acknowledge good and evil.

928
00:43:54.580 --> 00:43:56.540
As long as you know who it is that you are,

929
00:43:56.540 --> 00:43:58.020
you can use the tools in this tree.

930
00:43:58.020 --> 00:44:00.980
You just don't need to believe that we're subject to them.

931
00:44:00.980 --> 00:44:03.460
But you can be in the situation.

932
00:44:03.460 --> 00:44:05.900
A person can still do it, but it's no longer affecting you,

933
00:44:05.900 --> 00:44:08.460
because you've neutralized its power according to your belief

934
00:44:08.460 --> 00:44:10.060
that what God says is true.

935
00:44:10.060 --> 00:44:11.500
That's what it is that we're doing.

936
00:44:11.500 --> 00:44:14.700
So that's what this whole non-judgment thing is.

937
00:44:14.700 --> 00:44:17.660
You're not declaring that what it is that's going on

938
00:44:17.660 --> 00:44:19.420
is OK or not OK.

939
00:44:19.420 --> 00:44:22.060
You're not declaring in this situation

940
00:44:22.060 --> 00:44:24.340
that, well, they should be doing this, or they shouldn't,

941
00:44:24.340 --> 00:44:27.820
or I deserve this, or I don't.

942
00:44:27.820 --> 00:44:31.060
Don't let it identify you.

943
00:44:31.060 --> 00:44:36.380
Just release yourself from judgment,

944
00:44:36.380 --> 00:44:42.140
release judgment, and stop demanding

945
00:44:42.140 --> 00:44:48.060
that God reconcile the situation and change it

946
00:44:48.060 --> 00:44:53.300
from change the situation in order for you to be at rest.

947
00:44:53.300 --> 00:44:55.700
You have a right to be at rest without your circumstances

948
00:44:55.700 --> 00:44:57.700
having to change.

949
00:44:57.700 --> 00:45:01.060
We're not subject to and victimize.

950
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.880
by our circumstances, as a son of God in our identity.

951
00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:10.640
So that's an additional point I wanted to make here.

952
00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:19.800
And then, yeah, lots I could say.

953
00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:22.360
OK, another thing that we need to do

954
00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:31.800
in this whole aspect of judgment is let go of multiple things

955
00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:37.840
here, including not even just judgment about,

956
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:40.000
like, well, someone did something to me,

957
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:43.920
including things like, I just did something.

958
00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:46.280
Don't make a judgment about it.

959
00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:48.520
You can make a judgment in a minute

960
00:45:48.520 --> 00:45:52.080
once you're shifted into rest, because up here,

961
00:45:52.080 --> 00:45:56.880
you're now in a position of the Lord being in Christ,

962
00:45:56.880 --> 00:45:58.840
choosing that your identity is in your spirit

963
00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:00.400
and that is in your position.

964
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:02.880
And Jesus is a righteous judge.

965
00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:09.200
And from that position, your mind is cleared

966
00:46:09.200 --> 00:46:13.800
and your emotions are cleared of feeling fear.

967
00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:17.120
We don't want to make a judgment out of fear.

968
00:46:17.120 --> 00:46:19.600
The only way that operating out of the soul or the body

969
00:46:19.600 --> 00:46:22.800
understands how to interact with life is out of fear.

970
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:26.760
You can't make a righteous judgment out of fear.

971
00:46:26.760 --> 00:46:30.880
So in shifting up into rest, we can then

972
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:33.840
make a righteous judgment about the situation,

973
00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:38.600
because we're in a place and in a position as a righteous judge.

974
00:46:38.600 --> 00:46:41.120
So we're called to judge.

975
00:46:41.120 --> 00:46:44.160
We're called to judge angels, it says.

976
00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:48.440
But we can't make that judgment down here.

977
00:46:48.440 --> 00:46:50.840
So we have to shift into rest first.

978
00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:53.080
And then from there, we can make a righteous judgment.

979
00:46:53.080 --> 00:46:54.160
And then, of course, we're always

980
00:46:54.160 --> 00:46:55.800
going to operate according to the heart of the Father,

981
00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:57.320
because that's like us, too.

982
00:46:57.320 --> 00:46:58.720
In the heart of the Father, there's

983
00:46:58.720 --> 00:47:02.760
so much more, there's so much involved in righteous judgment

984
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:04.800
beyond simply, well, that was wrong

985
00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:07.280
and we should just completely annihilate you.

986
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:09.400
There's love and there's mercy.

987
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:11.120
And that's what God personally called me.

988
00:47:11.120 --> 00:47:13.480
And I'm just mentioning this because that was the example

989
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:16.440
I gave a while ago.

990
00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:18.360
He personally called me to have love and mercy

991
00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:21.080
in my abusive situations.

992
00:47:21.080 --> 00:47:26.160
And it wasn't most of the time.

993
00:47:26.160 --> 00:47:27.920
I'm not saying that y'all should do this.

994
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:29.640
I'm just telling you what it is that I've

995
00:47:29.640 --> 00:47:32.640
lived through so that you can choose whether or not you

996
00:47:32.640 --> 00:47:36.920
trust this actually works.

997
00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:45.080
So God has had me stay in a lot of emotional and verbal abusive

998
00:47:45.080 --> 00:47:47.600
situations that I've been in, because he said,

999
00:47:47.600 --> 00:47:49.080
Ashley, they're not a threat to you.

1000
00:47:49.080 --> 00:47:51.520
And I want you to learn how that you can be in them

1001
00:47:51.520 --> 00:47:53.400
and realize they absolutely don't,

1002
00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:55.560
it doesn't matter whether they're saying that or not

1003
00:47:55.560 --> 00:47:57.720
because I'm not threatened anymore.

1004
00:47:57.720 --> 00:48:00.280
There are other times where he's had me remove myself,

1005
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:02.840
where he's had me add boundaries, et cetera.

1006
00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:05.600
That's not really the point of what we're talking about here.

1007
00:48:05.600 --> 00:48:07.080
Remember, we have to shift into rest

1008
00:48:07.080 --> 00:48:08.720
in order to be able to make a righteous decision

1009
00:48:08.720 --> 00:48:09.320
with the Lord.

1010
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:11.320
OK, what should I do in this situation?

1011
00:48:11.320 --> 00:48:13.120
What kind of boundaries should I be making?

1012
00:48:13.120 --> 00:48:15.320
What kind of boundaries would Jesus make, et cetera?

1013
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:17.000
The point is right now, we're trying

1014
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:19.200
to believe what does God say.

1015
00:48:19.200 --> 00:48:20.840
Everything goes back to what is it

1016
00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:22.560
that we believe about what God has said.

1017
00:48:22.560 --> 00:48:24.760
We have to choose that first before we figure out

1018
00:48:24.760 --> 00:48:28.600
what do I do.

1019
00:48:28.600 --> 00:48:31.640
It's really the knowledge I couldn't yield.

1020
00:48:31.640 --> 00:48:35.440
So this, like I said, plays out for the situations

1021
00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:39.280
that you would find yourself in where we're called to not judge.

1022
00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:42.000
It's not just when someone's done something against you,

1023
00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:44.480
but when you've done something.

1024
00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:46.120
Don't judge that either.

1025
00:48:46.120 --> 00:48:47.680
You just yelled at somebody.

1026
00:48:47.680 --> 00:48:50.560
You just did something.

1027
00:48:50.560 --> 00:48:52.320
Heaven forbid, you just stole something.

1028
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:53.280
I don't know.

1029
00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:54.840
You just did something.

1030
00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:58.560
No judgment of the situation that it should be different

1031
00:48:58.560 --> 00:48:59.640
than what it is.

1032
00:48:59.640 --> 00:49:02.360
You're not declaring it's OK, but you're also

1033
00:49:02.360 --> 00:49:04.120
not declaring it's not OK.

1034
00:49:04.120 --> 00:49:06.960
You're not in a position to be able to do that.

1035
00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:08.760
No judgment.

1036
00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:10.600
And as soon as you have that no judgment,

1037
00:49:10.600 --> 00:49:11.880
you shift into rest.

1038
00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:14.360
And now you see things not from a place of fear,

1039
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:16.360
but you see things from a place of love.

1040
00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:20.080
You see things from a place of righteousness.

1041
00:49:20.080 --> 00:49:22.600
And now you can make a judgment of, OK,

1042
00:49:22.600 --> 00:49:25.280
how should I reconcile this issue?

1043
00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:27.360
What should I do to make restitution?

1044
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:29.520
Not restitution like payment, but again,

1045
00:49:29.520 --> 00:49:32.280
reconciliation between a relationship or whatever.

1046
00:49:32.280 --> 00:49:34.660
And if nobody knows, then it's not anything that anybody.

1047
00:49:34.660 --> 00:49:36.560
Maybe it's something that you told God.

1048
00:49:36.560 --> 00:49:39.960
Well, then you can say, hey, Lord, my relationship with you,

1049
00:49:39.960 --> 00:49:42.080
I want you to know I'm sorry.

1050
00:49:42.080 --> 00:49:43.600
I'm so sorry that that hurt you.

1051
00:49:43.600 --> 00:49:46.200
I'm not feeling remorse and guilty and all of that stuff.

1052
00:49:46.200 --> 00:49:49.040
None of that's needed because the payment for all of that

1053
00:49:49.040 --> 00:49:50.480
has already been made.

1054
00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:54.360
We don't have to make a payment of shame.

1055
00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:58.120
I thought that I had to pay for everything I did with shame.

1056
00:49:58.120 --> 00:50:01.240
And so I would, I'm very.

1057
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.720
Familiar with shame because I learned it. I taught myself shame. I know that might

1058
00:50:06.720 --> 00:50:11.480
sound really weird. I taught myself shame because I didn't believe that people

1059
00:50:11.480 --> 00:50:18.880
believed that I was remorseful unless I acted extremely ashamed and I was not

1060
00:50:18.880 --> 00:50:23.040
going to be hypocrite. I was going to if I was going to act ashamed then it meant

1061
00:50:23.040 --> 00:50:27.360
then I was determined that it that it was out of what it is that I felt not

1062
00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:33.760
because I was acting. So I made myself feel as worse as bad as I possibly

1063
00:50:33.760 --> 00:50:41.800
could. So anyway nobody wants to have lived my life. But anyway so the

1064
00:50:41.800 --> 00:50:45.720
other thing about the non-judgment not just a situation you know that someone's

1065
00:50:45.720 --> 00:50:50.560
done something to us or that we've done something but also Lord I have done all

1066
00:50:50.560 --> 00:50:55.000
of these things. I followed this formula. I obeyed you. I would ever and look at

1067
00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:59.920
and I'm not getting the results. Even judging even not judging that situation

1068
00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:04.000
because what is it that we're judging? We're not actually judging the

1069
00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:09.000
situation even though I keep saying that. We're actually judging God. We're saying

1070
00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:13.640
God this says something about you and that's an issue and I need you to

1071
00:51:13.640 --> 00:51:17.560
reconcile this. I need you to bring restitution. I need you to fix it. I need

1072
00:51:17.560 --> 00:51:22.320
you to change. You say your character's not like this. Fix it. We don't realize

1073
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:26.640
that that's what we're doing but we do. That's exactly what we're doing and

1074
00:51:26.640 --> 00:51:29.400
we'll realize that we know that that's what we're doing as soon as we release

1075
00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:33.680
judgment shift into rest and all of a sudden we can see it. We're like now that

1076
00:51:33.680 --> 00:51:37.200
I'm in rest and now that I'm in complete agreement with the Lord I realized that

1077
00:51:37.200 --> 00:51:42.480
was not in agreement. I was mad at God. I believe that my situation was saying

1078
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:46.280
something about God and I was holding it against him. Everything always goes back

1079
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:51.840
to what it is that we believe about God and that determines in which of these

1080
00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:57.360
realms that we're actually living in at the time. So if you're if you're

1081
00:51:57.360 --> 00:52:01.320
frustrated because well God why am I not getting more success in my business? Lord

1082
00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:05.920
why am I not like a variety of things? You know why why don't I have this

1083
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:09.560
dream yet? Why don't I have a house yet? Or you gave me this dream or this promise

1084
00:52:09.560 --> 00:52:14.920
or this vision that hasn't happened. We're judging God by the situation

1085
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:19.860
saying it shouldn't look like this and it should be something different. So

1086
00:52:20.020 --> 00:52:25.380
that's a phrase that I used to help myself to help myself in this

1087
00:52:25.380 --> 00:52:28.540
place where I'm talking about no judgment. When I'm talking myself through no

1088
00:52:28.540 --> 00:52:32.580
judgment. So I'm like okay wait a minute how do I do that? How do I recognize that I'm

1089
00:52:32.580 --> 00:52:37.700
in judgment and how do I release that? I believe apparently that whatever is

1090
00:52:37.700 --> 00:52:43.780
going on whatever even if it's internal even I feel this way. I feel this way and

1091
00:52:43.780 --> 00:52:49.100
that's my situation. I feel this way and I'm thinking okay I'm not in rest and I

1092
00:52:49.100 --> 00:52:55.420
feel this way. I'm judging the fact that I think I should feel different. I'm

1093
00:52:55.420 --> 00:52:59.780
judging the fact that I should like say if you're angry I'm judging the fact

1094
00:52:59.780 --> 00:53:08.420
that I feel angry. No judgment. No judgment. It is and then you release

1095
00:53:08.420 --> 00:53:12.220
it because you're holding your whole you're having accusations against God

1096
00:53:12.220 --> 00:53:17.180
and the fact that that you know you're angry you think that that you shouldn't

1097
00:53:17.180 --> 00:53:20.380
be and you think that it's saying something bad about you. There's this

1098
00:53:20.380 --> 00:53:25.540
whole rabbit trail that we that we go down and we don't realize it. It's just

1099
00:53:25.540 --> 00:53:28.620
because it's it's not going through our conscious mind because you're more than

1100
00:53:28.620 --> 00:53:32.940
your conscious mind. It's going through your subconscious. Your soul has

1101
00:53:32.940 --> 00:53:37.220
already made this belief and that's why it is that your body and your soul with

1102
00:53:37.220 --> 00:53:40.660
all of these emotions are responding in this way. There's a deep

1103
00:53:40.660 --> 00:53:48.100
level root there. So we don't and that also goes through

1104
00:53:48.100 --> 00:53:53.820
learning how to do something. Am I doing it right? I don't know am I and maybe I'm

1105
00:53:53.820 --> 00:53:57.100
not doing it right. Oh I'm so sorry Lord you know maybe I'll try better and I'll

1106
00:53:57.100 --> 00:54:01.300
do it different. You know am I shifting into rest? Am I learning this? Am I you

1107
00:54:01.300 --> 00:54:05.780
know am I getting this? Judgment. Judgment that it should be different

1108
00:54:05.780 --> 00:54:09.940
than what it is. Let go of the judgment and I promise you you will learn things

1109
00:54:09.940 --> 00:54:14.460
faster in life. You will obey the Lord faster. You will you will follow him

1110
00:54:14.460 --> 00:54:18.940
faster. You will shift faster. You will look more like God faster if you stop

1111
00:54:18.940 --> 00:54:23.900
judging it. Stop judging it. Choose that God is who he says that he is and then

1112
00:54:23.900 --> 00:54:26.780
from that place then you can make a judgment about you know because you're

1113
00:54:26.780 --> 00:54:30.020
in a righteous position understanding that everything needs to be addressed

1114
00:54:30.020 --> 00:54:33.340
from the perspective of love and mercy and whatever the heart of the Father is

1115
00:54:33.340 --> 00:54:38.700
for that unique situation with those unique people or how you felt in that

1116
00:54:38.700 --> 00:54:43.340
unique moment whatever it's all handled. Remember what we talked about in spirit

1117
00:54:43.340 --> 00:54:46.940
how these are governed by laws but spirit is governed by relationship. It's

1118
00:54:46.940 --> 00:54:54.260
all by relationship and therefore there are no rules. It's all an evidence of who

1119
00:54:54.260 --> 00:54:57.980
the character of God is but we have to be in we have to recognize that we're in

1120
00:54:57.980 --> 00:55:01.860
him in order to be able to know

1121
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.880
So, okay, how does God uniquely want me to handle this situation?

1122
00:55:03.880 --> 00:55:08.400
Does it evidence itself in an expression of mercy?

1123
00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:10.480
Does it evidence itself in an expression of love?

1124
00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:17.780
Does it evidence itself in an expression of righteous anger, which is allowed as long

1125
00:55:17.780 --> 00:55:23.280
as it's coming from a position of being in the heart of God and God says, that is a reflection

1126
00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:24.280
of my character.

1127
00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:27.960
But us just determining from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, well, this is

1128
00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:31.960
right and this is wrong, and therefore, if I'm mad about evil, that's righteous.

1129
00:55:31.960 --> 00:55:34.560
That is absolutely not true.

1130
00:55:34.560 --> 00:55:39.080
That's true of the knowledge of good and evil, and we're making a judgment about, we're in

1131
00:55:39.080 --> 00:55:43.320
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, making a judgment about the evil.

1132
00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:45.560
We're not in a position to be able to make a righteous judgment.

1133
00:55:45.560 --> 00:55:49.520
In order to have righteous anger, we need to be in the position of being within the

1134
00:55:49.520 --> 00:55:54.800
heart of the Father, and from that place, we can, there's righteous anger.

1135
00:55:54.800 --> 00:56:00.840
Being angry about wickedness from this point is not the same thing.

1136
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:06.720
It's not the same thing as righteous anger.

1137
00:56:06.720 --> 00:56:11.600
That's why when people operate in ways that they say, oh, well, you know, I'm just attacking

1138
00:56:11.600 --> 00:56:17.880
evil and just attacking the wickedness or whatever, you'll notice in that type of anger,

1139
00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:23.680
there's how they talk, the tone of their voice or how you talk or whatever, there's an insecurity,

1140
00:56:23.680 --> 00:56:26.840
there's a fear, there's a desperation.

1141
00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:33.080
I've got to fix this, and we give it a godly title, like it shouldn't be like this.

1142
00:56:33.080 --> 00:56:34.080
This is wicked.

1143
00:56:34.080 --> 00:56:46.280
This is bad, and et cetera, but anyway, okay, so the key to letting go of holding God accountable

1144
00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:54.240
is reconciling, the key is to let go of holding God accountable to reconciling something before

1145
00:56:54.240 --> 00:56:57.160
we choose him and what he says.

1146
00:56:57.160 --> 00:56:59.000
That's what we're doing with the no judgment.

1147
00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:02.280
We're choosing him prior to proof.

1148
00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:04.340
That's faith.

1149
00:57:04.340 --> 00:57:10.240
We're not requiring reconciliation of the situation and how God, okay, God, this doesn't look

1150
00:57:10.240 --> 00:57:12.920
like your character, but you say that your character is loving goodness.

1151
00:57:12.920 --> 00:57:16.600
This does not look like loving goodness from you into my life.

1152
00:57:16.600 --> 00:57:21.680
That is, we're then holding God accountable, requiring him, okay, God, in order for me

1153
00:57:21.680 --> 00:57:25.520
to believe that you are as loving and as good as you say that you are, you need to show

1154
00:57:25.520 --> 00:57:31.920
me, because I'm telling you, this doesn't look like it, and you need to fix it.

1155
00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:37.520
It's another part of the no judgment.

1156
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:47.040
You're going to release, another helpful word for me in that is to know, is to release ownership

1157
00:57:47.040 --> 00:57:48.040
of the situation.

1158
00:57:48.040 --> 00:57:50.000
Again, we're holding God accountable to something.

1159
00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:51.000
We own it.

1160
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:52.000
We have a right to it.

1161
00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:54.560
We're claiming it, and God, you owe me something.

1162
00:57:54.560 --> 00:57:57.040
That no judgment, that's what you're doing when you're letting go.

1163
00:57:57.040 --> 00:57:59.960
You're releasing ownership of it.

1164
00:57:59.960 --> 00:58:03.000
It depends on the situation as to which word will kind of help you.

1165
00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:10.680
For me, sometimes using that, articulating it as the word ownership helps me realize,

1166
00:58:10.680 --> 00:58:12.440
wow, that is what I'm doing.

1167
00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:20.480
I feel like I own this, and that God's accountable to explain himself, or to fix it, or whatever.

1168
00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:40.240
The next one is to, we're going to choose, we're going to choose wherever your spirit

1169
00:58:40.240 --> 00:58:44.560
finds peace.

1170
00:58:44.560 --> 00:58:48.320
We'll be talking, well, I don't know.

1171
00:58:48.360 --> 00:58:53.800
I think that we'll be probably talking more about this when we get to how to make decisions

1172
00:58:53.800 --> 00:59:00.040
from a place of rest, but I'll just mention some stuff briefly here.

1173
00:59:00.040 --> 00:59:03.080
We're going to, at this point, we're going to choose.

1174
00:59:03.080 --> 00:59:10.360
The really cool thing about choosing is, when we're choosing, we are having faith, and we're

1175
00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:14.120
having faith without believing.

1176
00:59:14.160 --> 00:59:16.400
Faith is an act of our will.

1177
00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:23.360
Technically, and I'm going to mention this little caveat here, technically, when you're

1178
00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:27.240
choosing, you are choosing to believe.

1179
00:59:27.240 --> 00:59:31.040
You are actually believing.

1180
00:59:31.040 --> 00:59:38.600
That muddies the water so much when we talk about it that I don't mention that.

1181
00:59:38.600 --> 00:59:45.360
The way that I word it is, I say that it is past belief.

1182
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:47.800
You can choose without believing.

1183
00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:48.800
Here's why.

1184
00:59:48.800 --> 00:59:58.160
Our idea of what it means to, we've attached, over the years, we have taken something within

1185
00:59:58.160 --> 01:00:00.000
ourselves that we feel.

1186
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:05.920
that, okay, if it feels like this, it means I'm believing it. And that's

1187
01:00:05.920 --> 01:00:13.240
actually not true. So our idea and our understanding of belief is

1188
01:00:13.240 --> 01:00:19.360
incorrect, and so if we think that we're waiting on that to have faith,

1189
01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:25.680
you don't need that. So the thing is that actually we are over here,

1190
01:00:25.680 --> 01:00:29.600
you know, when we're having faith, it's not that we're having

1191
01:00:29.600 --> 01:00:33.520
faith without believing. We are having faith by believing, but it's a belief in

1192
01:00:33.520 --> 01:00:37.280
a way that we're not familiar with. We've taught ourselves that belief means

1193
01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:40.080
something different, that it feels something different, and you do not have

1194
01:00:40.080 --> 01:00:44.360
to have that feeling that you have or that knowing or whatever. I actually

1195
01:00:44.360 --> 01:00:50.160
believe this. That thing that 99% of the population attaches

1196
01:00:50.160 --> 01:00:55.200
its idea of belief to is not needed in order for you to have faith, and all you

1197
01:00:55.240 --> 01:01:03.080
need is faith in order for God to manifest into your life. So if

1198
01:01:03.080 --> 01:01:07.080
you get to a particular situation, like, okay, God wants me to choose that what it

1199
01:01:07.080 --> 01:01:11.440
is that he says is true to the degree that he says that he is it. I don't

1200
01:01:11.440 --> 01:01:17.720
believe it. I don't feel it. I don't believe it. But you can choose it as an

1201
01:01:17.720 --> 01:01:22.320
act of your will, and you aren't even subject to the fact that,

1202
01:01:22.360 --> 01:01:26.920
yeah, but I don't even believe it. It's not even needed, but your intention and

1203
01:01:26.920 --> 01:01:32.360
your will is, and so you can choose faith. So how this works, so what we've

1204
01:01:32.360 --> 01:01:39.520
done, and let me write this down actually. This is how faith works, and this is

1205
01:01:39.520 --> 01:01:45.920
how God teaches us how to grow in faith over, you know, in our spiritual

1206
01:01:45.920 --> 01:01:59.920
walk. So, sorry, let me make sure that this is written a bit bigger. So normally

1207
01:01:59.920 --> 01:02:05.320
what we do is we look for proof of something. Then, if we've seen enough

1208
01:02:05.320 --> 01:02:12.400
proof of it, you know, in ourselves, in our lives, in, you know, something that God

1209
01:02:12.400 --> 01:02:16.600
said. So God's wanting us to believe him about something, and we're like, yeah, but,

1210
01:02:16.600 --> 01:02:20.640
you know, where's the proof of that? Do I see it, and here's a big

1211
01:02:20.640 --> 01:02:24.440
thing, do I see it in somebody else's life? Have I seen it in other people's

1212
01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:29.920
lives? Have I seen it in my own life, or have I seen it in Scripture? And we'll

1213
01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:33.640
sometimes use Scripture, like we talked about the other day, as a way of

1214
01:02:33.640 --> 01:02:38.320
separating us between, separating ourselves from the Lord. God, I won't

1215
01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:44.160
believe your word until I see it in this proof, because God is more and

1216
01:02:44.160 --> 01:02:48.280
bigger than the Bible. Everything in the Bible is true, but he's more, and he's

1217
01:02:48.280 --> 01:02:53.160
bigger than that. God isn't the Bible. God is expressed in the Bible. God

1218
01:02:53.160 --> 01:02:57.880
expressed himself in the Bible. We don't worship the Bible. We worship the one who

1219
01:02:57.880 --> 01:03:03.480
wrote the Bible, the one from whom all of those words came. So even

1220
01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:08.400
requiring that we see it in Scripture. Now, I'm not saying that it

1221
01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:13.200
says something opposite in Scripture, you know, than what God is saying,

1222
01:03:13.200 --> 01:03:18.880
and then we're like, well, God, you know, and we're requiring proof that way.

1223
01:03:18.880 --> 01:03:22.360
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the fact that God's

1224
01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:25.520
telling you something, you're thinking, you know what, I don't know where that would

1225
01:03:25.520 --> 01:03:30.240
be in Scripture. I don't remember having ever heard that. We're talking about, you

1226
01:03:30.240 --> 01:03:34.400
don't know. You haven't felt like you've been exposed to it or something like

1227
01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:38.480
that. Not that, actually, the Bible says opposite. We're not talking about that.

1228
01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:41.280
Did you have a question?

1229
01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:52.280
Yes, yeah, correct. Yes, exactly, yeah. Yeah, that's a perfect verse for that. Yeah,

1230
01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:58.880
absolutely. So when we normally, when we're requiring of God proof

1231
01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:04.400
somewhere, we have to see it written down in Scripture, we have to have, or even,

1232
01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:08.400
you know, some people who hear the audible voice of the Lord, you know,

1233
01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:11.640
God, I had to hear your audible voice on that one, or I have to hear your, I have

1234
01:04:11.640 --> 01:04:15.760
to have a dream, or I have to whatever. I'm requiring proof, Lord, before I believe.

1235
01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:21.640
And then after I believe, because now I've seen enough proof, now that I

1236
01:04:21.640 --> 01:04:29.440
believe, now I'm going to actively act, choose something. I'm now going to

1237
01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:34.040
actually choose that what God says is true, and I'm going to act on it.

1238
01:04:34.040 --> 01:04:38.160
That's another thing, you know, with faith. So I'm going to mention this down here.

1239
01:04:38.160 --> 01:04:49.360
So faith, remember, action. Faith without works is dead, according to James. If you

1240
01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:54.440
believe something, in other words, if you have faith for it, you will act on it. So

1241
01:04:54.440 --> 01:04:58.720
when we talk about the fact that you choose this, when we're talking about

1242
01:04:58.720 --> 01:05:01.840
this one right here, the

1243
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:03.420
One of the scary things about this one

1244
01:05:03.420 --> 01:05:06.220
is that you have to actually act on it.

1245
01:05:06.220 --> 01:05:08.940
You can't just say, OK, God, I'm in this situation.

1246
01:05:08.940 --> 01:05:09.780
I don't like it.

1247
01:05:09.780 --> 01:05:13.540
And I'm going to choose.

1248
01:05:13.540 --> 01:05:16.500
Put your life on the line for it.

1249
01:05:16.500 --> 01:05:20.020
In that situation, act on it.

1250
01:05:20.020 --> 01:05:24.540
If you're choosing that whatever God says about that situation

1251
01:05:24.540 --> 01:05:26.860
is true, then you think, OK, then

1252
01:05:26.860 --> 01:05:28.500
what would I do in this situation

1253
01:05:28.500 --> 01:05:31.260
if what God really says is true?

1254
01:05:31.260 --> 01:05:33.520
Well, then that would mean that the world operated

1255
01:05:33.520 --> 01:05:35.100
according to these particular rules.

1256
01:05:35.100 --> 01:05:36.560
And if the world operated according

1257
01:05:36.560 --> 01:05:39.100
to those particular rules, if what God says about that thing

1258
01:05:39.100 --> 01:05:45.060
is true, then I would make this type of a decision.

1259
01:05:45.060 --> 01:05:47.260
Then act on it.

1260
01:05:47.260 --> 01:05:51.780
Put your money where your mouth is.

1261
01:05:51.780 --> 01:05:52.980
Act on it.

1262
01:05:52.980 --> 01:05:54.220
So that's the power.

1263
01:05:54.220 --> 01:05:57.540
I mean, that's why this is, again, reckless abandon.

1264
01:05:57.540 --> 01:05:58.900
Big choices.

1265
01:05:58.900 --> 01:06:00.500
We're not just choosing.

1266
01:06:00.500 --> 01:06:03.420
OK, God, I choose it, but I won't act on it

1267
01:06:03.420 --> 01:06:04.660
until I see proof.

1268
01:06:04.660 --> 01:06:05.780
It's not faith.

1269
01:06:05.780 --> 01:06:07.100
Faith without works is dead.

1270
01:06:07.100 --> 01:06:09.760
If you don't act on it, it's not faith.

1271
01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:12.620
Now, by acting on it, I don't mean

1272
01:06:12.620 --> 01:06:15.300
you literally physically have to do something in a moment.

1273
01:06:15.300 --> 01:06:18.020
Otherwise, you're not actually having faith.

1274
01:06:18.020 --> 01:06:19.540
That's not what I'm talking about.

1275
01:06:19.540 --> 01:06:23.780
I am talking about the fact that there's an internal shift,

1276
01:06:23.780 --> 01:06:27.060
that you actually do act on.

1277
01:06:27.060 --> 01:06:29.100
And I'm not saying that you have to come up

1278
01:06:29.100 --> 01:06:31.180
with some kind of a physical action

1279
01:06:31.180 --> 01:06:33.580
in order to prove to yourself that you really do have faith.

1280
01:06:33.580 --> 01:06:34.580
That's absolute bogus.

1281
01:06:34.580 --> 01:06:36.580
So I'm not going that direction.

1282
01:06:36.580 --> 01:06:43.240
But this is how God teaches us how to have faith in him.

1283
01:06:43.240 --> 01:06:45.940
When we're young in the faith, whether you

1284
01:06:45.940 --> 01:06:49.580
became saved when you were 5 or 35 or 95,

1285
01:06:49.580 --> 01:06:51.380
when we're young in the faith, God

1286
01:06:51.380 --> 01:06:53.340
will give us just like what we do.

1287
01:06:53.420 --> 01:06:57.660
We hand-feed children, figuratively speaking.

1288
01:06:57.660 --> 01:06:59.940
He gives us lots of proof.

1289
01:06:59.940 --> 01:07:01.900
And then we believe him.

1290
01:07:01.900 --> 01:07:03.060
Now I've seen lots of proof.

1291
01:07:03.060 --> 01:07:04.420
OK, so now I believe it.

1292
01:07:04.420 --> 01:07:07.140
And now God's like, OK, now act on it.

1293
01:07:07.140 --> 01:07:09.340
This was a hard journey for all of us.

1294
01:07:09.340 --> 01:07:11.060
It still is in certain areas of our life

1295
01:07:11.060 --> 01:07:15.340
in which our faith is not built very high in a particular area.

1296
01:07:15.340 --> 01:07:17.780
So it's still hard to go this way, where eventually, we

1297
01:07:17.780 --> 01:07:20.580
do have to make this decision that we're going to choose.

1298
01:07:20.580 --> 01:07:22.820
And then we have to act on it.

1299
01:07:23.580 --> 01:07:27.340
So that's already very difficult.

1300
01:07:27.340 --> 01:07:29.420
But what God is doing is he's constantly taking us

1301
01:07:29.420 --> 01:07:31.100
through this repetitively.

1302
01:07:31.100 --> 01:07:32.260
I'm going to give you proof.

1303
01:07:32.260 --> 01:07:33.580
Now I'm calling you to believe.

1304
01:07:33.580 --> 01:07:34.740
Now act on it.

1305
01:07:34.740 --> 01:07:36.860
OK, here's another proof of something else.

1306
01:07:36.860 --> 01:07:38.300
I'm calling you to believe.

1307
01:07:38.300 --> 01:07:38.980
Now act on it.

1308
01:07:38.980 --> 01:07:40.460
And he takes us through all of that.

1309
01:07:40.460 --> 01:07:44.260
But this is not faith, so to speak.

1310
01:07:44.260 --> 01:07:45.500
It is the journey to faith.

1311
01:07:45.500 --> 01:07:47.780
But this isn't how God wants us to operate

1312
01:07:47.780 --> 01:07:49.620
in faith and maturity.

1313
01:07:49.620 --> 01:07:52.340
This is actually teaching us to trust

1314
01:07:52.620 --> 01:07:54.860
that God is who he says that he is.

1315
01:07:54.860 --> 01:07:59.100
And he gave us the, what would you call that?

1316
01:08:00.500 --> 01:08:05.980
He, I don't know, just handed it to us on a silver platter.

1317
01:08:05.980 --> 01:08:07.660
He gave us all of the proof first.

1318
01:08:07.660 --> 01:08:09.660
He made it easy for us.

1319
01:08:09.660 --> 01:08:11.580
Because he's trying to prove his faithfulness.

1320
01:08:11.580 --> 01:08:13.020
Then over time, he's like, OK, now

1321
01:08:13.020 --> 01:08:15.300
that I've proven my faithfulness to you,

1322
01:08:15.300 --> 01:08:20.700
now choose before you believe and before you ever

1323
01:08:20.740 --> 01:08:23.100
see the proof.

1324
01:08:23.100 --> 01:08:28.979
So and this is not in little circumstances.

1325
01:08:28.979 --> 01:08:32.540
I've had to do this multiple times when I've literally

1326
01:08:32.540 --> 01:08:34.580
had no money in my account.

1327
01:08:34.580 --> 01:08:38.859
No credit card backup, nothing as a grown adult.

1328
01:08:38.859 --> 01:08:42.899
In other words, you're carrying the responsibility.

1329
01:08:42.899 --> 01:08:44.740
So and it's not just that.

1330
01:08:44.740 --> 01:08:46.460
I've had to do this in relationships.

1331
01:08:46.460 --> 01:08:49.740
I've had to do this in business, ministry, whatever.

1332
01:08:49.740 --> 01:08:50.939
I've had to choose.

1333
01:08:50.939 --> 01:08:52.140
And it's major.

1334
01:08:52.140 --> 01:08:53.060
It's very, very major.

1335
01:08:53.060 --> 01:08:54.899
These aren't things that are just kind of like, oh, Lord,

1336
01:08:54.899 --> 01:08:55.939
I really like that to happen.

1337
01:08:55.939 --> 01:08:57.620
And if it doesn't happen, then that's OK.

1338
01:08:57.620 --> 01:09:00.020
So in situations like that, Lord, I'm going to have faith.

1339
01:09:00.020 --> 01:09:02.180
No, these are the things that make me feel like,

1340
01:09:02.180 --> 01:09:05.100
oh, my word, that's what I'm holding on to is my safety

1341
01:09:05.100 --> 01:09:06.220
and it's my security.

1342
01:09:06.220 --> 01:09:09.460
And if I don't, I feel like I'm going to die.

1343
01:09:09.460 --> 01:09:10.899
I choose.

1344
01:09:10.899 --> 01:09:12.620
This is very hard.

1345
01:09:12.620 --> 01:09:16.420
But I mean, see, it's very hard, meaning like we resist.

1346
01:09:16.420 --> 01:09:17.819
It's not hard.

1347
01:09:17.819 --> 01:09:23.180
It's very simple because it's of your nature.

1348
01:09:23.180 --> 01:09:25.340
It is who you are.

1349
01:09:25.340 --> 01:09:28.340
This makes you think that you're not,

1350
01:09:28.340 --> 01:09:29.800
but you actually are this thing.

1351
01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:31.580
This is extremely simple.

1352
01:09:31.580 --> 01:09:35.460
It feels hard because we're so used to resisting everything.

1353
01:09:35.460 --> 01:09:37.580
We're so used to saying no.

1354
01:09:37.580 --> 01:09:39.420
So what God wants us to do is eventually

1355
01:09:39.420 --> 01:09:42.300
come to the point where we choose.

1356
01:09:42.300 --> 01:09:43.899
Then here's a really cool thing.

1357
01:09:43.899 --> 01:09:46.060
So once you're in a situation and you shift into rest

1358
01:09:46.060 --> 01:09:48.819
by choosing, I am who God says that I am.

1359
01:09:48.819 --> 01:09:51.859
And if I believe this in this situation,

1360
01:09:51.859 --> 01:09:55.060
therefore, what will I act on?

1361
01:09:55.060 --> 01:09:59.300
How will I act if I actually believe that this is true?

1362
01:09:59.300 --> 01:10:01.260
Once you do.

1363
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:02.900
that you've shifted yourself, you've chosen voluntarily

1364
01:10:02.900 --> 01:10:04.820
by your own intention and free will

1365
01:10:04.820 --> 01:10:07.840
to shift yourself up into your spirit.

1366
01:10:07.840 --> 01:10:17.600
And the cool thing is, when you shifted yourself

1367
01:10:17.600 --> 01:10:20.080
into the spirit, you're acknowledging, I am a new man.

1368
01:10:20.080 --> 01:10:21.280
And guess what?

1369
01:10:21.280 --> 01:10:24.580
You got here because you skipped over proof,

1370
01:10:24.580 --> 01:10:27.080
you skipped over belief because you couldn't even believe.

1371
01:10:27.080 --> 01:10:28.620
I'm just like, oh my goodness, I just

1372
01:10:29.220 --> 01:10:30.540
don't even have belief for this.

1373
01:10:30.540 --> 01:10:32.460
I don't think it's actually real.

1374
01:10:32.460 --> 01:10:34.220
He said it, but I don't believe it's real.

1375
01:10:34.220 --> 01:10:36.100
I have followed the Lord on things

1376
01:10:36.100 --> 01:10:40.100
that I did not believe were real, but he said it.

1377
01:10:40.100 --> 01:10:42.180
So I didn't even believe it.

1378
01:10:42.180 --> 01:10:43.140
I'm choosing it.

1379
01:10:43.140 --> 01:10:44.500
So I'm going to choose it anyway,

1380
01:10:44.500 --> 01:10:47.140
and I'm going to act like I believe it.

1381
01:10:47.140 --> 01:10:49.220
Put everything out on the line.

1382
01:10:49.220 --> 01:10:50.100
I don't even believe.

1383
01:10:50.100 --> 01:10:53.460
It's like saying, I don't believe that gravity exists.

1384
01:10:53.460 --> 01:10:56.500
Or gravity exists, and then God says, no,

1385
01:10:56.500 --> 01:10:58.100
gravity doesn't exist.

1386
01:10:58.100 --> 01:11:00.660
If gravity doesn't exist, what would I do?

1387
01:11:00.660 --> 01:11:03.100
This is what it equates to in our spiritual life.

1388
01:11:03.100 --> 01:11:04.220
It's major decisions.

1389
01:11:04.220 --> 01:11:08.340
What would I do if God says that gravity doesn't exist?

1390
01:11:08.340 --> 01:11:10.820
But not only do I not see proof, I don't even believe it.

1391
01:11:10.820 --> 01:11:14.300
I'm like, God, that doesn't make any sense at all.

1392
01:11:14.300 --> 01:11:17.660
But if he said it, and he tells me to act on it, I'm like, OK.

1393
01:11:17.660 --> 01:11:19.060
Then that's what I'm going to do.

1394
01:11:19.060 --> 01:11:21.180
The cool thing is, because now that you've chosen,

1395
01:11:21.180 --> 01:11:23.380
you shifted yourself up into your spirit,

1396
01:11:23.380 --> 01:11:24.980
you've chosen that you're the new man,

1397
01:11:24.980 --> 01:11:28.700
and the new man always believes.

1398
01:11:28.700 --> 01:11:32.740
You had skipped over it because you didn't have it in order

1399
01:11:32.740 --> 01:11:34.200
to choose, because you're down here.

1400
01:11:34.200 --> 01:11:36.100
Remember, we're in a state of unrest.

1401
01:11:36.100 --> 01:11:36.780
We're down here.

1402
01:11:36.780 --> 01:11:41.980
Unrest, remember, is when we're down here,

1403
01:11:41.980 --> 01:11:44.900
and when we're down here, remember the problem.

1404
01:11:44.900 --> 01:11:47.740
We believe that we're separated from God.

1405
01:11:47.740 --> 01:11:49.980
That's the issue of believing our identity

1406
01:11:49.980 --> 01:11:51.620
is in the soul or in the body.

1407
01:11:51.620 --> 01:11:52.580
Because why?

1408
01:11:52.580 --> 01:11:54.180
Our spirit is one with God, and if we

1409
01:11:54.180 --> 01:11:55.620
don't believe our spirit's here,

1410
01:11:55.620 --> 01:11:59.580
we believe that we're somewhere else that's not one with God.

1411
01:11:59.580 --> 01:12:03.460
So if we believe that we're not one with God,

1412
01:12:03.460 --> 01:12:07.540
we're going to operate according to the old man.

1413
01:12:07.540 --> 01:12:15.060
So when we choose something as the new man,

1414
01:12:15.060 --> 01:12:17.220
then the new man always believes his father.

1415
01:12:17.220 --> 01:12:18.980
So you will find that you will effortlessly

1416
01:12:18.980 --> 01:12:21.940
come to believe it.

1417
01:12:21.940 --> 01:12:27.180
Everything is a free gift, including belief.

1418
01:12:27.180 --> 01:12:30.100
All we have to do is receive a word.

1419
01:12:30.100 --> 01:12:32.340
Believing is receiving.

1420
01:12:32.340 --> 01:12:34.980
It's not hard when I say believe, meaning like choose,

1421
01:12:34.980 --> 01:12:38.740
because I'm not wanting to get really confusing here.

1422
01:12:38.740 --> 01:12:42.020
Belief and faith are so similar, they're basically

1423
01:12:42.020 --> 01:12:42.640
the same thing.

1424
01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:44.460
But I'm trying to keep it separate here

1425
01:12:44.460 --> 01:12:46.720
so that we understand that whatever feeling that we're

1426
01:12:46.720 --> 01:12:50.740
looking for that we call belief is not needed for this.

1427
01:12:50.740 --> 01:12:54.180
But technically, in faith, we're choosing to believe.

1428
01:12:54.180 --> 01:12:56.900
But most people don't know, how do I make myself believe?

1429
01:12:56.900 --> 01:12:58.740
Actually, I want to believe, but I don't know

1430
01:12:58.740 --> 01:13:00.300
how I'm going to make myself believe.

1431
01:13:00.300 --> 01:13:03.180
So I just word it like this to make it simple.

1432
01:13:03.180 --> 01:13:05.700
It reminds me of the scripture where Paul says,

1433
01:13:05.700 --> 01:13:07.180
help me in my unbelief.

1434
01:13:07.180 --> 01:13:08.660
Yes, yeah.

1435
01:13:08.660 --> 01:13:09.980
Help thou my unbelief, yeah.

1436
01:13:09.980 --> 01:13:13.820
And the more that we choose to step out of faith,

1437
01:13:13.820 --> 01:13:16.300
the more we believe and forgive and prove.

1438
01:13:16.300 --> 01:13:16.800
Yes.

1439
01:13:16.800 --> 01:13:19.340
Because that fulfills our choice.

1440
01:13:19.340 --> 01:13:20.260
Exactly.

1441
01:13:20.260 --> 01:13:21.500
Yes, exactly.

1442
01:13:21.500 --> 01:13:23.420
Yes, that's completely right.

1443
01:13:23.420 --> 01:13:25.980
So when we choose something, then we're

1444
01:13:25.980 --> 01:13:27.900
going to effortlessly come to believe it.

1445
01:13:27.900 --> 01:13:30.620
Once we believe it, remember, that's receiving a word.

1446
01:13:30.620 --> 01:13:31.780
We're going to be talking.

1447
01:13:31.780 --> 01:13:32.420
Oh, good night.

1448
01:13:32.420 --> 01:13:33.540
When are we going to be talking about that?

1449
01:13:33.540 --> 01:13:35.300
Because that's very important to bring up.

1450
01:13:38.100 --> 01:13:38.820
I'm sorry.

1451
01:13:38.820 --> 01:13:40.300
I'm trying to think if I need to mention it now,

1452
01:13:40.300 --> 01:13:41.820
because it's extremely important.

1453
01:13:41.820 --> 01:13:43.120
No, we're going to talk about it when

1454
01:13:43.120 --> 01:13:45.420
we talk about governing creation and manifesting things

1455
01:13:45.420 --> 01:13:46.220
into creation.

1456
01:13:46.220 --> 01:13:48.460
And no, it's not new-agey, said the Bible.

1457
01:13:48.460 --> 01:13:49.420
It's all OK.

1458
01:13:49.420 --> 01:13:51.660
I know it's a trigger word, manifest, meditate.

1459
01:13:51.660 --> 01:13:54.540
What is Ashley teaching?

1460
01:13:54.540 --> 01:13:59.700
But yeah, so we'll talk about that in a little bit.

1461
01:13:59.700 --> 01:14:02.900
So there's the word, and we receive the word.

1462
01:14:02.900 --> 01:14:06.940
The word is received by our belief.

1463
01:14:06.940 --> 01:14:11.940
And when we do that, so our word joined together with, sorry,

1464
01:14:11.940 --> 01:14:15.220
God's word joined together with our belief in God's word, which

1465
01:14:15.220 --> 01:14:17.620
means God is initiating something.

1466
01:14:17.620 --> 01:14:18.500
God's initiating.

1467
01:14:18.500 --> 01:14:21.100
We're choosing to receive it by belief.

1468
01:14:21.100 --> 01:14:25.420
That is what manifests something into reality.

1469
01:14:25.420 --> 01:14:28.260
We're looking, OK, this is a really big deal.

1470
01:14:28.260 --> 01:14:32.620
We are looking for creation to tell us, well, let's go here.

1471
01:14:32.620 --> 01:14:33.500
Just show you here.

1472
01:14:33.500 --> 01:14:36.020
We're looking for creation, what happens in creation,

1473
01:14:36.020 --> 01:14:41.900
to tell us something about God, something

1474
01:14:41.900 --> 01:14:43.540
about our relationship with God.

1475
01:14:43.540 --> 01:14:46.340
We're trying to get it to tell us who God is.

1476
01:14:46.340 --> 01:14:48.020
And God's like, no, no, no, no, no.

1477
01:14:48.020 --> 01:14:49.940
The way that it actually works, and the reason

1478
01:14:49.940 --> 01:14:52.460
that creation is currently subject to frustration,

1479
01:14:52.460 --> 01:14:56.380
is the fact that you don't know who it is that you are.

1480
01:14:56.380 --> 01:14:58.780
And once you know who it is that you are,

1481
01:14:58.780 --> 01:15:01.300
you partner with me.

1482
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:02.240
with me together, and we make creation.

1483
01:15:03.720 --> 01:15:07.560
That is how creation, that, so this,

1484
01:15:07.560 --> 01:15:11.260
it says in Romans, it says in Romans 8,

1485
01:15:11.260 --> 01:15:13.960
trying to think if I'm gonna actually get to that now,

1486
01:15:15.040 --> 01:15:18.240
says in, do I wanna say that?

1487
01:15:18.240 --> 01:15:20.040
No, I'm gonna talk about in governing creation,

1488
01:15:20.040 --> 01:15:21.660
so we'll talk about that later,

1489
01:15:21.660 --> 01:15:24.880
but in Romans 8, it does talk about the fact

1490
01:15:24.880 --> 01:15:27.440
that creation was subjected to frustration,

1491
01:15:27.440 --> 01:15:30.280
and is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.

1492
01:15:30.280 --> 01:15:35.280
So the reason why is creation is lower than us.

1493
01:15:37.160 --> 01:15:39.180
Creation is lower than us.

1494
01:15:39.180 --> 01:15:43.940
It only knows who it is when we tell it what it is.

1495
01:15:43.940 --> 01:15:47.360
God created the animals, Adam named them.

1496
01:15:47.360 --> 01:15:50.120
Adam identified them, and with a name,

1497
01:15:50.120 --> 01:15:52.860
with an identity, comes characteristics,

1498
01:15:52.860 --> 01:15:55.220
comes, you know, so to speak, personality.

1499
01:15:55.220 --> 01:15:59.320
It comes a sense of how it's supposed to function.

1500
01:15:59.320 --> 01:16:01.400
We know that, that's not stretching out.

1501
01:16:01.400 --> 01:16:02.240
I used to think when I heard that,

1502
01:16:02.240 --> 01:16:06.240
I was like, that's really stretching out, Genesis 1.

1503
01:16:06.240 --> 01:16:07.960
My goodness, that's really, you know,

1504
01:16:07.960 --> 01:16:10.280
I don't think that that's what God means, you know,

1505
01:16:10.280 --> 01:16:12.240
God meant when he said, told Adam,

1506
01:16:12.240 --> 01:16:14.100
hey, Adam, you get to name all of the animals.

1507
01:16:14.100 --> 01:16:15.120
Didn't he just give them a name?

1508
01:16:15.120 --> 01:16:18.900
Said, well, this thing, therefore, shall be called an elephant.

1509
01:16:18.900 --> 01:16:20.960
This thing, therefore, shall be called a dog.

1510
01:16:20.980 --> 01:16:25.420
But God put such a strong emphasis on names,

1511
01:16:25.420 --> 01:16:27.180
and throughout the Bible, that when,

1512
01:16:27.180 --> 01:16:29.780
that he chose to change people's name

1513
01:16:29.780 --> 01:16:31.820
when they were 90 years old.

1514
01:16:31.820 --> 01:16:34.380
He changed Abram's name to Abraham,

1515
01:16:34.380 --> 01:16:35.820
and Sarai's name to Sarah.

1516
01:16:35.820 --> 01:16:37.780
What is the, why would God do that

1517
01:16:37.780 --> 01:16:40.360
and confuse all of their legal documents,

1518
01:16:41.740 --> 01:16:44.180
confuse all of their relationships?

1519
01:16:44.180 --> 01:16:46.580
They've been calling each other Abram and Sarai

1520
01:16:46.580 --> 01:16:47.940
for 90 years.

1521
01:16:47.940 --> 01:16:49.380
You know, why would God do all of that

1522
01:16:49.380 --> 01:16:51.800
unless it was extremely important?

1523
01:16:51.800 --> 01:16:54.120
Because it was a physical manifestation

1524
01:16:54.120 --> 01:16:58.200
of a spiritual thing that he said was changing.

1525
01:16:58.200 --> 01:16:59.760
And everything, all the way down,

1526
01:16:59.760 --> 01:17:02.400
needed to be in alignment, including their name.

1527
01:17:02.400 --> 01:17:04.380
There's so much that is carried with a name.

1528
01:17:04.380 --> 01:17:05.680
It is a sense of identity.

1529
01:17:05.680 --> 01:17:08.000
I didn't know about you, I love when people call,

1530
01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:10.000
when people say my name.

1531
01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:12.160
I don't really know why that's very important to me,

1532
01:17:12.160 --> 01:17:13.000
but it is.

1533
01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:13.940
I mean, it's important to everybody,

1534
01:17:13.940 --> 01:17:15.920
but for whatever reason, it feels especially important to me,

1535
01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:16.920
I have no idea why.

1536
01:17:16.920 --> 01:17:19.000
I love it when people call my name,

1537
01:17:19.000 --> 01:17:21.200
when people talk to me and they use my name.

1538
01:17:22.420 --> 01:17:26.100
And it's because there's, God gave me that name.

1539
01:17:27.100 --> 01:17:30.100
And so they are declaring over me

1540
01:17:30.100 --> 01:17:32.540
what it is that God has already said.

1541
01:17:32.540 --> 01:17:36.480
There's an identity in creation and in the visual

1542
01:17:36.480 --> 01:17:39.180
that's being carried from the spiritual

1543
01:17:39.180 --> 01:17:42.680
that manifests as a physical name, so to speak.

1544
01:17:42.680 --> 01:17:44.300
It does not mean, if you don't like your name

1545
01:17:44.300 --> 01:17:45.820
and your name means something like bitterness

1546
01:17:45.820 --> 01:17:47.300
or something like that,

1547
01:17:47.300 --> 01:17:51.680
that it does not mean that you are destined

1548
01:17:51.680 --> 01:17:53.600
to have to carry that thing out.

1549
01:17:53.600 --> 01:17:57.120
Remember, you are, you're identified in Christ,

1550
01:17:57.120 --> 01:17:58.720
and then that supersedes everything.

1551
01:17:58.720 --> 01:18:01.920
But there are things that,

1552
01:18:01.920 --> 01:18:03.800
I'm just trying to give an example.

1553
01:18:03.800 --> 01:18:07.680
My name, actually, fascinatingly, God gave me that name.

1554
01:18:07.680 --> 01:18:10.440
I didn't know that I was gonna be teaching this message.

1555
01:18:10.440 --> 01:18:11.920
My name, Ashley Nicole,

1556
01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:13.680
one of the reasons why I use Ashley Nicole

1557
01:18:13.680 --> 01:18:16.040
as opposed to my last name, which is Wheeler.

1558
01:18:16.060 --> 01:18:18.220
One of the reasons that I do that

1559
01:18:18.220 --> 01:18:23.220
is that Ashley means to rise from the ashes like a phoenix.

1560
01:18:24.100 --> 01:18:28.780
Repeatedly rise from the ashes, resurrection after death.

1561
01:18:28.780 --> 01:18:29.940
You never die.

1562
01:18:29.940 --> 01:18:32.620
So whenever you die, you're always resurrected,

1563
01:18:32.620 --> 01:18:34.540
which is an example, obviously,

1564
01:18:34.540 --> 01:18:38.860
of what it is that God claims that we have in him

1565
01:18:38.860 --> 01:18:42.060
that no matter how many times I'm down here,

1566
01:18:42.060 --> 01:18:46.600
I pass through, I release, I let go, and I can shift.

1567
01:18:46.600 --> 01:18:48.200
Always, always.

1568
01:18:48.200 --> 01:18:50.360
I'm not down here, I'm not defined by this.

1569
01:18:50.360 --> 01:18:53.080
You can always come up, and this is what I teach.

1570
01:18:53.080 --> 01:18:55.880
Nicole means victory of the people.

1571
01:18:55.880 --> 01:18:58.800
So together, and that's one of the reasons

1572
01:18:58.800 --> 01:19:00.120
why I think that God gave me this name,

1573
01:19:00.120 --> 01:19:02.040
because not only did I believe this,

1574
01:19:02.040 --> 01:19:05.760
but I actually literally carry out this message now verbally.

1575
01:19:05.760 --> 01:19:06.800
I didn't know that.

1576
01:19:06.800 --> 01:19:09.640
I didn't start doing that until I was 35 years old.

1577
01:19:09.640 --> 01:19:10.760
I had no idea.

1578
01:19:10.780 --> 01:19:12.660
But God knew, and he gave me that name.

1579
01:19:12.660 --> 01:19:15.500
So there's so much being carried over in a name.

1580
01:19:15.500 --> 01:19:18.540
So Ashley and Nicole together means

1581
01:19:18.540 --> 01:19:22.660
for the people to rise together in victory

1582
01:19:22.660 --> 01:19:24.700
from the ashes repeatedly.

1583
01:19:24.700 --> 01:19:26.920
Never, always, always life after death.

1584
01:19:26.920 --> 01:19:31.920
Death is never, you never come to an end with death.

1585
01:19:32.140 --> 01:19:35.500
So anyway, names are very, very,

1586
01:19:36.420 --> 01:19:38.420
names are very important in identity.

1587
01:19:38.440 --> 01:19:41.760
So when we're called to it, we're called to tell,

1588
01:19:41.760 --> 01:19:46.760
be part of God's will and action in creating the earth

1589
01:19:48.800 --> 01:19:50.440
and declaring over it what it should be

1590
01:19:50.440 --> 01:19:53.880
and how it should act, including spiritual laws, et cetera.

1591
01:19:53.880 --> 01:19:55.600
We'll be going over this in more detail.

1592
01:19:55.600 --> 01:19:57.480
If any of this sounds weird or,

1593
01:19:57.480 --> 01:20:00.280
I mean, I think that most of y'all are just like, okay.

1594
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:00.840
Okay, that's fine.

1595
01:20:00.840 --> 01:20:01.660
Y'all have heard this before.

1596
01:20:01.660 --> 01:20:03.320
Some of you may not have heard this before.

1597
01:20:03.320 --> 01:20:04.900
If it sounds really weird,

1598
01:20:04.900 --> 01:20:08.240
just wait until we talk about how to govern creation

1599
01:20:08.240 --> 01:20:10.560
from a place of rest, and we'll add more context.

1600
01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:12.280
We'll go through Rowan's Eight,

1601
01:20:12.280 --> 01:20:16.760
and show how God says that this is actually our destiny.

1602
01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:19.600
Manifesting the invisible into the visible.

1603
01:20:19.600 --> 01:20:22.720
Declaring over creation its identity,

1604
01:20:22.720 --> 01:20:24.040
and what it should be,

1605
01:20:24.040 --> 01:20:27.160
so that it can then hear its name, and rise up.

1606
01:20:27.160 --> 01:20:31.760
So, but anyway, that's why we can't look for proof.

1607
01:20:32.820 --> 01:20:35.720
Because we're supposed to tell it what it's supposed to be.

1608
01:20:35.720 --> 01:20:37.120
It can't tell us anything.

1609
01:20:38.100 --> 01:20:41.960
So, no wonder we have really skewed ideas of who God is,

1610
01:20:41.960 --> 01:20:43.680
if we're looking at a creation

1611
01:20:43.680 --> 01:20:45.140
that's subjected to frustration.

1612
01:20:45.140 --> 01:20:45.980
Why?

1613
01:20:45.980 --> 01:20:47.440
Because we fell.

1614
01:20:47.440 --> 01:20:49.520
We fell, we're no longer acting as kings,

1615
01:20:49.520 --> 01:20:51.960
you know, under Adam, not under Christ.

1616
01:20:51.960 --> 01:20:54.480
Under Christ, we're obviously acting as kings.

1617
01:20:54.480 --> 01:20:57.920
But when Adam died, creation was subjected to frustration,

1618
01:20:57.920 --> 01:20:59.600
it says in Romans Eight,

1619
01:20:59.600 --> 01:21:02.760
and it was because we were the kings over it,

1620
01:21:02.760 --> 01:21:04.140
and we had fallen.

1621
01:21:04.140 --> 01:21:06.600
So it now no longer has a king to identify it,

1622
01:21:06.600 --> 01:21:07.760
and tell it who it is.

1623
01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:11.260
So we can't be looking at creation

1624
01:21:11.260 --> 01:21:14.140
to tell us anything about ourselves or God.

1625
01:21:14.140 --> 01:21:15.880
It's the other way around.

1626
01:21:15.880 --> 01:21:17.800
It's the top down.

1627
01:21:17.800 --> 01:21:18.760
It's not bottom up.

1628
01:21:18.760 --> 01:21:21.480
It can't declare anything about this.

1629
01:21:21.480 --> 01:21:23.560
Everything comes from the invisible realm

1630
01:21:23.560 --> 01:21:24.400
into the visible.

1631
01:21:24.400 --> 01:21:26.000
So, that's what's going on here.

1632
01:21:26.000 --> 01:21:28.440
The last thing that we'll talk about

1633
01:21:28.440 --> 01:21:32.520
before the break is what?

1634
01:21:32.520 --> 01:21:33.360
Oh, yeah.

1635
01:21:33.360 --> 01:21:35.680
Could you clarify proof?

1636
01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:37.600
I'm struggling with the word proof.

1637
01:21:37.600 --> 01:21:38.440
Oh, uh-huh.

1638
01:21:38.440 --> 01:21:42.000
That is a creation scenario,

1639
01:21:42.000 --> 01:21:45.120
not a position of rest, right?

1640
01:21:45.120 --> 01:21:46.280
When you're in a position of rest,

1641
01:21:46.280 --> 01:21:48.240
don't you just have the confidence

1642
01:21:48.240 --> 01:21:51.120
that your faith is based on belief

1643
01:21:51.120 --> 01:21:52.600
and is sustained by confidence

1644
01:21:52.880 --> 01:21:54.880
and being in that position of rest?

1645
01:21:54.880 --> 01:21:55.720
Yes.

1646
01:21:55.720 --> 01:21:57.480
I'm not really sure what you're saying about the proof.

1647
01:21:57.480 --> 01:21:59.960
Is that what creation requires,

1648
01:21:59.960 --> 01:22:02.480
or is that what we have when we're in a position of rest?

1649
01:22:02.480 --> 01:22:04.440
This is the progress that we take.

1650
01:22:04.440 --> 01:22:06.880
This is part of the process of having faith.

1651
01:22:06.880 --> 01:22:08.040
That's what this is.

1652
01:22:08.040 --> 01:22:11.680
So, this is faith right here.

1653
01:22:11.680 --> 01:22:13.240
These are not.

1654
01:22:13.240 --> 01:22:14.520
So this right here is faith,

1655
01:22:14.520 --> 01:22:15.840
and how do we get to faith?

1656
01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:18.080
Like, okay, God, you're telling me to believe you.

1657
01:22:18.080 --> 01:22:19.320
How do I do that?

1658
01:22:19.320 --> 01:22:21.840
Well, normally what we do is we require proof first

1659
01:22:21.880 --> 01:22:23.560
before we begin to believe God.

1660
01:22:23.560 --> 01:22:26.400
And then, finally, when we have enough

1661
01:22:26.400 --> 01:22:28.040
of that drummed up in ourselves,

1662
01:22:28.040 --> 01:22:31.360
we have enough faith to choose and to act on it.

1663
01:22:31.360 --> 01:22:34.040
So all that this is, is this right here

1664
01:22:34.040 --> 01:22:35.720
is not one of these.

1665
01:22:35.720 --> 01:22:38.040
It's not one of the things that we're,

1666
01:22:38.040 --> 01:22:39.280
one of the tools that we're having to use

1667
01:22:39.280 --> 01:22:40.720
in order to shift into rest.

1668
01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:43.040
This right here is strictly the progression

1669
01:22:43.040 --> 01:22:45.720
that the Lord takes us through

1670
01:22:45.720 --> 01:22:47.640
in the maturation of our faith,

1671
01:22:47.640 --> 01:22:51.280
teaching us to believe him without needing anything else.

1672
01:22:51.280 --> 01:22:52.240
That's what the proof is.

1673
01:22:52.240 --> 01:22:54.600
Normally, when we're learning to have faith in the Lord,

1674
01:22:54.600 --> 01:22:56.560
we're like, I'm just not sure about you.

1675
01:22:56.560 --> 01:22:59.560
I just, I don't know that I could fully believe that Lord.

1676
01:22:59.560 --> 01:23:01.880
Remember the 30, 60, and the hundred fold?

1677
01:23:01.880 --> 01:23:04.080
The body only, you know, if we're down in the body realm,

1678
01:23:04.080 --> 01:23:06.040
we're like, okay, well, God, you said this,

1679
01:23:06.040 --> 01:23:08.680
but I only believe 30% of that.

1680
01:23:08.680 --> 01:23:11.200
So, the rest of it, I'm gonna require proof.

1681
01:23:11.200 --> 01:23:14.280
I've got 30% of the faith required to receive everything.

1682
01:23:14.280 --> 01:23:16.360
It is to receive 30% of,

1683
01:23:16.360 --> 01:23:18.280
the faith required to receive 30%

1684
01:23:18.280 --> 01:23:20.720
of what you've given, what you've said.

1685
01:23:21.160 --> 01:23:23.440
But the rest of what it is that you've said,

1686
01:23:23.440 --> 01:23:26.080
I'm gonna require proof before I believe it

1687
01:23:26.080 --> 01:23:29.460
and before I have faith, and that's a hindrance to us.

1688
01:23:29.460 --> 01:23:32.200
But God says, well, that's because you're immature

1689
01:23:32.200 --> 01:23:34.720
in that area, so I'm going to continue

1690
01:23:34.720 --> 01:23:36.480
to prove that I'm faithful.

1691
01:23:36.480 --> 01:23:37.600
So, I'm gonna prove it to you,

1692
01:23:37.600 --> 01:23:39.080
and okay, now that I've proven it to you,

1693
01:23:39.080 --> 01:23:42.760
okay, all right, now, now, do you believe me?

1694
01:23:42.760 --> 01:23:46.000
Yeah, all right, okay, now I want you to act on it.

1695
01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:47.200
I don't know about that, Lord.

1696
01:23:47.200 --> 01:23:48.840
No, come on, come on.

1697
01:23:48.840 --> 01:23:53.840
This is what we think our lessons are that we're learning,

1698
01:23:54.800 --> 01:23:57.200
that we're always going this direction,

1699
01:23:57.200 --> 01:23:59.720
that God is always trying to prove something to us,

1700
01:23:59.720 --> 01:24:01.340
and then walking us to the point

1701
01:24:01.340 --> 01:24:02.680
where we actually believe it.

1702
01:24:02.680 --> 01:24:04.520
We can feel this in our own lives,

1703
01:24:04.520 --> 01:24:05.960
how we walk through this progression.

1704
01:24:05.960 --> 01:24:09.520
And then finally, we choose, okay, I'm gonna act on it.

1705
01:24:09.520 --> 01:24:12.600
But what we need to understand is this direction

1706
01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:15.200
is how God teaches us and matures us,

1707
01:24:15.200 --> 01:24:18.400
but it's not what we act, how he calls us

1708
01:24:18.960 --> 01:24:20.680
to act in faith in actual maturity.

1709
01:24:20.680 --> 01:24:23.480
Maturity of faith is going here.

1710
01:24:23.480 --> 01:24:26.960
Then, from here, we partner with the Lord

1711
01:24:26.960 --> 01:24:30.200
and cause everything else to move this way.

1712
01:24:30.200 --> 01:24:31.400
But we start here.

1713
01:24:31.400 --> 01:24:33.000
When you're mature, you start here,

1714
01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:35.200
and you cause these things to happen.

1715
01:24:35.200 --> 01:24:37.480
When you're immature, you start here

1716
01:24:37.480 --> 01:24:41.120
and require God to do everything before you get here.

1717
01:24:41.120 --> 01:24:42.640
Does that make more sense or not?

1718
01:24:42.640 --> 01:24:45.320
So, that is an immature process,

1719
01:24:45.320 --> 01:24:46.440
you're starting to prove.

1720
01:24:46.440 --> 01:24:47.280
Yes.

1721
01:24:48.120 --> 01:24:48.960
Exactly.

1722
01:24:52.960 --> 01:24:54.240
Yes.

1723
01:24:54.240 --> 01:24:56.640
Yes, blessed are they that believe

1724
01:24:56.640 --> 01:24:58.520
and yet not have seen.

1725
01:24:58.520 --> 01:24:59.440
Remember Thomas?

1726
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:04.160
It's like, no, I have required proof, unless I see his hands

1727
01:25:04.160 --> 01:25:06.560
and can put my hand, unless I see that wounds in his hands,

1728
01:25:06.560 --> 01:25:08.400
stick my fingers in the wounds of his hands

1729
01:25:08.400 --> 01:25:13.400
and stick my hand into his side, I will not believe.

1730
01:25:15.000 --> 01:25:17.760
And so Jesus then corrected him and he said,

1731
01:25:17.760 --> 01:25:22.760
no, blessed are those that believe and yet not have seen.

1732
01:25:23.200 --> 01:25:27.380
So, but we do understand why Thomas said that.

1733
01:25:27.380 --> 01:25:29.480
And we do have noticed all in our own lives

1734
01:25:29.480 --> 01:25:34.100
how generous and kind God is in having given us proof

1735
01:25:34.100 --> 01:25:36.140
without requiring us to have faith first,

1736
01:25:36.140 --> 01:25:37.400
because he's teaching us, child,

1737
01:25:37.400 --> 01:25:39.100
I want you to know your father

1738
01:25:39.100 --> 01:25:41.620
and I want you to know that I'm faithful.

1739
01:25:41.620 --> 01:25:43.340
So he's teaching a child,

1740
01:25:43.340 --> 01:25:45.480
but we're not supposed to stay there.

1741
01:25:45.480 --> 01:25:48.360
So just because we're familiar with this path

1742
01:25:48.360 --> 01:25:49.860
does not mean that that's the path

1743
01:25:49.860 --> 01:25:51.700
that we stay on our whole lives.

1744
01:25:51.700 --> 01:25:54.620
That was just to teach us to always trust

1745
01:25:54.620 --> 01:25:56.400
and now God's like, okay, now that you're mature enough,

1746
01:25:56.400 --> 01:25:57.860
now that we've had enough of a relationship

1747
01:25:57.860 --> 01:25:59.420
that you know who it is that I am,

1748
01:26:00.260 --> 01:26:01.100
I've proven myself faithful.

1749
01:26:01.100 --> 01:26:02.160
How many times I've proven that I'm love?

1750
01:26:02.160 --> 01:26:04.160
How many times I've proven that I'm goodness?

1751
01:26:04.160 --> 01:26:05.500
You know, how many times?

1752
01:26:05.500 --> 01:26:08.640
Now I want you to choose it in this new situation,

1753
01:26:08.640 --> 01:26:12.000
in this hard situation without even believing it

1754
01:26:12.000 --> 01:26:14.080
and without seeing proof.

1755
01:26:14.080 --> 01:26:18.040
So anyway, does that make sense about the proof thing?

1756
01:26:18.880 --> 01:26:22.080
Yeah, so proof is just any kind of,

1757
01:26:22.080 --> 01:26:24.120
it doesn't have to be necessarily,

1758
01:26:24.120 --> 01:26:26.680
it is creation, but it's not,

1759
01:26:26.680 --> 01:26:28.880
it doesn't always have to have a visible form.

1760
01:26:28.880 --> 01:26:31.700
It just means that proof of like, I don't know,

1761
01:26:31.700 --> 01:26:33.620
I feel a particular way.

1762
01:26:33.620 --> 01:26:35.340
I heard your voice.

1763
01:26:35.340 --> 01:26:36.900
I saw it in scripture.

1764
01:26:36.900 --> 01:26:39.820
So I saw it happen in so-and-so's life.

1765
01:26:39.820 --> 01:26:41.260
I saw it happen in my life.

1766
01:26:41.260 --> 01:26:42.580
You know, whatever.

1767
01:26:42.580 --> 01:26:44.140
It's just wherever it is that whatever it is

1768
01:26:44.140 --> 01:26:45.980
that we're demanding of God to reconcile

1769
01:26:45.980 --> 01:26:49.620
before we receive his word,

1770
01:26:49.620 --> 01:26:53.340
that is, that would all fall into the category of proof.

1771
01:26:54.300 --> 01:26:56.580
Okay, so the last thing that we will talk about

1772
01:26:56.880 --> 01:26:58.700
and then break,

1773
01:27:00.200 --> 01:27:02.320
okay, well, and then I'll mention the fact

1774
01:27:02.320 --> 01:27:04.240
that what it is that we're choosing here

1775
01:27:04.240 --> 01:27:06.680
is we're choosing to risk the very actions of our lives

1776
01:27:06.680 --> 01:27:08.920
on what he says his character is,

1777
01:27:08.920 --> 01:27:12.220
not on whether he has proven himself to our satisfaction.

1778
01:27:15.200 --> 01:27:16.880
And you also remember that faith,

1779
01:27:16.880 --> 01:27:21.880
you know, being, choosing that God is who he says that he is

1780
01:27:21.960 --> 01:27:23.880
is simply because he said it.

1781
01:27:23.880 --> 01:27:27.220
Remember that when Jesus was being tempted by Satan,

1782
01:27:27.220 --> 01:27:30.180
he didn't say, so you don't have to focus so much

1783
01:27:30.180 --> 01:27:32.380
on what at least I was taught growing up,

1784
01:27:32.380 --> 01:27:34.120
you know, in churches and school and whatever,

1785
01:27:34.120 --> 01:27:36.660
is I was taught, okay, well, you know,

1786
01:27:36.660 --> 01:27:40.300
I declare, I believe this, I believe this, I believe this.

1787
01:27:40.300 --> 01:27:41.660
When Jesus was tempted by Satan,

1788
01:27:41.660 --> 01:27:44.020
he didn't refute Satan by saying, I believe.

1789
01:27:44.020 --> 01:27:46.440
He refuted Satan by saying, God said.

1790
01:27:47.540 --> 01:27:49.580
Your belief isn't what's important.

1791
01:27:49.580 --> 01:27:51.840
What God says is what's important.

1792
01:27:52.780 --> 01:27:54.100
Very, very important.

1793
01:27:54.100 --> 01:27:58.500
So, because remember, even once you shift into the new man

1794
01:27:58.500 --> 01:28:02.740
and the new man always believes his father,

1795
01:28:02.740 --> 01:28:04.420
you've received it effortlessly as a gift.

1796
01:28:04.420 --> 01:28:05.500
How did you become the new man?

1797
01:28:05.500 --> 01:28:07.420
You received it effortlessly as a gift.

1798
01:28:07.420 --> 01:28:09.180
Belief is not something you have to do.

1799
01:28:09.180 --> 01:28:10.700
It's not something you have to try for.

1800
01:28:10.700 --> 01:28:12.260
It's a gift you were given.

1801
01:28:12.260 --> 01:28:14.100
But we have to receive God's word.

1802
01:28:14.100 --> 01:28:18.500
Choosing is not an action we have to do.

1803
01:28:19.400 --> 01:28:23.240
Choosing is simply as easy as receiving

1804
01:28:23.240 --> 01:28:25.360
and stopping the resistance.

1805
01:28:25.360 --> 01:28:27.560
That's all that receiving is.

1806
01:28:31.680 --> 01:28:36.680
Have a, anyway, okay.

1807
01:28:36.680 --> 01:28:38.680
Can you say that again?

1808
01:28:41.680 --> 01:28:43.360
So, receiving is very easy.

1809
01:28:43.360 --> 01:28:45.680
Receiving is not, okay, so choosing

1810
01:28:45.680 --> 01:28:47.440
is not something we have to do.

1811
01:28:47.460 --> 01:28:50.860
Choosing is simply a word that we're using

1812
01:28:50.860 --> 01:28:53.100
to say that we are stopping the resistance

1813
01:28:53.100 --> 01:28:57.340
and we're receiving the full word of God.

1814
01:28:57.340 --> 01:29:00.060
Whatever he says is true.

1815
01:29:00.060 --> 01:29:00.900
That's all that.

1816
01:29:00.900 --> 01:29:02.820
So, in other words, everything's effortless,

1817
01:29:02.820 --> 01:29:04.140
including choosing.

1818
01:29:04.140 --> 01:29:05.460
Everything must be effortless.

1819
01:29:05.460 --> 01:29:06.540
There's no paying.

1820
01:29:06.540 --> 01:29:08.300
There's nothing left.

1821
01:29:08.300 --> 01:29:09.140
God's done everything.

1822
01:29:09.140 --> 01:29:10.980
There's nothing left to do.

1823
01:29:10.980 --> 01:29:15.980
So, the last thing is we're going to,

1824
01:29:16.480 --> 01:29:17.920
if you can't do any of those,

1825
01:29:17.920 --> 01:29:20.420
if you're really struggling, then,

1826
01:29:27.480 --> 01:29:29.880
if you're really struggling, then,

1827
01:29:29.880 --> 01:29:31.440
and you can't even choose,

1828
01:29:31.440 --> 01:29:33.360
because I've been in that position.

1829
01:29:33.360 --> 01:29:34.360
Like, Lord, I'm sorry.

1830
01:29:34.360 --> 01:29:36.240
I just don't even have the intention

1831
01:29:36.240 --> 01:29:39.000
and the will to be able to choose.

1832
01:29:39.000 --> 01:29:42.460
But if you say it, I declare it's true.

1833
01:29:43.440 --> 01:29:46.560
I'm not choosing it and I'm not acting on it,

1834
01:29:46.560 --> 01:29:48.400
but I do declare it.

1835
01:29:48.400 --> 01:29:50.320
And so, in a way, you're actually choosing.

1836
01:29:50.320 --> 01:29:52.800
I just use the word declare to kind of like,

1837
01:29:52.800 --> 01:29:55.760
kind of like help us understand the difference

1838
01:29:55.760 --> 01:29:59.280
between the two, but really, it's the same thing.

1839
01:29:59.280 --> 01:30:00.680
So, you're just declaring.

1840
01:30:00.500 --> 01:30:07.000
whatever God says is actually true.

1841
01:30:08.500 --> 01:30:15.000
decision in the body, well, then you would operate there.